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According to Bloomberg, Long Beach-based startup STAX Engineering has installed its pollutant-capturing technology in the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland.The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach reportedly emit about “100 tons of smog” every day. That's more pollution than the exhaust of six million cars, according to data from the Environmental Energy Institute cited by Bloomberg. Air pollution can cause serious health problems, especially in communities around ports. The toxic gases can cause millions of deaths a year and lead to billions of dollars in lost work and medical care, the news agency noted.To mitigate this,…
Stars from Hollywood's Golden Age are being resurrected through AI voice cloning deals with celebrity estates, suggesting that new business models are addressing some of the “Wild West” concerns about unauthorized AI impersonation.ElevenLabs, an audio tech startup backed by venture capitalists including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia, has inked several deals with the estates of legendary actors, including Burt Reynolds, Judy Garland, James Dean and Sir Laurence Olivier, for its IconicVoices tool, which lets users listen to AI-generated voices read to them through an audiobook app.Founded in 2023, ElevenLabs creates voices for books, news articles, video game characters, film pre-production, social…
This article is part of the Tennis Picks series. The Canadian Open schedule Sunday includes the women's semifinals in Toronto and the men's quarterfinals and semifinals in Montreal. The men's team had to play catch-up Saturday after several days of rain, with many players playing multiple matches on a single day to get back to a mostly scheduled tournament. Three of the four remaining women are American, and the U.S. men are looking for a major upset.All tennis odds and lines come from DraftKings Sportsbook, but you may find better odds on some of these matches by checking mobile sportsbooks…
Health officials have shut down a children's ice cream stand that was raising money for Norwood's hockey team. Health officials shut down a children's ice cream stand that was raising money for Norwood's hockey team 01:01 NORWOOD – When a Massachusetts boy was forced by the health department to shut down his sidewalk ice cream stand, he made the best of the situation and started raising money for his local hockey team.Dan Doherty, 12, of Norwood, told his family he was bored this summer and wanted a job. Ice cream stand closedHe and his mother, Nancy Dougherty, came up with…
The chaos left in Afghanistan by the Biden-Harris administration has contributed to increased terrorism threats around the world, including a plot against a Taylor Swift concert in Austria. Investigators say al-Qaida, the Islamic State (ISIS) and ISIS-K (ISIS-Khorasan, the former name for much of Central Asia, including Iran and Afghanistan) were all involved in radicalizing the teenagers who planned the massacre at the concert. Al Qaeda is now largely subsumed under the Taliban's Kabul government, and ISIS factions are currently enemies, but the world of terrorism doesn't work like a corporate organizational chart: loyalties and alliances shift, sometimes cooperating and…
ISIS fighters conveyed a message of condolence to President François Hollande and the French people for the murderers of the Charlie Hebdo journalists, the Kouachi brothers and Amedy Coulibaly, in a video message transmitted over the Internet on February 4, 2015. (Photo: Balkis Press/ABACAPRESS.COM) TikTok has emerged as an extremely popular social media platform among millions of young people around the world. Although it is primarily used for entertainment purposes, some have exploited it as an effective tool to radicalize, recruit, and influence young Muslims in Europe and Western countries to carry out terrorist attacks. The massacre of 1,200 Israelis…
From dubious social algorithms to killer surveillance systems, the dystopian anthology series Black Mirror is not afraid to shine a black light on the complex relationship between humans and technology. The decade-old series, created by Charlie Brooker, straddles the line between bleak and thought-provoking technological and psychological horrors brought to life through carrying degrees of mortality in each episode. “Joan is Awful,” the standout episode of the latest Season 6, follows the ordinary goings-on of a smarmy woman named Joan (Annie Murphy), who finds out that through the powers of AI-generated content, her life life has turned into a glossy TV show…
The Chicago Bears have yet to have a quarterback throw for 4,000 yards in a season. Rookie quarterback Caleb Williams is one of the breakout players in fantasy football for 2024 and will be looking to achieve this milestone. Williams was the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL Draft, so there are high expectations for the 2022 Heisman Trophy winner. During that season, he threw for 4,537 yards in 14 games and 3,633 yards in 12 games last year. Where does he fit in our fantasy football rankings for 2024?Williams joins the ranks of young quarterbacks who are already…
Photo credit: Yuldong-With-U Urban living in Ulsan, South Korea, has just become greener, thanks to the world's first “hydrogen apartment” complex, which was recently unveiled in Ulsan's Buk-gu district. Called the “Yuldong With You” apartments, all 437 units are powered by hydrogen fuel cells, which FuelCellsWorks says will not only cut residents' electricity bills by 30-40 percent, but also have a positive impact on the planet. Large cities like Ulsan, with a population of over one million, provide large amounts of energy for industry, homes, businesses, transportation networks, and more. Unfortunately, in many cities, much of this energy comes from…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Former NBA player and current Utah Jazz coach Jason Terry used his own basketball experience this week to host a boys' and girls' basketball and mental health camp at Hickman Mills Middle School in Kansas City. “There's no greater confidence than the confidence you have in yourself,” said Terry, who played for 20 years with various NBA teams.The camp included players ranging in age from 8 to 18. The basketball lessons varied depending on age and skill level, but all participants were taught the importance of mental health for athletes. Leading those discussions was sports psychologist…