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Transboundary haze pollution remains a major environmental issue for Southeast Asia. After a decline in forest and peat fires last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the region has seen a resurgence of intense, smoky fires, exacerbated by a dry El Niño season. Air quality has deteriorated significantly across Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been working together to address this issue for decades, but without success. In 2002, the 10 ASEAN member states signed the legally binding Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution (AATHP) to strengthen regional cooperation to prevent, monitor and mitigate land and…
Ringo Telecom has agreed to pay $1 million in a settlement with the Federal Communications Commission over AI-generated robocalls designed to imitate President Joe Biden's voice and disrupt the 2024 New Hampshire presidential primary. The call was orchestrated by political consultant Steve Cramer, who was subsequently indicted on 13 felony counts of voter suppression and 13 misdemeanor counts of impersonating a candidate and was fined $6 million by the FCC in May of this year.This is the latest in a series of attempts to use AI to sway voters ahead of the US presidential election in November. In July, tech…
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will become the first U.S. state to dedicate millions of dollars from taxpayer money and tech companies to funding journalism and AI research under a new agreement announced Wednesday.Under the agreement, the first of its kind in the nation, the state and the tech companies will pay a combined total of about $250 million over five years to support California-based news organizations and launch AI research programs. The effort is set to begin in 2025 with $100 million in the first year, with the majority of the funding going to news organizations, said Buffy Wicks,…
Blockchain startup Story has raised $80 million in a Series B funding round. The San Francisco-based company announced the funding on social platform X on Wednesday (August 21) and said it would use the money to help build a blockchain to prevent artificial intelligence companies from unfairly using creators' intellectual property (IP), which Storey called “one of the largest asset classes in the world.” 1/ Announced a total of $140 million in funding to build the world's largest IP blockchain, Story. pic.twitter.com/9M3tqqYcvO — Story (꧁IP꧂) (@StoryProtocol) August 21, 2024 “Training data, AI models, memes, UGC videos, game assets, character traits,…
Global Markets: US Treasury yields took a direction on Wednesday after a big downward revision in nonfarm payroll data and FOMC minutes seemed to suggest a September rate cut was pretty certain, barring any accidents or data surprises. The 2-year Treasury yield fell 5.3 basis points, while the 10-year was only down 0.6 basis points to 3.801%. EURUSD continued to rise but faltered as it approached 1.1180 and is now just below 1.1160. AUD is hovering around 0.6750, while Cable has followed EUR's rise and has risen to 1.3092. USDJPY has also fallen and is currently trying to hold below…
The Rise of Team Innova Day 3 of the 2024 PDGA Pro World Championship was a great day for Team Innova. Evelina Salonen maintained her lead in the FPO division. She was two rounds away from claiming the title, both on the Innova Champion Course, with a comfortable win in the second round. In the MPO, Vinnie maintained her position on the chase card, with multiple Innova players climbing the leaderboard. Top Innova Storylines Evelina wins by three strokes Evelina Salonen had a really great day off the tee, never missing a fairway, regularly hitting C2 on every hole and…
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A compass is a device used for navigation.Hoag Compass is a mobile application and physical location at the Hoag On-Demand Care & Innovation Center in Newport Beach that aims to help patients manage their health.The program will launch in 2022, with an improved version announced in May, said Thomas Katavik, Hoag's director of product and design.He said the first version, called “Compass 1.0” internally, was a choose-your-own-adventure setup, where patients had to decide for themselves what they wanted.”We said with this new version of the product, we need to have more packaging and make it almost like a ready-made product,”…
ENTERPRISE, Ala. (WTVY) – Enterprise State Community College has broken ground on construction of a new center.As local and state dignitaries gathered to celebrate the major addition to the Enterprise State, the school's president said he was pleased the day had come. “We've been talking about this idea for about five years, so it's really great to see it actually come to fruition and construction underway,” ESCC President Daniel Long said.ESCC will acquire the Workforce Technology Center to provide educational space to train Alabama’s future workforce generations.”Within the center we'll have a welding program, automotive technology, HVAC, plumbing and a…