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Can I Use AI to File My Taxes? 03/06/2024 07:00pm • Americans are incorporating artificial intelligence, or AI, into their lives in so many compelling ways, like banking, applying to jobs, making online purchases and getting health care. According to survey data from Pew Research Center, Americans may encounter such interactions via customer service Social media outages hurt small businesses -- so it's important to have a backup plan 03/06/2024 02:46pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� To businesses that rely on social media platforms for advertising, client communication or direct sales, Tuesday's Meta platforms outage was more than a communal inconvenience. Experts say that whenever there's an outage ��� be it social media or other softwarewe've come to rely o Michael Reidy, dynamic front man of revered DC rock band Razz, dies at 73 03/06/2024 01:38pm • Michael Reidy, the whirling dervish singer of Razz, one of D.C.'s most popular bands, has died, at age 73, according to a family member. Reidy's sister, Joanna Olshonsky, told WTOP he died Tuesday, at George Washington University Hospital, from complications resulting from a stroke. He is surv OpenAI says Musk agreed the ChatGPT maker should become a for-profit company 03/06/2024 01:05pm • Elon Musk supported making OpenAI a for-profit company, the ChatGPT maker said, attacking a lawsuit from the wealthy investor who has accused the artificial intelligence business of betraying its founding goal to benefit humanity as it pursued profits instead. In its first response since the Tesla C Liberty University will pay $14 million, the largest fine ever levied under the federal Clery Act 03/05/2024 06:33pm • Liberty University has agreed to pay an unprecedented $14 million fine for the Christian school's failure to disclose information about crimes on its campus and for its treatment of sexual assault survivors, the U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday. The fine is by far the largest ever levi Booth where Tony Soprano may ��� or may not ��� have been whacked sells for a cool $82K to mystery buyer 03/05/2024 06:27pm • BLOOMFIELD, N.J. (AP) ��� The ice cream parlor booth where Tony Soprano may or may not have been whacked has sold for more than $82,000. As Tony would say, Madone! An anonymous buyer bid $82,600 Monday night in an online auction for the piece of memorabilia that occupies an outsize role in the lore Paris won't allow tourists free access to the Olympics opening ceremony along the Seine River 03/05/2024 05:02pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Tourists won���t be allowed to watch the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics along the Seine River for free, the French government announced Tuesday, as it grapples with security concerns about the unprecedented open-air event. Free access will be invitation-only instead. Organizer Singapore's prime minister says a South China Sea code of conduct will take time 03/05/2024 04:10am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� Southeast Asian countries��� quest to reach agreement with China on a code of conduct in the contested South China Sea will take time, with difficult issues yet to be resolved despite recent efforts to accelerate the process, Singapore���s prime minister said Tuesday at NoMa BID offers micro grants for neighborhood businesses 03/04/2024 08:24pm • The Business Improvement District (BID) for the NoMa neighborhood in D.C.��has launched a Retail Opportunity Fund with a total of $70,000 in grant money for businesses who apply and qualify. Individual grants will range between $5,000 and $25,000. Both existing NoMa businesses and those planni Pennsylvania court rules electronic voting data is not subject to release under public records law 03/04/2024 04:43pm • HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ��� Spreadsheets of raw data associated with every ballot cast are not subject to public scrutiny, a Pennsylvania court ruled Monday in a case that began with a request for the ���cast vote records��� by an election researcher whose work has fueled right-wing attacks on voting p Book Review: 'Means of Control' charts the disturbing rise of a secretive US surveillance regime 03/04/2024 02:33pm • In the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks, former national security advisor John Poindexter launched Total Information Awareness, intent on preventing future assaults on the homeland by amassing extensive databases on people and their movements. The Pentagon program had a creepy eye-surveilling-th A party like no other? Asia's richest man celebrates son's prenuptials with a star-studded bash 03/04/2024 01:27pm • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� What happens when the son of Asia's richest man is about to get married? His father throws a three-day prenuptial bash four months before the actual ceremony. Tycoons from around the world, heads of state, as well as Hollywood and Bollywood stars descended on the small western In Andrey Rublev will keep his rankings points and prize money after his Dubai default after an appeal 03/04/2024 01:07pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Andrey Rublev will get to keep the ranking points and prize money ��� minus a fine of $36,400 ��� from the Dubai Championships, the ATP ruled Monday, after he appealed the punishment of his default from the semifinals for yelling in the face of a line judge last week. In a post on so Sinead O'Connor's estate asks Donald Trump to stop playing her music at rallies 03/04/2024 09:37am • LONDON (AP) ��� The estate of Sinead O���Connor on Monday asked Donald Trump not to play her music at campaign rallies, saying the late singer considered the former president a ���biblical devil.��� Trump has played O���Connor���s biggest hit, ���Nothing Compares 2 U,��� at events as he campaigns fo China and Myanmar likely to be high on the agenda when Southeast Asian leaders meet in Australia 03/03/2024 08:56pm • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� An increasingly assertive China and a humanitarian crisis in Myanmar are likely to be high on the agenda when Southeast Asian leaders meet in Australia for a rare summit this week. The ASEAN-Australia Special Summit that starts in Melbourne on Monday marks 50 years sinc