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'Soaring' over hills or 'playing' with puppies, study finds seniors enjoy virtual reality 02/19/2024 01:59pm • POMPANO BEACH, Fla. (AP) ��� Retired Army Col. Farrell Patrick taught computer science at West Point during the 1970s and then at two private universities through the 1990s, so he isn't surprised by the progress technology has made over the decades. But when the 91-year-old got his first virtual rea Students in Anne Arundel Co. soon won't be able to keep free laptops at home anymore 02/18/2024 02:41pm • Students in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, who previously were able to keep their free laptops at home will have to return the tech to the school system as it shifts away from a pandemic-era policy.�� Citing expiring grant funding and mounting repair costs, the school system said it would no long One Tech Tip: Ready to go beyond Google? Here's how to use new generative AI search sites 02/17/2024 08:37am • LONDON (AP) ��� It's not just you. A lot people think Google searches are getting worse. And the rise of generative AI chatbots is giving people new and different ways to look up information. While Google has been the one-stop shop for decades ��� after all, we commonly call searches ���googling��� Sora is ChatGPT maker OpenAI's new text-to-video generator. Here's what we know about the new tool 02/16/2024 03:10pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The maker of ChatGPT is now diving into AI-generated video. Meet Sora ��� OpenAI's new text-to-video generator. The tool, which the San Francisco company unveiled Thursday, uses generative artificial intelligence to instantly create short videos based on written commands. Sora isn' Tech companies sign accord to combat AI-generated election trickery 02/16/2024 02:36pm • Major technology companies signed a pact Friday to voluntarily adopt ���reasonable precautions��� to prevent artificial intelligence tools from being used to disrupt democratic elections around the world. Executives from Adobe, Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and TikTok gathered at the American woman goes missing in Madrid after helmeted man disables cameras 02/16/2024 02:31pm • MADRID (AP) ��� Ana Maria Knezevic traveled from South Florida to Spain in December to get away for a while. Her family and friends say the naturalized American originally from Colombia has been going through a nasty divorce from her Serbian husband, but the trip was also a chance to explore new pla Delay tactics and quick trips: Takeaways from two Trump case hearings in New York and Georgia 02/15/2024 09:43pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Donald Trump 's unprecedented tangle of overlapping trials was on full display Thursday with simultaneous court hearings in New York and Georgia. In Manhattan, a judge ruled that Trump���s hush-money case will begin on March 25, making it the first of his indictments to go to trial Billionaire George Soros' 7 Top Stock Picks in 2024 02/15/2024 07:00pm • George Soros is one of the most successful investors in history. His Soros Fund Management currently manages $7.6 billion in assets, and Soros himself has an estimated net worth of $6.7 billion after donating more than $32 billion to philanthropic causes. Soros formerly managed the Quantum Fund, whi US applications for jobless benefits fall as labor market continues to show resilience 02/15/2024 08:58am • Fewer Americans filed for jobless claims last week as the labor market continues to show resilience in the face of elevated interest rates intended to cool economic growth in the U.S. Applications for unemployment benefits fell by 8,000 to 212,000 for the week ending Feb. 10, the Labor Department r New York City files a lawsuit saying social media is fueling a youth mental health crisis 02/14/2024 06:54pm • New York City, its schools and public hospital system announced a lawsuit Wednesday against the tech giants that run Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube, blaming their ���addictive and dangerous��� social media platforms for fueling a childhood mental health crisis that is disrupting l Cisco Systems to lay off more than 4,000 workers in latest sign of tighter times in tech 02/14/2024 06:45pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Internet networking pioneer Cisco Systems is jettisoning more than 4,000 employees, joining the parade of technology companies in a trend that has helped boost their profits and stock prices while providing a sobering reminder of the job insecurity hanging over an industry inc Microsoft says US rivals are beginning to use generative AI in offensive cyber operations 02/14/2024 03:11pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� Microsoft said Wednesday that U.S. adversaries ��� chiefly Iran and North Korea and to a lesser extent Russia and China ��� are beginning to use its generative artificial intelligence to mount or organize offensive cyber operations. The technology giant and business partner OpenAI sa Hundreds of nonprofit newsrooms will get free US election results and graphics from the AP 02/14/2024 12:56pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The Associated Press is making some of its U.S. elections data available for free to more than 400 nonprofit news organizations in a program funded by the Google News Initiative, the company said on Wednesday. The small, primarily digital newsrooms are members of the Institute for Edmunds Compares: 2024 Chevrolet Colorado vs. 2024 Toyota Tacoma 02/14/2024 06:37am • Having undergone a complete redesign last year, the 2024 Chevrolet Colorado proves how transformative the midsize pickup truck market has become. In a segment where slow and steady changes used to be the norm, this generation of Colorado boasts dramatic new styling, a standard turbocharged four-cyli Tech companies plan to sign accord to combat AI-generated election trickery 02/13/2024 06:05pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� At least six major technology companies are planning to sign an agreement this week that would guide how they try to put a stop to the use of artificial intelligence tools to disrupt democratic elections. The upcoming event at the Munich Security Conference in Germany comes as more