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Mortgage Rates Rise to 6.55% as Jobs Market Rallies 02/12/2023 07:00pm • Mortgage rates rose across the board this week as Federal Reserve policymakers hunker down in the wake of a January jobs report that showed a surprisingly resilient labor market. The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage is now 6.55%, up from 6.45% a week ago. Both fixed and adjustable mortgage r Plans for anti-gay club found on student's computer in Rockville middle school 02/12/2023 02:30pm • A Rockville, Maryland, middle school student is facing punishment after plans to create a "homophobe" club was found on their computer by school officials. On Friday, the principal of Earle B. Wood Middle School sent an email to parents saying that a teacher had found a presentation and Google fo Doja Cat, John Travolta, Adam Driver star in Super Bowl ads 02/12/2023 01:15pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The big day for marketers has arrived: The Super Bowl is advertising's biggest, glitziest stage. Big name advertisers from Netflix to Google paid as much as $7 million for a 30-second spot during the game Sunday night, seeking to capture the attention of the roughly 100 million Super Bowl ads keep it light by using nostalgia and stars 02/12/2023 08:17am • NEW YORK (AP) — Super Bowl ads are more than just breaks between gameplay during the biggest sporting event of the year: They offer a glimpse of the country’s zeitgeist, along with how major industries are faring. This year, crypto ads and automakers are advertising less since those industries 22 Sustainable Building Materials to Consider for Your Home 02/09/2023 07:00pm • The visible and devastating effects of climate change have many consumers trying to reduce their carbon footprint and make more conscious shopping decisions. In some cases, it's small efforts like buying metal straws in place of plastic ones, and in other cases consumers are making big changes like EU calls out Twitter for incomplete disinformation report 02/09/2023 03:53pm • LONDON (AP) — Twitter failed to provide a full report to the European Union on its efforts to combat online disinformation, drawing a rebuke Thursday from top officials of the 27-nation bloc. The company signed up to the EU's voluntary 2022 Code of Practice on Disinformation last year — before AI search engines can now chat with us, but glitches abound 02/08/2023 05:28pm • REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Nearly a quarter-century after Google's search engine began to reshape how we use the internet, big tech companies are racing to revamp a familiar web tool into a gateway to a new form of artificial intelligence. If it seems like this week's newly announced AI search chatbot Investors' query: Can Google answer Microsoft's AI threat? 02/08/2023 04:13pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google, a company built on finding quick answers to people's questions, suddenly finds itself grappling for a response to a potential threat to its internet empire — a form of artificial intelligence that long-time rival Microsoft is now deploying to attack its dominant sear Microsoft bakes ChatGPT-like tech into search engine Bing 02/07/2023 07:53pm • REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft is fusing ChatGPT-like technology into its search engine Bing, transforming an internet service that now trails far behind Google into a new way of communicating with artificial intelligence. The revamping of Microsoft’s second-place search engine could give th Here's why this year's Super Bowl beer ads go beyond Bud 02/07/2023 03:38pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A bevy of booze brands will be in the Super Bowl ad lineup this year, now that Anheuser-Busch has ended its exclusive advertising sponsorship after more than 30 years. In addition to celebrities hawking Budweiser and Michelob Ultra, viewers will see some famous folks touting the q Big tech job cuts keep coming; Zoom latest to trim headcount 02/07/2023 01:57pm • The tech industry started the year with a wave of job cuts, around 50,000 in January alone, and there doesn’t appear to be any let up this month. The computer maker Dell said Monday that it's cutting about 6,600 jobs. Large and small tech companies went on a hiring spree in over the past several y Utah man Googled ‘Gunshot in a house' before murder-suicide 02/07/2023 01:06pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man who fatally shot his wife, her mother and their five kids before turning the gun on himself had done online searches about how loud different guns sound and whether neighbors could hear gunshots five days before the killings, new court records posted online show. A Apple-Apps-Top-10 02/07/2023 11:44am • Top Paid iPhone Apps: 1. Minecraft, Mojang 2. Shadowrocket, Shadow Launch Technology Limited 3. Bloons TD 6, Ninja Kiwi 4. HotSchedules 5. Papa’s Freezeria To Go!, Flipline Studios 6. Heads Up!, Warner Bros. 7. Geometry Dash, RobTop Games AB 8. Plague Inc., Ndemic Creations 9. Rovio Classics: AB, Google hopes 'Bard' will outsmart ChatGPT, Microsoft in AI 02/07/2023 08:41am • Google is girding for a battle of wits in the field of artificial intelligence with “Bard," a conversational service aimed at countering the popularity of the ChatGPT tool backed by Microsoft. Bard initially will be available exclusively to a group of “trusted testers" before being widely releas Woman plotted with neo-Nazi to attack power grid, feds say 02/06/2023 06:55pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — A Maryland woman spent months conspiring with a neo-Nazi leader based in Florida to plan an attack on Baltimore’s power grid, hoping to further their racist mission, law enforcement officials said Monday. The plan was thwarted when both suspects were arrested last week, adding t