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2023: The year we played with artificial intelligence ��� and weren't sure what to do about it 12/14/2023 01:44pm • Artificial intelligence went mainstream in 2023 ��� it was a long time coming yet has a long way to go for the technology to match people's science fiction fantasies of human-like machines. Catalyzing a year of AI fanfare was ChatGPT. The chatbot gave the world a glimpse of recent advances in comput University of Wisconsin regents back GOP deal for funding in exchange for limiting diversity efforts 12/13/2023 09:27pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� In a surprising about-face, the Universities of Wisconsin regents approved a deal Wednesday evening with Republican legislators to limit diversity positions at the system���s two dozen campuses in exchange for money to cover staff raises and construction projects. Assembly Rep 15 Best Dividend Stocks to Buy for 2024 12/13/2023 07:00pm • 2023 was a forgettable year for most dividend stocks. While growth and technology investments soared, many income investments were left in the dust. Indeed, numerous blue-chip companies have seen their worst share price declines in years thanks to an unprecedented combination of economic events. A s Florida mother fears her family will be devastated as trial on trans health care ban begins 12/13/2023 06:14pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� The mother of a transgender girl sobbed in federal court Wednesday as she contemplated having to move away from her Navy officer husband to get health care for her 12-year-old if Florida's ban on gender dysphoria treatments for minors is allowed to take affect. The woman, A Russian missile attack on Kyiv wounds at least 53 as Ukraine pleads for more European support 12/13/2023 04:21pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� A barrage of Russian missiles targeted Kyiv on Wednesday, wounding at least 53 people, officials said, as the Ukrainian president sought more military support in Europe after a trip to Washington secured no new pledges. Loud explosions rocked Ukraine's capital at 3 a.m. as the Virginia county approves data center project after 27-hour public hearing 12/13/2023 04:07pm • County supervisors in northern Virginia approved one of the world's largest data center projects after a public hearing that ran through the night and lasted more than 24 hours. The Prince William County Board of Supervisors voted 4-3, with one abstention, in favor of the Digital Gateway project, wh Commissioners in a Montana county remove election oversight from fellow Republican 12/12/2023 09:06pm • A Montana clerk and recorder who expressed doubt about the integrity of the election process during her 2022 campaign lost her election oversight duties on Tuesday in a vote by county commissioners, reflecting some of the turmoil nationwide since conspiracy theories spread about the 2020 presidentia The Cheapest Ways to Ship Packages 12/12/2023 07:00pm • Emails, texts and online messaging may have largely replaced physical letters, but there is only so much you can send over the internet. Shipping carriers will continue to do brisk business as long as there are online auction items to deliver and long-distance gifts to be mailed. The three main ship Stumped for Gifts? How AI Can Help 12/12/2023 07:00pm • Giving just the right things to friends and relatives shows you considered their individual needs and personality, then carefully selected goods or experiences just for them. It's not always easy, though. Even when you know the person well, you may get stumped for ideas, especially ones that fit you Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear denounces politics of division at start of 2nd term in Kentucky 12/12/2023 04:57pm • FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) ��� Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear, whose reelection in the GOP stronghold of Kentucky boosted his standing among next-generation political leaders, railed against the politics of division as he launched his second term on Tuesday. In his inaugural speech outside a sun-splashed Ken Epic wins its antitrust lawsuit against the Play Store. What does this verdict mean for Google? 12/12/2023 04:49pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Google lost an antitrust lawsuit over barriers to its Android app store, as a federal court jury has decided that the company's payments system was anticompetitive and damaged smartphone consumers and software developers. It���s a blow to a major pillar of Google���s technolog Canadian police charge man accused of selling deadly substance with 14 new murder charges 12/12/2023 12:48pm • TORONTO (AP) ��� Canadian police said Tuesday they are charging a man with 14 counts of second-degree murder along with the previously announced 14 charges of aiding suicide for allegedly selling lethal substances on the internet to people at risk of self harm. An international investigation is unde Ukraine faces heavy attack from air and cyberspace while Zelenskyy in US presses for more funding 12/12/2023 12:13pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Ukraine came under heavy attack from the air and from cyberspace on Tuesday, local officials said, as nearly 600 Russian shells, rockets and other projectiles rained down on a southern region and unidentified hackers knocked out phone and internet services of the country���s b German soccer federation to prosecute perpetrators of online racist abuse 12/12/2023 09:37am • FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) ��� The German soccer federation will start prosecuting people who direct racist abuse and hate speech at players online. The federation, known as the DFB, said Tuesday it is working with the public prosecutor���s office in Frankfurt to identify the perpetrators of online ab Miss Nicaragua pageant director announces her retirement after accusations of ���conspiracy��� 12/11/2023 11:39pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� The director of the Miss Nicaragua pageant, Karen Celebertti, on Monday announced her retirement from the organization, nine days after the Nicaraguan police accused her of ���conspiracy��� and other crimes along with her husband and son, who are detained. ���The time has come f