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Media entrepreneur unites young activists with power brokers for fight to make social media safe 10/05/2023 10:41am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A media entrepreneur is trying to connect young people disturbed by the impact of social media on mental health with older power players to fight for change in how tech companies do business. The newly-formed Sustainable Media Center is intent on stopping companies from using algor Deadly Thai mall shooting exposes murky trade in blank handguns that are turned into lethal weapons 10/05/2023 10:27am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Police in Thailand said Thursday they have arrested three men they accuse of selling the handgun and ammunition used by a 14-year-old boy who allegedly killed two people and wounded five others at a shopping mall in Bangkok. The shooting Tuesday at the Siam Paragon mall in the Thai Fearing ostracism or worse, many nonbelievers hide their views in the Middle East and North Africa 10/05/2023 12:27am • There���s the Tunisian woman who fasts during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, though not for God. The Iraqi woman who, until recently, wore a hijab. And a man whose Egyptian identity card still identifies him as ���Muslim.��� Such are the ways that some of the religiously unaffiliated, or ���none Israel is perennially swept up in religious conflict. Yet many of its citizens are secular 10/05/2023 12:18am • MEVASSERET ZION, Israel (AP) ��� Israel is a nation perennially swept up in religious fervor and conflict. And yet, strikingly, a large portion of its population is secular, and even its insular ultra-Orthodox community loses a steady stream of members who tire of its strict religious rules. The cou Fearing ostracism or worse, many nonbelievers hide their views in the Middle East and North Africa 10/05/2023 12:16am • There���s the Tunisian woman who fasts during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, though not for God. The Iraqi woman who, until recently, wore a hijab. And a man whose Egyptian identity card identifies him as ���Muslim,��� despite his efforts to change it. Such are the ways that some of the religiou Key Financial Considerations for Unmarried Couples 10/04/2023 08:00pm • When you live with your loved one, you get to share more than furniture. You're also blending your finances, which can work to your advantage -- as well as against it. A 2023 Bread Financial survey found that 44% of coupled respondents wish they had more similar financial mindsets as their partners. Google packs more artificial intelligence into new Pixel phones, raises prices for devices by $100 10/04/2023 03:02pm • Google on Wednesday unveiled a next-generation Pixel smartphones lineup that will be infused with more artificial intelligence tools capable of writing captions about photos that can also be altered by the technology. The injection of more artificial intelligence, or AI, into Google���s products mar George Takei picture book on his years in internment camps will be published next spring 10/04/2023 01:10pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� ���Star Trek��� actor and political activist George Takei has a picture book scheduled for next spring that draws upon his early childhood years spent in internment camps for Japanese Americans. Crown Books for Young Readers announced Wednesday that Takei's ���My Lost Freedom,��� SoftBank's Son says AI will surpass human intelligence in a decade, urges Japanese firms to adopt it 10/04/2023 10:39am • TOKYO (AP) ��� Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son on Wednesday said he believes artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence within a decade, urging Japanese companies to adopt it or be left behind. Son, speaking at a corporate conference in Tokyo, said ���artificial general intelligence will sur Lahaina residents deliver petition asking Hawaii governor to delay tourism reopening 10/03/2023 10:49pm • HONOLULU (AP) ��� Residents from fire-stricken Lahaina on Tuesday delivered a petition asking Hawaii Gov. Josh Green to delay plans to reopen a portion of West Maui to tourism starting this weekend, saying the grieving community is not ready to welcome back visitors. The petition signed by 3,517 pe Artificial Intelligence Stocks: The 10 Best AI Companies 10/03/2023 08:00pm • Virtually every industry is being disrupted by artificial intelligence, automation and robotics in some way. The world got a firsthand look at remarkable advances in AI technology recently, including OpenAI's ChatGPT AI chatbot, Google's Bard AI chatbot and Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant. Whether Pandas could be gone from America's zoos by the end of next year 10/03/2023 11:06am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Wearing an ���I Love Pandas��� T-shirt and clutching a panda-covered diary, Kelsey Lambert bubbled with excitement as she glimpsed the real thing. She and her mother, Alison, had made a special trip from San Antonio just to watch the National Zoo's furry rock stars casually munch Microsoft CEO says unfair practices by Google led to its dominance as a search engine 10/02/2023 05:01pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday that unfair tactics used by Google led to its dominance as a search engine, tactics that in turn have thwarted his company's rival program, Bing. Nadella testified in a packed Washington, D.C., courtroom as part of the government's landmark Heat enter camp believing they can contend, and Herro remains in the Miami mix 10/02/2023 03:19pm • MIAMI (AP) ��� Tyler Herro spent the summer getting up before 5 a.m. most days, going to a nearby high school gym for workouts and wondering where he was going to play this season. He���s still in Miami. After a summer where the Heat were hoping to land Damian Lillard ��� Portland chose to trade the Book Review: 'Extremely Online' shows how creators and influencers have shaped social media 10/02/2023 03:19pm • There's no shortage of books published in the past several years that have focused on the recent history of social media companies and the founders of the tech giants running them. In ���Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet,��� Taylor Lorenz makes a valuab