Author: Lily Evans
Everyone loves buying and unboxing a shiny new gadget or fancy kitchen appliance. The only thing better than getting something new is that it comes at a really good price. That said, if you've been eyeing something, now's your chance to empty that cart during Best Buy's big outlet event. Right now, Best Buy is offering a full range of sales, including discounts on clearance and open box items. Up to 50% off. You can find TVs, laptops, phone accessories and more. Check out the entire sale selection below.Having too many pages of sale items can be a little overwhelming.…
What's wrong, world? It's a fake. I often take the subway here in New York City. Shuttle to and from uptown visits with family, downtown museum trips and dinners with friends, and cross-borough appointments and shopping trips. I am very fortunate that I have never been a victim of violent crime while traveling underground. This is a little anecdote that probably means little to anyone who's been following subway news lately. In the last month alone, subways have been home to a rush-hour shooting, multiple stabbings, and other incidents of random assault. These horrific incidents prompted a dramatic response from…
Lingwei Ding lived in Silicon Valley, but spent months at a time in her native China, according to court documents.There's nothing unusual about that. However, the difference was that he was supposed to work full-time as a software engineer at Google's San Francisco area office.According to court records, he had others enter the Google building wearing badges to make it appear as if they were reporting to work. In fact, prosecutors say he stole 500 files containing some of Google's most important AI secrets while promoting himself to Chinese companies as an expert in artificial intelligence.Mr. Ding was arrested in…
OpenAI, Google, and other technology companies train their chatbots using vast amounts of data culled from books, Wikipedia articles, news articles, and other sources on the internet. But in the future, I would like to use something called synthetic data.Technology companies could use up all the high-quality text available on the Internet to develop artificial intelligence. And both companies face copyright lawsuits from authors, news organizations, and computer programmers for using their works without permission. (In one such case, the New York Times reported, he sued OpenAI and Microsoft.)They believe that synthetic data can help alleviate copyright issues and increase…
The race to lead in AI is a desperate search for the digital data needed to advance the technology. Tech companies like OpenAI, Google and Meta have discussed cutting corners, ignoring corporate policies and bending the law to obtain that data, according to a New York Times investigation.At Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, executives, lawyers and engineers bought publisher Simon & Schuster last year to source long-form works, according to records of internal meetings obtained by the Times. They said they talked about it. They also discussed collecting copyrighted data from across the Internet, even if it meant facing…
In 2024, 82 fifth- through eighth-graders from 16 Nevada County schools participated in the 13th annual TechTest Junior Mathematics Competition held in late February. TechTest Jr. is a mathematics exam that tests students' critical thinking and problem-solving skills. In addition to assessing student skills, this is intended to encourage the development of more critical thinking activities within the county and assist with SAT and ACT test preparation. It also helps prepare students to participate in his TechTest Merit Scholarship Program for high school students, which awards up to $15,000 in college scholarships each year. This year's high school exam will…
Stocks rose solidly on Friday and bond yields rose as Wall Street cheered surprisingly strong U.S. jobs data.The S&P 500 rose 1.1%, offsetting most of the day's losses and nearing its all-time high set last week. The benchmark index still posted its first weekly decline in three weeks.The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.8%, and the Nasdaq Composite Index rose 1.2%.Technology companies accounted for the lion's share of the rise. Semiconductor giant Nvidia rose 2.4%, while Google's parent company Alphabet rose 1.3%.The gains were broad-based, with all sectors of the S&P 500 finishing in the green.U.S. employers added an astonishing…
Upper Cape Tech at Nauset SoftballNews Sports Things to Do Lifestyle Opinion Obituaries Advertising E-Newspaper LawNortheast Ham 04/05/24 Upper Cape Tech's Lucy Pesla dives across the plate against Nauset pitcher Bryn Cue.Softball Ron Schroerb/Cape Cod TimesRon Schroerb, Ron Schroerb/Cape Cod TimesNortheastern 04/05/24 Upper Cape Tech's Tayshia Lopez receives a no-set pitch.Softball Ron Schroerb/Cape Cod TimesRon Schroerb, Ron Schroerb/Cape Cod TimesNortheast Ham 04/05/24 Upper Cape Tech's Tayshia Lopez grabbed Nauset's batted ball and rounded off a walk.Softball Ron Schroerb/Cape Cod TimesRon Schroerb, Ron Schroerb/Cape Cod TimesNorth Eastham 04/05/24 Upper Cape Tech's Tayshia Lopez crossed the plate after a throw to Nauset…
Blacksburg, Virginia – Wake Forest issued an intentional walk with one out and the bases loaded. Chase Barnes responded with a strikeout. However, with just two strikes left to get out of the predicament in the bottom of the third inning, tragedy struck. Junior hit a 93 mph fastball into the swing path of Eddie Micheletti Jr., who bounced the ball over the right-field fence. With just one pitch, Wake Forest's two-run lead was turned over. “[Burns’] When you coached that inning, you just kind of ran away from him,” coach Tom Walter said after the game. “He got a…
Ryan Free made it through the first half of the Big 12 series opener against Houston unscathed.And then came the bottom of the second inning.Holding a three-run advantage, Ryan Free tied it before the end of the second inning and it was back to square one. The left-handed pitcher, who was called up as the opening pitcher for the second consecutive week, was unable to overcome his bad innings throughout the rest of his stay on the mound.Free was pulled away after 3 1/3 innings and couldn't make much of an impact on the game, but he watched the Red…