Inflation flattens Americans' wealth gains under Biden: report High inflation has flattened the growth in American household net worth in recent years, with little net growth in President Biden's first three years compared to his predecessor. 05/19/2024 - 10:32 am | View Link
How Election Deniers Claimed the Upside-Down Flag It has been a widely recognized symbol of distress since the nation’s founding, when sailors turned the American flag upside down to signal that their ships were sinking, on fire or trapped in ice. 05/18/2024 - 3:13 am | View Link
Democratic Governors Are the Sharp End of the Spear in Biden's Re-Election Efforts | Opinion For veteran political strategist Hank Sheinkopf, popular Democratic governors in key swing states will make up a lot of ground for a Biden campaign that is facing a host of unique challenges—some of ... 05/16/2024 - 1:13 am | View Link
Today’s political parties seem dumb and dumber; candidate endorsements for Tuesday’s election | READER COMMENTARIES Across the country Democrats put almost $40 million into Republican primaries to boost fringe candidates. Their goal was that in a low turnout primary, some knucklehead could win the Republican ... 05/11/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
The Simple Math That Could Swing the Election to Biden He is focused on firming up his Democratic base, even though the election will come down to centrist swing voters in battleground states. 05/11/2024 - 2:00 pm | View Link
The friendly rasp of ChatGPT’s ‘Sky’ voice is getting the AI company into hot water.
Last week, OpenAI launched ChatGPT 4o, a new model of its chatbot assistant that converses in almost real time. Users could choose from five voices, including Sky, whose friendly intonation had a slight rasp vaguely reminiscent of Scarlett Johansson—an actor who, not coincidentally, had voiced an AI assistant in Her, a 2013 film that follows a man who falls in love with his computer’s operating system.
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Federal authorities have arrested a 23-year-old Taiwanese national and charged him with running an online market that sold $100 million worth of illicit narcotics, including fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, LSD, and ketamine.
The authorities said that for almost four years, Rui-Siang Lin operated and owned the Incognito Market, an online marketplace on the dark web that users worldwide visited to buy and sell illegal narcotics.
The pages of fine print that skiers and snowboarders must agree to when hitting the slopes in Colorado — waivers of liability — do not protect ski resorts when resorts violate state laws or regulations, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday.
The ruling, handed down in the case of a 16-year-old girl who fell from a ski lift at Crested Butte Mountain Resort and was paralyzed two years ago, likely ends a years-long push by the ski industry to use waivers to shield resorts against almost all lawsuits, even in cases where ski areas violated state law, experts said.
“It’s a sea change, in terms of ski areas’ responsibilities and consumers’ ability to be protected from ski areas’ negligence,” said Evan Banker, a personal injury attorney at Denver firm Chalat Hatten & Banker.