Why lawmakers want to remove an even broader spectrum of criminal records from public view Each new opportunity for the expungement of records has marked a victory for the criminal-defense lobby, advocates for minorities and, in past years, the gun lobby, who try year after year to persuade ... 05/3/2024 - 5:43 pm | View Link
Bill to put timelines in Alabama’s public records law advances Alabama has a state law saying citizens have a right to inspect and copy public records but does not require agencies to respond to request by any certain times. 05/2/2024 - 11:44 am | View Link
Bill seeks to restrict public records, lawmaker says necessary for economic edge If HB 461 passes, “records that are in the custody of a local government that pertain to an active negotiation with a person for the purpose of a proposed project involving the retention, expansion, ... 05/2/2024 - 11:26 am | View Link
NC legislature to keep itself exempt from public records laws, top Senators indicate State lawmakers are standing by their decision to exempt themselves from public records laws, a debate in the state Senate appeared to reveal Thursday. When the Republican-controlled legislature ... 05/2/2024 - 9:02 am | View Link
New Orleans City Council President calls on lawmakers to kill or amend controversial public records bill N EW ORLEANS (WVUE) - At-Large City Councilwoman and Council President Helena Moreno called a bill that would cripple public access to government records “ridiculous” and said she hopes lawmakers kill ... 05/2/2024 - 8:02 am | View Link
With summer movie season upon us, theaters are looking to draw crowds with a new interactive lobby attraction.
A long line to get into the theater is fairly standard for a hot movie in its opening weekend. A long line just to engage with a film’s lobby display, however, is not standard at all.
The housing market saw a 30% increase in active inventory in April, but that’s still 35% below pre-pandemic levels.
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In the past few days, you may have noticed something new inside Meta’s apps, including Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp: an artificially intelligent chatbot.
Within those apps, you can chat with Meta AI and type in questions and requests like “What’s the weather this week in New York?” or “Write a poem about two dogs living in San Francisco.” The assistant will come up with responses immediately, such as “The corgi was short, with a butt so wide, the lab was tall, with a tongue that would glide.” You can also instruct Meta AI to produce pictures — like an illustration of a family watching fireworks.
This is Meta’s response to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the chatbot that upended the tech industry in 2022, and similar bots including Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Bing AI.
Builders are finally making a dent in the state’s housing shortfall, especially for apartments. But home prices and mortgage rates continue to outpace income gains, and affordability is worsening rather than improving.
“The story with interest rates is that they are only exacerbating the problem,” said Steven Byers, chief economist with the Common Sense Institute in Denver.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — On a Monday morning last month, tech executives, engineers and sales representatives from Amazon, Google, TikTok and other companies endured a three-hour traffic jam as their cars crawled toward a mammoth conference at an event space in the desert, 50 miles outside Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The lure: billions of dollars in Saudi money as the kingdom seeks to build a tech industry to complement its oil dominance.
To bypass the congestion, frustrated eventgoers drove onto the highway shoulder, kicking up plumes of desert sand as they sped past those following traffic rules.
A high school athletic director in Maryland has been accused of using artificial intelligence to impersonate a principal on an audio recording that included racist and antisemitic comments, authorities said last month.
Authorities said the case appears to be among the first of its kind in the country and called for new laws to guard against the technology.