Republicans pummel State Department with investigations House Republicans have launched more than 30 investigations into the State Department since taking power in 2023, an unusually high number that is fueling partisan tensions, a POLITICO review of ... 05/4/2024 - 12:00 am | View Link
'Wildcat' Review Ethan Hawkes Wildcat, starring his daughter Maya Hawke, is an unconventional yet muddled biopic of author Flannery OConnor. Read on for our review. 05/3/2024 - 11:00 am | View Link
Science Provides the New ‘5 Ways’ for the Existence of God God, the first principle and the end of all things, can be known with certainty from the created world by the natural light of human reason.’ (Vatican Council I) ... 05/2/2024 - 8:56 am | View Link
Richard Dawkins praises ‘courageous people’ like JK Rowling for turning tide against 'dictatorial wokeism' Richard Dawkins, who rose to fame for criticizing religious dogma, praised author J.K. Rowling for openly defying transgender ideology and hate speech legislation in Scotland. 04/30/2024 - 9:31 am | View Link
For Bhagat hijackers, a resounding kintu: Spiritual atheism that strikes at root of Hindutva ideology The performance, in Punjabi, charts the course of Singh’s intellectual growth, from religious belief to freedom from it, freedom at many levels, not only from colonial rule, but also from caste, class ... 04/29/2024 - 8:48 pm | View Link
8 facts about atheists | Pew Research Center February 7, 2024. 8 facts about atheists. By Michael Lipka, Patricia Tevington and Kelsey Jo Starr. (Getty Images) Atheists make up 4% of U.S. adults, according to our 2023 National Public Opinion Reference Survey. That compares with 3% who described themselves as atheists in 2014 and 2% who did so in 2007. 05/4/2024 - 5:11 am | View Link
Outline of atheism Atheism – rejection of belief in the existence of deities. [1] . In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. [2] [3] Most inclusively, atheism is simply the absence of belief that any deities exist. 05/3/2024 - 9:54 pm | View Link
Atheism Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. 05/3/2024 - 8:28 pm | View Link
Atheism | Definition, History, Beliefs, Types, Examples, & Facts Atheism, the critique and denial of metaphysical beliefs in God or spiritual beings. As such, it is usually distinguished from theism, which affirms the reality of the divine and often seeks to demonstrate its existence. Learn more about atheism in this article. 05/3/2024 - 6:26 pm | View Link
What is Atheism? Atheism is one thing: A lack of belief in gods. Atheism is not an affirmative belief that there is no god nor does it answer any other question about what a person believes. It is simply a rejection of the assertion that there are gods. Atheism is too often defined incorrectly as a belief system. 05/3/2024 - 1:19 pm | View Link
LONDON — Sadiq Khan, the Labour Party’s mayor of London, romped to victory Saturday, securing a record third straight term at City Hall, on another hugely disappointing day for the U. K.’s governing Conservatives ahead of a looming general election.
Khan won a little over a million votes, or nearly 44% of the vote, more than 11 percentage points ahead of his main challenger, the Conservative Party’s Susan Hall.
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.
For more than 50 years, the National Sports Center for the Disabled has been a world leader in adaptive snow sports at Winter Park, helping people with disabilities become active outdoors, offering competitive programs and producing paralympic athletes. Now it’s poised to expand its programs in the Front Range with a spacious new facility at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds.
The NSCD Adaptive Program Center opened Wednesday with a field day for 100 special needs students from Aurora Public Schools.
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.