Spurs beat Blades 3-0 to finish fifth and qualify for Europa League The result saw Spurs finish on 66 points, two points below fourth-placed Aston Villa, who had already claimed the final Champions League place, and three points above Chelsea. "It was important we put ... 05/19/2024 - 7:24 am | View Link
Is the housing market going to crash? What the experts are saying Mortgage rates are high, but home prices keep rising — blame the lack of housing supply. Economists predict that any market correction will be modest and not on the scale of the Great Recession. 05/18/2024 - 8:59 pm | View Link
Canadian housing starts fell 1% in April, CMHC says OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian housing starts decreased by 1% in April from the previous month, Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) data showed on Wednesday. The seasonally adjusted ... 05/15/2024 - 1:25 am | View Link
Canadian Homes for Sale Climb With Second-Biggest Jump on Record That pushed the total stock of homes for sale to its highest level since before the pandemic, the data show. The market loosened up with home sales falling 1.7% in April from a month earlier, even as ... 05/14/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
US Core CPI Cools for First Time in Six Months in Relief for Fed A measure of underlying US inflation cooled in April for the first time in six months, a small step in the right direction for Federal Reserve officials looking to start cutting interest rates this ... 05/14/2024 - 10:15 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.
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.