Hillary Clinton group wired $500,000 to climate activists behind disruptive protests A group founded by Hillary Clinton cut a large check recently to a climate change advocacy organization financing entities behind disruptive anti-oil protests. 05/3/2024 - 2:03 pm | View Link
Campaigners in second High Court victory against Government over climate policy Campaigners have scored a second legal victory against the Government over its “reckless and inadequate” climate policies after a High Court judge ruled it acted unlawfully by approving a plan to cut ... 05/3/2024 - 2:39 am | View Link
The UK government acted unlawfully in approving a climate plan, a High Court judge has ruled A U.K. High Court judge has ruled that the government acted unlawfully when it approved a plan to meet climate targets without evidence it could be delivered. 05/3/2024 - 1:27 am | View Link
China's top climate envoy is coming to the US this month as tensions over green tech run high The meeting comes as the US and China jockey for power over renewable technology like solar, EVs, and batteries. 05/2/2024 - 2:50 am | View Link
Senate Climate Hearing Puts Politics Above America’s Energy Security A Senate Committee hearing sought to expose oil and gas companies for supposedly deceiving the public about climate change but fell massively short of that objective. 05/2/2024 - 1:43 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.