The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has awarded prizes to four organizations for developing technologies that can distinguish between authentic human speech and audio generated by AI, as concerns grow over the influence of deepfakes on elections and consumer scams.
Though it was trained on real people's images and audio clips, VASA-1 is allegedly meant for creating 'virtual characters.'
Two state agencies are highlighting the risks of drinking alcohol while pregnant in a new public service announcement. The announcement by the S.C. Department of Social Services (SCDSS) and the S.C. Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services (DAODAS) is part of the “Don’t Risk It” campaign, an ongoing initiative on how abstaining from […]
It's not long until the release of the highly-anticipated series three of Netflix hit Bridgerton.
Fighting Illini Women’s Basketball Head Coach Shauna Green joins the Steve Cochran Show to discuss the Fighting Illini women securing the inaugural WBIT title, the importance of building genuine trust and relationships with her players, and how the ‘Caitlin Clark Effect’ is positively impacting women’s basketball.
Chief Meteorologist Damon Lane shows the 1st threat we're watching tomorrow.
The rain has started to fall in Toronto and will continue throughout Wednesday amid a risk of thunderstorms this morning and tonight. The storm is expected to drop anywhere from 10 to 22 millimetres of rain before midnight, according to Environment Canada. Rain is expected to transition to showers and drizzle overnight, with a risk of thunderstorms starting at 7 p.m. “A spring storm is plowing into the region this morning with rain and cool winds. The active weather quells on Thursday...
On today's Morning Brew, the Rising team discusses superstitions they believe in.
Geopolitical Risk – Hedging The Unhedgeable? Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities, This is the first time (in a long time) that I contemplated not doing a weekend T-Report. What’s the point when by the time you read it, everything in the geopolitical realm may have changed? But, with so much going on and so much chatter about geopolitical (and other risks), it still seemed worth it to grind a report out. Hopefully you saw our recent SITREPs addressing Iran’s launch of...
Because Netanyahu relies on the radical right for his coalition, he has squandered every opportunity to demonstrate that this was a war against Hamas rather than against the Palestinian people.
Shafaqna Pakistan | by Aral Mir, Over the decades since its inception, significant milestones have been achieved in healthcare. Among the most notable are the development of the inactivated polio vaccine in 1952 and the attenuated live-virus polio vaccine in 1961, which led to the elimination of the disease in
Using firm-level data from the global supply network, researchers from the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) quantified countries' exposure to production losses caused by firm defaults in other countries. According to their findings, wealthy nations are only exposed to supply chain disruptions from other high-income countries, while poor and developing nations are exposed to shocks from all countries.