• Friday sports roundup: Windom baseball team beats Luverne; JCC, MCC softball teams win big

    The JCC softball team shut out reigning state champ Edgerton/SWC and MCC won by 10 runs to improve to 4-1.

  • Meta is stuffing its AI chatbot into your Instagram DMs

    On Friday, people around the web noticed a new addition to their Instagram: Meta AI, the company’s general-purpose, AI-powered chatbot that can answer questions, write poetry and generate images with a simple text prompt. The move isn’t surprising. Meta revealed Meta AI in September 2023 and has spent the last few months adding the chatbot to products like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, so adding it to Instagram seems like a no-brainer.  Just got access to Meta AI on one of my Instagram...

  • Mark Zuckerberg Sports A Beard In A New Instagram Video Is That For Real?

    Mark Zuckerberg humorously acknowledged a viral photoshopped video of himself with a beard, which gained significant attention on social media after he announced a "new version of Meta AI". read more

  • Washburn Rural students chosen for Sporting KC Unified team

    TOPEKA (KSNT) - Three Washburn Rural High School students have been selected to play on Sporting Kansas City's Unified soccer team. The travel team is part of an exchange program supported by Major League Soccer (MLS), ESPN, and the Special Olympics. It includes Kansas City area high school student-athletes both with intellectual disabilities, and without. []

  • A brief history of lifetime bans in professional team sports leagues

    Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter is not the first person to receive a lifetime ban from a professional sports league in North America. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced the ban Wednesday after a league probe found Porter disclosed confidential information to sports bettors and wagered on games. There have been other bans, from the so-called "Chicago Black Sox" to Pete Rose in Major League Baseball to the only other person banned from the NBA during Silver's tenure — Donald Sterling:...

  • A look at some previous lifetime bans from professional team sports leagues

    Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter isn't the first person to receive a lifetime ban from a professional sports league in North America. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced the ban Wednesday after a league probe found Porter disclosed confidential information to sports bettors and wagered on games.

  • A look at some previous lifetime bans from professional team sports leagues

    Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter isn’t the first person to receive a lifetime ban from a professional sports league in North America.

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  • Meta will blur nude images in Instagram DMs for under 18s

    A host of new tools and features will encourage people ‘to think twice’ before sending nude images or engaging with people in a sexually explicit manner on the app. : Meta will blur nude images in Instagram DMs for under 18s

  • Tesla cuts prices of Model Y, Model X, Model S vehicles in US

    Tesla cut the prices for its Model Y, Model X and Model S vehicles in the U.S. by $2,000 each on Friday, according to the electric vehicle maker's website. Elon Musk's electric vehicle maker lowered the prices for its Model Y base variant to $42,990, while the long-range and performance variants are now priced at $47,990 and $51,490, respectively, the website showed. The basic version of the Model S now costs $72,990 and its plaid variant $87,990. The Model X base variant now costs $77,990 and...

  • New Instagram Feature: Automatic Nudity Blur in DMs for Users Under 18

    Instagram has introduced a feature blurring nude images in direct messaging to teenagers, ensuring users are protected against potential sextortion schemes.

  • Meta testing auto-blurring nudity in Instagram DMs to fight ‘sextortion’

    April 11 (UPI) — Meta said Thursday it is testing new features designed to help protect young people on its Instagram platform from being coerced into providing explicit images of themselves and then coerced for money. To combat the practice, known as “sextortion,” Meta said it will take a series of steps including introducing a […] The post Meta testing auto-blurring nudity in Instagram DMs to fight ‘sextortion’ first appeared on Gephardt Daily.