A Houston playwright, inspired by a mock funeral held by the NAACP in 2007, contemplates that question.
BearingPoint’s Claudia Carr examines the healthcare sector’s future needs and the importance of adapting to new technologies. : How digitalisation can change the way we treat patients
xAI, the OpenAI competitor founded by Elon Musk, has introduced the first version of Grok that can process visual information. Grok-1.5V is the company's first-generation multimodal AI model, which cannot only process text, but also "documents, diagrams, charts, screenshots and photographs." In xAI's announcement, it gave a few samples of how its capabilities can be used in the real world. You can, for instance, show it a photo of a flow chart and ask Grok to translate it into Python code, get...
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The president’s moral failure in Gaza has taken on historic proportions, like Lyndon Johnson’s in Vietnam before himAmerica is big, diverse and polarized. Yet, when it comes to the war in Gaza, opinions here are converging. A Gallup poll in March found 55% of respondents “disapprove of Israel’s actions”, up from 45% in November. Among registered Democrats, the figure is 75%. As the number of citizens voting “uncommitted” in Democratic primaries makes plain, President Biden’s unqualified support...
Instagram users may have noticed a new colorful circular logo at the top of their messages interface lately. It is Meta's AI-powered chatbot. [Read More]
X's new Grok-1.5V can now understand user-uploaded visual information.
Tyranny By The Numbers: The Government Wants Your Money Any Way It Can Get It Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it. This is what comes of those $1.2 trillion spending bills: someone’s got to foot the bill for the government’s fiscal insanity, and that “someone” is the U.S. taxpayer. The government’s schemes to swindle, cheat, scam,...
Since phones may amplify the light, it is still not safe to view the eclipse through a phone camera. Experts recommend the same filters that protect our eyes during eclipse viewing, to ensure a good photo.
Leaders often face a common yet perplexing challenge: they’re acutely aware of the need for change, yet they find themselves paralyzed when it comes to taking action. It’s a phenomenon called the Growth Paradox. The paradox lies in the fact that while people often truly want to grow and change, the process is accompanied by strong feelings of discomfort, fear, and resistance that hold them back. These leaders don’t lack the will to do their work; instead, they lack the deeper, powerful...
MARK ALMOND: On January 3, 2020, Iran 's military mastermind Qasem Soleimani was assassinated by missiles fired from an American drone as his convoy left Baghdad airport.
With almost deflated resignation, I hear leaders observe how difficult their work is now. How things change so quickly. Those conversations never leave me. Discussions about the speed of change in the mainstream often refer to the growth in technology. But there is so much more. Few consider the storm of interconnected economic, social, environmental, and technological elements that also contribute. Think about what organizations have faced in the last decade. Cost-of-living crisis. Conflict in...