After months of preparation and work from Pittsylvania County staff, a brand new and improved Pittsylvania County website will go live beginning June 15. County staff chose to create a new website to improve the mobile experience, streamline the site organization, and add significantly more content about County services and […]
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By SAM METZ, Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Shortly after launching his campaign last year for the Republican nomination in Nevada’s U.S. Senate race, Sam Brown got into a scrape with Twitter. A Purple Heart recipient who was severely burned by an IED blast in Afghanistan, Brown posted a […]
Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) student Sarah Cen remembers the lecture that sent her down the track to an upstream question. At a talk on ethical artificial intelligence, the speaker brought up a variation on the famous trolley problem, which outlines a philosophical choice between two undesirable outcomes. […]
As babies, we babble and imitate our way to learning languages. We don’t start off reading raw text, which requires fundamental knowledge and understanding about the world, as well as the advanced ability to interpret and infer descriptions and relationships. Rather, humans begin our language journey slowly, by pointing and […]
LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s biggest soccer club, Benfica, will become the country’s first to join the crypto craze, partnering with blockchain-powered fan engagement firm Socios.com to launch a fan token, the club announced on Tuesday. “We have been paying very close attention to Digital Assets,” SL Benfica CEO Domingos Soares […]
By KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The nation’s leading cybersecurity agency released a final version Friday of an advisory it previously sent state officials on voting machine vulnerabilities in Georgia and other states that voting integrity activists say weakens a security recommendation on using barcodes to tally votes. […]