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Everything you need to know ahead of the 2024 Kentucky Derby
It’s almost time to “Run for the Roses.”
And this edition of the Kentucky Derby is a historic one.
The 150th running of the Kentucky Derby is set for Saturday, and while the horse racing world is starting to settle on some favorites — currently Fierceness listed at 5-2 followed by Sierra Leone listed at 3-1 — a pre-race favorite has not won the last five installments of the...
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Charles Leclerc and Daniel Ricciardo provided some thrills, but it was Max Verstappen again up front on Friday
MIAMI — In retrospect, it was a stunning bit of honesty from Max Verstappen following Sprint Qualifying at the Miami Grand Prix.
“To be honest with you, it felt pretty terrible.”
That is how Verstappen described his run which put him into P1 for Saturday’s Sprint Race.
That is where we are with the three-time Drivers’ Champion....
Microsoft is more explicitly banning police departments from using its AI models to identify suspects, according to new conduct language for its Azure OpenAI collaboration.
The new language explicitly prohibits using its AI model services "for facial recognition purposes by or for a police department in the United States." It also prohibits use cases in which mobile cameras are used by any law enforcement globally "in the wild" or where patrolling police officers use body-worn or dash-mounted...
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The TSA’s been planning to expand facial recognition to a whopping 430 US airports over the next several years — but a bipartisan group of 14 senators is now challenging that.
Facial recognition “poses significant threats to our privacy and civil liberties, and Congress should prohibit TSA’s development and deployment of facial recognition tools until rigorous congressional oversight occurs,” reads part of the May 2nd letter (via Gizmodo) from Sens....
Rufino Choque, from the Urus Indigenous community, stands over a boat in the middle of the extinct Poopó Lake, which disappeared in 2015. | Photo by Manuel Seoane
Attacks against environmental journalists have risen dramatically across the world, according to a report released by UNESCO to commemorate World Press Freedom Day.
UNESCO and the International Federation of Journalists surveyed 905 journalists across 129 countries. Between 2009 and last year, more than 70 percent of...
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Luminar, which makes lidar sensors for autonomous driving systems, announced today plans to lay off 20 percent of its workforce amid a broader restructuring of its production process.
The company, which just announced shipments of its next-generation laser sensors to Volvo, said that it will transition to an “asset light” business model that will see more of its production outsourced to its partners. As part of the restructuring, at least 147...
J. Lo's faced a lot of flak, from criticism of her new film and album to debate about whether she's really from the block after a strange clip of her talking about growing up in the Bronx went viral.
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AI marks one of the biggest advances in military aviation since the introduction of stealth in the early 1990s, and the Air Force has aggressively leaned in.
With the midday sun blazing, an experimental orange and white F-16 fighter jet launched with a familiar roar that is a hallmark of U.S. airpower. But the aerial combat that followed was unlike any other: This F-16 was controlled by artificial intelligence, not a human pilot. And riding in the front seat was Air Force Secretary Frank...
The Clippers plan to pursue a contract extension with head coach Ty Lue, sources told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski. Lue has one more year on his contract.
The Magic must rely more on what got them back into their first-round series -- - physicality and a bit of trash-talking.
George Lucas wants them to fade into oblivion. But some fans spent more than a decade digitally restoring the original “Star Wars” trilogy, preserving the movies as they were shown in theaters.
Ahmed Best recalls the painful backlash to the “Phantom Menace” character that was considered a racial stereotype at the time, but is now embraced by fans.
The killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh nationalist who led a temple in British Columbia, set off diplomatic skirmishes between Canada and India.
An antiques shop owner in Maine was hired by a friend to value the collection of the artist Robert Indiana. His verdict was $85 million. A second appraisal says that’s way too much.
Both states are reliably Republican and have abortion bans that are among the strictest in the nation.
The brash owner Mike Repole will take a break from tweaking horse racing’s powers when his colt Fierceness runs in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday.
Mr. Cuellar and his wife are accused of accepting bribes from a bank in Mexico City and an oil and gas company owned by Azerbaijan. He has maintained they are innocent.
Columbia University’s radio station and other student-led news outlets have provided some of the most detailed coverage of the turmoil engulfing university campuses.
A cooler-than-expected jobs report for April shifted the tone on Wall Street, rekindling investors’ expectations that the Federal Reserve may cut rates soon.