Starmer could have scrapped child benefit cap last year - why did he wait? I can't remember when I last heard Sir Keir Starmer sounding so passionate. The prime minister's critics regularly lambast him for what they see as robotic or emotion-free communication, but you could not accuse him of that as we spoke on a post-Budget visit to a community centre in Rugby, Warwickshire. I could see it in his eyes and hear it in his tone. I have repeatedly said that I want my government to drive down child poverty.

Paradromics receives FDA approval for its first human trial testing the Connexus BCI device that aims to restore speech for people with paralysis through brain signals.

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RFK Jr taunts Donald Trump as he shares pointed'Thanksgiving dinner' photo with the president, Elon Musk and Don Jr Fans hail Cece Winans' 'best ever' rendition of the national anthem on Thanksgiving and beg the NFL to get her to the Super Bowl I've seen it too many times - I have to speak up: KENNEDY Trump plunged into security scandal over Afghan shooter's asylum - after president blamed Biden Bryan Kohberger becomes nightmare prison diva... as he throws huge tantrum over BANANAS behind bars My wife was blindsided when I asked for a divorce. There was no foul play or'other woman' but this is why I did it... and the six subtle signs your partner is planning on leaving you too: RICHARD WARNER My book on the Kennedys was used as a'mistress manual' by Olivia Nuzzi... then this wannabe Carolyn Bessette had the nerve to hound me with these outrageous texts: MAUREEN CALLAHAN Americans are finally realizing why we don't eat turkey eggs Plastic surgeon reveals secrets of Tom Brady's changing face, including'unnatural' procedure... and truth about Ozempic use Lilibet's locks steal the show! Meghan's daughter is every inch the little Princess with her fiery red locks in a neat plait at Thanksgiving outing Kimberly Guilfoyle leaves little to the imagination in a figure-hugging sheer lace gown for Thanksgiving dinner in Athens in her role as US Ambassador - after admitting she's'husband hunting' Hollywood stars who REFUSE to celebrate Thanksgiving over animal cruelty and its'blood-soaked' history Californians were shaken by multiple earthquakes on Thanksgiving morning, raising concerns in the seismically active region. At least 13 tremors, starting around 4:30am PT (7:30am ET) and ranging from magnitude 1.0 to 3.7, were reported near The Geysers geothermal field in Northern California . The last earthquake, a small 1.1 magnitude, was detected at 5:47am PT (8:47am ET).

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A study recently published in the journal suggests something many Italians already knew--certain hand gestures really do make people seem more competent and persuasive. "One of the key takeaways for marketers is that you can use the same content, but if you pay more attention to how that content is delivered, it could have a big impact on persuasiveness," Mi Zhou, study co-author and University of British Columbia digital market research scientist, said in a statement . Zhou and her colleagues analyzed 2,184 TED Talks using AI and automated video analysis. They compared hundreds of thousands of video clips of hand features to audience engagement metrics, and asked study participants to rate the speakers and products in videos of sales pitches with different hand movements.

Generations in Dialogue: Bridging Perspectives in AI is a podcast from AAAI featuring thought-provoking discussions between AI experts, practitioners, and enthusiasts from different age groups and backgrounds. Each episode delves into how generational experiences shape views on AI, exploring the challenges, opportunities, and ethical considerations that come with the advancement of this transformative technology. In the third episode of this new series from AAAI, host Ella Lan chats to Professor Roberto Martín-Martín about taking a screwdriver to his toys as a child, how his research focus has evolved over time, how different generations interact with technology, making robots for everyone, being inspired by colleagues, advice for early-career researchers, and how machines can enhance human capabilities. Roberto Martín-Martín is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin, where his research integrates robotics, computer vision, and machine learning to build autonomous agents capable of perceiving, learning, and acting in the real world. He previously worked as an AI Researcher at Salesforce AI and as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab with Silvio Savarese and Fei-Fei Li, leading projects in visuomotor learning, mobile manipulation, and human-robot interaction.

National Guard soldiers shot in Washington DC'terror attack' are named... as Afghan gunman's chilling 40-hour drive across the country emerges Patrick Mahomes' bizarre addition to his Thanksgiving meal leaves fans disgusted My book on the Kennedys was used as a'mistress manual' by Olivia Nuzzi... then this wannabe Carolyn Bessette had the nerve to hound me with these outrageous texts: MAUREEN CALLAHAN Bryan Kohberger becomes nightmare prison diva... as he throws huge tantrum over BANANAS behind bars Campbell's under fire again just a day after top exec was canned for soup ingredient bombshell Watch distressing moment'drugged' Tara Reid COLLAPSES... as friends reveal urgent developments about'surveillance footage': 'They should be prosecuted' Deaths from highly infectious virus are growing... as states brace for widespread outbreaks Karoline Leavitt's family member was swarmed by ICE agents while picking up son from school as child's father tell her to'self deport' Cuckolded ex of writer who'had affair' with RFK Jr rebounds with lookalike feminist... who hates men but fetches his coffee How my bifold doors nearly killed me. It's a middle-class status symbol, but a horrific danger landed me in surgery. Her people tell me extraordinary accusation is'highly defamatory'. Princess of Wales visits the Anna Freud Centre to launch new project supporting children's mental health Revealed: What makes the perfect Race Across the World partner (and why it probably ISN'T your mum!) READ MORE: How does your commute compare to the world's longest? From former spouses to reunited brothers, BBC's Race Across the World has had a wide range of pairings over the years.

We recruited participants through two online platforms, CloudResearch and Bovitz, targeting US residents over 18 years old who self-identified as either Republican or Democrat and were active users of X (SM section S1.1). Qualified individuals were invited to complete a screening task, which included installing a browser extension that analyzed their X feed. To ensure the interventions could have a meaningful impact on participants' feeds, only those with at least 5% of posts related to politics or social issues were invited to participate. Figure S1 summarizes the recruitment funnel, including the number of individuals at each stage of the process. Participants were not instructed to use X in any particular way, but they received daily reminders if they had not used the platform that day.

Social media is an important source of political information, yet there is little external oversight of platforms' ever-changing algorithms and policies. This opacity presents a major problem: Conducting a real-world experiment on the causal effects of platform features generally requires the collaboration of the platform being studied, which rarely happens, and even when it does, future platform changes may invalidate prior findings. The authors introduce a methodological paradigm for testing the effect of social media on partisan animosity without platform collaboration by reranking users' existing feeds using large language models (LLMs) and a browser extension. They find that changing the visibility of polarizing content can influence people's feelings about opposing partisans. Social media is in a period of upheaval.

At a recent conference on mathematics in the age of automated proofs, mathematician and Fields Medalist Akshay Venkatesh presented “How do we talk to our students about AI?'' He quoted an email he'd received from a young student who asked, “Do you believe that mathematics is worth being studied in a world in which a machine can answer everything for you? What do you believe would be the 'job’ of a mathematician in this world?” Venkatesh framed AI as an opportunity to correct what he called an “essential gap that has opened between the practice of mathematics and our values.” Mathematician William Thurston has explained these values by writing, “mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.” But Venkatesh argued that the record on this is terrible, lamenting that “for a typical paper or talk, very few of us understand it.” He is not alone in thinking that something is wrong with the current state of mathematics research.