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Former NFL QB Sean Salisbury wants officials to face postgame questions just like players and coaches

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Human vs. ChatGPT NFL Week 6 betting picks: AI goes all-in on totals after another weekly win College football chaos: Historic upsets, Arch Manning's fiasco, clock controversy and CFP ramifications arise Hostile Valkyries fans verbally attacked women's sports activists at WNBA Finals Game 1 in San Francisco Could injured Giants star Jaxson Dart return for the playoffs? Joel Embiid rejects idea 76ers stars must'take a back seat' as NBA regular season looms Steve Sarkisian vows to'evaluate everything,' won't rule out benching Arch Manning amid Texas' two-game skid Freshman Tommy Carr's second-half magic leads Michigan to must-have win over Penn State Ole Miss defense takes charge, shuts down Missouri's high-powered rushing attack in 31-3 win Ohio State shatters Indiana's 22-game winning streak, but questions linger about Julian Sayin's health Ex-wrestler Pac's sudden death cause revealed by Cook County Medical Examiner's Office Eagles' Jalen Hurts placed on injured reserve after superficial blood clot found in his calf area Trump defends Iran strikes amid gas price concerns: 'I don't view things politically' Pro-Palestinian, communist mobs in France are making an'anarchic effort,' expert warns Kaylee McGhee White: Voting for Democrats is voting for a'progressive grievance hamster wheel' Kaylee McGhee White: Dems don't even know what they're supposed to be mad about Lara Trump: With super intelligence, there's information everywhere you turn Benjamin Netanyahu: What genocidal country sends food to its enemy? Benjamin Netanyahu: The Iranian people have been taken captive by'ideological thugs' Netanyahu: Let's forge a different future for the Middle East Rep Andy Barr: If it taxes like a socialist, it's a socialist Jack Smith's actions were unjustified for his mandate, Gregg Jarrett says'Border czar' Tom Homan touts major ICE arrest surge Mike Rogers calls Michigan'last line of defense' against socialism The former quarterback wants to hear directly from officials while players and coaches are still answering questions. Former NFL QB Sean Salisbury tells OutKick that officials should answer questions immediately after games, be held accountable for obvious mistakes and stop escalating confrontations with players. NFL players and coaches have to answer questions after games, usually while they're still angry about whatever went wrong.


Dinosaurs evolved feathers to scare prey, suggests robot experiment

New Scientist

Feathers may have evolved on dinosaurs to frighten and flush out prey before they were used for flight, say researchers who built a winged robot and used it to scare grasshoppers. Pennaceous feathers, which are the stiff, non-downy feathers with a central quill, are seen in fossils of some dinosaurs such as Caudipteryx, which lived about 124 million years ago. These dinosaurs had wings that weren't strong enough for flight, so it is unclear how they were used. Jinseok Park at Seoul National University, South Korea, and his colleagues hypothesised that they were used to startle prey into fleeing from hiding places, so they could be caught more easily. This "flush-pursuit" hunting strategy is used by modern birds including the greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) and the northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos).


Robot dinosaur tests surprising theory about the evolution of feathers

New Scientist

Feathers may have evolved on dinosaurs to frighten and flush out prey before they were used for flight, say researchers who built a winged robot and used it to scare grasshoppers. Pennaceous feathers, which are the stiff, non-downy feathers that have a central quill, are seen in fossils of some dinosaurs such as Caudipteryx, which lived about 124 million years ago. These dinosaurs had wings but they were not strong enough for flight, so it's unclear how they were used. Jinseok Park from Seoul National University, South Korea, and his colleagues hypothesised that they were used to startle prey into fleeing from hiding places, so they could be caught more easily. This "flush-pursuit" hunting strategy is used by modern birds including the greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) and the northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos).


A computer chose my baby: How AI created little Charlotte

#artificialintelligence

Cutting-edge technology has captured remarkable images of Charlotte as an embryo but what's even more extraordinary is how this technology helped bring her to life. Charlotte, now nine weeks old, is one of the first babies in Australia to be born with the help of artificial intelligence. Of all the things her parents, Sarah-Eve Dumais Pelletier, 32, and Tim Keys, 33, thought would improve their chances of having a child of their own, a computer was not one of them. Yet, here their daughter is after they endured a painful 12 months of fertility struggles, two miscarriages and a failed round of IVF. The husband and wife, who live on the Sunshine Coast, are among 1000 patients taking part in an Australian-first trial using artificial intelligence in the embryo selection process during an IVF cycle.


U.S. killing of leader of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula hurts group in Yemen

The Japan Times

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – The U.S. has killed the leader of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula in war-torn Yemen, raising questions about the jihadi group's operations and its future. President Donald Trump said the United States "conducted a counterterrorism operation" that eliminated Qassim al-Rimi, according to a White House statement released on Thursday. But what does this mean for AQAP and for Yemen, where a five-year war between the government -- backed by a Saudi-led military coalition -- and the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels has crippled the country? Al-Rimi was named AQAP leader after his predecessor, Nasir al-Wuhayshi, was killed in a U.S. drone strike on Yemen in June 2015. He was one of the group's founders in 2009 and its first military commander.


We should be pleased that robots are taking over some of our old jobs

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Mark Carney knows how to illustrate economic trends through the use of creative language. And when he talks, people tend to listen. "The massacre of the Dilberts" was how the governor of the Bank of England encapsulated the fear that middle-management jobs would be wiped out by automation – for people unfamiliar with American cartoon strips, Dilbert is a white collar office worker and the strip mocks the absurdities of office life. In his native Canada this week, Carney made a number of points in a speech on automation. Most obviously, many office jobs done by people would be done by computers, a process that was already well advanced. "When I look back 30 years ago, what I used to do in the City of London when I worked at an investment bank, probably about three-quarters of what I did is now done by machine," he said.


Cambridge Analytica: Academic at centre of Facebook data scandal says he is being made 'scapegoat'

The Independent - Tech

A UK-based academic whose app harvested the data of 50 million Facebook users has claimed he is being made a scapegoat by the social media company and Cambridge Analytica. Aleksandr Kogan, a psychology lecturer at Cambridge University, developed a personality app which amassed a huge cache of personal information from Facebook for the British political consultancy accused of an illegal data grab. Cambridge Analytica (CA) is alleged to have used the information to help Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and on Tuesday suspended its chief executive, Alexander Nix, after he was secretly recorded boasting about the firm's pivotal role in the US election. MPs have summoned Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to give evidence over the "catastrophic failure of process" behind the breach and have accused the social media giant of misleading Parliament about how companies acquired and held user data. Facebook, which also faces an investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission, has suspended activity for CA and Dr Kogan for violating its policies.


Cambridge Analytica: What is the company now embroiled in Facebook data controversy?

The Independent - Tech

British data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica is at the centre of controversy in the US and UK after two newspapers reported the company harvested personal data about Facebook users beginning in 2014. Best known for assisting the 2016 presidential campaign of US President Donald Trump, Cambridge Analytica is now facing a government search of its London office, questions from US state authorities, and a demand by Facebook that it submit to a forensic audit. The UK's Information Commissioner has announced she is seeking a warrant to probe the company's servers – and also that she was forced to tell Facebook to "stand down" its own enquiries after its auditors and lawyers visited Cambridge Analytica's offices. "Such a search would potentially compromise a regulatory investigation," Elizabeth Denham said. Here is some of what is known about Cambridge Analytica.


Cambridge Analytica: UK data watchdog applies for warrant to search firm's servers as Facebook told to 'stand down' its own probe

The Independent - Tech

Britain's Information Commissioner will seek a warrant to search computers and servers used by the London-based political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica (CA), which is accused of using the personal data of tens-of-millions of Facebook members to influence 2016's US presidential election. Elizabeth Denham said the company had failed to cooperate after she issued a Demand for Access to records and data it held on 7 March. "Cambridge Analytica has not responded to the commissioner by the deadline provided. Therefore, the Information Commissioner is seeking a warrant to obtain information and access to systems and evidence related to her investigation," her office said in a statement. A whistleblower, Christopher Wylie, who worked with CA, claimed the company had amassed the data of some 50 million people through a personality quiz on Facebook called This is Your Digital Life, created by academic Aleksandr Kogan, of Global Science Research.


KSI vs Logan Paul: The inside story on two of YouTube's biggest stars and the biggest white collar boxing match in history

The Independent - Tech

In February Olajide KSI Olatunji, a British YouTuber with more than 18.5 million followers managed to attract more viewers to a white collar boxing match between two amateur fighters than watched the FA Cup final. Now, a date and location for the sequel to that fight, due to be contested by two of online video's biggest stars has been released – though the future of the fight itself is in jeopardy. Twenty four-year-old KSI has been engaged in a war of words with Logan Paul, the 22-year-old YouTuber famous for uploading a video of a suicide victim to YouTube, triggering a temporary ban from making money on the site, since calling out the American after defeating Joe Weller, another YouTuber, in front of a sold-out crowd at the Copper Box Arena back in February. In tweets sent overnight on Thursday between the two YouTubers, who have more than 35 million subscribers between them, the pair revealed key details about their mooted meeting. The bout, due to be the first of two between the YouTubers, has been pencilled in for 25 August, a bank holiday weekend.