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On “The Claman Countdown,” Will.i.am explains how his app, FYI, helps creators bring their ideas to life. While many musicians and celebrities have spoken out against AI, rapper will.i.am has gotten into the technology, unveiling a new artificial intelligence app called Raidio.FYI. FYI is a free artificial intelligence-powered platform that simulates a radio experience, allowing users to interact with radio personas and curate content tailored to their interests.AI fraud is on the rise, and new tools are trying to combat it “We've simulated a radio station format with an AI co-host, and you can have in-depth conversations about any subject…
Children from the First United Methodist Church children's choir rehearse at the church. Photo by Holden Miller The children's choir at First United Methodist Church of Baton Rouge offers more than just music.The church's choir program has two groups of children, one for kindergarten through second grade choirs and one for third through fifth grade choirs.”A big part of our mission is teaching kids music and music skills, but we think music teaches so much more than that,” says Holden Miller, assistant director of music and the church's organist. “Music teaches kids life skills, social skills, leadership. It also teaches…
The week leading up to the U.S. Open has been busier than usual for Taylor Fritz.He rarely arrives less than a week before a tournament, but is in New York seven days before the Grand Slam begins. “Just to give myself a little bit of time to get used to everything,” he says. Fritz, 26, loves playing in front of the Flushing crowd. “Obviously for the Americans it's a Grand Slam on home soil, so it's a really special week,” he says. terms of service”It's a really great feeling to have the crowd cheering for you during the game. It…
Engaging teachers in their professional learning empowers them. Credit: Allison Shelley/EDUimages, CC BY-NC Student achievement is highly correlated with the presence of effective teachers who are empowered and motivated to provide students with a quality education. Such teachers should be in every classroom. But schools in Canada, the United States, Europe and Australia are facing teacher shortages, with some schools hiring staff with no formal educational training. There have been proposed initiatives to increase the number of qualified teachers entering the workforce, such as accelerated teaching certification. These initiatives would be valuable in helping recruit future teachers. But right now,…
Visual perceptual learning in miceA group of mice (n = 14) was subjected to a vPL protocol in which they were asked to discriminate two vertical gratings with equal contrast, but different spatial frequency (SF), made progressively more similar by making their SF closer to each other. Initially, the test grating had a SF of 0.522 c/deg, while the reference grating had a SF of 0.116 c/deg. All mice easily learned this discrimination task, with the percentage of correct choices increasing over the course of the training sessions (One-way RM ANOVA, Holm-Sidak method, F = 24.276, DF = 1, p < 0.001) and finally achieving a performance level…
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Last week was a hectic one for me. Apple Inc. AAPL With major leadership changes, exciting product launches and strategic expansion plans, the tech giant is saying goodbye to key executives and gearing up for a major product launch event. Meanwhile, the Cupertino, California-headquartered company is also building a new assembly plant and expanding its operations in India. Apple App Store Leadership Renewal Matt FisherFisher, who has been head of Apple's App Store business since 2010, announced his departure from the company. “After 21 years at Apple, I have decided to leave this great company,” Fisher said in an email…
Morgan McCabe Times correspondent Some of the students in Professor Renee Corso's advanced human physiology class at Ivy Tech Community College in Valparaiso aren't typical college students.They are participants in the Senior Scholars program, which offers tuition-free college credit courses to Indiana residents age 60 and older at Ivy Tech campuses across Indiana.”It's been extremely rewarding to share nearly 40 years of medical experience with students of all ages and generations,” said Corso, 78, a Vietnam War veteran and Green Beret medic, who called teaching his “retirement hobby.”By waiving tuition for seniors, Ivy Tech is going beyond Indiana law, which…
Apple announced iOS 18 at its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, and more than two months later, the tech giant released the fifth public beta version of the software, on Aug. 20. The update brings many new features and improvements to the iPhones of developers and public beta testers, like the ability to customize your home screen and lock screen, as well as RCS messaging.Read more: Everything You Need to Know About the iOS 18 Betas Apple/Screenshot by CNETI’ve been using the iOS 18 beta on my iPhone XR since WWDC. I don’t have access to all the new features…
PARIS — Pavel Durov, the Russian-French billionaire and founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram, was arrested on Saturday evening at Bourget airport outside Paris, TF1 and BFM television reported, citing anonymous sources.TF1 reported on its website that Durov was traveling on a private jet and that an arrest warrant had been issued in France as part of a preliminary police investigation.Both TF1 and BFM said the investigation was focused on a lack of moderators at Telegram, a situation that police believe could allow criminal activity to continue unchecked on the messaging app.Pavel Durov at a TechCrunch event in 2015.Steve…