Foreign Aid Agencies Awarded $27 Million To Group Helping Leftist Protesters Avoid Jail

Minneapolis riots, May 2020. Via Reuters, YouTube By Hudson Crozier Federal agencies tasked with giving out foreign aid have allocated more than $27 million for activist groups that also support legal defense efforts for leftist protesters in the U.S. The State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded …

Prime Video’s use of AI, Next Gen Stats on NFL games is helping viewers understand the game better

IN this image provided by Amazon Prime Video, from left, Prime Video Senior Coordinating Producer Alex Strand; Keegan Abdoo of the NFL’s Next Gen Stats Department; Scott Karpen, Producer of “Prime Vision with Next Gen Stats”; and Prime Video “Thursday Night Football” analytics expert Sam Schwartzstein talk at the Amazon/MGM …

How Old Nokias Are Helping Solve Poverty

You can donate to relief efforts here: https://GiveDirectly.org/coldfusion Ending global poverty has been a topic of great importance … source

Tony Saxby Is Passionate About Helping Heroes Be Fit To Serve

The 2024 Olympia Weekend in Las Vegas, NV was about much more than bodybuilding. It was a celebration of fitness and community. The folks that gathered to take part in the annual extravaganza saw and created memories that will last a lifetime. One of those people was Tony Saxby of …

North Korean soldiers are hooked on porn after getting internet access for first time while helping Russia fight Ukraine

Politician Susanna Gibson produced actual porn she had posted on the pornographic website Chaturbate. Most porn images of politicians, however, are deep fakes, not real. North Korean soldiers sent to fight on Russia’s side against Ukraine have unfettered internet access for the first time, and are using it to watch …

Skillet Singer John Cooper Credits Running For Helping Him Stay Fit at 49

On a late September afternoon in Huntington, WV, John Cooper and the rest of his bandmates in the popular group, Skillet, were holding a meet and greet event before their concert that evening. It was during this event that a fan shared his 90-pound weight-loss journey that included lots of …

Plants are absorbing more carbon dioxide than previously thought, helping the climate

Good news for people concerned about climate change: Plants across the world are absorbing 31% more carbon dioxide than previously thought, “according to a new assessment developed by scientists. The research, detailed in the journal Nature, is expected to improve Earth system simulations that scientists use to predict the future climate, …

Helping robots zero in on the objects that matter | MIT News

Imagine having to straighten up a messy kitchen, starting with a counter littered with sauce packets. If your goal is to wipe the counter clean, you might sweep up the packets as a group. If, however, you wanted to first pick out the mustard packets before throwing the rest away, …

Swing State’s School Choice Programs Are Helping Thousands Of Families — Dems Want To End Them

Pixabay By Jennifer Nuelle and Ireland Owens Pennsylvania’s school choice programs have opened a door for thousands of low and middle income families to get their children out of the state’s flagging public schools, according to a new report. Yet, Democrats are pushing a platform that opposes school choice programs …

New Trump Scandal: Person On Terror Watch List Is Helping Him with Debate Prep!

Oh, the media is going to have a field day with this. Bad Orange Man, never content with the depths of villainy he has already reached, has hit yet another new low: he has tabbed someone who is on a terror watch list, and is heavily monitored every time she …

Helping robots practice skills independently to adapt to unfamiliar environments | MIT News

The phrase “practice makes perfect” is usually reserved for humans, but it’s also a great maxim for robots newly deployed in unfamiliar environments. Picture a robot arriving in a warehouse. It comes packaged with the skills it was trained on, like placing an object, and now it needs to pick …

Helping Olympic athletes optimize their performance, one stride at a time | MIT News

The Olympics is all about pushing the frontiers of human performance. As some athletes prepared for the Paris 2024 games, that included using a new technology developed at MIT.nano. The technology was created by Striv (pronounced “strive”), a startup whose founder gained access to the cutting-edge labs and fabrication equipment …

“My coin is helping crypto.” – Ben Armstrong

Bitboy Crypto is now leading an altcoin project called ‘Ben Coin’. Full interview: https://youtu.be/hR5ZZ7NNrzU Follow BitBoy: On … source

Helping nonexperts build advanced generative AI models | MIT News

The impact of artificial intelligence will never be equitable if there’s only one company that builds and controls the models (not to mention the data that go into them). Unfortunately, today’s AI models are made up of billions of parameters that must be trained and tuned to maximize performance for …

CO₂ worsens wildfires by helping plants grow, model experiments show

Figure shows that wildfires are much more responsive to the fertilizer effect of CO2 than to the greenhouse gas alone without considering this effect. Credit: James Gomez/UCR By fueling the growth of plants that become kindling, carbon dioxide is driving an increase in the severity and frequency of wildfires, according …

The Futility of ‘Helping’ Africa

Savior Complex, HBO Original, 2023 “Savior Complex,” a three-episode documentary series on HBO Max, shows us the world of Christian missionaries in Africa through the eyes of young white women who dedicate their lives to helping Africans, but who end up at odds with each other and with the Africans. …

Boosting Crypto Adoption: Helping Local Merchants Embrace the Future

Subscribe to our FREE newsletter at https://CryptoVigilante.io Join Rafael LaVerde as he interviews Raul, the forward-thinking … source

How is the UN helping civilians in Gaza? — Global Issues

In conflict zones across the world, UN humanitarian workers work under extreme conditions, but it is hard to exaggerate the risks they are facing in Gaza, where hospitals, schools, and refugee camps are not immune to the threats of bombardment. Evacuation orders continue to be issued, pushing more people south …

Helping computer vision and language models understand what they see | MIT News

Powerful machine-learning algorithms known as vision and language models, which learn to match text with images, have shown remarkable results when asked to generate captions or summarize videos. While these models excel at identifying objects, they often struggle to understand concepts, like object attributes or the arrangement of items in …

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