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AI could help scale humanitarian responses. But it could also have big downsides
NEW YORK (AP) — As the International Rescue Committee copes with dramatic increases in displaced people in recent years, the refugee aid organization has looked for efficiencies wherever it can — including using artificial intelligence. |
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Earnings for Seattle tech workers hit record high
Everyone knows Seattle tech workers make good money. Even so, when it comes to earnings, it’s remarkable how far they’ve pulled ahead. |
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Schumer’s AI road map might take GOP detour
WASHINGTON — Portions of Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer’s artificial intelligence “road map” may survive into the new Congress, but legislation stemming from it will favor industry while downplaying civil rights, according to technology and data privacy experts. |
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What would happen if fluoride were removed from the water supply under a Trump presidency?
Former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed that if President-elect Donald Trump appointed him to a health leadership position, the first thing he would work on would be removing fluoride from water. |
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‘A Real Pain’ review: Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg are cousins in a disarming 2024 film highlight
Everyone’s entitled to their opinions unless of course they’re dumb ones. Speaking of which, I never understood the dismissiveness when it came to Jesse Eisenberg. |
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Review: ‘Say Nothing’ draws strength from telling a focused story about the Troubles
From the late ‘60s until 1998, when the Good Friday Agreement wound down hostilities between the Catholic nationalist Irish Republican Army and the U.K.-supported loyalist protestant militias, Northern Ireland was afflicted with the conflict known as the Troubles. One could read and watch a lifetime of reporting on this subject and still not have a firm handle on its nuances, contradictions, factions, facts and figures of the fight for, and against, Irish independence and reunification — a story going back centuries. |
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‘My heart is happy’: Indigenous voices are a priority of new Columbia River Basin Treaty
SPOKANE — Seeing salmon return to the Columbia River Basin has made Ktunaxa Nation member Troy Hunter’s “heart happy.” |
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With Trump headed back to the White House, here’s how the UAW moves forward
The United Auto Workers’ campaigns to keep President-elect Donald Trump out of the White House, to organize more nonunion auto plants and to pressure Stellantis NV over its commitments to an idled Jeep plant in Illinois haven’t gone as planned. |
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Tech review: Gifts to keep the techie in your life charged up
Christmas is coming, and gift giving can be a challenge for the techies on your list. |
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Lower taxes, higher tariffs: What Trump’s tax plans mean for you
Taxes may not be the first thing on your mind following the presidential election, but there’s no doubt that tax policy will play a key role in the year ahead, given that the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) is set to expire at the end of 2025. |
