Month: May 2023

A 67-year-old man died Saturday evening after being hit by a car while trying to cross US-19 in Pasco County, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Less than an hour later, troopers said another man was struck and killed while walking on US 92 in Hillsborough County. The Pasco crash happened around 9:45 p.m. The agency said a 52-year-old Port Richey woman was driving south on US-19 north of Edna Avenue in Hudson in an SUV. The 67-year-old pedestrian, also from Port Richey, was trying to cross the freeway when the woman hit him. The man died at the scene while…

Hall of Fame basketball coach Phil Jackson found himself in hot water last month, explaining why he hasn’t watched the league regularly since 2020. At the time, the league put slogans on the back of players’ uniforms to show solidarity with Black Lives Matter. movement “They had things on the back like ‘Justice’ and a funny thing happened like, ‘Justice went to the basket and Equal Opportunity knocked it down.’ Some of my grandkids thought it was pretty funny to reproduce those names . I couldn’t see that,” Jackson said on the Tetragrammaton podcast. The NBA bubble in Orlando to…

The Karnataka Congress scored a stunning victory in the assembly elections held on May 10, winning a total of 135 seats in the 224-member assembly. The big party had roped in election strategist Sunil Kanugolu, who has been working with the Congress party in the state since last year. Election strategist Sunil Kanugolu. (File photo) Looking ahead, Kanugolu is now all set to lead the party’s election management efforts in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Kanugolu’s move to join the Congress was first reported by HT earlier April. Who is Suni Kanugolu? Sunil Kanugolu was born in Ballari district of…

CNN — A senior US economic official said on Sunday that talks between congressional staff and the White House have been “constructive” as the US barrels towards a debt limit deadline that could come as soon as 1 of June “The conversations are constructive between all parties,” Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.” President Joe Biden, he said, “looks forward to meeting with leaders to discuss how we continue to move forward.” Talks between congressional leadership and Biden were canceled Friday as staff-level talks continued, with additional meetings planned this week. Biden,…

Opposition challenge to form government Advance nears sweep of capital Bangkok No alliances with dictator-backed parties – PitaPM Prayuth heading for defeat, hope for peace Too soon to discuss alliances – Pheu Thai BANGKOK, May 14 (Reuters) – Thailand’s political opposition was eyeing a landslide victory in Sunday’s election as voters rallied behind two parties promising sweeping changes and an end to a decade of rule conservative led or supported by the military. The Pheu Thai Party and the liberal Move Forward party advanced with more than 90% of the votes counted, but are not certain to lead the next…

WASHINGTON — Computer engineers and tech-inclined political scientists have warned for years that cheap and powerful artificial intelligence tools would soon allow anyone to create fake images, videos and audio that were realistic enough to deceive voters and perhaps influence an election The synthetic images that emerged were often crude, unconvincing and expensive to produce, especially when other types of disinformation were so cheap and easy to spread on social media. The threat posed by AI and so-called deepfakes always seemed a year or two away. Not more. Sophisticated generative AI tools can now create cloned human voices and hyper-realistic…

As election season approaches, companies must think more and more about how they address the social and political issues that will undoubtedly resurface. “I think it’s really important for companies to think about what is the core of their business,” Betsy Atkins, president of Alphabet’s ( GOOG , GOOGL ) Google Cloud and board member of Wynn and GoPuff, told Yahoo Finance at the 2023 Milken Global Conference (video above). “Is it about building a great product, a great service, or is it about trying to reshape the world? When companies decide that social and political issues are more important,…

Eighteen months is an eternity in politics. But the fast-moving, high-profile events of the past week have set the tone and sharpened the stakes in a nascent presidential race with a sitting president and a Republican front-runner that many Americans, according to polls, do not want. as headquarters options, but may feel resigned to accept. The week began with a surprising poll, likely an outlier, showing President Biden losing to both former President Donald J. Trump and his presumed closest primary challenger, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida. Then, in quick succession, came the verdict of a jury that found Mr….