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☆ Tesla is headed to trial, where a jury will soon decide whether it's to blame for a 2-year-old crashing a model X into his pregnant mom
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-14 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Read previewIs Tesla to blame for a toddler crashing his family's Model X SUV into his pregnant mother, injuring her? California mom alleges that the Tesla Model X was 'defective'In 2019, California mother Mallory Harcourt filed a lawsuit against Tesla over the incident, accusing it of negligence, consumer fraud, and product liability. "In no uncertain terms, Ms. Harcourt's own actions caused her injuries, and not any defect in Model X's design," Tesla's attorneys wrote. AdvertisementHarcourt's son "pressed the accelerator pedal, and the Model X moved forward slowly," the lawyers said. The Model X, the lawyers wrote in the brief, "functioned exactly as designed and very likely saved Ms. Harcourt's life."

Persons: —, Elon, Mallory Harcourt, Tesla, Harcourt, Santa Barbara, Getty, Mallory, Ms, Harcourt negligently, Tesla's, Harcourt's, Barrett Riley, Riley Organizations: Service, Business, Tesla, Santa, Chicago Tribune Locations: California, Santa Clara, Park, Florida

☆ Teachers are using AI to grade essays. Students are using AI to write them
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-06 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

A report by strategy consultant firm Tyton Partners, sponsored by plagiarism detection platform Turnitin, found half of college students used AI tools in Fall 2023. The practice of using AI for writing feedback or grading assignments also raises ethical considerations. But teachers should then grade students’ work themselves when looking for novelty, creativity and depth of insight. “Using feedback that is not truly from me seems like it is shortchanging that relationship a little,” she said. She also sees uploading a student’s work to ChatGPT as a “huge ethical consideration” and potentially a breach of their intellectual property.

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☆ Educators teaching AI literacy to students should include ethics in their lesson plans, scholars say
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Ngozi Nwanji | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

While some optimists focus on AI's benefits in education, others fear that using AI in classrooms could catalyze cheating and misinformation. This is where AI literacy can be useful. Created within the Stanford Graduate School of Education, CRAFT is a collaborative effort of Stanford education researchers, software developers, and curriculum developers. Lee also told BI that AI literacy in classrooms "should involve recognition of where AI can be effective and where it requires extra vigilance." He said the school also hopes to grow CRAFT's teacher codesign fellowship through which fellows develop AI literacy lessons.

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☆ How Asake developed a boundary-pushing sound that’s changing Afrobeats as we know it
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Lauren Lee | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Nigerian singer and songwriter Asake is creating a new Afrobeats sound that is deeply African and completely global. But to me, I think I do a lot of things because, you know, I love to come with the vibe. It’s just like a bit of Amapiano, a bit of Afrobeat, a bit of Fuji, a bit of R&B, a bit of hip hop, just to make Asake. I think I’m going to be somebody who puts on a show’? I don’t know how I’m going to do it, but the most important thing for me is to keep going.

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☆ Alabama Has a New Execution Method for Its ‘Machinery of Death’ - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Bernard E. Harcourt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Death by nitrogen hypoxia — by breathing high concentrations of nitrogen, starving a person of oxygen until death — occurs from time to time accidentally. Proponents of the nitrogen hypoxia method, also approved by Mississippi and Oklahoma but not yet used in those states, argue that nitrogen gas will quickly render the subject unconscious, with death ensuing within minutes. Nitrogen gas asphyxiation was previously used to euthanize pets. The group states in its 2020 guidelines that nitrogen gas “is unacceptable” for animals other than chickens and turkeys. It is one thing to “botch” an execution, which is commonly understood to mean that an execution caused unnecessary agony or showed gross incompetence by the execution team.

Persons: Smith Organizations: Pilots, American Veterinary Medical Association, Alabama Locations: Federal, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Alabama

☆ Storm clouds gather over highly indebted companies, Moody's says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Matt Tracy | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Private equity-owned companies make up nearly three-quarters of Moody's list. In addition to higher interest payments, Moody's noted, many of the downgraded companies have fewer funding paths to staying afloat. Sixteen of the 30 companies that fell off Moody's at-risk list last quarter did so through defaults, not improved financial outlooks. As defaults rise, distressed debt exchanges will be the route of choice for many companies and their private equity owners, Moody's noted. Of the other companies that fell off Moody's list last quarter, seven opted instead to file for bankruptcy.

☆ Alabama pauses executions after third failed lethal injection attempt
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Kay Ivey sought a pause in executions and ordered a “top-to-bottom” review of the state’s capital punishment system Monday after an unprecedented third failed lethal injection. Ivey also requested that Marshall not seek additional execution dates for any other death row inmates until the review is complete. In September, the state called off the scheduled execution of Alan Eugene Miller because of difficulty accessing his veins. Alabama in 2018 called off the execution of Doyle Hamm because of problems getting the intravenous line connected. Alabama should have imposed an execution moratorium after Hamm’s failed execution for the benefit of everyone, said Bernard Harcourt, an attorney who represented Hamm for years.

☆ Myanmar releasing 4 foreign prisoners in amnesty, including American
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Britain’s embassy in Yangon said Bowman, a former British ambassador to Myanmar, had not yet been released from prison. “Sean’s heart was with the people of Myanmar to help lift them out of poverty and help Myanmar reach its economic potential. Bowman, 56, was arrested with her husband, a Myanmar national, in Yangon in August. Kyaw Htay Oo, a naturalized American, returned to Myanmar, the country of his birth, in 2017, according to media reports. Myanmar did not release many details of the other prisoners who were being freed, but almost all would have been held on charges related to the protests.

☆ Six in ten Britons will spend less at Christmas -Deloitte survey
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LONDON, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Six in ten Britons believe they will have less money to spend over the Christmas period than last year, according to a survey published on Monday, adding to evidence that a thrifty festive season beckons. The survey from Deloitte found 38% plan to switch to cheaper brands or stores to seek out gifts, and for Christmas Day dinner 35% plan to do at least part of their shop at a discount supermarket. "Consumers are entering the festive season with budgets under more pressure this year, and it is not surprising that almost all are considering affordability and adapting their typical Christmas spending habits in one way or another," Oliver Vernon-Harcourt, head of retail at Deloitte, said. With inflation at a 40-year high of 10.1%, interest rates rising and consumer confidence close to the gloomiest on record, Britons have cut their spending. Deloitte's findings chimed with surveys last month from Kantar and Accenture, which both showed Britons planning to cut festive spending this year.

An oil slick is seen on Santa Barbara creek, following an oil spill in Nembe, Bayelsa, Nigeria, November 25, 2021. "Hundreds of thousands of people (in Benin) organize their survival around this traffic," Boris Houenou, a Beninois economist said of the smuggling of Nigerian gasoline. NNPC recorded gasoline deliveries of 90 million litres a day in March and 83 million in April, Reuters calculations showed. 'CURIOUS CASE'Although the Nigerian government announced plans to remove the gasoline subsidy last year, it then backtracked in July, citing concerns over potential social unrest. And although gasoline is subsidised, the amount ordinary Nigerians pay at the pump remains higher than the set price.

☆ Профессор Гарварда заявил, что в 2017 году около Земли прошли инопланетные обломки
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-05 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +2 min

Согласно новой книге профессора Гарвардского университета Ави Лоеба, в 2017 году ученые обнаружили первые признаки разумной жизни за пределами Земли. По словам Лоеба, это был первый признак разумной жизни за пределами Земли. «Чужой: первый признак разумной жизни за пределами Земли»По словам Лоеба, объект не был естественным явлением, а представлял собой кусок космического мусора, выброшенный другой галактикой. В обзоре Publishers Weekly книгу «Чужой: первый признак разумной жизни за пределами Земли» назвали «спорным манифестом». «Захватывающий и убедительный случай, что мы могли видеть признаки разумной жизни около Земли и что нам следует искать дальше», – написала она.

Persons: Ави Лоеба, Ави Лоеб, Лоеб, Томас Зурбухен, ПРОДОЛЖАЕТСЯОн, Энн Войжитки, Эрик Маскин Organizations: NASA, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, . Publishers, Гарвардский университет, Управление научных миссий, ИСТОРИЯ, Гарвард Locations: –, Houghton Mifflin, Гавайях, Земля, Вашингтон

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