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After hours of routine operations, an air traffic controller gets a radio call from a small aircraft whose cockpit indicators can't confirm that the plane's landing gear is extended for landing. The controller arranges for the pilot to fly low by the tower so the controller can visually check the plane's landing gear. All appears well. "It looks like your gear is down," the controller tells the pilot.

A researcher from the New Jersey Institute of Technology has published a perspective paper that examines sentience and its application to artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. Sentience describes the ability to sense and feel, drawing its meaning from the Latin word sentire which means "to feel." The paper addresses a set of ideological commitments at stake in debates over sentient machines. The author proposes that artificial sentience is both necessary and impossible.

Meta announced on Jan. 9, 2024, that it will protect teen users by blocking them from viewing content on Instagram and Facebook that the company deems to be harmful, including content related to suicide and eating disorders. The move comes as federal and state governments have increased pressure on social media companies to provide safety measures for teens.

Grammys host Trevor Noah tells Gayle King about the goal of staying on the good side of Taylor Swift fans, adjusting to a crowd's mood and more.

In unsealed documents, the league's commish compared risk of brain injury in football to dangers of 'walking down the street'

At last check in July, indie wrestler the “Progressive Liberal” Daniel Richards won his match against a Trump supporter but still had to wear a diaper and drink gross milk out of a baby bottle. A couple of weeks later at Dukes Fest, a Dukes of Hazzard-themed festival in Virginia, Richards wrestled again and used the…

Excerpted from Big Game: The NFL In Dangerous Times, out today from Penguin Press.

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Jay Leno and his wife Mavis show a unified front at his comedy gig a couple days after he filed to be conservator of her estate.

Caitlyn Jenner has been scrubbed from her son Brandon's new reality TV show after threatening production with legal action.

While working as a software development project manager in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Bianca Trinkenreich was always one of few women in the room—and she often wondered why. When she came to NAU as a Ph.D. student, she had the opportunity to search for answers.

The European Union is negotiating an Artificial Intelligence Act, the world's first comprehensive law that aims to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) based on the risk it poses to individuals, society and the environment.

The World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2024 has issued a stark warning: misinformation and disinformation, primarily driven by deepfakes, are ranked as the most severe global short-term risks the world faces in the next two years.

There's been much discussion about how artificial intelligence (AI) will affect every part of our society, from school assignments to the music industry.

The writer, who accused former President Donald Trump of sexual assault, was awarded $83.3 million in damages last week for defamatory statements.

Kanye West and Bianca Censori had a very L.A. experience ... getting confronted by a random dude in the street, who was ready to rant and rave at a very high volume.

Norman Jewison -- the director known for 'Jesus Christ Superstar' and other hits -- has died.

"Home Alone" star Devin Ratray's domestic violence trial has been delayed ... after his lawyers informed the judge he was hospitalized "in critical condition."

PROSPERO for animal studies is an international database of prospectively registered systematic reviews of animal studies relevant to human health. Key features from the review protocol are recorded and maintained as a permanent record in PROSPERO. The aim is to provide a comprehensive listing of systematic reviews registered at inception, to help avoid unplanned duplication. By promoting transparency in the process and enabling comparison of reported review findings with what was planned in the protocol PROSPERO also aims to minimise the risk of bias in systematic review.

The veteran broadcaster was a storyteller of the highest caliber. In this remembrance originally broadcast in 2004, Osgood recalled his youth in Baltimore, and how the war years, and the wonder of radio, shaped his world.