The Showdown Over Who Gets to Build the Next DeLorean

Decades after her dad’s iconic sports car time-traveled into movie history, Kat DeLorean wants to build a modern remake. The bored and restless in Covid-restricted Spain, Ángel Guerra doodled a dream car. The automotive designer, then 38, wanted to make a tribute to his first four-wheeled love: the time-traveling DeLorean DMC-12 that rolled out of a cloud … Read more

Oppressive heat scorches Asia, prompts grim warning from scientists

BANGKOK: Large swaths of Asia are sweltering through a heatwave that has topped temperature records from Myanmar to the Philippines and forced millions of children to stay home from school. Here are some questions and answers about the extreme heat, which scientists warn will become more frequent and intense because of human-induced climate change. Where … Read more

US newspapers sue Open AI for copyright infringement

NEW YORK: A group of newspapers, including the New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune, sued Microsoft and OpenAI in a federal court on Tuesday, accusing them of misusing reporters’ work to train their generative artificial-intelligence systems. The eight newspapers, owned by hedge fund Alden Global Capital’s MediaNews Group, said in the lawsuit that the … Read more

Vienna conference urges regulation of AI weapons

VIENNA: The world should estab­lish a set of rules to regulate AI weapons while they’re still in their infancy, a global conference said on Tuesday, calling the issue an “Oppenheimer moment” of the time. Like gunpowder and the atomic bomb, artificial intelligence (AI) has the capacity to revolutionise warfare, analysts say, making human disputes unimaginably … Read more

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Emory Continuing Education’s Business Intelligence for Data Science and Visualization Certificate is a superior choice for professionals looking to enhance their data analytics and visualization skills. Unlike most other programs taught by one instructor, we use a variety of experienced practitioners who teach only their specific area of expertise.  Our practitioners constantly monitor market trends … Read more