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CNN  —  The biggest question now that the Supreme Court has decided Donald Trump is entitled to some immunity from prosecution: What happens next in special counsel Jack Smith’s election interference case against the former president? Assuming Smith stays the course, written arguments and even proceedings with witness testimony and evidence are likely to be next before US District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, DC. The special counsel’s office has not responded yet publicly to the decision, and there is nothing at the moment on Chutkan’s docket indicating what next steps will be taken in the trial court. Those are…

PIERRE, SD (KELO) — A federal judge has refused to block a new South Dakota law that imposes new restrictions on industrial hemp. The Legislature approved bill HB1125 during the 2024 session and Governor Kristi Noem signed it into law, taking effect on Monday, July 1. It prohibits the chemical modification or conversion of industrial hemp as well as the sale or distribution. The penalty for an offense is a Class 2 misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $500 and up to 30 days in county jail. Hemp Quarters 605, a downtown Pierre business, challenged the law as…

Key points to rememberA UCLA-led project aimed at fostering connections between the cultural, creative and technology sectors will facilitate a series of nationwide workshops to bring together ideas linking research and innovation across the technology and creative sectors.The workshops, supported by an award from the National Science Foundation, will guide planning for a national conference in December, hosted by UCLA.UCLA’s year-long Innovation, Culture and Creativity Project aims to support the competitiveness of America’s creative sector and expand and diversify the nation’s STEM workforce. The UCLA Innovation, Culture and Creativity Project Office, supported by the National Science Foundation’s Technology, Innovation and…

An overview of Amazon’s benchmarking process for RAG implementations of generative AI. AmazonAWSThis year should be that of the takeoff of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in the company, according to many observers. One way to achieve this is through retrieval augmented generation (RAG), a methodology by which a large AI language model is linked to a database containing domain-specific content, such as data files. ‘business. However, RAG is an emerging technology with its pitfalls. Also: Make Room for RAG: How the AI ​​Generation’s Balance of Power is ShiftingThat’s why Amazon AWS researchers propose in a new paper to establish a…

Announcement from Economics Editor Lori Montgomery and Deputy Economics Editor Sandhya Somashekhar:We’re thrilled to announce that Chris Rowland, one of the Business Desk’s most accomplished journalists, is taking on a new role as editor-in-chief of our transportation, energy and healthcare team.Since joining the Post in 2018 as a health affairs reporter, Chris has demonstrated a remarkable talent for finding the big stories and executing on them with rigor and panache. He landed his first front-page story a month after his arrival, an article about price-fixing by generic drug makers. During the pandemic, Chris has focused on the healthcare supply chain…

CNN — AI images have become a hot attraction on Facebook and other social media, where dramatic and farcical depictions of emotional scenes inspire users to hand out likes, shares and “Amens.” Among the amusing images of fake children crying in the street and police officers rescuing inexplicably huge Bibles from the rain, countless depictions of Jesus Christ seem to take up a disproportionate amount of AI real estate. That makes sense. The central figure of Christianity sparks powerful reactions from billions of followers around the world. Over the past 2000 years, faithful hands have worked to create portraits of…

Several new laws will take effect Monday across the region. Some are raising the minimum wage, others are cracking down on animal cruelty, and still others are regulating the ticket sales landscape. Next Monday, several new laws will go into effect across our region. Some laws raise the minimum wage, others crack down on animal cruelty, and still others regulate the ever-confusing landscape of ticket sales. Here are some laws that will go into effect July 1 in Washington, Maryland and Virginia: D.C. Minimum Wage Increase: The minimum wage in the district will increase from $17 per hour to $17.50…

And they shouldn’t scare you, either. Adobe’s new AI-powered tools in Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and other apps help you get things done faster. Imagine using the Clone Stamp tool to remove the person from the scene in the photo above. This took about 30 seconds using Adobe AI Generative Remove in Lightroom. 34 years ago… The first splash screen for Adobe Photoshop in 1990. Photoshop came on the scene in February 1990. Photographers were shooting film. Digital cameras were a few years away. The prophets of doom were convinced that Photoshop would destroy photography’s reputation that “seeing is believing.” Photojournalists…

by Lacey Pfalz Last updated: 2:00 p.m. ET, Monday, July 1, 2024 WHY IT IS RATED: Traveltek’s new partnership with Sion will increase booking commissions for cruise advisors. — Lacey Pfalz, associate editor, TravelPulseTraveltek, a leading technology company in the leisure travel industry, is proud to announce its latest partnership with Sion, a SaaS platform that helps travel advisors and agencies manage their commissions. The partnership allows joint clients (such as MAST Travel Consortium) to track and manage their cruise booking commissions within the Sion platform.In response to growing demand for a modern, efficient way to research and book cruises,…

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – The Central Statistics Agency of Indonesia or BPS recorded that foreign tourist visits from January to May 2024 reached 5.2 million people. Acting Chief Secretary of the BPS, Machdi, said the figure reflected an increase of 23.78 percent compared to the same period last year.”This is the highest level in the last four years since 2020,” he said in Jakarta on Monday (July 1).On a monthly basis, the number of visits by foreigners increased by 7.36%. In May, this figure reached 1.1 million people, of whom 987,000 arrived through the main entrance, while 157,000 entered through the…