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One Saturday in September 2014, the women’s rugby team from Quinnipiac University in Connecticut travelled to Norwich, Vermont. On the home team, a powerful 18-year-old prop scored three tries in a convincing win.Quinnipiac coach Becky Carlson turned to her assistant. “Oh man,” she remembered saying. “Who’s the kid in the pink scrum cap? I’d give my right arm to have her.“And then that same fall, I had a voicemail. I saved it. And she sounds like a little kid. ‘Hello, Coach Carlson, this is Ilona Maher. I just wanted to call and tell you I want to transfer from Norwich…

The changes to survivor signup have been made inside the program that the agency uses to manage disaster aid applications and pay out survivors, known as the National Emergency Management Information System (NEMIS). Current and former FEMA employees told WIRED that, while they have major concerns about requiring an email address to register for aid, they do believe the system is in need of a technical overhaul. (“It is absolutely an outdated system that crashes daily,” one former FEMA worker who worked with NEMIS told WIRED.)Agency officials have also publicly expressed the need to modernize the way disaster aid reaches…

A new upscale bus service designed with space and comfort in mind connects multiple European cities including Amsterdam, Brussels, Zurich, and Barcelona.

Sam Altman says that less than 1% of users have an unhealthy relationship with AI, so let’s unpack that claim and see what it portends.getty In today’s column, I examine a rather pointed remark that Sam Altman recently made about the role of AI and its impact on humankind’s mental health. Altman essentially stated that less than 1% of user-AI relationships could be construed as unhealthy. If you soberly unpack the bold assertion, there is a lot in there that deserves serious and mindful scrutiny. Let’s talk about it. This analysis of AI breakthroughs is part of my ongoing Forbes…

US judge and social media star Frank Caprio has died aged 88, according to his family.The judge became a social media sensation for his compassion and humour on his hit show Caught in Providence.His videos have received billions of views and earned him the title of “nicest judge in the world”.Frank Caprio’s death follows a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer and was announced on Instagram to his 3.4 million followers.

During sleep, the human brain sorts through different memories, consolidating important ones while discarding those that don’t matter. What if AI could do the same?Bilt, a company that offers local shopping and restaurant deals to renters, recently deployed several million agents with the hopes of doing just that.Bilt uses technology from a startup called Letta that allows agents to learn from previous conversations and share memories with one another. Using a process called “sleeptime compute,” the agents decide what information to store in its long-term memory vault and what might be needed for faster recall.“We can make a single update…

Carroll College professor of biology Grant Hokit drags a white cloth through brush outside of Condon, Mont., looking for ticks. Hokit surveys for ticks statewide for the Montana health department. Aaron Bolton hide caption toggle caption Aaron Bolton CONDON, Mont. — Biologist Grant Hokit has come to this small meadow in the mountains outside Condon to look for ticks. A hiking path crosses the expanse of long grasses and berry bushes. As Hokit walks the path, he carries a handmade tool made out of plastic pipes taped together that hold a large rectangle of white flannel cloth. He jokes that…

Berlin-based Austrian filmmaker Ivette Löcker (Night Shifts, Ties That Bind) likes to go deep on human relationships and connections.“My previous films have very often dealt with relationships, different kinds of relationships,” she tells THR on the sidelines of the 31st edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival, where her latest documentary, Our Time Will Come (Unsere Zeit wird kommen), screens in the feature documentary competition program. “And I was very much interested in this kind of interracial relationship, because I think it’s getting more and more common. As members of the white majority, we have to get used to and get to know more…

A Copa Sudamericana match in Buenos Aires was abandoned after violent clashes between fans, with some being stripped and beaten and one in a life-threatening condition after falling from the top tier of a stand.Universidad de Chile say that 19 of their fans are in hospital after Wednesday’s last-16 second leg at Argentine side Independiente.The club added that 97 Chileans have been arrested, although local media have reported that figure is more than 300.Two fans were stabbed while one is having surgery after their fall from a height at the Estadio Libertadores de America, in the Avellaneda area of the…

There’s a grain of truth to worries over the “bag tag scam,” but it might a small grainThere’s a travel scam warning going around the internet right now: You should keep your baggage tags on your bags until you get home, then shred them, because scammers are using luggage tags to file fraudulent claims for missing baggage with the airline. But should you worry about this?Where Did the ‘Bag Tag Scam’ Originate?The scam seems to originate from a Reddit thread in which a poster claiming to be a baggage claims manager at Delta encouraged passengers to wait until they get home…