British politician John Prescott, who served as Deputy Prime Minister under Tony Blair and spent four decades in the House of Commons, has died after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease, his family announced on Thursday. He was 86 years old. Prescott died at his care home on Wednesday while surrounded by his loved ones and…

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For the first time in Romania’s modern democratic history, in the first round of the November 24 presidential elections no candidate is likely to exceed 25% of the vote, INSCOP Research Director Remus Stefureac told BTA in an exclusive interview. He cited the agency’s latest data, according to which the number of people undecided about…

November 20th, 2024 at 6:43pm CST by Ely Allen Wednesday’s practice squad moves: Chicago Bears Detroit Lions Green Bay Packers Houston Texans Las Vegas Raiders Los Angeles Chargers New York Giants New York Jets Philadelphia Eagles San Francisco 49ers Seattle Seahawks Follow @PFRumors Source: www.profootballrumors.com…

As we start to see heads roll in NFL head coaching circles, team ownership is starting to do their homework on potential replacements. While most of the candidates are going to be made up of the league’s top coordinators and assistants, a few candidates are popping up in the college ranks. Per Jeremy Fowler of…

The Buccaneers have lost four games in a row, the last three without veteran wide receiver Mike Evans as he has dealt with a hamstring injury. According to Jordan Schultz of FOX Sports, Evans has returned to practice this week and plans to play this weekend against the Giants. Without Evans, the team’s offense has…

Today’s minor NFL moves: Chicago Bears Denver Broncos Los Angeles Rams Practice window opened: G KT Leveston Minnesota Vikings Philadelphia Eagles Seattle Seahawks Washington Commanders Unfortunately for Turner-Yell, head coach Sean Payton told the media that it “became too much of a challenge to active” the young safety off the physically unable to perform list,…

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot can now “understand” images, including information-riddled diagrams and charts. Sorry, doesn’t everyone use the platform once known as Twitter for multi-disciplinary research and optimizing their work flows?? Introduced as Grok-1.5V — Or Grok 1.5 “Vision,” the company’s “first-generation multimodal model” — the bot will be able to not only respond to…

Snapchat users will now see a ghostly image hovering over their AI-generated images, as Snapchat joins other Big Tech companies using watermarking tech to battle AI misinformation and deepfakes. Images made using Snapchat’s AI tools, like the app’s extend tool and its recently launched Dreams feature, will be stamped with a transparent watermark (Snapchat’s ghost…

A newly released report alleges Big Tech’s ad transparency tools are failing across the board — with X scoring the worst at providing meaningful data that can help users, journalists, and advocates keep a watchful eye on scams and disinformation. If “ad transparency” isn’t a familiar term, that’s probably because it’s a somewhat counterintuitive concept.…