While platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube use forms of AI to get users to spend more time on their sites, organizations could also use artificial intelligence language models such as ChatGPT to induce voters to behave in specific ways. Read more»
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The principle of net neutrality — the idea that Internet service providers must treat all traffic equally, and not privilege certain content by giving it more, or less, bandwidth — is one the FCC has been more aggressive about implementing under the Obama administration. Read more»
A decade after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks brought to light the dangers of fake IDs, federal undercover agents are still able to easily obtain genuine U.S. e-Passports using clearly fraudulent information that should have raised red flags at the State Department. Read more»
Scientists from the University of South Florida announced on Friday that they have "definitively connected" the underwater oil plumes to BP's ruptured and still slightly leaking well in the Gulf. Read more»
Since May, Chinese web users have had access to internet pornography. With no word from the government, people are speculating about what's behind this apparent loosening of regulations. Read more»
Oil cleanup workers on offshore vessels will begin receiving longer and more thorough safety trainings Tuesday, fulfilling a pledge by OSHA to improve training after it acknowledged that the previous course was inadequate. Read more»
The night-blooming cereus is a remarkable sight - one revered by those who live in the desert because the bloom is rarely seen. The "Queen of the Night" only flowers on a single night per year. Read more»
Watching the clouds build up around the Rincon and Catalina mountains, Tucsonans spend early July wondering where and when the summer rains will finally fall. Track the rain's progress with the UA's new website, Monsoon Monitor. Read more»
Those who appreciate an altered consciousness rejoice. Laser light shows are returning to Flandrau planetarium after 10 years. Read more»
When Norwegian researchers started the hunt for new and revolutionary power sources more than a decade ago, they turned to their country's 155,000 miles of coastline. In 2009, Crown Princess Mette-Marit inaugurated the world's first seawater power plant. Read more»
The effort to refurbish Atlantic Canada’s only nuclear plant isn’t going well. The 25-year-old reactor was supposed to be refreshed last September. Today, nobody knows when the plant will be back online, except that it won’t be any earlier than 2011. Read more»
The "world's largest solar plant" planned near Gila Bend will receive a $1.45 billion loan guarantee, President Obama announced Saturday. "This plant will be the first large-scale solar plant in the U.S. to actually store the energy it generates for later use – even at night," he said. Read more»
Rain? We don't mind. And neither did the Beatles. If you want to see a repeat of the brisk rainfall we saw Thursday, you might have to do a rain dance. What's your favorite song about the rain? Read more»
Those of us who live in Arizona know that if there's one resource we have in abundance, it is sunlight Given this plentiful resource, it only seems natural that we should harness its energy to power our homes, schools and businesses. Read more»
From afar, it looks like the spy scandal of the decade — 11 alleged Russian agents busted by the FBI on suspicion of infiltrating American society to feed policy secrets back to their spymasters in Moscow. Yet a closer look at the FBI’s investigation shows a sloppy operation that appears to have gathered little solid information. Read more»
"Bodies... The Exhibition," a display of plasticized human bodies and body parts, has extended its Tucson run through Sept. 12. Read more»