During the second day of testimony in the Karen Read murder trial, defense attorneys cross-examined police officers and firefighters who responded to the scene in Canton. WBZ-TV's Kristina Rex reports.
Here are some of the key highlights, revelations and dramatic moments from the combined 16 and a half hours that the prosecution’s star witnesses spent on the witness stand.
A long-running working group in the Senate has issued its policy recommendation for federal funding for AI: $32 billion yearly, covering everything from infrastructure to grand challenges to national security risk assessments. In a final report published by the office of Chuck Schumer (D-NY), majority leader in the Senate, the bipartisan working group identifies the most important areas of investment to keep the U.S. competitive with its rivals abroad. "A cross-government AI R&D effort, including relevant infrastructure," meaning getting the DOE, NSF, NIST, NASA, Commerce, and half a dozen other agencies and departments to format and share data in an AI-friendly way.
As anticipated, numerous AI-related announcements were made at this year's Google I/O 2024 conference, including the unveiling of a new feature for Google TV. Gemini, the company's family of generative AI models, will enhance the smart TV operating system so it can generate descriptions for movies and TV shows. When a description is missing on the home screen, the AI will fill it in automatically to ensure that viewers never have to wonder what a title is about, Google explains.
Threads is finally rolling out the ability to search posts in order of recency, after testing the feature last month.
Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger and SI's Pat Forde discuss UNC potentially leaving the ACC, the Pac-2's new broadcast partner, the latest on the NCAA settlement, Doug Gottleib coaching college basketball, and Red Lobster facing financial troubles.
Auto insurer costs have exceeded revenue from premiums for three years straight. Blame fancy cars and reckless drivers.
Tesla has tried a few promotional measures to drive FSD adoption, but they have so far not been the ticket it's looking for.
Netflix announced during its Upfronts presentation on Wednesday that it's launching its own advertising technology platform only a year and a half after entering the ads business. This move pits it against other industry heavyweights with ad servers, like Google, Amazon and Comcast. The company originally partnered with Microsoft to develop its ad tech, letting Netflix enter the ad space quickly and catch up with rivals like Hulu, which has had its own ad server for over a decade.
The limited-edition 2024 Alfa Romeo Giulia and Stelvio Quadrifoglio Super Sports end the Quadrifoglio's ICE era with special trim, no special performance.
Here’s what will be different this time — and why it matters.
Eight TikTok creators have sued the US government in an effort to block a law that could lead to a ban of the app.
Google took back the AI crown during its I/O developer conference, but its reign could be short-lived.
Part one of "Yellowstone" Season 5 ended in January 2023. Since then, its star Kevin Costner walked away from his starring role — and there's been a very public back-and-forth over why that happened.
These cozy kicks with over 9,000 five-star fans were my overseas travel must-have.
Netflix has won the streaming rights to two NFL games set to air Christmas Day.
On the second day of the Google I/O 2024 conference, Google said on Wednesday that it is adding new security and privacy protections to Android, including on-device live threat detection to catch malicious apps, new safeguards for screen sharing, and better security against cell site simulators. The company said it is increasing the on-device capability of its Google Play Protect system to detect fraudulent apps trying to breach sensitive permissions. Google said if the system is certain about malicious behavior, it disables the app automatically.
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Netflix is set to stream NFL games live for the first time after locking in a deal for a Christmas Day doubleheader.
Bandai announced this week that it’s bringing back the Tamagotchi Connection to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the toy’s release. Pre-orders are now open for the Connection in six colors, at $30 each. It will ship July 9.
“The Golden Bachelor” viewers will recognize the new Golden Bachelorette, as she had a dramatic exit from Gerry Turner's life.