In a press release issued this week, UT officials said completion of the demolition is expected in mid-May. A UT spokesperson previously told KXAN they estimated the demolition project would be done in September.
The venue was replaced by the Moody Center, which opened in April 2022. The Erwin Center shuttered its doors that same month after hosting the Harlem Globetrotters for its final public event.
Demolition of the 500,000-square-foot arena will make way for a Dell Medical School expansion, according to UT System documents.
As of Friday, all that remained of the iconic venue was rafters, support beams, stone, and debris.
Cadillac cuts the 2024 XT4's base trim for 2025 and adds standard equipment to the remaining two trims. Prices don't go up as much as expected, though.
The reason for shutting down the feature is simple: it failed to gain traction. Additionally, it has been Tumblr's plan since last year's reorg to put an end to things that aren't performing well. In 2022, Tumblr introduced Tips as a complementary feature to Post+, its subscription offering that allowed creators to put content behind a paywall.
The fashion industry has a huge problem: Despite many returned items being unworn or undamaged, a lot, if not the majority, end up in the trash. An estimated 9.5 billion pounds of returns ended up in landfills in 2022 alone, according to data from return logistics software company Optoro. New York-based (Re)vive wants to help companies find a better ending for their returned items.
Data is at the heart of today's advanced AI systems, but it's costing more and more -- making it out of reach for all but the wealthiest tech companies. Last year, James Betker, a researcher at OpenAI, penned a post on his personal blog about the nature of generative AI models and the datasets on which they're trained. In it, Betker claimed that training data -- not a model's design, architecture or any other characteristic -- was the key to increasingly sophisticated, capable AI systems.
This week in AI, OpenAI launched discounted plans for nonprofits and education customers and drew back the curtains on its most recent efforts to stop bad actors from abusing its AI tools. OpenAI removed one of the voices used by its AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT after users pointed out that it sounded eerily similar to Johansson's. Johansson later released a statement saying that she hired legal counsel to inquire about the voice and get exact details about how it was developed -- and that she'd refused repeated entreaties from OpenAI to license her voice for ChatGPT. Now, a piece in The Washington Post implies that OpenAI didn't in fact seek to clone Johansson's voice and that any similarities were accidental.
Tesla is recalling 125,227 vehicles in the United States due to a malfunction in its seatbelt warning system that can increase the risk of injury in a collision, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Friday.
“As ridiculous as some of these trends are, taking part in them is escapist and aspirational," fashion influencer Alex Frankel told Yahoo Entertainment.