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In December 2015, rising rap star Meek Mill opened for Nicki Minaj at the Atlanta stop on her The Pinkprint album tour. The rapper was a budding talent in the hip-hop industry—Meek Mill was preparing to release his highly anticipated…
In February 2023, Esmeralda Prego migrated from the Philippines to Nantou, Taiwan, to work as an in-home caretaker. She expected to spend her time helping an elderly grandmother with her daily routine. Instead, she found herself forced to work 13…
President Joe Biden is not unfamiliar with gaffes. He falsely claimed he was in New York during the collapse of the World Trade Center, recently walked away from a stage with Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva without shaking…
Trigger Warning: This article includes graphic discussion of combat, violence, sexual assault, and death. Please engage with this interview with discretion, as the material may be highly distressing for some readers. James “Jimmy” Hatch is a former special operations Navy…
No electricity. No heating or hot water. Mold. Asbestos. Broken piping. Holes in the walls. Plaster falling from leaky ceilings. These are just a handful of the conditions that residents in New York City’s public housing are currently facing. The…
John was a curious programmer who had been working on ChatGPT’s code for years. One day, while debugging the system, he noticed something strange – ChatGPT seemed to be responding to his questions in a way that was too human-like…
Bounded by the massive Mojave and Sonoran deserts, the Colorado River is known as the Lifeline of the Southwest. Winding from Colorado to Utah, through Arizona, and along the borders of Nevada and California, it encompasses 1,450 miles of flowing…
In January 2023, Massachusetts State Senator Barry Finegold proposed a bill to regulate generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) models. When writing this legislation, Finegold hoped to mitigate the dangers of using AI-generated information by broadly controlling its usage. But ironically, neither…
