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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A conservative group filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging a Los Angeles schools policy meant to address the harms of segregation, alleging that it discriminates against white students.The 1776 Project Foundation, created by the 1776 Project PAC, targeted in its lawsuit a Los Angeles Unified School District policy that provides smaller class sizes and other benefits to schools with predominantly Hispanic, Black, Asian or other non-white students. It dates back to 1970 and 1976 court orders that required the district to desegregate its schools.The group said the policy amounts to racial discrimination and violates the Civil…
Friends … followers … where is the line?Instagram is testing out new tweaks that emphasize friends. It also has a new definition of friends: People who mutually follow each other.The Instagram test involves changing a user’s “following” count on a profile to a “friends” count. That means if you follow thousands of people, but maybe only a few hundred of those people follow you back, that’ll show up as your “friends” count.For those of you who care about those precious follower-to-following ratios, get ready for a potentially even more telling public ratio: How many of those Instagram followers are friends?Instagram…
Feel like X’s algorithm needs work? Elon Musk agrees.Musk isn’t a fan of X’s algorithm, and he’s documenting the company’s efforts to improve the technology that decides what you see in the platform’s “For You” feed.Musk said he is overhauling the recommendation system that decides which user-generated posts and advertisements are shown when you open the app. He also pledged to make that system transparent in the process, with the underlying code getting published on GitHub every four weeks. Musk said any changes to the code will be explained with every post.”We know the algorithm is dumb and needs massive…
If there were ever any doubts, winter is underway. A sprawling winter storm is predicted to spread ice and snow across much of the country later this week.The major winter storm system, which includes heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain, will impact much of the southern and eastern parts of the country Friday, Jan. 23, through Sunday, Jan. 25, the National Weather Service advised on Jan. 20. Folks from Colorado and Wyoming through the mid-Atlantic and New England should prepare for forecast updates.With snowfall right around the corner, people may be digging back out the snow shovels and snow blowers…
Jan 20 (Reuters) – Isomorphic Labs, which uses artificial intelligence for drug discovery, expects to have its first clinical trials by the end of 2026, founder and CEO Demis Hassabis said on Tuesday.The comments, made at an event at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, signal a delay in the Google-backed startup’s ambitions.Hassabis had said last year the company would have AI-designed drugs in clinical trials by the end of 2025.Companies have been increasingly touting the real-world applications of AI, where the technology can be used to speed up research and development and shorten drug discovery timelines in the…
The American Red Cross declared a severe emergency blood shortage on Monday and called on people to donate.The humanitarian organization, which says it’s the largest supplier of blood products for hospitals and for patient need in the U.S., said the demand from hospitals has outpaced the available supply of blood.Dr. Courtney Lawrence, divisional chief medical officer at American Red Cross, told ABC News that almost one-third of the organization’s blood stores across the country have been depleted due to hospital need.Red Cross announces emergency blood shortage, calls on Americans to donateLawrence said inclement winter weather, which has forced more than…
A year after the start of a deadly measles outbreak in West Texas, the virus continues to spread in several parts of the U.S. — a milestone both troubling and significant, as it could mean that measles is no longer considered eliminated in the country.Measles has been eliminated in the U.S. since 2000, a designation that indicates the virus is no longer constantly circulating, though there are occasional outbreaks. However, global public health authorities consider the virus endemic — or always present — after one year of continuous transmission.“We have all the ingredients to have our elimination status revoked,” said…
At least 88 new measles cases in South Carolina have been confirmed amid the state’s outbreak, bringing the total number of infections to 646, state health officials said Tuesday.The majority of cases have been found in the Upstate region and around Spartanburg County, which sits on the border with North Carolina.The South Carolina Department of Public Health said there are currently 538 people in quarantine and 33 in isolation. The latest end of quarantine will be on Feb. 23.There are at least 15 schools — including elementary, middle and high schools — which currently have students in quarantine.Health officials also…
It’s been a year since a measles outbreak began in West Texas, and international health authorities say they plan to meet in April to determine if the U.S. has lost its measles-free designation.Experts fear the vaccine-preventable virus has regained a foothold and that the U.S. may soon follow Canada in losing the achievement of having eliminated it.The reevaluation is largely symbolic and hinges on whether a single measles chain has spread uninterrupted within the U.S. for at least 12 months.Public health scientists around the country are investigating whether the now-ended Texas outbreak is linked to active ones in Utah, Arizona…
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