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Affluent cities in San Mateo County are using accessory dwelling units (ADUs) to meet affordable housing targets set by the state, according to a new report by the county's civil grand jury.Effectively, this allows these cities to avoid constructing multifamily low-income affordable housing units, the report says.

AI went from quirky novelty to dominant disruptor in a matter of months, taking over the headlines, as consumer-friendly and business-centric AI applications continue emerging in every sector.AI's role in digital advertising is much more established, but rapid advances increasingly deliver unexpected and transformative capabilities for digital marketers.

A left-leaning Welsh Labour MP has said the democratic process has been undermined after losing the selection contest for a new seat.Beth Winter claimed she will be taking advice and soundings on her next steps after Gerald Jones was announced as the candidate for Merthyr Tydfil and Upper Cynon.Proposed boundary changes in Wales mean the two MPs' constituencies would effectively be merged into one setting up the two-way contest between them.

Subscription businesses are unique in that the business model, by its very nature, gathers this valuable data to build an initial profile and, ultimately, nurture lasting relationships over time.Of course, regulatory requirements must be followed, but with the appropriate consent, businesses can consider customer behaviors to deliver an intuitive, personalized advertising and shopping experience.

Ontario should put in place "effective guardrails" on the public sector's use of artificial intelligence technologies, the Information and Privacy Commissioner and the Ontario Human Rights Commission said Thursday in a joint statement.The government must urgently develop rules so it can reap the benefits of AI technologies in an ethically responsible manner, the two bodies said in the statement.

French President Emmanuel Macron called Wednesday for boosting the development of artificial intelligence in Europe while putting in place smart regulations that don't impede tech companies' growth.Macron, who visited Europe's biggest startup and tech event Vivatech, said we're too far behind in terms of innovation and we're regulating too slowly.

It is easy to be myopic when you're the head of product or technology at one of today's fast-paced ad tech organizations, working to develop products that meet the needs of very specific stakeholders.But I joined a company that has to prioritize the needs of stakeholders in our ecosystem - publishers, advertisers and users.

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If you ask coach Angelo Gasca, Venice High's Open Division first-round football game last fall against Lake Balboa Birmingham was a championship game.On paper, they were two of the best teams in the City Section, and they played on a Thursday night in November that went to double overtime, ending in a Birmingham goal-line stand and a 28-27 victory.

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The horse death toll at Churchill Downs continued to grow Friday when Lost in Limbo, a 7-year-old gelding, was euthanized after breaking down in the seventh race.The horse was running in a claiming race, his 35th lifetime start.Adding that to a previously unreported death two weeks ago, 11 horses have died in a month at the Louisville home of the Kentucky Derby.

It was the Confederation of British Industry's moment to convince parliament that it was now time to re-engage.Interactions with ministers and civil servants have been on hold since the beginning of April, after the Guardian revealed more than a dozen women had come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct, including rape.

Ogury, the global leader in personified advertising, today (June 1st, 2023) unveiled new capabilities providing brands and agencies with attention measurement metrics at the campaign level, through integrations with attention economy leaders Adelaide Metrics and Lumen Research.Attention is the evolution of viewability, going further to determine an ad's ability to drive impact and memorability.

NASHVILLE The American South didn't invent the murder ballad, but it certainly keeps the genre alive, both literally and musically.The oldest of these songs came from the folk traditions of the British Isles before crossing the Atlantic and being enshrined in the folkways of Appalachia.There they lived on in front-porch picking parties and mournful firesides until the phonograph slingshotted them to a national audience.

A claim made in parliament by the immigration minister that up to a fifth of adult male asylum seekers pretend to be children when they arrive in the UK has been undermined by the Home Office's own data, which shows the actual figure is just 1%.The factchecking organisation Full Fact has obtained new freedom of information data that shows that between 1 January and 7 November 2022 only about 1% of all males arriving on small boats at Western Jet Foil claimed to be under 18 but were later found to be over 18. Full Fact has written to Robert Jenrick asking him to correct the parliamentary record or to provide data which supports his claim.

A £5m gift from billionaire businessman Mohamed Mansour has helped the Conservative Party raise more than £12m in donations in the first three months of this year.Mr Mansour's donation - the biggest to the party since 2001 - boosted takings, which topped all other parties.Labour raised £5.8m in the same period, including £2m from Lord Sainsbury, former chair of the supermarket chain.

The Government will fight a legal battle over the Covid inquiry's demand to release Boris Johnson's unredacted WhatsApp messages, diaries and personal notebooks.The Cabinet Office said it was seeking a judicial review of inquiry chairwoman Baroness Hallett's order to release the documents, arguing that it should not have to hand over material which is unambiguously irrelevant.

A proposed U.S. Coast Guard test program to require a railroad drawbridge over the St. Lucie River to stay open for longer periods of time may force Brightline, the higher speed train service, to cut its planned service to Orlando by half, railroad officials say.The span is a critical segment that Brightline must use as part of its highly anticipated expansion to Orlando from West Palm Beach.

There is nothing new about dystopian fiction it's been around since the early 20th century or late 19th century, depending on who you ask but discovering a classic of the genre can be thrilling nonetheless.Kallocain is a lesser-known work of 20th century dystopia, authored by Swedish poet Karin Boye and published in 1940 in Sweden, a nation that maintained its neutrality throughout World War II.

As ATS London 2023 draws closer, we sat down with Flavia Kenyon, head of legal at the Big Innovation Centre, to talk about all things Web3, and some of the complexities that lie ahead, as well as what we can expect to hear from her at the upcoming event.Integrating her wealth of expertise in advocacy and law with a comprehension of her clients' digital initiatives, Flavia Kenyon is somewhat of a legal trailblazer.

It would be an understatement to say the commerce landscape changed significantly over the last few years.Thanks to a shift towards digital at the start of the decade, prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic, e-commerce has boomed: this year, 20.8% of retail purchases are expected to take place online.By 2026, this figure is forecast to rise to 24%, with global e-commerce sales expected to surpass USD$8bn (~£6.4bn).

Apple has unveiled their Vision Pro goggles, meant to usher in "The era of spatial computing" by delivering technology to your eyeballs in a new way.However, unlike previous groundbreaking Apple products like the iPod, iPhone and iPad, the Vision Pro's use cases are not immediately obvious; that and the $3,500 price tag (and 2024 release date) suggest it's a long ways away from gaining the ubiquity of the company's previous hits.

The past few months have ushered in a golden era for web UI.New platform capabilities have landed with tight cross-browser adoption that support more web capabilities and customization features than ever.Here are 20 of the most exciting and impactful features that landed recently or are coming soon:

# The New Responsive
Let's get started with some new responsive design capabilities.

Ontario's Home Construction Regulatory Authority (HCRA) has revoked a developer's licence to build or sell homes in the province after it says the company tried to charge a buyer significantly more for a home than was contractually agreed upon.It's the first time a home builder has received the regulator's most serious punishment for increasing a price since CBC Toronto reported last March that the Doug Ford government planned to crack down on the practice.

It's a mayoral race unlike any we've seen in recent memory.And the byelection to fill Toronto's top job has pollsters in the field trying to map out public opinion on a weekly basis.Over two dozen public opinion polls have been conducted since former mayor John Tory resigned in February, all gauging where the large field of potential replacements stands in the eyes of voters.

I got a sneak peek into Apple's vision for the future of computing on Monday.For about half an hour, I wore the $3,500 Vision Pro, the company's first high-tech goggles, which will be released next year.I walked away with mixed feelings, including a nagging sense of skepticism.On one hand, I was impressed with the quality of the headset, which Apple bills as the beginning of an era of spatial computing, where digital data blends with the physical world to unlock new capabilities.

At long last, Volkswagen has finally announced the all-electric version of their VW microbus - dubbed the VW ID.Buzz - is coming stateside.The seven-passenger bus resembles the iconic vehicle of the swinging sixties but features some modern tech and touches that plant it firmly in the future.The VW Buzz has been riding along European roads since 2022.

It's here.After years and years of rumors and speculation, today Apple has made the Vision Pro official.It's the company's first VR/AR headset, but of course, this being Apple, it's not calling it that - instead, it's billed as the first ever "spatial computer".It's running an entirely new operating system too, dubbed visionOS.

As expected, Apple introduced its latest Beats Studio Buds + today with improved Active Noise Cancelling (ANC), longer-lasting battery life and a cool new transparent version.The new Beats earbuds feature a custom "Beats Proprietary Platform" chip which supports one-touch pairing with Apple devices, Hey Siri and Apple Find My support as well as device switching via iCloud.

A left-leaning Labour mayor who has been blocked from running for another role in the North East has not ruled out taking legal action against the party.Jamie Driscoll, the serving North of Tyne mayor, was excluded from the longlist to run in the new expanded authority.The move has prompted a backlash against the Labour leadership, with Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham and his counterpart in the Liverpool City Region, Steve Rotheram, claiming the move does not seem democratic, transparent and fair.

A compensation bid by Covid-19 pandemic-hit students seeking to recover some of their eye-watering tuition fees after feeling cheated by their educational experience at one of London's leading universities has reached the High Court.Nearly 1,000 current and former students are bringing a claim against University College London (UCL), with thousands more wanting to join the legal action, alleging the university breached their tuition contracts.

Labour's Sir Keir Starmer is under pressure over the decision to block left-leaning Jamie Driscoll from running in the North East's inaugural mayoral election.Unite, the party's biggest union donor, warned of "serious consequences".Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham and his counterpart in the Liverpool City Region, Steve Rotherham, also criticised the decision.

Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram have accused the Labour party of being undemocratic, opaque and unfair after a fellow Labour mayor was blocked from standing for election.They demanded Jamie Driscoll often described the last Corbynista in power since becoming the first mayor for North of Tyne in 2019 be allowed to appeal against the decision to keep him off the longlist to be Labour's mayoral candidate for the new north-east region.

The official statistics watchdog has reprimanded the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, after he claimed public debt levels would fall in the coming years, when in fact they are simply forecast to rise less steeply than previously expected.The head of the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA), Sir Robert Chote, is writing to Hunt and the Treasury to warn them about accuracy after a complaint by Labour MP Dame Angela Eagle over a tweet the chancellor sent on 25 April.

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In the Commons, opposition MPs had lots of questions about Javad Marandi.What access to government ministers - if any - did his financial support for the Tories secure?Are diligence checks for accepting donations strong enough?Would the Tory party be returning Mr Marandi's money?

Chloé Brault, a Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature, stands near Wallenberg Hall on the Stanford campus on May 30, 2023.(Beth LaBerge/KQED)



Graduate workers at Stanford University voted this week on whether to form a union.Amid soaring housing costs and a tumultuous academic job market, graduate workers at Stanford and elsewhere are pushing to increase wages and improve benefits.

Kennedy High was built like a college campus - each department had its own building and opened out to the fresh air.The school was designed for flexible scheduling, team-teaching and big chunks of unstructured time that students could use to work on projects.It was a model that encouraged students to use their non-classroom time wisely and to take responsibility for their own learning.

CHICAGO - Detroit Tigers left-hander Tarik Skubal is scheduled to pitch Sunday in an official game, thus beginning his rehab assignment.The 26-year-old will start his rehab assignment with High-A West Michigan."It's to ramp him up slowly off of a significant injury," Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said Friday.

CHICAGO - Detroit Tigers left-hander Tarik Skubal is scheduled to pitch Sunday in an official game, thus beginning his rehab assignment.The 26-year-old will start his rehab assignment with High-A West Michigan."It's to ramp him up slowly off of a significant injury," Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said Friday.

Community members in West Humboldt Park shared concerns Thursday about a man prominently displaying a red and yellow swastika sign from scaffolding atop a building close to a school.Activists with the West Humboldt Park Community Coalition neighborhood group said they have heard little in response from authorities about their fears at a news conference outside the office of Ald.

The Tribune's editorial board fired a warning shot to Chicago's restaurants on Tuesday morning with a piece declaring that the pandemic was officially over and that owners should no longer expect the extra empathy the general public - customers, politicians, journalists - have extended since March 2020.

Arlington Heights Mayor Thomas Hayes said the village has received questions and concerns about the Chicago Bears' recent application for a demolition permit at Arlington International Racecourse, prompting the mayor to explain at the Village Board meeting Monday night why the request is being considered.

When Arlington consultant Elizabeth (not her real name) moved from DC to the suburbs a year and a half ago, she decided it was time for her family to join a private pool.As a kid, she belonged to a swim team at a club, and she hopes her children can create similar happy memories.To make that happen, Elizabeth joined waitlists at three Arlington pools: Arlington Forest Club, Dominion Hills Pool, and Overlee.

"The UPC will become a success story, since there are simply no good reasons not to engage with the Court."The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is now a reality.The Court opens its doors tomorrow, June 1, 2023.In the past four articles, we have aimed to dispel myths about some of the key aspects of the UPC.

"Baumgarten said that Damle's 'blanket assertion that input for generative AI 'is fair use' may well be simply wrong.'"In response to last week's hearing of the House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on copyright law, former Copyright Office General Counsel, Jon Baumgarten, submitted a letter this week to the Subcommittee expressing his concerns with the testimony of one of the witnesses, Sy Damle of Latham & Watkins, who also formerly served as U.S. Copyright Office General Counsel.

"The time is now for the Court to grant certiorari, or for Congress to pass new laws, so that the problem of eligibility can be eliminated, and consistency and clarity be provided to all who rely on our patent system."Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court urging the Court to accept a certiorari case relating to patent eligibility.

The layoffs and hiring freezes sweeping the tech industry and beyond have hurt diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) teams, putting carefully wrought efforts to build more inclusive workplaces at risk.Time will tell if the commitments companies made in 2020 and 2021 were inauthentic or a flash in the pan, a fear for many DEI practitioners and employees from marginalized groups.

"The last two-and-a-half years, a meteor hit and we were just like, 'Whoa, what is this?'" Aria Christian says of the success she and her (nearly) identical twin sister Maya never saw coming.The people who know them best probably suspected they were destined for galactic success - maybe not as food entrepreneurs, though.

1. Increased use of surveillance monitoring software is leading to feelings of unease and distrust among employees, who feel their work is not being respected.
2. Employers should consider the psychological impact of surveillance monitoring software on their employees when deciding whether to implement it.
3. Companies should be transparent

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Getty Images Twitter announced late Friday that it's blocking some content in Turkey ahead of Sunday's presidential election in the country.Twitter didn't specify the tweets that would be banned, or even who had made the request.

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1. Ad-tech companies have a stranglehold on journalism that needs to be broken in order to save the news industry.
2. Journalism needs to be protected so that it can continue to provide accurate and reliable information to the public.

If Congress does not address the debt ceiling by June 5, the US Treasury Department will not have enough funds to pay all of the nation's obligations in full and on time, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Friday.Based on the most recent available data, we now estimate that Treasury will have insufficient resources to satisfy the government's obligations if Congress has not raised or suspended the debt limit by June 5, she wrote in a letter to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other congressional leaders.

A Washington, DC, metro police officer was arrested Friday on federal charges of misleading investigators about his communications with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio including when the officer allegedly tipped off Tarrio about his impending arrest.Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Shane Lamond faces an indictment accusing him of one count of obstruction and three counts of false statements.

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME's politics newsletter.Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox.The news of ailing Senator Dianne Feinstein's return to Washington this week crackled through Capitol Hill aides' messaging apps, journalists' note-trading clouds, and donors' inboxes.

C oncerns have been raised about the damaging health impacts of noise caused by Tube trains.In a letter to Transport for London (TfL), a cross-party group of politicians at City Hall warned that long-term exposure to Tube noise can contribute to sleep disturbance, heart disease, tinnitus, and impaired cognitive development in children.

1. Tree Sitter Scala 0.20.0 is a powerful and versatile parser for Scala code that can be used to create compilers, linters, text editors, and more.
2. Tree Sitter Scala 0.20.0 is built using the Tree-sitter parser library,

"This bill is a big damn deal," said state Sen. Erin Murphy.Minnesota Sen. Bobby Joe Champion, a sponsor of the bill, presided over the Senate after being sworn in as the first Black Senate President Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023.Glen Stubbe / Star Tribune via Getty Images The Minnesota legislature has passed a sweeping pro-labor bill including provisions addressing paid sick leave and poor working conditions at Amazon warehouses that labor advocates are hailing as a potential model for pro-worker legislation in other states.

April has been a fantastic month for AI news.Between new open source programs, to Microsoft upsetting Google in the search engine space.AI has yet again proven to be an impactful disruptor in multiple industries.So let's take a dive into some of the top pieces of AI news we saw in April.It's no surprise that AI has become a major tool in the medical field.

CNET staffers are unionizing, and they're naming their employer's use of AI as a key reason why - a timely reminder that even as generative AI tech raises billions in funding and threatens to upend entire industries, it's already causing a very real human impact among workers.And now, they're fighting back.

Starting Thursday, New York Times stories online will no longer include a traditional dateline that tells where a story was reported from.Instead, certain stories will have "enhanced bylines" that tells readers more about how journalists did the reporting.The Times has made changes to its dateline conventions before, eliminating actual dates in 2007.

Montana became the first state to ban TikTok yesterday.In a press release, the state's Republican governor, Greg Gianforte, said the move was a necessary step to keep Montanans safe from Chinese Communist Party surveillance.The ban will take effect on January 1, 2024."The Chinese Communist Party is using TikTok to spy on Americans, violate their privacy, and collect their personal, private, and sensitive information is well-documented," Gianforte said.

In the central Taiwanese city of Changhua, just next door to Taichung, one of the alleged birthplaces of bubble tea, shops and stalls serve another local snack that looks a lot like a giant translucent boba.It's about the size of a fist and fills a small bowl.It's jiggly and soft, yet pulls back from chopsticks with considerable resistance.

The past few months have ushered in a golden era for web UI.New platform capabilities have landed with tight cross-browser adoption that support more web capabilities and customization features than ever.Here are 20 of the most exciting and impactful features that landed recently or are coming soon:

# The New Responsive
Let's get started with some new responsive design capabilities.

By Marisa Kalil-Barrino
Antonio Lewis, better known as Zombie Juice, is one third of the hip-hop trio Flatbush Zombies.Although if you were to ask him, he might say he identifies more as a camel: "I carry so much stuff on my back and I need to replenish and drink some water 'cause it's hot out here in the desert," he says.

Chinese and French foreign ministers have expressed readiness to strengthen cooperation and pursue a close and enduring comprehensive strategic partnership, according to China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.This followed a successful meeting between French President Emmanuel Macron and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

PHILADELPHIA - Jayson Tatum was in a funk.He missed all 10 of his first half shots.He had just two points going into the fourth quarter.The Celtics were 12 minutes away from the end of their season.The Sixers fans were going wild.Tatum looked like a guy whose season was about to end with a thud.He bounced back and got out of that funk.