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• Letter from Barack and Michelle Obama

  24-03-2018 16:18 via columbuspost.com
   
   
  
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• Apple Develops New iPhone Camera Feature to Verify Photo Authenticity

  11-08-2026 16:43 via columbuspost.com
  Apple is developing a new iPhone camera feature designed to help verify whether a photograph genuinely originated from an iPhone. Known as Apple Reference Image, the system could provide users with a way to establish the source and authenticity of photos as concerns about synthetic and manipulated imagery continue to grow.
  Apple Reference Image Targets Photo Authenticity
  Advances in generative AI have made realistic synthetic images significantly easier to create. Image manipulation that once re
  
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• Rocket Lab’s Neutron Launch Window Narrows as Development Continues

  11-08-2026 16:42 via columbuspost.com
  
  Rocket Lab’s highly anticipated Neutron rocket is moving closer to its first flight, but the company says the opportunity to launch the medium-lift vehicle before the end of 2026 is becoming increasingly limited. Qualification testing, manufacturing progress and critical launch-pad trials will determine whether the debut takes place this year or slips into 2027.
  Rocket Lab Says Neutron Launch Window Is Tightening
  Rocket Lab said it has reached “significant milestones across the Neutr
  
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• Robotics in Farming Emerges as the Next Frontier for Pennsylvania Agriculture

  11-08-2026 16:40 via columbuspost.com
  Robotics is emerging as a potential next step for Pennsylvania agriculture as technology developers work to make automation practical for farms of different sizes. Pittsburgh’s expanding robotics industry and the state’s large agricultural sector are creating new opportunities to connect technology companies directly with farmers.
  Pittsburgh Robotics Industry Connects With Pennsylvania Farmers
  Pittsburgh has developed into a major center for robotics and technology research over the
  
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• Brain-Inspired AI Framework Could Complete Tasks With Less Energy

  10-08-2026 14:48 via columbuspost.com
  
  Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence framework inspired by how the human brain organizes knowledge and solves unfamiliar problems. The approach could help create AI systems that require less computing power, operate more efficiently and offer clearer explanations for their decisions.
  The research, conducted by scientists at Tsinghua University, Graz University of Technology and Italy’s National Research Council, was published in Nature Machine Intelligence. The framewor
  
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• Call of Duty Reportedly Plans New Sub-Series for 2027, Moving Beyond Black Ops and Modern Warfare

  10-08-2026 14:46 via columbuspost.com
  
  Activision is reportedly preparing for a significant shift in the Call of Duty franchise, with plans to introduce an entirely new sub-series in 2027. The change would move the long-running shooter franchise beyond its familiar Black Ops and Modern Warfare labels as Activision also prepares its next major release.
  Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4 Reportedly Set for October 23
  Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4 is scheduled to launch on October 23, 2026, according to the report. The game would become the
  
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• Meta Releases Open-Source Muse Glimmer AI Model as Competition Intensifies

  10-08-2026 14:44 via columbuspost.com
  Meta has released Muse Glimmer, an open-source version of its most powerful artificial intelligence technology, reinforcing the company’s push to make advanced AI models more widely available. The move comes as U.S. technology companies face growing competition from China and debate whether increasingly capable AI systems should be tightly controlled or broadly accessible.
  Meta Expands Its Open-Source AI Strategy
  Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has increasingly argued that advanced AI
  
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• Google Expands Privacy-Focused Age Verification System for the Play Store

  30-07-2026 18:06 via columbuspost.com
  
  Google is expanding its privacy-focused age verification technology for the Play Store as new state laws increasingly require app stores to play a larger role in protecting minors online. The company’s Play Age Signals API is designed to help developers identify appropriate age groups for users without requiring government-issued identification, facial scans, or other sensitive personal information.
  Google Introduces a Privacy-First Approach to Age Verification
  Rather than relying on ID ch
  
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• NASA Prepares CAPSTONE 02 Mission to Test Next-Generation Lunar Navigation Technologies

  30-07-2026 18:05 via columbuspost.com
  NASA is moving forward with a new technology demonstration mission aimed at advancing the infrastructure needed for long-term exploration around the Moon. The agency’s CAPSTONE 02 mission will test autonomous spacecraft navigation, rendezvous operations, and cislunar communications, helping pave the way for future Artemis missions and the development of a sustained human presence in lunar orbit.
  Scheduled for launch in 2027, the mission will deploy two small spacecraft that will operate to
  
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• Microsoft to Launch Unified Copilot AI Super App for Consumers and Businesses

  30-07-2026 18:03 via columbuspost.com
  Microsoft is preparing to introduce a new version of its Copilot platform that brings together its artificial intelligence tools into a single application for both consumers and businesses. The move reflects the company’s broader strategy to expand Copilot beyond a chatbot and establish it as a central hub for AI-powered productivity, coding, collaboration, and automation.
  Microsoft Expands Copilot Into a Super App
  During the company’s latest earnings call, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadell
  
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• Ozlo Unveils Sleepbuds 2 With Longer Battery Life, Better Audio, and Enhanced Sleep Tracking

  30-07-2026 15:03 via columbuspost.com
  Ozlo, the sleep technology startup founded by former Bose engineers, has introduced Sleepbuds 2, the latest version of its sleep-focused wireless earbuds. The updated model builds on the foundation established by Bose’s discontinued Sleepbuds line while introducing improvements in battery life, Bluetooth connectivity, sound quality, and sleep monitoring.
  Priced at $279, the new earbuds cost $30 more than Ozlo’s previous Sleepbuds, which sold for $249 last month after originally carry
  
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• Blog Post Title

  10-04-2019 03:38 via columbuspost.com
  What goes into a blog post? Helpful, industry-specific content that: 1) gives readers a useful takeaway, and 2) shows you’re an industry expert.Use your company’s blog posts to opine on current industry topics, humanize your company, and show how your products and services can help people.
  
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• As Senate hearing set for Kavanaugh, new accuser emerges

  24-09-2018 07:51 via columbuspost.com
  Lisa Macaro andMary Clare Jalonick
  Wire Service Correspondent
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Just as negotiators reached agreement on an extraordinary hearing for Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser, a second allegation of sexual misconduct by the Supreme Court nominee put the White House and Senate Republicans on the defensive and fueled calls from Democrats to postpone further action on his confirmation.
  A dayslong back and forth over the timing and terms of a hearing with Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey
  
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• Obama tells voters sitting on sidelines in 2018 ‘dangerous’

  16-09-2018 18:45 via columbuspost.com
  By Julie Carr SmythWire Service CorrespondentClick to view video.CLEVELAND (AP) — Former President Barack Obama delivered a simple message Thursday headed into the fall midterm elections: Vote.
  Speaking to an enthusiastic crowd of several thousand in Cleveland, Obama said the consequences of sitting on the sidelines during November’s midterm elections “are far more dangerous” than in the past.
  Without mentioning Republican President Donald Trump by name, Obama said, &ldqu
  
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• Trump’s blustery myths on hurricanes, income

  16-09-2018 18:23 via columbuspost.com
  By Hope Yen and
  Calvin WoodwardWire Service Correspondents
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a stormy week, President Donald Trump blustered and distorted reality, denying massive deaths from a hurricane that scientists believe to be one of the nation’s deadliest and blowing out of proportion U.S. economic growth and his role in spurring it.
  He’s insisting the federal response to Hurricane Maria, which hit Puerto Rico last September, was “incredibly successful,” even though blac
  
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• Trump comments sting in Puerto Rico amid slow storm recovery

  16-09-2018 17:38 via columbuspost.com
  By Danica Coto and
  Angeliki Kastanis
  Wire Service Correspondents
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — President Donald Trump’s assertion that the federal government’s response to Hurricane Maria was “an incredible, unsung success” fell flat in Puerto Rico, where islanders are still struggling to recover from the devastating storm a year later.
  “I was indignant,” said Gloria Rosado, a 62-year-old college professor who watched the president’s news conference
  
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• About that Car: 2019 Kia Forte

  09-09-2018 21:01 via columbuspost.com
  By Frank S. WashingtonContributing ColumnistColumbus Post
  PITTSBURGH – The new Kia Forte flies in the face of the market. It is a compact sedan in a sea of crossovers. However, from 2013 to 2017, Forte sales almost doubled. So there is little choice but to give buyers what they crave — a new Kia Forte.
  Frank S.Washington can be reached at [email protected]. Or, snail mail him at P.O. Box 23167, Detroit, MI 48223.For 2019, the third generation Forte has grown. It is longer, wider
  
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• ‘NOT ME!’

  09-09-2018 20:38 via columbuspost.com
  Trump officials cry ‘Not me!’ as he fumes over NYT column
  By Zeke Miller andJonathan Lemire
  Wire Service Correspondent
  WASHINGTON (AP) — One after another, President Donald Trump’s top lieutenants stepped forward Thursday to declare, “Not me.”
  They lined up to deny writing an incendiary New York Times opinion piece that was purportedly submitted by a member of an administration “resistance” movement straining to thwart Trump’s most dangerous
  
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• McCain, Franklin tributes show 2 Americas and cultures

  03-09-2018 18:43 via columbuspost.com
  By jesse J. Holland
  Wire Service Correspondent
  Two farewells, both reflecting distinct but uniquely American cultures.
  In Detroit, celebrities sat alongside anonymous mourners Friday in joyous remembrance of Aretha Franklin, a funeral that brought together the black church, gospel music, civil rights activism and Detroit civic pride.
  Hundreds of miles away in Washington, D.C., honor guards stood ramrod straight through silent pomp and circumstance while politicians shared stories of battle and f
  
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• Immigrant parents happy but traumatized after kids returned

  28-07-2018 03:04 via columbuspost.com
  By Julie Watson andNomaan Merchant
  Wire Service CorrespondentsFollow link to view video: https://storage.googleapis.com/afs-prod/media/media:1cdab41e37ad4dca905f4eaac6e05f48/576.mp4
   SAN DIEGO (AP) — Immigrant parents who reveled after joyful reunions with their young children spoke Wednesday of the traumatic impact of being separated from their sons and daughters for months after they were taken from them at the U.S. border.
  The administration has been scrambling to reunify the
  
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• ‘Everyone is safe’ after daring rescue of 13 in Thai cave

  11-07-2018 03:39 via columbuspost.com
  By Kaweewit Kaewjinda and
  Stephen Wright
  Wire Service Correspondents
  MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — “Everyone is safe.” With those three words posted on Facebook the daring rescue mission to extricate 12 boys and their soccer coach from the treacherous confines of a flooded cave in Thailand was complete — a grueling 18-day ordeal that claimed the life of an experienced diver and riveted people worldwide.
   
  Thailand’s Navy SEALs, who were central to the rescue effort,
  
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• Trump picks Kavanaugh, a GOP favorite, for Supreme Court

  10-07-2018 12:48 via columbuspost.com
  By Chatherine Lucey, Zeke Miller andMark Sherman
  Wire Service Correspondents
   
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump chose Brett Kavanaugh, a solidly conservative, politically connected judge, for the Supreme Court, setting up a ferocious confirmation battle with Democrats as he seeks to shift the nation’s highest court ever further to the right.
  A favorite of the Republican legal establishment in Washington, Kavanaugh, 53, is a former law clerk for retiring Justice Anthony K
  
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• The Latest: More rescued from flooded Thai cave

  10-07-2018 12:45 via columbuspost.com
  MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — The Latest on the rescue of a youth soccer team from a flooded cave in Thailand (all times local in Thailand)
  5:10 p.m.
  Thailand’s navy SEALs say a ninth boy has been brought out of a flooded cave in the country’s far north.
  The SEALs said on their Facebook page that “the 9th Wild Boar was out of the cave at 4:06 p.m.” Tuesday, referring to the name of the trapped boys’ soccer team.
  Rescuers hope to complete their mission Tuesday after
  
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• The Latest: Official: Cave rescue going better than expected

  08-07-2018 16:45 via columbuspost.com
  (all times local EST):
   Rescuer arrive near cave where 12 boys and their soccer coach have been trapped since June 23, in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai province, in northern Thailand Sunday, July 8, 2018. Thai authorities are racing to pump out water from the flooded cave before more rains are forecast to hit the northern region. (AP Photo) 
  The operation began at 10 a.m. Shortly before 8 p.m., the SEALs reported on their official Facebook page that four had been rescued.
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• Q&A on next steps for GOP in Congress’ immigration fight

  01-07-2018 03:25 via columbuspost.com
  By Alan Fram
  Wire Service Correspondent
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican effort to push broad, election-year immigration legislation through Congress has collapsed, but their ordeal over the politically searing issue is far from finished.
  The government still holds more than 2,000 children taken from their detained migrant families, an exasperating public relations nightmare for many in the GOP. Nearly 700,000 young immigrants don’t know if the courts will uphold President Donald Tru
  
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• High court OKs Trump’s travel ban, rejects Muslim bias claim

  27-06-2018 02:10 via columbuspost.com
  Protesters hold up signs and call out against the Supreme Court ruling upholding President Donald Trump’s travel ban outside the the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, June 26, 2018. (AP Photo) 
  By Mark ShermanWire Service Correspondent
  WASHINGTON (AP) – A sharply divided Supreme Court upheld President Donald Trump’s ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries Tuesday, the conservative majority taking his side in a major ruling supporting his presidential power.
  
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• Arizona police under scrutiny after beating video surfaces

  10-06-2018 16:26 via columbuspost.com
  By Astrid GalvanWire Service Correspondent
  PHOENIX (AP) — The attorneys and a pastor for a suburban Phoenix man seen on video being beaten by police while standing against a wall said Thursday that the officer’s claim that their client posed a threat “doesn’t pass the smell test.”
  Pastor Andre Miller said the Mesa Police Department description of why they struck the unarmed Robert Johnson doesn’t hold up.This image made from a body camera video on Wednesday, M
  
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• Bailing Out the Coal Industry Will Hurt Consumers

  04-06-2018 21:00
  President Trump wants to subsidize money-losing coal and nuclear plants under the fiction that they are essential to national security.
  
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• The Not-So-Subtle Racism of Trump-Era ‘Welfare Reform’

  23-05-2018 21:02
  By redefining welfare to include more federal assistance programs, Trump finds new ways to punish black people.
  
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• Gunman opens fire in Texas high school, killing 10 people

  22-05-2018 06:25 via columbuspost.com
  By Juan A. Lozano
  Wire Service Correspondent
  SANTA FE, Texas (AP) — A 17-year-old boy carrying a shotgun and a revolver opened fire at a Houston-area high school Friday, killing 10 people, most of them students, authorities said. It was the nation’s deadliest such attack since the massacre in Florida that gave rise to a campaign by teens for gun control.
  The suspected shooter, who was in custody, also had explosive devices, including a Molotov cocktail, that were found in the school
  
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