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Your Personal Information Is Probably Being Used to Train Generative AI Models
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Wood County Rotary Club to hold annual tennis championship
<!– SHOW ARTICLE –> VIENNA — The Wood County Rotary Club will hold it’s annual tennis championship Nov. 4 and 5 at the Greenmont Racquet Club in Vienna. The tournament, held since 2002, is the largest fundraiser for the club and benefits local charities. In the last five years, Rotary has donated $25,000 to charities…
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How to explore New York City’s immigrant past through its food
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). There may be no other city in the world whose history can be told through its food as plainly as New York’s can. Its food landscape can be peeled back to reveal successive waves of immigrants, each adjusting their national cuisine to fit their new home. …
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Central Pa. food bank creates local hub
<!– SHOW ARTICLE –> The Central Pennsylvania Food Bank has purchased a building on Scotch Valley Road in Hollidaysburg that it plans to renovate for use as its “Western Healthy Food Hub” for operations in Blair, Clearfield, Centre, Bedford and parts of Mifflin counties. The $1 million cost of creating the hub, which will require…
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Pa. announces second round of emergency food assistance funding for food banks, pantries
<!– SHOW ARTICLE –> A second round of emergency food assistance funding is now available to food banks, shelters and soup kitchens, state Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding announced Tuesday, and qualified organizations are encouraged to apply. The $2.5 million in funding is made available through The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) Reach and Resiliency…
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The Trending Beauty Products That Live Up To The Hype
Tom Ford’s Shade & Illuminate range went viral after Mary Phillips — MUA to Hailey Bieber, Kendall Jenner and more — used it in one of her videos. Now social media is discovering the brand’s shade and light blushes. With two complementing shades in one palette, plus a range of varying colours, Tom Ford teams…
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Calif. colleges plan programs for nontraditional students
Before community colleges became training grounds for people wanting to work in trade jobs or as technicians in specialized fields that didn’t require four-year degrees, students mostly learned through apprenticeships and vocational programs or got on-the-job training. Employers now increasingly rely on community colleges to train and certify workers for these positions; they also prefer…
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Students Create Tough Solar-Powered Car
A team of students in the Netherlands has designed and built a tough car that’s completely powered by the sun. The car, called Stella Terra, is the first solar-powered car that can travel off-road for long distances without needing a recharging station. Students at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands have been working on…
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Is it safe to travel to Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon right now?
The UK and EU governments have already warned against all but essential travel to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. ADVERTISEMENT Israel is continuing to bombard Gaza – home to more than 2 million inhabitants – after militant group Hamas launched a surprise attack last weekend. Over 1,400 people in Israel were killed in the…
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This Public Health Measure Bridges the National Divide over Firearms—Just Don’t Call It Gun Control
Police departments in Colorado will temporarily store guns for individuals who may be experiencing a mental health crisis. Advertisement <div class="article-block article-text" data-behavior="newsletter_promo dfp_article_rendering" data-dfp-adword="Advertisement" data-newsletterpromo_article-text=" Sign up for Scientific American’s free newsletters. ” data-newsletterpromo_article-image=”https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/cache/file/4641809D-B8F1-41A3-9E5A87C21ADB2FD8_source.png” data-newsletterpromo_article-button-text=”Sign Up” data-newsletterpromo_article-button-link=”https://www.scientificamerican.com/page/newsletter-sign-up/?origincode=2018_sciam_ArticlePromo_NewsletterSignUp” name=”articleBody” itemprop=”articleBody”> Reading about death and suicidality can be distressing. Please read this in a moment where…