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April 4, 2025
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Scientists with a Boston aquarium are encouraging beachgoers to report sightings of white sharks this holiday weekend after signs of shark bites were observed on multiple marine mammals. Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer in New England, and the region has been experiencing beach weather already. That’s a
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President Joe Biden’s administration is pushing the tech industry and financial institutions to shut down a growing market of abusive sexual images made with artificial intelligence technology. New generative AI tools have made it easy to transform someone’s likeness into a sexually explicit AI deepfake and share those realistic images across chatrooms or social media.
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The N.C. High School Athletic Association baseball and softball regional championship series will be held this week across the state. Regional championships in baseball and softball are a best-of-three series with the higher seed hosting two of the three games, if three games are necessary. Schedules for the regional championships will vary. Games can be
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HAMMANSKRAAL, South Africa (AP) — On days when a municipal truck comes to Hammanskraal to deliver drinking water, a queue of South Africans starts forming early in the morning to fill their buckets. This is not a distant, rural community, but a township on the edge of the administrative capital city of Africa’s most advanced
READ MORESAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is tried to confront the latest in a succession of legal attacks on its digital empire on Thursday as federal judge began to address anticompetitive practices in the app market for smartphones powered by its Android software. The San Francisco court hearing before U.S. District Judge James Donato comes five
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By Brian Murphy, WRAL Miami, the 11th seed, became the first team to clinch a spot in Saturday’s semifinals with an 8-7 victory over No. 2 Clemson on Thursday, The Hurricanes will play the winner of Thursday’s NC State-Duke game in the semifinals. Clemson’s Tristan Bissetta hit what looked like it could be a go-ahead
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A massive cradle of baby stars has been observed in new detail by a European space telescope, adding to its celestial collection of images. The European Space Agency released the photos from the Euclid observatory on Thursday. They were taken following the telescope’s Florida launch last year as a warm-up
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By Louis Fernandez, WRAL Sports The NC State and North Carolina men’s hockey programs are expected to be elevated to the highest level of non-NCAA hockey in the United States, the American Collegiate Hockey Association announced on Thursday. The Atlantic Coast Collegiate Hockey League is exploring the formation of a conference within ACHA Men’s 1
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The fourth round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association girls soccer state playoffs is scheduled for Thursday, May 23. All fourth round games are played at the higher seed. Start times vary for each game, but HighSchoolOT is updating a list of start times below. To report a start time, a schedule change, or
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NEW YORK (AP) — TikTok is putting in place new rules to limit the reach of state-affiliated media accounts that are attempting to exert influence abroad during a crucial election year. The company, which started labeling state-affiliated media two years ago, announced in a statement Thursday that identified accounts attempting to “reach communities outside their
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