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April 28, 2025
By Brian Murphy, WRAL The UNC Board of Trustees approved an audit of the school’s athletic department Monday morning amid concerns and anger over the Tar Heels’ revenue, management and changes to college sports. The board plans to meet about athletics in closed session during its meetings Wednesday and Thursday. It approved a top line
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — OpenAI’s latest update to its artificial intelligence model can mimic human cadences in its verbal responses and can even try to detect people’s moods. The effect conjures up images of the 2013 Spike Jonze move “Her,” where the (human) main character falls in love with an artificially intelligent operating system, leading
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Smoke from Canadian wildfires has prompted health warnings across the Upper Midwest and Montana for the second year in a row. Fires raging in British Columbia and Alberta have filled the skies with haze over parts of Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin on Sunday, lingering into Monday morning. Unhealthy air
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DETROIT (AP) — Amazon’s self-driving robotaxi unit is being investigated by the U.S. government’s highway safety agency after two of its vehicles braked suddenly and were rear-ended by motorcyclists. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in documents posted on its website Monday it will evaluate the automated driving system developed by Zoox. Both crashes
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DETROIT (AP) — General Motors’ troubled Cruise autonomous vehicle unit said Monday it will start testing robotaxis in Arizona this week with human safety drivers on board. Cruise said that during the testing, it will check the vehicles’ performance against the company’s “rigorous” safety and autonomous vehicle performance requirements. Testing will start in Phoenix and
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From pugs to parakeets, Olympic athletes love their pets, whether its a guide dog for a Paralympian or a smelly turtle for a BMX rider. Show Transcript A thing. Move is an Olympic champion. A thing anytime you’re ready, just say whatever’s on your mind and clack that little board there. I love pugs. We
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By TIM REYNOLDS, AP Basketball Writer NBA teams were told Monday that Bronny James, the son of the Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James, has been medically cleared to play in the league and is expected to participate in the draft combine this week, a person with knowledge of the matter told The Associated Press. Teams
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Pinecrest junior Carson Bertagnole found some momentum at the turn at the N.C. High School Athletic Association 4A boys golf state championship on Monday. On the first day of the two-day competition at Pinehurst No. 9, Bertagnole ended the front nine with a hole-in-one on the ninth hole, a 160-yard par three. The ninth hole
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — When he heard that devastating floods hit his village in northern Afghanistan last week, farmer Abdul Ghani rushed home from neighboring Kunduz province where he was visiting relatives. When he got home, he found out that his wife and three children had perished in the deluge. Two of his sons survived but
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By STEVE REED, AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. — CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Rory McIlroy has a full head of steam heading into the PGA Championship. McIlroy won the Wells Fargo Championship for a record fourth time Sunday with another dominating performance at Quail Hollow, easily overcoming a two-stroke deficit to beat Xander Schauffele by
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