After ‘Stranger Things’ ended with a finale that disappointed many fans, some are using a new tool to take matters into their own hands: generative AI. With a 53% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, Season Five is by far the lowest rated. Fans cite plot holes, failed romances and queerbaiting as the biggest sources of […]
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Palo Alto will remove a digital art installation featured in the City Hall for a decade due to maintenance issues, the Public Art Program Director announced Jan 15. Digital art pieces are often expensive and face maintenance issues. The Commission was aware of this when they decided in a 2016 contract that digital art piece Conversation by Susan Narduli would
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After the construction of a West Oakland coal terminal was approved by the California Supreme Court in September, members of environmental group 350 East Bay Area have renewed a decade-long movement to keep potentially carcinogenic coal out of the Bay. Many anti-coal advocates were disappointed this fall, after the Court decided not to review a
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PALO ALTO – Students and community members urged the Palo Alto City Council to educate the public about the health risks of gas stoves. “We’re feeding chemicals into people’s homes that injure kids’ lungs. We need to educate the public who don’t know this to let them have a choice,” chemical engineer and resident Sven Thesen said at the council
PALO ALTO – The Palo Alto City Council moved to replace existing synthetic turf at El Camino Park with cork turf at its Jan. 12 meeting, rejecting the recommendations of county health authorities who recommended that the city install grass. In a presentation to the council, Division Manager of Open Space, Parks and Golf Sarah
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REDWOOD CITY – A California privacy platform secured over 176,000 sign-ups in its first four weeks online as state residents seize the chance to permanently delete personal information from over 545 data broker sites simultaneously. The Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform (DROP) is the world’s first government-built tool to provide this service, wrote Gavin Newsom’s
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Some teen boys are determined to grow more muscular to match their social media idols.
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In the last two years, Waymo has increased the number of miles driven by its self-driving cars from 1 million miles to 127 million miles. But as U.S. roads are filled with white, sensor-covered Jaguars, questions about safety have been raised. Data from both federal regulators and Waymo’s own research suggest the robotaxis are outperforming human drivers.
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A mother and daughter feast on weary travelers who stumble upon their woodland cottage. A high school freshman develops a hunger for flesh after a boy takes it too far at a party. A college sophomore and adjunct professor join a sorority whose secret wellness trend is — you guessed it — cannibalism. These are
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DOWNTOWN BERKELEY — What’s the best thing you’ve ever seen come through the store? Upon hearing the question, Nate Filomeo smiles. “Oh goodness. Honestly, I had to stop myself from buying it.” The visiting store manager looks upward, absorbed in recalling the picture from memory. “It was a DVD box set for the original Gundam.
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Super Bowl LX will take place at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. on Feb. 8, and the Santa Clara County Rapid Response Network is meeting with leadership from sports teams and different Super Bowl event venues, as well as local leaders and elected officials, to make sure the “civil and human rights of our
This fall, while most Bay Area public schools continued debating when and if AI tools should enter classrooms, private schools began integrating generative AI tools into core curriculums for students. Less limited by funding constraints and government bureaucracy, the schools can more nimbly test tools and adjust curricula, providing a window into the future of
