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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain World Hijab Day recognizes the millions of Muslim women and girls who wear the traditional Islamic headscarf. Around the world, Muslim girls in hijab are experiencing unique forms and heightened rates of gender and race-based violence and discrimination. Overt violence against girls and women in hijab have captured…

“Big in Belgium” may not seem the greatest compliment for a musician, but guitarist Vitja Pauwels has made waves beyond his homeland with an adventurous mix of electric and acoustic fretboards and electronic effects, nicely captured on 2022’s Drift By/Sink In. Here, Pauwels and his new quartet get to play with his personal guitar god, Marc Ribot, who is big absolutely everywhere, having played with everyone from Tom Waits to Robert Plant. Approached by Pauwels, the American agreed to a one-off show at a festival in…

Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI are among the companies working with the U.S. National Science Foundation and other federal agencies on the National AI Research Resource pilot program to connect researchers to AI research infrastructure. The program supports advancements in “safe, secure and trustworthy AI,” according to the announcement from the NSF. What is the National AI Research Resource? The National AI Research Resource is a pilot program to provide access to resource-intensive AI training and operation…

The House Financial Services Committee has formed a bipartisan working group focused on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the financial services and housing industries, the top lawmakers on the panel announced Tuesday. The AI working group will “explore this technology’s potential, specifically its adoption in our financial system” and ways to use it to “foster a more inclusive financial system,” while also establishing the country as a world leader on AI, Chairman Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) said in a…

Generative AI provoked a lot of discussion last year around images, text and video, but it may soon affect the gaming industry as well. Square Enix said it plans to be "aggressively applying" AI and other cutting-edge tech in 2024 to "create new forms of content," according to president Takashi Kiryu's New Year's letter."Artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential implications had for some time largely been subjects of academic debate," he said. "However, the introduction of ChatGPT, which allows anyone to easily…

New research concludes that most sports and exercise activities carry a low risk of serious injury. Covering 61 sports and based on national hospital data, the study highlights the relative safety of fitness activities and identifies rising injury trends globally, advocating for preventive measures and real-time injury monitoring.The findings of a five-year study conducted by researchers at the University of Bath in the UK suggest that the likelihood of sustaining a serious injury from most forms of exercise is remarkably…

In the winter of 2022, University of Utah researchers operated this weather station near Utah's Deer Creek Reservoir in the Heber Valley where they installed a trove of meteorological instrumentation for an intensive study of fog formation. Credit: Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah Of the world's various weather phenomena, fog is perhaps the most mysterious, forming and dissipating near the ground with fluctuations in air…

I’m sure almost all of us have heard the phrases toxic masculinity, toxic men, and toxic women, but have you heard of toxic femininity? If not, the term "toxic femininity" is used to describe a broad concept of womanhood that is restrictive and repressive, including the pressures women experience to live up to stereotypically feminine features and behaviors.So it’s nothing new that women are constantly being told the way they need to dress up, behave or obviously, be a mother. In simple words, anything that women think,…

Google Forms are widely used by students and organizations alike for various surveys and questionnaires. It is a great tool to collect data for research papers and to better understand the employees in an organization. However, many times these forms are also shared outside the intended participant base, which can corrupt the data or its usefulness. Sometimes such forms also fall prey to troll attacks which can also negatively affect the results. To help users gain better control of their Google Forms, the company has…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, the United Nations (UN) identified what it called a "shadow pandemic" of domestic violence against women. The UN includes in its definition of domestic violence what it refers to as "economic violence," which it explains as: "making or attempting to make a person financially dependent by maintaining total control over financial resources, withholding access…