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Colorado has one of the most educated populations in the country, second only to Massachusetts for the share of residents holding a college degree. But the state also ranks seventh in terms of how much money people are losing to scams, according to a LendingTree analysis of fraud data from the Federal Trade Commission. The financial success of Colorado’s population because of its education is a primary reason it is a prime target for fraudsters. In the first nine months of 2023, Colorado residents filed 46,410 fraud…

There is intense apprehension at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Thursday that the Naira may weaken further as the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) is set to disburse allocations from the revenues generated into the federations’ accounts among the federal, state and local governments. Sources within the apex bank Thursday told PREMIUM TIMES that there are concerns that funds from FAAC were often illegally converted to dollars by some corrupt state governors at the unofficial market, with a ripple…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Changes to the social and political landscape between 2011 and 2018, with dramatic events such as DACA rule changes, new presidential leadership, immigration bills and more, have left one major threat looming—deportation. How this threat has impacted the mental health of some undocumented Latino immigrants in the…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The seven Colorado River states face a quickly approaching deadline to present a unified plan for how to manage the drying river that provides water for 40 million people across the West. But major disagreements remain ahead of next month's target—and the Upper Basin states, including Colorado, say they may submit…

The U.S. saw a significant rise in adolescent drug overdose deaths in 2022, primarily due to fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills, despite a decline in overall teen drug use. Research suggests focused educational efforts, policy intervention in high-risk areas, and increased access to naloxone in schools as critical measures to combat this escalating crisis.In 2022, the United States witnessed the deaths of approximately 22 teenagers aged between 14 and 18 every week due to drug overdoses, with the mortality rate for this…

CNN’s Jake Tapper has been covering politics for almost three decades. He’s had a front-row, insider’s view of the events that have defined the modern political era. He’s charted the victories and downfalls of our leaders and experienced the successes and failures of the news media in their mission to hold power to account. He knows a thing or two about political scandals. On Sunday, CNN will air the first two episodes of a new limited series hosted by Tapper, “United States of Scandal.” The series takes an…

MIT chemists have developed a computational model that can rapidly predict the structure of the transition state of a reaction (left structure), if it is given the structure of a reactant (middle) and product (right). Credit: David W. KastnerUtilizing generative artificial intelligence, chemists from MIT developed a model that can predict the structures formed when a chemical reaction reaches its point of no returnDuring a chemical reaction, molecules gain energy until they reach what’s known as the transition state — a…

Tags on chips and a global registry of their locations can reduce the risks of AI espionage by hostile nations, experts say. The proposals were made in a new report on AI safety, which calls for a stronger regulation of hardware. Three Cambridge University institutes co-led the study paper, alongside OpenAI and the GovAI research community. They fear that governments are overlooking the dangers of compute, which could trigger disasters. Without tighter protections, they warn that AI could…

We often hear about nation-state hackers being behind cyberattacks, but those nation-states aren’t always named in security reports. When it comes to ChatGPT and Copilot abuse, Microsoft and OpenAI are going about security differently. In a pair of blog posts, the two AI partners on ChatGPT tech have named all the usual suspects you’d expect to target the US and other democracies with the help of generative AI services like ChatGPT. Hacker groups from Russia, North Korea, Iran, and China (twice) appear in the…

We recently reported that hybrid vehicles are growing faster than pure electric cars in India. That is correct, and we explained the reasons for faster hybrid car sales growth compared to electric vehicles. But there is one state where EV adoption is growing faster than all the rest – Kerala. As per a recent report, buys more EVs than any other state, percentage-wise.  Here, we explore the reasons why this is happening. EV adoption increasing in Kerala The numbers The demand for electric vehicles in Kerala has…