Self-configuring optical devices automatically learn how to sort out light

Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...
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Translating trust into action: Communication is central to AI governance

Governance frameworks fail not because they are poorly designed but because they are poorly understood. Well-intentioned ...
Law

Legal Departments Are Implementing Gen AI to Save Money. Law Firms Are Using It to Stand Out.

A new white paper from DISCO found in-house teams are under greater pressure than law firms to adopt gen AI. In-house teams are also more likely to implement gen AI for cost savings, while firms seek ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...
Gizmodo

You Can’t Use Copyrighted Characters in OpenAI’s Sora Anymore and People Are Freaking Out

The complete copyright-free-for-all approach that OpenAI took to its new AI video generation model, Sora 2, lasted all of one week. After initially requiring copyright holders to opt out of having ...
Press-Telegram

LBUSD to implement new restrictions on phone use during school in 2026

Students at the Long Beach Unified School District will no longer be allowed to use their phones during school starting next year, when new limitations on device usage are scheduled to go into effect.
Kennebec Journal

Maine needs to implement time-of-use electricity rates | Opinion

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VTDigger

As classes begin again, more Vermont schools are restricting cellphone use ahead of statewide ban

Sam Blair demonstrates the use of a magnetically-sealed cell phone pouch at Harwood Union High School in Duxbury on Tuesday, Aug. 26. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Kate Grodin, co-principal of ...
PC Gamer

Microsoft launches Copilot AI function in Excel, but warns not to use it in 'any task requiring accuracy or reproducibility'

AI Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says it's time to stop talking about AI 'slop' and start talking about a 'theory of the mind that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier ...
WHDH

Watertown High School implementing new cell phone use policy

WATERTOWN, MASS. (WHDH) - Looking for a way to get students off their phones during class? There’s an app for that. Watertown High School is piloting a new app to limit the use of cellphones during ...