Virginia Connection Newspapers

Skip Castro Keeps the Dance Floor Rocking at Jammin’ Java

For over 47 years the Skip Castro Band has been a musical component on the east coast, opening for famous blues artists, hitting the college towns, and keeping up the local sound that’s kept them ...
Wall Street Journal

The Hallucinatory AI Math

IPO mania has begun, and nothing kickstarts initial public offerings like spreadsheets flashing green to incite the crowd. SpaceX’s recent S-1 filing promoted an “actionable total addressable market” ...
The New York Times

As A.I. Makes Strides in Mathematics, Mathematicians Urge Caution

A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline. By Siobhan Roberts Recently there ...
Scientific American

Mathematicians sign declaration to rein in AI use

Last month many mathematicians were shocked by OpenAI’s announcement that artificial intelligence had solved geometry’s famous “unit distance” problem. For some, the achievement was exciting. But ...
CBS News

Illinois cell phone ban for public schools passes; lawmakers send it to Pritzker for signature

Could banning cell phones make Illinois classrooms better places to learn? State lawmakers are betting on it, sending a bill to Gov. JB Pritzker's desk to do exactly that. Senate Bill 2427 will impact ...
WGN-TV

Illinois lawmakers approve bill limiting students’ cell phone use in class

CHICAGO (WGN) — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker says he will sign a bill limiting students’ access to cell phones during class after it passed the Senate on Sunday. Senate Bill 2427 requires schools to set ...
WGN-TV

Data shows cell phone problems in Chicago schools; Senate still undecided on ban as legislative session nears end

Editor’s note: Illinois lawmakers passed Senate Bill 2427 after a 55-2 vote. CHICAGO (WGN) – With a few days left until the end of the legislative session, the future of a cell phone ban in schools ...
University of Delaware

Summer Modeling Program for High Schoolers

The University of Delaware Summer Math Modeling Program is a free, nonresidential, five-day program for rising juniors and seniors in high school interested in math modeling. Participating students ...
Irish Sun

Notorious child killer stabbed 25 times in jail attack by prisoners who left him to bleed to death in bed, court told

A NOTORIOUS child killer was stabbed 25 times in a four-minute prison cell attack – before being placed in bed “as if asleep”, a court heard. Kyle Bevan, 33, bled to death in his cell at ...
Ars Technica

Mathematicians warn of AI threats to profession as industry encroaches

Mathematicians warned against rising tech industry influence in a declaration describing the many challenges that AI poses to mathematics research. The timing of the declaration comes two weeks after ...
katu

Washington Gov. Ferguson proposes statewide K-12 cellphone ban

22 dogs, including 15 puppies, found abandoned on vacated south Lane County property 22 dogs were rescued by Lane County Animal Services and brought to Greenhill Humane Society for care and shelter on ...