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El entrenamiento de primavera en MLB se centra en árbitros robot y el Clásico Mundial
1+ hour, 16+ min ago (956+ words) Apenas 102 d'as despu's de que una emocionante Serie Mundial terminara con los Dodgers de Los "ngeles convirti'ndose en el primer campe'n consecutivo en un cuarto de siglo, los lanzadores y receptores est'n de vuelta en el campo el martes mientras…...
Aurora to host open house on data centers amid moratorium
1+ hour, 55+ min ago (410+ words) As Aurora's moratorium on data centers nears its end, the city is planning an open house to give residents the chance to voice concerns and ask questions about the topic. A survey about data centers, which says it will be…...
Convenient ordering option or ‘sidewalk hog’? Food delivery robots get mixed reception in Chicago.
7+ hour, 6+ min ago (1789+ words) The rise of autonomous food delivery in Chicago has made colorful, flag-bearing robotic carts a familiar sight as they steadily roll along busy sidewalks and crosswalks on a last-mile mission to transport tacos. But as their robotic ranks swell, there…...
‘Melania’ falls steeply and ‘Send Help’ holds steady at No. 1 on a quiet weekend in theaters
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (301+ words) NEW YORK " Hollywood largely ceded attention to football over a slow box-office weekend, with the survival thriller "Send Help" repeating as No. 1 in ticket sales and the Melania Trump documentary "Melania" falling sharply in its second weekend. Super Bowl weekend…...
Review: In ‘The Dance of Death’ at Steppenwolf Theatre, spouses hate each other to the end
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (299+ words) August Strindberg's "The Dance of Death," now at the Steppenwolf Theatre, is a portrait of marriage as a hellscape from which the only possible relief is death. Ideally of the other party. An ideal date-night show, you might say. Then…...
Moraine Valley art professor’s exhibit explores role of AI in society
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (994+ words) A sabbatical from his position as an art professor at Moraine Valley Community College gave Erik La Gattuta the time he needed this fall to focus on his latest project, a comic book series featuring a robot and human who…...
Donald York, University of Chicago astronomer who co-founded the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, dies at 81
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (1064+ words) Donald G. York was a longtime University of Chicago astronomer and astronomy professor who co-founded the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a wide-ranging mapping of the solar system that produced a three-dimensional map of a large fraction of the sky. York, considered…...
Hisatsune logra birdie tras enviar pelota al agua, firma 63 y lidera Abierto de Phoenix
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (297+ words) Scottie Scheffler hizo lo necesario para pasar otro corte, al completar la clase de ronda que se espera del jugador n'mero uno del mundo. Hisatsune hizo un chip para birdie despu's de lanzar su bola al agua en el hoyo…...
Title character in ‘Marty Supreme’ film wears Elgin wristwatch
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (163+ words) Marty Mauser, the title character in the Oscar-nominated "Marty Supreme," wears a vintage Elgin wristwatch manufactured by the Elgin National Watch Co. in Elgin. According to Esquire magazine, the watch dates to somewhere between 1949 and 1951. The film follows the tale…...
Savannah Guthrie’s demand for mom’s ‘proof of life’ is complicated in this era of AI and deepfakes
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (536+ words) When Savannah Guthrie made a heart-wrenching plea to the kidnapper of her 84-year-old mother to send "proof of life," she addressed the possibility of people creating deepfakes. "We live in a world where voices and images are easily manipulated," she…...