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Years ago, when I started writing about Silicon Valley’s efforts to replace workers with artificial intelligence, most tech executives at least had the decency to lie about it.“We’re not automating workers, we’re augmenting them,” the executives would tell me. “Our A.I. tools won’t destroy jobs. They’ll be helpful assistants that will free workers from mundane drudgery.”Of course, lines like those — which were often intended to reassure nervous workers and give cover to corporate automation plans — said more about the limitations of the technology than the motives of the executives. Back then, A.I. simply wasn’t good enough to automate…

After a motorbike ride down an empty road, my daughter and I found ourselves jumping off a high wooden platform into a deep lagoon with salt-white sand, healthy coral — and no one else around.As the Indian Ocean splashed, we swam, jumped again and laughed. We lost track of time.Maybe we were just lucky. The platform had to have been built by someone, for the fun of many. But it was neither the first nor last time that we felt practically alone in Sumba.Sumba, one of Indonesia’s easternmost islands, is just an hour’s flight from Bali. But Sumba is as…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Two campers were found dead Sunday at a national park on a remote island in the middle of Michigan’s Lake Superior, authorities said.Rangers were alerted around 4 p.m. that two people were dead at a backcountry campground within Isle Royale National Park, the National Park Service (NPS) said on Tuesday.Two rangers hiked 11 miles to the campground overnight and arrived early Monday morning. NPS said the rangers confirmed the two deaths.The identities of the two campers, along with their causes of death, were not immediately known, according to NPS.SECOND MISSING HIKER FOUND DEAD…

Canadian doctors and scientists say Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s firing of an immunization advisory committee south of the border is worrisome. On Monday, the U.S. health and human services secretary — a longtime anti-vaccine advocate — said he will appoint new members to the scientific group that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about vaccination.Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan, said Tuesday that the move will foster more false anti-vaccine beliefs, not only in the U.S. but also in Canada.“It creates a culture in which anti-vaxx beliefs are more accepted and challenged a lot less.…

Western Australia’s two AFL clubs and its peak football body have backed a proposal to have an in-season tournament that will reduce the travel burden of both Freo and West Coast, The West can reveal.

The loudspeakers were turned on in the demilitarised zone that divides the two Koreas in June last year in response to a barrage of trash-filled balloons flown southward by Pyongyang. The North claimed the balloons were a response to activists floating similar missives filled with anti-Kim Jong Un propaganda and US dollar bills northwards. The two Koreas technically remain at war because the 1950 to 1953 conflict ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty. The anti-North Korea broadcasts infuriate Pyongyang, which has previously threatened artillery strikes against Seoul’s loudspeaker units. South Korea’s resumption of its broadcasts last year was…

South Korea on Wednesday switched off loudspeakers that had been broadcasting K-pop songs, news and other propaganda into North Korea for the past year — one of the first concrete steps taken by the​ newly elected ​leader, Lee Jae-myung​, to improve inter-Korean ties.​Mr. Lee ordered his military to turn off the high-powered loudspeakers on Wednesday afternoon to “help restore trust in South-North Korean relations and build peace on the Korean Peninsula,” said Kang Yu-jung, Mr. Lee’s spokeswoman.Inter-Korean relations plunged to their lowest point in many years under Mr. Lee’s impeached predecessor, Yoon Suk Yeol, as the countries escalated a tit-for-tat…

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Marines are expected to be deployed to the streets of Los Angeles on Wednesday, joining the National Guard troops that are already protecting federal property and immigration agents making arrests.The 700 Marines, who have been going through training at an unspecified location in the Los Angeles area, will work alongside the National Guard, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Northern Command said.The action will broaden the federal government’s rare use of military forces on domestic soil. By tradition and law, American troops are supposed to be used inside the United States only in the most dire and extreme circumstances.President Trump mobilized…

Researchers at the University of Waterloo conducted a study which found that hockey fanatics react differently during key moments in a hockey game versus how a more casual viewer takes things in. “The broad aim of the study was to examine the extent to which brain activity, as captured by a brain imaging device, might differ between spectators who identify as being a highly-committed fan of a sport, compared to the more casual viewer,” professor Luke Potwarka told Global News.To conduct the study, the researchers found undergrads who were more committed or more casual fans and had them watch a…