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Photo Submitted Department of Music Voice Students This spring, vocal students in the U of A’s Department of Music have much to be proud of. Sixteen students traveled to Henderson State University in Arkadelphia to sing in the Arkansas Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing competition. Singers are categorized by level of study, and this year, students had the historic opportunity to participate in the commercial music category in addition to the classical and musical theatre categories. This is the first year that the Arkansas chapter has offered contemporary music categories, including pop, rock,…

Chloe Bogard placed 16th in the Hearst Journalism Awards’ audio competition on Feb. 21 for her work at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Bogard is a junior broadcasting major from Basehor, Kansas. Her winning entries, on Nebraska’s state government, aired on 90.3 KRNU. The Hearst competition annually recognizes the best college journalism, including feature writing, investigative journalism, photojournalism, multimedia, television and audio. Entries are evaluated based on their reporting, crafting, creativity and economy of expression. This year’s audio competition drew entries from 41 universities nationwide, with 20 finalists selected from 70 submissions. “We take immense pride in celebrating Chloe,” said Shari Veil, dean of…

Deadline: August 1, 2024 Applications are invited for the Photography 4 Humanity Global Prize Competition 2024. The 2024 Global Contest promotes climate justice. They believe climate change is a human rights issue, so they are looking for images that show people impacted by the escalating climate crisis. They include climate refuges, the very young, the very old, the disabled and injured, the poor, indigenous and island people, and women. Images of climate champions advocating for change, and those helping to mitigate and reverse climate change are welcome. Photography 4 Humanity is an international initiative created by Right Here, Right Now…

If you’re into smartphone photography and you’re an Honor user, here’s a chance to win up to $15,000 – just enter the Honor Magic Moments Awards competition, and give it your best shot!Here are the prizes and awards:First place, Photographer of The Year – $15,000First place, (1 winner from each group, 6 winners in total) – $5,000Second place, (1 winner from each group, 6 winners in total) – $3,000Third place, (1 winner from each group, 6 winners in total) – $1,000The Best of Recommendation Award (Entries selected from all submissions, 20 winners in total) – Honor Magic6 ProExcellent Works Award…

Rockford has been selected as one three cities in the U.S. to host 2024 Malibu Boats World Wake Association Central Regional Championship this summer.Here’s what you need to know.What days do I need to mark on the calendar?June 21-23Where will the event be held?The event will take place at two locations, West Rock Wake Park at Levings Park and on the Rock River, between the Auburn and Whitman street bridges.More:West Rock Wake Park a ‘game-changer’ for southwest RockfordWhat will I see?The event will feature more than 400 competitors of all ages and skill levels competing across seven disciplines: wakeboard, wakeskate,…

Amazon is removing Just Walk Out tech from all of its Fresh grocery stores in the US, . The self-checkout system relies on a host of cameras, sensors and good old-fashioned human eyeballs to track what people leave the store with, charging the customers accordingly.The technology has been plagued by issues . Most notably, Just Walk Out merely presents the illusion of automation, with and the like. Here’s where the smoke and mirrors come in. While the stores have no actual cashiers, there are reportedly over 1,000 real people in India scanning the camera feeds to ensure accurate checkouts.It’s also…

In 2023, the Entertainment Software Rating Board, along with digital identity company Yoti and “youth marketing solutions” provider Superawesome, filed a proposal with the FTC for a new “verifiable parental consent mechanism” called Privacy-Protective Facial Age Estimation. The FTC has now issued its response to that proposal, and the answer is “no”—for now.The ESRB’s proposed technology stirred feathers almost immediately, and understandably so: The idea of having to essentially submit a selfie to prove to a machine that you’re old enough to play GTA 6 is inherently intrusive, and that’s before you even get into questions of technological bias and…

It was all smoke and mirrors.Just Walked AwayAmazon is giving up with its unusual “Just Walk Out” technology, The Information reports, which allowed customers to simply put their shopping into their bags and leave the store without having to get in line at the checkout.The tech, which was only available at half of the e-commerce giant’s Amazon Fresh stores, used a host of cameras and sensors to track what shoppers left the store with. But instead of closing the technological loop with pure automation and AI, the company also had to rely on an army of over 1,000 workers in…

Image Credits: Carol Yepes / Getty ImagesHow do you get an AI to answer a question it’s not supposed to? There are many such “jailbreak” techniques, and Anthropic researchers just found a new one, in which a large language model (LLM) can be convinced to tell you how to build a bomb if you prime it with a few dozen less-harmful questions first. They call the approach “many-shot jailbreaking” and have both written a paper about it and also informed their peers in the AI community about it so it can be mitigated. The vulnerability is a new one, resulting…

Potomac Wealth Advisors President and founder Mark Avallone details investors hope that artificial intelligence will add to companies bottom line.Global energy demand is projected to surge in coming years amid the growth of artificial intelligence, which requires massive amounts of electricity.The Wall Street Journal reported that big tech companies’ “obsession” with finding enough energy to power the AI boom was the talk of CERA Week by S&P Global last month. The IAD71 Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn, Virginia, US, on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. Amazon.com Inc. plans to spend almost $150 billion in the coming 15 years on…