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Scientists Identify Brain Region That Blind People Use To Recognise Faces
For the study, researchers recruited six blind and 10 people who had normal vision, all of whom underwent practice sessions to learn to recognise faces via sounds.
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AI-Based Programme GPT-3 Can Write Messages to Mislead Readers, Research Shows
Researchers from Georgetown University in Washington, DC, US have demonstrated that artificial intelligence (AI) is capable of leading a misinformation campaign online — one that is far more complex to spot and control. The research showed how an algorithm called GPT-3 could generate written texts of misinformation disguised as a human to mislead...
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Woman Who Paid $9,000 To Have Someone Take Classes As Son Pleads Guilty
A woman from California has agreed to plead guilty to a charge filed Monday alleging that she paid $9,000 to have someone take online classes to help her son graduate from Georgetown University, according to federal prosecutors.
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"Going To Apologize": US Judge On Freeing 3 Innocent Men After 36 Years
The death of 14-year-old DeWitt Duckett was historically horrible. Walking down the hallway of his Baltimore middle school one afternoon in November 1983, he was accosted and shot for his Georgetown University jacket. He was the first student ever killed in a Baltimore school. The pressure to solve the case was intense, and early on Thanksgiving Da...
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"Only Use Government Phones": Trump On Report He Uses Unsecure iPhones
President Donald Trump on Thursday denied a report that he often calls friends to gripe or solicit advice on his unsecure iPhones, allowing Chinese spies to listen in and gain valuable insights into how to deal with the U.S. administration.
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Decoding Health Consequences Of Extreme Dieting
Did you know! Crash dieting is giving you more belly fat and is even weakening your muscles. These are the findings of a new study by researchers at the Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
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Donors Raise $102,000 For Gay Boy Who Could Not Afford College
On paper, everything was going well for Seth Owen. A valedictorian of a high school in Jacksonville, Florida, with a 4.16 grade-point average, the 18-year-old had been accepted to Georgetown University as part of its Class of 2022.
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"Aspire To Achieve Trillion Dollar Economy By 2025": Devendra Fadnavis
The Maharashtra government aspires to make the state the first trillion-dollar economy by 2025, five years early, by investing in infrastructure, agriculture and services and by leveraging foreign investments in various sectors, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has said.
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Stay In School Or Get Married? In 1965, President's Daughter Had To Choose
The question that changed the course of her life was asked in the solarium of the White House. It was 1965 and Luci Baines Johnson, the president's daughter, was looking at her boyfriend. He had just asked her to marry him.
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As A Young Man, He Had To Drop Out Of Georgetown University. Six Decades Later, He Finally Made Up For It
Dressed in a black cap and gown with a velvet-trimmed stole and surrounded by family, Carlos Manuel Sera watched the live stream in his son's house in Houston Friday and waited. First came the valedictorian. Then the salutatorian. And then the senior associate dean for the undergraduate program at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Busines...
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Soy Milk, Broccoli May Reduce Side Effects of Breast Cancer Treatment
A new study, conducted by researchers from Georgetown University, shows that consuming foods such as soy milk and tofu and cruciferous vegetables such as cabbages, kale and broccoli may help reduce common side effects of treatment in breast cancer survivors.
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So You're The Last Person Listed On A Group Email. Does That Mean Something?
When people click on a new message in their email inbox, the first thing many read isn't the body of the message. It's the "to" field. When multiple recipients are listed, the receiver may be seeing an extra message, Georgetown linguistics professor Deborah Tannen explains in an article in the Atlantic adapted from her new book, "You're the Only On...
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Georgetown, A Jesuit University, Is The First US College With A Hindu Priest As A Chaplain
When Brahmachari Vrajvihari Sharan led his first worship service in his new job as a Hindu chaplain Sunday, he knew his audience.
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US University Appoints 1st Director For Hindu Life, Hindu Priest
A top US university has appointed a first full-time director for Hindu Life in recognition of the growing number of Hindu students at the univerrsity.
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Patients Want Test Results Via Password-Protected Websites
Most patients prefer receiving the results of sensitive medical tests - such as genetic tests - through password-protected websites or portals rather than by email or letters, a new survey has found.
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Scientists Identify Brain Region That Blind People Use To Recognise Faces
For the study, researchers recruited six blind and 10 people who had normal vision, all of whom underwent practice sessions to learn to recognise faces via sounds.
-
AI-Based Programme GPT-3 Can Write Messages to Mislead Readers, Research Shows
Researchers from Georgetown University in Washington, DC, US have demonstrated that artificial intelligence (AI) is capable of leading a misinformation campaign online — one that is far more complex to spot and control. The research showed how an algorithm called GPT-3 could generate written texts of misinformation disguised as a human to mislead...
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Woman Who Paid $9,000 To Have Someone Take Classes As Son Pleads Guilty
A woman from California has agreed to plead guilty to a charge filed Monday alleging that she paid $9,000 to have someone take online classes to help her son graduate from Georgetown University, according to federal prosecutors.
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"Going To Apologize": US Judge On Freeing 3 Innocent Men After 36 Years
The death of 14-year-old DeWitt Duckett was historically horrible. Walking down the hallway of his Baltimore middle school one afternoon in November 1983, he was accosted and shot for his Georgetown University jacket. He was the first student ever killed in a Baltimore school. The pressure to solve the case was intense, and early on Thanksgiving Da...
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"Only Use Government Phones": Trump On Report He Uses Unsecure iPhones
President Donald Trump on Thursday denied a report that he often calls friends to gripe or solicit advice on his unsecure iPhones, allowing Chinese spies to listen in and gain valuable insights into how to deal with the U.S. administration.
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Decoding Health Consequences Of Extreme Dieting
Did you know! Crash dieting is giving you more belly fat and is even weakening your muscles. These are the findings of a new study by researchers at the Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
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Donors Raise $102,000 For Gay Boy Who Could Not Afford College
On paper, everything was going well for Seth Owen. A valedictorian of a high school in Jacksonville, Florida, with a 4.16 grade-point average, the 18-year-old had been accepted to Georgetown University as part of its Class of 2022.
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"Aspire To Achieve Trillion Dollar Economy By 2025": Devendra Fadnavis
The Maharashtra government aspires to make the state the first trillion-dollar economy by 2025, five years early, by investing in infrastructure, agriculture and services and by leveraging foreign investments in various sectors, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has said.
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Stay In School Or Get Married? In 1965, President's Daughter Had To Choose
The question that changed the course of her life was asked in the solarium of the White House. It was 1965 and Luci Baines Johnson, the president's daughter, was looking at her boyfriend. He had just asked her to marry him.
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As A Young Man, He Had To Drop Out Of Georgetown University. Six Decades Later, He Finally Made Up For It
Dressed in a black cap and gown with a velvet-trimmed stole and surrounded by family, Carlos Manuel Sera watched the live stream in his son's house in Houston Friday and waited. First came the valedictorian. Then the salutatorian. And then the senior associate dean for the undergraduate program at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Busines...
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Soy Milk, Broccoli May Reduce Side Effects of Breast Cancer Treatment
A new study, conducted by researchers from Georgetown University, shows that consuming foods such as soy milk and tofu and cruciferous vegetables such as cabbages, kale and broccoli may help reduce common side effects of treatment in breast cancer survivors.
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So You're The Last Person Listed On A Group Email. Does That Mean Something?
When people click on a new message in their email inbox, the first thing many read isn't the body of the message. It's the "to" field. When multiple recipients are listed, the receiver may be seeing an extra message, Georgetown linguistics professor Deborah Tannen explains in an article in the Atlantic adapted from her new book, "You're the Only On...
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Georgetown, A Jesuit University, Is The First US College With A Hindu Priest As A Chaplain
When Brahmachari Vrajvihari Sharan led his first worship service in his new job as a Hindu chaplain Sunday, he knew his audience.
-
US University Appoints 1st Director For Hindu Life, Hindu Priest
A top US university has appointed a first full-time director for Hindu Life in recognition of the growing number of Hindu students at the univerrsity.
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Patients Want Test Results Via Password-Protected Websites
Most patients prefer receiving the results of sensitive medical tests - such as genetic tests - through password-protected websites or portals rather than by email or letters, a new survey has found.
