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2020’s ‘fake elector’ schemes will be harder to try in 2024 – but not impossible
Houston Chronicle· 1 hour agoTypically, the casting of electoral votes is little more than a ceremonial process. In seven states, in addition to the official electors, others calling themselves electors met and purported to cast votes for Republican Donald Trump on Dec. 14.
The Indian election was awash in deepfakes – but AI was a net positive for democracy
Houston Chronicle· 1 hour agoBy some estimates, millions of Indian voters viewed deepfakes. Political parties in India spent an estimated US$50 million on authorized AI-generated content for targeted communication with their constituencies this election cycle.
Why is it so hard to know how many independent voters there are?
Houston Chronicle· 1 hour agoIncreasingly, the media, pollsters, pundits and campaigns themselves are focusing on independent voters, saying they will be crucial to the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. It’s possible ...
How much do you need to know about how your spouse spends money? Maybe less than you think
San Francisco Chronicle· 1 hour agoA 2017 Bank of America survey suggests that millennial married couples are around 15 percentage points more likely than their predecessors to keep their finances separate. As a behavioral scientist ...
Getting services to people in need often relies on partnerships between government and nonprofits,...
San Francisco Chronicle· 1 hour agoBeginning as early as the 1930s and accelerating during the 1960s, many important social services in the U.S. have been largely funded by government but delivered by privately run nonprofits ...
How do you build tunnels and bridges underwater? A geotechnical engineer explains the construction...
San Francisco Chronicle· 1 hour agoWhen I was a kid, I discovered a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip that posed one of my own burning questions: How do they know the load limit on bridges? Underground construction is dangerous and hard to access.
How DEI rollbacks at colleges and universities set back learning
San Francisco Chronicle· 1 hour agoNew legislation in states like Texas and Florida have banned DEI programs outright. In other states, institutions are shuttering programs preemptively to avoid political pressure. Minority students ...
American slavery wasn’t just a white man’s business − new research shows how white women profited,...
San Francisco Chronicle· 1 hour agoWhile white women certainly interacted with enslaved people in household management and day-to-day tasks, historians once argued that they weren’t active owners and had very limited involvement ...
NASA’s asteroid sample mission gave scientists around the world the rare opportunity to study an...
San Francisco Chronicle· 1 hour agoMost of the meteoroids are as tiny as grains of sand and small pebbles, and they completely burn up high in the atmosphere. You can see meteoroids larger than about a golf ball when they light ...
The warming ocean is leaving coastal economies in hot water
San Francisco Chronicle· 1 hour agoThe future of some jobs and businesses across the ocean economy have also become less secure as the ocean warms and damage from storms, sea-level rise and marine heat waves increases. Ocean ...