Imagine Gary Braunstein as Pied Piper of Locke. During his 47-year tenure at Acme Smoked Fish, a company in Brooklyn, New York, which supplies the country with its eponymous product, Braunstein had almost every job there was. He sliced more than his piece of salmon. He loaded the trucks. And in his public-speaking role, he …
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Imagine a stadium where ultra-high-definition video feeds and camera-carrying drones track individual players’ wrists during a game, jump high or run fast — and, using artificial intelligence, accurately identify the risk of injury to athletes in real time. Coaches and elite athletes are betting on new technologies that combine artificial intelligence with video to predict …
There has been talk of a mental health epidemic in the United States since the 1990s, especially among young people. Last month’s mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas and Buffalo in New York, by 18-year-old gunmen, heightened fears that something had gone wrong. But the problem is not new. American psychiatrists have been studying rates of …
A woman pays tribute to the victims of the May 26 shooting at the Rob Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Photo: Kin Man Hui / Associated Press The recent mass shootings in Uwalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, have sparked urgent calls to change the culture. That is harder to do than to change the …
A woman pays tribute to the victims of the May 26 shooting at the Rob Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Photo: Kin Man Hui / Associated Press The recent mass shootings in Uwalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, have sparked urgent calls to change the culture. That is harder to do than to change the …
