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Khari Johnson CalMatters Children shouldn’t speak with companion chatbots because such interactions risk self-harm and could exacerbate mental health problems and addiction. That’s according to a risk assessment by children’s advocacy group Common Sense Media conducted with input from a lab at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Companion bots, artificial intelligence...
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Khari Johnson CalMatters Los niños no deberían hablar con chatbots de compañía, ya que estas interacciones pueden provocar autolesiones y agravar problemas de salud mental y adicciones. Esto según una evaluación de riesgos realizada por Common Sense Media, un grupo de defensa de los derechos de los niños, con...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters Se suponía que una ley de California transformaría los centros comerciales abandonados de todo el estado en corredores llenos de apartamentos. Otra ley fue diseñada para convertir los estacionamientos subutilizados de las iglesias en fuentes de nuevas viviendas asequibles. Una tercera, según partidarios y opositores por...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters One California law was supposed to flip defunct strip malls across California into apartment-lined corridors. Another was designed to turn under-used church parking lots into fonts of new affordable housing. A third would, according to supporters and opponents alike, “end single-family zoning as we know it.”...
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Adam Echelman CalMatters Many students start community college with the hope of getting an associate degree and then transferring to a four-year institution, such as a California State University or University of California campus. But a state audit, released September 24, found that the vast majority of these students never...
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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Even with all the industries where Californians went on strike during last year’s “hot labor summer,” some of the most active sites of organizing in the state may well be a pair of private immigration detention centers in the Central Valley. The Mesa Verde and Golden...
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Los precios de los alimentos siguen altos en todo el país. Un nuevo informe de la Comisión Federal de Comercio dice que las empresas de comestibles más grandes del país están estafando a los consumidores al mantener los precios artificialmente altos. Muchos tenderos, minoristas y mayoristas se han consolidado...
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Food prices remain high across the country. A new report by the Federal Trade Commission says the country’s largest grocery companies are gouging consumers, by keeping prices artificially high. Many grocers, retailers and wholesalers have consolidated to cut costs. Grocers continue to blame supply chain problems, even though regulators have said...
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Sunita Sohrabji Ethnic Media Services FRESNO, California — En California se denuncia un número cada vez mayor de delitos de odio, pero las condenas siguen siendo bajas, afirmó el Fiscal General de California, Rob Bonta. En declaraciones a Ethnic Media Services aquí al margen de la cumbre United Against...