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Costas Georgellis, 24, died on April 29 at the Naval Air Station Corpus Christie, in Nueces County, Texas , where he had been training to become a fighter pilot.

Striking images show what looks like a shanty town with makeshift accommodation on a patch of scrubland dubbed Can Rova 2.

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The Wall Street Journal reports that "consumers have less trust in offerings labeled as being powered by artificial intelligence, which can reduce their interest in buying them, researchers say." The effect is especially pronounced for offerings perceived to be riskier buys, such as a car or a medical-diagnostic service, say the researchers, who were from Washington State University and Temple University. "When we were thinking about this project, we thought that AI will improve [consumers' willingness to buy] because everyone is promoting AI in their products," says Dogan Gursoy, a regents professor of hospitality business management at Washington State and one of the study's authors. "But apparently it has a negative effect, not a positive one." In multiple experiments, involving different people, the researchers split participants into two groups of around 100 each. One group read ads for fictional products and services that featured the terms "artificial intelligence" or "AI-powered," while the other group read ads that used the terms "new technology" or "equipped with cutting-edge technologies." In each test, members of the group that saw the AI-related wording were less likely to say they would want to try, buy or actively seek out any of the products or services being advertised compared with people in the other group. The difference was smaller for items researchers called low risk — such as a television and a generic customer-service offering... Meanwhile, a separate, forthcoming study from market-research firm Parks Associates that used different methods and included a much larger sample size came to similar conclusions about consumers' reaction to AI in products. "We straight up asked consumers, 'If you saw a product that you liked that was advertised as including AI, would that make you more or less likely to buy it?' " says Jennifer Kent, the firm's vice president of research. Of the roughly 4,000 Americans in the survey, 18% said AI would make them more likely to buy, 24% said less likely and to 58% it made no difference, according to the study. "Before this wave of generative AI attention over the past couple of years, AI-enabled features actually have tested very, very well," Kent says.

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In his hideout, stuck Star Wars and Super Man posters on the walls, made a bed with Spider-Man sheets, lined up toy models of Yoda and put a basketball hoop on the wall.

Researchers found that a man's age plays a significant role in their reproductive success, challenging the notion that sperm age has little impact once fertilisation has occurred.

Cruel Bilikesu Olagunju, 42, who had been in the job just six days, was caught on camera 'manhandling' John Attard, 88, at his home in Bexley, Kent, a court heard.

As Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner move to transform an Albanian island filled with Soviet-era military outposts into a resort for the ultra wealthy, one local has a message for the couple.

It's a usually sleepy small town on the edge of the Lake District but the tourist trade invariably passes it by so Dalton-in-Furness rarely commands any national attention.

The technology can identify patterns of abuse, injuries or deaths that can slip through the net and means failings in maternity care and the murders by Lucy Letby could be detected earlier.

Latrell Mitchell and his South Sydney Rabbitohs were on the end of a drubbing by the Dolphins over the weekend - with one fan in the stands suffering an 'embarrassing' injury.

Hallford and his wife, Carie Hallford, were accused of storing the bodies between 2019 and 2023 and sending families fake ashes.

His is getting to be a habit - and an embarrassing one for Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, otherwise known as MI6.

Fighting for her political life after the latest U-turn on disability benefit cuts, Rachel Reeves has now lost her most important Whitehall cheerleader.

Death Valley has divided opinion. If you take your whodunnits very seriously, this is not for you. It's basically a delightfully gentle comedy with a bit of violent death thrown in.

The UK No 1 (right) is spearheading the nation's hopes alongside Katie Boulter (left) and Cameron Norrie, while UK men's top seed Jack Draper kicks off his campaign tomorrow.

The six-year-old girl was left in critical condition in hospital after the horror incident in Chalkwell Park in Southend, Essex, at 3pm on Saturday.

Abbi Smith, 31, from Thorpe Willoughby, north Yorkshire, gained five stone and an unsightly bulge after developing diastasis recti, a condition caused by her abdominal muscles separating.

The grime-punk duo, named for US singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, are being investigated after calling for 'Death to the IDF' during their performance at Worthy Farm.

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