HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. — A Pennsylvania groundhog is making a name for himself for something other than predicting an early or late spring. An intrepid varmint dubbed Colonel Custard — so named for the frozen custard shop and mini-golf outlet where he was discovered — was found stowed away with a passel of stuffed animals prizes in an arcade game two …
Now we know what Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog who predicts whether an early spring will arrive each Feb. 2, does on the other 364 days. The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club said in a Facebook post Wednesday that Phyllis recently gave birth to two healthy babies. “We’re pleased to announce that Punxsutawney Phil has had his first children; we believe there are …
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. — Punxsutawney Phil predicted an early spring on an overcast Friday morning at Gobbler’s Knob in Pennsylvania, the scene of the largest and best-known Groundhog Day celebration in the United States. Vice President Dan McGinley read the decision, written in verse and filled with quips about the groundhog’s envy for humans’ opposable thumbs and hopes to garner some …
At the latest congressional hearing on A.I., the hype was high. In 2016, Facebook’s algorithm unleashed the “fake-news genie.” In 2015, it was financial companies using big data to cut credit limits. “It replicates the anxieties we’ve seen around social media for a long time,” she says. Questions about online data privacy “dovetail with a lack of privacy protections that …
