One effect of Hurricane Hone’s passage to the south of the Big Island in late August was to take almost all of the island out of drought conditions.

Followers of the legacy Kauaʻi newspaper The Garden Island were recently introduced to two AI broadcasters named “Rose” and ...

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Uncanny Anchors A local newspaper in Kauai, Hawaii called The Garden Island is using AI to power fake newscasters, a former ...

James and Rose are, you may have noticed, not human reporters. They are AI avatars crafted by an Israeli company named Caledo ...

It’s exploitation, and this is just an extension of that. I don’t see this as anything less than digital colonialism.” – Kaitlin Gillespie, staff representative for Pacific Media Workers, which ...

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The AI-generated newscasts have come out twice a week, with the latest one getting more than a thousand views on the newspaper’s YouTube channel. While some have come out in support, others have ...

To the undiscerning eye, it may not be obvious when fall comes around in the Aloha State. But folks who have lived here for a while know the signs of the seasonal change. We also know what to look for ...

Four hundred acres of flora from all over the world await you at a botanical garden surrounded by the misty covered Koolau ...