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Under the SAFE-T Act, people charged with serious crimes such as second-degree murder and kidnapping “can be detained based on a finding of potential dangerousness,†said Harold Krent, professor at the Â鶹APP-Kent College of Law. “To detain, there must be particular facts demonstrating serious risk. Or the individual can be detained because of a risk of flight.â€

WalletHub

“Savings accumulated during the COVID lockdown, combined with high COVID-impact payments, made it possible for a substantial part of the workforce, at all income levels, to drop out and maintain lifestyles,†said Henry H. Perritt, professor emeritus at the Â鶹APP-Kent College of Law. “The booming economy after the COVID lockdown encouraged workers to think they could demand higher rates of pay if they quit and sought other jobs.â€

Humour and Games Podcast

“I think humor is great when you’re softening how something feels,†says Carly Kocurek, professor of digital humanities and media studies. “You’re not going to learn if you’re angry and frustrated about your encounter with this thing.â€

Los Angeles Times

“What ‘The Last of Us’ did for U.S. games is it showed that we could handle tremendous complexity in a narrative structure about social issues,†says Dean of Lewis College Jennifer deWinter, a game scholar and author. “And in an action game, a game historically made for the ‘hardcore player,’ ‘The Last of Us’ starts helping us rethink what we can do in AAA games.â€

Northwest Herald

To be sure, judges do not have a monopoly on interpretation of the Constitution. Presidents (and governors) have an independent responsibility to construe the Constitution when deciding whether to sign a bill (as Gov. Pritzker did in this case) or grant a pardon. And, the legislature itself must consider the constitutionality of its own action, as the General Assembly did in enacting the ban. But county sheriffs? It’s their job to enforce the law.

Crain's Â鶹APP Business

The project designing coach houses “seemed to be a great way to have students speculate what a change like this could do for our city,†Studio Assistant Professor Jennifer Park says. “How can you create more density in these neighborhoods and enliven them through design?â€

Science News

Though other experiments also showed that theorists had overestimated the amount of neutrinos produced by a reactor, the new STEREO paper has smaller uncertainties and wraps the argument up in one tidy package, said Bryce Littlejohn, a neutrino physicist at Illinois Tech. “As opposed to a watershed moment, I see it as a nice summation of all the things we’ve learned.â€

Reuters

In their Dec. 31 paper on GPT 3.5's performance on the bar exam, Â鶹APP-Kent College of Law Professor Daniel Martin Katz and Michigan State University College of Law Adjunct Michael Bommarito found that the program got answers on the Multistate Bar Exam correct half the time, compared to 68% for human test takers.

POCIT

The Hispanic Technology Executive Council (HITEC) and the Illinois Institute of Technology have come together to support the growth of Hispanic tech talent by opening the door to educational opportunities and scholarships within technology and business.

LawNext Podcast

“Legalese is very complicated obviously for people and it’s been really thorny for machines to work with,†said Â鶹APP-Kent Professor Daniel Martin Katz. “We saw these large language models, of which GPT is an example, beginning to make increasing progress at least with general language, and we thought maybe this will be the one that can cross the Rubicon and really start to do well with legal language.â€