Questions

DIRECTIONS: Decide whether the bolded section is true or false. Write TRUE or FALSE next to each statement, then rewrite each false bolded statement to make it true.

1. Two Harvard University students completed a project recently in which they combined a Go-Pro camera and AI to collect personal data by just looking at someone. The two built software that allowed them to use existing search engines and facial recognition technology to identify people on the spot, using the wearable camera.

2. The students said, "We were surprised just how much data you could extract" using LLMs. The two don’t plan to release the product or their code because they are trying to sell it to the highest bidder.

3. In a lawsuit filed by the ACLU last week, lawyers accused the South Carolina DMV of improperly denying thousands of soon-to-be eligible 17-year-olds the right to vote. State law allows 17-year-old citizens to register to vote as long as they turn 18 on or before Election Day and meet all other qualifications to vote.

4.  The judge sided with the South Carolina DMV, writing that "relief sought would create disorder in the voting system.”

5. In the 2024 presidential election Donald Trump won both the Electoral College and the popular vote. There were seven swing states: Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, North Carolina and Georgia.

6. On election night, Kamala Harris concluded an address to supporters by saying, "It's time to put the division of the last four years behind us, it's time to unite...success is going to bring us together.

7. President Biden called President-elect Trump on Wednesday to tell him he would have beaten him if the Democrats hadn't ousted him from the race and to invite Trump to meet with him at the White House.

8. Trump's spokesperson said in a statement that President Biden "extended an invitation to the White House to ensure a smooth transition between the current Administration and the incoming Administration" and also said "President Trump looks forward to the meeting...and very much appreciated the call."

9. Veterans Day, largely intended to thank living veterans for their service, is always observed officially on November 11, regardless of the day of the week on which it falls.

10. Veterans Day was made a national legal holiday by an act of Congress on May 13, 1938. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued the first Veterans Day Proclamation in 1954.