Modeler Sy Diamond is a veteran builder who takes a great deal of pride and satisfaction from what he has accomplished during more than six decades of model railroading. His various layouts have ...

For one weekend in November, the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center will be filled with miniature railroads, moving trains, detailed buildings and large operating model railroad layouts.

As it turns out, Apple realistically needs customer data to make Siri AI work well. So, starting with iOS 27, it is asking users to opt-in to training on your data. A new section in the iOS 27 privacy ...

A Palos Park man’s hobby is helping to support art in the South Suburbs, lending credence to the old adage, art begets art. While model trains are largely considered a hobby, Wes Sanders elevates it ...

Dave Suffredini has displayed his model train layout at the Marshfield Fair for the past 26 years. The display, which takes over 100 hours to set up, features eight running trains and replicas of ...

This story is part of Finding Your People, a series celebrating the Bay Area’s meetups and subcultures that bring people together IRL in an increasingly online world. Up a steep flight of stairs off ...

When Twitch announced that streamers could opt out, thousands of users questioned why their content was being used to train AI models in the first place. Twitch has updated its account settings to let ...

Amazon indicated for the first time this week that any video broadcast via its livestreaming platform Twitch could be used to train generative AI, unless users take steps to avoid it, which has caused ...

Twitch has quietly started feeding your streams, VODs, and clips into Amazon’s AI training pipeline, and the opt-out button is tucked so deep in your settings that most people will never stumble on it ...

"If it was opt in, nobody would opt in," admitted the streaming site's chief product officer during a livestream AI Amazon GenAI Twitch It appears Twitch has quietly started using content created by ...

Over the past year, record labels and several technology companies have partnered to facilitate the creation of new artificial intelligence products. There’s just one problem: Artists haven’t agreed ...

In Big Walk, you'll see rails for a train pretty early on, but there won't be any trains running on it. In fact, you can't even tiptoe cheesily on the rail. If you want to travel along the tracks, you ...