Hacker News with Generative AI: Arkansas

Furious at FCC, Arkansas jail cancels inmate phone calls rather than lower rates (arstechnica.com)
Sheriff John Montgomery of Baxter County, Arkansas, isn't going to take it anymore—if by "it" you mean "having to offer lower phone call rates to incarcerated inmates."
Prison Reform, Government Regulation, Technology, Arkansas
11 points by pseudolus 14 days ago | 1 comments
Furious at FCC, Arkansas jail cancels inmate phone calls rather than lower rates (arstechnica.com)
Sheriff John Montgomery of Baxter County, Arkansas, isn't going to take it anymore—if by "it" you mean "having to offer lower phone call rates to incarcerated inmates."
Law Enforcement, Telecom, Arkansas, Prison, Inmates
12 points by voxadam 15 days ago | 1 comments
USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium potential in Arkansas (usgs.gov)
Using a combination of water testing and machine learning, a U.S. Geological Survey-led study estimated between 5 and 19 million tons of lithium reserves are located beneath southwestern Arkansas.
Machine Learning, Lithium, Geology, Arkansas, Mining
337 points by antidnan 162 days ago | 222 comments
Arkansas May Have Lithium Reserves (nytimes.com)
Researchers at the United States Geological Survey and the Arkansas government announced on Monday that they had found a trove of lithium, a critical raw material for electric vehicle batteries, in an underground brine reservoir in Arkansas.
Lithium, Mining, Electric Vehicles, Arkansas, Resources
7 points by CHB0403085482 163 days ago | 1 comments