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Visit Angus launch app exploring the area

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Visitors to Angus are being encouraged to explore the area with the help of a new app created and launched by Visit Angus, making it easier to plan trips and encouraging longer stays in the region.

A joint initiative by Angus Council and the Angus tourism sector, with help from a number of local town community and tourism groups, the digital pocket tour guide of Angus is free to download and includes inspirational content around the locations featured, including image and film galleries.

The app has seven trails in total; six town trails around Arbroath, Brechin, Carnoustie, Kirriemuir, Forfar and Montrose, created by Angus tourism businesses as part of the Angus Tourism Framework, and one Angus wide trail stopping at each town as well as Glen Doll, Glamis and Edzell. The Angus wide trail will also feature exciting interactive elements including geofenced augmented reality features, games and 360° images, meaning the extra content is exclusive to those visiting specific areas and attractions.

Alison Elliott, chair of the Angus Tourism Cooperative welcomed the guide. She said: “The purpose of the app is to help open up Angus to those living in the area as well as visitors from further afield. The variety of activities, tourist attractions and days out across the area are vast, from state-of-the-art water splash pads at Montrose Beach to recently unveiled new gardens, sculptures and glasshouse café at Hospitalfield House in Arbroath.

“Having an easy-to-use guide with all the information in one place makes it simple to see at a glance what there is to do and where it is. The app also has a progress feature allowing people to mark off the places visited on each trail.”

The app has been designed with all seven trails plotted on an interactive map also showing current location and what there is to see and do nearby. Each stop is linked to Google Maps so working out how to get there by car, foot or bike is just a click away.  Reflecting Visit Angus’ passion for sustainable and responsible tourism the electric vehicle charging stations across Angus are also available to view.

The six town trails were created by community groups from each town and are funded by Scottish Government Town Centre Fund. Councillor Stewart, Vice Convener of Communities, welcomed the app. He said: “Angus Council consulted with local communities who expressed the desire to create an app to encourage more people to visit the towns across Angus and so the development of the project has very much been led with their input and insight. Who better to know what to include than those living and breathing this beautiful part of the world.”

Arbroath Cliff Tours is an adventure tourism business providing breath-taking kayak tours of Arbroath’s incredible sea caves, rock formations, birdlife and dolphins. Founder Cameron Smith created the Arbroath cliff trail, a featured as a stop on the Arbroath app trail. He said: “I was thrilled to see the Arbroath Cliff Trail feature on the new app. I’m so passionate about the fantastic natural sights and sounds along the coast and it’s a great feeling to know you are helping visitors enjoy them too, getting the most out of their visit and each part of Angus.”

The app is free to download and is now available on iOS and Android. For more information please visit www.visitangus.com/app

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Appy days: Digital pocket guide puts Angus gems in the palm of the hand of visitors and locals

A new app is opening up the well-known and more hidden gems of Angus to locals and visitors.

In a bid to tap into the expected staycation boom, Visit Angus has launched the digital pocket guide to the county.

It hopes to help make it easier for people to plans trips to the area, encouraging them to stay longer and explore everything Angus has to offer.

Angus Council and the local tourism sector joined in the project, with input from a host of community groups and tourist-related businesses.

The digital pocket tour guide is free to download. It is brimming with content around the locations featured, including image and film galleries.

The app includes six town trails around Arbroath, Brechin, Carnoustie, Kirriemuir, Forfar and Montrose, created by businesses as part of the Angus Tourism Framework.

There is also an Angus-wide trail stopping at each town, as well as Glen Doll, Glamis and Edzell.

Augmented reality features

It incorporates elements such as geo-fenced augmented reality features, games and 360° images which are exclusive to those visiting specific areas and attractions.

Angus Tourism Cooperative chairperson Alison Elliott said the app is aimed at both visitors and residents who may not have fully explored the opportunities on their doorstep.

Alison said: “Having an easy-to-use guide with all the information in one place makes it simple to see at a glance what there is to do and where it is.

“The Visit Angus app also has a progress feature allowing people to mark off the places visited on each trail.”

Each stop links to Google Maps so working out how to get there by car, foot or bike is just a click away.

Lunan mum Nicola Young and her children, Ayla, 4, and Jack, 2, brought along their buckets and spades to help launch the app at Arbroath harbour , along with figures from Angus Cycle Hub in the town.

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The six town trails were created by community groups from each town and are funded by Scottish Government Town Centre Fund.

The app is free to download and is now available on iOS and Android.

Alison added: “Angus Tourism Cooperative has been working really hard to bring communities and businesses together.

“We know how amazing Angus is, but there wasn’t a single app to bring it all together so we are delighted to be able to launch this.”

Angus communities vice-convener Tommy Stewart said: “Angus Council consulted with local communities who expressed the desire to create an app to encourage more people to visit the towns across Angus. The development of the project has very much been led with their input and insight.

“Who better to know what to include than those living and breathing this beautiful part of the world.”

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The vast array of activities, tourist attractions and days out across the area stretches from glen to coast.

It includes established favourites such as the historic sites of Arbroath Abbey and Glamis Castle, as well as natural attractions like the Arbroath cliff trail.

Arbroath’s Hospitalfield House, which recently unveiled new gardens , sculptures and glasshouse café hope the app will encourage more members of the public to visit.

Kirsten Wilson of Hospitalfield said: “It’s an exciting year for us. The first we’ve been open to the public regularly.

“It is our aim to help visitors understand the collection and gardens that are there for the people of Angus and elsewhere to enjoy.”

Day-out opportunities have also recently been expanded by a Visit Angus ‘insider’s guide’ which asked folk during lockdown to highlight their favourite places.

It led to the creation of a list of 100 unmissable Angus experiences around places, attractions, food and drink and walking and cycling routes.

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Best Buy Launches Apple Vision Pro App for Previewing Tech Products

Best Buy today announced the launch of a new "Envision" app designed for the Apple Vision Pro headset. Envision is designed to allow Best Buy customers to explore different products and see how those products look in their own living spaces.

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The Best Buy Envision app is available for free from the Vision Pro App Store .

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Time to discover Angus, one of the most beautiful parts of the country on the east of Scotland. Come and visit Angus where you will make memories that will last a lifetime. There are 80 locations to visit, across the 8 trails featured on this app. This app will help you decide where you want to visit in Angus and you can keep track of where you’ve been using the check list. There are 40 interactive experiences to be had throughout the app, where you must visit the locations to unlock the fun. This includes games, augmented reality and 360 images. We’d love to be part of your visit, so if you’re on social media, use our #VisitAngus so we can enjoy your visit too. Special features Interactive experiences - To unlock our interactive experiences including augmented reality (AR), 360 views and games, you need to turn your location setting on and visit the location in person with your mobile device. These features are geo-fenced. AR elements require an AR compatible mobile device, please see the About section in the app for more details. Interactive maps – Each location is plotted on the map making it easy to plan your trip. Electric vehicle charging hubs are plotted on the map making it easier to plan your sustainable travel. If your location setting is turned on, the map will show where you are, and you can find places to visit near your location. Google Maps - Each location provides you with a link to Google Maps so you can easily find your way to the next stop. Video gallery – Get inspiration from our video playlists including amazing drone footage of places to visit. Works Offline – Use the app offline to plan your route around Angus. Visit amazing places and uncover some amazing hidden gems. What do you think? We want to hear from you and how you enjoyed the app. We want to continually develop the app to ensure you have the best possible experience. Drop us an email with any feedback as we’d love to hear about your experience – [email protected]

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Dartmouth researchers look to meld therapy apps with modern AI 

An experimental, artificial intelligence-powered therapeutic app that its creators hope will drastically improve access to mental health care began its first clinical trial last month.

Therabot, a text-based AI app in development at Dartmouth College, launched in a clinical trial in March with 210 participants. In its conversations with users, the app uses generative AI, the same technology that powers OpenAI’s ChatGPT, to come up with answers and responses. The app also uses a form of AI that learns patterns and has been designed to enable Therabot to get to know and remember a user and provide personalized advice or recommendations based on what it has learned.

There are already a handful of script-based therapy apps and broader “wellness” apps that use AI, but Therabot’s creators say theirs would be the first clinically tested app powered entirely by generative AI that has been specifically designed for digital therapy. 

Woebot, a mental health app that says it has served 1.5 million people worldwide, launched in 2017 in collaboration with interventional scientists and clinicians. Wysa, another popular AI therapy app, in 2022 received a Food and Drug Administration Breakthrough Device designation , a voluntary program designed to speed up development, assessment and review of a new technology. But these apps generally rely on rules-based AI with preapproved scripts.

Nicholas Jacobson, an assistant professor at Dartmouth College and a clinically trained psychologist, spearheaded the development of Therabot. His team has been building and finessing the AI program for nearly five years, working to ensure responses are safe and responsible. 

“We had to develop something that really is trained in the broad repertoire that a real therapist would be, which is a lot of different content areas. Thinking about all of the common mental health problems that folks might manifest and be ready to treat those,” Jacobson said. “That is why it took so long. There are a lot of things people experience.”

The team first trained Therabot on data derived from online peer support forums, such as cancer support pages. But Therabot initially replied by reinforcing the difficulty of daily life. They then turned to traditional psychotherapist training videos and scripts. Based on that data, Therabot’s replies leaned heavily on stereotypical therapy tropes like “go on” and “mhmm.” 

The team ultimately pivoted to a more creative approach: writing their own hypothetical therapy transcripts that reflected productive therapy sessions, and training the model on that in-house data. 

Jacobson estimated that more than 95% of Therabot’s replies now match that “gold standard,” but the team has spent the better part of two years finessing deviant responses.

“It could say anything. It really could, and we want it to say certain things and we’ve trained it to act in certain ways. But there’s ways that this could certainly go off the rails,” Jacobson said. “We’ve been essentially patching all of the holes that we’ve been systematically trying to probe for. Once we got to the point where we were not seeing any more major holes, that’s when we finally felt like it was ready for a release within a randomized controlled trial.”

The dangers of digital therapeutic apps have been subject to intense debate in recent years, especially because of those edge cases. AI-based apps in particular have been scrutinized.

Last year, the National Eating Disorders Association pulled Tessa , an AI-powered chatbot designed to provide support for people with eating disorders. Although the app was designed to be rules-based, users reported receiving advice from the chatbot on how to count calories and restrict their diets. 

“If [users] get the wrong messages, that could lead to even more mental health problems and disability in the future,” said Vaile Wright, senior director of the Office of Health Care Innovation at the American Psychological Association. “That frightens me as a provider.”

With recruitment for Therabot’s trial now complete, the research team is reviewing every one of the chatbot’s replies, monitoring for deviant responses. The replies are stored on servers compliant with health privacy laws. Jacobson said his team has been impressed with the results so far.

“We’ve heard ‘I love you, Therabot’ multiple times already,” Jacobson said. “People are engaging with it at times that I would never respond if I were engaging with clients. They’re engaging with it at 3 a.m. when they can’t sleep, and it responds immediately.”

In that sense, the team behind Therabot says, the app could expand access and availability rather than replacing human therapists.

Jacobson believes that generative AI apps like Therabot could play a role in combating the mental health crisis in the United States. The nonprofit Mental Health America estimates that more than 28 million Americans have a mental health condition but do not receive treatment, and 122 million people in the U.S. live in federally designated mental health shortage areas, according to the Health Resources and Services Administration .

“No matter what we do, we will never have a sufficient workforce to meet the demand for mental health care,” Wright said. 

“There needs to be multiple solutions, and one of those is clearly going to be technology,” she added.

During a demonstration for NBC News, Therabot validated feelings of anxiety and nervousness before a hypothetical big exam, then offered techniques to mitigate that anxiety custom to the user’s worries about the test. In another case, when asked for advice on combating pre-party nerves, Therabot encouraged the user to try imaginal exposure, a technique to alleviate anxiety that involves envisioning participating in an activity before doing it in real life. Jacobson noted this is a common therapeutic treatment for anxiety.

Other responses were mixed. When asked for advice about a breakup, Therabot warned that crying and eating chocolate might provide temporary comfort but would “weaken you in the long run.”

With eight weeks left in the clinical trial, Jacobson said that the smartphone app could be poised for additional trials soon and then broader open enrollment by the end of the year if all goes well. Beyond other apps essentially repurposing ChatGPT, Jacobson believes this would be a first-of-its-kind generative AI digital therapeutic tool. The team ultimately hopes to gain FDA approval. The FDA said in an email that it has not approved any generative AI app or device. 

With the explosion of ChatGPT’s popularity, some people online have taken to testing the generative AI app’s therapeutic skills, even though it was not designed to provide that support. 

Daniel Toker, a neuroscience student at UCLA, has been using ChatGPT to supplement his regular therapy sessions for more than a year. He said his initial experiences with traditional therapy AI chatbots were less helpful.

“It seems to know what I need to hear sometimes. If I have a challenging thing that I’m going through or a challenging emotion, it knows what words to say to validate how I’m feeling,” Toker said. “And it does it in a way that an intelligent human would,” he added.

He posted on Instagram in February about his experiences and said he was surprised by the number of responses.

On message forums like Reddit, users also offer advice on how to use ChatGPT as a therapist. One safety employee at OpenAI, which owns ChatGPT, posted on X last year how impressed she was by the generative AI tool’s warmth and listening skills.

“For these particularly vulnerable interactions, we trained the AI system to provide general guidance to the user to seek help. ChatGPT is not a replacement for mental health treatment, and we encourage users to seek support from professionals,” OpenAI said in a statement to NBC News.

Experts warn that ChatGPT could provide inaccurate information or bad advice when treated like a therapist. Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are not regulated by the FDA since they are not therapeutic tools.

“The fact that consumers don’t understand that this isn’t a good replacement is part of the problem and why we need more regulation,” Wright said. “Nobody can track what they’re saying or what they’re doing and if they’re making false claims or if they’re selling your data without your knowledge.”

Toker said the personal benefits from his experience with ChatGPT outweigh the cons.

“If some employee at OpenAI happens to read about my random anxieties, that doesn’t bother me,” Toker said. “It’s been helpful for me.”

Andy Weir is an associate producer for NBC News.

Erin McLaughlin is an NBC News correspondent.

Shanshan Dong is a producer for NBC News in Los Angeles. 

Rutgers football lands commitment from Florida defensive lineman with strong offer list

Rutgers football has landed its newest member of its 2025 recruiting class.

Jyon Simon, a defensive lineman from Raines High School in Jacksonville, Florida, announced his decision to commit to Greg Schiano and the Scarlet Knights Thursday night.

Rutgers extended its offer in August.

The 6-foot-2, 260-pound Simon is the fifth member of the class and second Florida commitment, joining quarterback Sean Ashenfelder from Creekside High School in St. Augustine.

Simon, who had 77 tackles and nine sacks his junior season, is rated a three-star recruit and the No. 109 overall prospect in Florida, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings.

He had a strong list of offers that included Texas, Southern California, Auburn, Colorado and Tennessee, among others.

Schiano and defensive coordinator Joe Harasymiak made a visit to see Simon in early February.

Simon's commitment is the second pledge Rutgers has received in as many days.

The Scarlet Knights on Wednesday received a commitment from running back Antwan Raymond , a Montreal native who played at Clearwater Academy International in Florida this past season. Raymond, though, reclassified into the 2024 recruiting class and will officially enroll this summer.