Allison Salerno

Jan 10, 2025 | theassemblync.com | Allison Salerno

Behind the two-story wooden office building and gift shop of the Hot Springs Resort & Spa is a moonscape. Mounds of sand at least 10 feet high and craters 15 feet deep scar a landscape once lush with trees and flowering bushes. In a town of slightly more than 5oo residents, the 103-acre resort drew an average of 70,000 visitors annually, including hundreds of Appalachian Trail hikers.

Jan 10, 2025 | theassemblync.com | Allison Salerno

Behind the two-story wooden office building and gift shop of the Hot Springs Resort & Spa is a moonscape. Mounds of sand at least 10 feet high and craters 15 feet deep scar a landscape once lush with trees and flowering bushes. In a town of slightly more than 5oo residents, the 103-acre resort drew an average of 70,000 visitors annually, including hundreds of Appalachian Trail hikers.

Nov 20, 2024 | ajc.com | Allison Salerno

When Hurricane Helene roared through the Southeast in September, Athens, Georgia, where I live, sustained minor damage — some toppled trees and brief power outages. None of my friends, loved ones or acquaintances died or suffered injury. I was distressed by the storm’s human toll. But I wept when I learned flash floods devastated Hot Springs, North Carolina, destroying businesses and cloaking what remained of its downtown in mud and debris.

Nov 14, 2024 | plateonline.com | Allison Salerno

Forty-eight days after Helene stormed through Western North Carolina, most residents and businesses in Asheville, its largest city, still lack water that is safe to drink. The storm wiped out transmission lines and stirred up the clay and sediment in the North Fork Reservoir, which provides water to most of the city. It’s not clear when the water will be safe to drink; city staff regularly update residents on system improvements and are daily testing for... Join for free to continue reading.

Nov 3, 2024 | post-gazette.com | Jeanna Smialek |Allison Salerno |Tim Grant

SAN FRANCISCO — Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.”But Whisper has a major flaw: It is prone to making up chunks of text or even entire sentences, according to interviews with more than a dozen software engineers, developers and academic researchers.