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How Wayves driverless cars will meet one of their biggest challenges yet - MIT Technology Review With its move to the US, the startup’s self-driving AI must now learn to drive on the right of the street.
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WorkWild Animals Can Experience Trauma and Adversity Too - Discover Magazine Psychologists know that childhood trauma, or the experience of harmful or adverse events, can have lasting repercussions on the health and well-being of people well into adulthood. But while the consequences of early adversity have been well-researched in humans, people arent the only ones who can experience adversity. WorkCDC testing suggests Missouri did not see a cluster of bird flu cases - STAT Blood testing conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed that one person in Missouri with no known exposure to cattle or poultry contracted H5N1 bird flu in August, and a household contact of the individual may also have been infected. But five health workers who went on to develop influenza-like symptoms after caring for the confirmed case were not infected with the virus.
WorkWorkWhy Offsites Work and How to Get the Most Out of Them - Harvard Business Review Leaders feel stuck. They know that collaborative networks are vital for getting work done, especially in knowledge-intensive companies where expertise is widely distributed across employees. But remote and hybrid working has made it significantly harder for employees to foster meaningful connections with colleagues.
WorkWork50,000 screaming fans is nothing in the mega concert era - WSJ Any ordinary pop star can play a stadium. In August, Adele had a stadium built just for her. At “Adele World," her 800,000-square-foot theme park in Munich, performers roamed the grounds on stilts. There was a Bavarian beer garden, a Ferris wheel and, of course, a music venue—a pop-up stadium that featured a 45,000-square-foot LED wall. It’s hard to wow anyone these days, but Adele’s 73,000-capacity, custom-built temporary venue, which reportedly cost $100 million, stunned the music business. After just 10 shows, watched by over 730,000 fans, it was packed up and stuffed in a warehouse.
WorkChatGPT maker OpenAI is disbanding yet another AI safety teamA week after the resignations, OpenAI completed a $6.6 billion funding round, leading to a valuation of $157 billion. The startup is also reportedly working on a plan to restructure its nonprofit status, which could give chief executive Sam Altman major equity. WorkIntel's former CEO tried to buy Nvidia almost 2 decades agoFormer Intel chief executive Bob Swan didn’t think OpenAI’s generative AI models would come to market soon enough for the investment to be worth it, Reuters reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter. The AI startup had been interested in Intel, sources told Reuters (TRI-0.37%), so it could depend less on Nvidia and build its own infrastructure.
WorkHealth AI startups: How long do they take to hit $10 million in salesMario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the practice of health care and the business and policy challenges to realizing tech's promise. He’s also the co-author of the free, twice weekly STAT Health Tech newsletter. Work
WorkTrump Flirts With the Ultimate Tax Cut: No Income Taxes at AllReplacing income taxes with tariffs would reverse the progressivity of the tax system in the United States. In general, income taxes are progressive, meaning that Americans with more income pay a higher tax rate. Tariffs, which impose a tax on products imported into the United States, are regressive. They raise the prices on imported items like clothing and groceries, placing a larger burden on lower-income Americans who spend a bigger percentage of their income on those goods. Work
WorkAbortion Is at the Center of Ohio's Senate Race as Brown Battles for SurvivalHe talks about how cities like his hometown, Mansfield, where he went to junior high school with children of tradespeople who worked in plants, have been hollowed out by globalization, its union workers ignored by what Mr. Brown refers to as “the coastal elites and corporate America.” He has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, though voters in Ohio will never catch him criticizing Mr. Trump. WorkTaco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut are pulling onions following E. coli outbreakLike Yum! Brands, Sysco told Quartz it is closely monitoring the situation amid the ongoing probe by public health inspectors, including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The USDA is analyzing the beef patties in the burgers, while the FDA is concentrating on the onions. WorkAmerican Airlines will be 'relentless' in winning back business travelers. Here's how“We know full restoration of our revenue will take some time. But with the progress we’re seeing and the actions underway, we aim to fully restore our revenue from indirect channels as we exit 2025,” Isom said on the call. “We will continue our relentless focus on reestablishing relationships with our business customers, re-embracing the agency channel, and making it easier to do business with American.” WorkElon Musk says he'd use a Trump White House gig to get streamlined driverless car rulesIn addition to his online efforts to promote Trump’s candidacy, Musk has donated tens of millions of dollars to his pro-Trump “America PAC” and held talks in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state. The Justice Department earlier this week warned Musk that his pledge to give away $1 million to people that sign an America PAC petition may violate federal laws. WorkImmigrants fuel America's economy. Here's proofFor example, we calculate the contributions of Salvadoran immigrants and their children alone added roughly $223 billion to the U.S. economy in 2023. That’s about 1% of the country’s entire GDP. WorkAmerican Airlines is fed up with BoeingAmerican, on the other hand, beat expectations when it reported earnings Thursday. It brought in a record $13.6 billion in revenue, but posted a quarterly loss of $149 million. Shares of the company rose about 1% on the report. WorkHurricanes are wreaking havoc on America's food supplyThis article originally appeared in Grist at https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/helene-and-milton-upended-a-key-part-of-the-nations-food-supply/. Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Learn more at Grist.org WorkWorkOlivia Nuzzi and New York Magazine Part WaysIn a court filing last week, Mr. Lizza denied all of Ms. Nuzzi’s accusations and said she was “abusing the protections meant for survivors of domestic violence to ruin my reputation in a last-ditch effort to salvage her own.” Politico said earlier this month that Mr. Lizza and the publication had “mutually agreed” for him to take a leave of absence while an internal investigation was conducted. WorkWhy Democracy Lives and Dies by MathDr. Volic grew up in Bosnia-Herzegovina, a country that in the early 1990s went through “a horrific war,” he said. “I am familiar with what collapse of democracy can lead to.” He saw parallels between what happened in Bosnia and what was happening in the United States and around the world. “That has driven me in the last few years, understanding the mechanics of democracy, the infrastructure of democracy, which is very much mathematical,” he said. Work82 American Nobel Prize Winners Endorse Kamala HarrisMany scientists are inclined to “stick to their knitting,” Dr. Stiglitz said — focusing on their research rather than politics, and on knowledge for knowledge’s sake instead of the real-world applications that result from it. WorkWorkWorkOpinion | The Election Is Happening Too SoonLet’s look at America between 1880 and 1910. In the early years of that period, American society had been thrown into turmoil by industrialization and uncontrolled capitalism, which produced awesome economic growth and untold human misery. Waves of immigration swept across the country, transforming urban America. Political corruption was rampant in cities and political incompetence was the norm in Washington, D.C. WorkWorkArgentinian police raid hotel where singer Liam Payne fell to his deathThe singer had posted on his Snapchat account that he traveled to Argentina to attend Horan’s concert in Buenos Aires on 2 October. He shared videos of himself dancing with his girlfriend, the American influencer Kate Cassidy, and singing along in the stands. Cassidy had left Argentina after the show, but Payne stayed behind. WorkWorkStarmer's refusal to discuss enslavement reparations has only magnified the issueFrederick Mitchell, the Bahamas foreign minister, has picked up on this, telling the BBC: "It seems unusual to us because you have the Labour party in power. This, we thought, was something the Conservative party in the UK would be the progenitor of and Labour would certainly change its position on this, particularly since you have an Afro-British man as the foreign secretary; to put him in a position where he is advancing on a position where there are no reparations and no discussions of reparations." WorkJoby launches $200M public offering ahead of 2025 commercial eVTOL release | TechCrunchRebecca Bellan covers transportation for TechCrunch. She’s interested in all things micromobility, EVs, AVs, smart cities, AI, sustainability and more. Previously, she covered social media for Forbes.com, and her work has appeared in Bloomberg CityLab, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, Mother Jones, i-D (Vice) and more.Rebecca studied journalism and history at Boston University. She has invested in Ethereum. WorkWorkBluesky raises $15M Series A, plans to launch subscriptions | TechCrunchAmanda Silberling is a senior writer at TechCrunch covering the intersection of technology and culture. She has also written for publications like Polygon, MTV, the Kenyon Review, NPR, and Business Insider. She is the co-host of Wow If True, a podcast about internet culture, with science fiction author Isabel J. Kim. Prior to joining TechCrunch, she worked as a grassroots organizer, museum educator, and film festival coordinator. She holds a B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and served as a Princeton in Asia Fellow in Laos. WorkWorkExclusive: Medtech Alimetry gases up with $18M for a wearable to help diagnose gastric disordersNatasha is a senior reporter for TechCrunch, joining September 2012, based in Europe. She joined TC after a stint reviewing smartphones for CNET UK and, prior to that, more than five years covering business technology for silicon.com (now folded into TechRepublic), where she focused on mobile and wireless, telecoms & networking, and IT skills issues. She has also freelanced for organisations including The Guardian and the BBC. Natasha holds a First Class degree in English from Cambridge University, and an MA in journalism from Goldsmiths College, University of London. WorkCheers lets you play matchmaker with friends | TechCrunchCurrently, Ahuja is working alone on Cheers and is focused on improving the app before promoting it in new markets or hiring anyone. He plans to add paid features in the future but wants to wait until Cheers has reached 5,000 users. WorkConcentric helps companies keep track of their sensitive data | TechCrunchSan Mateo-based Concentric recently closed a $45 million Series B round co-led by Top Tier Capital Partners and HarbourVest, with participation from CyberFuture, Ballistic Ventures, Citi Ventures, Engineering Capital and Clear Ventures. The new round brings the company’s total capital raised to $67 million, and the fresh cash will be used to expand Concentric’s partner program and product portfolio as well as increase the company’s headcount to 125 people by 2025. WorkWorkWorkWorkHow to read Americas early-voting numbers - The Economist FOR THE first time since August, Donald Trump has overtaken Kamala Harris in The Economists statistical model of Americas presidential election. Our latest forecast gives Mr Trump a 53% chance of returning to the White House, up seven percentage points in the past week (see chart). Although the race remains more or less a coin toss, it is now weighted slightly in Mr Trumps direction. The shift in our model reflects a steady narrowing of Ms Harriss lead in national polls during the past month. State-specific polls published in the past week confirm that Mr Trumps position has strengthened slightly in the plausibly decisive states. WorkMati Diop and the Cinema of Impossible Returns - The New Yorker The Muse du Quai Branly is a long ark of a building perched over a garden, whose foliage screens the museum from its busy namesake thoroughfare on the banks of the Seine. Literally overshadowed by the Eiffel Tower, it houses more than three hundred thousand pieces of art from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas, most of them legacies of Frances colonial empire. Its opening, in 2006, was billed as an enlightened departure from the practice of exhibiting non-European works as anthropological specimens; the buildings architect, Jean Nouvel, described it as a place of spiritual regeneration, where the Western curatorial apparatus would vanish before the sacred objects so we may enter into communion with them. But the vibes within are less enchanting than uncanny. The cavernous main gallery is a maze of shadows and imitation mud walls, where masks look out from between oversized photographs of tropical vegetation. Ill never be familiar with this space, Mati Diop said when we visited last month. Its like The Matrix. WorkFish farming was supposed to be sustainable. But theres a giant catch.The US presidential campaign is in its final weeks and were dedicated to helping you understand the stakes. In this election cycle, its more important than ever to provide context beyond the headlines. But in-depth reporting is costly, so to continue this vital work, we have an ambitious goal to add 5,000 new members. Work5 Gastroenterologists on the 1 Thing You Should Do Every DaySomewhere between 60 and 70 million Americans have digestive conditions like inflammatory bowel disease, acid reflux, chronic constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, and hemorrhoids. Some of these will need to be treated through medication and possibly even surgery. But others can improve by making a few daily tweaks to your lifestyle. WorkWorkIn Georgia, Harris's Muslim Backers Push Her as Better Than the AlternativeMany of those voters were motivated to go to the polls in the last presidential election by animus toward Mr. Trump, who barred travelers from certain majority Muslim countries from entering the United States under his presidency and whose anti-immigrant talking points on the campaign trail have included broadsides against those from the Middle East. WorkWorkAs Election Looms, Justice Dept. Tries to Steer Clear of PoliticsIn stark contrast to such campaign rhetoric, the Justice Department memo underscores the broader concern internally that anything it does or says in the final days of the campaign could be used as political ammunition, particularly since its practices and policies have come under far greater scrutiny since the 2016 election. |
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