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☆ Steamy love letters sent to captured French sailors have been opened for the first time in 265 years
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Love letters sent to French sailors have been opened for the first time in 265 years. For more than 265 years, these letters — along with more than 100 others sent to French prisoners — were left unread. A picture shows one of the long-lost letters addressed to french sailors over 265 years ago. Almost 20,000 French sailors were captured by the British military to thwart France's effort to crew their state-of-the-art ships during the Seven Year War. In 1758, out of 60,137 French sailors, a third were detained in Britain, according to the press release.

Persons: —, Anne Le Cerf, Jean Baptiste Emmanuel Gilbert, Renaud Morieux, Marie Dubosc, Dubosc, Morieux, didn't Organizations: Service, British, National Archives, Cambridge University, Sciences Sociales Locations: French, Kew , London, France, Britain, Europe, North America, Africa, India, England

☆ French love letters written 265 years ago opened for the first time
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

“These letters are about universal human experiences, they’re not unique to France or the 18th century,” Morieux said in a statement. Seeing that the small letters were still sealed, he asked whether correspondence could be opened and was granted permission. Next time you write to me, please do not forget your father,” his mother’s letter read. “Here is a son who clearly doesn’t like or acknowledge this man as his father,” Morieux said. The contents of the letters written to the crew of the Galatée have fascinated him, and he wants to keep pulling that thread.

Persons: Galatée, Renaud Morieux, they’re, ” Morieux, ” Marie Dubosc, “, Louis Chambrelan, Dubosc, Chambrelan, Morieux, ”, Nicolas Quesnel, Marguerite, Renaud Morieux Quesnel’s fiancée, Marianne, ” Marianne, Quesnel’s, ’, scriveners, …, Anne Le Cerf, ” Anne Le Cerf, Nanette, Jean Topsent, Renaud Morieux Morieux Organizations: CNN, Admiralty, British Royal Navy, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Sciences Sociales, “, National, Society of Prisoners Locations: Bordeaux, Quebec, London, United Kingdom, France, Brest

☆ Milan Fashion Week: Stars and style align at the Spring-Summer 2024 shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Marianna Cerini | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Milan CNN —Milan Fashion Week picked up where London left off last Wednesday, at least weather-wise. Both hit their strides with highly well received collections, as did a number of other familiar faces to Italy’s fashion capital. Overall, however, the festivities showed a consistency of form that continues to make the Italian city Paris’s greatest rival to the fashion scene throne. Cinematic sets and performative showsAlongside the clothes, many brands made their sets a main talking point at fashion week. Lodovico Colli di Felizzano/WWD/Getty ImagesRyan Gosling and Juila Roberts were among the star-studded crowd to pile into the Gucci show.

Persons: Milan, Gucci, Sabato de Sarno, Tom Ford’s, Peter Hawkings, Ford’s, Versace, Giulio Tanzini, Julia Roberts, Ryan Gosling, Gabrielle Union, Jessica Chastain, Paul Mescal, Jodie Comer, Emma Watson, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Prada, Kate Moss, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Anna Wintour, Kim Jones, Karl Lagerfeld, Rome, Tom Ford, georgette, Brigitte Bardot, Priscilla Presley, Lorenzo Serafini, Max Mara, Ian Griffiths, Carlyne Cerf, Dudzeele, Katie Grand, Lucia Liu, Gabriella Karefa, Johnson, Franco, Jeremy Scott, Cerf, Lucia Liu’s, Donatella Versace, Kendall Jenner, Gigi Hadid, Natalia Bryant, Precious Lee, Claudia Schiffer, lacy, Simone Bellotti, Francesca Murri, Matthieu Blazy, Blazy, Italy —, —, Paolo Fichera, Cavalli, Fendi, Shawn Kolodny, Pietro S, Beate Karlsson, Avavav, Sabato de Sarno's, Gregoire Avanel, Tom Ford's, Gaspar Ruiz, Pietro D'Aprano, Mattieu, Alfonso Catalano, Kim Jones nodded, Fendi Jones, Daniele Venturelli, Zakirova, Lodovico Colli di, Juila Roberts, Roberto Cavalli, Isidore Montag Organizations: Milan CNN — Milan, London, Bottega Veneta, Diesel, Prada, Britain’s Land Army, Dolce, Gabbana, Bally, Fondazione Prada, Accademia di Brera, Getty, Gucci Locations: British, Milan, Bottega, Hollywood, Fendi, organza, Los Angeles, Cannes, Bottega Veneta, Italy, French, Belgian, —, Missoni, Milan’s, Sunnei, Stockholm

☆ Get Ready for the New Gucci, and Other Surprises of the Fashion Season
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Vanessa Friedman | More About Vanessa Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After seasons of relative calm and predictability (some might say stultifying sameness), Milan has become the city to watch, with the two debuts of the season. First up: Sabato De Sarno at Gucci. Then there’s Peter Hawkings, another longtime deputy, who became the creative director of Tom Ford in April after the brand was sold to Estée Lauder and Mr. Ford stepped down. Mr. Hawkings worked beside Mr. Ford for decades, and judging by his official portrait, is very much in the mold of his mentor (down to the tinted aviators). The result is pretty much guaranteed to remind of us what we lost when we lost the very talented Mr. Moschino at only 44 in 1994 and why brand founders really matter.

Persons: Sabato De Sarno, Gucci, Valentino, Alessandro Michele, Peter Hawkings, Tom Ford, Estée Lauder, Ford, Hawkings, Jeremy Scott, — Katie Grand, Carlyne Cerf, Dudzeele, Gabriella Karefa, Johnson, Lucia Liu —, Moschino Organizations: Mr Locations: Milan

☆ Father of internet warns: Don't rush investments into AI just because ChatGPT 'is really cool'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Google chief evangelist and “father of the internet” Vint Cerf has a message for business executives looking to rush business deals around chat artificial intelligence: "Don’t." Cerf pleaded with attendees at a Mountain View conference on Monday not to scramble to invest in conversational AI just because "it’s a hot topic." "There’s an ethical issue here that I hope some of you will consider," Cerf told the conference crowd Monday. He’s known as one of the “Fathers of the Internet” because he co-designed some of the architecture used to build the foundation of the internet. Cerf warned against the temptation to invest just because th technology is “really cool, even though it doesn’t work quite right all the time."

☆ 'Father of the internet' sounds the alarm on the gold rush around AI chatbots
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

One of the fathers of the internet is warning against hastily investing in AI chatbots due to hype. Cerf said people must be "thoughtful" about using AI chatbots, and it will not always benefit them. Vint Cerf, widely recognized as a "father of the internet," warned people against hastily investing in conversational AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Google Bard simply because they're "cool" and buzzed about. As chief internet evangelist, Cerf "contributes to global policy development and continued spread of the Internet," according to Google Research. After OpenAI released its viral AI chatbot ChatGPT in November, tech giants like Google and Microsoft have joined the competition to release their own AI chatbots into the race.

☆ Alphabet Chairman John Hennessy explains why Google was hesitant to put out its ChatGPT competitor
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Google 's Bard announcement last week was meant to show that the company has similar technology as the popular ChatGPT chatbot, even though it still has ways to go before becoming product-ready, Alphabet Chairman John Hennessy said Monday. Hennessy, who spoke on key trends for 2023, briefly touched on Google being caught in the sudden onrush of interest in ChatGPT and generative AI. Last week, the company launched its response to ChatGPT in a conversation technology it is calling Bard. However, the announcement had the appearance of being rushed to match Microsoft's inclusion of ChatGPT technology into its search engine, Bing, and investors punished Alphabet stock, sending it down 9% for the day. Hennessy said Google was slow to roll out its ChatGPT competitor in part because it's still giving wrong answers.

☆ Vint Cerf Helped Create the Internet on the Back of an Envelope
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-17 | by ( Emily Bobrow | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

This is largely thanks to a design that Vint Cerf sketched on the back of an envelope while holed up with fellow computer scientist Robert Kahn in a Palo Alto cabana nearly 50 years ago. “Bob and I were like two hands on one pencil,” Dr. Cerf, 79, says over video from his home in McLean, Va., dressed in his usual three-piece suit. “We had a Stanford secretary type it up, and what did we do with the handwritten original? We threw it away! Historians have never forgiven me,” he adds with a laugh.

☆ How to set realistic New Year's resolutions and actually stick to them, according to a neuroscientist
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-29 | by ( Moran Cerf | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I don't have any profound resolutions, but I wonder if there is any advice on how to make realistic ones that I can actually follow? To make resolutions you'll follow through with, start by choosing realistic ones. Rank your resolutions from most to least importantMake your list, pick only the top two, and write them as your New Year's resolutions. This way you'll have a mini internal simulation of how good you are, generally, in accomplishing the type of things other people try to do in a year. The point is that hopefully seeing money being drawn from your account at the end of the year will drive you to make realistic resolutions for the next year.

☆ În Moldova a fost lansat Primul Forum Național de guvernanță a Internetului
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-24 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +3 min

La Chișinău a fost lansat primul Forum național de guvernanță a Internetului, care are loc în perioada 23-24 noiembrie și a devenit o platformă pentru un dialog deschis al diferitelor grupuri de părți interesate: societatea civilă, comunitățile tehnice și științifice, sectorul privat, guvernul și instituțiile statului. În special, riscurile asociate cu criminalitate cibernetică, diseminarea informațiilor false în mod deliberat, scurgeri de date cu caracter personal.”„Toate acestea necesită o punere în comun a eforturilor și dezvoltarea unor metode eficiente de utilizare a Internetului”, a spus Alexei Marciuc. Vitalie Tarlev, secretar de stat al Ministerului Economiei și Infrastructurii, responsabil de domeniul tehnologiei informației și comunicațiilor, a salutat lansarea inițiativei IGF în Moldova cu scopul de a sprijini deschiderea și libertatea utilizării Internetului în Republica Moldova. Internetul este o resursă vitală în perioadă pandemică”, a spus secretarul de stat. „Participarea comunității la acest forum este importantă pentru a urmări procesul pentru a sprijini respectarea drepturilor utilizatorilor finali și neutralitatea Internetului”, a accentuat Vitalie Tarlev.

Persons: coronavirus, Alexei Marciuc, Vitalie Tarlev, MIGF Organizations: Ministerului Economiei, Digital Park, Google Corporation, Society, Foundation, Ministerul Economiei, Procuratura, Universitatea Tehnică a Moldovei, Bitdefender, Media Locations: Chișinău, Moldova, Republica Moldova, Canada, SUA, Olanda, România, Ucraina, Rusia, Kârgâzstan, Belarus, PaloAlto

☆ „Noile evoluții vor face Internetul mai convenabil și mai eficient.” Primul Forum Național de guvernanță a Internetului a fost lansat în Moldova
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-24 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +4 min

„Noile evoluții vor face Internetul mai convenabil și mai eficient.” Primul Forum Național de guvernanță a Internetului a fost lansat în MoldovaLa Chișinău a fost lansat primul Forum național de guvernanță a Internetului ( MIGF 2020 ), care are loc în perioada 23-24 noiembrie și a devenit o platformă pentru un dialog deschis al diferitelor grupuri de părți interesate: societatea civilă, comunitățile tehnice și științifice, sectorul privat, guvernul și instituțiile statului. În special, riscurile asociate cu criminalitate cibernetică, diseminarea informațiilor false în mod deliberat, scurgeri de date cu caracter personal.”„Toate acestea necesită o punere în comun a eforturilor și dezvoltarea unor metode eficiente de utilizare a Internetului”, a spus Alexei Marciuc. Internetul este o resursă vitală în perioadă pandemică”, a spus secretarul de stat. „Participarea comunității la acest forum este importantă pentru a urmări procesul pentru a sprijini respectarea drepturilor utilizatorilor finali și neutralitatea Internetului”, a accentuat Vitalie Tarlev. Avem un mare potențial și noi dezvoltări care, atunci când sunt aplicate pe Internet, îl vor face mai convenabil și mai eficient decât este astăzi și vor contribui la apropierea Internetului de oamenii din întreaga lume”, a spus Cerf.

Persons: coronavirus, Alexei Marciuc, Vitalie Tarlev, MIGF Organizations: guvernanță, Ministerului Economiei, Digital Park, Google Corporation, Society, Foundation, Ministerul Economiei, Procuratura, Universitatea Tehnică a Moldovei, Bitdefender, Media Locations: Moldova, Chișinău, Republica Moldova, Canada, SUA, Olanda, România, Ucraina, Rusia, Kârgâzstan, Belarus, PaloAlto

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