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☆ A woman whose husband died snorkeling in Hawaii is suing its tourism board, saying it failed to warn them of the risk
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Patricia and Ray Johnson arrived at the Fairmont Kea Lani in Maui on February 23, 2022, marking the couple's sixth visit to Hawaii. AdvertisementA July 2010 Snorkel Safety Study, conducted in collaboration with the Hawaii State Department of Health and the Hawaii Tourism Authority, distinguishes drowning by ROPE from drowning by aspirating water. Related storiesPatricia Johnson told ABC 7 Eyewitness News that Ray had kept his head above water before appearing disorientated. According to the lawsuit, Ray Johnson eventually lost consciousness before reaching the shore. He added: "If even one life is saved by this message, then Ray Johnson will not have died in vain."

Persons: —, Patricia, Ray Johnson, Ray, Ray Johnson's, Patricia Johnson, Johnson, KITV, Ray wasn't, Jay Stuemke, we'd Organizations: Service, Business, Mayo Clinic, Hawaii State Department of Health, Hawaii Tourism Authority, ABC, Hawaiian Tourism Authority, Hawaii Visitors Locations: Maui, Hawaii, Wailea, Lani

☆ FTX's victims may get all their money back. The judge sentencing Sam Bankman-Fried might not care.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Sam Bankman-Fried bilked FTX customers out of over $8 billion, according to prosecutors. AdvertisementAccording to federal prosecutors, Sam Bankman-Fried orchestrated one of the biggest criminal frauds in the history of the world. According to his lawyers, FTX's customers might get all their money back. According to prosecutors, Bankman-Fried was responsible for more than $11 billion in fraud overall between FTX customers and investors in FTX and Alameda Research. The recovered calculations, too, distort how much money customers are actually getting back.

Persons: Sam Bankman, —, Fried, FTX, John J, Ray III, Ray, Lewis Kaplan, Kaplan, Sarah Krissoff, Cozen O'Connor, Krissoff, it's, Sarah Silbiger, Bankman, bitcoin, Rachel Maimin, Lowenstein Sandler, Barbara Fried, Mark Cohen, Jane Rosenberg Bankman, Maiman, Maimin, Caroline Ellison Organizations: Service, FTX, Bankman, Alameda Research, US, United States, Second Circuit, U.S . House Financial, Capitol, Reuters, K5 Global, Prosecutors, Wall, REUTERS, Business, of Prisons, Alemda Research Locations: FTX, Manhattan, New Jersey, New York, Washington , U.S

Dexter Scott King, the late son of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, was remembered Saturday as the protector of his family’s legacy and the keeper of his father's dream during a memorial service in Atlanta. The memorial service for Dexter King was held at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where his father once was pastor. Dexter King was named for the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, where his father was pastor during the bus boycott that vaulted him to national prominence following the 1955 arrest of Rosa Parks. Dexter King served as chairman of The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change and was president of the King Estate, working to protect the family’s intellectual property. “Dexter was ahead of his time,” Bernice King said of her brother’s vision in protecting the family’s intellectual rights.

Persons: Dexter Scott King, Dr, Martin Luther King Jr, Coretta Scott King, ”, Leah Weber King, “, ” Dexter Scott King, Jan, Dexter King, Stevie Wonder, Martin Luther King III, Dexter, Yolanda Denice King, “ He’s, ” King III, Bernice A ., Rosa Parks, King, Angela Bassett, Martin Luther King, Jr, “ Dexter, ” Bernice King, “ That’s Dexter Scott, ’ Dexter, James Earl Ray, Ray, ” Ray, ___ Thiessen Organizations: Ebenezer Baptist Church, Dexter, Baptist Church, Center for Nonviolent, King Estate, King Center Locations: Atlanta, Malibu , California, Montgomery , Alabama, Memphis , Tennessee, Rosa, Nashville, Anchorage , Alaska

☆ Here's why Apple stock is still worth holding despite Wall Street's shortsightedness
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +14 min

Asked a double-edged question: "What can you do to make my Apple stock go up." On Friday, we had so many storylines going it is hard to get your head around Apple's Vision Pro launch and its import. Most of all, however, the customer satisfaction level allows him to experiment with something really radical: the Vision Pro. No one is buzzing about how Apple can't meet demand for the Vision Pro. People walk in an Apple store on the day the Vision Pro headset goes on sale in Los Angeles, Feb. 2, 2024.

Persons: Apple's, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Matt Horween, Tim Cook, Cook, AirPods, Goldman Sachs, Apple, Ray, that's, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Mike Blake Organizations: Costco, Apple, Meta, Apple's Vision, Web Services, Reality Labs, Dow Jones Transportation, Federal Reserve, Huawei, Vision, Major League Soccer, CNBC Locations: China, Republic of China, Los Angeles

☆ Here's what I'm watching to see where the market goes next after the S&P 500 record close
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

We don't know what we want. The rails are too significant to ignore even as the bond market seems to rely, I would say, wrongly, on the broader data. I think it's a factor of big money flows that aren't sensitive to what moves rates and don't mind being wrong. As a subscriber to the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer, you will receive a trade alert before Jim makes a trade. Jim waits 45 minutes after sending a trade alert before buying or selling a stock in his charitable trust's portfolio.

Persons: Tesla, ServiceNow, Bill McDermott, Russell, —, Abbott, Gamble, Jon Moeller, Heels, what's, hasn't, Steve Jobs, Ray, Kimberly, Clark, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Virginia Sherwood Organizations: Union Pacific, CSX, Norfolk Southern, Federal Reserve, Silicon Valley Bank, Microsoft, Nvidia tacking, Google, Apple, Nvidia, JPMorgan Healthcare Conference, Abbott Laboratories, Investing, JPMorgan, Novartis, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Procter, Super, YouTube, Netflix, Vision, Pro, Jim Cramer's Charitable, CNBC, NYSE Locations: U.S, Silicon, San Francisco, Amgen, China

NEW YORK (AP) — Denny Laine, a British singer, songwriter and guitarist who performed in an early, pop-oriented version of the Moody Blues and was later Paul McCartney's longtime sideman in the ex-Beatle's solo band Wings, has died at age 79. Laine, inducted five years ago into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Moody Blues, died Tuesday in Naples, Florida. His death comes almost exactly 50 years after the release of McCartney's acclaimed “Band On the Run” album, on which Laine played guitar and provided backing vocals. The Moody Blues then turned to the ambitious, classically influenced sounds of “Nights in White Satin" and other songs. Founded in 1971, the year after the Beatles broke up, Wings went through various personnel changes over the following decade, with Laine, McCartney and McCartney's wife, Linda.

Persons: — Denny Laine, Paul McCartney's, Laine, Elizabeth Hines, McCartney, Instagram, “, ” McCartney, Brian Frederick Arthur Hines, Frankie Laine, Ray Thomas, Mike Pinder, 1967 Laine, Justin Hayward, Ginger Baker's, McCartney's, Linda, Said ”, ” Laine, George Harrison's, John Lennon, ” Organizations: Moody Blues, Hall of Fame, Ginger Baker's Air Force, Wings, Beatles Locations: British, Naples , Florida, Mull of Kintyre

asked Kristen Brengel of the National Parks Conservation Association, noting that visitors on the ground far outnumber those overhead. Congress passed another round of legislation in 2000 with a goal of setting rules in other national parks. Historically, some of the nation's busiest spots for tour operators are Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, which is home to one of the world’s most active volcanoes, and Haleakala National Park. But Brengel of the National Parks Conservation Association said the resistance doesn't have much traction. An amendment to the FAA reauthorization bill that would have required the agency to factor in the economics of commercial air tours over national parks failed in July, she said.

Persons: “, ”, Mark Schlaefli, Critics, Kristen Brengel, Bailey Wood, Wood, Pono, Smokey, Parks, Peter Jenkins, Mount Rushmore, Ray Jilek, Andrew Busse, Shawn Bordeaux, hasn't, Bruce Adams, Brengel Organizations: Mount, Black, National Park Service, Federal Aviation Administration, National Parks Conservation Association, Helicopter Association International, Public Employees, Environmental, Hawaii Island Coalition, Golden, Recreation Area, Eagle Aviation Inc, Black Hills Helicopter Inc, Democratic, FAA, “ Locations: Mount, United States, Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, Arizona, Hawaii, Montana, Arches, Utah, Tennessee, North Carolina, Alaska, Rosebud, New Mexico, Southwest Safaris, Pueblo

☆ ‘Chowchilla’ details how 26 kids were buried alive in California – and how they escaped
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Holly Yan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

CNN —In 1976, gunmen stormed a school bus carrying 26 children – ages 5 to 14 – and their bus driver in Chowchilla, California. The Dairyland Union School District bus carrying 26 children and their bus driver was found empty and abandoned in July 1976. The kidnappers ordered the children and their bus driver into a moving van hidden underground. Bus driver Edward Ray speaks to reporters in 1976. “Chowchilla children are heroes,” she said in the CNN Film.

Persons: ”, “, didn’t, – pantyhose, –, Larry Park, Jodi Heffington, Jennifer Brown Hyde, van, ” Lynda Carrejo Labendeira, Edward Ray, ” Brown Hyde, Michael Marshall, Marshall, Hostages, Jim Palmer, AP Ray, ‘, ’, Mike Marshall, CNN “, LeRoy, Tatum, ’ ” Marshall, Ray, Ed Ray, ” Chowchilla, Ed Ray Day ”, Skip Shuman, Edward, Mike, Marshall “, Lenore C, ” ‘, ” Andrea, CNN Films ’ “, Park’s, “ Andrea, abductors, Frederick Newhall Woods, James Schoenfeld, Richard Schoenfeld, James, Fred Woods, Joe Rosenthal, who’d, Terr, Andrea, ‘ I’ve, Jodi Heffington Medrano, Heffington Medrano, Matthew Medrano, I’ve, William Newsom, California’s, Newsom, ” Carrejo Labendeira, “ Jodi, Carrejo Labendeira, “ ‘ Lynda, it’s, ’ ”, Heffington, couldn’t, Dominique Banos, “ Mr, Woods, Banos, ” Marshall Organizations: CNN, Dairyland, Dairyland Union School District, UPI, Workers, Fresno Bee, Tribune, Service, AP, Bus, Sacramento Bee, Marshall, CNN Films, California Gold Rush, San Francisco Chronicle, Larry Park CNN, James Schoenfeld California Department of Corrections, Mike Marshall CNN, ” Locations: Chowchilla , California, Livermore, Chowchilla, “ Chowchilla, Sacramento, Woods

☆ How a 1976 kidnapping transformed our understanding of childhood trauma
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-02 | by ( Giri Viswanathan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

The kidnappers planned to ransom the Chowchilla kids, all between the ages of 5 and 14 years old, for $5 million. After all, the field of child trauma psychiatry was still in its infancy. One mental health professional predicted that that only one of the 26 would be emotionally affected by the kidnappings. Much like with adults, Terr described how the consequences of kids’ trauma could linger, with implications reaching far into adulthood. After the school shootings in Columbine and Sandy Hook, for instance, mental health counselors were on the front lines to help survivors.

Persons: pantyhose —, Ed Ray, Ray, they’d, James Palmer, “, ”, Spencer, Lenore Terr, ” Terr, Terr, hadn’t, she’d, Jennifer Brown Hyde, ’ ” Jennifer Brown, Jeffrey, Larry Park, Mike Marshall, Marshall, ” Marshall, doesn’t, he’s, he’d, it’s, Hyde, “ We’ve, Elissa Benedek, Benedek, who’ve, Dr, Sanjay Gupta, Sandy Hook Organizations: CNN, Police, Spencer Eth, Miami VA Healthcare, CNN Films, AP, ” Eth, American Psychiatric Association, Get CNN, CNN Health Locations: Chowchilla , California, San Joaquin Valley, urine, Los Angeles, Chowchilla, Livermore , California, San Francisco, Midwest, Columbine

☆ Inside Apple’s chip lab, home to the most ‘profound change’ at the company in decades
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Katie Tarasov | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +13 min

Its most advanced silicon is primarily manufactured by one vendor, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. "We built what we call the unified memory architecture that is scalable across products," Srouji said. Apple's silicon team has grown to thousands of engineers working across labs all over the world, including in Israel, Germany, Austria, the U.K. and Japan. The primary type of chip Apple is developing is known as a system on a chip, or SoC. Apple's senior director of hardware validation Godfrey D'Souza shows off an M3 SoC in an Apple chip lab in Cupertino, California, on November 14, 2023.

Persons: John Ternus, Srouji, we're, Katie Tarasov, Andrew Evers, Ben Bajarin, Bajarin, Apple, Apple there's, Pro Max, Kaiann Drance, That's, who's, Ternus, Nvidia —, Tesla, Stacy Rasgon, Apple's, Godfrey D'Souza, Sydney, they've, Rasgon, Apple's Srouji, It's Organizations: AMD, MU, Apple Watch, U.S, Apple, Intel, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Microsoft, CNBC, Apple's, Amazon, Google, Tesla, Semiconductor, Creative, Pro, Triple, MacBook Air, Qualcomm, Nvidia, Bernstein Research, Sydney Boyo, Bluetooth, Broadcom, Samsung, Micron, Thursday Apple Locations: Cupertino , California, Israel, Germany, Austria, Japan, Silicon Valley, San Diego, Austin , Texas, AirPods, Taiwan, China, Arizona, Peoria , Arizona, Asia, Europe, U.S

☆ Fact Check: Video of men boarding cargo ship predates Houthis hijacking
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A video of armed personnel climbing aboard a bulk carrier from three smaller motorboats has been falsely presented online as showing Yemen’s Houthis hijacking a cargo ship in the Red Sea in mid-November. The video can be dated to at least June 2022, more than a year before the Red Sea incident. On Nov. 20, the Houthis released video of armed men seizing the Galaxy Leader, a British-owned and Japanese-operated cargo ship that the rebels described as being Israeli. The vessel in the Houthis video does not resemble the one in the social media posts. The video dates to at least June 2022, thus predating the Houthis seizure of the Galaxy Leader.

Persons: Yemen’s, YEMENIS, Houthis, Read Organizations: Galaxy Leader, Reuters, Polish Special Forces Component Command, Car Carriers, Ray Shipping, Thomson Locations: Red, Iran, British, Isle of, Tel Aviv

A Houthi fighter holds up a pistol in the cargo area of the Galaxy Leader cargo ship in the Red Sea in this photo released November 20, 2023. Kirby's comment was significant because one of the Biden administration's first acts after taking office in January 2021 was revoking terrorist designations of the Houthis over fears the sanctions they carried could worsen Yemen's humanitarian crisis. Kirby called the Houthis' seizure of the vessel a "flagrant violation of international law" in which "Iran is complicit." "In light of this, we have begun a review of potential terrorist designations and we will be considering other options as well with our allies and partners as well," Kirby said at a White House press briefing. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Feb. 12, 2021, revoked the designations in "recognition of the dire humanitarian situation in Yemen."

Persons: John Kirby, Biden, Houthis, Kirby, Trump, Antony Blinken, Jonathan Landay, Steve Holland, Grant McCool Organizations: Galaxy Leader, Houthi Military, REUTERS, Rights, White House, Japan's Nippon, Car Carriers, Ray Shipping, United Nations, Thomson Locations: Red, United States, Iran, Israel, Bahamas, Isle of, Tel Aviv, Yemen, Hodeidah, Islam, Saudi, Saudi Arabia, U.S

☆ Humane's Ai Pin has some in the tech world scratching their heads
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Humane's wearable Ai Pin is finally here — and some tech workers don't seem to be impressed. The criticisms come as techies debate whether Humane's Ai Pin will be the iPhone of the AI era. AdvertisementAdvertisementHumane's highly anticipated Ai Pin is finally here — and some people in tech don't have nice things to say about it. Humane's Ai Pin isn't the only AI gadget getting attention. As for whether AI devices like Humane's Ai pin will create a sea change in the tech industry — only time will tell.

Persons: Humane's Ai, —, Imran Chaudhri, Bethany Bongiorno, Ai, It's, Casey Newton, he'd, didn't, zB2taCCmZ6 — Casey Newton, Avi Schiffmann, Ai Pin's, Ben Kylak, what's, doLIcfU060, Liron Shapira, Joseph Tsar, Steve Jobs, — Joseph Tsar Organizations: Service, Apple, Meta Locations: @CaseyNewton

☆ An agitated Ray Dalio once ordered an extensive study of urine on the men's room floor at Bridgewater, new book says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ray Dalio once ordered a probe into urine on the men's room floor, a new book says. Bridgewater said Dalio did complain about restroom tidiness, but the book passage is "exaggerated" and "false." In "The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend," Copeland wrote that Dalio once excused himself from a meeting to use the restroom and he found pee on the floor. "It was a true circus," Copeland wrote in the book. Bridgewater even brought in new urinals and added stickers as targets, the book said, and later reviewed their exact placement.

Persons: Ray Dalio, Dalio, Bridgewater, —, Rob Copeland, Copeland Organizations: Service, New York Times, Bridgewater Associates, LinkedIn, Bridgewater Locations: Bridgewater

☆ 4 experts explain why Elon Musk's plan to colonize Mars is 'romanticized', not 'realistic', 'cosmic vandalism'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-07 | by ( Maiya Focht | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

Four scientists told Insider his plan is bad for technical, scientific, and ethical reasons. Yes, experts agree we might want to settle other worlds, but Mars might not be our best bet, at least not now, four scientists told Insider. SpaceX's first priority is "establishing a cargo route to Mars," Musk told the Washington Post in 2016. From Mars, Musk told the IAC, people could go to the asteroid belts, the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and the Kuiper belt. AdvertisementAdvertisementEssentially, terraforming Mars would involve melting its polar ice caps, which would release CO2 reserves.

Persons: Elon Musk, —, Ray Bradbury's, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Christopher Edwards, He's, Musk, Refugio Ruiz Musk's, they'd, he's, Edwards, PATRICK T, FALLON, there's, Bruce Jakosky, Jakosky, Andrew Coates, Coates, Mars, terraformed, Alexander Gerst, Rachael Seidler, Refugio Ruiz, Seidler, Jeff Bezos, Buzz Aldrin, Chris McKay, " Edwards, that's Organizations: Service, Northern Arizona University, SpaceX, Mars SpaceX, International Astronautical, Washington Post, IAC, Elon Musk, NASA, Getty, Mars, ESA, University College London's, Science, University of Florida, AP, JPL, Caltech, SETI, Center for Strategic, International Studies, NASA's Ames Research Center Locations: Texas, Mars

☆ Big Tech is promising AI assistants straight out of 'Iron Man' in an attempt to tackle our endless lists of 'crapmin'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Microsoft, Meta, and more are touting AI assistants that are far more advanced than Siri and Alexa. These AI assistants have the potential to deal with tedious digital tasks, or "crapmin." From Microsoft to Meta, tech companies leading the charge in AI are starting to make clear what the future of AI looks like to them. Meta's AI assistant "surfaces options directly in the chat, so you can decide as a group which location to explore." Letting an AI assistant take care of all aspects of our "crapmin" will require a lot of confidence in its capabilities.

Persons: Siri, Alexa, Tony Stark's Jarvis, —, Man's, AI's Jarvis, Iron, Satya Nadella, Mark Zuckerberg, resuscitating, Zuckerberg, –, Jarvis, they've, Copilot, Yusuf Mehdi, Bing, Mehdi Organizations: Microsoft, Meta, Service, Man's Stark Industries, Meta's Connect, Bing Locations: California

☆ CNBC Daily Open: Wall Street versus main street
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Yeo Boon Ping | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThis report is from today's CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. The mood on Wall Street, however, is markedly different. Does Wall Street know something that ordinary U.S. consumers don't? In that open space between breaths, equilibrium between Wall Street and main street may be reached.

Persons: Spencer Platt, there's, Edward Jones, Mona Mahajan, CNBC's, Mahajan, Ray Dalio's, Greg Bassuk Organizations: New York Stock Exchange, Getty, CNBC, University of Michigan, Consumers, Survey, Dow Jones Industrial, Nasdaq, Dow Locations: New York City

☆ CNBC Daily Open: Wall Street disagrees with main street
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Yeo Boon Ping | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThis report is from today's CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. [PRO] FOMC meeting this weekThe Federal Reserve's meeting on Wednesday will be the main event to keep an eye on for this week. "Investors remained upbeat about the outlook for stocks and the economy in August," according to a Vanguard Investor Expectations Survey. In that open space between breaths, equilibrium between Wall Street and main street may be reached.

Persons: Gabby Jones, Hong, Kospi, Joe Biden, there's, Edward Jones, Mona Mahajan, CNBC's, Mahajan, Ray, Greg Bassuk Organizations: New York Stock Exchange, Bloomberg, Getty, CNBC, Dow Jones, Index, Nikkei, China, European Central Bank, Federal Reserve, Bank of England, U.S, Initiative, FedEx, University of Michigan, Consumers, Survey, Dow Jones Industrial, Nasdaq, Dow Locations: New York, Asia, Pacific, China Venture, China, India, East, Europe

He can be seen moving past a line of Capitol Police at the barricades, but never actually goes inside the Capitol. Federal prosecutors have not charged Mr. Epps with a crime, focusing instead on the more than 1,000 other demonstrators who acted violently or were trespassing in the Capitol. The Justice Department’s sprawling investigation into the attack remains open, however, and Mr. Epps could still be indicted. Yet for more than 18 months, Mr. Carlson insisted that the lack of charges against Mr. Epps could mean only one thing: that he was being protected because he was a secret government agent. There was “no rational explanation,” Mr. Carlson told his audience, why this “mysterious figure” who “helped stage-manage the insurrection” had not been charged.

Persons: Tucker Carlson, Donald J, Trump, Ray Epps —, Epps, Carlson, Mr, “, ” Organizations: Fox News, Capitol, Trump, Capitol Police, Federal Locations: Arizona, Washington

El Paso, Texas CNN —The mass shooter who killed 23 people at an El Paso Walmart in one of the deadliest attacks targeting Latinos in modern US history was sentenced to 90 consecutive life terms by a federal judge on Friday. Defense lawyer Joe Spencer told the court Crusius took responsibility for the harm he had caused and that his rampage was due to severe mental illness. Wearing an “El Paso Strong” T-shirt, the girl struggled to speak between sobs as she described her terror and enduring pain. Your tears mean nothing to me,” Karla Romero, whose mother was killed, told Crusius at one point. “He was not a racist like you.”Hoffman’s father, Alexander Hoffman, was killed in the 2019 shooting.

Persons: Prosecutors, Patrick Crusius, –, Joe Spencer, Crusius, “ Patrick, ” Spencer, Spencer, Ian Martinez Hanna, “, ”, Dean Reckard, Margie, you’re, ’, vilifying, Foreign Affairs Marcelo Ebrard, El, ” G.A, Paul Jamrowski, Jordan Anchondo, Andre Anchondo, Andrés Leighton, Bill Hicks, Jennifer Cortes, ‘, Joe Spencer Jr, David Guaderrama, Nacho Garcia, Jr, Reckard, ” Crusius, ” Reckard, Raymond Attaguile, David Johnson, Johnson’s, ” Karla Romero, ” Thomas Hoffman, Alexander Hoffman, Elis, ” Raul Loya, Stephanie Melendez, Melendez, Johnson, Kathy, Kaitlyn, ” Melendez Organizations: El Paso , Texas CNN, El Paso Walmart, Authorities, El, Foreign Affairs, Pittsburgh Locations: El Paso , Texas, El Paso, sobs, El Paso District, Reckard, ”, Mexico, Germany, New York City

☆ Meta is already backing off its future retail plans a year after opening its first physical store
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Meta last May opened its first retail store within its Burlingame office campus. Meta's nascent strategy to launch its own retail stores is already being undone, according to people familiar with the situation. As part of the company's metaverse strategy, the Meta Store serves mainly as a showroom for its Quest headset, where people can test out the hardware and purchase it. It was thought upon its opening to be the beginning of Meta's retail ambitions. It has also discontinued the sale of its Portal video chat device, previously part of its retail store, and will not be releasing a planned watch product.

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg's, Gilliard, Meta, Zuckerberg, Meta's, Susan Li, I'm, Kali Hays Organizations: Meta, Facebook, LinkedIn, Big Tech, Microsoft, Reality Labs, Twitter Locations: Burlingame, California, Seattle, khays

☆ ChatGPT Secret Training Data: the Top 50 Books AI Bots Are Reading
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

To figure out what GPT-4 has read, they quizzed it on its knowledge of various books, as if it were a high-school English student. One way to answer the question is to look for information that could have come from only one place. Genre — sci-fi, mystery, romance, horror — is, broadly speaking, more interesting, partially because these books have plots where things actually happen. Bamman's GPT-4 list is a Borgesian library of episodic connections, cliffhangers, third-act complications, and characters taking arms against seas of troubles (and whales). See what a bot makes of Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun," maybe, or Sheri Tepper's "Grass."

☆ Google ends enterprise sales of Google Glass, its augmented reality smartglasses
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Google has stopped selling its Glass Enterprise smart glasses, the company announced on Wednesday on its website. Glass Enterprise was the successor to Google Glass, a lightweight glasses product that displayed tiny bits of information on a transparent screen in the user's field of view. Google's retreat comes as rivals, including Meta and Apple , are investing in augmented reality and virtual reality technology which could end up in devices that are much more sophisticated Google Glass. The discontinuation of Glass does not mean that Google has given up on augmented reality or smartglasses, though. Last summer, Google previewed a different pair of smartglasses that could translate and transcribe speech in real-time, and said it would continue to test augmented reality glasses prototypes in public.

☆ Fact Check-No evidence Jim Jordan announced Ray Epps will testify against FBI
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

No evidence supports online claims that U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio said Ray Epps, a figure linked to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, will testify about alleged FBI involvement in the attack. One tweet said Jordan “just announced” Epps “flipped and will testify” against the FBI, and “watch as they now start to testify against each other-OMG..” (here). Jordan has not posted about Epps or the Jan. 6 attack on his website (jordan.house.gov/), Twitter (twitter.com/Jim_Jordan) or Facebook (www.facebook.com/repjimjordan/). Reporting on how Ray Epps became the target of these conspiracy theories can be found (here ), (here). There is no evidence that Rep. Jim Jordan publicly announced Ray Epps will testify against the FBI regarding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

☆ Citadel joins a growing number of firms rolling out internships for undergrads looking for a fast track to the buy side
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Investment banks, you've been put on notice: The buy side is coming for your young talent. Insider's Emmalyse Brownstein has a full rundown on an undergrad internship at hedge fund Citadel for aspiring fund managers. The Citadel Associate Program (CAP) is a tough nut to crack, with an acceptance rate of only 1%. Click here learn more about Citadel's ultra-exclusive associate program, along with tips to get ahead during the application process. And if you're wondering who is left leading the world's largest hedge fund, look no further than our list of the fund's top 11 executives.

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