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☆ The divorced couple who went viral for falling back in love 7 years later are officially re-married. Here's how they planned their romantic ceremony in 20 days.
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-29 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Here's how the intimate, emotional ceremony came together in just 20 days. Julie told BI she initially envisioned a destination wedding somewhere warm. "I had a moment of, 'We just need to make it official,'" Julie told BI. Julie told BI her dress was "reminiscent" of her first wedding gown, but with a shorter, "second wedding vibe." She also selected blue satin mini-dresses for her daughters, and Rachel did Julie's makeup for the big day.

Persons: Rachel Gaede, —, Julie Shore, Scott Gaede, Rachel, Caroline, Cameron, Julie, Scott's, Rachel's, Scott, texted, they've Organizations: Service, Business, UNC Chapel Hill Locations: Cincinnati, Caroline

☆ UNC-Chapel Hill shooting: Police working to determine motive and find the gun used in killing of University of North Carolina faculty member
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Steve Almasy Sara Smart | Steve Almasy | Sara Smart | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A suspect is in custody but police still are looking for the weapon and the motive behind the fatal shooting of a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Monday afternoon. We will work to rebuild that sense of trust and safety within our community,” UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz said. A witness on campus told CNN they were locked down in their building and saw armed officers searching campus. Emergency responders gather on South Street near the Bell Tower on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus on Monday. The university has a student body of about 32,000, along with more than 4,000 faculty and 9,000 staff members.

Persons: Brian James, won’t, James, Kevin Guskiewicz, ”, Kaitlin McKeown, WRAL, James said, Guskiewicz Organizations: CNN, University of North, Laboratories, ” UNC Police, UNC, Hill, Police, FBI Locations: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

☆ Google's top AI researchers, including all the authors behind a landmark paper, have left for competitors. Here's where they are now.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Top AI researchers have been leaving for startups where their work can have more impact. That frustration over Google's slow movement has been corroborated by other former Google researchers who spoke to Insider. Niki Parmar left Google Brain after five years to serve as a cofounder and CTO of Adept, though in November, she left to found a stealth startup. Lukasz Kaiser left Google Brain after working there for more than seven years to join OpenAI in 2021. Sharan Narang, another contributor to the T5 paper, left Google Brain in 2022 after four years there.

Persons: it's, Llion Jones, OpenAI's, ChatGPT, Sundar Pichai, Bard, Daniel De Freitas, Noam Shazeer, Ilya Sutskever, Sutskever, OpenAI, Ashish Vaswani, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Aidan Gomez, Nick Frosst, Lukasz Kaiser, Kaiser, Illia Polosukhin, Meena, De Freitas, Romal Thoppilan, Character.AI, LaMDA, Elon Musk, Character.ai, Winni Wintermeyer, Thoppilan, Alicia Jin, BERT BERT, BERT, Jacob Devlin, Colin Raffel, Raffel, Sharan Narang, He's, Azalia Mirhoseini, Anna Goldie, Mirhoseini, Goldie, Claude, DeepMind Mustafa Suleyman, Mustafa Suleyman, DeepMind, Suleyman, Reid Hoffman Organizations: Google, Bloomberg, New York Times, Microsoft, Street Journal, Neural Networks, OpenAI, YouTube, Elon, UNC Chapel Hill, Meta, Anthropic, Society Locations: ChatGPT, Character.AI, DeepMind

☆ ‘Students will suffer’: Harvard and UNC students, alumni react to 'disappointing' Supreme Court ruling rejecting affirmative action in admissions
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Jennifer Liu | In Jljenniferliu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that affirmative action policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina that consider a student's race for college admissions are unconstitutional. The court's decision is not surprising but "disappointing" nonetheless, says Julian Taylor, a rising junior and member of the Affirmative Action Coalition at UNC Chapel Hill. The CEO and founder of the sustainability brand Blueland has been vocal about the importance of maintaining affirmative action policies at top colleges. Research has shown that the removal of affirmative action has led to declines in minority admissions at universities. Overturning 40-plus years of affirmative action in colleges

Persons: Edward Blum, Blum, Julian Taylor, Brown, Taylor, John Roberts, Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz, Sarah Paiji Yoo, wouldn't, Claudine Gay Organizations: U.S, Supreme, of Harvard College, University of North, Harvard, Fair, UNC, United States, Affirmative, Coalition, UNC Chapel Hill, UNC Affirmative, Chapel, ACT, Harvard Business School, CNBC Locations: University of North Carolina, Washington ,, Chapel Hill

☆ 5 real estate investors who started with low credit scores or zero credit at all share 4 strategies they used to boost their credit and buy their first homes
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( Kathleen Elkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Insider has spoken to successful real estate investors who started with terrible credit, or no credit at all, and still managed to buy investment properties. Like many young students, they didn't fully understand how credit worked and ended up racking up credit card debt. Apply for a secured credit card and pay your bills on timeWithout any credit history, Afzal couldn't open a regular credit card. Instead, he had to start by getting a secured credit card, which is a starter card that doesn't require a credit history or credit score. The credit card company will hold that money as collateral if you end up defaulting your card.

☆ Google's AI teams are experiencing a brain drain. Here's where its top researchers are now.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Top AI researchers have been leaving for startups where their work can have more impact. That frustration over Google's slow movement has been corroborated by other former Google researchers who spoke to Insider. Niki Parmar left Google Brain after five years to serve as a co-founder and CTO of Adept, though like Vaswani she recently left for a stealth startup. Lukasz Kaiser left Google Brain after over seven years to join OpenAI in 2021. Sharan Narang, another contributor to the T5 paper, left Google Brain in 2022 after four years.

☆ A financially independent couple that improved their credit score from 524 to over 800 share 3 strategies that helped them turn around their finances
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Kathleen Elkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Natia and Jervais Seegars both opened their first credit cards when they were college students. Natia and Jervais Seegars both opened their first credit cards when they were college students in the early 2000s. Jervais' credit score was 524 at its lowest. As they learned first-hand, "if your finances aren't in order, it's going to be a very bumpy road," said Jervais. They tracked their spending and stuck to a budgetThe first change Natia and Jervais made was tracking their expenses.

I had panic attacks every time I went to school.”Brown was accepted into the school’s five-year organizational behavioral program in March 2020 and dismissed from the program in July 2021, the lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit alleges that while Brown was admonished for requesting extensions, her white colleagues received “scheduling accommodations for reasons ranging from personal crises to writer’s block with no penalty or consequence.”The lawsuit alleges that Brown informed Melwani and Christian of the court hearings and the assaults. The lawsuit says Brown consistently got good grades, even as she battled with her advisers about her work, the lawsuit states. When Brown reported the disparity, the lawsuit alleges, Desai told her, “You are not as competent as we thought you were.” Desai did not immediately respond to the allegation. The lawsuit alleges that, fed up, Brown reported the professors’ “discriminatory pattern of conduct” to the school’s Equal Opportunity Compliance Office in June 2021.

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