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☆ A Black photographer added himself to places where history didn’t want him
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-07 | by ( Thomas Page | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

“Being There” came to life when Shulman noticed many of the slides contained an empty seat – presumably that the photographer had vacated to take the photo. Diop’s series “Diaspora” depicts Africans outside of Africa at different points in history (albeit with some contemporary – often soccer related – props). And in doing so, we forget how it’s easy not to make room for someone who’s different,” he added. “He’d been a student in Europe in the late ’50s, so he’d been sitting at these tables,” Diop added. We don’t know their politics, nor how they’d respond to Diop’s presence.

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☆ Microsoft says cloud AI demand is exceeding supply even after 79% surge in capital spending
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

In its earnings report on Thursday, Microsoft said capital expenditures jumped 79% from a year earlier to $14 billion. "We do have demand that exceeds our supply by a bit," Microsoft CFO Amy Hood told analysts on the company's earnings call. During the fiscal third quarter, revenue in Microsoft's Azure cloud rose 31%, with 7 percentage points from AI. Microsoft intends "to scale to meet the growing demand signal for our cloud and AI products," she said. WATCH: Microsoft's capex increase for AI infrastructure is not a surprise, says Deepwater's Gene Munster

Persons: Amy Hood, Hood, Deepwater's Gene Munster Organizations: Microsoft, OpenAI, Nvidia, Amazon Web Services Locations: Bellevue , Washington

☆ iPhone's SOS satellite feature helped rescue a family of hikers lost in a freezing Oregon forest, says report
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A family lost in an Oregon forest used the Emergency SOS feature on their iPhone to survive. Apple's emergency SOS feature via satellite debuted with the iPhone 14 model. AdvertisementA family used an iPhone feature to survive after they came lost in a freezing forest in Oregon, The Chronicle reports. The family activated the Emergency SOS via satellite feature on their iPhone for help, and the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office received their distress signal at 7:30 p.m.AdvertisementApple's Emergency SOS feature via satellite debuted with the iPhone 14 model. The easiest way to activate Apple's Emergency SOS feature is by holding the lock button and one of the volume buttons.

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☆ DNA collected from chewing gum leads to arrest and conviction in 1980 cold case murder
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Andi Babineau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —DNA found in a piece of discarded chewing gum led to the arrest and conviction of a suspect in a 1980 cold case murder in Oregon, prosecutors say. Robert Plympton, 60, was found guilty last week on one count of first-degree murder and four counts of second-degree murder in the killing of Mt. Nineteen-year-old Tucker was “kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and beaten to death” on January 15, 1980, the release states. Witness heard screamingBarbara Tucker Tucker Family/Gresham Police DepartmentWitnesses had seen a woman in apparent distress around the time of the murder, the document from the DA’s office states. DNA pulled from the gum matched the profile from the autopsy swabs and Plympton was arrested on June 8, 2021.

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☆ Wellness influencers fueled pandemic misinformation. Now they have another big conspiracy in their sights
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( Laura Paddison | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

As interest in the pandemic waned, experts say some wellness influencers have latched on to climate change to galvanize followers. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty ImagesCécile Simmons, a trained yoga teacher, was surprised when many of the wellness accounts she followed started posting about climate change. Some wellness influencers are exposing young audiences to a slew of climate misinformation. Climate misinformation is having “a profound impact” both on people’s beliefs and on the normalization of fringe perspectives, Caulfield said. It’s particularly worrying as it allows climate misinformation to reach new audiences, experts say, including young people that might otherwise be supportive of climate change action.

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Political Cartoons View All 253 ImagesHood and a correctional officer will be in the execution chamber when the warden activates the nitrogen gas system from an adjoining room. Witnesses, including attorneys, media witnesses and witnesses for the victim, will be watching the execution through windows from other adjoining rooms. Nitrogen gas makes up 78% of the air inhaled by humans and is harmless when inhaled with proper levels of oxygen. But nitrogen gas can become quickly deadly when it displaces adequate levels of oxygen. And the experts agree that nitrogen hypoxia is painless because it causes unconsciousness in seconds," the state argued.

Persons: Jeff Hood, Kenneth Smith, Smith, Hood, “ Smith, Elizabeth Sennett Organizations: The Alabama Department of Corrections, Prosecutors, Alabama Department of Corrections Locations: MONTGOMERY, Ala, Alabama

☆ A climber tumbled hundreds of feet down Oregon’s highest peak. Volunteer rescuers happened to see it - and saved her life
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Sarah Dewberry | Christina Maxouris | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The climber “slid and tumbled down the mountain for approximately 300-400 feet,” Brian McCall, a spokesperson with the sheriff’s office, told CNN. The brutal fall was witnessed by members of Portland Mountain Rescue, a nonprofit volunteer organization focused on helping people in mountainous areas. The climber, Leah Brown, told CNN in an email she doesn’t know what caused her fall. Portland Mountain RescueIn a Facebook post, Portland Mountain Rescue wrote the woman’s injuries “prevented self-rescue,” adding their members worked with the Crag Rats group, also an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization. “I owe them my life.”In a statement after the rescue, Portland Mountain Rescue warned of the dangerous winter conditions at the mountain.

Persons: “, Brian McCall, Leah Brown, ” Brown, Ross, Brown Organizations: CNN, Clackamas County Sheriff’s, Authorities, Rescue, Ross Clemson, “ Locations: Mt . Hood, Portland, Clackamas County, Mt, Hood, Oregon

☆ Olympic Hopefuls Needed a Home. A Retirement Community Stepped Up.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Scott Cacciola | More About Scott Cacciola | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“We’ll walk off the ice, and they’ll go, ‘Why did you play that shot?’” Mr. Sargon, 30, said. That became clear to Mr. Sargon a few weeks ago when he joined Mr. Hood at a curling tournament in Okotoks, about 25 miles south of Calgary. As soon as their match began, Mr. Sargon and Mr. And while it is hugely popular in Canada, curling does have some historical ties to New Zealand.

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☆ Australia's Indigenous Voice referendum faces misinformation linked to COVID influencers
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Byron Kaye | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +10 min

Dozens of campaigners who built substantial audiences during the COVID era by opposing Australia's pandemic response have turned their focus to undermining the Oct. 14 referendum, analysis of social media posts by independent fact-checkers shows. The direct link between COVID agitators and misinformation about the Voice has not been previously reported in detail. Polls show support for the Voice has slumped from about two-thirds in April to less than 40% this month. Not one X post containing electoral misinformation was marked or taken down in the monitoring period, before or after being reported, Reset.Tech said. "Many of the accounts pushing electoral misinformation narratives turned to a style of anti-lockdown politics during the pandemic," said Reset.Tech Australia executive director Alice Dawkins.

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Recent market volatility and uncertainty regarding the U.S. economy has Wall Street analysts torn about where some stocks are headed in the upcoming months. The stock has buy or overweight ratings from 20% of analysts, while another 20% rates it as sell or underweight. More than half of the analysts covering the stock give it a buy rating. Nonetheless, 24% of analysts have a sell rating on it. More than 30% of analysts have buy ratings on the stock, whereas 23% have a sell rating.

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☆ Microsoft reports earnings beat, says A.I. will drive revenue growth
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Here's how the company did:Earnings: $2.45 per share, vs. $2.23 per share as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv. $2.45 per share, vs. $2.23 per share as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv. Revenue: $52.86 billion, vs. $51.02 billion as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv. For the fiscal fourth quarter, Microsoft finance chief Amy Hood called for $54.85 billion to $55.85 billion in revenue, during a conference call with analysts. Revenue increased 7% to $52.86 billion from $49.36 billion a year ago, according to a statement.

☆ Australian mayor readies world's first defamation lawsuit over ChatGPT content
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Byron Kaye | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The lawyers said they sent a letter of concern to ChatGPT owner OpenAI on March 21, which gave OpenAI 28 days to fix the errors about their client or face a possible defamation lawsuit. OpenAI, which is based in San Francisco, had not yet responded to Hood's legal letter, the lawyers said. If Hood files a lawsuit, it would accuse ChatGPT of giving users a false sense of accuracy by failing to include footnotes, Naughton said. "It's very difficult for somebody to look behind that to say 'how does the algorithm come up with that answer?'" ($1 = 1.4850 Australian dollars)Reporting by Byron Kaye; Editing by Christopher CushingOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ US Senate moves toward ending 'forever war' authorizations
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Patricia Zengerle | Thomson Reuters | Award-Winning Journalist With More Than Two Decades Of Experience Covering International News | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will take up the 1991 and 2002 Authorizations for the Use of Military Force, or AUMFs, Schumer said, paving the way for a possible vote in the full Senate before members leave for the April recess, Schumer said. "We need to put the Iraq war squarely behind us once and for all, and doing that means we should extinguish the legal authority that initiated the war to begin with," Schumer said. Democratic and Republican lawmakers from the Senate and House of Representatives introduced legislation to repeal the two longstanding AUMFs in early February. Under the Constitution, Congress, not the president, has the right to declare war. Previous repeal efforts have not succeeded, although some have made it through committees or been passed by one chamber of Congress.

☆ Democratic incumbent Sen. Ron Wyden faces off against Republican Jo Rae Perkins in Oregon's US Senate election
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Hanna Kang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sen. Ron Wyden is running against Republican Jo Rae Perkins to represent Oregon in the US Senate. Wyden has been Congress for more than 40 years overall — and in the US Senate since 1996. Democratic incumbent Sen. Ron Wyden faces off against Republican Jo Rae Perkins in Oregon to represent the state in the US Senate. Prior to his time as senator, Wyden represented Oregon's 3rd Congressional District in the House from 1981 until his election to the US Senate in 1996. Oregon's voting historyThe state voted forJoe Biden over then-President Donald Trump by a margin of 16 percentage points in the 2020 election.

☆ What our Big Tech holdings signaled on expenses and hiring this earnings season
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

We want to see that happen with the Club's holdings, so we paid close attention to what management teams at our Big Tech stocks signaled on costs during this mixed earnings season. Head count grew by 22% on an annual basis, 6 percentage points of which was due to acquisitions that closed in the prior two quarters. "Our sequential head count growth from Q1 to Q2 will be minimal. ... We've added a lot of head count over the past 12 months, and we want to make sure we use those head count in the most productive way possible," Hood said this week. "We are holding some teams flat in terms of head count, shrinking others, and investing head count growth only in our highest priorities," Wehner said.

Organizers with Stop TxDOT I-45 said expanding in the area would hurt the predominantly Black and Latino communities along the stretch. Kendra London joined Stop TxDOT I-45 three years ago when she learned of the state’s plans to expand the highway. Stop TxDOT I-45 and Allendale Strong are two of more than 70 groups across the country that comprise the Freeway Fighters Network, a coalition of groups advocating for the dismantling of harmful highways and urging city leaders not to expand highways or build new ones. “We hadn’t actually stopped building new highways that still harm communities, predominantly communities of color. “We should be thinking about long-term repair,” Hood said, highlighting the Black communities affected by the highway.

☆ Rare video shows a seal inflating its nose like a balloon to attract a female in a mating ritual
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A rare video shows the mating ritual of hooded seals in the Arctic Ocean. In the video, a young male hooded seal appears bobbing along a slab of ice, where a female is nursing a pup. A male hooded seal is shown in an illustration. More than 600,000 hooded seals live across the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean, per the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) fisheries. Hooded seal pups are weaned off the milk in just four days, the shortest time for any mammal.

George Hood, în vârstă de 62 de ani, a stabilit recordul mondial Guinness în Chicago, devenind bărbatul care a păstrat cel mai îndelungat timp această poziție. Hood a depășit vechiul record, de 8 ore și 1 minut, stabilit în 2016 de către Mao Widong, citează Digi24. Hood a anunțat că nu va mai încerca să stabilească un nou record. George Hood a început să încerce această poziție în 2011 și s-a antrenat și 7 ore în fiecare zi. Pe tot parcursul evenimentului, Hood a ascultat muzică rock, printre care Van Halen, Montley Crue și Deep Purple.

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