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☆ There's already a queue of cargo ships backing up at US ports
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementCargo vessels (green dots) and tankers (red dots) at anchor outside Eastern US ports. AdvertisementCargo vessels (green dots) and tankers (red dots) along the Mid-Atlantic. Cargo vessels (green dots) and tankers (red dots) along the Gulf Coast. Cargo vessels (green dots) and tankers (red dots) outside Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina. Cargo vessels (green dots) and tankers (red dots) outside Norfolk, Virginia.

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☆ NASA isn’t just creating a lunar time zone. It’s establishing an entirely new time scale
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

They’re also going to be communicating with one another or driving their moon buggies while on the lunar surface. Lunar clockworkWhat scientists know for certain is that they need to get precision timekeeping instruments to the moon. Exactly who pays for lunar clocks, which type of clocks will go, and where they’ll be positioned are all questions that remain up in the air, Gramling said. Focke Strangmann/APThe new time scale would underpin an entire lunar network, which NASA and its allies have dubbed LunaNet. But how future astronauts living and working on the lunar surface will experience time is a different question entirely.

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☆ From Amazon to The Trade Desk, experts predict these companies will be the most active acquirers of advertising businesses next year
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

There's a strong interest from acquirers in hot trends like commerce media and data consultancy. Experts predicted the companies most likely to be acquirers of advertising businesses in 2023. Many industry observers expect advertising industry M&A deal volume and value to be down next year due to volatile macroeconomic conditions. Experts across the advertising industry — from consultants, to agency executives, analysts, investors, and adtech leaders — named the companies likely to be active in the advertising M&A market in 2023 and why. Apple could make an under-the-radar adtech acquisition for its sleeping giant advertising businessIndustry insiders predict Apple has big plans for its $5 billion-and-growing advertising business next year.

☆ The criminal charges against Sam Bankman-Fried carry big penalties and jail time if proven, legal experts say
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

If he pleads guilty or ends up being convicted, a federal judge will ultimately decide the length of any prison sentence. And those charges come with potentially big penalties, if he's found guilty: In a sparse indictment unsealed on Tuesday morning, federal prosecutors in Manhattan listed eight criminal counts. Prosecutors leveled multiple conspiracy and wire fraud charges, some of which can be fairly straightforward as they don't require elaborate exposition to support, according to legal experts. It is too soon to tell what, if any, charges Bankman-Fried would be convicted on. But federal criminal statutes prescribe these maximum prison penalties for the following counts:Four counts relating to wire fraud: Maximum sentence for each count is 20 years in prison.

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