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☆ Opinion: We all lose if the Olympic surveillance state becomes the norm
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Opinion Jules Boykoff | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

He is the author of six books on the politics of the Olympic Games, most recently “What Are the Olympics For?” The views expressed here are his own. France enacted an Olympic Games Law in May 2023 that legalized the use of AI-driven video surveillance this summer and allowed experimentation with intelligent video surveillance until March 31, 2025. The law made France the first nation in the European Union to greenlight biometric surveillance systems. She told me that the Olympic Law “infringes the right to privacy, the right to be anonymous in the streets.”“Everything in this is political,” Levain said. The French Ministry of the Armed Forces unveiled plans to use HELMA-P, an anti-drone laser weapon system prototype, at the Paris Games.

Persons: Jules Boykoff, Emmanuel Macron, Jules Boykoff Jessi, –, ” Noémie, “, ” Levain, ”, Gérald Darmanin, we’ve, Amelie Oudea, Macron, Natsuko Sasaki, Laurent Nuñez, Le, Danielle Simonnet, Thomas Bach Organizations: Pacific University, Olympic Games, CNN, Olympic, Games, ISIS, Stade de France –, Law, European Union, Amnesty International, European Civic Forum, Human Rights, Ministry of, France’s, French Ministry of, Armed Forces, Paris Games, Stade de France, Paris Police, Le Parisien, Paris, Patriotes, Palais Royal, National Assembly, France Insoumise Party Locations: Paris, Palestinian, Atlanta, France, Le, Europe, Moscow

☆ Polarizing YouTube star Gabbie Hanna has reemerged as a fitness instructor at a Pennsylvania YMCA after vanishing from social media last year
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read previewAfter vanishing from the internet last February — the month of her last TikTok and Instagram posts — controversial former YouTube star Gabbie Hanna has reemerged as a fitness instructor. Last month, the Lawrence County YMCA, located in Hannah's hometown of New Castle, Pennsylvania, announced her as their "newest instructor." In the quippily edited clip, which was first shared on the local YMCA's Instagram page, Hanna is seen dancing as she introduces herself as "your new instructor at the Lawrence County YMCA." one commenter wrote on the YMCA's Instagram post. Neither the Lawrence County YMCA nor Hanna immediately responded to Business Insider's requests for comment.

Persons: —, Gabbie Hanna, Hanna, Trisha Paytas, Jessi, Vazquez Organizations: Service, YouTube, Business, Lawrence County YMCA, New, YMCA Locations: Lawrence, Hannah's, New Castle , Pennsylvania, Lawrence County

☆ Laura Enever: Australian surfer officially breaks world record after taming giant wave
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Manav Tanneeru | Ben Church | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Australian surfer Laura Enever can finally celebrate officially breaking a world record for the largest wave ever paddled into by a woman. Guinness World Records and the World Surf League (WSL) have now verified the size of the 13.3-meter (about 43.6-foot) wave that she successfully surfed in Hawaii on January 22. “Andrea Moller held this record before me and it’s an honor to hold that record and keep pushing big wave surfing. Video Ad Feedback He loves giant waves, hates being underwater 01:30 - Source: CNNShe has since entered into WSL Big Wave events where she continues to push herself to the limits. Germany’s Sebastian Steudtner owns the record for the biggest wave ever surfed, riding a 26.21-meter (about 86-foot) whopper in 2020.

Persons: Laura Enever, “, ” Enever, Andrea Moller –, ”, I’m, Enever, “ Andrea Moller, Laura, Jessi Miley, Dyer, “ Laura, Aaron Gold, Germany’s Sebastian Steudtner Organizations: CNN, Guinness World Records, Surf League, Junior, Big Locations: Australian, Hawaii, Enever

In a country shadowed by the threat of mass shootings and neighborhood violence, courts have embraced an increasingly absolute reading of the right to guns. In the wake of school shootings and neighborhood violence, how can parents and children feel safe? More than 25 years after Hollan Holm survived a school shooting in a small Kentucky town, he struggles to reassure his own children. “Jessi’s dead!”In the months after her daughter was killed in a mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater, the darkness was all consuming. But as the drumbeat of mass shootings continued with little hope of resolution, the couple confronted a painful reality.

Persons: ”, Jimmie Hardaway Jr, Stephen Cady, “, Barbie Rohde, Rohde, Janet Paulsen’s, Paulsen, Hollan Holm, ” Holm, Krista Gwynn, Gwynn, Sandy Phillips, ” Phillips Organizations: Associated Press, New York, Pew Research Center Locations: U.S, Hardaway’s, Texas, Acworth, Kentucky, Colorado, Newtown, Buffalo, Highland

Evan Luthra, an app developer, entrepreneur and angel investor, told CNBC he lost $2 million dollars in the collapse of FTX. Jake Thacker, an FTX customer in Portland, Oregon, told CNBC he lost hundreds of thousands of dollars shortly after losing his job in the tech industry. "I was like, oh my goodness, there's all these big name people utilizing FTX," Kannegundla said. Bhagamshi Kannegundla, an FTX customer, told CNBC he sold his bankruptcy claim to reinvest in crypto. Years later, if the FTX bankruptcy process recovers more than the 11 cents on the dollar for his claim, the buyer pockets the difference.

Persons: FTX's, hasn't, Evan Luthra, Luthra, FTX, Bitcoin, everybody's, Sam Bankman, He's, Fatih Aktas, Jake Thacker, Thacker, I'm, CNBC Thacker, Bhagamshi Kannegundla, Larry David, Kannegundla, Bhagamshi, Sunil Kavuri, Kavuri, Brett Harrison, Harrison, he's, Anthony Scaramucci, didn't Organizations: CNBC, Manhattan Federal, Anadolu Agency, Getty, Sequoia, Nurphoto, FTX's, FTX, Financial Technologies, Skybridge Locations: Miami, Manhattan, New York, United States, Portland , Oregon, FTX's, Bahamas, U.S, cryptocurrencies

☆ Prince William Takes a Dip in New York’s East River
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Callie Holtermann | More About Callie Holtermann | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Wearing a fluorescent orange life preserver and rubber gloves that reached his biceps, Prince William waded — ever so carefully — into New York’s East River. Damp onlookers watched the prince toss a few juvenile oysters in a bucket, then wade through waist-deep water until he reached the shore. Relief was palpable among staff of Billion Oyster Project, a nonprofit aiming to restore oyster reefs to New York’s waterways. This time around, the staff’s preparations included ordering new waders, the type of waterproof overalls worn by fly fishermen. “We were like, what size waders does the prince wear?” Jessi Olsen, the corporate partnerships manager for Billion Oyster Project, said.

Persons: Prince William waded —, Queen Elizabeth II, Jessi Olsen Locations: New, East

☆ 'Mythbusters' video shows what a deep-sea implosion does to a faux human in a scuba suit
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Jessica Orwig | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A clip from an old episode of the TV show "Mythbusters" has resurfaced on Twitter. Account @ChudsOfTikTok posted the clip as a comparison of what happened on the Titan submersible. But what is shown in the video clip is under extremely different circumstances from the lost sub. But if something goes wrong with the suit's pressurization, it could be catastrophic for the diver. Then they put the mannequin in an old diving suit and sunk it 300 feet underwater, where the pressure is about nine times great than at sea level.

Persons: —, doesn't, Jessi Combs, Kari Byron, Tory Belleci, Grant Imahara, ChudsofTikTok Organizations: Titan, Service, Newsweek

Kevin Lambert grew up in North Carolina in the 1980s, and first visited his mother's native South Korea in 2000. Courtesy Kevin LambertIt might seem an odd desire given many have never set foot in South Korea. But life in South Korea brings its own challenges – and many eventually return to the US. For Kim, it’s a relief to be back in South Korea, where the safety is “100% better.”“I plan to live (in South Korea) until I die,” he said. “If South Korea today was as impoverished as it was when I left, why would I return?” he said.

☆ Eliminated Slater handed wildcard to continue on WSL Championship Tour
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The 11-times world champion will be able to surf and earn ranking points at the remaining events in 2023 and for the first half of the 2024 tour, the WSL said. "Slater's ranking points will also give him the opportunity to compete for provisional qualification for the Olympic Games Paris 2024," the WSL said. Slater was knocked out by Australian Liam O'Brien early in the Margaret River Pro last week, which left him below the mid-season cut line. Some surfing media criticised the wildcard decision, saying it was motivated by commercial considerations and made a mockery of the WSL's ranking system. France's Johanne Defay was also awarded a wildcard to continue on the Women's Championship Tour after falling well outside the mid-season cut.

☆ Regular people can pay for a day pass to swim in pools at Ritz-Carlton hotels. Here's the pitch deck ResortPass used to raise $26 million from investors like The Points Guy, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jessi
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Alex Nicoll | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The company raised $26 million in a Series B round from travel investors and entrepreneurial celebs. Its newly appointed CEO, Michael Wolf, walked Insider through the pitch deck he used to raise cash. "My existing investors had highlighted to me that the funding environment is the most difficult it's been in 20 years," Wolf told Insider. Wolf said hotels had been reaching out to ResortPass to get amenities such as flexible working space added to the app. Wolf walked Insider through the pitch deck he used to help raise the app's recent funding round below.

Instead, they're embroiled in a battle over who is the legal owner of all that stolen crypto. A company spokesperson told CNBC that Bitfinex customers could have sold the tokens for cash and then used the cash to buy more bitcoins at the time. The decision to offer customers tokens came after the company decided to generalize its losses across all account holders by 36%. Bitfinex hack victim Rafal Bielenia. Will Hogarth, who also had his crypto stolen in the Bitfinex hack, told CNBC, "I still expect my bitcoin back and I don't see any reason why they would keep it."

☆ ‘The Fastest Woman on Earth’ Review: Jessi Combs at Speed
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

If you are going to make a biographical documentary, it’s certainly no disadvantage to have a subject who is telegenic, charismatic and camera-ready. If you are going to watch a biographical documentary, it’s not necessarily a disadvantage to go in knowing nothing at all about the story. And if you are up to speed on “The Fastest Woman on Earth,” it’s still an engaging, moving and even shocking documentary.

☆ Ultrafast startup FastAF reveals its secret weapon for surviving the rapid delivery shakeout: offering Shopify merchants 2-hour delivery and nationwide shipping
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Nancy Luna | Madeline Stone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

DTC delivery startup FastAF offers rapid delivery of Shopify brands. The startup FastAF has discovered a secret weapon in surviving the volatile ultrafast-delivery space: Shopify stores. On Wednesday, FastAF added nationwide shipping, allowing shoppers to bundle items into one delivery in any market in the US. at a higher cost," Hnetinka told Insider this week. "It's really put us in a position of strength compared to the other guys who've got commoditized and undifferentiated products," Hnetinka said.

☆ I made $1.4 million in revenue selling Canva templates. Here's how I scaled my business in less than 3 years.
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-15 | by ( Kimanzi Constable | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Here's how she started selling Canva templates for viral content, as told to Kimanzi Constable. I decided to presell my Canva templates to ensure it was a viable product. Before creating any templates, I asked my followers whether they'd buy a pack of 100 templates to help them create viral business content. I created the first iteration of the Viral Content Templates alongside Jamie. Since the templates launched in December 2019, my template business has brought in $1.4 million in revenue and continues to grow.

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