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☆ The trailer for the new 'BlackBerry' movie is here and former 'CrackBerry' fans are shocked at how entertaining it looks
  + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
The "BlackBerry" trailer dropped Wednesday, and it's trending at number 21 on YouTube only 24 hours later. Critics and nostalgic BlackBerry fans alike say they're thrilled by the cast and the chance to revisit the iconic phone. It tells the story of the rise and fall of Canadian tech company Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry. "I'm shocked that BlackBerry actually looks like it might be pretty damn good," Canadian tech editor Patrick O'Rourke tweeted. Although the film might strike the hearts of BlackBerry loyalists or Y2K enthusiasts, the phones most likely won't be back.
☆ Cats vs. Birds: The Whimsical Way to Fill Out Your NCAA Tournament Bracket
  + stars: | 2023-03-11 | by ( Rosie Ettenheim | Laine Higgins | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Filling out brackets for the NCAA tournament is a rite of March. It’s also a famously inexact science, where the grandmother who picks teams based on their mascots has as good a chance of winning as the analytics geek who spent hours poring over team sheets. You could reference the Madness Machine, The Wall Street Journal’s bracket generator based on reams of data from the NCAA and basketball statistician Ken Pomeroy. Or you could go for a more subjective approach: Is red your favorite color? Do you like to watch teams where super tall players dominate?
☆ Best Buy will set up in-home hospital care through a new deal with Atrium Health
  + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Melissa Repko | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
Best Buy is best known for installing TVs and home theater systems. Best Buy began setting up virtual-care systems in mid-February for 10 hospitals in and around Charlotte, North Carolina. Best Buy and Atrium did not disclose specific financial terms, but said Atrium will buy the devices from Best Buy and use Geek Squad services for installation and retrieval when the patient is cleared from care. For Best Buy, the hospital-at-home program represents the latest push to turn health care into a more meaningful revenue driver. Best Buy, like retailers including Walmart and Target , has seen consumers buy fewer big-ticket and discretionary items as they pay more for food and housing.
☆ Microsoft limits Bing chats to 5 questions per session
  + stars: | 2023-02-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
[1/2] The Microsoft logo is seen outside the Microsoft Experience Center in New York City, U.S., January 18, 2023. REUTERS/Shannon StapletonFeb 17 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O) said on Friday it will limit chat sessions on its new Bing search engine powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI) to five questions per session and 50 questions per day. "As we mentioned recently, very long chat sessions can confuse the underlying chat model in the new Bing. To address these issues, we have implemented some changes to help focus the chat sessions," Microsoft said in the blog post. The new Bing, which has a wait list of millions of people for access, is a potentially lucrative opportunity for Microsoft.
☆ Exclusive: Microsoft's Bing plans AI ads in early pitch to advertisers
  + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( Sheila Dang | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
Last week, Microsoft and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google announced new generative AI chatbots a day apart from the other. Microsoft expects the more human responses from the Bing AI chatbot will generate more users for its search function and therefore more advertisers. Advertisements within the Bing chatbot may also enjoy more prominence on the page compared to traditional search ads. loadingMicrosoft's Edge web browser, which uses the Bing search engine, has a market share under 5% worldwide, according to one estimate from web analytics firm StatCounter. Parts Geek did not immediately respond to questions about whether it was aware of its ads appearing in the new Bing chatbot.
☆ You still can get a ticket to the Super Bowl on game day, but it'll cost you
  + stars: | 2023-02-12 | by ( Aidan Pollard | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Insider checked out a few last-minute Super Bowl ticket options and found some of the cheapest seats available. StubHub cracks the $3,000 barrierSuper Bowl tickets on StubHub StubHub/ScreenshotThe lowest Super Bowl ticket price before fees on StubHub Sunday morning was $3,035. Prices over the yearsSuper Bowl ticket data from VividSeats VividSeats/screenshotSuper Bowl ticket prices have dropped significantly in the past two years, according to VividSeats, but remain far above the cost of a ticket in the 2010s. The average ticket price for Super Bowl LVII rings in at $6,024, according to VividSeats data, slightly less than the price in 2022. The average cost for 2021's game — Tom Brady's final Super Bowl — was nearly $9,500.
☆ TikTokers can't stop talking about the style of J.Crew's new womenswear design chief, and it's boosting brand image
  + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Mary Hanbury | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
J.Crew's new womenswear and kids design chief has gained a large fan base online. These images are being shared widely on TikTok, helping to boost the brand image. A spokesperson for J.Crew told Harpers Bazaar that its women's business has seen consistent growth since Gayot shared her collections and a boost in sales from her posts. Gayot told Harpers that when she joined in September 2020, a few months pregnant, she was apprehensive. New CEO Libby Wadle told The Wall Street Journal in the summer of 2022 that the company is now profitable.
☆ I can't wait to hire laid off Big Tech workers. Here's how to ace the hiring process at startups like mine.
  + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Katie Malone | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
He says big tech workers are in the top 1% of talent and he's excited to hire them for his startup. Reza says startups have a very different culture and hiring strategy than Big Tech companies. The workers at Big Tech firms are the 1% of the 1%. Here's my advice for recently laid off tech workers looking for a new opportunity at a startup. Laid off Big Tech hires need to show off more than just the technical capabilitiesWhat I'm looking for is that culture fit.
☆ U.S. investors have plowed billions into China's AI sector, report shows
  + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Alexandra Alper | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
According to the report, 167 U.S. investors took part in 401 transactions, or roughly 17% of the investments into Chinese AI companies in the period. Those transactions represented a total $40.2 billion in investment, or 37% of the total raised by Chinese AI companies in the 6-year period. According to the report, U.S. investor GSR Ventures invested alongside China's IFlytek Co Ltd (002230.SZ) in a Chinese AI company after the speech recognition firm was added to a trade blacklist. Silicon Valley Bank and Wanxiang American Healthcare investments group made investments in Chinese AI firms alongside China's Sensetime before the powerhouse in facial recognition technology was added to the same trade blacklist. Only one Chinese AI company that received funding from U.S. investors is involved in developing AI applications for military or public safety uses, according to CSET.
☆ I made $1 million in revenue last year selling project-management templates. Here's how I built up this new income stream in just 2 years.
  + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Lola Christina Alao | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
Last year, selling his two Notion templates generated $1 million in revenue. I started my main YouTube channel in 2014 and started transitioning out of college-advice content. In 2021, I launched my first paid-for Notion template, "Creator's Companion," on Gumroad, an e-commerce platform for selling digital products. I have never marketed either of my paid Notion templates on my main YouTube channel. I think the people who copy templates don't understand the guts of them.
☆ A booming market for gear to help seniors grow older at home is creating an opportunity for investors
  + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( Michelle Fox | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +13 min
Alphabet, Amazon and Best Buy are among the fund's plays on the aging in place theme. Best Buy breaks into the space It's Best Buy that has really been doubling down on its efforts to break into the space. Best Buy sees the role of technology within health care becoming much more important. Medicare Advantage's health care at home coverage includes primary care, transitional care when someone is released from a hospital and often hospice care, she said. That should lead to higher earnings power, said Baker, who has a buy rating and $237 price target on Lowe's stock.
☆ I make fake snow for films like 'Fantastic Beasts.' It's fun to make but painstaking to clean up — now I never look at winter movies the same.
  + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Jem Bartholomew | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Jon Llewellyn works at Snow Business International, a company that produces fake snow. I work at Snow Business International, where we make fake snow for all kinds of movie sets and more. There's a lot of secrecy around Christmas TV ads in the UKPeople talk, so we use code names to muddy the water. Jon LlewellynRecently, we cleaned up this entire area of fake snow on a shoot in Ireland. But it's funny because I thought it looked a bit unrealistic on the cars, even though it was real snow.
☆ I'm the senior director of a $5 billion data company — here's how a mix of programming and leadership courses skyrocketed my career since college
  + stars: | 2023-01-07 | by ( Julia Pugachevsky | Read More | Read Less | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
Focusing on hard skills like data analysis as well as management helped me move up in my career. But what really put my career on a rocket ship was taking online courses from platforms like Coursera, edX, and LinkedIn Learning. For anyone looking for a big career jump, here are four lessons I learned from taking online courses — and how to make the most of online learning. Taking management courses helped me advance much faster. Mike CrabtreeBecause of taking online courses, my career advanced very quickly in a short amount of time.
☆ The legendary SR-71 spy plane first flew 58 years ago, and enemy jets and missiles could never catch up
  + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Brent M. Eastwood | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
The spy plane set a number of flight speed records. Spy planes such as the SR-71 Blackbird could really boogey. This allowed it to outrun and evade over 4,000 enemy missiles that were fired at it over the years. Sometimes enemy radar worked; sometimes it didn'tThe SR-71 Blackbird Judson Brohmer/USAFAnother thing that helped the SR-71 was its reduced radar cross section. The Swedes came closeAn underside view of an SR-71 Blackbird strategic reconnaissance aircraft in flight at an undisclosed location.
☆ We wanted to ask Elon Musk about Twitter, Trump, and Tesla. But he seemed kinda busy, so we went with the next best thing: an AI version of him.
  + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Marshall Gunnell | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +12 min
Since his recent acquisition of Twitter, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX has been more media-averse than ever. So I decided to try the next best thing: I sat down to interview an artificial-intelligence version of Musk. Using neural language models, Character.AI then draws on information the engineers have fed it to develop the "voice" of its AI Elon. Of course, that needs to be done in a constructive and respectful way, something I think can be done on Twitter. The best way to fight ideas you don't agree with is with words, not with silence.
☆ I talked to 70 parents who raised highly successful adults—here's the 'rare' skill they all taught their kids
  + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Margot Machol Bisnow | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
For my book, "Raising an Entrepreneur," I talked to 70 parents who raised highly successful people. When I asked them what skills they taught their kids at an early age, there was one in particular that they all agreed on: curiosity. As parents, we all want to raise confident, fearless and resilient kids. They encouraged their kids to fix things. Robert's curiosity for how things worked started when he was a young boy, when he unscrewed all the doorknobs in his parents' house.
☆ The founder of a baby-services startup that just launched in Walmart shares her tips for working with the retail giant
  + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Ben Tobin | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Tot Squad began selling services at Walmart stores nationwide and on Walmart.com in February. After being "relentless" and pitching to many different people at the company, Tot Squad finally signed a contract with Walmart in August 2019, Saxton said. It wouldn't be until February 2022 that Tot Squad would officially launch in Walmart. Customers choose between video consultation or personal installation by a Tot Squad expert technician for an extra $40 or $80, respectively. For example, she said Angi — formerly known as Angie's List — is the home-services partner for Walmart, and Tot Squad is the retail giant's baby-services provider.
☆ I decorate people's homes for Halloween. I started out of the trunk of my car and almost quit from the stress — but now I have my own staff and big commercial clients.
  + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Jamie Killin | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
Kelly Fitzsimmons is the owner of Light Up Your Holidays, a holiday decorating service in Chicago. We decorate the exteriors of homes for Christmas and other holidays, like Halloween, which is becoming increasingly popular in our business. He told me about how he'd get super busy in September and October because of holiday decorating. Now, about 20% of my clients decorate for Halloween. I urge people to relinquish the competitive spirit around holiday decorating.
☆ I talked to 70 parents of highly successful adults—here are 5 phrases they always said to their kids
  + stars: | 2022-09-10 | by ( Margot Machol Bisnow | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
The things that parents say to their kids can either encourage and give them confidence, or lower their self-esteem and hold them back in life. As I researched and wrote my book, "Raising an Entrepreneur," I talked to 70 parents who raised highly successful adults about how they helped their kids achieve their dreams. These parents were the opposite of "helicopter" parents (a.k.a. “My parents weren’t angry, they just told me I had to put them all back," he said. We fail, we try and try again, we fail, we try and try and try."
☆ Delta and American Express begin issuing cards made of Boeing 747 metal
  + stars: | 2022-06-16 | by ( Emily Mcnutt | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
Through Aug. 3, 2022, new and current card members with the Delta SkyMiles® Reserve American Express Card or the Delta SkyMiles® Reserve Business American Express Card can order a limited-edition Boeing 747 metal card. In fact, we consider the Delta Amex Reserve to be the best card out there for a Delta companion certificate. If you already have a Delta Reserve card and want a 747 metal version, fret not. Current Delta Amex Reserve and Delta Amex Business Reserve card members can request a 747 metal card via the Amex app, online or by calling the phone number on the back of their card. Learn more about the Delta SkyMiles Reserve American Express Card.
☆ This swarm of robots gets smarter the more it works
  + stars: | 2021-06-15 | by ( Words Stephanie Bailey | Video Zahra Jamshed | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +1 min
(CNN) In a Hong Kong warehouse, a swarm of autonomous robots works 24/7. They're not just working hard, they're working smart; as they operate, they get better at their job. The Autonomous Mobile Robots were developed by Chinese startup Geek+. A team tracks these movements and uses the data to improve their algorithms, making the robots more efficient. Robots have become commonplace in warehouses worldwide and Geek+ says it has more than 15,000 robots in over 30 countries, including in Nike and Decathlon warehouses.
☆ Lista celor mai populare 10 jocuri de societate în Moldova în anul 2015
  + stars: | 2015-12-24 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | Ceai | Beatles Şi Nr. | ) diez.md   time to read: +5 min
Magazinul de jocuri de societate www.joc.md a făcut topul celor mai vândute jocuri de societate în anul 2015. Lista celor mai populare jocuri de societate din Moldova în 2014 o puteți vedea aici. Jocul a fost atât de popular, încât s-au epuizat toate stocurile din magazinele din Moldova și România. Însă faptul că regăsim acest joc an de an în topul vânzărilor vorbește multe despre popularitatea lui. Topul jocurilor la nivel mondialCea mai mare comunitate de jocuri de societate din lume, Board Game Geek, are un clasament propriu al celor mai bune jocuri de societate.
Persons: Sabotorul, Catan, Pușkin Organizations: Board Locations: Moldova, România, Carcassonne, Catan, Germania, Chişinău, Dixit
☆ Muzică nouă pentru geek-ul din tine
  + stars: | 2015-04-27 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md   time to read: +1 min
Întrucât în această miercuri are loc unul dintre cele mai mari evenimente din IT în Moldova, ți-am pregătit un playlist care va inspira geek-ul din tine. „Să începem cu faptul că eu nu prea îmi imaginez o zi din viata mea fără să ascult ceva muzică. Iată de ce aceasta a devenit o tradiție, o „normă” pentru mine în timp ce scriu cod. Am selectat câteva trupe care contribuie la norma mea zilnică de muzică, în special în procesul scrierii codurilor și în rezolvarea problemelor de programare”, explică Dan. Dan și echipa #diez îți dorește audiție plăcută!
Persons: Urban, Dan Croitoru, Tailor, Dan, Dan Deacon, Miercuri, Sâmbătă, Portugal Locations: Moldova, Badbadnotgood
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