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☆ ‘Allergy Capitals’ 2023: These are the 10 worst U.S. cities for anyone with pollen allergies
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Renée Onque | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Seasonal allergies can be tough to deal with, but you can typically soothe symptoms like a runny nose, itchy throat and head congestion with over-the-counter medications, or take steps like optimizing your bedroom which can help prevent allergies from negatively impacting your sleep. Still, your location may play more of a role in how severe of an allergy season you experience than you realize. In fact, there are some cities that are more challenging to live in for people with pollen allergies. The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America sifted through data of "the 100-most populated U.S. Metropolitan areas" to determine the "Allergy Capitals" of America in 2023. Some factors the organization considered for the ranking include:Tree, grass and weed pollen scoresAvailability of board-certified allergists and immunologistsHow often over-the-counter allergy medicine is usedHere's a closer look at the top 10 densely-populated cities where it may be harder for residents with allergies to avoid flare-ups.

☆ Death toll in Pennsylvania chocolate factory blast rises to seven
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/4] A general view shows smoke coming out from a chocolate factory after fire broke out, in West Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S., March 24, 2023 in this picture obtained from social media. Twitter @Based_In410/via REUTERSMarch 27 (Reuters) - The death toll from an explosion at a chocolate factory in Pennsylvania has risen to seven people, with authorities ending a search for those believed to be missing following Friday's blast. Palmer Co in West Reading, a town of 4,500 about 60 miles (97 km) northwest of Philadelphia. Seven other people were taken to local hospitals with injuries, said the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA) on Friday. Palmer Company was founded in 1948.

☆ How a TikTok and Instagram influencer bundles her rates to earn more from brand deals, and uses online forums to connect with brands
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Shriya Bhattacharya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

When Paulina Perez created her media kit in April 2021, she wasn't sure if she should list rates. She now offers various bundles ranging from $150 to $1,750, which has attracted all kinds of brands. Perez also explains why creators who are starting out should apply for online forums like Intern Queen. When Paulina Perez first went viral on TikTok in April 2021, she knew what she had to do. Since then, the 21-year-old's two-page media kit has helped her secure more than 20 paid deals with global brands like Sephora, Princess Polly, Oral-B, Skims, Pottery Barn, and others.

Generative AI boost for Nvidia NVDA 1Y mountain Nvidia (NVDA) 1-year performance Nvidia (NVDA) was the Club's biggest winner in January, climbing 33.7%, and in February its 18.8% monthly gain is second to only Bausch Health (BHC). The stock's exceptional performance this year goes much deeper to company-specific factors — specifically, all the buzz around generative artificial intelligence (AI). "AI adoption is at an inflection point," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on the chipmaker's earnings conference call last week. Bausch bounces, but questions remain BHC 1Y mountain Bausch Health (BHC) 1-year performance Bausch Health (BHC) has had an incredible start to the year, climbing roughly 21% in both January and February. Efficiency commitment lifts Meta META 1Y mountain Meta Platform (META) 1-year performance Meta Platforms (META) has really turned it around, gaining roughly 24% in January and over 17% in February.

☆ Aleph Alpha, a European rival to OpenAI, is in talks amid AI boom to raise up to $100 million in new funding, sources say
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Callum Burroughs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Generative-AI startup Aleph Alpha is in talks with investors over a new funding round, sources said. Aleph Alpha, a German generative AI startup, is in talks with investors over a new funding round, Insider has learned. Founded in 2019 by CEO Jonas Andrulis, a former machine-learning engineer at Apple, and Samuel Weinbach, Aleph Alpha researches and develops AI systems with a focus on enterprise customers. Aleph Alpha declined to comment. Aleph Alpha has a chatbot called Lumi which is built on top of its language-learning model Luminous.

☆ Best TV deals for the big game in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-30 | by ( Mike Andronico | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

The big game is upon us, and whether you’re a die-hard NFL fan or just want to see Rihanna tear it up on the big screen, having the right entertainment setup is key. Fortunately, tons of top TVs, soundbars and projectors are on sale right now, and we’ve sifted through the savings to find the deals that are actually worth getting before the Philadelphia Eagles take on the Kansas City Chiefs on Feb. 12. Whether you’re looking for an upgrade to your entertainment room with an immersive 4K display, a projector for catching the game on the road or a soundbar to add some extra oomph to every touchdown, here are our picks for saving some cash — which you can put towards those ever-important tailgate essentials. TVsSoundbarsProjectorsSmart home

☆ European markets head for higher open as positive momentum builds
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

European markets are heading for a higher open Thursday, building on positive momentum seen in the previous trading session. Markets have been buoyed by data this week showing improved business sentiment in Germany and an uptick in eurozone services and manufacturing activity, prompting optimism that a recession in the eurozone might be avoided. Elsewhere overnight, Asia-Pacific shares traded mixed on Thursday as investors digested a slew of economic data, while S&P 500 futures advanced modestly as investors sifted through the latest batch of corporate earnings that dropped after the bell.

"The enemy literally step over the corpses of their own soldiers, using massed artillery, MLRS systems and mortars," Malyar said. Prigozhin has been trying to capture Bakhmut and Soledar for months at the cost of many lives on both sides. "Thanks to the resilience of our soldiers in Soledar, we have won for Ukraine additional time and additional strength," Zelenskiy said. [1/8] General view of railway lines, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Siversk, Ukraine, January 9, 2023. Moscow has not commented on the reports from the village, which Ukraine recaptured from Russian forces in September.

Pantone recently announced its 2023 Color of the Year: Viva Magenta. SKIP AHEAD Viva Magenta home products | Viva Magenta kitchen products | Viva Magenta beauty products | Viva Magenta apparel and accessoriesAs many sought to do with the 2022 Color of the Year, Very Peri, you may be interested in incorporating Viva Magenta into your wardrobe or home. Viva Magenta home productsThis expert-recommended rowing machine from Hydrow has a Viva Magenta option available for pre-order that is set to ship in February 2023, according to the brand. Pets can get in on the Viva Magenta trend with this plush bed, available in a color close to the new Pantone Color of the Year. Viva Magenta apparel and accessoriesPantone offers a handful of products in Viva Magenta, including this long keychain.

☆ Crypto winners and losers from the FTX fallout, according to Bernstein
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Tanaya Macheel | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Bernstein has sifted through the various sectors of the crypto industry and identified winners and losers for 2022. Crypto suffered the added handicap of the financial contagion from the collapse of Terra in the first half of the year and FTX currently. Binance, which operates in a regulatory gray zone, will eventually become the "global consolidator" of smaller off-shore exchanges, Bernstein said. While FTX taught investors about the risks of storing crypto holdings with centralized entities, revelations in the stablecoin sector went the other way around. Solana, on the other hand, took a hit, stained by the fallout of FTX, a big and early backer of Solana.

☆ The pandemic was a crisis that fueled interest in novel drug discovery methods like AI. These 14 startups are predicted by investors to be future winners.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Drug discovery startups bagged a record $5.5 billion globally in 2021, per Dealroom data. Startups are innovating ways to speed up the expensive and time-consuming process of drug discovery. Investor appetite peaked as the pandemic highlighted the need for efficient approaches to drug discovery, from shorter clinical trial times to quicker avenues to mass distribution. Daniel noted that healthtech VCs are particularly keen to back drug discovery startups that have a sound network of advisors. "There will be lots of players out there and we'll probably see a lot of aggregation in the coming years," Daniel told Insider.

☆ Human Composting Should Be an Option for New Yorkers - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Caitlin Doughty | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +12 min

Human composting — or, as it’s sometimes referred to, natural organic reduction — fulfills many people’s desire to nurture the earth after dying. In its place, Ms. Spade founded Recompose, a new for-profit company designed to bring human composting to the public. I have no stake in Recompose or any other human composting company.) Human composting, by Recompose’s reckoning, uses just an eighth of this energy and falls in total price between cremation and conventional burial at around $7,000. Human composting reframes the dead body: not something to be protected from nature and the elements, but something meant to return to them.

☆ Take a look at the digitally de-aged Harrison Ford in the trailer for the new 'Indiana Jones' movie
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Award-winning actor Harrison Ford got digitally de-aged in the new Indiana Jones movie. That's because the actor who plays Indiana Jones got de-aged using CGI effects in the fifth installment of the popular saga, director James Mangold told Empire. The film comes 15 years after the previous Indiana Jones film, "The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull." Ford was de-aged during the opening sequence, in which a younger Jones fights a swarm of Nazis in a castle in 1944, the Hollywood Reporter reported. The new Indiana Jones movie comes out in theaters on June 30, 2023.

[1/4] Shoes belonging to victims are arranged at a gym, where recovered belongings of the victims of a crowd crush that happened during Halloween festivities are kept, in Seoul, South Korea, November 1, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Hong-JiSEOUL, Nov 1 (Reuters) - A temporary morgue for some of the people killed in South Korea's Halloween party crush is now a huge lost-and-found, where hundreds of items such as a "Happy Halloween" backpack and a Minnie Mouse hairband await their owners. The Wonhyoro sports centre was quiet on Tuesday, three days after the crush in the popular Itaewon district during Halloween festivities, as a few people sifted through more than 800 recovered lost items. One survivor of the crush walked through the items looking for her bag, her left leg in a cast from her injury that night. read moreThe death toll is 156 with 151 injured, 29 of whom were in serious condition.

☆ Palantir salaries revealed: Some engineers at the controversial analytics software company earn nearly $300,000. Here's what managers, analysts and other employees make.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Caroline Haskins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Palantir is known for its controversial contracts providing analytics software to the US government and private companies. The company doesn't disclose salary data, but US companies must share offers made on H-1B visa applications. However, US companies have to disclose offers on work-visa applications. Notably, these figures only represent base salaries, but Palantir also offers some employees additional stock grants. The logo of the data analysis company Palantir can be seen at the company's headquarters in 2018.

☆ DOJ asks appeals court to toss out a federal judge's ruling appointing a special master in the Mar-a-Lago records case
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The DOJ asked a federal appeals court to reverse a ruling appoint a special master in the Mar-a-Lago case. Prosecutors said a lower court judge "erred in requiring the government to submit" to a special master review of seized records. "The court should now reverse the order in its entirety for multiple independent reasons," prosecutors said. Former President Donald Trump's legal team requested the appointment of a special master after the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, his home and private club in West Palm Beach. But the DOJ quickly appealed the ruling and asked the 11th Circuit to issue a partial stay allowing the government to access roughly 100 classified records that had been seized from Mar-a-Lago — a request the appeals court granted.

☆ Oak HC/FT-backed Mexican buy now, pay later startup Aplazo expands customer data services with deal to buy Sensai Metrics
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Emilia David | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Mexican buy now, pay later startup Aplazo bought data platform Sensai Metrics for an undisclosed amount to improve its merchant network and help brands manage marketing to customers. Aplazo has integrated the Sensai data platform into its system, so merchants using Aplazo can directly access Sensai's machine learning-powered data services like sales figures, marketing performance, and customer demographics. Sensai cofounders Salo Dabbah and Daniela Gorra will join Aplazo as the company's head of growth and product manager, respectively. "Our intention is to help merchants connect to consumers better and have insights that they've never had before," Peña said. "The goal is to help merchants become better providers, which is one of the steps in improving financial literacy in the country," he said.

☆ Carbon accounting startup Emitwise becomes latest climate tech startup to lay off staff as red hot sector jostles with economic downturn
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Tasmin Lockwood | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Layoffs have hit the red-hot climate tech sector as it jostles with the economic downturn. Carbon accounting startup Emitwise has become the latest climate tech startup to lay off staff as the industry jostles with the economic downturn, Insider understands. Climate tech is wide-ranging, encapsulating everything from research and development-heavy batteries to carbon accounting SaaS tools. The energy crisis has been a boon for home energy startups working on rooftop solar, heat pumps, and smart thermostats. At One Ventures' Lin added that in moments of economic difficulty "sometimes the most interesting innovations are born."

☆ One Point Five just raised $10 million to replace single-use plastics. Check out the pitch deck it used to raise the round led by Speedinvest.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Tasmin Lockwood | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A startup cofounded by former execs from vertical farming unicorn Infarm has raised $10 million. Hamburg-based One Point Five is designing "litter-proof" materials for sauce and shampoo sachets. We got an exclusive look at the 10-slide pitch deck it used to raise the cash. A startup designing and developing "litter-proof" material to replace single-use packaging has raised 10.5 million euros (around $1.1 million). While designed to be recyclable, One Point Five's materials will also be "litter-proof," Weber said.

☆ He was my high school journalism teacher. Then I investigated his relationships with teenage girls.
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-16 | by ( Matt Drange | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +40 min

It was a hot July day and the classroom at Rosemead High School should have been empty. (Christopher Vu for Insider) Show less Rosemead High School sits just east of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley. Burgess as an upperclassman at Rosemead High School with the former teacher Hugh Zegers, center, and classmates. The author interviewing Rod Marinelli, a Rosemead High School alum who was then coaching the Detroit Lions, for the Rosemead student newspaper, the Panther's Tale. The author and a classmate, Amy Julia Harris, beside their journalism teacher Burgess at graduation night in June 2007.

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☆ 50 of the world’s best breads
▼ + stars: | 2019-10-15 | by ( Jen Rose Smith | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +33 min

In alphabetical order by location, here are 50 of the world’s most wonderful breads. Roti gambang, IndonesiaShutterstockPalm sugar and cinnamon lend a light, aromatic sweetness to roti gambang, a tender wheat bread that’s an old-fashioned favorite at Jakarta bakeries. This is where locals bring rounds of tender wheat dough ready to bake into khobz kesra, one of the country’s homiest breads. Gyeran-ppang, South KoreaShutterstockThere’s buried treasure within every loaf of gyeran-ppang, individually sized wheat breads with a whole egg baked inside. To make malawach, bakers roll wheat dough into a delicate sheet and fold it over a slick of melted butter.

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