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☆ Ruth Chepngetich smashes women’s marathon world record in Chicago
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-13 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich obliterated the women’s marathon world record in Chicago on Sunday as she completed the course in 2:09:56, becoming the first ever woman to break the 2:10 barrier. Chepngetich shaved almost two minutes off the previous world record of 2:11:53, which was set by Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa in September 2023, and secured her third ever race win in Chicago. Her new world record is still subject to the usual ratification procedure, according to World Athletics. “I fought a lot, thinking about the world record. The world record has come back to Kenya, and I dedicate this world record to Kelvin Kiptum,” she added, referencing her compatriot who set the men’s world record in Chicago last year and died in a road accident aged 24 in February.

Persons: CNN — Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich, Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa, “, ”, Kelvin Kiptum, Chepngetich, Ruth Chepngetich, Michael Reaves, Asefa, Kebede, Kenya’s John Koriri, Ethiopia’s Huseydin Mohamed Esa, Kenya’s Amos Kipruto, Switzerland’s Marcel Hug, Catherine Debrunner Organizations: CNN, Athletics, Kenyan Locations: Chicago, Kenya

☆ When Europe’s railroad dining cars were the height of luxury
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Oscar Holland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

The most luxurious experience of them all, however, could be found in the dining car. The latter was the first train car to offer on-board meals, including regional specialties like gumbo, which were prepared in a 3-foot-by-6 foot kitchen. By the 1870s, dining cars could be found on sleeper trains across North America. But this decentralized production model also contained the seed of dining car’s ultimate demise. And despite a revival of interest in train travel on the continent, dining cars (or certainly those equipped with kitchens) are now largely the preserve of tourist services.

Persons: —, impeccably, Henri Opper de Blowitz, Francois Guillot, Graham Greene, Agatha Christie, Charles Dickens, George Pullman, ”, Pullman, Georges Nagelmackers, Arthur Mettetal, “, René Prou, glassmaker, ” —, Mettetal, ” Mettetal Organizations: CNN, Orient Express, Gare de, Getty, New, Compagnie Internationale des, Orient, Nord, Express, “, Pullman, Deco, Italy —, Bettmann, SNCF, Documentation Department Locations: Gare, Gare de l’Est, Paris, Europe, Constantinople, Istanbul, AFP, Britain, America, New York, North America, Belgian, Saint Petersburg, Lisbon, France, North Africa, East, London, Vichy, Switzerland, Italy, Toulouse

☆ Jim Cramer says hold still on Tesla stock after Cybercab debut flops
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Julie Coleman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

After Wall Street balked at Tesla 's highly-anticipated robotaxi unveiling, CNBC's Jim Cramer told investors not to make any moves on the stock. While he said he wouldn't recommend buying Tesla after Thursday night's event flopped, Cramer discouraged shorting the stock, saying it's "dangerous to bet against" CEO Elon Musk. While impressed by the look and concept of the robotaxi, Cramer said the event's demonstration lacked substance and failed to prove its technological prowess. By Friday's close, Tesla stock was down 8.78%, and Cramer said the market's reaction speaks for itself. "Look, Tesla has a big problem: the electric vehicle market turned out to be substantially smaller than was thought," Cramer said.

Persons: Tesla, CNBC's Jim Cramer, Cramer, Elon Musk, Tesla's, Musk, Friday's, Lyft, Uber, robotaxis Locations: Switzerland

☆ I went to a longevity conference for the ultra-rich. Here's how they're planning to cheat death.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Hilary Brueck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

AdvertisementThe small Swiss town of Gstaad, nestled in the Bernese Alps, looks like a setting ripe for a Sound of Music-inspired fairytale. Longevity Investors Conference/David BiedertThis is where longevity seekers come each fall for an intimate conference connecting investors to entrepreneurs and scientists. AdvertisementYes, there is still some Swiss cheese, wine, and desserts on offer at the Longevity Investor's Conference for those who wish to indulge. Longevity Investors Conference/David BiedertInvestment is flowing into early-stage longevity companies that are bringing tests and products to market. Longevity Investors Conference/David BiedertEquipped with Starlink satellite internet, the boat is designed for "floating coworking."

Persons: —, David Biedert, Moritz, Marc Bernegger, Longevity.Technology, who've, Bryan Johnson, Nir Barzilai, Alex Colville, Emil Kendziorra, Tobias Reichmuth, rapamycin, berberine, nature's, Reichmuth, David Furman, who'd, Julie Andrews, Madonna, Valentino Organizations: Business, Service, Longevity, Conference, Academy for Health, David, Bold, Michelin Locations: Switzerland, Gstaad, Bernese, St, Singapore, Tel Aviv, Age1, San Francisco, Antarctica, Sardinia, Italy, Okinawa, Japan, Zurich

☆ Film on haenyeo, Korea's 'mermaids,' shows women who fight to preserve sea and sisterhood
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-10 | by ( Kimmy Yam | Kimmy Yam Is A Reporter For Nbc Asian America. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

South Korea’s “haenyeo,” or women divers, say that they’ve become inseparable from their deep blue environment. The women are preserving a centuries-old tradition, which includes maintaining a sort of sisterhood, and are also vocal against issues like climate change and nuclear waste. Haenyeo divers of South Korea’s Jeju Island in “The Last of the Sea Women.” Hasisi Park / Apple TV+The women argue and bicker almost as much as they crack jokes together. A haenyeo diver of South Korea’s Jeju Island in “The Last of the Sea Women,” premiering October 11, 2024. We have to go to the sea,” Geum Ok, a haenyeo, says in the film.

Persons: Malala Yousafzai’s, ”, Hasisi, Yousafzai, ” Yousafzai, “, Jang, Duk, Sue Kim, ” Kim, Lee Hee, ” Jang, It’s Organizations: Apple, UNESCO Intangible, Human Rights Locations: Jeju, South, “, Switzerland, Japan

☆ Why it’s OK to crave the taste of home when you travel
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-10 | by ( Maggie Hiufu Wong | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Enter, the American Bar. But, like the patrons of the American Bar before us, seeking out home comforts when abroad is still something we all do. The study was based on interviews with 330 people in the US, all questioned on how likely they’d be to try local foods when traveling. We learn to associate food with comfort – hence the term ‘comfort food,’” Brewer says. The American Bar at the Savoy has been a London hotspot since the late 1800s.

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Ian Read, chairman and chief executive officer of Pfizer Inc., gestures as he speaks during a panel session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017. Activist Starboard Value accused Pfizer of threatening litigation against the company's former CEO and CFO in order to get them to break ranks with the investor's nascent turnaround campaign at the pharmaceutical giant. Pfizer shares slipped overnight as news of the two executive's breakaway emerged, and opened down roughly 2.5% in Thursday morning trading. Starboard's Smith said that when the activist approached the two executives, both expressed "concerns" about Pfizer's direction under Bourla and offered to help Starboard in its turnaround campaign. Starboard's Smith and Bourla are slated to meet in person next week, Smith said, confirming earlier reports.

Persons: Ian Read, Pfizer, Jeff Smith, Frank D'Amelio's, Smith, Albert Bourla, Starboard's Smith Organizations: Pfizer Inc, Economic, Pfizer Locations: Davos, Switzerland

With less than four weeks until Election Day, Trump is scheduled to hold rallies in staunchly Democratic states he has virtually no chance of winning. President Joe Biden won those states by an average of 20 points in 2020, with his 13-point Colorado win the closest margin. “Choosing high-impact settings makes it so the media can’t look away and refuse to cover the issues and the solutions President Trump is offering,” said a senior Trump campaign adviser of the strategy behind late-election cycle events in Democratic states. He called Trump the “most unorthodox candidate in modern history,” which means the off-script strategy could have some value. “Aurora, Colorado has become a 'war zone' due to the influx of violent Venezuelan prison gang members,” Trump’s campaign said in a statement announcing the event.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, Trump, It’s, Joe Biden, George W, Bush, ”, Harris, Biden’s, Kamala Harris, Matthew Bartlett, ” Bartlett, Republican Young Kim, Republican Ken Calvert, Mike D’Esposito, Trump’s, Ed McMullen, Bartlett, Steven Hernandez, “, ” Hernandez, Sen, Bernie Sanders, Mike Coffman, Ohio Sen, JD Vance, it’s, Tricia McLaughlin, Vivek Ramaswamy's Organizations: Democratic, Republican, Trump, House, Los, Nassau County’s, Coachella, Bloomberg, Economic, of Chicago, Madison, GOP, New Locations: Colorado , California , Illinois, New York, Colorado, Madison Square, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada , North Carolina , Wisconsin, Michigan, California, Los Angeles, Coachella, Switzerland, Aurora, “ Aurora , Colorado, Chicago, Democratic, Manhattan, Yorker, New Jersey

☆ OpenAI announces content deal with Hearst, including content from Cosmopolitan, Esquire and the San Francisco Chronicle
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-08 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI announced a partnership with Hearst, the media conglomerate behind outlets like the Houston Chronicle, the San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, Elle and others. "Our partnership with OpenAI will help us evolve the future of magazine content," Hearst Magazines President Debi Chirichella said in a statement. The deal is the latest in a recent trend of media outlets entering into content partnerships with AI startups. OpenAI announced a similar partnership in August with Condé Nast, which owns media brands such as Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Vanity Fair and Wired. Reddit also announced a deal with OpenAI in May to allow the ChatGPT maker to train its AI models on the social media company's content.

Persons: Sam Altman, OpenAI, Elle, Debi Chirichella, Condé Nast, Der Spiegel, WordPress.com, Reddit Organizations: Economic, Hearst, Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Cosmopolitan, OpenAI, Vogue, Yorker, GQ, Wired, Media, The Texas Tribune, Time, News Corp, Wall Street, Barron's, New York Post, Center, Investigative, Microsoft, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, The New York Times, Southern, of, Apple Locations: Davos, Switzerland, U.S, of New York

☆ The human life span may have finally plateaued. Here's what you can do to optimize your chances for a long life — and what researchers are working on next.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( Hilary Brueck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Life expectancy in the US shot up at a rate of about three years per decade in the last century: from roughly age 47 in 1900 to age 77 in 2000. As more people in wealthy countries make it to old age, human life expectancy gains are nearing a plateau. The study tracks trends in their death rates and life expectancy from 1990 to 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic started. Spending just 3% of your day exercising can mean you stay healthier for longer, an expert in healthy aging said.

Persons: —, Jay Olshansky, We've, Mick Jagger, Joe Biden, Kevin Winter, Thomas Barwick, Olskansky, Olshansky, Aubrey de Grey, De Grey, Peter Fedichev, Gero, hasn't, Fedichev Organizations: Service, Aging, University of Illinois, Business, Pfizer Locations: Chicago, Australia, France, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Hong Kong

☆ Most of today’s children are unlikely to live to 100, analysis says
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( Sandee Lamotte | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

They said, ‘No, no, NO!’ Advances in medical and life-extending technologies will accelerate and will drag life expectancy along with it,” he said. We have shown the era of rapid increases in human life expectancy has ended, just as we predicted,” Olshansky said. “We’re still gaining life expectancy, but it’s at an increasingly slower pace than in previous decades.”Olshansky spoke to CNN about his analysis of longevity data. Just 5% of baby girls and about 2% of baby boys born today will live to 100, according to a new analysis. (That woman, Jeanne Calment, was born in 1875 in Arles, France, at a time when life expectancy was nearly 45 years.

Persons: CNN — Gerontologist Jay Olshansky, Olshansky, ”, ‘, ” Olshansky, “, “ We’re, Jeanne Calment, it’s, that’s Organizations: CNN, “, School of Public Health, University of Illinois, ER Productions, Getty Locations: Chicago, Australia, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States, Arles

☆ Use of ‘suicide capsule’ suspended pending criminal probe after American woman dies
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-06 | by ( Story The Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Editor’s Note: Help is available if you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters. Globally, the International Association for Suicide Prevention and Befrienders Worldwide have contact information for crisis centers around the world. AP —Advocacy groups behind a so-called suicide capsule said Sunday they have suspended the process of taking applications to use it — which numbered over 370 last month — as a criminal investigation into its first use in Switzerland is completed. On the same day as the woman died, Swiss Health Minister Elisabeth Baume-Schneider told parliament that use of the Sarco would not be legal. “Only after the Sarco was used was it learned that Ms. Baume-Schneider had addressed the issue,” the advocacy groups said in the statement Sunday.

Persons: Florian Willet, Willet, Philip Nitschke, Elisabeth Baume, Schneider, Baume Organizations: International Association for Suicide Prevention, Befrienders, AP, Exit International, U.S . Midwest, Swiss Locations: Switzerland, Australia, ”, Schaffhausen, Netherlands

☆ A Swiss town borders 2 other countries, making it the ideal base for exploring. Here's what 6 days in Basel were like.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-05 | by ( Monica Humphries | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

I spent six days in the Swiss city of Basel, exploring the town's rich art scene. AdvertisementWhen you land in Basel, Switzerland, you land in a Swiss fantasy. I had arrived for its biggest art celebration: Art Basel, an international fair where 250 gallerists feature 4,000 artists. Monica Humphries/Business InsiderHere, I tracked down French pastries, hopped on a trolly tour, and got lost in the picturesque streets. The one thing I feel I missed during my Basel trip was a visit to Germany.

Persons: —, Monica Humphries, Jean Tinguely's, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Julio Le Parc's, Queen Elizabeth II, it's, I've Organizations: Service, Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, DJ, Basel would've Locations: Swiss, Basel, France, Germany, Switzerland, It's, Basel's Klybeck, Klybeck, Miami, Bushwick , Brooklyn, Colmar, Alsace, Kandersteg, Titisee, Baden, Europa, France's, Bern, Lucerne

☆ Insider Today: Getting rich off Airbnb
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-05 | by ( Joi-Marie Mckenzie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

You can sign up for Business Insider's daily newsletter here. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementTo successfully "swipe right" in the office, there are some rules you should follow, according to two human resource professionals who spoke to Business Insider's Jordan Hart. Airbnb arbitrageGetty Images; Jenny Chang-RodriguezGen Z has a new side hustle: Airbnb superhosting. The Insider Today team: Dan DeFrancesco, deputy editor and anchor, in New York City.

Persons: —, Chris Haston, y'know, Insider's Jordan Hart, Cheryl Swirnow, Christopher Sheekey, Jenny Chang, Rodriguez Gen Z, somethings, Dave Ramsey, they're, Critics —, Van Cleef, Tyler Le, Monica Humphries, Alyssa Powell, seltzer, What's, Natalie Ammari, Stephen King, Max, Mike Flanagan, Kate Siegel, Rebecca Zisser, Boots, booties, Dan DeFrancesco, Jordan Parker Erb, Lisa Ryan, Amanda Yen, Grace Lett Organizations: Business, Service, Bank, Netflix, Deal Locations: Zegna, Basel, Switzerland, France, Germany, Washington, New York City, New York, Chicago

☆ Russia has lost access to CERN in a sign that its war in Ukraine is causing a major scientific brain drain
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

CERN is revoking access for 500 Russian scientists over the Ukraine war, cutting them off from key facilities. But experts say the move is a major setback for Russian science, and is fueling brain drain. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Pierre Albouy/ReutersTriggering a Russian brain drainScientific experts, including several with working ties to CERN, spoke about the consequences to Russia and the wider scientific community. Advertisement"The relationship with Russian scientists has always been very strong because they have a very long and very good reputation in particle physics," Grimes said.

Persons: —, Denis Balibouse, Mikhail Kovalchuk, Sidortsov, Vladimir Putin, CERN's, Pierre Albouy, Kate Shaw, Roger Cashmore, Robin Grimes, Putin, Grimes, Lionel Flusin, It's, Arnaud Marsollier, Marsollier, Anja Niedringhaus, Tara Shears, Shaw Organizations: CERN, Service, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Collider, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Reuters, Kremlin, TASS, Kurchatov Institute, UK's University of Sussex, London's Imperial College, Foreign, Commonwealth Office, Getty, Novaya Gazeta Europe, Nature, CERN's Globe, UK's University of Liverpool Locations: Ukraine, Geneva, Switzerland, Russia, Belarus, Moscow, Europe, Russian, Soviet, Novaya, CERN's

☆ Meet SpaceHopper, a three-legged hopping asteroid explorer
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Amy Gunia | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

That includes SpaceHopper, a three-legged robot designed for exploring microgravity environments, like the surface of asteroids. Developed by university students at ETH Zurich, in Switzerland, it bends its legs to propel itself off the ground. “But we can build robots that could do this task for us.”ETH Zurich student Valerio Schelbert holds SpaceHopper. A three-legged hopping robot that can reorient itself in zero gravity is “a completely new idea,” said Florian Kehl, a lecturer in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences of ETH Zurich. The team behind LunarLeaper, including ETH Zurich academics, hope to use it to explore a pit thought to be connected to a subsurface hollow lava tube.

Persons: Valerio Schelbert, Andrew Waller, ”, Florian Kehl, SpaceHopper, CNN “ Organizations: CNN, Apollo, Earth’s, ETH Zurich, SpaceHopper, ” ETH Zurich, Department of, Planetary Sciences, European Space Agency, ESA, Tech Locations: Switzerland, California, Japan, Germany, France

☆ Rates won't fall back to pre-pandemic levels as geopolitical conflict and supply chain issues create problems for world economies, BofA exec says
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( Kelly Cloonan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

That's led the market to assume rates will fall to pre-pandemic lows, BofA's Bernard Mensah says. Yet, inflationary risks will likely keep rates elevated, Mensah says. Before the pandemic, in the decade following the Great Financial Crisis, interest rates remained at historical lows. Despite the Fed's apparent confidence that pricing pressures have eased, Mensah says a variety of inflationary risks will keep interest rates higher. Other analysts have also pointed to inflation risks from geopolitical conflicts.

Persons: That's, BofA's Bernard Mensah, Mensah, —, Bank of America's Bernard Mensah, Rowe Price, Tomasz Wieladek Organizations: Fed, Service, Federal Reserve, Bank of America's, Bloomberg Locations: US, China, England, Switzerland, Sweden, Canada, Mexico

☆ Switzerland-Italy border to partly shift as glaciers melt
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Laura Paddison | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

While national boundaries are often thought of as fixed, large sections of the Swiss-Italian border are defined by glaciers and snow fields. “With the melting of the glaciers, these natural elements evolve and redefine the national border,” the Swiss government said in a statement Friday. The country’s glaciers lost 4% of their volume last year, second only to the record-setting 6% lost in 2022. “Some glaciers are literally falling apart, small glaciers are disappearing.”Even with the most ambitious climate action, up to half the world’s glaciers may be gone by 2100. The shifting of national borders “is one small side-effect” of glaciers melting, Huss said.

Persons: Matthias Huss, GLAMOS, ”, Huss Organizations: CNN, Swiss, ETH Zürich Locations: Italy, Switzerland, Zermatt, Swiss, Europe, Italian, “

☆ How this unique business model is setting new standards in crypto asset management
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Sponsor Post | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Matrixport has created a crypto financial service hub that emphasizes investor success. The all-in-one crypto financial hubOne such case is Matrixport, a Singapore-based crypto asset management platform marketing itself as the "world's leading all-in-one crypto financial service hub," is outpacing traditional crypto exchanges and crypto asset management platforms. It puts investors first and creates an entry-level crypto ecosystem delivering access to integrated products and services, like crypto asset trading, investment, loans, custody, RWA, research, and more. What truly sets Matrixport apart from crypto exchanges is its business model. Founded in 2019, Matrixport manages crypto assets worth more than $10 billion and sees monthly trading volumes exceeding $5 billion.

Persons: Matrixport, Jihan Wu, Bitmain Organizations: Traders, Tech, Invest, Insider Studios, Matrixport, Business Locations: Solana, Singapore, Asia, Hong Kong, Switzerland

☆ North Carolina: Communities are coming together to rebuild after Hurricane Helene
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-30 | by ( Dianne Gallagher | Michelle Watson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

“My parents live in an absolute gem of the North Carolina mountains,” Perkins said in a post about his experience. “I have never been so relieved to see anyone OK,” Perkins told CNN, adding his parents are in their 70s, but pretty resourceful people. The couple and their dog were forced to climb onto their neighbor’s roof for safety, Jim Bourdy told CNN Sunday. Meredith Keisler during an interview in Asheville, North Carolina, on September 29. Asheville is a strong community.”Coleman speaks during an interview in Asheville, North Carolina, on September 29.

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☆ I work with Warren Buffett. He's probably the smartest person in the world — here's the best advice he's given me.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-30 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Karen Goracke is the CEO of the jewelry store Borsheims, a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary. Goracke worked her way up from the store room, and Warren Buffett interviewed her for CEO. AdvertisementThis as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Karen Goracke, CEO and President of Borsheims, about her career and working with Warren Buffett. I started working as a sales associate for Borsheims, a jewelry store in Omaha, in 1988 straight out of college. She had no idea Warren Buffett was standing next to her.

Persons: Karen Goracke, Goracke, Warren Buffett, Buffett, —, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, Borsheims, Berkshire Hathaway, I'd, Warren Buffet, We're, I'm, Warren, It's, That's, I've Organizations: Berkshire Hathaway, Service, Borsheims, Las, Berkshire Locations: Omaha, Berkshire, Nebraska, Switzerland , New York, Las Vegas

☆ Google to invest $1 billion in Thailand to build data center and accelerate AI growth
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-30 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Google announced Monday it is investing 36 billion Thai baht, or $1 billion, into Thailand for the creation of a new data center and expansion of the country's cloud infrastructure. The investment would see the company create its first data center in Thailand, Google said in a post on its Thailand blog Monday. Google said its debut Thai data center will be located in Chonburi, an eastern province of Thailand. The facility will "help support the growing demand for Google Cloud and AI innovations, as well as popular Google services such as Google Search, Google Maps and Google Workspace" in Thailand, Jackie Wang, Google's Thailand country lead, said in the blog post, according to an English translation taken via Google Translate. But the firm has increasingly come under threat from the surge of generative AI tools such as OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Persons: Jackie Wang, Wang, Thais Organizations: Google, Microsoft, Temasek, Bain & Company, Conomy SEA, Commission Locations: Zurich, Switzerland, Thailand, Asia, Chonburi, Southeast Asia

☆ ‘The life that we built here is gone’: Helene devastated western North Carolina. Communities are coming together to rebuild
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-29 | by ( Dianne Gallagher | Michelle Watson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

“I have never been so relieved to see anyone OK,” Perkins told CNN, adding his parents are in their 70s, but pretty resourceful people. The couple and their dog were forced to climb onto their neighbor’s roof for safety, Jim Bourdy told CNN Sunday. Meredith Keisler during an interview in Asheville, North Carolina, on September 29. Michelle Coleman, the executive director of a religious outreach organization called Asheville Dream Center, told CNN that she’s never seen Asheville in this state before. Asheville is a strong community.”Coleman speaks during an interview in Asheville, North Carolina, on September 29.

Persons: Hurricane Helene, Sam Perkins, “, ” Perkins, “ Little, Helene, Roy Cooper, Cooper, Perkins, ’, ”, I’ve, McDowell, Jim, Allie Bourdy, Jim Bourdy, Bourdy, Piper, ” Bourdy, Meredith Keisler, CNN Bourdy, “ I’ve, ” Keisler, Michelle Coleman, she’s, ” Coleman, CNN Gary O’Dell, he’s, ” O’Dell, There’s, we’ve, O’Dell, Lucy Tavernier, it’s, Tavernier Organizations: CNN, “, North, Gov, Southern Hospitality, Department of Transportation, Village, Asheville Dream, CNN Sunday Locations: Hurricane, North Carolina, Pine, Little Switzerland, Asheville, United States, Buncombe County, McDowell County, “, Asheville , North Carolina, Vietnam, East Asheville, ”

☆ Tadej Pogačar equals one of cycling’s most prestigious feats with world championship win
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-29 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

By completing cycling’s “Triple Crown” – as this trio of victories is known – Pogačar joins an exclusive club comprised of just Eddy Merckx, Stephen Roche and Annemiek van Vleuten. This season has confirmed the Slovenian’s status as a generational talent since, unusually for a cyclist, he can win races of almost any length and on different terrains. That includes one-day races like the world championships, which require an explosiveness normally sacrificed by Tour de France contenders in favor of the endurance needed to win a three-week stage race. “After many years fighting for the Tour de France and other races I never had the world championship as a clear goal, but this year everything went smoothly already,” Pogačar said afterward. Zac Williams/Pool/SWpix.com/APAnd the 26-year-old has underlined his complete dominance with the way in which he has won all these races.

Persons: Tadej Pogačar, Pogačar, Eddy Merckx, Stephen Roche, Annemiek van, van Vleuten, hasn’t, Roche, ” Pogačar, “, Zac Williams, France’s Pavel Sivakov –, –, ”, Australia’s Ben O’Connor, Mathieu van der Organizations: CNN, de France, Giro, cycling’s, Triple, Giro d’Italia, Tour de, Tour de France Locations: Switzerland, Australia’s, Netherlands

☆ Muriel Furrer: 18-year-old cyclist dies after fall in junior road race
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-27 | by ( Thomas Schlachter | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Muriel Furrer, an 18-year-old cyclist, has died after suffering a serious head injury in a race, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announced Friday. Furrer was competing in the women’s junior road race at the world championships in Zurich, Switzerland, on Thursday when she was badly injured in a fall. “With the passing of Muriel Furrer, the international cycling community loses a rider with a bright future ahead of her. The 18-year-old rider fell heavily yesterday, Thursday 26 September, during the Women Junior road race, and suffered a serious head injury before being flown to hospital by helicopter in a very critical condition. “The UCI and the Organising Committee of the 2024 UCI Road and Para-cycling Road World Championships offer their sincere condolences to Muriel Furrer’s family, friends and her Federation Swiss Cycling.

Persons: Muriel Furrer, Furrer, Muriel Furrer’s, “ Muriel Furrer’s, ” Organizations: CNN, Union Cycliste Internationale, UCI, Women Junior, Zurich University Hospital, “, Federation Swiss Cycling, ” CNN, Zurich Cantonal Police Locations: Zurich, Switzerland, Para, Swiss

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