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☆ The tech meltdown comes for Gen Z
  + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Aki Ito | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
The tech industry was teetering, and she wondered whether the future she had banked on would survive. On Handshake, a leading jobs board for college students, entry-level software positions in the tech industry slumped 14% last year. "I'm finding that students are pivoting to organizations that have IT functions but are not in the tech industry," says Laura Garcia, director of career education at Georgia Tech. Given the seismic downturn in tech, some students are rethinking their dreams of working for the Amazons and Googles and Metas of the world. Suddenly, in the eyes of Gen Z, tech seems to be just as ruthless and unreliable of an employer as banking did to millennials who came of age in the Great Recession.
☆ NBA roundup: Bucks win ninth straight as Lakers rest LeBron James
  + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
Khris Middleton scored 22 points off the Milwaukee bench, and Jrue Holiday finished with 18 points, seven rebounds and seven assists. Nikola Vucevic added 15 points and 17 rebounds and DeMar DeRozan finished with 14 points. Cole Anthony and Bol Bol scored 17 apiece as the Magic won for the third time in four games. Hawks 116, Suns 107Trae Young collected 36 points, 12 assists and seven rebounds to fuel host Atlanta to victory over short-handed Phoenix. Ish Wainright scored 17 points and Chris Paul added 15 points and eight assists for the Suns, who saw their three-game winning streak come to a halt.
☆ Young voters propelled Raphael Warnock to victory in the Georgia Senate runoff, but the work to boost their political engagement continues: 'We're not stopping here'
  + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Sen. Raphael Warnock's runoff victory was driven in large part by his support among young voters. But young voters — with Gen Z and younger millennials flexing their political power — emerged as a critical demographic in the Georgia Senate race. Looking at the Georgia Senate runoff results, what actually happened to get more young voters to the polls? Heightened voter engagementVoters of Tomorrow, a Gen Z-led voter-engagement nonprofit organization, sent 2.5 million calls and texts to young Georgia voters urging them to participate. But it will take continued engagement with young voters to ensure robust participation in the future, especially in non-presidential election cycles.
☆ Live Updates: Georgia Voters Head to Polls for Final Say on Warnock vs. Walker
  + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Jonathan Weisman | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +11 min
Mr. Warnock consolidated Democratic voters, while Mr. Walker struggled to rally his party behind him. Mr. Walker was wrapping up a campaign that appears to have failed to consolidate the disparate wings of his party. Image Mr. Warnock spoke on Monday in Atlanta at the SWAG Shop barbershop with Killer Mike, the rapper. Credit... Nicole Craine for The New York TimesMr. Kemp kept some distance from Mr. Walker during the general election. Mr. Mathews said he planned to cast his ballot Tuesday for Mr. Walker.
☆ Warnock gains early voting edge as both candidates barnstorm Georgia in final day before Senate runoff
  + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Sahil-Kapur-Headshot.Jpg | Sahil Kapur | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +7 min
An early vote that topped 1.85 million showed other positive signs for Warnock, with Democrats enjoying a 13-point edge — larger than the party’s 8-point lead in November’s early vote, according to TargetSmart’s model. But Walker is widely expected to win more of the votes cast on Election Day. Residents wait in line to vote early outside a polling station on Nov. 29 in Atlanta. Walker “needs to win Election Day by double digits,” said Cody Hall, an adviser to Kemp, who said the Republican candidate will have to outperform his advantage from November's Election Day. “But I would just caution everyone that base Republican voters in the last couple of cycles have liked turning out on Election Day.
☆ International Students Return to U.S. Colleges, Though Enrollments Still Fall Short
  + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Melissa Korn | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
At Georgia Tech, applications from India surpassed those from China for the first time last year. International students returned to U.S. college and university campuses in droves last fall, with schools recovering a portion of the enrollment they lost when visas were hard to come by and the nation closed its borders during the depths of the pandemic. Enrollment by international students rose by 3.8% to 948,519 in the 2021-2022 school year, compared with 914,095 the prior year, according to a new report by the nonprofit Institute of International Education and U.S. State Department.
☆ The head of the CIA met with Putin's spy chief to warn Moscow against using a nuke in Ukraine
  + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( John Haltiwanger | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
CIA director William Burns warned Putin's spy chief against the use of a nuclear weapon in Ukraine. Burns, a former US ambassador to Russia, met with his Russian counterpart in Ankara on Monday. Burns previously warned that Putin could use a nuke in Ukraine if he feels desperate enough. In April, Burns warned that Putin could use a nuclear weapon in Ukraine if he feels desperate enough. Since those remarks, Russia's fortunes in Ukraine have turned from bad to worse, with Russian forces losing ground to major Ukrainian counteroffensives.
☆ This 37-year-old NASA engineer is designing a spacesuit for women on the side: ‘It’s not just cool, it’s necessary’
  + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
Growing up, Sabrina Thompson dreamed of becoming an artist or fashion designer — she just never imagined she would be designing clothes for space. Thompson, 37, is an aerospace engineer for NASA as well as the CEO and founder of the streetwear brand Girl in Space Club. For the better part of this year, Thompson has been designing and researching how to develop a stylish, pressurized suit for female astronauts. She joined NASA in 2010 and has been working with the organization for the past 12 years designing orbit trajectories for space missions. "Spacesuits have never been designed with women in mind," Thompson points out, despite the fact that women have been instrumental in designing space suits for astronauts.
☆ Some OnlyFans creators have found a loophole to put their their nudes on TikTok
  + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Morgan Sung | Morgan Sung Is A Trends Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +5 min
Some OnlyFans creators are using a TikTok artificial intelligence art filter to get around the platform’s community guidelines and promote their explicit content without getting their videos removed. People began posting AI-generated paintings of their explicit photos around late October, according to meme database Know Your Meme. tiktok and onlyfans creator amethyst roseAmethyst Rose, a creator known as walmartladygaga on TikTok, said she joined in on the trend because she'd previously heard that "TikTok is a good way to promote" an OnlyFans account. Instead of referring to explicit photos as "nudes," for example, TikTok users will write out the word as "n00ds" or "spicy pics." “Images also pass through the phone, so [they] may be backed up on the cloud.”Despite the restrictions on TikTok, Rose said that in her experience, TikTok remains the "best platform" on which to promote her OnlyFans content.
☆ Why aren’t flagship universities enrolling more of their own states’ Black students?
  + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Meredith Kolodner | The Hechinger Report | Meredith Kolodner Is A Staff Writer For | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +13 min
Among state flagship universities, UGA has one of the country’s largest disparities between its proportion of Black students and that of Black high school graduates from the state — second only to the University of Mississippi. “Black students admitted to UGA — they have a lot of options,” said Alton Standifer, deputy chief of staff to the university president, referring to the competition among colleges to enroll Georgia’s Black students. Still, many Black students in Georgia choose to attend more diverse institutions or opt for a historically Black college or university. A reliance on SAT scores can disadvantage Black students, whose average SAT score in 2019 was 933, more than 180 points below that of white students. Selective public universities like UGA that used the Common App have seen an increase in applicants, including traditionally underrepresented students, such as Black students.
☆ A 26-year-old entrepreneur built a multi-million dollar business doing government contract work out of his parents' basement. Now, he and his fiancée are completing a new 250-home development in the s
  + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Kathleen Elkins | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +14 min
The couple now work together full-time on the company Uboh started back in 2015, JUBOH Companies, from his parents' basement. One of the first companies Uboh started was an an ecommerce drop shipping company. "I started early. Courtesy of JUBOH CompaniesUboh and Carter, who started working with his team full-time in 2020, are now finishing a 250-home development called Somerset Hills in Fairburn, Georgia. He started early and he started small: with a candy business in grade school and, later, with a lawnmower that cost a couple hundred bucks.
☆ Why it's time to start paying with $2 bills
  + stars: | 2022-09-17 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | Cnn Business | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +7 min
So wouldn't it make more sense to start paying with $2 bills instead? BEP doesn't have to request new $2 bills each year, like it does for other bills. Bad luckThe United States first issued $2 bills beginning in 1862, around the time the federal government first started printing paper money. It's also more efficient to print $2 bills than $1 bills because the Treasury can print twice as much for the same amount of money and requires less storage. In short, he concludes, $2 bills are underappreciated in the United States and a way for strangers to meet and engage.
☆ I'm a broker in Atlanta. It's the 'Hunger Games' of real estate right now — here's what buyers need to know.
  + stars: | 2022-08-10 | by ( Elle Hardy | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
The market right now is the "Hunger Games" of real estate. This means there are a lot of buyers who aren't too familiar with the Atlanta market. Atlanta property prices have been on the rise since 2017 when the median sale price was $278,00. To put it all in perspective, the average price for a two-bedroom condo in downtown Atlanta right now is $500,000. Unfortunately, all of this means that there's no value in the market right nowCash is king in this market.
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