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With the average cost of college—including supplies, books, and living expenses—exceeding $38,000 per year in the United States, college students are exploring more ways to earn extra cash. But, as a college student, you know how hard it is to balance your busy class schedule with a full-time job. Fortunately, the gig economy continues to grow, giving you more options than ever for side hustles to supplement your income. Here are some of the best side hustles for college students and tips for balancing your workload. Best side hustles for college students Despite having busy schedules, college students can earn…

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The clientele at Sophie Parry’s sewing studio in Redfern have traditionally been crafters reaching for a new hobby or groups of women sipping a sparkling wine at a hens do. But in the past year a curious new trend has emerged, with a 40 per cent increase in demand for classes where people learn to repair and alter their garments.   Ms Parry receives free offcuts from a local curtain factory, which is upcycled into garments in her sewing classes. (ABC News: Holly Tregenza)Ms Parry said people were looking for ways to save money by making their clothes last longer. “A lot of…

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You started a YouTube channel and monetized it. But it’s not raking in the revenue you thought it would. What’s going wrong? Are your videos too boring? Or maybe the titles aren’t catchy enough. Sure, these are solid reasons to deter clicks, but other underlying issues may be the culprit. YouTubers receive revenue from advertisers in the Google Display and Video network. So if you’re not happy with your profits, it may be because of a low CPM. Not sure what this is or why it’s important? Stick around to find out the average CPM and how to calculate it.  What is…

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Website publishers are accusing artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic of “aggressively” scraping data from their sites. Such actions could violate publishers’ terms of services, the Financial Times (FT) reported Friday (July 26), citing interviews with those website owners. Data scraping is the automated process of pulling information from websites or other digital sources, often without the express permission of the content owners. Companies that generate content have a vested interest in safeguarding that material to maintain revenues. As the FT noted, Anthropic was founded by former OpenAI researchers who wanted to develop “responsible” AI systems. But Matt Barrie, CEO of…

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This week, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta announced a new open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model that promised to compete or oven outperform Sam Altman’s OpenAI GPT models and other AI chatbots on the market.Newsweek put that to the test.Meta’s latest large-language model (LLM), Llama 3.1, is “in a class of its own,” according to the company’s press release. The model is equipped with “state-of-the-art capabilities in general knowledge, steerability, math, tool use and multilingual translation.” Meta’s logo and OpenAI’s logo Meta’s logo and OpenAI’s logo OpenAI’s GPT-4o Mini launched less than a week ago. On X, Altman highlighted the new models performance…

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AUD/USD holds positive ground near 0.6555 in Monday’s early Asian session.  The US PCE inflation increases 2.5% YoY in June, underscoring an improving inflation environment.  The RBA’s hawkish stance might support the Aussie.  The AUD/USD pair trades on a stronger note around 0.6555 during the early Asian session on Monday. The rising bets that the US Federal Reserve (Fed) would begin cutting interest rates in September weigh on the US dollar (USD). Market participants will monitor the Australian Retail Sales on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the Australian Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Fed Interest Rate Decision will be in the spotlight. Data…

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NEW YORK (AP) — A manipulated video that mimics the voice of Vice President Kamala Harris saying things she did not say is raising concerns about the power of artificial intelligence to mislead with Election Day about three months away.The video gained attention after tech billionaire Elon Musk shared it on his social media platform X on Friday evening without explicitly noting it was originally released as parody.The video uses many of the same visuals as a real ad that Harris, the likely Democratic president nominee, released last week launching her campaign. But the video swaps out the voice-over audio…

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NBCUniversal’s presentation Saturday of the Paris Olympics opening on NBC, Peacock, and across key NBCU platforms posted a Total Audience Delivery (TAD) of 32.4 million viewers, according to custom fast national data from Nielsen and Adobe Analytics. That beats the opening Saturday of competition for the Tokyo Olympics, which drew 17.7 million across all platforms. Highlighted by Caeleb Dressel and Simone Manuel anchoring respective gold and silver medal-winning 4x100m freestyle relays, a bronze for Katie Ledecky in the 400m free, victory for the U.S. men’s soccer team, beach volleyball, diving, and men’s gymnastics qualifiers, live coverage in the afternoon (Paris…

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