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It’s the morning of Election Day in Arizona, and a message has just come in from the secretary of state’s office telling you that a new court order requires polling locations to stay open until 9PM. As a county election official, you find the time extension strange, but the familiar voice on the phone feels reassuring — you’ve talked to this official before.Just hours later, you receive an email telling you that the message was fake. In fact, polls must now close immediately, even though it’s only the early afternoon. The email tells you to submit your election results as soon as…
TYLER, Texas (KLTV) – One East Texas athlete is really pushing the needle when it comes to the world of cheer- and will be competing for the title of champion for the “Future Flyer Face Off” in a few short months.Journi Flesher is an 11-year-old cheerleader from Kilgore.“I started when I was two,” Journi said.Over the last several months Journi and her partner Aaron Dotson have been training and competing to qualify for the championship in Dallas.“We learn a partner stunting routine and then we compete it,” Journi said.This competition is modeled after the partner stunt portion in college cheer…
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Unilever brand Ben & Jerry’s doubled down on sustainability messaging last year with a plant-based … [+] ice cream called ‘Save Our Swirled Now’.© 2020 Bloomberg Finance LP The role of the marketer is evolving at pace. In recent decades, the trade has undergone a radical digital transformation and evolved from a one-way broadcast to a conversation: on top of their regular campaign cadence, today’s marketers are communicating with customers and responding to events in real-time on social media. Marketers are also weathering diminishing customer trust with messaging overhauls and influencer collaborations. And, of course, they’re no longer expected to…
Stock image | Photo by Rawpixel Ltd/iStock/Getty Images Plus, St. George News FEATURE (THE CONVERSATION) — The Class of 2024 had a college experience like no other, starting its first year during peak pandemic and graduating amid protests of the war in Gaza. Many of its graduates will be joining a working world that holds their future in its hands and that was transformed by technological advancements and changing attitudes about work while they were in school. What can they expect from the world of work today? As a philosopher and a psychologist who began our careers in management consulting – and now teach…
By Ollie Cooper, Money teamEstate agent fees are one of the big expenses in selling a house – but rule changes and the rise of private sale websites have made it more common for people to go it alone.But how easy is it – and what do you need to know? We spoke to industry experts to find out.Firstly, what do estate agents do for their money?An estate agent will typically charge in the range of 1%-3.5% of the sale price. That means for the average house price (£284,691 from December) you could pay anywhere from £2,846 to £9,964 in commission…
After narrowly avoiding a recession in 2023, the UK economy grew by a better-than-expected 0.6% in the first quarter of 2024, according to official figures. This marked an end to a mild technical recession in the second half of last year, as consumer spending and business investment recovered. Most importantly, prices now seem to be under control. At time of writing, inflation was down to just 3.2%, compared with 10.1% this time last year. That’s broadly in line with most Western countries – although do spare a thought for the citizens of Turkey, where it’s currently 69.8%, and Argentina, where…
OpenAI’s GPT-4o ChatGPT upgrade, announced earlier this week, was an amazing display of power. The company dropped a big AI live demo ahead of Google’s I/O 2024, where Google would talk only about Gemini AI innovations for its ecosystem of apps and services.After watching both events, I thought GPT-4o won the AI assistant battle. OpenAI can offer significantly improved AI assistant abilities in ChatGPT right now. The chatbot can support text, voice, photo, and video inputs. Google can match the multimodality of GPT-4o with Project Astra. But Google had a prerecorded demo of a GPT-4o-like conversation with AI. And Gemini…
40 Mins AgoEurope stocks open mixedEuropean stocks had a cautious start Monday, with the regional Stoxx 600 index opening near the flatline before climbing 0.07% by 8:40 a.m. in London.Germany’s DAX, the U.K.’ s FTSE 100 and France’s CAC 40 were all roughly 0.25% higher.See Chart…Stoxx 600 index.Fri, May 17 2024 12:59 PM EDTStocks will experience near-term choppiness followed by a late-year rally, Wells Fargo saysStocks have rallied to record highs recently, but Wells Fargo is expecting this trend to turn on its head.Analyst Christopher Harvey pointed out that the “bad news = good news” narrative has pushed the major…
The CEO of Snap, developer of Snapchat, says the messaging platform is increasing its spending on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. “There was a recognition that we’d fallen behind the curve on the machine learning side, which, to some degree, was reflected in the business performance,” Evan Spiegel said in an interview with Bloomberg News published Sunday (May 19). “We needed to improve there and bring together some of our most senior machine learning folks to just talk about what it would look like for us to get to state of the art and really invest.” The report noted that Snapchat has been dealing…
