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Some drivers are being charged nearly 40% APR when paying for their car insurance monthly, according to Which?. The consumer champion asked 39 car insurers what APRs were being applied to monthly payments and, while many didn’t respond, it found several that were charging similar interest rates to credit cards.Among those that did respond, Which? found that 1st Central charges between 5% and 39.11%.It gives customers a personal interest rate after a credit risk assessment, Which? said.1st Central said: “We understand it is important to customers that we keep the price of insurance as low as possible – and benchmarking tells…

The world of content creation has been drastically altered by 2024. Today’s focus is on valuable, thought-provoking content, a factor which a number of creators struggle to harness in elevating their website ratings. Link building, a crucial element of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), is perceived as the key to these higher scores. Creators markedly improve their website’s credibility and authority by incorporating relevant and influential links within their material. The importance of quality link-building in 2024 cannot be understated; it’s now an invaluable tool for creators to boost their content visibility and SEO rankings, despite the challenges. Developing refined link-building…

By Matt Pelkey for OnDeck.com In the past half-decade, freelancing has gone from being a common way to earn in the digital age to becoming a fundamental part of “the new normal.” In the U.S., the number of full-time freelancers grew by 91% and occasional freelancers by 132% between 2020 and 2023. Today, 72.1 million Americans — around 45% of the workforce — do freelance work some or all of the time, according to MBO Partners. Some have redefined their careers based on a change of circumstances or expectations during the pandemic. And others have graduated into a world where…

The Big Tech ShowWhat’s going on with artificial intelligence? Has EU legislation helped or hindered the AI space? and why has OpenAI updated GPT-4?Adrian is joined on The Big Tech Show this week by head of growth at Human Loop, Conor Kelly.OpenAI recently updated its GPT-4 model in response to being eclipsed by AI company Anthropic. Three weeks ago, Anthropic released its Claude 3 Opus chatbot that users claimed was better than GPT-4 in every regard. Following this, a newer version of GPT-4 came out, which retook the lead as the best chatbot on the market. Conor also discussed the…

Australian Dollar appreciates as the ASX 200 Index continues to gain ground on Thursday. Australia’s Employment Change came in at -6.6K and the Unemployment Rate increased by 3.8% in March. US President Joe Biden calls for tripling the existing 7.5% tariff rate on Chinese steel and aluminum. The decline in the US Treasury yields contributes to pressure to undermine the US Dollar. The Australian Dollar (AUD) continues to gain ground on the second consecutive day on Thursday. The decline in the US Dollar (USD) contributes support for the AUD/USD pair. However, the mixed Australian employment data appears to exert downward…

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Baidu CEO Robin Li speaks during the company’s Create conference in Shenzhen, China, on April 16, 2024.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSHENZHEN, China – One year after Chinese search engine operator Baidu released its ChatGPT-like Ernie bot, the company this week announced tools to encourage locals to develop artificial intelligence applications.”In China today, there are 1 billion internet users, strong foundation models, sufficient AI application scenarios and the most complete industrial system in the world,” CEO Robin Li said in his opening speech at Baidu’s annual AI developers conference on Tuesday.”Everyone can be a developer,” he said in Mandarin, according…

Photo: Canadian Forest Service Xprize selected a number of satcom companies to advance in a wildfire detection challenge aimed at funding innovative solutions to combat wildfires. Xprize announced 20 participants on Wednesday in the Space-Based Wildfire Detection & Intelligence program. Competitors include Loft Orbital, Muon Space, MyRadar, Orbital Sidekick, and OroraTech. Xprize is a non-profit organization that hosts public competitions to fund and encourage technological development. This cohort will equally share a milestone prize $750,000. Teams will move on to the semifinals. In the final competition, teams will have one minute to detect fires across a landscape larger than entire…

In the colourful world of TikTok side hustles, where the promise of easy money collides with hard reality, not everything that glitters is gold, or even knock-off gold plated. Many of these ventures promise the moon but deliver only a handful of space dust.I made $70,000 in 28 days using a side hustle every budding entrepreneurial TikTok user would’ve had shoved down their throat. So, from a first-hand perspective let me tell you exactly why this is no longer the cash cow I milked.Here are four 2024 side hustles I think are a waste of time. As we unpack them,…

Sky News contributor Gary Hardgrave says Meta has been “making money” out of “somebody else’s efforts” as concerns the company will introduce a news ban loom.There are growing concerns Meta will introduce a news ban if the Labor government designates the social media giant as a news media outlet in the Bargaining Code.“There are professional journos doing this day in day out – they do have to be paid,” Mr Hardgrave told Sky News host Peta Credlin.“The information you get comes from somewhere.“Meta, Facebook, Instagram – they’ve all been enjoying the recirculation of that.“They’ve been making money out of somebody…