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The last four years in Hollywood have been a wake-up call for an industry that had spent the previous decade as a boomtown of creative ambition. With the COVID-19 pandemic, production costs increased, theater attendance went down, and the bubble finally burst. Feeling the squeeze, both the writers and actors went on strike last year, and the studios drastically cut spending. Streaming’s entrance into the film and television economy had inexorably altered the way for all parties to make money. A deal did eventually come to pass, one that heavily focused on safeguards surrounding AI. Speaking to The New York…
Representative Mike Garcia (CA-27) declared Alex Coons, a sophomore at Vasquez High School in Acton, the 27th District’s 2024 Congressional Art Competition winner. A panel of independent judges chose Alex’s drawing, “Wings of Freedom,” which will be displayed in the halls of Congress in Washington, D.C. “Alex’s art piece is a touching homage to our service members,” said Rep. Garcia. “I’m honored to hang it in the U.S. Capitol, where this amazing work from CA-27 will be seen every day by fellow constituents, Members of Congress, and visitors from around the world. Alex and her work, as well as every…
Bella Lin was a high school student with five pet guinea pigs she loved. But at 13, she could already pick out all the shortcomings of products available on the market for her beloved pets. Cages were small, difficult to clean, and often hard to see through because of all the wiring.She wanted to customize her own product and thought it could be a good business idea. So, she consulted with her father, who had experience with e-commerce businesses, specifically running a photo printing services lab.”Initially, I approached him and he didn’t say much about it other than he thought…
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump isn’t known for letting slights pass.Yet for weeks, the famously combative presumptive Republican nominee has sat silently — to the point of sometimes seeming asleep — in a sterile Manhattan courtroom amid a barrage of accusations and insults.There were the times his former fixer-turned-chief prosecution witness was quoted calling him a “boorish cartoon misogynist” and a “Cheeto-dusted” villain who belonged in a “cage, like an animal.” There were the graphic details relayed by a porn actor about the night she claims they had sex. And there were lengthy descriptions of what…
The economic slowdown indicates a deeper recession in 2023, an alarming thought for companies across the world. However, companies can prepare to combat the downturn by implementing various marketing strategies. It’s important to allocate your marketing fund to the right places. Here are some tips to ensure your company stays afloat with marketing strategies during a possible recession in 2023, 1) Focus on your target market: During the recession, focusing on your core customer base is important which means identifying your most profitable customers and tailoring your marketing efforts to reach them specifically, said Amitek Sinha, COO & Co-Founder, ET…
This article first appeared in Digital Edge, The Edge Malaysia Weekly on May 27, 2024 – June 2, 2024Freelancing has long been associated with creative and technological skills and is often perceived as being low value or low skill. However, the market is undergoing a significant shift, particularly in Southeast Asia, and is becoming the fastest growing segment in the gig economy for highly skilled professionals. The industry is now seeing professionals from across the value chain gravitating towards the independent sector. Anurag Bhalla, co-founder and managing director for Southeast Asia at Outsized, says this is being driven by a…
ChatGPT for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, all include a very impressive Voice Chat feature, that lets you have voice chats and full on conversations with the advanced AI Large Language Model. One of the fun ways to customize Voice Chat with ChatGPT is to change the voice to something you prefer, and there are multiple options available to choose from. We’ll show you how you can easily change the voice of that used in conversation mode of ChatGPT on iPhone, iPad, or Mac. How to Change the Voice in ChatGPT on iPhone, iPad, Mac If you’ve never used voice chat…
Pepe, Uniswap, and Lido DAO were the biggest winners of the week. Arweave, Akash Network, and Fantom had the biggest losses of the week. Fantom [FTM] was one of the top gainers in the previous ranking, but this week, it has slipped significantly. Meanwhile, Pepe [PEPE] has had an outstanding week, hitting multiple all-time highs and leading the winners for the week. Biggest winners Pepe [PEPE] AMBCrypto’s analysis of Pepe [PEPE] on a daily time frame chart showed that it started the week with a 3.98% decline, dropping to around $0.00000916. However, the next day, it saw a 24.56% increase,…
The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) has given shares of many companies a big lift in the past year or so, and Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) is one of them. Shares of Dell have more than tripled in the past year as investors have been buying the stock hand over fist in the belief that it could benefit big time from the growing adoption of AI.That’s not surprising, as Dell can take advantage of two lucrative AI-related growth opportunities — servers and personal computers (PCs). And recent developments indicate that the company is taking steps to capitalize on both these…
