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Former Augusta National Golf Club employee pleads guilty to stealing millions in Masters memorabilia
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Uber is taking a shuttle product it developed for commuters in India and Egypt and converting it for an American audience. The ride-hail and delivery giant announced Wednesday at its annual Go-Get event in New York City it will launch a shuttle service in certain U.S. cities this summer. Uber Shuttle in the U.S. will repurpose the technology and business model that Uber has built to help commuters in emerging markets where there's a public transportation gap.
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Bob Iger says Disney is 'dramatically' cutting investment in traditional TV
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Tamagotchi collectors rejoice: Bandai is finally rereleasing a beloved model from 2004
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Don’t sleep on the Cubs: Continuity, youth delivering for Chicago as they begin to find their stride
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Stanley who? I'm a shopping editor who hates drinking water — unless it's from an Owala bottle
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Berlin-based trawa raises €10M to use AI to make buying renewable energy easier for SMEs
The brutal invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022 took businesses that depended on oil and gas energy by surprise. Suddenly, renewable energy became crucial to survival. Trawa’s pitch is that it simplifies energy purchasing and management for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by leveraging two things: An AI-powered platform that lets businesses buy from renewable energy sources, and downstream data from the customers themselves about when they need energy most.
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Formula 1: After Lando Norris' Miami win, Max Verstappen is a smaller favorite than usual ahead of Imola
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NFL schedule: Packers, Jets, Bears join 6 other teams playing regular-season games outside U.S.
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LanceDB, which counts Midjourney as a customer, is building databases for multimodal AI
Chang She, previously the VP of engineering at Tubi and a Cloudera veteran, has years of experience building data tooling and infrastructure. LanceDB makes money by selling fully managed versions of its open source software with added features such as hardware acceleration and governance controls -- and business appears to be going strong.
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Restaurant365 orders in $175M at $1B+ valuation to supersize its food service software stack
The U.S. restaurant industry is expected to pass $1 trillion in sales for the first time this year, despite wider economic pressures on consumers. Now Restaurant365, a startup building tech to manage those businesses, has raised a hot $175 million to capitalize on that growth. The funding is being led by ICONIQ Growth, with KKR and L Catterton also participating, all existing backers of the company.
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Mortgage rates today, May 15, 2024: Rates go down
These are today's mortgage rates. Both 30-year and 15-year fixed mortgage rates have decreased due to a rough April jobs report. Lock in your rate today.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud computing business, has confirmed further details of its European "sovereign cloud," which is designed to enable greater data residency across the region. The company said that the first AWS sovereign cloud region will be set up in the German state of Brandenburg and will go live by the end of 2025. AWS added that it plans to invest €7.8 billion ($8.5 billion) in the facility through 2040.
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Google is building its Gemini Nano AI model into Chrome on the desktop
At the Google I/O 2024 developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced that it is building Gemini Nano, the smallest of its AI models, directly into the Chrome desktop client, starting with Chrome 126. Google itself plans to use this new capability to power features like the existing "help me write" tool from Workspace Lab in Gmail, for example. The company says it's the recent work on WebGPU and WASM support in Chrome that enables these models to run at a reasonable speed on a wide set of hardware.
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Tom Brady says he regrets doing Netflix roast: 'I didn't like the way that it affected my kids'
What did the guy with the acrimonious divorce from a Brazilian supermodel think was going to happen?
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Google will use Gemini to detect scams during calls
At the Google I/O 2024 developer conference on Tuesday, Google previewed a feature it believes will alert users to potential scams during the call. The feature, which will be built into a future version of Android, uses Gemini Nano, the smallest version of Google’s generative AI offering, which can be run entirely on-device. Google gives the example of someone pretending to be a “bank representative.”
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How Jared Goff’s contract impacts Trevor Lawrence & initial schedule reaction | The Exempt List
On today's episode of the Exempt List, John Shipley of Jaguar Report joins Charles McDonald to talk about Jared Goff's huge extension, Trevor Lawrence's contract situation, Antoine Winfield Jr. becoming the highest paid defensive back ever, and the Falcons questionable offseason.
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New Yahoo News/YouGov poll: With Trump's trial underway, most Americans now believe he falsified records to hide hush money payment
The survey also shows a dip in the former president’s favorable rating — from 45% in March to 41% today.