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As SAG-AFTRA members swarmed the streets of Times Square Tuesday morning raising #SAGAFTRASTRONG signs, lifting their guild member cards, and chanting for a fairer contract, Bryan Cranston, Steve Buscemi, and The Bear’s Liza Colón-Zayas stood alongside them in solidarity. SAG-AFTRA, made up of 160,000 members, joined the Writers Guild of America’s (WGA) monthslong fight on July 14, and held its biggest and most star-studded rally in New York asking for adequate healthcare, fair compensation, AI protections, and more.…

Junchuan Fan and Gautam Thakur helped develop MapSpace, a land-use modeling framework developed from natural language data, geotagging and global location data. Credit: Lena Shoemaker/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy When geoinformatics engineering researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory wanted to better understand changes in land areas and points of interest (POIs) around the world, they turned to…

Severe storms that brought hail and high winds to places such as Texas and states in the central U.S. are wreaking havoc on insurers’ profits. Severe storms that brought hail and high winds to places such as Texas and states in the central U.S. are wreaking havoc on insurers’ profits. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks…

Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet speaks during a press conference ahead of the Google DeepMind Challenge Match in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 8, 2016. Patrick Collison, the now 34-year-old billionaire CEO of online payment company Stripe, and his brother, John — a Stripe co-founder — and economist Tyler Cowen raised more than $50 million from some of the biggest names in tech: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and Peter Thiel. Mark Zuckerberg…

Two days after announcing the formation of xAI through a tweet, Twitter executive chair and CTO Elon Musk held a live audio session to talk about the big artificial intelligence project and the reason it was created, despite being vocally against it in the past. During the Twitter Spaces chat, Musk said that he is planning to “build a good AGI” or artificial general intelligence. He also highlighted that, unlike most AI platforms, xAI will be used to understand “what the hell is really going on”.Expanding his thoughts,…

The absence of a foldable phone in Apple Inc.'s portfolio is creating an opening for rivals to overtake the iPhone maker, according to Honor Device Co.'s chief executive officer.The Shenzhen-based firm on Wednesday rolled out its latest foldable device, the Magic V2, which measures less than 10mm thick. The phone has a regular glass display comparable to the iPhone 14 Pro on its exterior and a 7.92-inch foldable OLED screen on the inside. The Magic V2 starts at 8,999 yuan ($1,254.5) in China, the same price as the iPhone…

EUGENE, Ore. —  Bobby Kersee is not easily impressed. Producing more than two dozen Olympic gold medalists over four decades in track and field has a way of raising a coach’s standards.It was why it was notable — and should pique the interest of fans looking ahead to August’s world championships — that when Kersee left Hayward Field and the U.S. track and field championships late Saturday night here, he did so in a great mood.The day had proved his plan, and his superstars’ trust in it, had worked. And it left open the…

Meta has unveiled an app to rival Twitter, appearing to target users looking for an alternative to the social media platform owned and frequently changed by Elon Musk. Called Threads, the new offering is billed as a text-based version of Meta's photo-sharing app Instagram that the company says provides "a new, separate space for real-time updates and public conversations". The app went live just after midnight Wednesday in the UK in Apple and Google Android app stores in more than 100 countries including the…

The 2023 Goodwood Festival of Speed draws near, and that brings the prospect of new, magnificently fast and fearsome vehicles from companies known and unknown. The EV Sport 01 emerges from the latter category, developed by Japanese auto tech and engineering company AIM Company Limited. The concept car is a curvaceous roadster and pure driver's car powered by a dual-motor electric RWD. Truth be told, we're not sure the 154-in (390-cm) EV Sport 01 has the pure drivability or mood-boosting zoom-zoom to become the Mazda MX-5…

Forty years ago, Ronald Reagan’s interior secretary, James Watt, decided to take a stand for “wholesomeness”, against undesirable elements. The Beach Boys, he announced, would be banned from the 1983 Independence Day celebrations on the National Mall.Watt, who died in May at 85, was a lightning rod of a cabinet secretary who compared environmentalists to Nazis and divided fellow citizens into ‘‘liberals and Americans”. According to him, “hard rock” bands like the Beach Boys attracted the “wrong element” – drug-using,…