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Former U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during a press conference announcing a class action lawsuit against big tech companies at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster on July 07, 2021 in Bedminster, New Jersey.Michael M. Santiago | Getty ImagesA judge on Friday dismissed a federal lawsuit by former President Donald Trump that sought to bar a civil investigation of his business by New York Attorney General Letitia James.The ruling by U.S. District Judge Brenda Sannes came a day after a state appeals court in New…

Dollar General and Dollar Tree storesGetty ImagesShares of Dollar General and Dollar Tree popped Thursday, as the discounters beat Wall Street's quarterly earnings expectations, raised outlooks for the coming year and spoke of consumers flocking to lower prices during inflationary times.Dollar General shares rose 13.71% to close at $222.13 on Thursday. Dollar Tree shares jumped 21.87% to close at $162.80.The two retailers said they see opportunity to grow as Americans weigh value more heavily in their purchasing…

The attorney general for Washington, D.C., sued Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Monday, alleging that he participated in decision-making that led to the Cambridge Analytica data breach. Filed in D.C. Superior Court, the suit echoes charges that the office of Attorney General Karl Racine leveled last year, when it sought to name Mr. Zuckerberg as a defendant in a lawsuit it filed in 2018 against…

Exploring The Concept and Experimenting with The Example ApplicationsFigure 1: Vision Transformers in Action (Image by Author)There has been a significant advancement in the field of AI in the past several years. Generative models have been the most successful in the vision domain however, they are built for highly specialized tasks. These specialized learning models require reconstruction or retraining whenever the task is changed. Therefore, the interest in General purpose learning models is increasing. One of such type…

District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine has sued Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg over the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal. The suit alleges that Zuckerberg was “directly responsible” for creating the lax privacy rules that allowed the consulting firm to harvest user data without consent, then failing to promptly inform users and ensure the data was deleted. It follows a failed attempt to name Zuckerberg in a similar suit against Facebook itself. Racine’s fundamental accusations haven’t changed since the earlier…

Many of the documents used for Natural Language Processing (NLP) today are in .pdf format. Reading the pdfs into Python, while not extremely difficult, is not as simple as typing pd.read_pdf(‘file_name.pdf’). Today I am going to provide you with the code which will allow you to not only read a .pdf file into Python but also a function you can create that utilizes regular expressions to find the metadata of your document.Photo by Dmitry Ratushny on UnsplashThe main Python library which will be discussed today is PyPDF2.…

Investors are looking for more signs that inflation and lingering effects from the Covid-19 pandemic are wearing on American consumers.This week, Macy’s Inc., Dollar General Corp. , Costco Wholesale Corp. and other retailers are slated to release quarterly reports showing sales without the lift from government stimulus that helped consumer spending last year. In addition, rising costs for fuel, freight and labor as well as changing purchasing…

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Breadcrumb Trail Links World News Russian forces have been forced to retreat from around Kharkiv over the past week after months of bombardment failed to break stiff Ukrainian resistance Author of the article: The Telegraph James Kilner Publishing date: May 19, 2022  •  44 minutes ago  •  2 minute read  •  Join the conversation Destroyed tanks in the village of Mala Rogan, near Kharkiv, Ukraine on May 18, 2022. Photo by Sergey Bobok/AFP via Getty Images Article content…

The New York attorney general, Letitia James, has announced Twitch and Discord will be investigated for the role they played in the recent racially-motivated mass shooting in Buffalo. Last night (May 19) James announced the investigation saying that both social media platforms will be individually evaluated, as well as the “months” of online posts from the perpetrator. 4chan and 8chan – which were also used by the killer to plan his attack – will also be included. On May 14, the shooting’s perpetrator travelled to a…