CDC lifts COVID test requirement for international travelers
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City of Gardendale Set to Become Outdoor Sports Destination, Names Sports Facilities Companies As Operating Partner
Located just north of Birmingham, the City of Gardendale, AL, is investing in the health and economic vitality of the community in a big way. Led by Mayor Stan Hogeland, the city has begun construction on a $27 million redevelopment of Bill Noble Park from a quaint neighborhood park to a year-round destination for traveling …
From Flying Blind to Unparalleled Success: Kay Hall Outlines Her Unique Journey in Her Upcoming Book Becoming FlyWithKay
Releasing July 31st in Hardcover, Softcover, and eBook on Amazon, Becoming FlyWithKay Documents Kay Hall’s Up’s and Down’s While Discovering Social Media Success Anyone who is on social media, especially TikTok has probably seen her at one point or another: the spunky young blonde pilot who documents her travel in her airplane “Lil Red”. Since …
Traveled to the darkest skies I could find in the U.S. to shoot the Milky Way. This photo is the result.
Shot under Bortle 1 skies in Big Bend National Park along the Texas/Mexico border. (The Bortle scale measures light pollution with 1 being darkest and 9 – think Times Square – being the brightest. While the Milky Way is incredibly bright under Bortle 1 skies – like a glowing cloud that stretches across the sky …
‘Making advertising a little bit more entertaining’: Why brands like Liberty Mutual, Bushmills and Booking.com are partnering with entertainment on co-marketing efforts
Liberty Mutual’s rolling out a new ad this month featuring familiar animated characters: Minions. The insurer is doing so as part of a co-marketing effort to promote the Liberty Mutual’s offerings as well as the upcoming Minions movie, Minions: The Rise of Gru. Liberty Mutual isn’t alone in partnering with an entertainment property for advertising. …
Google places an engineer on leave after claiming its AI is sentient
Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer working in its Responsible AI division, revealed to The Washington Post that he believes one of the company’s AI projects has achieved sentience. And after reading his conversations with LaMDA (short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications), it’s easy to see why. The chatbot system, which relies on Google’s language models …
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This Chrome Extension Helps You Work Less
Image: Drazen Zigic (Shutterstock) We often write about productivity and, well, life hacks at Lifehacker; how to hack your space, your iPhone, your resumé and next job interview, even your dishwasher tablets to create more storage, more functionality, more opportunity, more cleanliness. But what about when we need to create less? Less stress, less deadline …
The Key to Success
Stitch Fix partner Keegan-Michael Key on his style evolution and the life hacks he lives by. By Max Berlinger and Lauren Ingram May 9, 2022 Like so many of us, Keegan-Michael Key is a busy guy. The screenwriter, performer, producer, sports enthusiast, and new Stitch Fix ambassador has got a lot going on. And, like …
DeFi pulls the curtain on financial magic, says EU Blockchain Observatory expert
As decentralized finance continues its victorious march — although the road is sometimes bumpy — some significant questions on its nature remain. How can DeFi applications be protected from becoming nonoperational under extreme stress? Is it really decentralized if some individuals have way more governance tokens than others? Does the anonymous culture compromise its transparency? …
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No reserves in Germany’s federal budget, says finance minister
Economic Indicators Jun 10, 2022 11:10PM ET © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: German Finance Minister Christian Lindner addresses the media during a news conference after the country agreed to change its constitution to allow for a credit-based special defense fund in Berlin, Germany, May 30, 2022. REUTERS/Michele Tantu BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s federal government has reached …
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