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Black Friday is upon us, but online shoppers have already spent more than $75 billion this holiday season, according to data from Adobe Analytics. Between Nov. 1 and 24, consumers spent $77.4 billion online, of which $17.7 billion was for electronics—an 11.4% year-over-year jump. That’s set to increase in the coming days, with the average […]
Generative AI could save the public sector billions in the next 5 years More routine tasks could be automated to free up time for creatives More than half of public sector jobs will be changed in some way in coming years New research has revealed the UK public sector could save billions in expenditure by […]
Can AI compress the yearslong research time of a PhD into seconds? Research scientist Max Jaderberg explores how “AI analogs” simulate real-world lab work with staggering speed and scale, unlocking new insights on protein folding and drug discovery. Drawing on his experience working on Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold 3 — an AI model for predicting the […]
The United Nations’ annual climate talks pushed into overtime on Saturday as negotiators pressed on to get a deal on money for developing nations to curb and adapt to climate change. Several countries were left angry and disappointed at the latest proposed deal from the talks on Friday afternoon. That draft pledged US$250 billion annually […]
Scientists have found what seems to be the oldest direct evidence of hot water flowing on Mars during its ancient past. The discovery could further indicate that the Red Planet, despite its arid and desolate appearance today, may have been capable of supporting life long ago. The evidence was delivered to Earth and sealed within […]
Laws will be introduced on Monday to retrospectively make these surcharges legal. However, the government will put an end to surcharges on debit card payments for services at the Australian Tax Office and Services Australia from January 1 next year. Charges for the use of credit cards to pay for government fees and services will […]
According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple plans to license some of its Apple TV+ content to competing services in an effort to save money and spread its reach. From the report: Apple has hired an executive to license its original productions to other companies, a strategy designed to increase sales from its film […]
Swing state voters have been bombarded with robocalls, texts, campaign visits, billboards, flyers, and social media messages. Libby Brouwer was so fed up with political advertisements interrupting her YouTube viewing in the battleground state of Michigan that she opted to pay $13.99 per month to go ad-free. Source link
There’s a saying in sports journalism: “The answer to all your questions is money.” But in the case of Saudi Arabia’s massive sports investment programmes during the reign of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, money is not the whole story. In a simple sense, there is a clear profit motive. With $925 billion in assets […]
Using interest from frozen Russian assets to make loans to Ukraine is against international law and will backfire on the West, Moscow’s Deputy Finance Minister Ivan Chebeskov has said. The US and the EU blocked an estimated $300 billion in assets belonging to the Russian central bank when the Ukraine conflict escalated in February 2022. […]