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Tourists look at the Bridge of Sighs in Venice, Italy, on Aug. 25, 2021.Andrea Merola | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCaroline Smith, an accounting director from Verona, New Jersey, and her husband took their two children to Italy for Easter break this month. On the Spanish Steps in Rome, they ran into another family from their town. Two other families from the same area were also independently visiting Italy at the same time, she said.The families are part of an emerging trend in the $11 trillion global travel industry: Americans are traveling abroad in droves, while the number of visitors to…
Khosla Ventures-backed Fireflies.ai, an AI-powered note-taking app, on Wednesday released a set of domain-specific “mini apps” to extract insights from meeting transcripts automatically. With the widespread availability of automatic speech recognition models and generative AI, meeting intelligence startups like Otter, Read AI, Circleback, Krisp, and Granola have registered impressive growth. Fireflies, similarly, has seen 8x expansion in terms of users and has achieved profitability, according to co-founder and CEO Krish Ramineni. To boost growth further, the startup is releasing over 200 mini apps within its platform for different roles and use cases, including sales, marketing, recruiting, operations and management, customer…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The world’s biggest corporations have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, a new study estimates as part of an effort to make it easier for people and governments to hold companies financially accountable, like the tobacco giants have been.A Dartmouth College research team came up with the estimated pollution caused by 111 companies, with more than half of the total dollar figure coming from 10 fossil fuel providers: Saudi Aramco, Gazprom, Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, National Iranian Oil Co., Pemex, Coal India and the British Coal Corporation.For comparison, $28 trillion is a shade less than the sum…
Former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has spoken to the Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge tonight.As the man who introduced the winter fuel payment, it was only natural for Sophy to ask about the current situation.To remind you, the government cut the payment for millions of pensioners last year – but announced earlier today a plan to review the situation and maybe make it more generous.The cut had been met with fury from voters.Brown says he believes the current prime minister when he says the changes are being made due to improved economic circumstance – opponents of Labour say this…
Few will argue with PM’s case for the defence – making the sums add up is another matter Labour MPs turning up to the narrow committee corridor in the Palace of Westminster to hear from the defence secretary were left disappointed after his Monday night outing with party colleagues was postponed because of a late-running statement in the Commons chamber.My sense is few would outwardly disagree or criticise with today’s pronouncements on the changing security landscape and increasing need to spend more on the military.’Age of insecurity’For sure, it’ll do few favours to MPs being threatened on their left by…
MP calls for assisted dying timeframe to be scrapped due to fears the process could be ‘rushed’ The assisted dying bill currently says that the service should be available to patients within four years. But an MP has said this proposed deadline should be scrapped, as he fears it could lead to the first cases of assisted dying happening “regardless of how far along the plans and preparations are”.Labour’s Adam Jogee said: “The last thing we should be doing is rushing this process”.Instead, his amendment 42 to the bill would mean ministers must make a commencement order before patients can access…
NEW YORK (AP) — Adelynn Campbell’s last plane trip ended with a panic attack that she got through largely with the help of a kind flight attendant. That was last year — before 67 people died in January when an American Airlines jet collided with a helicopter over Washington, D.C., in the deadliest U.S. air disaster in almost a quarter century. Now, Campbell is even more hesitant to book a flight.“It’s definitely spiked my concern about getting on a plane and it’s making the whole situation a little more stressful than it used to be,” said Campbell, 30, who manages…
It could take up to five years to develop a domestic supply chain to supplant China’s global monopoly in processing rare earths into materials needed to produce everything from iPhones to F-35 fighter jets.While the United States has most of the 17 rare earth elements and 50 critical minerals underground, it has no industrial capacity to refine them into processed metals and magnets, according to Melissa “Mel” Sanderson, American Rare Earths board member and Critical Minerals Institute co-chair.“Currently in the United States, we have zero magnet manufacturers,” Sanderson told The Epoch Times.She said that’s why China imposed export restrictions on…
Hordes of horror films line up for Halloween and a sleigh full of Christmas movies arrive annually in December, but there is slightly less competition around the paper-pushing rite of Tax Day.Yet on the heels of tax season, here is “The Accountant 2,” Gavin O’Connor’s sequel to the 2016 film that did not, exactly, leave audiences clamoring for another. But in a movie world where anything successful immediately gets a second one, “The Accountant 2” has the benefit of not having much to live up to. Just balancing the books a little would count as a win for “The Accountant…
The Baller League UK is under way on Sky Sports! Find out all you need to know on how it works, which famous faces are taking part and how to watch every game.What is the Baller League?The Baller League began in Germany, created by entrepreneur Felix Starck and aided by Mats Hummels and Lukas Podolski. It is a six-a-side indoor football competition, with the first UK season taking place at the Copper Box Arena in London. The influencer-led league – headlined by KSI for the UK version – sees former Premier League players, futsal players and celebrities face one another…