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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A mistake before the start cost American Magic a point on the opening day of the 37th America’s Cup off the coast of Barcelona on Thursday, while defending champion New Zealand had its boat lowered by a crane after sailing out.Emirates Team New Zealand suffered a mishap when a crane lifting the AC75 Taihoro onto its cradle malfunctioned, causing the boat to “land hard in the water.” The team said they needed to assess the damage but would not be able to set sail on Friday. No crew members were injured in the incident.American Magic, representing…
Ministers pledged to classify knife crime as a grounds for deportation, including to Syria and Afghanistan, to end benefits for asylum seekers who the government determines should seek protection in the first EU country they enter under the Dublin Convention, and to strip protection status from refugees who leave Germany to visit their home countries without a valid reason. By cutting benefits for these “Dublin” cases, the coalition government hopes to reduce immigration numbers. According to the German government, of the 25,000 asylum seekers obliged to apply for asylum in other member states, only around 3,500 were actually deported from…
Coming off a captivating college football Week 0, the Jackets will face off against inner-city rivals just 1.7 miles away, the Georgia State Panthers. Despite their close proximity, these two teams have never played against each other, which is sure to make for a fun and exciting matchup. Georgia Tech is coming off the excitement of a weekend international trip and a dominating conference win. The team is on a roll after being featured on the show “College GameDay” and receiving a ton of media attention. As we head into Week 1 of the 2024 college football season, here’s what…
Lacey Faltz Last updated: Thursday, August 29, 2024 at 1:50 PM EST Despite disruptions to air travel caused by a global crowdstrike outage in July and a busy summer storm season across the country, the rate of flight cancellations in the U.S. stands at 1.6% so far this year. The data comes from a new report from the U.S. Department of Transportation released on Aug. 29. For comparison, Reuters reports that the cancellation rate for 2023 was 1.5%. This year’s cancellation rate would be the second-lowest since 2017. According to the report, air travel volumes are at an all-time high:…
Mission of the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) Office of Health Research To advance National Institutes of Health (NIH) efforts to support research, training, and community engagement to promote and improve the health of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) communities in the United States and its territories. The NHPI Health Research Office, to be established within the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) in 2024, will: Addressing health disparities in NHPI communities. Support the career development and training of NHPI health-focused researchers. Develop partnerships with academic institutions that have a track record of…
Magic, an AI startup that creates models that generate code and automate a variety of software development tasks, has raised a significant amount of funding from investors including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Magic announced in a blog post Thursday that it had closed a $320 million funding round, with contributions from Schmidt, Alphabet’s CapitalG, Atlassian, Elad Gill, Jane Street, Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross, Sequoia and others. The funding brings the company’s total funding to nearly $500 million ($465 million), and puts it in the company’s league of well-funded AI coding startups that includes Codeium, Cognition, Poolside, Anysphere and…
Get our FREE US Election Countdown newsletterImportant news about money and politics in the race for the White HouseDonald Trump’s vice presidential nominee, J.D. Vance, has called on tech billionaire Peter Thiel to “come off the sidelines” and help fund the Republican race for the White House as the party tries to raise money to defeat Kamala Harris.Vance made the plea to Thiel, his former Silicon Valley boss, in an interview with the Financial Times in Wisconsin, one of the battleground states that will determine the outcome of November’s presidential election. Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, has been…
Celebrations have begun for the wedding of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway and her American partner, self-proclaimed shaman Durek Verret.Hundreds of guests are arriving for a “meet and greet” at a historic hotel in Ålesund, western Norway.On Friday, the couple will travel by sea to Geylager, a picturesque town on the shores of a UNESCO-listed fjord, where guests will enjoy “a light lunch on board with views of the majestic mountains and waterfalls,” the wedding program said. The couple are set to marry in a private event on Saturday.Members of the Swedish royal family are said to be due to…
The following MBW Views op-ed is by Ed Newton-Rex (pictured inset), CEO of ethical generative AI nonprofit Fairly Trained. A veteran expert in the world of gen-AI, Newton-Rex is the former VP of Audio at Stability AI and founder of JukeDeck (acquired by TikTok/ByteDance in 2019).In this article, Newton Rex argues: “MetersUSICs made with AI products that do not license their training data should be banned [from DSPs] or be disregarded in any royalty calculation or recommendation…”Handing the baton to Ed…When I wrote an article in April highlighting the striking similarities between Suno’s work and copyrighted music (and then did…
Indonesia and Australia have signed a long-awaited Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA), with Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto calling the defence pact a “historic milestone” that will strengthen ties between the two countries amid growing regional security concerns.The signing ceremony took place on Thursday at the National Military Academy in Magelang, Central Java. Prabowo and Australian Foreign Minister Richard Marles, who led the Australian delegation at the ceremony, signed the document. The ceremony was also attended by Golkar’s Chairman of the House of Representatives’ First Committee Meutia Hafid, as well as representatives from the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) and the Ministry of…