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Hello, dear Quartz readers!Here’s what you need to knowSamsung shares hit a three-year high. South Korean tech giant is at the peak of its solid profits thanks to AI and demand for chips. Netflix and 3 Other Stocks to Buy Now, According to a StrategistRegarding AI: models developed in China are booming. Assembled quartz a list of the country’s top competitors and companies in artificial intelligence.Russia is now a “high-income” country because of its military spending. The World Bank Upgrade puts him on the same footing like the United States and Western Europe.Amazon’s algorithm is under scrutiny in Europe. The…

Solidarity Bridge, a Catholic nonprofit based in Evanston, is making a significant impact nearly 5,000 miles away in Bolivia and Paraguay. The organization, founded in 1999, works with people and doctors in both countries to provide access to safe, affordable and timely surgeries. Juan Hinojosa, founder of the Solidarity Bridge. Credit: Submitted by Solidarity Bridge Juan Lorenzo Hinojosa, founder of Solidarity Bridge, was born in Bolivia and spent years traveling between the United States and his home country. Hinojosa attended high school in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and then moved to the United States, where he earned a degree in petroleum…

Adam Benson and Hannah Huffstickler 40 minutes ago HORRY COUNTY, SC (WBTW) — As hundreds of thousands of visitors return home after their Fourth of July weekend on the Grand Strand, local businesses say they’ve seen a huge increase in sales. Restaurants and fireworks vendors have particularly benefited from the windfall, and Myrtle Beach International Airport was busy Sunday as people left a place that U.S. News and World Report named as one of the nation’s top Independence Day destinations. “I mean, it’s basically tripled what I had last week in one day,” said Lewis Broome, owner of Black Pearl…

France was heading towards a hung parliament on Sunday and rocky talks to form a government after an unexpected leftwing victory thwarted Marine Le Pen’s efforts to bring the far right to power.Early projections by pollsters suggested a leftist coalition is on course to win the most seats in the high stakes snap election, a severe blow to Le Pen’s Rassemblement National party, which had seen a parliamentary majority within reach.The outcome, if confirmed, would represent a resounding success for the co-ordinated anti-RN strategy, under which the left and centre tactically withdrew their candidates from run-off ballots. But the result…

An alliance of left-wing parties is set to win the most seats in France’s parliamentary elections, exit polls showed on Sunday, in a surprise defeat for Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party as voters opposed to her far-right policies appeared to heed calls from other groups to block her party from power.French voters also appeared to punish President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist party amid the unexpected results, but not as much as pre-election polls and political pundits expected.Exit polls across the country project the New Popular Front, a left-wing bloc led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, to win up to 215 seats in…

The crew of a NASA mission to Mars has stepped out of its spacecraft after a year-long journey that never left Earth.The four volunteer crew members spent more than 12 months in NASA’s first simulated Martian environment at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, emerging from the artificial alien environment around 5 p.m. Saturday.Kelly Haston, Anca Selariu, Ross Brockwell and Nathan Jones entered the 3D-printed habitat on June 25, 2023, as the space agency’s first crew Analogue exploration of crew health and performance project.Haston, the mission commander, began with a simple “Hello.”“It’s really wonderful to be able to say hello…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The president Joe Biden urged his supporters to stay united at a rousing black church service in critical Pennsylvania on Sunday, even as his campaign quietly braced for growing pressure on him to drop his re-election bid amid questions that intensify as to whether he is fit to run for re-election. Speaking from a stage filled with sunlight streaming through the stained-glass windows of Mount Airy Church of God in Christ in northwest Philadelphia, Biden, 81, laughed off concerns about his age, joking, “I know I look 40,” but “I’ve been doing this a long time.” “I’m…

This year, passengers had to contend with record travel and Mother Nature. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Millions of Floridians traveled for Independence Day weekend, and on Sunday, many of them returned home to start the week. Beryl causing problems at some southern airports, News from the First Coast is on your side to ask passengers how their trip was impacted. RELATED: Talkin’ Tropics: Beryl Strengthens Before Landing in Texas According to AAA, more than 5 million people flew for the July 4 weekend, an increase of nearly 7% over last year. “I came from Chattanooga, it was a really good flight,…

Edgar Cervantes / Android AuthorityTL;DR WhatsApp beta version 2.24.14.20 has a new feature that allows users to share photos with Meta AI. The AI ​​chatbot will analyze the uploaded images and provide information or context about the content. Users can request specific edits to their photos directly through Meta AI, although the extent of this functionality is still unknown. As the battle for AI dominance heats up, Meta is adding a new trick to its AI chatbot, Meta AI, which is already part of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. While Meta AI already has impressive text capabilities, like answering questions, suggesting…

Google DeepMind, Google’s artificial intelligence research lab, has released new research on training AI models that claims to dramatically accelerate training speed and energy efficiency by an order of magnitude, producing 13x better performance and tenx better energy efficiency than other methods. The new JEST training method comes at a time when discussions about the environmental impact of AI data centers are intensifying.DeepMind’s method, called JEST or Joint Example Selection, is a simple departure from traditional AI model training techniques. Traditional training methods focus on individual data points for training and learning, while JEST trains on entire batches. JEST first…