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PHILADELPHIA — The recent Sunday Ticket lawsuit in which the NFL will have to pay billions if and/or when the appeals process is exhausted is the kind of thing that won’t really be on the minds of the average NFL fan, especially as the 2024 season approaches. The lawsuit and the current offseason edition of “Hard Knocks,” which has followed the New York Giants and that team’s decision to let former franchise face Saquon Barkley defect to the division-rival Eagles, have dominated headlines over the past week.Those who often portray Giants general manager Joe Schoen in a negative light, especially…

Down angle icon An angle icon pointing down. BlackRock has acquired Mark O’Hare’s data firm Preqin. Leonardo Munoz/VIEWpress Preqin employees get paid after BlackRock acquired the company for $3.2 billion.The employees will share about $650 million, making some of them millionaires.Preqin founder Mark O’Hare and his wife will walk away with about $2 billion after taxes. Some Preqin employees are set to receive a big payday after BlackRock acquired the data company for $3.2 billion.The acquisition, announced June 30, made Preqin founder Mark O’Hare and his wife billionaires.O’Hare owns nearly 80% of Preqin through Valhalla Venture and will make about…

Western pond turtles gather on a log at Phoenix Lake in the Mount Tamalpais watershed on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. (Sherry LaVars/Marin Independent Journal) Some plant and animal communities on Mount Tamalpais are thriving, while others are suffering, according to a new report. The report, titled “Peak Health,” was produced by the One Tam Partnership, a program that includes the National Park Service, California State Parks, the Marin Municipal Water District, Marin County Parks and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. The report is an update of a similar analysis from 2016. The new report says that while most plant…

Generative AI models don’t process text the same way humans do. Understanding their internal, token-based environment can help explain some of their strange behaviors and stubborn limitations. Most models, from small in-device models like Gemma to OpenAI’s industry-leading GPT-4o, are built on an architecture known as a transformer. Because of the way transformers evoke associations between text and other types of data, they can’t receive or generate raw text, at least not without a massive amount of computation. So, for both pragmatic and technical reasons, current transformer models work with text broken down into smaller pieces, called tokens, a process…

Item informationAuthor, Maria ZaccaroRole, BBC NewsJuly 5, 2024Updated 2 hours agoThe Prime Minister said work would begin “immediately” to fix the NHS after Labour won the general election.Sir Keir Starmer told a news conference on Saturday that the party had spoken to two NHS trusts to discuss how the party can deliver on its election promise of 40,000 extra appointments.Responding to new Health Secretary Wes Streeting describing the NHS as “broken”, Sir Keir refused to pin the blame on NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard, saying the Tories’ “failure of leadership” was to blame.The announcement comes after Mr Streeting said…

Texans braced for the approach of Tropical Storm Beryl as nearly the entire coastline was under a hurricane watch Saturday ahead of its expected landfall as a potentially destructive hurricane.The storm, which had already strengthened into a hurricane as it moved through Jamaica and the Caribbean earlier this week and made landfall on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula early Friday, has killed at least 11 people along the way. It weakened to a tropical storm as it moved through the Yucatan, but is expected to strengthen into a hurricane again as it heads toward Texas, according to the National Hurricane Center.“This is…

The Holy See Press Office announced today the details of the apostolic journey that the Pope will make to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore, from 2 to 13 September 2024. The Pope will depart on Monday 2 September from Rome-Fiumicino International Airport for Jakarta, Indonesia, marking the first stop on his great apostolic journey through Asia and Oceania. In Indonesia, the papal plane will land at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on Tuesday 3rd at 11:30, followed by a welcoming ceremony at the Istana Merdeka presidential palace on Wednesday 4th at 9:30. During his stay, the Pope will…

We want to hear from you! Take our quick AI survey and share your thoughts on the current state of AI, how you’re implementing it, and what you’re hoping for in the future. Learn moreAI agents are becoming a promising new research direction with potential real-world applications. These agents use basic models such as large language models (LLMs) and vision language models (VLMs) to take natural language instructions and pursue complex goals autonomously or semi-autonomously. AI agents can use various tools such as browsers, search engines, and code compilers to verify their actions and reason about their goals. However, a…

David Kim, a senior studying computer science at UNC-Chapel Hill, has submitted 326 applications to date. He has only made it past the interview stage for three of them.Kim said that’s normal for computer science students like him, who are still applying for jobs as graduation approaches. He added that some of his classmates have applied to about 1,000 jobs and are still waiting to hear back.Kim said career competitiveness is often attributed to the economy and the job market, but she also points to a new wave of technology: artificial intelligence.Artificial intelligence aims to have intelligence equal to or…

Summer is in full swing, and that means it’s time to travel. Whether you’re hopping on a plane out of the country or just heading to your favorite campsite for the weekend, you need the right luggage. And that’s where this crossbody bag comes in handy—and at a very reasonable price.I recently embarked on an adventure through Italy, where I got to test out what buyers have called “the perfect solution” for on-the-go storage: the Waterfly Crossover Sling Backpack. And dear readers, I’m here to say that this bag is Indeed Perfect for a day trip to theme parks, sightseeing…