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Schumpeter likes to write—and receive—handwritten letters. When he got out his pen last year and wrote to Larry Fink, boss of BlackRock, he explained to the passive-investing billionaire that he was doing so because he believed they shared a mutual interest: letter-writing. Your columnist went so far as to use a John Donne quote, “letters mingle souls”, to elicit a …

Getty Images Last October, I received an email with a hell of an opening line: “I fired a nuke at the US Copyright Office this morning.” The message was from Elisa Shupe, a 60-year-old retired US Army veteran who had just filed a copyright registration for a novel she’d recently self-published. She’d used OpenAI’s ChatGPT extensively while writing the book. …

Serve Robotics, the Uber and Nvidia-backed sidewalk robot delivery company, debuted publicly on the New York stock exchange Thursday, making it the latest startup to choose going public via a reverse merger as an alternative path to capital needed to fund growth. The company, which spun out of Uber’s acquisition of Postmates in 2021, hits the Nasdaq under the ticker …

LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESSWIRE / April 17, 2024 / The Schall Law Firm, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, reminds investors of a class action lawsuit against Lantronix, Inc. (“Lantronix” or “the Company”) (NASDAQ:LTRX) for violations of 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. …

Known for his avant-garde sensibility and deconstructed tailoring, designer Rok Hwang has been making waves in the fashion world with his namesake label. Now, Rokh and H&M have joined forces for a collaboration filled with off-kilter and customizable wardrobe staples. To celebrate the launch, the retailer hosted an intimate party on April 16 at Dover Street Market London, where guests …

A harrowing photograph showing a woman in Gaza sobbing in a morgue as she cradles the body of her 5-year-old niece won the 2024 World Press Photo of the Year Award on Thursday. Mohammed Salem, a 39-year-old Palestinian Reuters photographer, captured the image at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the south of the enclave on Oct. 17, 2023. The …

Sundry Photography Ahead of its first-quarter results, Nokia Oyj (NYSE:NOK) fell by 2.63% year-to-date. Nokia shareholders had low expectations of its management posting results that would beat consensus estimates. In terms of my article performance, Nokia’s returns have been negative on the last two occasions. Since the Q4/2023 earnings preview, the stock fell by around 1.6%. Following its Q3/2023 report, …

On Wednesday, Boston Dynamics announced the new version of its Atlas robot with a characteristically unsettling video. In it, a humanoid android lifts itself up from the floor by bending its legs backward and then swivels its fathomless void of a head a full 180 degrees like it’s Linda Blair in The Exorcist. The footage is obviously creepy.  In a …

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Prospective buyers attend an open house at a home for sale in Larchmont, New York, US, on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023.  Tiffany Hagler-Geard | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sales of previously-owned homes dropped 4.3% in March compared with February, to a seasonally adjusted, annualized rate of 4.19 million units, according to the National Association of Realtors. Sales were 3.7% lower …

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The International Space Station (ISS) is home to crews of astronauts conducting research in low Earth orbit, but it also hosts a group of mutated bacteria that are thriving under the harsh conditions of space. ‘It’s About Reporting, It’s About Doing Good Journalism’ | Civil War Interview A group of researchers took a closer look at bacterial strains on board …

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Realty Income is trading at a lower valuation and higher dividend yield, setting investors up to potentially earn strong total returns. Realty Income (O -0.16%) has done a magnificent job creating value for its shareholders over the years. The real estate investment trust (REIT) has delivered a 13.9% compound annual total return since its listing on the New York Stock …

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock has enjoyed a remarkable artificial intelligence (AI)-related surge since the beginning of 2023, and that’s not surprising as the company is providing the critical building blocks needed for the proliferation of this technology. Nvidia’s graphics processing units (GPUs) are helping its customers train AI models and deploy them, which explains why there is a huge demand …

Last week President Biden traveled to Madison, Wisconsin to announce new student loan relief for some borrowers. But some Madison students may still may need more motivation to support him. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Last week, President Biden traveled to Madison, Wis., to announce new plans to eliminate student debt for millions of borrowers. Madison is a college town in a …

As learning language models (LLMs) continue to advance, so do questions about how they can benefit society in areas such as the medical field. A recent study from the University of Cambridge’s School of Clinical Medicine found that OpenAI’s GPT-4 performed nearly as well in an ophthalmology assessment as experts in the field, the Financial Times first reported. In the …

The musician also performed his single “It Takes a Woman” on the late-night show’s outdoor stage Chris Stapleton stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live to showcase his song “It Takes a Woman” on the show’s outdoor stage and took the opportunity to also perform a brand new number about John Stamos. For the late-night show’s “Wing It and Sing It” segment, …

“THICK”, scoffed the headline on the Daily Mail website on April 9th, in response to the news that Scrabble has had an overhaul. In some parts of the world the word-play game has been relaunched with a double-sided board; one side now shows a new, simpler design that is meant to be less intimidating and more inclusive than the original. …

The Senate on Wednesday dismissed the impeachment case against Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, voting along party lines before his trial got underway to sweep aside two charges accusing him of failing to enforce immigration laws and breaching the public trust. By a vote of 51 to 48, with one senator voting “present,” the Senate ruled that the …