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What Is a Merchant Service? A merchant service is any one of a group of services that businesses can use to accept and process electronic payments from their customers. Merchant services facilitate these transactions and may involve a combination of point-of-sale systems, credit card readers, payment gateways, and online transaction processing, among others. Key Takeaways Merchant services make it easier …

The Supreme Court on Thursday appeared ready to reject Donald Trump’s sweeping claim that he is immune from prosecution on charges of trying to subvert the 2020 election, but in a way that is likely to significantly delay his stalled federal trial in the nation’s capital. In nearly three hours of oral argument, both conservative and liberal justices grappled with …

The hippocampus in a mouse brain that contains some rat cells (red) M. Khadeesh Imtiaz/Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CC BY-NC-ND) Rat cells grown inside the brains of mice with no sense of smell have allowed them to gain the ability. This is the first time that an organism of one species has experienced the world through the sensory neurons …

Challenges in the EV segment continued to weigh on the stock. Shares of Hertz Global Holdings (HTZ -19.31%) were tumbling today after the car rental giant posted disappointing results in its first-quarter earnings, as the company continued to experience challenges with its EV fleet. As a result, the stock was down 19.8% as of 3:28 p.m. ET. Image source: Getty …

“Every brush has a purpose whether it is for wet detangling, dry detangling, scalp care, blow drying — and for certain textures, some work better than others,” says Hallajian. “My absolute favorite is by a brand called Manta — it works for all hair textures, on wet or dry hair, and even for blow-dry styling. My clients always tell me …

Outcry after the discovery of mass graves in two Gaza hospitals. Hundreds of bodies have been found in mass graves in Gaza after Israeli forces withdrew from the Nasser and al-Shifa medical compounds they had besieged for weeks, according to Palestinian authorities. The Palestinian Civil Defence says there is evidence the Israeli army committed crimes against humanity by carrying out …

(Bloomberg) — Wall Street was rattled by data that showed exactly what traders did not want to hear: a sharp slowdown in the world’s largest economy and stubborn inflation. Most Read from Bloomberg Treasuries sold off, with yields hitting fresh 2024 highs as the economic figures fueled “stagflation” jitters — bringing more uncertainty to the path of Federal Reserve policy. …

Until now, AI-generated videos of people have tended to have some stiffness, glitchiness, or other unnatural elements that make them pretty easy to differentiate from reality. For the past several years, AI video startup Synthesia has produced these kinds of AI-generated avatars. But today it launches a new generation, its first to take advantage of the latest advancements in generative …

So, here are some bad, bad, baaaaaddddd encounters “normal” folks have had with famous people: Note: Some stories were pulled from this Reddit thread by user u/egg_fisting. Disclaimer: We can’t confirm the accuracy of these stories, but some of these people are supposedly speaking from their own experiences meeting celebrities.

Almost exactly five years ago, Enrico La Rocca was hailed by MPs as a hero, a whistleblower whose tenacity had helped expose profound failures at the heart of the government’s vast benefits agency, resulting in tens of thousands of vulnerable unpaid carers being unfairly fined and prosecuted. Without La Rocca – who was not named at the time – serious …

In 2017, Hulu made television history by becoming the first streaming network to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, thanks to the phenomenon that was The Handmaid’s Tale. While Netflix has largely cornered the streaming market on original movies—and even managed to persuade A-listers like Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, and Martin Scorsese to come aboard—Hulu is starting to find its footing in features …

Study highlights the divide between AI leaders and AI laggards illustrating value of unified data approach SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 25 April 2024 – NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, today released its second annual Cloud Complexity Report. The report analyzes the experiences of global technology decision makers deploying AI at scale and shows a stark …

Spike Lee and his wife, Tonya Lewis Lee, are two halves of one of the most enduring relationships in Hollywood. The Do the Right Thing screenwriter and former lawyer first crossed paths at an event in Washington, D.C., in 1992 and within a year, they were married. Throughout their decades-long union, Spike and Tonya have welcomed two children — daughter …

BNP Paribas SA (OTCQX:BNPQF) Q1 2024 Results Conference Call April 25, 2024 7:00 AM ET Company Participants Jean-Laurent Bonnafe – Chief Executive OfficerLars Machenil – Chief Financial Officer Conference Call Participants Tarik El Mejjad – Bank of AmericaAzzurra Guelfi – CitiChris Hallam – Goldman SachsStefan Stalmann – Autonomous ResearchAnke Reingen – RBCGiulia Miotto – Morgan StanleyDelphine Lee – JPMorganSamuel Moran-Smyth …

Finally, long-overdue feature comes to Google Meet. On Wednesday, Google announced a new update for its video conferencing and calling platform Google Meet, which lets users switch devices while connected to a call without dropping the stream. Essentially, this allows users to seamlessly swap between their desktop and mobile devices without other users in the Google Meet knowing about it. …

In a lengthy and crucial exchange between Justice Amy Coney Barrett and the Justice Department’s Michael Dreeben, the Supreme Court heard how Trump’s case could see a path to trial this year. Barrett sketched out that the case could go to trial, and how, if the Supreme Court sends it back to the trial level, it could be heard by …

A stool will remain empty at Moe’s Tavern from now on.  After all, The Simpsons character Larry the Barfly, voiced by Harry Shearer, was killed off after 35 seasons on the longest-running animated series. In the April 21 episode, “Cremains of the Day,” Homer Simpson and friends Lenny Leonard (also voiced by Harry), Carl Carlson and Moe Szyslak feel bad …

Divorce is a gut-wrenching experience. Whether you have been blindsided by infidelity or had to give an “I still love you, but I’m not in love with you anymore” speech to the person who you thought would be your partner for life, the grief can be profound. And you’re somehow supposed to pull it together through paralyzing pain and heart-pounding …

A coalition of Democrats called on the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to quickly remove marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), signaling impatience over the agency’s ongoing review of cannabis’s designation. The lawmakers were led by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and John Fetterman (Pa.) and Reps. Barbara Lee (Calif.) and Earl Blumenauer (Ore.) in a letter addressed …

The Federal Communications Commission made its official vote Thursday to reinstate net neutrality, passing an order titled Safeguarding and Securing the Open Internet. This restores, with some changes and protections, the rules passed back in 2015 allowing the FCC to enforce basic rules of connectivity and fairness in broadband. Since the FCC announced in September that it would be pursuing …