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James Larounis, a travel industry analyst, was on Delta's Dallas to Detroit solar eclipse flight.
  • Delta's two special solar eclipse flights set off on April 8, from Austin and Dallas to Detroit.
  • But passengers say they didn't experience a total eclipse like some people on the ground.
  • People remained in good spirits despite forking out between $749 and $1,150 for tickets. 

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JPMorgan Chase & Co CEO Jamie Dimon arrives for a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill September 22, 2022 in Washington, DC. The committee held the hearing for annual oversight of the nation's largest banks.

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Google Cloud Next 2024 has begun, and the company is starting the event with some big announcements, including its new Axion processor. It's Google's first Arm-based CPU specifically created for data centers, which was designed using Arm's Neoverse V2 CPU.

According to Google, Axion performs 30 percent better than its fastest general purpose Arm-based tools in the cloud and 50 percent better than



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More and more companies are choosing to deploy AI-powered chatbots to deal with basic customer service inquiries. At the ongoing Google Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas, the company has revealed the Gemini-powered chatbots its partners are working on, some of which you could end up interacting with. Best Buy, for instance, is using Google's technology to build virtual assistants that can help



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For most of us, creating documents, spreadsheets and slide decks is an inescapable part of work life in 2024. What's not is creating videos. That’s something Google would like to change. On Tuesday, the company announced Google Vids, a video creation app for work that the company says can make everyone a “great storyteller” using the power of AI.

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Google’s update to Gemini 1.5 Pro gives the model ears. The model can now listen to uploaded audio files and churn out information from things like earnings calls or audio from videos without the need to refer to a written transcript.

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For decades, work has revolved around documents, spreadsheets, and slide decks. Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Pages, Numbers, Keynote; Docs, Sheets, Slides. Now Google is proposing to add another to that triumvirate: an app called Vids that aims to help companies and consumers make



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US President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meet during the AUKUS summit on March 13, 2023.
  • China said it is "gravely concerned" over reports that Japan could join the AUKUS security pact.
  • AUKUS is a defense partnership between Australia, the UK, and the US.
  • The organization is set to discuss working with Japan on a

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A YouTuber records a mother and baby monkey with an iPhone near the Bayon temple at Angkor Wat, Cambodia.
  • YouTubers are abusing monkeys at the Angkor UNESCO World Heritage Site, authorities said.
  • Videos cited by the Associated Press include a YouTuber repeatedly dousing a baby monkey with water.
  • The group overseeing the archeological site is prepared to take legal action, a

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Back in 2019, the family of Apple engineer Wei Lun Huang (aka Walter Huang) sued Tesla a year after he was killed when his Model X crashed while Autopilot was engaged. The automaker has settled the lawsuit — on the very day jury selection was supposed to take place. Tesla’s lawyers asked the court to seal the settlement agreement so the payout amount wouldn’t be made public.

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A conceptual image of the planned design for The Line in Saudi Arabia's Neom, shows a large mirrored facade extending out into the water from the desert.
The planned design for The Line in Neom.
  • Saudi Arabia's vision for its sprawling Neom project has always been hugely ambitious — and costly.
  • The financial realities have started to cause concern within the government, Bloomberg reported.
  • Amid alarm about costs, the kingdom's sovereign wealth fund has yet to approve Neom's 2024 budget.

Saudi Arabia's plan for its $500 billion futuristic city, Neom