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AI expertise is highly sought after by employers
  • AI skills are in high demand as companies aim to leverage AI for competitive products.
  • AI expertise can lead to lucrative roles in Big Tech or startups and substantial pay raises.
  • Here are some of the key skills that employers are seeking for AI-related roles. 

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YouTube has implemented an important update to its eraser tool, helping creators to easily remove copyrighted music without affecting any other audio within a video.

On Wednesday, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan shared the new tool on X, formerly Twitter, writing, "Good news, creators: our updated Erase Song tool helps you easily remove copyright-claimed music from your video (while leaving the rest of your



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Dorine Olive has used Home Exchange to visit over 40 different houses owned by other people.
  • Dorine Olive, 60, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2019, which reignited her desire to travel.
  • Olive does home exchanges, hosting guests in her Florida home and staying in strangers' houses.
  • She pays an annual fee to a site that connects house-swappers rather than a nightly rate.

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Prolific sperm donor Jonathan Jacob Meijer pictured in Helsinki.
  • Jonathan Jacob Meijer is a prolific sperm donor who is the focus of Netflix's "The Man with 1000 Kids."
  • Meijer told a court in April 2023 that his many children should use a social media symbol to prevent incest.
  • He recently said he wasn't 'serious' but fears around incest are 'outdated.' 

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Nike is discontinuing its self-lacing Adapt BB sneakers and providing a case in point of what can happen to tech that relies on apps. First announced in 2019, the sneakers used a Back to the Future II style power-lacing system called FitAdapt that was adjustable either manually or with an app. Now, the company will no longer make new Adapt shoes and is retiring the Nike Adapt App, it announced in



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Threads, Meta’s X competitor, is officially one year old. While the site was rushed into existence with a bare-bones set of features, Meta has steadily improved upon the app to make it a decent place for people looking to post on a platform that isn’t X.

The site arrived at the right moment. By last summer, Elon Musk’s takeover of X — which back then was



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While traveling in the Blue Zone of the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica, I saw the local's holistic approach to diet, exercise, work, and social life was the key to the region's longevity.
  • I visited the Blue Zone of Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula to learn about longevity.
  • Residents of Blue Zones live long, healthy lives — and you can see

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Chris Nash's inverted slasher In A Violent Nature — one of the year's most inventive horror films — is now available on VOD. It's a relief it wasn't a bigger hit, or else it might have done for forest trails what Spielberg's Jaws once did for sharks. A deeply unsettling work told mostly from the perspective of a bloodthirsty killer, it recalls the premise and iconography of major masked villains



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US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden following the CNN Presidential Debate at the CNN Studios in Atlanta on June 27, 2024.
  • Jill Biden whispered a donor's name in Joe Biden's ear and reminded him to thank them, per a report.
  • New York Magazine's Intelligencer reported that Biden repeated the words his wife fed him.
  • Biden has lost support among top Democratic

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Perhaps unsurprisingly, July 4th was a quiet day for news, but we’ve still got editorials on e-ink writing, the most-delayed video game ever and more bad news from the makers of ChatGPT. 

Earlier this week, engineer and Swift developer Pedro José Pereira Vieito dug into OpenAI's Mac ChatGPT app and found that it was storing user conversations locally in plain text, rather than encrypting them



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California raised its minimum wage for staff at quick-service restaurant chains to $20.
  • California put up its minimum wage for workers at quick-service restaurant chains to $20 in April.
  • The California Business and Industrial Alliance warned that it was costing jobs.
  • But employment in the industry is seasonal and usually rises and falls throughout the year.

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