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When Robert Howey joined the US Navy right after high school, he didn't expect to return home anytime soon.

Howey, now 30, grew up in northwestern Georgia near Dalton, a small city known as the "carpet capital of the world." If he'd stayed in the area, he likely would have pursued a career in the carpet industry.

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The EU has officially adopted the AI Act, the world’s first comprehensive rulebook for artificial intelligence. Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) overwhelmingly endorsed the regulation on Wednesday. The law passed with 523 votes in favour, 46 against, and 49 abstentions. “Europe is NOW a global standard-setter in AI,” Thierry Breton, the bloc’s commissioner for the internal market, wrote



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A photo montage shows Mars (left) which some scientists say can influence Earth's ocean currents, like the eddies seen here off the coast of Ireland (right).
  • The gravitational pull Mars exerts on Earth may be strong enough to impact ocean currents.
  • The red planet can cause deep-sea currents to change over a 2.4 million-year cycle, a study



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The first trailer for Netflix's futuristic sci-fi thriller Atlas is here, featuring Jennifer Lopez having a very bad day.

Atlas follows the titular character Atlas Shepherd (Lopez), a government data analyst with a healthy distrust of artificial intelligence. However, after a mission to capture a rogue robot from her past goes wrong, she soon finds herself having to trust AI in order to save



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I miss having clean floors. I've been using a variety of Roombas over the years to help out with vacuuming, but ever since my wife and I had our second child in 2022, mopping has become an afterthought. And really, vacuuming can only clean your floor so much. I missed the shimmer of a mopped hardwood floor and the smell of Murphy Oil cleaner lingering in the air. Instead, I've been living with



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Cadillac dropped a teaser for its latest concept, an all-electric V-Series luxury performance vehicle dubbed “Opulent Velocity.”

It’s just a concept, so no details yet about production, price, or any specs. We can see the front end with a downward sloping hood and an illuminated Cadillac badge that appears to wrap around the corner.

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A Taco Bell franchisee has shut the dining rooms of some restaurants in Oakland over crime fears, CNN reported.
  • A Taco Bell franchisee has shut some Oakland locations' dining rooms over crime fears, CNN reported.
  • On Taco Bell's website, three of the five Oakland restaurants are only open for drive-thru orders.
  • In-N-Out Burger and Denny's recently announced they were closing



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The European Union has adopted landmark new regulation that aims to protect its citizens from high-risk AI.

The AI Act, approved by the EU today, aims to "protect fundamental rights, democracy, the rule of law and environmental sustainability from high-risk AI, while boosting innovation and establishing Europe as a leader in the field," a press release said.

Specifically, the regulation aims to



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A stock image of plant-based meat and Jeff Bezos at the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party.
  • Jeff Bezos' Earth Fund is allocating $60 million to try to improve alternative meats.
  • The goal is to make them taste better and reduce the cost of plant-based alternatives.
  • Fake meats are hailed as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but don't always taste great.

Jeff Bezos'



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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
  • Nvidia stock could triple if it follows Cisco's path during the dot-com bubble, Jeremy Siegel said.
  • The chipmaker could be worth more than $6 trillion and blow away Apple and Microsoft,  he said.
  • The Wharton finance professor said speculation is less extreme now than during the internet boom.

Nvidia could triple in value to become the world's first $6



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Now EU MEPs just need to figure out how to implement and enforce it. | Cath Virginia / The Verge

European Union lawmakers have officially approved the bloc’s landmark AI regulation, paving the way for the EU to prohibit certain uses of the technology and demand transparency from providers. In a majority vote on Wednesday, 523 European Parliament members elected to formally