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Meta Platforms owned WhatsApp is exploring a new feature that would display advertisements in the app for the first time, the Financial Times reported on Friday. Teams at Meta have been discussing whether to show ads in lists of conversations with contacts on the WhatsApp chat screen, but no final decisions have been made, the report said, citing three people familiar with the matter.

rare bacteria. Parents took cross-country runner and piano player Mathias Uribe to doctors with «flu-like symptoms». But his condition worsened and he was taken to the emergency where he suffered cardiac arrest. He was given CPR and was airlifted to the pediatric ICU at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt. Doctors put him on life support treatment.

Recruiters and headhunters who rode the wave of post-Covid hiring frenzy to quit their agencies and join HR/talent acquisition teams of companies, are now finding themselves in a tough spot as some organisations — mostly tech and startups — go slow on hiring amid efforts to cut costs. On Wednesday, Google let go of hundreds from its once nearly 3,000-strong recruiting team in its latest round of layoffs, saying it was «meaningfully slowing the pace of overall hiring» and «made the hard decision to reduce the size of (our) recruiting team». Industry insiders estimate that during the hiring boom, led by tech, thousands of recruitment professionals had jumped ship from staffing/recruitment/search firms to take up corporate talent acquisition roles, at up to 40-100% salary jumps. Many of these professionals have been facing the heat for some time now, recruitment and executive search firms including ABC Consultants, EMA Partners, and Randstad said, as a scaling back in hiring leaves them with little to do. «I am flooded with messages from recruiters wanting to join us,» said Viswanath PS, CEO of Randstad.

OpenAI are advancing work on large language models (LLMs) that power mainstream generative AI (artificial intelligence), a few others are gearing up to deploy small AI models, which are likely to reach the consumers sometime in 2024. Industry insiders see this as a natural progression to monetizing generative AI technologies, making them more widely accessible, instead of targeting only enterprises through very expensive cloud platforms. For instance, on 23 February, Qualcomm demonstrated an image-generating AI model running on a device, with Stable Diffusion showcased on an Android smartphone.

On 24 August 2023 The Australian Financial Review published an article concerning insider trading charges brought against Mr Duncan Stewart.

NYU Langone Health has pushed the boundaries of science and kindled hope for animal-human transplants, offering a potential solution to the nation's critical organ shortage. In a first-of-its-kind endeavor, a pig's genetically modified kidney was successfully transplanted into a brain-dead human donor, Maurice “Mo” Miller, marking the longest duration a pig kidney has functioned inside a human, albeit in a deceased individual. The experiment has garnered global attention, raising optimism for future xenotransplantation efforts.

Many who aren’t crypto industry insiders may view “Bitcoin” and “crypto” as basically synonymous. While members of the traditional finance industry know that there’s much more to crypto than Bitcoin, they also know that Bitcoin’s performance and health serve as a bellwether for the acceptance and growth of the overall crypto industry. 

Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma on Thursday said that the Government has chart out a plan to promote fruit wine industry in the State. He said that a robust policy has been put in place to promote a thriving ecosystem that links tourism, agriculture, entrepreneurship, and job creation through the promotion of local fruit winemakers. Speaking at the launch of North East Wine Incubation Centre at Mawdiangdiang in Shillong, the Chief Minister recalled moment when he encountered a homemade pineapple wine with a simple, handcrafted label on a beer bottle, which stemmed the idea to devise strategy to promote professional wine making and packaging. “Despite the unimpressive packaging, the wine inside was exceptional.

(Reuters) — Nielsen named company insider Karthik Rao as its chief executive officer, effective immediately, the market research company said on Thursday.

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Amazon has given major broadcasters three weeks’ notice that it will demand a 30 per cent cut of revenue from all advertising that runs while someone watches their programming through its Fire TV devices.

Quordle is a web based word puzzle in which you have to decipher four-five letter words hidden inside a grid. Quordle was designed by Freddie Meyer and its a Wordle-Dordle inspired game. Quordle is available on its official website. It does not require you to do any fishy log in or sign up formalities, also the website is completely ad free. For beginners, a previously played Quordle dashboard is also available at the website to get their hands on before playing the puzzle game live.

Sugar stocks jumped over 13% on the NSE on Thursday on the likelihood of a 14% fall in sugar output in Maharashtra in the 2023-24 crop year.Dalmia Sugar was the top gainer, while Dhampur Sugar, Avadh Sugar & Energy, Balrampur Chini Mills, Rana Sugar, Shree Renuka Sugars, The Ugar Sugar, Dwarikesh Sugar, Eid Parry and Triveni Engineering & Industries rallied 6-12%. Sugar stocks have been gaining lately on concerns over production in the wake of weak monsoon in the growing areas. Maharashtra, which is among India's top-producing states, has been at the receiving end of the monsoon witnessing the driest August in more than a century, according to industry insiders and government officials as reported by Reuters. «Sugar mills are worried that production could fall sharply in the new season because of drought.

Sensex and Nifty50 closed higher on Wednesday. The Nifty50 closed above the 20,000 mark for the first time in the previous trading session. India VIX was up by 1.18% from 11.69 to 11.82 levels.

«Overall, we would suggest investors to shift their focus from mid and small caps to large caps in the near term, as the risk-reward is favourable over there,» said Siddhartha Khemka, Head — Retail Research, Motilal Oswal Financial Services. Here's breaking down the pre-market actions:STATE OF THE MARKETSGIFT Nifty (Earlier SGX Nifty) signals a positive startGIFT Nifty on the NSE IX traded 36 points, or 0.18 per cent, at 20,182, signaling that Dalal Street was headed for positive start on Thursday.

When Fortescue marked its 20th anniversary late last month, it was not your average cocktail party.

Mint explains: While iPhones were first made in India in May 2017, this is the first time that India’s assembly lines made the latest iPhone ahead of its launch. Brands such as Apple typically get finished products at mass scale weeks ahead of launch, which is why manufacturers in China start making upcoming iPhones before launch. India’s plants were so far making new phones behind schedule.

The first artificial womb to gestate a human baby is fast approaching reality. Food and Drug Administration regulators will weigh next week how scientists should conduct the first human tests of bag-like wombs, meant to nurture babies born so premature that modern medicine struggles to keep them healthy. The agency plans to meet with outside advisers and discuss behind closed doors what the agency called “confidential commercial information," citing a federal law that allows nonpublic meetings to discuss trade secrets.

Officials say part of a coal mine has collapsed in northern Turkey, leaving one miner dead and injuring others

The European Union is launching an investigation into subsidies that China provides to electric vehicle makers

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has taken a test ride on Southeast Asia’s first high-speed railway, a key project under China’s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative