Crew member Frederick Fleet described hitting the iceberg as a narrow shave, thinking they’d avoided disaster. Many passengers didn’t realize the ship had struck anything. Yet the collision was deadly.The Titanic’s builders designed the ship to withstand four of its 16 compartments flooding. Edward Wilding, a naval architect who worked…
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Tech giant Alibaba has been fighting a bruising food delivery war in China. But the company’s latest earnings make it clear that artificial intelligence is what investors really care about.On Friday, Alibaba reported a 2% rise in overall revenue to 247.65 billion Chinese yuan, or $34.6 billion, for the quarter ended June 30 — missing analysts’ forecasts of $252.92 billion yuan in revenue. Operating profit dropped 3% to 35 billion yuan.Despite that drag, investors piled…
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President Donald Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Sunday that the country would…
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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Trevor Gebhardt, a former customer success manager in Ohio. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I never thought I’d be 37, unemployed, and living with my parents in Ohio again.A year ago, I was working at an AI startup…
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One major convenience store chain in the U.S. is hoping to kick off a “new early game day tradition” this college football season. Casey’s, which operates stores in 19 states, says early wake-up calls for noon game times are the perfect opportunity for fans to swing by one of its…
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TikTok’s US plans are up in the air due to a divest-or-ban law that puts its future in jeopardy. But it’s still offering six-figure salaries to workers this year in key areas like e-commerce and artificial intelligence.It’s sought to hire data scientists to sharpen its search algorithm, court workers to…
