• Hong Kong innovation chief pledges to step up efforts to attract talent, capital

    But Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Sun Dong also expresses optimism, pointing to city’s edge in bringing in top people despite current manpower shortage.

  • Digital Clone: Your AI Doppelganger Could Soon Attend Your Meetings

    Tired of waiting for AI to take over your tasks? Now, you can be in multiple places at once (virtually) with your digital twin! A tech company is giving users an unmissable chance to create their digital clone, capable of performing several tasks, such as attending Zoom calls.Delphi AI, a platform powered by artificial intelligence, lets users create a digital representation of themselves that can handle tasks like attending Zoom meetings. This virtual twin goes beyond looking like you - it can...

  • (LEAD) Yoon presides over emergency meeting on Mideast crisis

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  • City of Dallas to Host Public Meetings on Interactive Digital Kiosks

    The City of Dallas Department of Public Works is seeking input from residents on an initiative to modernize the City’s communication kiosks with digital elements that provide an interactive platform to raise awareness of local businesses and events, encourage community engagement, and enhance neighborhood safety. This proposal would allow for the installation of interactive digital kiosks in commercial, mixed-use, retail,

  • Shortage of Kansas trade workers calls for increased recruiting efforts

    TOPEKA (KSNT) - Many trade jobs in Kansas are seeing a shortage of workers, which is why one local group is working to recruit more young people to the industry. This week, the Topeka Area Building Association held a career day for high schoolers in the area. At the event, they had construction, plumbing and []

  • Chiefs News: Tyreek Hill Reveals True Feelings About Being Traded to the Dolphins

    One of the biggest trades in NFL history went down ahead of the 2022 season when perennial Pro Bowl wide receiver Tyreek Hill was traded from the Kansas City Chiefs to the Miami Dolphins for a total of five draft picks: 2022 first-, second-, and third-round picks along with 2023 fourth- and sixth-round picks. The trade sent shockwaves through the league.The Dolphins got a massive star, as Hill is arguably the best wide receiver in the NFL. However, many believed the Chiefs to be the team on the...

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    Louisiana's PSC meets in room with no American flag. How did it improvise for Pledge of Allegiance?

    BATON ROUGE — Meeting outside of their usual meeting room in the state capital complex, member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission had to improvise their reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance on Friday when an American flag wasn't available.Their solution? Reciting the pledge to the back of Chairman Mike Francis' American flag shirt.Before the meeting was called to order at the Wyndham Hotel in Many, the audience and the commission's board had a laugh when Francis turned around to...

  • UK accused of double counting £500m of aid to meet climate pledge

    Humanitarian work in Afghanistan and Yemen now classified as climate finance, FoI request reveals, as £11.6bn pledge slipsThe UK government has been accused of double counting £500m of overseas aid as climate finance in an attempt to meet its commitments under the Paris agreement .Money for humanitarian work in Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia is now being classified as climate finance, according to documents released under a freedom of information request by the website Carbon Brief. Continue...

  • Amid digital marketing changes, Ibotta turns to brand-building efforts

    It's only getting harder to stand out in the digital marketplace. So cash-back reward company Ibotta is turning to in-person activations to better capture shopper attention.

  • Trustee meeting results in police chief’s resignation and more layoffs, after misappropriation of funds

    The resignation and layoffs leave the department with three police officers and no more full-time staff in the fire department.

  • Effort to repeal new law on Colorado's open meetings takes step forward

    (The Center Square) – The ability for voters to repeal a Colorado law limiting their access to legislative information took a step forward recently. Initiative 287, approved by the state’s Ballot Title Setting Board last week, would overturn Senate Bill 24-157, signed into law by Democratic Gov. Jared Polis in March. The new law allows members of Colorado’s General Assembly to discuss legislative matters via email and text messaging without public disclosure. Previously, Colorado...

  • Egyptian and Turkish Foreign Ministers Meet to Discuss Gaza Situation and Ceasefire Efforts

    Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry is set to visit Ankara this weekend to hold discussions with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan regarding the situation in Gaza and the broader Middle East region. The talks aim to address the urgent need for a potential permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Preceding Shoukry’s visit, Fidan traveled to Doha on Wednesday, to meet with Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar. The discussions in Doha...