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Is There a Place For Fake OOH Ads?
False content is everywhere these days, and shows no signs of abating. In particular, fake out-of-home (FOOH) ads have seen a steady rise in recent years. The Maybelline Eyelash Curler ad and Jacquemus' Le Bambino bags are some of the more famous FOOH examples.
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Read more at Campaign Asia
New Features for WhatsApp Community
Meta announced new features for WhatsApp’s ‘Communities’ on Wednesday. This includes the ability to create events and send invites to users within communities. The ability to reply to a specific post by an admin to get feedback from members of the community.
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Read more at The Indian Express
UiPath Chief Technology Officer - Raghu Malpani
Raghu Malpani, a former Microsoft and Meta executive, will directly report to Daniel Dines, the Chief Innovation Officer and Executive Chairman of UiPath. He will be heading the company's engineering teams.
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Read more at IT Brief New Zealand
Global Warming - The Future of Climate Change
The National reported that researchers at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland have created porous material they say can capture carbon dioxide more quickly than planting trees. These molecules can store greenhouse gases that would otherwise be trapped in the atmosphere for thousands of years, leading to global warming and exacerbating biodiversity loss. World has long way to go in reducing emissions, says IMF chief This development – and others like it – are exciting, important and offer much-needed optimism in the climate fight.
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Read more at The National
BAE Systems Australia - Hunter Class Frigate Program
MG Engineering is constructing bulkheads and side shells that join together to form the exterior of Hunter ship blocks. A digital ‘thread’ linking the Company’s manufacturing facilities and BAE Systems’ operations at Osborne enables the team to complete the initial construction of each section of the ship.
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Read more at Manufactures Monthly
Eight US Newspapers Sue Microsoft and OpenAI in New York
The New York Daily News and The Chicago Tribune are owned by Alden Global Capital, a Florida-based investment firm that created the second-largest US newspaper group behind USA Today owner Gannett. The lawsuit arises from defendants purloining millions of the publishers’ copyrighted articles without permission and without payment to fuel the commercialization of their generative artificial intelligence products, including ChatGPT and (Microsoft’s) Copilot.
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Read more at Bilyonaryo Business News
Genetically Modified Mosquitoes - The Problems and Implications
In recent years the technology of genetically modified insects, particularly mosquitoes, has been exposed in several countries for their harmful impacts on environment and people as well as for their even more sinister implications for biological warfare. In fact in the case of some projects involving foreign collaboration India had an early experience of this. Therefore this technology should be rejected more firmly by the entire Global South as the promoters of these high-risk technologies have very powerful contacts in the USA and Britain.
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Read more at Countercurrents.org
NZ Trade Commissioner to Singapore: Opportunities for NZ Companies in Singapore
Singapore is the country’s fourth largest trade partner – the largest in Southeast Asia – with NZ$10.3 billion (US$6.1 billion) worth of bilateral trade recorded in December 2023, according to the International Trade Data. NZTE Singapore represents the NZ government in helping local companies export to Singapore and enhancing the trade synergy between the two countries through public-private partnerships.
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Read more at GovInsider
Tech Layoffs in the New Year
TechCrunch announced a second round of layoffs this year. Google Is reportedly laying off about 20% of its global workforce. Apple Announced on February 27 that it will lay off about 10% of its workforce - or about 4% of its total workforce — in the next few weeks. Amazon Is cut off about 25% of its staff, or about 16% of its employees.
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Read more at TechCrunch
Dragon Ball: Exploring Shenron's Inability to Transform the Androids
Dragon Ball is a world of wonder where nothing is impossible. Earth has the Eternal Dragon Shenron to grant them any wish, which includes reviving a dead person. However, fans witnessed one at the end of Cell Saga. The Z fighters later wished for Goku to return to life.
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Read more at Sportskeeda