Новости за 04.04.2024

1. Disney beat back activist investor Nelson Peltz. Now the real work begins  CNBC
2. Disney trounces activist shareholders in a major win for Bob Iger  CNN
3. Meet Disney's newly elected board  Fox Business
4. Nelson Peltz's Disney Consolation Prize: A $300 Million Gain  The Wall Street Journal

Disney CEO Bob Iger has a year to show investors they were right to back him and the board over Trian Partners' Nelson Peltz.

Age matters when determining how to protect life in the ocean; every population needs a strong cohort of adults to produce the next generation. But many marine protected areas (MPAs) are falling short of their most basic purpose: to rebuild struggling fish populations.

Now a staple across restaurant menus nationwide, many chains are getting behind the holiday and offering their own special deals and freebies.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization celebrated its 75th anniversary on Thursday.

Sea level rises could cause areas along California's seaboard to be flooded or entirely consumed by water, modeling suggests.

In 2023, the U.S. led NATO funding with $860 billion, or 3.49 percent of its GDP. Poland topped alliance funding by percentage.

What a small East African nation can teach the world

Next week, eight men’s wheelchair basketball teams, including Canada, will be vying to claim one of the last four spots available for the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games. Two of the athletes competing for the red and white — Nik Goncin and Garrett Ostepchuk — are from Regina.

The multifaceted collective Fifth Sun Project focuses on Indigenous activism and awareness through diverse events and programming.

Applying color and light to Vegas’ resort towers is not a new idea, but LED lighting hardware like the Rio’s offers endless changeability.

Tunnel and bridge linking Windsor and Detroit are adding more staff because of the eclipse. The Blue Water Bridge says it's 'strictly prohibited' to slow or stop your vehicle and try to snap a pic of the eclipse while approaching or on the crossing.

Everyone loves a returning hometown hero, including the UNLV basketball program. Last year, the team added Las Vegas native Jalen Hill as an offseason transfer after the former Clark product spent his first four years at Oklahoma. The prior offseason, it was Isaiah Cottrell boomeranging back to Vegas ...

The Golden Knights may need to start calling their goaltender “Air Logan.” Logan Thompson earned the nickname March 25 in St. Louis by going airborne to stop a penalty shot ...

Manchester United are hopeful of agreeing a new deal with Shola Shoretire amid uncertainty over his future at Old Trafford.  The 20-year-old is regarded as one of the most talented players to emerge from United’s academy in recent years.  He made his competitive debut aged 17 against Newcastle United in February 2021.  However, the youngster […]

As “P4x,” Alejandro Caceres single-handedly disrupted the internet of an entire country. Then he tried to show the US military how it can—and should—adopt his methods.

It would be difficult to think of any modern president who has been more exhaustively written about than Donald Trump. There have been books about his foreign policy, about his business empire, about his relationship with his generals, about his ceaseless legal battles, and about his family—not to mention a fusillade of memoirs by former […]

A new report provides some answers and could help begin to restore trust in higher ed.

The third most populous state is expensive and hasn’t gone blue since 2012. But can abortion put the swing back in the Sunshine State? 

In late March of 2017, at a small summit in Washington, DC, two Harvard professors, David Keith and Frank Keutsch, laid out plans to conduct what would have been the first solar geoengineering experiment in the stratosphere. Instead, it became the focal point of a fierce public debate over whether it’s okay to research such…

Tesla has sent scouts out across India to pick a location for a new EV factory that would cost between $2 billion and $3 billion, the Financial Times has reported, citing unnamed sources in the know. According to the FT sources, priority will be given to states with already established and well-developed car manufacturing infrastructure. The report follows a move by the Indian government to lower import tariffs on electric vehicles but only for companies that commit to manufacturing the vehicles... Читать дальше...

If you suspect that your brain isn’t quite suited for modern life, you’re not alone. In fact, that state of mind has probably been closer to the rule than the exception throughout modernity itself. It’s just that the mix of things we have to think about keeps changing: “The school run. Work calls. Inflation. Remember […]

At my company, Descope, we are building a customer authentication and identity management product, meaning the end user and the developer are two sides of the same coin. Providing a great developer experience—by enabling our customers to easily add auth flows and user management to their apps—leads to a great end-user experience as the customer’s customers seamlessly and securely log in.

Once you get past the chatbot hype, it’s clear that generative AI is a useful tool, providing a way of navigating applications and services using natural language. By tying our large language models (LLMs) to specific data sources, we can avoid the risks that come with using nothing but training data.