One of the most popular accolades at the Bury Free Press West Suffolk Awards is the customer service award. Customer service is key to business success. Our annual award recognises individuals and teams who go above and beyond customer expectations. This year’s winner was the Wine Cellar BSE, run by Bradley Dorrington. Bradley collected his…
Broken Bow claimed first place, while Arlington and Fremont High took home second and third, respectively, in Wayne State College’s annual Wildcat Business Invitational held Oct. 9 on campus.Approximately 200 students from 16 Nebraska high schools competed in several events in different areas of business. They were accounting, business calculations, business communication, economics, introduction to business, introduction to financial math, introduction to Future Business Leaders of America, job interview and personal finance.Participating schools were Arlington, Broken Bow, Elkhorn Valley, Emerson-Hubbard, Fremont Public, Gretna, Laurel-Concord-Coleridge, Louisville, Lutheran High Northeast, Norfolk High School, Omaha Central, Osmond, Raymond Central, Seward, Tekamah-Herman, and Wayne.While Broken Bow and Arlington tied with 54 points, Broken Bow won via the tiebreaker, which is the school with the most first-place finishes.
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What’s behind the widening gender wage gap in the US?NEW YORK (AP) — The first widening of the gender wage in 20 years is the latest indication that many women have paid a price for leaving the workforce at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, either because they lost their jobs or because they quit because of caretaking responsibilities. But the finding in a recent Census Bureau report captures a complicated moment for women in the post-pandemic recovery, and not all the news is bad. Wages are growing for all workers, just much faster for men. And the widening of the wage gap is due in large part because of a surge in Latina women joining the full-time workforce.Unions face a moment of truth in Michigan in this year’s presidential race
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are appealing to middle-class workers in very different ways. How their messages land could have a big impact in battleground states with strong union ties such as Michigan. Harris, the Democratic nominee, is relying on United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain to help spread her message, as her campaign worries about her support among working-class men. That issue worsened when two unions that backed Joe Biden in 2020 decided not to endorse either candidate this year. Trump, the Republican nominee, has jumped on these non-endorsements and claims they show that rank-and-file workers support his vision. He has criticized union leaders and urged workers to trust him over the unions.Trump uses interview on economics to promote tariffs and riff on his favorite themesCHICAGO (AP) — Donald Trump has seized on an opening to sound his frequent argument that imposing huge tariffs on foreign goods would amount to an economic elixir — one he claims would raise enormous sums for the government, protect U.S. firms from overseas competition and prod foreign companies to open factories in the United States. Appearing Tuesday before a friendly audience at the Economic Club of Chicago, Trump asserted that tariffs are misunderstood as an economic tool. “To me,” Trump said, “the most beautiful word in the dictionary is tariff. It’s my favorite word. It needs a public relations firm.” If tariffs need an image makeover, it’s probably because mainstream economists say they actually amount to a tax on American consumers.Trump’s economic plans would worsen inflation, experts sayWASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has vowed that if voters return him to the White House, “inflation will vanish completely.” Yet most mainstream economists say Trump’s policy proposals wouldn’t vanquish inflation. They’d make it worse. They warn that his plans to impose huge tariffs on imports, deport millions of migrant workers and demand a voice in the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policies would likely send prices surging. Sixteen Nobel Prize-winning economists signed a letter in June expressing fear that Trump’s proposals would “reignite’’ inflation, which has plummeted from 9.1% in 2022 and is nearly back to the Fed’s 2% target. The Peterson Institute for International Economics has predicted that Trump’s policies would drive consumer prices sharply higher two years into his second term.Stock market today: World shares are mixed as Britain reports lower inflationBANGKOK (AP) — World shares are mostly lower after U.S. stocks pulled back from their records, dented by selling of technology and energy-sector shares. The U.K. government reported that inflation fell to 1.7% in September, its lowest level in more than three years, fanning expectations that the Bank of England will cut interest rates at its next policy meeting. Tech companies’ shares fell after computer chip equipment supplier ASML warned Tuesday of a slower recovery outside of the AI boom. On Tuesday, the S&P 500 fell 0.8% a day after setting an all-time high for the 46th time this year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.8%, and the Nasdaq composite sank 1%.
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– Based on true events, Safety Dog Diego inspires kids to stay safe and well -VENTURA, Calif., Oct. 16, 2024 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Angel and Tracey Jimenez are excited to announce the launch of their new children’s book series and brand, Safety Dog Diego. Their debut book, “Safety Dog Diego Gets Adopted” (ISBN: 979-8341058088), introduces the heartwarming tale of a lively French Bulldog puppy, Diego, who is adopted and becomes an important safety figure, teaching kids practical tips on staying safe in their everyday lives.
Based on the real-life adventures of their own beloved French Bulldog, Angel and Tracey have turned Diego’s story into an educational and fun children’s series. The first book recounts Diego’s adoption and his journey to becoming a “Safety Dog,” sharing valuable safety lessons in a way that is both engaging and fun for young readers. As Diego learns, he occasionally makes mistakes, but he also discovers that learning from those mistakes is part of the process—and that’s okay.Angel Jimenez, a Bakersfield, California native and construction safety manager, and Tracey Jimenez, born in Santa Barbara, California and raised on Catalina Island and in Carpinteria, have drawn from their personal and professional experiences to create a story that entertains while also imparting important safety messages. Tracey, who previously worked as a talent and event manager, once assisted former MLB player Steve Sax in promoting his second book in March 2010 in Arizona. Their combined experiences have helped shape the vision and mission of Safety Dog Diego.“We wanted to create something special for our grandson, Alexander, and for other children that would be both fun and educational,” said Angel Jimenez. “Through Diego’s adventures, we hope to instill essential safety habits in kids while keeping them engaged with stories they’ll love.”San Diego holds a special place in the Jimenez family’s hearts and has a sentimental connection to the Safety Dog Diego brand. The couple fondly recalls their time in the city, especially Tracey, whose family cousin, baseball legend Ted Williams, was a San Diego native.The inspiration for Safety Dog Diego emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic when Angel was sent to work full time in San Diego as a safety professional. He took their newly adopted puppy, Diego, to various construction sites, where the dog quickly earned the title of ‘Safety Dog.’ Diego’s presence boosted the morale of the safety crews and brought joy to everyone around him, inspiring the couple to create a series where Diego shares safety tips with children.Angel and Tracey are passionate about their new endeavor and are seeking partnerships with law enforcement, schools, and communities to provide a fun and engaging way for children and parents to learn about safety, teamwork, and kindness. Drawing inspiration from nostalgic childhood safety icons like McGruff the Crime Dog and Smokey the Bear, the Jimenez family is building a brand that resonates with today’s families.“Safety Dog Diego Gets Adopted” is the first in a planned series of books, each focusing on different aspects of safety and wellbeing. The brand also includes interactive elements like Diego’s song and dance, a safety oath, and the empowering slogan, “Stay Safe and Stay Well!” In addition to the books, the Safety Dog Diego brand offers merchandise, including T-shirts, hats, plush toys, and more.Angel Jimenez also writes safety articles and conducts safety training classes within the industry, bringing his professional expertise into the world of children’s literature. Together, Angel and Tracey are determined to turn Safety Dog Diego into a global sensation, with future books, events, and educational resources planned to help children learn the importance of staying safe.For more information on Angel and Tracey Jimenez, “Safety Dog Diego Gets Adopted,” and future releases in the Safety Dog Diego series, visit https://safetydogdiego.com/ or follow Safety Dog Diego on social media.
There are director’s cuts, special editions, redux versions – and then there’s Mr Kneff. Normally, a recut film is the prerogative of a film-maker who feels abused by the studio they worked for, or for whom a streaming platform has given the opportunity to enlarge on their “vision”; but this isn’t quite the case for Steven Soderbergh. In 1991 Soderbergh released Kafka, a tricksy fiction-slash-biopic, which – notoriously – managed to extract nearly all the heat from a film-making career that had got off to a stellar start with the Palme d’Or-winning Sex, Lies and Videotape. Soderbergh, though, is nothing if not a trier, and after years of tinkering, has completed Mr Kneff, a whole new version of Kafka, under a whole new title.Mr Kneff isn’t exactly the Snyder Cut of literary biopics, in that Soderbergh hasn’t offered up a fan-service retrenchment of something that was apparently denied in the first place. What Soderbergh appears to have done with Mr Kneff is to follow his original inspiration for Kafka – make a film about the 1920s that resembles a film made in the 1920s – to its logical conclusion, as far as is humanly possible. Kafka, if you recall, stars Jeremy Irons as the author, working in an insurance office (as the real Franz Kafka did), getting entangled with a bunch of revolutionary anarchists who are staging bomb attacks in Prague, and finding his way to a mysterious “castle” where a super creepy Ian Holm is leading Brave New World-type experiments on human beings. Filmed in lush black and white (until the final section, where the film switches to a grim, sombre colour palette), and filled with Dutch tilts, pools of shadow and glowering Middle European gothic architecture, Kafka was (and is) a tour de force of silent movie homage. And whether or not he was wearing special makeup, Irons’ resemblance to the Ivor Novello of The Lodger is an eerily brilliant touch.View image in fullscreenExcept, of course, Kafka was not a silent movie. With Mr Kneff, Soderbergh has gone full UFA and got rid of the dialogue in its entirety (though not the diegetic sounds of footsteps, door-knocks and the like), and added colour tints to much of the black-and-white footage in the approved silent-film manner (orange for daytime scenes, blue for night, etc). The dialogue, much pared down, is now run as subtitles, rather than the individual title cards that pre-sound silents would deploy. It takes a bit of getting used to; the original film was shot with extended talk scenes in mind, while actual silent films would include only the barest bones of dialogue. Hence the particular grammar of silent films with their attenuated dramatic moments, through deploying extended physical reactions around single lines of speech.But the overall effect on Mr Kneff, once you key into it, is fascinating. For one thing, you become much more sensitive to, and aware of, gesture and glances; this enhances Irons’ performance in particular, whose Charles Ryder-esque world-weariness is transformed into a nervy, twitching creature whose emotional fragility is much more readily apparent. The physicality of Kafka’s comic-sinister officemates Oscar and Ludwig (played by Simon McBurney and, amazingly, Keith Allen) is far more pointed, too. And of course you are much more aware of the camera moves as Irons lopes around the Prague night.View image in fullscreenThis is all relevant because 2024 is the centenary of Kafka’s death (aged 40, starving to death as a result of tuberculosis), and Mr Kneff will have its first ever UK showing this week at the Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford, as part of a season of Kafka films that I have helped organise. The allure of Kafka for film-makers is not hard to understand; his visions of the grotesque and surreal are so concretely imagined that they transmit themselves to the reader like a film themselves. Directors such as David Lynch, Terry Gilliam and David Cronenberg have incorporated Kafka’s disconcerting, alienating tropes into their own work to brilliant effect, while others – Orson Welles, Michael Haneke, Agnieszka Holland, Soderbergh himself – are clearly drawn to the siren call of Kafka’s actual life and work.One of the more fascinating elements of the Kafka film canon, however, is much less well-known: a short film adaptation of The Metamorphosis, called K, directed by Lorenza Mazzetti. Made in 1952, K was only the second ever of all the hundreds of film adaptations of Kafka’s work – an amazing fact in itself – and Mazzetti would go on to achieve a brief moment of renown as the director of Together, one of the three original films in the Free Cinema movement (along with Lindsay Anderson’s O Dreamland and Karel Reisz and Tony Richardson’s Momma Don’t Allow). Haunted by a horrendous childhood experience during the second world war, in which her cousins and aunt were shot dead by German soldiers while she and her sister were living with them, Mazzetti found herself irresistibly drawn to Kafka – in the 1940s a still little-known chronicler of disaffection and isolation – and after wangling a place at the Slade art school at London university, basically pinched camera equipment from a cupboard belonging to the University of London film society. The resulting film is far from polished: it’s the kind of sticky-taped-together effort you wouldn’t be surprised that a penniless art student with zero access to professional facilities or crew of any kind would put together. But K has an undeniable confidence and bravura about it that marked Mazzetti out for bigger things.
By Taryn Pedler Published: 07:01 EDT, 16 October 2024 | Updated: 07:39 EDT, 16 October 2024
ARARAT Museum is in the spotlight of the most prominent international awards in tourism – World Travel Awards.
World Travel Awards was established in 1993 to acknowledge, reward, and celebrate excellence across all key sectors of the travel, tourism, and hospitality industries. Today, the World Travel Award is recognized globally as the ultimate hallmark of industry excellence.
It is worth mentioning that ARARAT Museum is two time WTA winner.
ARARAT Museum is in the spotlight of the most prominent international awards in tourism – World Travel Awards.
World Travel Awards was established in 1993 to acknowledge, reward, and celebrate excellence across all key sectors of the travel, tourism, and hospitality industries. Today, the World Travel Award is recognized globally as the ultimate hallmark of industry excellence.
It is worth mentioning that ARARAT Museum is two time WTA winner.
✓ Link copied to clipboard! In September, Newsweek’s office on the 72nd floor of One World Trade Center in New York City was abuzz with experts in medicine and climate action discussing innovations and solutions in their respective industries.At two kickoff events for Newsweek’s latest initiative, Newsweek Horizons launched with thought-provoking panels focused on the ways artificial intelligence impacts both the medical field and climate science.
The panel of health care professionals, including (left to right) Mayo Clinic’s Dr. Eric Williamson, Dr. Ashley Beecy from New York-Presbyterian, Dr. Christine Sinsky from the American Medical Association, Google Health’s Dr. Pete Clardy, moderated…
The panel of health care professionals, including (left to right) Mayo Clinic’s Dr. Eric Williamson, Dr. Ashley Beecy from New York-Presbyterian, Dr. Christine Sinsky from the American Medical Association, Google Health’s Dr. Pete Clardy, moderated by Newsweek health care editor Alexis Kayser (far right), discussed AI and doctor burnout at Newsweek’s Horizon event series held at Newsweek’s office at One World Trade Center in New York City on September 17, 2024
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Newsweek Horizons is a series of panels and speakers designed to bring together new and diverse perspectives on potential solutions for some of today’s key issues—from health and wellness to climate and sustainability to technology and the workplace.Newsweek’s Chief Strategy Officer Dayan Candappa told the audience at the AI climate event that Newsweek, a magazine that has been in print for 92 years, knows a thing or two about reinvention. Innovation is more than just making “dazzling” breakthroughs; it sometimes means taking a “fresh look at an old problem in search of a new solution.”
(Left to right) John Englehart, the head of communication for the Hospital for Special Surgery; Dev Pragad, Newsweek owner, president and CEO; and Steve Forti, the chief wellness officer for Hospital for Special Surgery, photographed…
(Left to right) John Englehart, the head of communication for the Hospital for Special Surgery; Dev Pragad, Newsweek owner, president and CEO; and Steve Forti, the chief wellness officer for Hospital for Special Surgery, photographed at Newsweek’s Horizons event series at the Newsweek office in One World Trade Center, New York City on September 17, 2024.
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“We believe that in order to fully appreciate what lies over the horizon, you do need to take a step back and gain some perspective,” Candappa said. “We’re hoping that our perspectives, those of our editors and our panelists, will help you to get a little bit of a peek over what lies ahead.” The first event, moderated by Newsweek’s Health Care Editor Alexis Kayser, explored the realities of doctor burnout and how health systems can use AI tools to ease the burdens on health care workers’ workload and time while minimizing their stress.Panelists included Dr. Eric Williamson, the associate chair for radiology informatics and supervision of the Radiology Artificial Intelligence Program at Mayo Clinic; Dr. Ashley Beecy, the medical director of artificial intelligence operations at New York-Presbyterian; Dr. Christine Sinsky, the vice president of professional satisfaction at the American Medical Association; and Dr. Pete Clardy, the senior clinical specialist at Google Health.AI technology, the panelists agreed, can help physicians with administrative tasks, giving them more time to do meaningful work.”AI is not just for doing things faster, but it’s doing things right and doing them in a better way,” Dr. Beecy said. “Physicians can tackle complex issues, they can actually cover preventative care. And I think this is going to improve the quality of care as well as the patient experience.”The second event, which took place during Climate Week NYC, featured a discussion led by Newsweek Environment and Sustainability Editor Jeff Young about how energy and technology companies balance the climate innovations of AI-assisted breakthroughs with the power demand needed to generate them.
(Left to right) Duke Energy Managing Director, ESG & Sustainability Heather Quinley; Salesforce Executive Vice President & Chief Impact Officer Suzanne DiBianca; Microsoft Vice President of Energy Bobby Hollis; Newsweek Environmental and Sustainability Editor Jeff…
(Left to right) Duke Energy Managing Director, ESG & Sustainability Heather Quinley; Salesforce Executive Vice President & Chief Impact Officer Suzanne DiBianca; Microsoft Vice President of Energy Bobby Hollis; Newsweek Environmental and Sustainability Editor Jeff Young; Bezos Earth Fund Director of AI and Data Strategies Amen Ra Mashariki; MIT assistant professor Priya Donti; and Newsweek President and CEO Dev Pragad. Part of the Horizons Event Series, the panelists’ conversation took place at Newsweek headquarters at One World Trade Center on September 26.
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Panelists included Bobby Hollis, Microsoft’s vice president of energy; Amen Ra Mashariki, director of AI and data strategies at Bezos Earth Fund; Suzanne DiBianca, executive vice president & chief impact officer at Salesforce; Heather Quinley, managing director, ESG & sustainability at Duke Energy; and MIT assistant professor Priya Donti.Each panelist spoke on whether they believed AI to be a climate hero or villain—with most of them agreeing that the technology has brought many benefits to both companies and customers.”We’ve been using AI, leveraging its capabilities since 2017, and it helps make us more efficient,” Duke Energy’s Heather Quinley said. “We’ve been using it for leak detection and faulty meters, energy theft, all the way to plant maintenance and storm detection and outage maintenance.”
The “AI: Climate Hero or Climate Villain” conversation at Newsweek headquarters weighed AI’s environmental costs in terms of energy consumption, water usage, social justice and other factors.
The “AI: Climate Hero or Climate Villain” conversation at Newsweek headquarters weighed AI’s environmental costs in terms of energy consumption, water usage, social justice and other factors.
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Quinley said that AI was “a little bit of both” a climate hero and villain, noting that Duke takes a “pragmatic approach” to using AI in operations while understanding the “significant load growth that it brings.”Newsweek will host more Horizons events in coming months to tackle pressing and emerging issues facing various industries around the world, such as the future of plastics (December 4), navigating political differences in the workplace (December 10) and more. Find out more about Newsweek Horizons events here.
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✓ Link copied to clipboard! In September, Newsweek’s office on the 72nd floor of One World Trade Center in New York City was abuzz with experts in medicine and climate action discussing innovations and solutions in their respective industries.At two kickoff events for Newsweek’s latest initiative, Newsweek Horizons launched with thought-provoking panels focused on the ways artificial intelligence impacts both the medical field and climate science.
The panel of health care professionals, including (left to right) Mayo Clinic’s Dr. Eric Williamson, Dr. Ashley Beecy from New York-Presbyterian, Dr. Christine Sinsky from the American Medical Association, Google Health’s Dr. Pete Clardy, moderated…
The panel of health care professionals, including (left to right) Mayo Clinic’s Dr. Eric Williamson, Dr. Ashley Beecy from New York-Presbyterian, Dr. Christine Sinsky from the American Medical Association, Google Health’s Dr. Pete Clardy, moderated by Newsweek health care editor Alexis Kayser (far right), discussed AI and doctor burnout at Newsweek’s Horizon event series held at Newsweek’s office at One World Trade Center in New York City on September 17, 2024
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Marleen Moise
Newsweek Horizons is a series of panels and speakers designed to bring together new and diverse perspectives on potential solutions for some of today’s key issues—from health and wellness to climate and sustainability to technology and the workplace.Newsweek’s Chief Strategy Officer Dayan Candappa told the audience at the AI climate event that Newsweek, a magazine that has been in print for 92 years, knows a thing or two about reinvention. Innovation is more than just making “dazzling” breakthroughs; it sometimes means taking a “fresh look at an old problem in search of a new solution.”
(Left to right) John Englehart, the head of communication for the Hospital for Special Surgery; Dev Pragad, Newsweek owner, president and CEO; and Steve Forti, the chief wellness officer for Hospital for Special Surgery, photographed…
(Left to right) John Englehart, the head of communication for the Hospital for Special Surgery; Dev Pragad, Newsweek owner, president and CEO; and Steve Forti, the chief wellness officer for Hospital for Special Surgery, photographed at Newsweek’s Horizons event series at the Newsweek office in One World Trade Center, New York City on September 17, 2024.
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“We believe that in order to fully appreciate what lies over the horizon, you do need to take a step back and gain some perspective,” Candappa said. “We’re hoping that our perspectives, those of our editors and our panelists, will help you to get a little bit of a peek over what lies ahead.” The first event, moderated by Newsweek’s Health Care Editor Alexis Kayser, explored the realities of doctor burnout and how health systems can use AI tools to ease the burdens on health care workers’ workload and time while minimizing their stress.Panelists included Dr. Eric Williamson, the associate chair for radiology informatics and supervision of the Radiology Artificial Intelligence Program at Mayo Clinic; Dr. Ashley Beecy, the medical director of artificial intelligence operations at New York-Presbyterian; Dr. Christine Sinsky, the vice president of professional satisfaction at the American Medical Association; and Dr. Pete Clardy, the senior clinical specialist at Google Health.AI technology, the panelists agreed, can help physicians with administrative tasks, giving them more time to do meaningful work.”AI is not just for doing things faster, but it’s doing things right and doing them in a better way,” Dr. Beecy said. “Physicians can tackle complex issues, they can actually cover preventative care. And I think this is going to improve the quality of care as well as the patient experience.”The second event, which took place during Climate Week NYC, featured a discussion led by Newsweek Environment and Sustainability Editor Jeff Young about how energy and technology companies balance the climate innovations of AI-assisted breakthroughs with the power demand needed to generate them.
(Left to right) Duke Energy Managing Director, ESG & Sustainability Heather Quinley; Salesforce Executive Vice President & Chief Impact Officer Suzanne DiBianca; Microsoft Vice President of Energy Bobby Hollis; Newsweek Environmental and Sustainability Editor Jeff…
(Left to right) Duke Energy Managing Director, ESG & Sustainability Heather Quinley; Salesforce Executive Vice President & Chief Impact Officer Suzanne DiBianca; Microsoft Vice President of Energy Bobby Hollis; Newsweek Environmental and Sustainability Editor Jeff Young; Bezos Earth Fund Director of AI and Data Strategies Amen Ra Mashariki; MIT assistant professor Priya Donti; and Newsweek President and CEO Dev Pragad. Part of the Horizons Event Series, the panelists’ conversation took place at Newsweek headquarters at One World Trade Center on September 26.
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Panelists included Bobby Hollis, Microsoft’s vice president of energy; Amen Ra Mashariki, director of AI and data strategies at Bezos Earth Fund; Suzanne DiBianca, executive vice president & chief impact officer at Salesforce; Heather Quinley, managing director, ESG & sustainability at Duke Energy; and MIT assistant professor Priya Donti.Each panelist spoke on whether they believed AI to be a climate hero or villain—with most of them agreeing that the technology has brought many benefits to both companies and customers.”We’ve been using AI, leveraging its capabilities since 2017, and it helps make us more efficient,” Duke Energy’s Heather Quinley said. “We’ve been using it for leak detection and faulty meters, energy theft, all the way to plant maintenance and storm detection and outage maintenance.”
The “AI: Climate Hero or Climate Villain” conversation at Newsweek headquarters weighed AI’s environmental costs in terms of energy consumption, water usage, social justice and other factors.
The “AI: Climate Hero or Climate Villain” conversation at Newsweek headquarters weighed AI’s environmental costs in terms of energy consumption, water usage, social justice and other factors.
Marleen Moise
Quinley said that AI was “a little bit of both” a climate hero and villain, noting that Duke takes a “pragmatic approach” to using AI in operations while understanding the “significant load growth that it brings.”Newsweek will host more Horizons events in coming months to tackle pressing and emerging issues facing various industries around the world, such as the future of plastics (December 4), navigating political differences in the workplace (December 10) and more. Find out more about Newsweek Horizons events here.
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Lauren Giella is a Newsweek National reporter based in New York. Her focus is reporting on breaking and trending U.S. and international news. She has covered politics, policy, trials, elections and the war in Ukraine. Lauren joined Newsweek in 2021. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California. You can get in touch with Lauren by emailing [email protected]. Languages: English, Italian
Lauren Giella is a Newsweek National reporter based in New York. Her focus is reporting on breaking and trending U.S. …
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