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An application has been launched that uses artificial intelligence technology to help Vermonters find and apply for jobs. Vermont Employment Pathfinder helps best match users with career opportunities by helping them build resumes and identify and apply for suitable jobs.Vermont Employment Pathfinder was launched in Brattleboro in 2022 in partnership with the Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation and technology company SkillsLab to improve the skills and wages of marginalized and underemployed workers. At a launch event on the afternoon of Monday, August 26th, at Burlington's Old North End Community Center, VEP's developers emphasized the importance of the app to new immigrants,…
Tech companies are under pressure to develop better AI tools to ease teachers' workload after ministers announced they would give AI models special access to the Department for Education's (DfE) resource bank.Education Secretary Stephen Morgan said the move was a “major step forward towards introducing AI into the classroom”, as the government was spending £3 million to create a “content bank” of official assessments, curriculum guidance and teaching materials.Many teachers say they are already using AI to help them, but current AI tools are not trained on materials specifically designed or approved for use in classrooms in England.According to India's…
Snap has finally decided to release a native app for the iPad's larger display. The update comes 13 years after the app debuted for iPhone and Android devices. While Snap is taking steps towards the larger screen, Meta has resisted the idea of ​​bringing its Instagram and WhatsApp apps to the iPad, and the social media giant could learn from this approach. Snapchat has released a native iPad app, which could lead to Instagram and WhatsApp following suit. In case you didn't know, users have been asking for dedicated WhatsApp and Instagram apps for the iPad, and while there are…
Here's a lesson they don't teach you in school: what seems like failure can turn into success if you learn to let go.The famous inventor Thomas Edison once said, “I haven't failed, I just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” Failure is just another way of learning how to think and be, the goal of life that should be taught in schools.Another truth we learn by living is that loss is another way of saying change, and change is something that happens all the time to each of us in different ways.Think about it: when you leave home for the…
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Approximately 10,000 six-packs of cigarettes are being recalled because they contain arsenic that exceeds federal standards. The Food and Drug Administration has updated the severity of Walmart's voluntary recall of six-packs of Great Value brand apple juice. Because the product contained arsenic levels that exceeded the agency's standards, the FDA updated the recall classification to “Class II,” which means the food “may cause temporary or medically reversible injury to health, or is unlikely to cause serious injury to health.” Walmart has previously recalled about 10,000 cases of 8-ounce apple juice cartons manufactured by Refresco Beverages US Inc. The juice is…
A frustrated Walmart shopper slammed the retailer's payment policies and demanded loose change after being stopped at the register. Customers have repeatedly begged Walmart to accept Apple Pay or Google Pay in its stores, but the company has refused to comply with these requests. 4Walmart shoppers criticize the company for refusing to implement tap-to-pay services in its stores (stock image)Credit: Alamy4One customer took to social media to beg for spare change and ask stores to accept Apple Pay (stock image)Credit: Getty4Walmart's CEO previously explained why stores don't currently accept Apple Pay or Google Pay (stock image)Credit: GettyOne shopper expressed anger…
OneStore CEO Jung Dong-jin introduced OneStore's app market targeting Taiwan on August 28, 2024 (Courtesy of OneStore) South Korea's homegrown app marketplace One Store will challenge Apple Inc and Google Inc in the global app market by offering customized services that cater to local demand in each country, the company's president said on Wednesday.”We provide services tailored to local needs. This differentiates us from Apple and Google, who operate their app stores with uniform policies regardless of country,” OneStore CEO Jeong Dong-jin said at a press conference.Based on the so-called hyper-localization approach, One Store will share technology and know-how in…
Summer may be coming to an end, but Capital Mall has some great events planned that will give you an excuse to get outside while supporting the local community and small businesses. Dazzle with giant dahlias at the Dahlia Show on September 14th and 15th, 2024. Then support local women-owned businesses at the Thurston County Economic Development Council's WCWB INSPIRE Pop-up Market on Friday, September 20th. And don't forget, there are free Zumba Gold classes every Monday. Here are some fun events happening at Capital Mall to make this a September to remember. Dahlia Show at Capital Mall 2024 Macy's…
All-sky distribution of 124 new SMDET discoveries in equatorial coordinates using the Aitoff projection. Sources are colored based on their spectral type estimates in §4, except that those with black interiors are candidate subdwarfs as described in §6, or have no photometric spectral type estimates. — astro-ph.SR We present the discovery of 118 new ultracool dwarf candidate stars discovered using a new machine learning tool called SMDET applied to a time series of images from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. We collected photometric and astrometric data to estimate the spectral type, distance, and tangential velocity of each candidate. The sample…