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Earlier this summer, a seagull flew down onto the boardwalk and tried to steal some food. The seagulls that quack and swoop down to snatch french fries and other food from unsuspecting tourists on Ocean City's Boardwalk seem to be better behaved these days.Earlier this month, three city council members complained that the seagulls seemed to be acting bolder and congregating in larger numbers on the boardwalk this summer, despite measures that include using trained falcons and hawks to scare them away.”I think for some reason, they just really like french fries,” City Councilman Keith Hartzell speculated during the Aug.…
Get your free copy of Editor's DigestFT editor Roula Khalaf picks her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The US Defense Department warned of a “potential environmental catastrophe” in the Red Sea on Tuesday after a possible oil leak from an oil tanker set on fire by Yemen's Houthi rebels.The Greek-flagged tanker Sounion, carrying one million barrels of crude oil, was hit by a missile fired by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels last week.The major oil spill would be the first serious environmental damage as a result of the Houthi campaign against international shipping in the Red Sea since November last year.Yemeni…
A team of Illinois State University students recently completed a project to understand why students decide to pursue a degree at Illinois State University. The student team was enrolled in the Innovation Consulting Community (ICC) course led by Peter Kaufman and supported by the Hagge Innovation Institute. In ICC courses, students from various majors across campus (e.g., undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students) bring diverse educational backgrounds and personal experiences to collaborate on a semester-long project. Student teams select a project manager and recorder and function as a consulting team to achieve the project goals. To complete this Value of Higher…
Brazil's LGBTQ+ community has been shocked by a series of murders and armed robberies against gay men who met through dating apps.At least five people have been killed since March and dozens more have been victims of armed robberies, according to Reuters.One of the latest murder victims was 24-year-old Leo Nunez, who had been exchanging messages with a man he met on the dating app Hornet after the two arranged to meet in person in São Paulo on June 12, Brazil's Valentine's Day.However, “security cameras captured the moment two men on a motorbike appeared in the alleyway. [Nunes] “Nunez ambushed…
GlobalFoundries in Essex Junction, Oct. 17, 2022. File photo: Glenn Russell/VTDiggerA coalition of environmental groups has expressed concern about PFAS chemicals in wastewater from GlobalFoundries, a semiconductor manufacturing plant in Essex Junction that regularly discharges wastewater into the Winooski River. A group called Chips Communities United issued a statement Tuesday morning calling attention to the levels of PFAS found in data collected by the state Department of Environmental Conservation and using the numbers to call for further investigation at other semiconductor plants across the country. PFAS are also known as “forever chemicals” because they don't break down naturally in the…
GlobalFoundries in Essex Junction, Oct. 17, 2022. File photo: Glenn Russell/VTDiggerA coalition of environmental groups has expressed concern about PFAS chemicals in wastewater from GlobalFoundries, a semiconductor manufacturing plant in Essex Junction that regularly discharges wastewater into the Winooski River. A group called Chips Communities United issued a statement Tuesday morning calling attention to the levels of PFAS found in data collected by the state Department of Environmental Conservation and using the numbers to call for further investigation at other semiconductor plants across the country. PFAS are also known as “forever chemicals” because they don't break down naturally in the…
Tesla has launched a direct integration feature with DIMO, a decentralized connected car app that allows users to connect to networks such as fleets of vehicles and earn rewards. DIMO announced a direct integration with Tesla vehicles in a press release on Tuesday, allowing Tesla owners to control authority over their data, connect to a vehicle fleet network and earn rewards directly through the app. Tesla is the first major automaker to enable such an integration, and the company already has 20,000 Tesla vehicles in its fleet, bringing the total number of vehicles to 109,000 that have been integrated into…
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With the advent of generative AI solutions, a paradigm shift is underway across industries, driven by organizations embracing foundation models to unlock unprecedented opportunities. Amazon Bedrock has emerged as the preferred choice for numerous customers seeking to innovate and launch generative AI applications, leading to an exponential surge in demand for model inference capabilities. Bedrock customers aim to scale their worldwide applications to accommodate growth, and require additional burst capacity to handle unexpected surges in traffic. Currently, users might have to engineer their applications to handle scenarios involving traffic spikes that can use service quotas from multiple regions by implementing…
Apple's iCloud Mail service and iCloud web apps are currently down, according to Apple's system status page. Affected users are unable to use iCloud Mail or iCloud web apps, and the service has been out since 4:29pm ET. Apple says that only some users are affected, but not all will experience the issue. We'll update this article once iCloud Mail and Apple's iCloud web app are up and running. Popular articlesApple Event Announced on September 9th: “It's Glowtime”Apple today announced plans to hold its annual iPhone-centric event on Monday, September 9th at its Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California. The…