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Prior to computers, all industry was visible.People could see the rudders, sails, bolts and gears.It was easy to see how the parts of a machine made it work.Transparency was as easy as opening the car hood to look at the engine or looking up at an advertising billboard.And how things worked was documented by regulators.

Humor is subjective, and not every brand lends itself to comedy.But advertisers that can make people laugh are poised to win and keep customers."Even brands that aren't 'traditionally' funny do have an opportunity to be more playful and to amuse," said Stephen Loguidice, SVP and head of partnerships and advertising at Hartbeat, a media venture owned by actor and comedian Kevin Hart.

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Tom Gardner, director of golf at Los Angeles Country Club, got to play in the U.S. Open on Saturday, almost bouncing down the fairways to the cheers of his many supporters behind the ropes.His scorecard meant nothing.The experience meant everything.Gardner, with his familiar boater's hat and near-constant smile, was the marker in the tournament.

Organizers of the Tour de Suisse cycling race said they would resume the multistage competition on Saturday, one day after a rider died from the injuries that he sustained in a crash during a high-speed mountain descent.The rider, Gino Mader, was a member of the Bahrain-Victorious team, which announced on Saturday morning that it was withdrawing from the race.

The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus arrived in late 2016 with a major omission - the 3.5mm headphone jack was gone.Competitors pocked fun at Apple in ads but followed suit soon after.These days the only flagships to still offer a headphone jack are Sony, Asus and Red Magic.The jack is more common in the mid-range, but there are still many phones in that segment without one that sell millions of units.

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Data, data everywhere, and not a drop of insight to drink.Data intelligence platform Tracer, which helps agencies and marketers link data sets, selected Obele Brown-West, formerly of the agency Tinuiti, to be its first president on Wednesday on the brink of closing its Series A round of funding.

Does Apple's iPhone 11 have 5G?Here's everything you need to know about 5G - or the lack thereof - on the iPhone 11, including the Pro and Pro Max modelsiPhone 11 5G: Key Takeaways



iPhone 11 and 5G: The iPhone 11, released in September 2019, does not support 5G connectivity.This was a strategic decision by Apple based on the maturity and infrastructure of 5G at the time.

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Tozo Golden X1 are the latest wireless earbuds we did a thorough test on.With an impeccable track record on Amazon and a $150/ €150/ £150 price tag, these earbuds promise Hi-Res audio with LDAC support, active noise cancelation and up to 30 hours of total battery life with their charging case.

Suncor Energy will eliminate 1,500 positions as the company's new chief executive announced an immediate plan to cut costs by $400 million by the end of this year.Rich Kruger notified staff about the plan on Thursday in an email, describing how the company needs to reduce its staffing costs related to its competitors in the oilpatch.

BCE Inc. has requested that the federal telecommunications regulator intervene amid its dispute with Rogers Communications Inc. over wireless access on Toronto's subway network.The parent company of Bell Canada asked the CRTC on Thursday to prohibit Rogers from adding its customers to the network until it ensures it is technically feasible to provide access to all carriers.

A Swiss bicycle racer who crashed on a fast descent during the Tour de Suisse died on Friday, one day after he and another competitor tumbled into a ravine in the Swiss Alps.The rider, Gino Mader of Switzerland, was transported to the hospital after the crash on Thursday but died of his injuries on Friday morning, his team, Bahrain-Victorious, said in a statement.

A long-awaited merger of Vodafone and Three will bring the biggest shake-up in the UK mobile market for over a decade, experts say with significant consequences for all anyone in Britain using a device.The 15bn deal will see the two firms combine to make one of Europe's biggest operators, with about 27 million customers and more than 11,500 staff.

Top originator United Wholesale Mortgage settled a lawsuit with broker shop Mid Valley Funding, in which the broker shop was accused of violating UWM's controversial ultimatum by sending loans to rivals Rocket Mortgage and Fairway Independent Mortgage.The settlement, reached on June 5, dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice, requiring Mid Valley to pay $40,000 to UWM, as the brokerage firm acknowledges that it sent loans to Rocket and/or Fairway after the ultimatum was in effect.

After 14 rounds of words like probouleutic and zwitterion and schistorrhachis, Dev Shah, an eighth grader from Florida, had to wait through one more commercial break.If he spelled the next word correctly, he would win the Scripps National Spelling Bee.Psammophile, a plant or animal that prefers or thrives in sandy areas, would determine his fate.

Mercedes-Benz has revived the experimental fiberglass-bodied C111-II from the 70s as a flashy new electric concept.Stunning to the core, this two-seat hypercar has a very dramatic look on the outside and inside.Just like the ultra-futuristic Vision AVTR, this one christened Vision One-Eleven has the modernized version of the wedged profile in the form of a rounded roofline and rounded flared fenders.

A man with a muscle-wasting condition is taking on a gruelling Ironman triathlon to raise money for charity.Chris Stennett, of Felixstowe, Suffolk, said that within two months of his Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) diagnosis, aged 26, he decided he wasn't going to let it hold me back.Now aged 30, the copywriter is gearing up for Ironman Austria on June 18.

Tinseltown loves a big reveal, and that's what the U.S. Open has in Los Angeles Country Club, the greatest course people have never seen.The club will play host to its first major championship this upcoming week - the first time the U.S. Open has come to this city in 75 years - and it will be an eye-opener for the golf world.

The Miami Heat would be the first to assess their path to this late stage of the season as imperfect.Pretty much everything has posed a challenge the injuries, the losses.Even their experience in the play-in bracket a loss followed by a come-from-behind win seems apocryphal, or at least true to form, now that they are facing the Denver Nuggets in the N.B.A. finals.

In the midst of a seven-game win streak, including the last five against Florida's two clubs, the Yankees traveled north of the border to take on the now-defunct Expos in Montreal.David Cone had pitched a masterpiece in their previous game, and it was now Orlando Hernandez's turn to follow up his impressive debut the week prior.

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The market for foldables is still marginal, but the demand for foldable phones is steady, backed by the number of sales.2023 seems to be a year for foldables phones, with iterations of foldable phones from familiar brands and inaugural foldables from big and not-so-big brands.Vivo released its first clamshell foldable Vivo X Flip in China along with the second generation of book-style foldable Vivo X Fold2.

The travel industry is highly competitive and constantly evolving.To succeed in this dynamic field, travel businesses need to adopt effective marketing tactics that capture the attention of their target audience and differentiate themselves from competitors.1. Embrace Digital Marketing
In today's digital age, having a solid online presence is crucial for travel businesses.

As a prominent 10-meter diver, Diego Balleza is used to wearing small swimsuits that show off his body.Now, desperate because of a lack of financial resources ahead of next year's Paris Olympics, the Mexican is making a leap to a different platform in which he also wears few clothes: OnlyFans.Balleza is one of several Mexican athletes who have been affected by a dispute between World Aquatics and Ana Guevara, the head of Mexico's national sports commission that, since January, has stopped providing monthly payments for aquatics athletes.

Not many major golf championships have also served as an opportunity for fans to broaden their vocabulary, but this year's U.S. Open at the Los Angeles Country Club may do just that.Across the four days of the tournament, beginning Thursday, expect broadcasters and perhaps the golfers to routinely use a word that may be unfamiliar to many in the international viewing audience.

The United States is seeking dialogue with both Russia and China on nuclear arms without preconditions, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said in a speech laying out the US approach to decreasing the risk of a nuclear conflict.Sullivan also said that the US is simultaneously working to modernize its nuclear force but not to increase its size.

Anton Ferdinand led West Ham in walking off the pitch during a seven-a-side tournament in the US after one of their players was allegedly racially abused.The incident occurred in their game against Dallas United in the inaugural £1m The Soccer Tournament event.Dallas later withdrew from the tournament after organisers conducted an investigation into the allegations.

If there is any matter upon which civilized countries have agreed..., it is the evil of premature and excessive child labor.So said Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in 1918, when Americans were waging a fierce battle over the employment of young children.More than a century later, the argument rages again.

Oracle Corp., the software giant known for its database technology, is joining the chorus of enterprise cloud vendors betting big on generative AI services.On Monday, the company revealed that it was developing a new cloud service with Cohere, a Toronto-based startup that specializes in building and training large language models (LLMs).

A former executive at ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns the popular short-video app TikTok, says in a legal filing that some members of the ruling Communist Party used data held by the company to identify and locate protesters in Hong Kong.Yintao Yu, formerly head of engineering for ByteDance in the United States, says those same people had access to U.S. user data, an accusation that the company denies.

Former Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, who announced a second campaign for president on Tuesday after a disappointing run in 2016, has had a roller coaster of a political career in more ways than one.In the span of four years, he went from star presidential recruit to scandal-dogged sixth-place finisher in New Hampshire.

For nearly 100 years, the Scripps National Spelling Bee has showcased the biggest words from the youngest lexicologists.The inaugural champion, 11-year-old Frank Neuhauser of Louisville, correctly spelled gladiolus to claim a prize of $500 at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.The words have only gotten harder, the pressure greater and the national spotlight larger.

Austin-based rent reporting fintech Boom announced on Wednesday that it has raised $4.5 million in a seed round to improve user experience, expand its product offerings and market its app to customers.The seed round was led by Chicago-based venture capital fund Starting Line, followed by Clocktower Technology Ventures, Company Ventures, Gilgamesh Ventures, and Plaid co-founders William Hockey and Zachary Perret.

Tatari is keeping clean rooms in the family.On Monday, the TV buying and measurement platform announced the launch of a new sister company called Vault, whose first product is a data clean room.Although Tatari already provides cross-channel measurement for advertisers and programmers, it leans heavily on IP addresses, which can sometimes be considered personally identifiable information.

Yesterday, Motorola unveiled its next generation of foldables - the Motorola Razr 40 Ultra and the Motorola Razr 40 - two phones similar in their essence, but different in a lot of key aspects.The Motorola Razr 40 Ultra is already available in Europe, and will ship in North America on June 23 - we have the review for you.

President Biden and his top aides in the West Wing, along with members of his administration and re-election campaign at all levels, are executing a carefully crafted strategy in response to the federal indictment of former President Donald J. Trump: Say nothing.Mr. Biden has always insisted that he would never interfere with the independence of the Justice Department.

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals continues to strike down patents directed to abstract ideas under the Alice test for patent subject matter eligibility.In People.ai,Inc. v. Clari Inc. (Fed.Cir.2023) U.S. App.LEXIS 8294, the court invalidated seven patents owned by People.ai.A patent protects an invention.

Bites (noun): more meaty news to sink your teeth into.Barks (noun): peripheral noise worth your attention.This week in Other Barks & Bites: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) extends its Climate Change Mitigation program until 2027; the Unitary Patent System and accompanying Unitary Patent Court launches in Europe; the Supreme Court again denies an opportunity to review 35 U.S.C. § 101.

Vue.js is a framework built on top of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that seamlessly offers a component-driven architecture to build mission-critical production apps.When it was first announced in 2014, it took the software industry by storm, offering a better (and more progressive) approach to building frontend applications.

It's a literal sign of things to come.Toronto's mayoral byelection shifted into a new phase this week as campaign lawn signs started to pop up around the city.By law, campaign teams weren't allowed to put them up until June 1.But their presence gives us new insight into the signals candidates are trying to send to voters and their own competitors.