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VentureBeat
11 months ago
Data science

Workato partners with OpenAI to ease business automation

Workato, an enterprise automation platform, has announced a strategic collaboration with OpenAI to integrate multiple AI models and future releases from OpenAI into Workato's low-code/no-code platform.This partnership aims to simplify the process of building automation and integrations by using generative AI.
#limitations
www.nytimes.com
11 months ago
US news

What is a consent decree?

The Justice Department and Minneapolis officials have agreed to negotiate toward a deal on a court-enforced consent decree.A consent decree in this case, between the Department of Justice and a state or local governmental agency, such as a police department, is a court-approved agreement that creates and enforces a road map for changes and overhaul within the agency where the Justice Department has found evidence of abuse and misconduct.Typically, a federal judge, along with an independent monitor, is appointed to oversee the changes and enforce the agreement.
Austin Monitor
11 months ago
Austin

Austin Energy will give you credits in exchange for a little control over your thermostat - Austin Monitor

Thursday, June 15, 2023 by Sangita Menon, KUT
Austin Energy is offering residential customers financial incentives for letting the department tweak the temperature on their smart thermostats on high energy use days - like over the next week, when daily highs are expected to cross 100 degrees.Customers who sign up for the Power Partner program will receive a one-time $50 credit for each eligible smart thermostat they enroll and $25 a year for each one that stays in the program.
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#temperatures
www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

Hot weather puts pressure on A&E departments

The hot weather is forecast to remain across the UK into next week as an NHS boss warned the health service was seeing near record levels of demand at A&E departments.The Met Office has forecast temperatures in the high 20s, with some areas reaching into the 30s.It comes as an NHS medical director said the heat had contributed to one of the busiest days ever in A&E departments across the country on Thursday.
www.standard.co.uk
11 months ago
London

Record breaking day for London emergency departments ahead of junior doctors strike

E mergency departments across south west London are facing record-breaking demand amid sizzling temperatures as a junior doctors' strike threatens to cripple services even further.More visits were made to St George's, Epsom and St Helier's accident and emergency departments (A&Es) on Monday than ever before, the NHS has said, with a total of 1,250 people across the three departments.
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#supervisors
Mission Local
11 months ago
Mission District

San Francisco's budget timeline, explained

The Mayor sends budget
instructions to city departments
The Mayor requested that each
department find areas to cut to reduce the
city's budget deficit.A blanket instruction was issued for
departments to find 5% cuts, with some
departments asked to find 10% cuts.The Mayor takes in department
ideas and forms a budget proposal
The Mayor presents her budget
proposal
The plan presented by Breed cuts about
half of city departments.
www.fastcompany.com
1 year ago
Education

How this coffee chain is preparing college students to be CEOs

John Purisima had a student job that is a typical one on American college campuses: giving admissions tours to prospective students.Last year, when the Drexel sophomore was telling a scrum of visiting teenagers and their parents about the hands-on work experience that students get managing a Saxbys coffee shop on the Philadelphia campus, he wondered why he wasn't doing that job instead.
Bored Panda
1 year ago
Productivity

People Share What Saddens Them The Most About Working From Home (71 Stories)

Over the recent years, working from home has become the new norm for millions of people around the world.It has some upsides; for some people, it allowed them to save precious time on commuting back and forth and minimized certain expenses, such as money spent on gas or lunch-break outings.Not to mention the additional hour of sleep in the mornings or the comfort of working in your sweatpants.
moresupervisors
#application
Austin Monitor
11 months ago
Austin

Fire chief says more firefighters and bigger budget needed - Austin Monitor

Wednesday, June 14, 2023 by Jo Clifton
In a memo dated June 12, Austin Fire Chief Joel Baker gave Mayor Kirk Watson and City Council his proposed road map for reducing overtime expenditures in the department, and it involves a bigger budget and more firefighters.Baker was responding to an audit of the department's overtime expenditures released in April.
www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

Ministers could face criminal sanctions' for deleting WhatsApp messages

Ministers could face criminal sanctions for deleting their WhatsApp messages, the Information Commissioner has warned.John Edwards told MPs on Tuesday that ministers should not have auto-deleting messages turned on if they were using WhatsApp to conduct government business and could face prosecution if they did.
www.cbc.ca
1 year ago
Toronto

Lengthy approval process for CafeTO program results in huge financial losses: restaurant owner | CBC News

A Toronto restaurant owner who takes part in the city's CafeTO program says the length of time it's taking to get approved to participate in the program results in huge financial losses.Cherrie Stinson says after submitting an application on March 29, the approval only arrived this weekend.Even with the approval, which Stinson said she received via email, she still does not know when she can start installing a patio.
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POLITICO
11 months ago
US Elections

If you thought the debt fight was tough, get ready for spending season

The conservative rebellion and competing calls for more cash only compound fears of a dicey finale to this fall's spending fight.As the threat of a government shutdown looms at the end of September, some lawmakers are avoiding any predictions after Congress managed to pass the debt limit package before a catastrophic U.S. default.
#years
VentureBeat
11 months ago
Data science

IT network managers, beware: AI is not a magic bullet

If there's one constant in the tech world, it's the ongoing tug-of-war between hype and reality.I've seen this play out whenever a new "transformative" technology arrives on the scene.With the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI), it's back to the future as we ask how this promising advance will change network management.
Los Angeles Times
11 months ago
California

Downtown L.A. corner designated a historic landmark for LGBTQ+ community

(Cooper Donuts and the Evans Family)

Amid a heated nationwide debate about gay and transgender rights, the Los Angeles City Council has designated a corner in downtown Los Angeles as a historic landmark for the LGBTQ+ community.The council voted unanimously Wednesday to designate the intersection of 2nd and Main streets as "Cooper Do-nuts/Nancy Valverde Square."
www.cnn.com
11 months ago
US politics

Biden to convene his Cabinet on the heels of debt ceiling resolution

President Joe Biden is set to convene his Cabinet Tuesday, bringing his top lieutenants together to discuss a wide range of topics for the first Cabinet meeting since he declared his candidacy for reelection and days after Congress passed a bipartisan bill to avert a catastrophic default.The president's going to be convening his Cabinet secretaries tomorrow in the Cabinet Room, as he does from time to time, to discuss the progress we've made in investing in America, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre previewed to reporters.
www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

Ukrainian military chaplains complete training with British Army

Ukrainian military chaplains have completed training with the British Army before heading back to the war-ravaged country to give frontline troops a spiritual umbrella.The two-week programme run by the Royal Army Chaplains' Department (RAChD) saw an initial group of 10 Ukrainians train at a camp in south-west England.
www.nytimes.com
11 months ago
Television

Opinion | Why America Desperately Needed Ted Lasso

NASHVILLE I didn't watch the first season of Ted Lasso until the second season was already underway on Apple TV+.I wish I'd been watching from the very beginning, when it first began streaming in 2020.It would have made me feel better during a national election season not because the show is even winkingly political but because its characters are so utterly, inescapably human.
Chicago Tribune
11 months ago
Chicago

Letters: Why I shed tears on Memorial Day

Thank you for the article covering the Rosehill Cemetery Memorial Day event ( "Rosehill Cemetery honors veterans during event," May 30).That is my son, Michael, photographed with two of his three sons.Running late to the ceremony, I couldn't find him beforehand.After, I realized why.I had been looking for him in his American Legion uniform - with the crisp white shirt and the colorful medals on the chest pocket.
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Social Media Explorer
11 months ago
Online marketing

The Massive Potential For Tech Startups In Israel - Social Media Explorer

Israeli tech startups are often able to garner more funding and more attention than startups in other countries.Israeli cybersecurity startups raised $8.8 billion in 2021 - more than tripling the amount they raised in 2020.2021 had 57 new companies go public in Israel who went on to raise $4 billion, almost tripling the $1.7 billion raised by IPOs in the year previous.
Medium
11 months ago
Data science

8 Data Lake Vendors to Make Your Data Life Easier in 2023

Data has to be stored somewhere.Data warehouses are repositories for your cleaned, processed data, but what about all that unstructured data your organization is starting to notice?Where does it go?To make your data management processes easier, here's a primer on data lakes, and our picks for a few data lake vendors worth considering.
#people
www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

Government campus launched in Sheffield as part of levelling up agenda

A policy campus for around 1,000 Government staff has been launched in Sheffield as part of aims to level up the civil service and offer opportunities outside London.Cabinet Secretary Simon Case said the move was an attempt to remove barriers to people who do not want to leave their home town or city to join Whitehall.
www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

What the latest NHS performance figures show

Waiting lists for treatment in England have risen while cancer referral rates have fallen and ambulance response times have got longer.Here are the key figures from the latest data.Overall waiting list The number of people waiting to start routine hospital treatment has risen to a new record high.An estimated 7.4 million people were waiting to start treatment at the end of April, up from 7.3 million in March.
www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

England on track to end new HIV transmissions by 2030, says Government

The Government has said new HIV transmissions could be eradicated in England by 2030 thanks to increased testing.The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said new transmissions of the virus fell by almost a third between 2019 and 2021.Statistics published by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) in December 2022 estimated that 4,400 people were living with undiagnosed HIV in England in 2021, down from 5,600 in 2019.
Los Angeles Times
11 months ago
California

'Let's stand firm': Supervisors move to boost LGBTQ+ rights, gender-affirming healthcare

(Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles County Supervisors passed two motions Tuesday intended to improve the lives and health of their LGBTQ+ constituents, citing "horrific" attacks by policymakers on gay and transgender youth across the nation.The first, authored by Supervisors Hilda Solis and Lindsey Horvath, aims to improve the county's gender-affirming healthcare services.
www.theguardian.com
11 months ago
UK politics

Ministers face legal challenge over cuts to walking and cycling investment in England

The government faces a legal challenge to its decision to cut investment in walking and cycling in England, over claims that the move bypassed legal processes and risks scuppering commitments over the climate emergency and air pollution.Lawyers acting for the Transport Action Network (TAN), a campaign group, have written to the Department for Transport (DfT) to formally seek a judicial review of the cuts announced in March by Mark Harper, the transport secretary.
www.nytimes.com
11 months ago
World politics

U.K. Government Refuses to Give Boris Johnson's Texts to Covid Inquiry

The British government refused on Thursday to hand over former Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Covid-era text messages to a committee investigating the handling of the pandemic, setting off a legal battle that could become a political headache for the current prime minister, Rishi Sunak.The government's Cabinet Office faced a deadline of 4 p.m. to turn over unredacted text messages, diaries and notebooks belonging to Mr. Johnson.
morepeople
www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

Ministers using our time well' Mordaunt says amid thin' Commons agenda claims

Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt has insisted Government ministers are using our time well as Opposition MPs criticised the short sittings in the chamber.Labour criticised the thin Commons agenda after the House sat for less than three hours on Tuesday, while the SNP claimed the Government couldn't table enough legislation.
#information
www.theguardian.com
11 months ago
UK politics

UK ministers back down and offer civil servants 1,500 to end pay row

Ministers have backed down in their dispute with civil servants over pay, offering less senior officials a one-off payment of 1,500 to help with the cost of living.The Prospect union welcomed the offer on Friday, which followed talks between the Cabinet Office minister, Jeremy Quin, and union officials earlier in the day.
Fatherly
11 months ago
Fathers

What?? The Most Popular American Video Game Ever Is 23 Years Old

There are so many title options in the world of video games, and like movies, everyone has their favorite franchises.But have you ever wondered which video game was America's favorite?Well, we finally have the answer, and it turns out the winner is a certified Y2K classic - but there are others, too, and we have a map to prove it.
Austin Monitor
11 months ago
Austin

Council debates data-retention period for license plate reader pilot program - Austin Monitor

Thursday, June 1, 2023 by Emma Freer
City Council is negotiating how long the Austin Police Department should retain data from dashboard camera license plate readers - weighing civil liberty protections against potential crime-solving benefits - in preparation for a pilot program using the technology.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
UK politics

Top Home Office mandarin knew of Braverman's alleged speeding request

The most senior civil servant in the Home Office was made aware of allegations that Suella Braverman wanted civil service help in dealing with a speeding fine, the Guardian understands.The development raises questions about how many other senior officials and ministers across Whitehall were then informed about the claims, and puts pressure on the prime minister to order an investigation into the allegations.
Mission Local
1 year ago
Mission District

SFPD accused of secret policy-making, usurping oversight bodies' power

The San Francisco Police Department has been secretly and illegally writing its own policies, according to members of the civilian Police Commission, which oversees and sets policy for the department."It's clearly illegal.And it's really shocking that the department would engage in something like this," Max Carter-Oberstone, vice president of the Police Commission, said in an interview on Tuesday.
Engadget
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

The government is very hackable, and they have your data | Engadget

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Data breaches and security failures happen everyday.There's little we can do about that if we want to participate in modern society, except maybe switch out the companies we interact with for their competitors if we presume one to be more secure.There's one service that we don't have a choice on whether to interact with, no matter how high profile its security incidents become: the federal government.
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Medium
11 months ago
Data science

Augmented Analytics-Where Do You Fit in at the Intersection of Analytics and Business...

Data visualization is a critical way for anyone to turn endless rows of data into easy-to-understand results through dynamic and understandable visuals.And with augmented analytics (and embedded insights), anyone can become a citizen data scientist, regardless of their advanced analytics expertise.A shift has been trending in Analytics and Business Intelligence where we're seeing more and more analysts taking center stage to better enable the decision-maker by bridging the gap between data and the insights drawn from it.
Truthout
11 months ago
Left-wing politics

A Tennessee Woman Nearly Died and Required a Hysterectomy After Being Denied Abortion

Westend61 / Getty Images A woman from Tennessee was forced to endure a dangerous ectopic pregnancy due to the state's draconian abortion laws, resulting in her having to deliver her baby several weeks premature and requiring a hysterectomy afterward, which she did not want, in order to save her life.
#spokesperson
www.theguardian.com
11 months ago
UK politics

Government to launch legal action in attempt to retain Johnson WhatsApps

Ministers are to launch legal action against the official Covid public inquiry in a last-ditch attempt to avoid handing over Boris Johnson's unredacted WhatsApps.The unprecedented move was confirmed in a letter from the Cabinet Office to the inquiry, headed by the retired judge Heather Hallett, who had given ministers a deadline of 4pm on Thursday to comply with her demands for evidence.
www.cbc.ca
1 year ago
Toronto

Some Canadians who repaid pandemic benefits are seeing their tax refund withheld | CBC News

Some Canadians who have repaid a pandemic benefit they received by mistake are still seeing their tax refunds withheld by the government.The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has resumed efforts to recover the money through a process it calls "offsetting," which means that it automatically uses money from tax refunds and some benefits to settle a person's debt with the government.
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Breaking Defense
11 months ago
Law

DoD sends new cyber strategy, informed by Russian invasion, to Congress

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has sent its new classified cyber strategy, which has been informed by lessons learned from Russia's invasion of Ukraine and supersedes the department's 2018 iteration, to Congress.An unclassified summary of the strategy will be released in the coming months, according to DoD.
#opportunity
AdExchanger
1 year ago
Marketing tech

Effective Product Marketing Considers Multiple Stakeholders | AdExchanger

It is easy to be myopic when you're the head of product or technology at one of today's fast-paced ad tech organizations, working to develop products that meet the needs of very specific stakeholders.But I joined a company that has to prioritize the needs of stakeholders in our ecosystem - publishers, advertisers and users.
Soccer News
1 year ago
Liverpool FC

Jurgen Klopp open to strengthening Liverpool defence during summer window - Soccer News

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has not ruled out signing a defender in the summer if the opportunity arises.All the focus has been on reinforcing an underperforming midfield which is losing James Milner, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Naby Keita next month but the Reds boss is still looking elsewhere."We look in all departments apart from goalkeeper at the moment," he said.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Sunak faces Tory Brexiteers' anger by ditching end-of-year EU law bonfire'

Rishi Sunak has angered Tory Brexiteers by ditching the Government's promise to complete a post-Brexit bonfire of remaining EU-era laws by the end of the year.Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch announced that around 600 laws would be revoked under their legislation rather than the 4,000 pledged, insisting it is about more than a race to a deadline.
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Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles

Free money is still available for small L.A. businesses affected by the pandemic

(Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

With pandemic state of emergency over, the government programs tied to COVID-19 have either ended or are winding down.But if you have a small business in Los Angeles that was affected by the pandemic - and which ones weren't? - you still have time to apply for a shot of free money.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
Everyday cooking

Rachel Roddy's recipe for oat-and-raisin biscuits | A kitchen in Rome

Would you like a biscuit?Twice a day, mid-morning and mid-afternoon, Veronica pushed her trolley down the corridor and around the various departments serving tea, coffee and biscuits.Along with the boardroom drinks cabinet and stationery cupboard, Veronica was the best thing about Dad's work.Despite manoeuvring a not-small trolley covered with warm cups and pots of boiling water, she seemed to move with more ease than anyone else in the building.
www.cbc.ca
1 year ago
Toronto

'Forever chemicals' found in Canadians' blood samples: report | CBC News

Toxic "forever chemicals" are being found in the blood of Canadians and even higher levels are being found in northern Indigenous communities says a new report from the government of Canada.Health Canada and Environment Canada have released a draft assessment of the science on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
 @PatentBuddy1 year ago
Assessing Judicial Fitness: Judge Newman’s Alleged Cognitive Decline:
Patently-O
1 year ago
Intellectual property law

Assessing Judicial Fitness: Judge Newman's Alleged Cognitive Decline

by Dennis Crouch
This week, the Federal Circuit disclosed further documents from a special committee established to evaluate the potential removal of Judge Pauline Newman from active duty due to a suspected mental or physical disability that could affect her judicial capabilities.The order, dated May 16, 2023, gives a more comprehensive discussion on concerns about Judge Newman's performance, including signs of memory issues or confusion and diminished productivity.
New York Daily News
1 year ago
Remote teams

NYC remote work pilot program to begin with two agencies June 1

A pilot program allowing some New York City municipal employees to work from home is expected to launch at the Buildings Department and the Social Services Department on June 1, according to a City Hall memo to agency heads dated Tuesday.Under an agreement the Adams administration reached in the winter with the city's largest municipal workers' union, District Council 37, employees in the union are to be allowed flexible work options including remote work.
The Good Life France
1 year ago
Wine

Food and wine lovers guide to Dordogne

Dordogne is one of the five departments of Aquitaine, now part of the super region Nouvelle Aquitaine (which includes Limousin and Poitou-Charentes).Aquitaine stretches along the Atlantic coast, from the Gironde estuary to the Basque country, along the Pyrenees Mountains on the Spanish border to the picture-postcard pretty towns and villages in Dordogne.
Boston.com
1 year ago
Boston

Police arrest 'Most Wanted' fugitive after spotting tattoo of his own name on his neck

Boston police identified and arrested a suspect on the department's Most Wanted List on Wednesday, thanks to a neck tattoo.Francisco Mahon, 40, of Boston was taken into custody at 109 Main St. in Cambridge around 4:30 p.m. on an outstanding warrant out of Dorchester District Court for armed robbery, Boston police noted in a release.
Medium
1 year ago
UX design

Make UX simple again

Ah UX, good old User Experience.The UE... wait...
WTF.Even the acronym is an intentional obfuscation.Did 'UE' become too broad?Was the domain name already taken?The irony is palpable; a discipline centred around making things simpler and reducing complexity, has become the very thing it was intended to counter.
Ars Technica
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

IBM pauses hiring around 7,800 roles that could be replaced by AI

IBM Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna has revealed plans to halt hiring for about 7,800 positions that could be replaced by artificial intelligence systems in the near future, according to a Bloomberg news report published Monday.Krishna said that hiring in back-office functions like human resources will be suspended or slowed, affecting roughly 26,000 non-customer-facing roles.
Medium
1 year ago
Data science

Announcing the ODSC East 2023 Keynote Speakers

ODSC East is just a few weeks away, and we couldn't be more excited to announce our Keynote and Track Keynote speakers.They represent some of the leading minds in both industry and academia Collectively, our keynote speakers have written numerous articles and papers, been the recipients of notable awards, been recognized by respected publications, and received fellowships.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Liz Truss contests 12,000 bill over use of Chevening country retreat'

Liz Truss is contesting a government bill relating to her use of the grace-and-favour country house she had access to as foreign secretary.The former prime minister has been asked to pay about 12,000 for costs incurred while she spent time at the Chevening estate, the Mail on Sunday reported.The invoice covers the period last summer when she was preparing for her short-lived premiership and is understood to have been received by Ms Truss several weeks ago.
www.cbc.ca
1 year ago
Canada news

The Gap to lay off 1,800 workers | CBC News

Gap Inc. said on Thursday it would cut about 1,800 jobs in a second round of layoffs in the last 12 months, joining a set of big U.S. companies that are downsizing in earnest as high inflation eats into consumer wallets.It's not known how many, if any, of the jobs to be cut will be in Canada.The California-based retailer told CBC News in a statement it "can't comment for the record or share any specifics about Canada."
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