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SimpleNexus, a homeownership platform developer for loan officers, borrowers, real estate agents, and settlement agents, announced this week a new integration with Empower, the loan origination system (LOS) from Black Knight.This bidirectional integration, available to financial institutions, including independent mortgage banks nationwide, enables real-time sharing of loan application data, milestone updates, and documents.

These days I start every conversation with, Yes, I have used ChatGPT, just to get that out of the way for the sake of efficiency.The speed of discourse about Generative AI in all aspects of life from personal to business topics has been astounding.And while the use cases for generative AI as a consumer, such as internet searching, customer service and random poem writing for hours (who, me?) have been immediately obvious, specific application of this tech in the mortgage industry has been a more involved discussion.

Designed by the architecture studio Buero Wagner is a black-painted timber pavilion on the grounds of Villa Massimo.Villa Massimo is the home of the Germany Academy in Rome, and the tent-like black pavilion has been installed to be utilized for a variety of reasons - from an exhibition space to a bar.

We've become so dependent on our electronic devices that it's not unusual to see or hear people panicking when their phones or laptops get drained without a power outlet in sight.While these devices have gotten more powerful, the batteries powering them haven't made the same leaps and bounds in advancements.

The time of electric scooters in the spotlight is over.Electric bikes or eBikes are now rising in popularity because of their health benefits as well as their sustainability.Most people, however, simply see this hybrid mode of transportation as simply that: a way to get from A to B. With the right design, however, these foot-powered, motor-assisted vehicles can transform those boring and tiring travels into exhilarating adventures, letting you feel the rush and the energy of the wind in your hair.

A beautiful piece of furniture can complete a room.It can be the final piece that makes a space come full circle, building a comfortable and cohesive haven, rather than a random area.Furniture pieces make or break a home, they add on to the essence or soul of a home, hence one needs to be extremely picky while choosing a furniture design.

Asics has such a strong presence in the road running world that I sometimes overlook their contributions to mountain running and trail running.The Asics Gel-Trabuco 11 ($140) has been a most excellent addition to my quiver, particularly as I slowly ramp up miles for adventures on the rocky, dusty, and sometimes muddy Front Range and high-country trails of Colorado where I live.

AI went from quirky novelty to dominant disruptor in a matter of months, taking over the headlines, as consumer-friendly and business-centric AI applications continue emerging in every sector.AI's role in digital advertising is much more established, but rapid advances increasingly deliver unexpected and transformative capabilities for digital marketers.

The California two-spot octopus can edit the RNA in its brain on a massive scale, likely allowing it to keep a clear head in both warm and cool waters.Tom Kleindinst/Marine Biological Laboratory Octopuses are curious and clever.They can solve mazes and puzzles, use tools, and are masters of camouflage.

The UK public policy landscape is littered with disasters.From record NHS waiting lists to the de facto legalisation of petty crime and serious sexual assault, to the environmental damage created by the privatised water and sewerage companies.With immigration figures on Thursday likely to show that net migration in 2022 was the highest level on record, it's tempting for politicians and commentators to add immigration to this list although many have already done so on the basis of what, charitably, are wild, uninformed guesstimates.

Within observability, AIOps has emerged as a game changer in the management and operation of complex IT environments, with engineers playing a vital role in safeguarding customer experiences and revenue streams.New Relic is dedicated to providing data to engineers that allows them to fundamentally reshape the way they build and operate critical services so they can optimize their operations, reduce downtime, accelerate innovation, and enhance customer experiences while maintaining engineer happiness.

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).

Dating apps are the costar of "Swiping America," a reality TV series streaming on Max (formerly HBO Max) where four single millennials and Gen Z'ers sample the dating scene in a new city every episode.The romantic documentary, or rom-doc, debuts Thursday, June 15, with two episodes, the second set in Miami.

Britton Wilson of Arkansas, one of this year's most accomplished college runners, will race in the 400 meters at the N.C.A.A. Division I outdoor track and field championships in Austin, Texas, on Saturday evening.Just 25 minutes later, she will take another lap of the track only this time, she will have 10 hurdles in her way.

No new major road building projects in England starting before 2030 will be created, National Highways has proposed.The Government-owned company has advised ministers it should focus on completing ongoing and delayed schemes, as well as improving existing roads.Many National Highways major projects are behind schedule and over budget.

Clinical trials are critical in developing and approving new medical treatments and technologies.These trials generate massive data that needs to be managed efficiently and accurately to ensure patient safety and successful research outcomes.The good news is that advances in AI and automation technology, such as AI-based data extraction, virtual clinical trials, and predictive analytics, are making it easier for clinical trial managers to streamline their clinical trial Data Management processes and gain insights that can help improve patient outcomes.

Thousands of dead fish washed up on the gulf coast of Texas over the weekend, and massive globs of seaweed carrying plastic pollution infested with flesh-eating bacteria are raising public health concerns at Florida's famous beaches.Like a cat leaving a mangled rat on the doorstep, the oceans seem to be trying to get our attention.

Children play amid discarded plastic bottles in Anyama, Côte d'Ivoire, on May 25, 2023.ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP via Getty Images This story was originally published by Grist.Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter here.Negotiators from around the world will convene in Paris next week to continue working on a legally binding global treaty to address the plastics crisis.

Building success in a digital marketing career can present some challenges for a parent.For example, you can expect to work long hours, meet important deadlines, and manage client expectations.For these reasons and more, you may notice that you have less time to spend with your family.To that end, it's essential to stay organized and on top of tasks so that you can work efficiently to meet expectations while also being present for your family.

1. GitLab 16 comes with new features that support DevSecOps, including AI-driven analytics to ensure code quality and comprehensive security scanning and alerting.
2. GitLab 16 provides a number of benefits for developers, such as simplified setup and configuration, automated pipelines, and faster CI/CD

1. AI regulation must be crafted carefully, as the technology is rapidly evolving and its applications are varied and complex.
2. Regulations should focus on protecting people’s rights, preventing discrimination and abuse, and promoting safety and security.
3. AI regulation should be designed to be flexible,

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Staying alive is an ongoing struggle for media companies.To stave off revenue decreases, which have averaged a 9% decline every year over the past six years, according to Brian Wieser's Madison and Wall Substack, publishing has tried assorted tactics.From paywalls to a clumsy scramble toward video, publishing is trying to make its $18 billion business survive and remain relevant.

goTom has today announced its collaboration with SpringServe to develop a standardised interface for the SpringServe ad server.Unlike many other ad servers that focus on display advertising, SpringServe specialises in delivering video ads.The platform utilises proprietary machine learning algorithms to optimise the ad delivery.

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.

The data management platform (DMP) market is entering its next phase.If the first wave of traditional DMPs was built for the third-party-cookie-based internet (think Demdex, Lotame, Krux), the second wave (Permutive, Carbon, 1plusX and their ilk) was designed to bridge the gap between the cookie-based and post-cookie web.

Programmatic and data solution experts Crimtan has announced a partnership with Autovia and Haymarket to give car sellers in-depth access to customer car buying intent signals from 2 out of 3 prospective car buyers.This collaboration comes as the 2023 car market continues its dramatic recovery, with data from the partnership showing a remarkable 73% increase in intent-to-buy from March alone within the industry.

Weaver 303 Sewing Machine is a well-known name in the world of sewing machines, known for its quality and reliability.It is a versatile machine that can be used for a wide range of sewing tasks, including stitching fabrics, repairing garments, and creating decorative designs.The Weaver 303 is a classic model that has been in use for several decades and is still popular among both beginners and professionals in the sewing industry.

If you're working on your SEO strategy, you've probably encountered the importance of internal and external link building.If you haven't built linking into your strategy from the start, you might be overwhelmed as you implement the change.But no need to fear, internal linking tools are here to help.

Toronto has an ambitious plan to get to net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, dubbed TransformTO.But with the mayoral byelection looming, there's an open question about whether the city's next mayor will support it.The climate action strategy includes medium and long-term goals for different sectors to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Eight candidates vying to become Toronto's next mayor traded barbs at a debate partly focused on seniors' issues Wednesday, with the roundtable format often descending into heated cross-talk.The 90-minute contest, hosted by the Canadian Association of Retired Persons (CARP) and Zoomer Radio, was held on the eve of the advance voting period, which runs from June 8 to 13.

Image President George W. Bush with Bono, the lead singer of U2, in 2006.Bono was among the activists who lobbied Mr. Bush for antiretroviral medications people in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean.Credit...Jim Watson/Agence France-Presse Getty Images Here is something I don't write about very often: a situation in which unpredictable, seemingly irrational politics saved millions of the poorest and most vulnerable people on earth.

Jenny Lewis didn't mean to wind up with the marimba.But for the last year, a vintage percussion instrument has occupied pride of place in the singer-songwriter's forest green home studio.She inherited it from her godfather, Jerry Cohen, a music editor for TV and movies and an amateur musician, who died suddenly last spring.

If you've ventured outside after sunset recently and happened to glance to the west, you may have noticed an astonishingly bright star glaring down on you, seemingly hovering in the sky.Is it a helicopter, a supernova, agaspUFO?Nope.That's Venus, the second rock from the sun, Earth's evil twin and frequent UFO impersonator.

1. Patent owners are increasingly using legal tactics to limit challenges to the validity of their patents.
2. The USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) plays an essential role in allowing challengers to invalidate patents that are not valid or are overly broad.

DENVER - The Miami Heat went into Denver and got crushed in Game 1 of the NBA Finals, 104-93.Is this a sign of what's to come in Sunday's Game 2, or can the Heat find some answers against Nikola Jokic and company?Here's what we learned in Thursday's Game 1.The Nuggets are big, much bigger than the Heat
It only took a few minutes into Game 1 for the Nuggets to establish their brawn.

"The UPC will become a success story, since there are simply no good reasons not to engage with the Court."The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is now a reality.The Court opens its doors tomorrow, June 1, 2023.In the past four articles, we have aimed to dispel myths about some of the key aspects of the UPC.

"Regardless of whether [Moore] is a complainant or not, based on the allegations, she still needs to be a witness.You can't be witness, investigator and judge under the American system." - Gene Quinn
The Special Committee of the Judicial Council of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) that is investigating Judge Pauline Newman over allegations she is unfit to serve on the court issued a redacted order yesterday specifying the behavior they say warrants the probe.

In a recent HBR article we argued that in an uncertain and rapidly changing world, companies need to adopt strategies predicated on radical optionality, in which they continuously develop new options that could form the basis of future success - depending on what unpredicted state of the world they will find themselves in.

When I started learning Data Analysis a few years ago, the first thing I learned was SQL and Pandas.As a data analyst, it is crucial to have a strong foundation in working with SQL and Pandas.Both are powerful tools that help data analysts efficiently analyze and manipulate stored data in databases.

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In today's digital world, there is a vast amount of text data created and transferred in the form of news, tweets, and social media posts.Can you imagine the time and effort needed to process them manually?Fortunately, Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques help us manipulate, analyze, and interpret text data quickly and efficiently.

Every spring, the phenomenon of too much, too soon pops up in physical therapy offices across the country in the form of well-meaning weekend warriors who hobble in with their first injury of the season.If that's you, there's a decent chance that the injury is to your calf, one of the four most common sports-related muscles to injure (hamstrings, quads, and adductors are the others, according to the American Journal of Sports Medicine).

Throw, rotate, and explode your way to better athleticism.Medicine balls are one piece of equipment you find at nearly every strength and conditioning gym and in many "functional training" areas in commercial gyms.Their use and application for power, conditioning, and improving overall fitness levels are only limited by your creativity and imagination.

1. Scalus is a powerful, open-source language for writing distributed applications that are secure, reliable, and easy to maintain.
2. Scalus allows developers to write code that is separated into distinct layers that are optimized for the different levels of trust and security required for different applications.

When it comes to artificial intelligence chatbots, bigger is typically better.Large language models like ChatGPT and Bard, which generate conversational, original text, improve as they are fed more data.Every day, bloggers take to the internet to explain how the latest advances an app that summarizes articles, A.I.-generated podcasts, a fine-tuned model that can answer any question related to professional basketball will change everything.

It's been impossible to get a read on Liverpool this season.While Klopp's side has underwhelmed for much of the campaign, it's produced several sublime performances to suggest an imminent return to the typical standards established under the German manager.Within eight-day spans, Liverpool claimed a deserved victory over Manchester City before losing to Nottingham Forest and recorded a historic 7-0 win over Manchester United before an appalling showing in a 1-0 defeat to Bournemouth.

At Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas, sustainability and an increasing need for processing power were both hot topics.I spoke with Alyson Freeman, sustainability product manager at Dell's Infrastructure Solutions Group, to discover what Dell is doing in the field of sustainable data center management.

Chefs are grazing animals, forever playing with ingredients, nibbling at leftovers and then, back home at 1am, trying to conjure a quick bite from whatever is there.In these moments of curiosity and urgency, bizarre snack habits are born.People think we go home and have elaborate dinners, but give me some string cheese, chilli sauce, a Fab and a Stella and I'll be happy, says Jack Stein, the chef director at the Rick Stein group.

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Cities in Northern California saw more severe drops in population during the pandemic than those in Southern California, new census data show, with Bay Area communities hit particularly hard.The same data show that many of the cities that grew the most between July 2020 and July 2022 were in Southern California.

The 5 o'clock club is published from time to time during the season, and aims to provide a forum for reader-driven discussion at a time of day when there isn't much being published.Feel free to introduce topics that interest you in the comments below.Running back success rate
I first read this article more than a decade ago, but it had a huge impact on the way I think about NFL rushing attacks.

While wide receiver Davante Adams expressed uncertainty about the direction of the Las Vegas Raiders, here's why he won't be traded.This offseason, the Las Vegas Raiders continued to build the team in head coach Josh McDaniels' and general manager Dave Ziegler's image.This past week, wide receiver Davante Adams went viral for comments he made about the direction of the franchise, telling The Ringer, "I'm going to have to buy into this and try to be as optimistic as possible.

We're still a couple of weeks away from the unofficial start to summer, but some Memorial Day sales are already popping up, including one on mostly smokeless fire pits from Solo Stoves.Discounts there range up to 45 percent.BioLite's sale takes up to 25 percent off of outdoor power gadgets and Ring security devices are discounted up 30 percent so you can keep tabs on your home for less.

The White House on Thursday announced a two-year, multiagency federal partnership with Chicago aimed at curbing unsheltered homelessness, placing a federal official within city government to organize response plans and help coordinate sources for additional federal funding.Chicago was one of six locations selected for the "ALL INside" program, an offshoot of President Joe Biden's December federal strategic plan aimed at reducing homelessness nationally by 25% by 2025.

What really makes a desk stand out to me is the collection of stationery items placed on top of it (and also the manner in which they are placed).The true value and efficiency of your desk lie in the smart assortment of designs you adorn it with - these are after all the objects that are gonna help you get through your workday, and directly or indirectly affect your productivity.