The uncertainty has created volatility for PDD's stock price which fell 6% on Monday, rose 8% on Tuesday and fell more than 3% on Wednesday.
Critics of the de minimis provision say it's provided an unfair advantage to Chinese e-commerce companies, and created an influx of packages that are "subject to minimal documentation and inspection," raising concerns around counterfeit and unsafe goods.
Others have advocated for the de minimis exemption to remain in place, saying its removal would burden customs officials and lead to higher government costs.
As the Panama Canal has recently come under fire, let us not forget the Ben Gurion Canal Project. The US and Israel have been discussing plans to build a canal to rival the Suez Canal for over 50 years. The West can no longer count on the Suez Canal controlled by Egypt as tensions continue to rise with Egypt supporting Russia in its war. Yet, 20% of ALL world trade moved through the canal. The Ben Gurion Canal Project, as indicated by the declassified documents, would create an Israeli Canal to rival the Suez.
With wealth came influence and the Roman middle class grew and prospered over the centuries, acting as the balance point between the three socio-economic classes, but in the latter stages of the empire, the middle class came under such pressure, it nearly ceased to exist, and the vacuum created by its decline was one of the major causes of the collapse of the empire. Why did this happen?
CEO Frank Bisignano told CNBC's "Money Movers" on Wednesday that Clover is a key driver of growth, and said Fiserv's relationships with 3,500 U.S. banks provide an opportunity to deepen market penetration and product offerings. Fiserv completed the $22 billion acquisition of payment processor First Data in 2019.
Fiserv up 60% in the last year
"The strength of the company is the construction of the company that we built by putting First Data and Fiserv together which others tried, but they then didn't get there," Bisignano said. He added that the integration allowed the company to serve small businesses as well as major enterprises such as McDonald's and Walmart, along with nearly every bank in the country.
Bisignano was nominated by President Donald Trump to head the Social Security Administration. Fiserv in January named Michael Lyons as its CEO-elect and said he would report to Bisignano, who will keep his current role until June 30 or "upon an earlier confirmation by the U.S. Senate."
For 2025, Fiserv expects revenue growth of 10% to 12%. Analysts were calling for growth of about 8%. The company forecast adjusted earnings of $10.10 to $10.30 for 2025, about in line with Wall Street's consensus of $10.21.
After the report, Mizuho reaffirmed its buy recommendation, citing Fiserv's distribution network and Clover's outperformance.
In a separate report, Mizuho said Fiserv and other payment companies could be beneficiaries of the Trump administration's tariffs due to higher payment processing from rising prices. The Clover business, in particular, stands to benefit, as transaction volumes increase at restaurants and other small businesses, the firm said.
Still, analysts noted a few risks to Fiserv's momentum, such as a potential slowdown in new U.S. merchant customers and bank consolidation.
During the third century AD, the combination of funding external wars and internal unrest caused rampant monetary inflation, wiping out the assets of the middle class. Moreover, the occasional efforts to return the empire to its former glory were centered more on rebuilding the army than funding public works projects in the cities, so the latter became degraded into a dilapidated condition. Civil service workers in the cities, once perceived as benefactors because of their wealth, were now pressed by the government to collect higher and higher taxes, which alienated them from the people they had previously governed, and caused them to lose interest in serving.
They abandoned their posts and moved away, leaving the extremely wealthy and poor behind, with a vacuum in the middle. With a lack of candidates for civil service positions, the government began to support the concept of hereditary service, passed down from father to son. Perceiving their value to the empire and noting the distance separating them from the capital, these administrators began to defy the central government. The latter responded by passing laws designed to bring their administrators in line, but the end result was administrative paralysis and corruption as low pay forced civil servants to bribe and sell favors to those with the money to pay for them.
The approach employs so-called lattice confinement fusion (LCF), a concept first discovered by NASA. This can achieve solid-state fuel densities 400 million times higher than those achievable normally, according to the company.
Leveraging earlier research from NASA, Astral also claims its platform could lead to other applications such as safe hybrid nuclear energy, space exploration, and industrial and security industry applications.
Astral’s co-founder and CTO, Dr Tom Wallace-Smith told TechCrunch: “The whole industry has been in sort of supply constraint historically because of this reliance on centralized reactors.”
“Whereas what we’re proposing is placing them in industrial units or in the basement of hospitals or production centers. We can then produce the drugs exactly where they needed, and be able to reduce the reliance on these centralized production sites,” he added.
He believes competitors are constrained by existing technology: “Most other approaches are based on linear, accelerated technology, whereas what we’re doing is essentially taking a very high TRL core architecture and putting in 2020 physics, where the ceiling is quite high in terms of performance. So we’re just at the start of what’s achievable with this,” he said.
In this case, the authorities had tried to impose a regimentation that would create the funding needed to pay the army and support a bureaucratic imperial infrastructure, but what they accomplished was a destruction of the individual loyalty needed to preserve the political system. As it happens so often in history, a political system is taken to the point of collapse when its leaders become so isolated from the problems of the public and they forfeit the ability to maintain stability in the system. The Roman central government during the period of the third century AD was more interested in ceremony than understanding the needs of the people so the gulf between the two was advanced by a failure to communicate.
In a statement, Rick Hao, partner at Speedinvest added: “Astral Systems represents the best of UK deeptech. Astral is delivering a fresh approach to nuclear fusion that addresses urgent medical, industrial and power needs.”
So far Astral has established three commercial fusion facilities from which it’s already generating revenues.
Also participating in the round was participation of angel investors including Oliver Buck, founder of ITM Isotope Technologies, and former ARM President of Product Group, Pete Hutton.
To put the impact of changes in the Roman middle class in the right perspective, we have to place it in the proper place among all of the factors that, together, helped to hasten the end of the empire. These include failure of the army and the social catastrophe that disrupted the lives of the Roman people and their ability to survive in the changing political landscape. The army failed because it was not large enough to police the empire. It was not large enough because conscription efforts did not produce enough recruits among a decreasing number of candidates and those who were available were actively trying to avoid service. Ultimately, Rome’s enemies became stronger than she by shear numbers.
Social catastrophe resulted from a lack of sympathy between the army and the people. The people were often terrorized by the military and yet were forced to fund their compensation through high tax rates. Other social factors include the problem of agricultural laborers driven to poverty who were forced to seek protection from whatever source was available. Their benefactors were military officers who negotiated with the government on their behalf or the wealthy landowners who agreed to take them in as tenants or laborers. Many, who were driven to poverty, turned to a life of crime as individuals or members of gangs. All of these problems were ignored by the uber-wealthy who continued to expand their positions without a care for the plight of the common man.
The team is starting with fleets, in part because they drive so many miles.
“Uber drivers, who drive 40 hours a week, are the ones that need to be in an EV right if we need to electrify quickly and have an impact,” Dias, the startup’s CEO, told TechCrunch.
The duo lobbied Uber to address the issue in the driver app, but realized that it couldn’t truly be solved by one company.
That’s partly because of the proliferation of companies installing and running EV charging stalls.
The destruction of the Roman middle class was an important component of larger collapse of the entire social fabric of the empire, and its collapse made the problems of the other classes more apparent. The wealthy class remained to enrich themselves, without any connection to the problems of the common man. The poor became more impoverished and were forced to be dependent on whatever benefactor they could depend on.
Today, in America, we see some of the same elements: a shrinking middle class less able to carry the tax burden of the country, an impoverished poor dependent on government for subsistence, and an arrogant wealth class out of touch with reality and focused on their own world of fantasy. How will these conflicting forces resolve themselves this time?
“Charging is just becoming more and more fragmented in the U.S.,” Raynor said. Last year, nearly 60% of all new DC Fast chargers in the U.S. came from more than 40 different networks. “We went from three or four big players to people we’ve never heard of,” she said.
Both sides of the equation feel the pain of this fragmentation.
Fleets would benefit from connecting directly to charging networks’ software, but charging networks don’t want to support an API for dozens or hundreds of customers. On the flip side, fleets don’t want to have to integrate with a growing number of charging networks.
The Texas Rangers announced Elvis Andrus as the 27th member that will be inducted into the Rangers Hall of Fame.
Former Mets outfielder Harrison Bader signed a one-year deal worth $6.25 million with a mutual option for 2026, per Jon Heyman of The NY Post.
St. Petersburg mayor Ken Welch says that the city is prepared to move on without its MLB club, the Tampa Bay Rays, per Eric Fisher of Sports Business Journal.
The Los Angeles Angels have extended their Angel Stadium lease, per Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times. The lease would have expired in 2029 and the Angels exercised their option to extend through 2032.
Buster Olney of ESPN reports that friends of Nolan Arenado believe he would really like the idea of going to the Red Sox if Boston and the Cardinals work out terms. Arenado’s current mindset, according to Olney, is “Highly, highly motivated.”
The Houston Astros re-signed outfielder Ben Gamel to a one-year, $1.2 million major league deal, per Jeff Passan of ESPN.
Presto’s software is something that both sides can connect to. It gives fleets and charging networks one partner to work with and access to more customers — a classic platform play.
“In some senses, we think of ourselves as Stripe, as being a transaction layer for charging,” Dias said.
The startup offers its own app and API, which companies can integrate with; it can also handle payments.
The combination gives Presto a range of data to power its machine learning recommendation engine, telling drivers which chargers they should use and where networks should direct their maintenance crews. For example, let’s say a network reports that a charger is online, but a charge session initiated through Presto fails. Presto can route drivers away from that stall and report the problem to the network.
Rental car companies have been early adopters of Presto’s platform, including Hertz, Avis, and ZipCar, Dias said. Uber drivers also use the app, which alerts them to networks that offer discounted charging.
Other fleets like delivery companies have been adopting the app, Dias said, even if they have chargers at their depots. “Sometimes the chargers at the depot don’t work or there are more vehicles than chargers,” he said.
Presto’s main goal is to drive API integration, though, encouraging fleets to add the startup’s recommendations inside their own apps and dashboards. “I don’t think we want consumers to have yet another app to download,” Dias said.
Raynor said the company has been approached by major automakers, but for now it’s focused on fleets. As someone who has had their share of bad charging experiences, I hope that changes soon.
Pete Alonso's drawn out offseason is finally OVER after signing with the Mets, agreeing to a 2 year 54M deal with an opt out after the 2025 season. The only other team that had recently been connected to Alonso were the Blue Jays & I've got thoughts on them missing out here too.
Trump Calls for Air Traffic Control Reforms at National Prayer Breakfast
Striking a somber but still hopeful tone, President Donald Trump participated in the National Prayer Breakfast at the Capitol on Thursday, calling for a religious revival in America, lamenting fate, and seeking Congress' help to reform U.S. air traffic control systems.
Striking a somber but still hopeful tone, President Donald Trump participated in the National Prayer Breakfast at the Capitol on Thursday, calling for a religious revival in America, lamenting fate, and seeking Congress' help to reform U.S. air traffic control systems.
Trump mourned the loss of the 67 victims of the Washington, D.C., helicopter-passenger jet crash, talking about how death brings Americans closer to faith, telling the bipartisan breakfast crowd how his near assassination strengthened his faith this past summer.
"It changed something in me," Trump said. "I feel more strongly about God."
Like the failed assassin's bullet missing killing him, which Trump said was akin to missing a "one-foot putt," the D.C. helicopter crash had equally long odds like "two golf balls colliding on a golf course."
Trump spoke about reforming the Federal Aviation Administration's air traffic control (ATC) systems with satellites and one or two companies collaborating instead of "39."
"I would have never happened if we had the right equipment," Trump said of last month's deadly airline crash.
Trump joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers for fellowship, making a call for unity that was more hopeful than optimistic.
"It would be very nice if we could come together," Trump said to Republicans and Democrats in the room. "It would be unbelievable, but might not happen."
Trump repeated his campaign vow "to bring religion back" and continued to lament "if it was up to Democrats I would not be in a good place, which he suggested with either death by assassination or jail from myriad political prosecutions.
Trump will also speak at a separate prayer breakfast at a Washington hotel sponsored by a private group.
The Republican president made waves at the final prayer breakfast during his first term. That year the gathering came the day after the Senate acquitted him in his first impeachment trial.
Trump in his remarks then threw not-so-subtle barbs at Democrat then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, who publicly said she prayed for Trump, and Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, who had cited his faith in his decision to vote to convict Trump.
"I don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong," Trump said then in his winding speech, in which he also held up two newspapers with banner headlines about his acquittal. "Nor do I like people who say, 'I pray for you,' when they know that that's not so."
Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first president to attend the prayer breakfast, in February 1953, and every president since has spoken at the gathering.
Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., are the honorary co-chairs of this year's prayer breakfast.
In 2023, the National Prayer Breakfast split into two dueling events, the one on Capitol Hill largely attended by lawmakers and government officials and a larger private event for thousands at a hotel ballroom. The split occurred when lawmakers sought to distance themselves from the private religious group that for decades had overseen the bigger event, due to questions about its organization and how it was funded.
The idea of using "auto-regression" transformers to predict the future is actually a very amazing thing. In a time-series streaming video input, the point is to use the most recent several seconds of video (the context window) to predict the next several seconds (the likely or possible futures). Humans do this all the time. As you drive down the road, your attention is drawn here and there and you imagine/form predictions of what might happen next. You also begin or prepare appropriate actions for possible futures. A noisy car is zig-zagging, coming up from behind or passing; you might speed up, slow down, change lanes, etc. A person standing in the median or on the curb might step into the street. You prepare. Etc. An autonomous car that can do this sort of thing as well, changing its predictions and plans constantly with every new video frame, would be amazing. Wait for HW5/AI5!
Second Type of Bird Flu Detected in US Dairy Cows
Dairy cattle in Nevada have been infected with a new type of bird flu that is different from the version that has spread in U.S. herds since last year, Agriculture Department officials said Wednesday.
Dairy cattle in Nevada have been infected with a new type of bird flu that is different from the version that has spread in U.S. herds since last year, Agriculture Department officials said Wednesday.
The detection indicates that distinct forms of the virus known as Type A H5N1 have spilled over from wild birds into cattle at least twice. Experts said it raises new questions about wider spread and the difficulty of controlling infections in animals and the people who work closely with them.
"I always thought one bird-to-cow transmission was a very rare event. Seems that may not be the case," said Richard Webby, an influenza expert at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
A version of the H5N1 bird flu virus known as B3.13 was confirmed in March after being introduced to cattle in late 2023, scientists said. It has infected more than 950 herds in 16 states. The new version, known as D1.1, was confirmed in Nevada cattle on Friday, according to USDA. It was detected in milk collected as part of a surveillance program launched in December.
"Now we know why it's really important to test and continue testing," said Angela Rasmussen, a virus expert at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, who helped identify the first spillover.
The D1.1 version of the virus was the type linked to the first U.S. death tied to bird flu and a severe illness in Canada. A person in Louisiana died in January after developing severe respiratory symptoms following contact with wild and backyard birds. In British Columbia, a teen girl was hospitalized for months with a virus traced to poultry.
At least 67 people in the U.S. have been infected with bird flu, mostly those who work closely with dairy or cattle, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
USDA officials said they would post genetic sequences and other information about the new form of the virus to a public repository later this week. Scientists said that would be key to understanding whether the spillover was a recent event or whether the virus has been circulating, perhaps widely, for longer.
"If this turns out to have been something that crossed into cattle a couple months ago, a couple months is a long time not to detect it," said Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona who has studied the H5N1 virus in cattle.
!summarize #nymets #petealonso #mlb
The uncertainty has created volatility for PDD's stock price which fell 6% on Monday, rose 8% on Tuesday and fell more than 3% on Wednesday.
Critics of the de minimis provision say it's provided an unfair advantage to Chinese e-commerce companies, and created an influx of packages that are "subject to minimal documentation and inspection," raising concerns around counterfeit and unsafe goods.
Others have advocated for the de minimis exemption to remain in place, saying its removal would burden customs officials and lead to higher government costs.
As the Panama Canal has recently come under fire, let us not forget the Ben Gurion Canal Project. The US and Israel have been discussing plans to build a canal to rival the Suez Canal for over 50 years. The West can no longer count on the Suez Canal controlled by Egypt as tensions continue to rise with Egypt supporting Russia in its war. Yet, 20% of ALL world trade moved through the canal. The Ben Gurion Canal Project, as indicated by the declassified documents, would create an Israeli Canal to rival the Suez.
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With wealth came influence and the Roman middle class grew and prospered over the centuries, acting as the balance point between the three socio-economic classes, but in the latter stages of the empire, the middle class came under such pressure, it nearly ceased to exist, and the vacuum created by its decline was one of the major causes of the collapse of the empire. Why did this happen?
CEO Frank Bisignano told CNBC's "Money Movers" on Wednesday that Clover is a key driver of growth, and said Fiserv's relationships with 3,500 U.S. banks provide an opportunity to deepen market penetration and product offerings. Fiserv completed the $22 billion acquisition of payment processor First Data in 2019.
Fiserv up 60% in the last year
"The strength of the company is the construction of the company that we built by putting First Data and Fiserv together which others tried, but they then didn't get there," Bisignano said. He added that the integration allowed the company to serve small businesses as well as major enterprises such as McDonald's and Walmart, along with nearly every bank in the country.
!summarize #tesla #ai
Bisignano was nominated by President Donald Trump to head the Social Security Administration. Fiserv in January named Michael Lyons as its CEO-elect and said he would report to Bisignano, who will keep his current role until June 30 or "upon an earlier confirmation by the U.S. Senate."
For 2025, Fiserv expects revenue growth of 10% to 12%. Analysts were calling for growth of about 8%. The company forecast adjusted earnings of $10.10 to $10.30 for 2025, about in line with Wall Street's consensus of $10.21.
After the report, Mizuho reaffirmed its buy recommendation, citing Fiserv's distribution network and Clover's outperformance.
In a separate report, Mizuho said Fiserv and other payment companies could be beneficiaries of the Trump administration's tariffs due to higher payment processing from rising prices. The Clover business, in particular, stands to benefit, as transaction volumes increase at restaurants and other small businesses, the firm said.
Still, analysts noted a few risks to Fiserv's momentum, such as a potential slowdown in new U.S. merchant customers and bank consolidation.
During the third century AD, the combination of funding external wars and internal unrest caused rampant monetary inflation, wiping out the assets of the middle class. Moreover, the occasional efforts to return the empire to its former glory were centered more on rebuilding the army than funding public works projects in the cities, so the latter became degraded into a dilapidated condition. Civil service workers in the cities, once perceived as benefactors because of their wealth, were now pressed by the government to collect higher and higher taxes, which alienated them from the people they had previously governed, and caused them to lose interest in serving.
They abandoned their posts and moved away, leaving the extremely wealthy and poor behind, with a vacuum in the middle. With a lack of candidates for civil service positions, the government began to support the concept of hereditary service, passed down from father to son. Perceiving their value to the empire and noting the distance separating them from the capital, these administrators began to defy the central government. The latter responded by passing laws designed to bring their administrators in line, but the end result was administrative paralysis and corruption as low pay forced civil servants to bribe and sell favors to those with the money to pay for them.
The approach employs so-called lattice confinement fusion (LCF), a concept first discovered by NASA. This can achieve solid-state fuel densities 400 million times higher than those achievable normally, according to the company.
Leveraging earlier research from NASA, Astral also claims its platform could lead to other applications such as safe hybrid nuclear energy, space exploration, and industrial and security industry applications.
Astral’s co-founder and CTO, Dr Tom Wallace-Smith told TechCrunch: “The whole industry has been in sort of supply constraint historically because of this reliance on centralized reactors.”
“Whereas what we’re proposing is placing them in industrial units or in the basement of hospitals or production centers. We can then produce the drugs exactly where they needed, and be able to reduce the reliance on these centralized production sites,” he added.
He believes competitors are constrained by existing technology: “Most other approaches are based on linear, accelerated technology, whereas what we’re doing is essentially taking a very high TRL core architecture and putting in 2020 physics, where the ceiling is quite high in terms of performance. So we’re just at the start of what’s achievable with this,” he said.
!summarize #nymets #petealonso #freeagency #mlb
In this case, the authorities had tried to impose a regimentation that would create the funding needed to pay the army and support a bureaucratic imperial infrastructure, but what they accomplished was a destruction of the individual loyalty needed to preserve the political system. As it happens so often in history, a political system is taken to the point of collapse when its leaders become so isolated from the problems of the public and they forfeit the ability to maintain stability in the system. The Roman central government during the period of the third century AD was more interested in ceremony than understanding the needs of the people so the gulf between the two was advanced by a failure to communicate.
!summarize #christianscott #nymets #pitcher #tommyjohnsurgery #mlb
In a statement, Rick Hao, partner at Speedinvest added: “Astral Systems represents the best of UK deeptech. Astral is delivering a fresh approach to nuclear fusion that addresses urgent medical, industrial and power needs.”
So far Astral has established three commercial fusion facilities from which it’s already generating revenues.
Also participating in the round was participation of angel investors including Oliver Buck, founder of ITM Isotope Technologies, and former ARM President of Product Group, Pete Hutton.
To put the impact of changes in the Roman middle class in the right perspective, we have to place it in the proper place among all of the factors that, together, helped to hasten the end of the empire. These include failure of the army and the social catastrophe that disrupted the lives of the Roman people and their ability to survive in the changing political landscape. The army failed because it was not large enough to police the empire. It was not large enough because conscription efforts did not produce enough recruits among a decreasing number of candidates and those who were available were actively trying to avoid service. Ultimately, Rome’s enemies became stronger than she by shear numbers.
!summarize #usaid #doge #government
Social catastrophe resulted from a lack of sympathy between the army and the people. The people were often terrorized by the military and yet were forced to fund their compensation through high tax rates. Other social factors include the problem of agricultural laborers driven to poverty who were forced to seek protection from whatever source was available. Their benefactors were military officers who negotiated with the government on their behalf or the wealthy landowners who agreed to take them in as tenants or laborers. Many, who were driven to poverty, turned to a life of crime as individuals or members of gangs. All of these problems were ignored by the uber-wealthy who continued to expand their positions without a care for the plight of the common man.
!summarize #lalakers #daltonknechy #camreddish #markwilliams #nba #trade
!summarize #usaid #media #politico #government
The team is starting with fleets, in part because they drive so many miles.
“Uber drivers, who drive 40 hours a week, are the ones that need to be in an EV right if we need to electrify quickly and have an impact,” Dias, the startup’s CEO, told TechCrunch.
The duo lobbied Uber to address the issue in the driver app, but realized that it couldn’t truly be solved by one company.
That’s partly because of the proliferation of companies installing and running EV charging stalls.
The destruction of the Roman middle class was an important component of larger collapse of the entire social fabric of the empire, and its collapse made the problems of the other classes more apparent. The wealthy class remained to enrich themselves, without any connection to the problems of the common man. The poor became more impoverished and were forced to be dependent on whatever benefactor they could depend on.
Today, in America, we see some of the same elements: a shrinking middle class less able to carry the tax burden of the country, an impoverished poor dependent on government for subsistence, and an arrogant wealth class out of touch with reality and focused on their own world of fantasy. How will these conflicting forces resolve themselves this time?
!summarize #petealonso #Nymets #mlb
“Charging is just becoming more and more fragmented in the U.S.,” Raynor said. Last year, nearly 60% of all new DC Fast chargers in the U.S. came from more than 40 different networks. “We went from three or four big players to people we’ve never heard of,” she said.
Both sides of the equation feel the pain of this fragmentation.
Fleets would benefit from connecting directly to charging networks’ software, but charging networks don’t want to support an API for dozens or hundreds of customers. On the flip side, fleets don’t want to have to integrate with a growing number of charging networks.
The Texas Rangers announced Elvis Andrus as the 27th member that will be inducted into the Rangers Hall of Fame.
Former Mets outfielder Harrison Bader signed a one-year deal worth $6.25 million with a mutual option for 2026, per Jon Heyman of The NY Post.
St. Petersburg mayor Ken Welch says that the city is prepared to move on without its MLB club, the Tampa Bay Rays, per Eric Fisher of Sports Business Journal.
The Los Angeles Angels have extended their Angel Stadium lease, per Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times. The lease would have expired in 2029 and the Angels exercised their option to extend through 2032.
Buster Olney of ESPN reports that friends of Nolan Arenado believe he would really like the idea of going to the Red Sox if Boston and the Cardinals work out terms. Arenado’s current mindset, according to Olney, is “Highly, highly motivated.”
The Houston Astros re-signed outfielder Ben Gamel to a one-year, $1.2 million major league deal, per Jeff Passan of ESPN.
Presto’s software is something that both sides can connect to. It gives fleets and charging networks one partner to work with and access to more customers — a classic platform play.
“In some senses, we think of ourselves as Stripe, as being a transaction layer for charging,” Dias said.
The startup offers its own app and API, which companies can integrate with; it can also handle payments.
!summarize #keeganakin #baltimore #orioles #mlb #reliever
!summarize #kimmel #colbert #trump #latenight #television
!summarize #petealonso #resigns #nymets #mlb
!summarize #petealonso #nymets #mlb
!summarize #trump #gaza #negotiations
The combination gives Presto a range of data to power its machine learning recommendation engine, telling drivers which chargers they should use and where networks should direct their maintenance crews. For example, let’s say a network reports that a charger is online, but a charge session initiated through Presto fails. Presto can route drivers away from that stall and report the problem to the network.
Rental car companies have been early adopters of Presto’s platform, including Hertz, Avis, and ZipCar, Dias said. Uber drivers also use the app, which alerts them to networks that offer discounted charging.
!summarize #nymets #resign #petealonso #mlb #toronto #bluejays
!summarize #china #economy #automotive
Other fleets like delivery companies have been adopting the app, Dias said, even if they have chargers at their depots. “Sometimes the chargers at the depot don’t work or there are more vehicles than chargers,” he said.
Presto’s main goal is to drive API integration, though, encouraging fleets to add the startup’s recommendations inside their own apps and dashboards. “I don’t think we want consumers to have yet another app to download,” Dias said.
Raynor said the company has been approached by major automakers, but for now it’s focused on fleets. As someone who has had their share of bad charging experiences, I hope that changes soon.
Pete Alonso's drawn out offseason is finally OVER after signing with the Mets, agreeing to a 2 year 54M deal with an opt out after the 2025 season. The only other team that had recently been connected to Alonso were the Blue Jays & I've got thoughts on them missing out here too.
!summarize #petealonso #nymets #mlb #resigns
Trump Calls for Air Traffic Control Reforms at National Prayer Breakfast
Striking a somber but still hopeful tone, President Donald Trump participated in the National Prayer Breakfast at the Capitol on Thursday, calling for a religious revival in America, lamenting fate, and seeking Congress' help to reform U.S. air traffic control systems.
Striking a somber but still hopeful tone, President Donald Trump participated in the National Prayer Breakfast at the Capitol on Thursday, calling for a religious revival in America, lamenting fate, and seeking Congress' help to reform U.S. air traffic control systems.
Trump mourned the loss of the 67 victims of the Washington, D.C., helicopter-passenger jet crash, talking about how death brings Americans closer to faith, telling the bipartisan breakfast crowd how his near assassination strengthened his faith this past summer.
"It changed something in me," Trump said. "I feel more strongly about God."
Like the failed assassin's bullet missing killing him, which Trump said was akin to missing a "one-foot putt," the D.C. helicopter crash had equally long odds like "two golf balls colliding on a golf course."
Trump spoke about reforming the Federal Aviation Administration's air traffic control (ATC) systems with satellites and one or two companies collaborating instead of "39."
"I would have never happened if we had the right equipment," Trump said of last month's deadly airline crash.
Trump joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers for fellowship, making a call for unity that was more hopeful than optimistic.
!summarize #germany #automotive #sentiment
"It would be very nice if we could come together," Trump said to Republicans and Democrats in the room. "It would be unbelievable, but might not happen."
Trump repeated his campaign vow "to bring religion back" and continued to lament "if it was up to Democrats I would not be in a good place, which he suggested with either death by assassination or jail from myriad political prosecutions.
Trump will also speak at a separate prayer breakfast at a Washington hotel sponsored by a private group.
The Republican president made waves at the final prayer breakfast during his first term. That year the gathering came the day after the Senate acquitted him in his first impeachment trial.
Trump in his remarks then threw not-so-subtle barbs at Democrat then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, who publicly said she prayed for Trump, and Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, who had cited his faith in his decision to vote to convict Trump.
"I don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong," Trump said then in his winding speech, in which he also held up two newspapers with banner headlines about his acquittal. "Nor do I like people who say, 'I pray for you,' when they know that that's not so."
Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first president to attend the prayer breakfast, in February 1953, and every president since has spoken at the gathering.
Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., are the honorary co-chairs of this year's prayer breakfast.
In 2023, the National Prayer Breakfast split into two dueling events, the one on Capitol Hill largely attended by lawmakers and government officials and a larger private event for thousands at a hotel ballroom. The split occurred when lawmakers sought to distance themselves from the private religious group that for decades had overseen the bigger event, due to questions about its organization and how it was funded.
The idea of using "auto-regression" transformers to predict the future is actually a very amazing thing. In a time-series streaming video input, the point is to use the most recent several seconds of video (the context window) to predict the next several seconds (the likely or possible futures). Humans do this all the time. As you drive down the road, your attention is drawn here and there and you imagine/form predictions of what might happen next. You also begin or prepare appropriate actions for possible futures. A noisy car is zig-zagging, coming up from behind or passing; you might speed up, slow down, change lanes, etc. A person standing in the median or on the curb might step into the street. You prepare. Etc. An autonomous car that can do this sort of thing as well, changing its predictions and plans constantly with every new video frame, would be amazing. Wait for HW5/AI5!
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Second Type of Bird Flu Detected in US Dairy Cows
Dairy cattle in Nevada have been infected with a new type of bird flu that is different from the version that has spread in U.S. herds since last year, Agriculture Department officials said Wednesday.
Dairy cattle in Nevada have been infected with a new type of bird flu that is different from the version that has spread in U.S. herds since last year, Agriculture Department officials said Wednesday.
The detection indicates that distinct forms of the virus known as Type A H5N1 have spilled over from wild birds into cattle at least twice. Experts said it raises new questions about wider spread and the difficulty of controlling infections in animals and the people who work closely with them.
"I always thought one bird-to-cow transmission was a very rare event. Seems that may not be the case," said Richard Webby, an influenza expert at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
A version of the H5N1 bird flu virus known as B3.13 was confirmed in March after being introduced to cattle in late 2023, scientists said. It has infected more than 950 herds in 16 states. The new version, known as D1.1, was confirmed in Nevada cattle on Friday, according to USDA. It was detected in milk collected as part of a surveillance program launched in December.
"Now we know why it's really important to test and continue testing," said Angela Rasmussen, a virus expert at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, who helped identify the first spillover.
The D1.1 version of the virus was the type linked to the first U.S. death tied to bird flu and a severe illness in Canada. A person in Louisiana died in January after developing severe respiratory symptoms following contact with wild and backyard birds. In British Columbia, a teen girl was hospitalized for months with a virus traced to poultry.
At least 67 people in the U.S. have been infected with bird flu, mostly those who work closely with dairy or cattle, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
USDA officials said they would post genetic sequences and other information about the new form of the virus to a public repository later this week. Scientists said that would be key to understanding whether the spillover was a recent event or whether the virus has been circulating, perhaps widely, for longer.
"If this turns out to have been something that crossed into cattle a couple months ago, a couple months is a long time not to detect it," said Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona who has studied the H5N1 virus in cattle.
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