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Do You Think You'll Ever Know, Now That You Have Handed Your Mind To The Machine? Authored by Edward Curtin via Off-Guardian.org,We live in a 24/7 media society of the spectacle where brainwashing is cunning and relentless, and the consuming public is consumed with thoughts and perceptions filtered through electronic media according to the needs and lies of corporate state power.This propaganda comes in two forms: covert and overt. The latter, and most effective form, comes with a large dose of truth offered rapid-fire by celebrated, authoritative voices via prominent media. The truth is sprinkled with subtle messages that render it sterile.This has long been the case, but it is even more so in the age of images on screens and digital media where words and images flow away like water in a rapidly moving stream. The late sociologist, Zygmunt Bauman, updating Marx’s famous quote “all that is solid melts into thin air,” called this “liquid modernity.”Welcome to Operation PandemoniumSee, these experts purport to say: What we tell you is true, but it is impossible to draw definitive conclusions. You must drink the waters of uncertainty forever lest you become a conspiracy nut. But if you don’t want to be so labelled, accept the simplest explanation for matters that disturb you – Occam’s razor, that the truest answer is the simplest – which is always the official explanation. If this sounds contradictory, that is because it is. It is meant to be. We induce schizophrenia.And it is, these experts suggest, because we live in a world where all knowledge is relative, and you, the individual, like Kafka’s country bumpkin, who in his parable “Before the Law,” tries to get past the doorkeeper to enter the inner sanctum of the Law but is never allowed to pass; you, the individual, must accept the futility of your efforts and accede to this dictum that declares that all knowledge is relative, which is ironically an absolute dictum. It is the Law. The Law of contradictions declared from on high.Many writers, journalists, and filmmakers, while allegedly revealing truths about the U.S. and its allies’ criminal operations at home and abroad, have for decades slyly conveyed the message that in the end “we will never know the truth,” the real facts – that convincing evidence is lacking.This refusal to come to conclusions is a sly tactic that keeps many careers safe while besmirching, intentionally or not, the names of serious researchers who reach conclusions based on overwhelming circumstantial evidence (the basis for most murder convictions) and detailed, sourced facts, often using the words of the guilty parties themselves, but are dismissed with the CIA weaponized term “conspiracy theorists.”This often escapes the average person who does not read footnotes and sources, if they even read books. They read screens and the mainstream media, which should now be understood to include much of the “alternative” media. And they watch all sorts of films.But this “we will never know” meme, this false mystery, is shrewdly and often implicitly joined to another: That we do know because the official explanation of events is true and only nut cases would believe otherwise. Propaganda by paradox. Operation chaos.The JFK Assassination and the Release of FilesThere are so many examples of this, with that of President Kennedy’s assassination being a foundational one. In this case, as with the current phony Trump release of more JFK assassination files, the ongoing “mystery” is always reinforced with the implicit or explicit presupposition that Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy, but yet implying that there are more mysteries to explore forever because “people” are paranoid.(Trump’s position, as he recently told interviewer Clay Travis, is that he has always believed Oswald assassinated Kennedy, but he wonders if he may have had help.)They are paranoid not because of government and media lies, but because “popular culture” (not highbrow) has created paranoia. To spice this up, there is often the suggestion that President Kennedy was assassinated on the orders of the Mob, LBJ, Cuba, or Israel, when the facts overwhelmingly confirm it was organized and carried out by the CIA. A. O. Scott’s recent front page article in The New York Times in response to the JFK files release – “JFK, Blown Away, What Else Do I Have to Say?” (the title appropriately taken from a very fast-paced Billy Joel song and video) – is a perfect example of such legerdemain.Thus the ruse to keep debating the assassination, get the latest documents, etc. to satisfy “people’s” insatiable paranoia. To pull out CIA fallback stories 2, 3, or even 4 when all else fails. Dr. Martin Schotz, the JFK researcher, rightly compares this to George Orwell’s definition of Crimestop:‘Crimestop’ means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, or misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to [the powers that be]... and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. ‘Crimestop’, in short, means protective stupidity.It’s the crazy people’s fault, not Scott’s or those who back him up at The Times, a newspaper that has been lying about the JFK assassination from day one. The same goes for the assassinations of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, et al., and so many key events in U.S. history. It is a game of creating mental chaos by claiming we do know because the official explanation is correct but we don’t know because people have been infected with paranoia. If only people were not so paranoid! Unlike us at The Times, goes the implicit message.The Epistemological Games of Certain FilmmakersIt is well known that people today are watching far more streaming film series and movies than they are reading books. That someone would lucubrate with pen in hand over a footnoted book on an important issue is now as rare as someone without a cell phone.The optical-electronic eye-ear screen connection rules most lives, mental and sensory. Marshall McLuhan, if a bit premature while referring in 1962 to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin – the French philosopher, paleontologist, and Jesuit priest – wrote sixty-three years ago in The Gutenberg Galaxy:Instead of tending towards a vast Alexandrian library the world has become a computer, an electronic brain, exactly as an infantile piece of science fiction. And as our senses have gone outside us, Big Brother goes inside. [my emphasis] So, unless aware of this dynamic, we shall at once move into a phase of panic terrors, exactly befitting a small world of tribal drums, total interdependence, and superimposed co-existence.... Terror is the normal state of any oral society, for in it everything affects everything all the time.Four years ago this month, I wrote an article – “You Know We’ll Never Know, Don’t You?” – about a new BBC documentary film series by the acclaimed British filmmaker, Adam Curtis, “Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World.”The series is a pastiche film filled with seven plus hours of fleeting, fragmented, and fascinating archived video images from the BBC archives where Curtis has worked for decades, accompanied by Curtis’s skeptical commentary about “a world where anything could be anything because there was no meaning anywhere.” These historical images jump from one seemingly disconnected subject to another to reinforce his point. He says it is “pointless to try to understand the meaning of why things happen.” He claims that we are all living as if we are “on an acid trip.”While not on an acid trip which I have never taken, I was reminded of this recently as I watched a new documentary – Chaos: The Manson Murders (2025) – by the equally famous U.S. documentary filmmaker, Erroll Morris, a film about the CIA’s mind control operation, MKULTRA, and its use of LSD. As everyone knows, the CIA is that way-out hippie organization from Virginia that is always intent on spreading peace, love, and good vibes.While the content of their films differs, Curtis’s wide-ranging and Morris’s focused on Manson and the book by Tom O’Neil, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, I was struck by both filmmakers tendency to obfuscate while titillating their audience with footage and information that belies their conclusions about not knowing. In this regard, Curtis is the most overt and extreme.Morris does not use Curtis’s language, but he makes it explicit at Chaos’s end that he doesn’t believe Tom O’Neill’s argument in his well-researched book that Charles Manson was part of a CIA mind-control experiment led by the psychiatrist, Dr. Lewis Jolyon “Jolly” West. West worked in 1967 for the CIA on MKULTRA brainwashing projects in a Haight Ashbury clinic during the summer of love, using LSD and hypnosis, when Manson lived there and was often in the clinic with his followers.On April 26, 1964, West also just “happened” to visit the imprisoned Jack Ruby, the man who killed Lee Harvey Oswald in the Dallas Police Department, and when West emerged from the meeting, he immediately declared that in the preceding 48 hours Ruby had become “positively insane” with no chance that this “unshakeable” and “fixed” lunacy could be reversed. What happened between the two men we do not know – for there were no witnesses – but one might assume West used his hypnotic skills and armamentarium of drugs that were integral to MKULTRA’s methods.MKULTRAMKULTRA was a sinister and secret CIA mind-control project, officially started in 1953 but preceded by Operation Bluebird, which was renamed Operation Artichoke. These operations started right after WW II when U.S. intelligence worked with Nazi doctors to torture Russians and others to reveal secrets. They were brutal. MKULTRA was run by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb and was even worse. He was known as the “Black Sorcerer.” With the formula for LSD, the CIA had an unlimited amount of the drug to use widely, which it did. It figured prominently in MKULTRA mind control experiments along with hypnosis.Tom O’Neill sums it up thus:The agency hoped to produce couriers who could imbed hidden messages in their brains, to implant false memories and remove true ones in people without their awareness, to convert groups to opposing ideologies, and more. The loftiest objective was the creation of hypno-programmed assassins. . . . MKULTRA scientists flouted this code [the Nuremberg Code that emerged from the Nuremberg trials of Nazis] constantly, remorselessly – and in ways that stupefy the imagination. Their work encompassed everything from electronic brain stimulation to sensory deprivation to ‘induced pain’ and ‘psychosis.’ They sought ways to cause heart attacks, severe twitching, and intense cluster headaches. If drugs didn’t do the trick, they’d try master ESP, ultrasonic vibrations, and radiation poisoning. One project tried to harness the power of magnetic fields. [my emphasis]In 1973 during the Watergate scandal, CIA Director William Helms ordered all MKULTRA documents destroyed. Most were, but some were forgotten, and in the next few years, Seymour Hersh reported about it and the Senate Church Committee went further. They discovered records that implicated forty-four universities and colleges in the experiments, eighty institutions, and 185 researchers, Louis West among them. The evil cat and its large litter were out of the bag.MKULTRA allegedly ended in 1973. But only the most naïve would think it did not continue under a different form. In 1964, McLuhan wrote that “the medium is the message.” The new medium that was developed in the decades since has been effectively pointed straight at the brain as you watch the screens. And the message?Tom O’Neill’s Powerful CaseWhile admitting that he has not conclusively proven his thesis because he has never been able to confirm Manson and West being together, O’Neill amasses a tremendous amount of convincing circumstantial evidence in his book that makes his case very strong that they were, and that Manson’s ability to get his followers to kill for him was the result of MKULTRA mind control and the use of LSD, which he used extensively and which was introduced by the CIA and used by West. Both men had an inexhaustible amount of the mind-altering drug to use on their victims.This is the subject of Morris’s film, wherein he interviews O’Neill on camera, who explains the extraordinary fact that Manson was able to mesmerize his followers to kill for him without remorse or shame. They “couldn’t get him out of their heads,” even many years later. This was, of course, the goal of MKULTRA – through the use of brainwashing and drugs – to create “Manchurian Candidates.”This case has much wider ramifications than the sensational 1969 Hollywood murders for which Manson and his followers were convicted; for clearly Manson’s “family” that carried out the murders on his orders appeared in every way to be under hypnotic control. How did a two-bit, ex-con, pipsqueak, minor hanger-on musician learn to accomplish exactly what MKULTRA spent so many years working on?Yet at the end of his film, Morris makes a concluding comment without even a nod to the possibility that O’Neill is correct. He says he doesn’t believe O’Neill. I found it very odd, jarring, as though O’Neill had been set up for this denouement, which I think he had.But at the same time I recognized it as Morris’s method of setting up and then undermining the narrative protagonists in his films that are ostensibly about getting to factual truths but never do; they are stories about how all we ever have are endless interpretations and the unknowable, confounded by human fallibility. Everything is lost in the fog of Morris’s method, which is no accident.Frank OlsonI then found an interview that O’Neill did in 2021 in which he said he pulled out of Morris’s film proposal because Morris wanted to make a film that combined the Frank Olson story (a CIA biologist) with his about Manson.In the interview, O’Neill said he knew Eric Olson, Frank Olson’s son, who has spent a lifetime proving that the CIA murdered his father in 1953, but he didn’t explain why he pulled out of the project. However, he appears extensively throughout Chaos, being interviewed on camera by Morris, only to be undermined at the end. Why he eventually agreed to be part of the project I do not know.I am certain he has seen Wormwood (2017), Morris’s acclaimed (they are all acclaimed) Netflix film series about the biologist/ CIA agent Frank Olson and his son, Eric Olson’s heroic lifelong quest to prove that the CIA murdered his father because he had a crisis of conscience about the agency’s use of torture, brainwashing, LSD, and US biological weapons use in Korea, much of it in association with Nazis.The evidence is overwhelming that Frank Olson did not jump from a NYC hotel window in 1953 but was drugged with LSD to induce hallucinations and paranoia, smashed in the head, and thrown out by the CIA. [Read this and view this] Despite such powerful evidence available to him before making Wormwood, in another example of Morris’s method, he disagrees with Eric Olson’s decades of conclusive research that his father was murdered.ConclusionFilmmakers like Adam Curtis and Erroll Morris are examples of a much larger and dangerous phenomenon. Their emphases on the impossibility of knowing – this seeming void in the human mind, an endless acid trip down a road of kaleidoscopic interpretations – is much larger than them. It is deeply imbedded in today’s society.One of the few areas in which we are said to be able to know anything for certain is in the area of partisan politics. Here knowingness is the rule and the other side is always wrong. Fight, fight, fight for the home team! Here the nostalgia for “knowledge” is encouraged, as if we don’t live in a 24/7 media society of the spectacle where brainwashing is cunning and relentless, and the consuming public is consumed with thoughts and perceptions filtered through electronic media according to the needs and lies of corporate state power.With the arrival of the electronic digital life, “knowledge” is now screening. If you don’t want to confirm McLuhan’s prediction – “as our senses have gone outside us, Big Brother goes inside” – it behooves everyone to step back into the lamplight to read and study books. And take a walk in nature without your machine. You might hear a little bird call to you. Tyler DurdenThu, 04/10/2025 - 22:35
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가트너에 따르면 2024년 전 세계 반도체 매출은 총 6,559억 달러로, 2023년(5,421억 달러) 대비 21% 증가했다. 이는 지난 2월 발표된 예비 조사 전망치보다 각각 약 300억 달러, 3% 증가한 수치다. 반도체 공급업체 순위도 예비 조사 전망치와 비교해 변동이 있었다. 최종 조사 결과에 따르면, 엔비디아가 사상 처음으로 삼성전자와 인텔을 제치고 1위에 올랐다. 엔비디아는 지난해 매출 766억 9,200만 달러로 전년보다 120% 급증했다.반면 기존 1위였던 인텔은 2024년 498억 달러 매출을 기록해 2023년 대비 0.8% 성장하는 데 그쳤다. 삼성전자는 656억 9,700만 달러로 2023년(400억 8,600만 달러) 대비 60.8% 성장률을 기록했다. 또한 2023년 230억 7,700만 달러로 6위였던 SK하이닉스가 지난해 91.5%(441억 8,600만 달러) 성장해 4위에 올라섰다. 메모리 평균판매가격 상승과 AI 애플리케이션용 고대역폭메모리(HBM) 분야의 선도적인 입지 덕분인 것으로 해석된다. 퀄컴, 브로드컴, 마이크론테크놀로지, AMD, 애플, 미디어텍이 반도체 부문에서 하이닉스의 뒤를 이었다.가트너 VP 애널리스트 가우라브 굽타는 “지난해 상위 10개 반도체 벤더의 매출 순위 변동은 AI 인프라 구축 수요의 급증과 메모리 매출이 73.4% 증가한 데 따른 것”이라고 설명했다.이어 그는 “엔비디아는 데이터센터의 AI 워크로드에 주로 사용되는 dGPU(discrete Graphic Processing Unit)에 대한 수요가 급증하면서 1위로 도약했다. 삼성전자는 수급 불균형에 따른 급격한 가격 반등으로 DRAM과 플래시 메모리 분야 모두에서 상승세를 보이며 2023년에 이어 2위 자리를 유지했다. 인텔은 주요 제품군 전반에서 경쟁이 심화되고, AI 프로세싱 수요의 견조한 증가의 수혜를 충분히 누리지 못해 2024년 매출 성장이 0.8%에 그쳤다”라고 분석했다[email protected]
With more than eight hours of bonus content as well, Disney seems to have come up with the perfect way to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this Ridley Scott classic.
Apple is heavily reliant on China, which has seen its tariff rates continue to ramp up to a cumulative 145%. While the company has been working to diversify its supply chains, analysts say its left without any clear short-term options to quickly reduce tariff impacts. Though U.S. President Donald Trump’s 90-day pause on many of his “reciprocal tariffs” has given some firms and investors respite, America’s largest company, Apple, hasn’t been so lucky. The Cupertino-based tech giant is heavily reliant on supply chains in China, which has seen its tariff rates only continue to ramp up, with the U.S.’ cumulative tariff rate on Chinese goods now standing at 145%.Thus, despite the U.S. tariff situation looking more promising for the world, experts say that U.S.-China negotiations remain the primary variable for Apple.“Apple could be set back many years by these tariffs,” Dan Ives, global head of technology research at Wedbush Securities, told CNBC, adding that the company had “had their boat flipped over in the ocean with no life rafts.”The smartphone maker has been diversifying its supply chain from China for years, but out of the 77 million iPhones it shipped to the U.S. last year, nearly 80% came from China, according to data from Omdia. The tech-focused research firm estimates that under current tariffs, Apple could be forced to increase its prices on phones sold to the U.S. from China by around 85% in order to maintain its margins.“When the original China tariffs were at 54%, that kind of impact was serious, but manageable ... but, it wouldn’t make financial sense for Apple to raise prices based on the current tariffs,” said Le Xuan Chiew, research manager at Omdia.Few optionsApple reportedly shipped 600 tons of iPhones, or as many as 1.5 million units, from India to the U.S. before the new U.S. tariffs took effect, according to Reuters and The Times of India.Apple and two of its iPhone producers did not respond to a CNBC inquiry. Chiew said while this news is unconfirmed, stockpiling would’ve been the best option for the company to quickly mitigate the tariff impacts and buy themselves some time. However, it’s not clear how long such stockpiles could last, especially as consumers increase iPhone purchases in anticipation of higher prices, he added. According to Omdia, Apple’s medium-term strategy has been to reduce exposure to geopolitical and tariff-related risks, and it has appeared to focus on increasing iPhone production and exports from India. Trump’s temporary halt will likely push tariffs on India to a baseline of 10% — at least for now — giving it a more favorable entry into the U.S. However, the build-up of iPhone manufacturing in India has been a yearslong process. Indian iPhone manufacturers only began producing Apple’s top-of-the-line Pro and Pro Max iPhone models for the first time last year. According to Chiew, ramping up enough production in India to satisfy demand could take at least one or two years and is not without its own tariff risks. Exemptions?In face of the tariffs, experts said the company’s best option is likely to appeal to the Trump administration for a tariff exemption for imports from China as it continues to ramp up its diversification efforts. This is something the company had received during the first Trump administration. Some analysts believe this is something that could happen this time around. “I still see some potential relief that can come in the form of concessions for Apple based upon its $500 billion U.S. commitment,” said Daniel Newman, CEO of The Futurum Group. “This hasn’t been discussed much — but I’m optimistic that companies that commit to U.S. expansion may see some form of relief as negotiations progress.” Apple said in February that it would invest $500 billion in the U.S., creating 20,000 jobs.Still, Trump has been clear that he believes Apple can make iPhones in the U.S.— something analysts have expressed doubts about. Wedbush analyst Ives has predicted that an iPhone would cost $3,500 if it was produced in the U.S. Meanwhile, other analysts say that even a trade deal or tariff exemption may not be enough for Apple to avoid adverse business effects.“Let’s assume that there is at least some thaw coming, either in a moderation of reciprocal tariffs targeting China or in a special exemption for Apple,” said Craig Moffett, co-founder and senior analyst at equity research publisher MoffettNathanson.“That still wouldn’t solve the problem. Even a 10% baseline tariff poses an enormous challenge for Apple.”
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Time without screens doesn’t need to feel like homework, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But it might help to suggest some active alternativesRead more Leading questionsMy husband is on his iPad or his phone a lot. It is the last thing he does before bed and the first thing he reaches for in the morning.We have a toddler and are pretty good at sharing childcare, but the minute I appear after work he gets his iPad out. It grates on me more than I can say (especially if we are eating dinner that I’ve cooked). I get that parenting can be lonely and tedious and that he likes to unwind at the end of the day, but I want us to spend time together as a family. Continue reading...
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전 세계 기업이 AI 에이전트의 등장으로 인한 업무 환경과 비즈니스 모델 변화에 주목하고 있다. AI 에이전트는 인간의 개입 없이 복잡한 문제를 해결하고 최적의 패턴을 추론하는 역량을 갖추고 있다. 기업들이 단순한 자동화를 넘어 업무 프로세스 혁신을 기대하는 배경이다.하지만 AI 에이전트 기술을 자체적으로 개발·구현하는 것은 쉽지 않다. 복잡한 엔지니어링과 시스템 통합이 필요하며, AI의 최적 성능을 위해 고품질 데이터가 필수적이다. 미국의 대표적인 싱크탱크인 랜드 연구소(RAND Corporation)에 따르면, 기업의 AI 도입 성공률은 20% 미만에 그친다. 실패율이 일반적인 IT 프로젝트보다 두 배 높다. 이는 AI 도입이 신중한 접근이 필요한 과제임을 보여준다.지난 디지털 혁신의 역사가 증명하듯, 기업이 자체적으로 AI 에이전트를 위한 최적의 환경을 마련하는 것은 매우 어려운 일이다. 이에 따라 전 세계 CIO들은 AI 기술을 자체 개발하는 방법을 택하는 대신, 검증된 AI 에이전트 플랫폼을 도입하는 방법을 택하고 있다.이유는 다양하다. 검증된 AI 에이전트 플랫폼을 활용할 경우 기업이 LLM과 데이터를 직접 구축하는 데 필요한 막대한 비용을 절감할 수 있다. 뿐만 아니라, 여러 성공사례들을 기반으로 자사 비즈니스의 목표와 특성에 맞추어 AI 에이전트를 최적화할 수 있다. 즉 글로벌 기업에서 이미 성과를 확인한 AI 에이전트 플랫폼 도입은 비용 효율성을 극대화하면서도 AI 도입 성공 가능성을 높이는 전략적 접근법이 될 수 있다.대표적 사례로 미국 생활가전 브랜드 샤크닌자가 있다. 샤크닌자는 AI 에이전트를 활용하여 24시간 실시간으로 고객의 반품 요청을 처리하고, 제품 추천을 제공하는 등 고객 응대를 자동화하고 있다. 또한, 고객의 구매 이력과 서비스 내역을 분석하여 맞춤형 응대를 제공함으로써, 고객경험 향상과 고객 응대 효율성 개선이라는 두 마리 토끼를 한 번에 잡았다.국제 자동차 프로 레이싱 대회인 F1 또한 AI 에이전트 플랫폼을 기반으로 팬 경험의 개인화는 물론, 스포츠 경험을 개선해 나가고 있다. AI 에이전트를 기반으로 로그인 오류나 스트리밍 문제와 같은 이슈를 실시간으로 해결하고, 데이터를 기반으로 개별 팬들의 특성에 맞는 맞춤형 경험을 제공하고 있다. F1은 AI 에이전트를 기반으로 고객 응답 시간을 80% 단축한 것은 물론, 팬들과의 관계를 더욱 강화하고 있다.곧 AI 에이전트의 혁신이 불러온 성공소식이 우리 기업에서도 들려올 것으로 보인다. 현재 많은 기업들이 AI 에이전트 도입을 검토 및 추진하고 있다.그러나 성공적인 AI 에이전트 도입은 CIO의 올바른 리더십을 근간으로 해야 꽃피울 수 있다. AI 기술 도입은 단순히 기술적 도전만이 아니라, 조직 문화, 변화 관리, 윤리적 문제 해결 등 전방위적인 리더십을 요구하는 매우 복잡한 과제이기 때문이다. 실제로 전 세계에서 신기술과 함께 빠르게 순항하고 있는 기업들의 공통점은 ‘CIO의 리더십’이다.AI 에이전트 시대 CIO의 리더십은 기술 그 자체가 아닌 기술이 창출하는 비즈니스 가치에 집중할 때 빛이 나게 될 것이다. 단순한 기술 도입을 넘어, 조직의 DNA에 AI를 통합하는 전략적 비전을 제시하고, 투자 비용과 리스크를 체계적으로 관리하며, 조직 전체가 이 혁신의 여정에 동참할 수 있는 문화를 조성할 수 있어야 한다.이러한 리더십으로 AI 에이전트 혁신을 주도하는 CIO들을 보유한 조직이야말로 글로벌 경쟁에서 우위를 점하고, 새로운 가치와 기회를 창출할 수 있을 것이다.손부한 대표는 2019년부터 세일즈포스 코리아 비즈니스를 총괄하고 있다[email protected]
Eric Dane has been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the 52-year-old actor revealed in an interview with People . "I have been diagnosed with ALS. I am grateful to have my loving family by my side as we navigate this next chapter," said Dane, who plays Cal Jacobs on Euphoria . "I...
Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital explored selectively blocking the CYP3A4 protein responsible for breaking down large swaths of approved drugs, providing a way to improve drug efficacy.
Scientists have transformed RNA, a biological molecule present in all living cells, into a biosensor that can detect tiny chemicals relevant to human health. Research by Rutgers University-New Brunswick scientists centers on RNA, a nucleic acid that plays a crucial role in most cellular processes. Their work is expected to have applications in the surveillance of environmental chemicals and, ultimately, the diagnosis of critical diseases including neurological and cardiovascular diseases and cancer.
In a recently published "manifesto," professors at Binghamton University, State University of New York call for the elimination of payments in peer-reviewed scientific journals, which put up barriers for anyone who can't afford those fees, especially researchers in developing countries or without funding support.
Professor Niazi Challenges the 2024 Chemistry Nobel Prize that the 3D Protein Structure cannot be predicted, refuting claims of Rosetta and AlphaFold
Trustees have begun negotiations on a contract to make Misty Her the next Fresno Unified superintendent, multiple sources tell GV Wire. Her is currently the interim superintendent of the state’s third-largest school district. She emerged as the top choice of the trustees after they interviewed a field of finalists on Wednesday at the DoubleTree Hotel [...]The post Trustees Select Fresno Unified’s New Superintendent. Was ‘the Fix’ On? appeared first on GV Wire.
The two most prominent satellite galaxies of the Milky Way are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. A team of astronomers have recently tracked the movements of 7,000 stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and found that many of them are being pulled away towards the Large Magellanic Cloud! It seems the SMC is being pulled apart, perhaps leading to its eventual destruction as the tidal forces strip away its stars!
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The Starlink 12-17 mission will carry 13 Starlink V2 Mini satellites that feature Direct to Cell capabilities. Liftoff from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center was rescheduled for Friday, April 11, at 9:15 p.m. EDT (0115 UTC).
One of the things about astronomy that captivates me is that for every question we answer, we open up a whole bunch of other questions. Dark matter and dark energy are one such phenomenon that rather continues to confound us. There’s also the mystery of missing infrared light too but a team of astronomers think they may have found it! The team examined a region of sky using the Herschel Space Telescope and, by staking 141 images, found where individual dust-rich galaxies appeared blended together. The galaxies are absorbing starlight and re-emitting infrared radiation, and is this that may well account for the missing light.
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In December 2024, Oklahoma officials say Jason Morris convinced his online, elderly girlfriend to send him $120,000 to pay for an oil vessel carrying 700,000 barrels in Alaska he allegedly owned to return to shore. Once the rig returned, she and Morris would move in together.The bank held the funds, according to court documents. Morris instructed the woman to contact her bank and lie to them, saying the funds were for purchasing property and not for the alleged oil tanker.But the bank was right to raise suspicion — officials say there was never an Alaskan oil rig. In fact, they say there was never a Jason Morris.‘Scams that target seniors’Christine Joan Echohawk, a 53-year-old woman from Oklahoma, was allegedly the face behind the screen, scamming the older woman out of hundreds of thousands of dollars and laundering the money.Four different women were scammed out of $1.5 million through Echohawk’s online romance scams between Sept. 30 and Dec. 26, 2024, according to a release from the office of Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond.The women were between the ages of 64 and 79 and all lived outside of Oklahoma.“These types of scams that target seniors are especially egregious,” Drummond said in the release.The attorney general filed charges against Echohawk on Monday for “unlawful use of criminal proceeds and using a computer to violate state statutes,” the release said. Echohawk was sent cash, checks, wired funds and even tens of thousands in Apple gift cards.Authorities say Echohawk laundered the funds through various accounts, converting the money into cryptocurrency and sending those crypto payments to an unidentified suspect.Jason Morris, Edward Lotts and Glenn GoadardThe alleged scams included fake names — such as Edward Lotts and Glenn Goadard — and elaborate backstories explaining the need for loads of cash, according to a probable cause affidavit.Lotts convinced one woman to send more than $600,000 to pay off a debt that would allow $2 million to be released to “him.” When the debt was paid off, Lotts would move in with her, the affidavit stated.The victim sold her paid-off home to send all the money.Goadard contacted another woman claiming to know her since college. The woman was persuaded into paying $250,000 for expenses on a financial portfolio Goadard would send her from Syria.But Echohawk allegedly received all the funds, depositing them into a MidFirst Bank account in which she was the sole signatory, according to the affidavit.The Stillwater MidFirst Bank branch tipped off Drummond’s office in January, suspecting Echohawk of senior-fraud activity after a $120,000 payment from one of the victims was intercepted and held, according to the release. The Consumer Protection Unit subsequently investigated.Confidence/romance crimes and Maurice DeniroDefined as a confidence/romance scheme by the FBI, these crimes occur when an individual believes they are in a relationship — whether family, friend or romantic — and manipulated into sending money, financial or personal information, or items of value to a perpetrator. The FBI Internet Crime Report found more than $600 million was lost in 2023 to confidence/romance crimes alone.Local law enforcement confronted Echohawk about the suspected criminal activity in January, but after a short hiatus she allegedly continued to launder the money.Echohawk was voluntarily interviewed at the Pawnee police department on March 26, an interview she opened with asking if it would “all go away” if she paid back the individuals who sent her money, according to the affidavit.But she then claimed it was her who was in an online relationship, that she was receiving cash, checks, wire transfers and other items since 2023 for an individual under the alias of Maurice Dinero, the affidavit said. Echohawk claimed there were “red flags” about her situation and had concerns she would be arrested.When Echohawk consented to having her purse searched, the affidavit said, there were multiple bank cards associated with accounts she allegedly laundered money through, a MidFirst Bank deposit slip for $110,000 and several Apple gift cards found with the barcodes revealed. There was also $500 in cash, which Echohawk said was from individuals sending money to the alias, but she had not yet deposited.Echohawk faces four counts of unlawful use of criminal proceeds and one count of violating the Oklahoma Computer Crimes Act, which could carry up to 62 years in prison and $260,000 in fines, the release said.She has been held in Pawnee County Jail since Monday, according to Pawnee County Sheriff’s Office records. An attorney was not listed and it’s unclear if she has legal representation.“I applaud the work of my Consumer Protection Unit to fight for these victims and to hold accountable their alleged perpetrator,” Drummond said in the release.This story first appeared on NBCNews.com. More from NBC News:Sen. Michael Bennet will run for governor of Colorado in 2026Florida charges Ryan Routh, who allegedly tried to assassinate TrumpDemocrats question whether Trump and his allies engaged in insider trading on tariffs
BYNG — The Ada High School baseball team got home runs from Kyler Gaddis and Will Johnson and defeated local rival Byng 7-3 to salvage a split in their Class 4A District-1 series Tuesday night at Stokes Field.
A few of the Shelbyville Parks Department's properties were damaged by the extreme flooding the city experienced over the weekend, Parks Director Trisha Tackett told the Board of Park Commissioners.
DALLAS, April 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Hillwood Investment Properties, a Perot company and leader in industrial real estate development and acquisitions, announces continued momentum with three strategic property acquisitions of four buildings totaling 1,200,000 square feet across the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex: Hillwood announces three strategic property acquisitions totaling 1.2M SF across the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.901 Distribution Drive located in Wilmer, TX totals 334,800 square feet and is fully leased to two tenants. This Class A facility delivered in 2023 and offers 36' clear height, LED lighting, ESFR sprinkler system, 185' truck courts, and ample parking for 134 cars.1201 Big Town Boulevard located ...Full story available on Benzinga.com
Demi Moore's daughter Tallulah Willis dropped a rare "private" comment about her former stepdad, Ashton Kutcher.
A man suspected of threatening Walmart customers and employees and then activating a Taser toward responding officers was arrested without injury in Palm Springs Tuesday night, police said. Officers were dispatched to the store just after 11 p.m. regarding a call of a man armed with a knife who was refusing to leave, the Palm [...]
Does NYC need more public restrooms? If approved, the city would double its number of bathrooms over the next 10 years.
Former White House staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin said President Trump was “forced” to introduce a 90 day pause on reciprocal tariffs due to crippling market shares. “Donald Trump said as much on the South Lawn that he was looking at the bond markets collapsing and that was what forced his hand into this reversal,” Farah...
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Capri Holdings Limited (NYSE:CPRI) saw its shares tick higher in Thursday’s premarket action after the company unveiled a definitive agreement to divest the luxury fashion house Versace to Prada S.p.A. in a $1.375 billion all-cash deal, subject to adjustments.The transaction, which still awaits regulatory approvals and other standard closing conditions, is scheduled to be completed in the latter half of 2025.John D. Idol, Chairman and CEO of Capri Holdings, expressed optimism about the sale, citing the brand’s transformation over the past six years and its reinforced positioning in the high-end luxury space.He said the deal aligns with the group’s broader plan to improve financial health and boost the long-term performance of its ...Full story available on Benzinga.com
Navigating through the twists and turns of the Mount Holly estate to reach Room 46 is one of the main goals of Blue Prince. In Blue Prince, you play as Simon, a 14-year old child who has inherited the will of his wealthy grandfather — under condition that you can find the elusive Room 46. [...]
One of the most chilling and unique horror films of the 2000s has been incredibly difficult to track down for the better part of two decades. The Poughkeepsie Tapes, from director John Erick Dowdle, is a pseudo-documentary horror film that weaves together a terrifying serial killer story using interviews and footage from his victims. The [...]The post This Horror Movie Was Almost Impossible to Watch for Years, And Now It’s Streaming appeared first on ComicBook.com.
A central Florida school teacher won't be returning to the classroom next year after she was accused of using a student's preferred name instead of their legal name.
Prospective homebuyers considering the real estate market had a range of options in various neighborhoods throughout the region between March 31 and April 6. In this article, we outline recent property sales in Passaic County, all of which featured homes under $1,000,000.
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey on Thursday freed more than 120 people detained during last month's mass anti-government protests.
As Amazon moves forward on James Bond 26, an Oscar-winning director has confirmed he’s in talks to helm the film. While attending an event at the Paris Cinéma Club, Alfonso Cuarón mentioned that he’s had conversations regarding the possibility of directing 007’s next big-screen adventure. While Cuarón couldn’t share too many specifics about what these [...]The post Oscar-Winning Director Confirms Talks for James Bond 26 (& They’re Perfect) appeared first on ComicBook.com.
An NFL draft expert says the Tennessee Titans will not trade the top pick after canceling workouts with Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter.
Oklahoma House lawmakers review over 30 complaints on government inefficiency, flagged as "ideas of note" during budget talks.The post Oklahoma House releases its list of ‘DOGE Ideas of Note’ first appeared on The Journal Record.
For prospective homebuyers eyeing the real estate market in areas of Union County, here's what sold for or under $1,000,000 between March 31 and April 6.