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Image Credit: Wynn Las Vegas Wynn Las Vegas hosted several celebrities at various property hot spots, including XS Nighclub, during popular events this week. Wednesday, November 15, kicked off the busy week when the luxury resort and casino welcomed F1® teams, drivers, and more familiar faces on the property following the Las Vegas Grand Prix Opening Ceremony at Wynn’s renowned nightlife destination XS Nightclub. The exclusive invite-only event featured resident DJ Marshmello and many attendees, including will.i.am, Christian Horner, Toto Wolf, Lewis Hamilton and George Russell, Guenther Steiner, Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, Lando Norris, Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly,…

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In a dramatic turn of events late Friday, ex-Y Combinator president Sam Altman was fired as CEO of AI startup OpenAI, the company behind viral AI hits like ChatGPT, GPT-4 and DALL-E 3, by OpenAI’s board of directors. Then, the company’s longtime president and co-founder, Greg Brockman, resigned — as did three senior OpenAI researchers. And the fallout continues. Tip TechCrunch Do you work at OpenAI and know more about Sam Altman’s departure? Get in touch with TechCrunch. It’s a fast-moving situation that we’re still trying to get to the bottom of. No doubt more will become clear as time…

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SpaceX’s Starship, the uncrewed spacecraft designed for lunar and interplanetary travel, soared into space on its second test flight. Departing from SpaceX’s Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas, the rocket aimed for a brief space sojourn before a planned Pacific Ocean landing near Hawaii. However, the mission encountered setbacks minutes after a promising start.   Stage Separation and Loss of Signal   After a successful lift-off, the spacecraft’s two stages – the Super Heavy booster and Starship – separated approximately two and a half minutes into the flight. However, SpaceX lost contact with the second stage soon after, leading to the…

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Average daily transaction fees on Bitcoin (BTC)  have flipped with Ethereum following a frenzy of Ordinals-related activity on the Bitcoin network. On Nov. 20, the average daily transaction fee for Bitcoin stood at $10.34, while Ethereum’s transaction fees came to an average of $8.43, according to BitInfoChart data. Bitcoin’s average daily trading fee notched a new six-month high on Nov.16, reaching a peak of $18.67, while Ethereum fees reached $7.90.Bitcoin’s average daily fees have surged above Ethereum’s in the last five days. Source: BitInfoChartsThe sudden uptick in Bitcoin transaction fees stems from a renewed market appetite for assets inscribed with the…

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain In the Cuyama Valley north of Santa Barbara, lush green fields stretch across the desert. Sprinklers spray thousands of acres to grow a single thirsty crop: carrots. Wells and pumps pull groundwater from as deep as 680 feet, and the aquifer’s levels are dropping. As the valley’s only water source shrinks, a bitter legal battle over water rights has arisen between carrot growers and the community. Residents are fighting back with a campaign urging everyone to stop buying carrots. Along the valley’s roads, in cattle pastures and outside homes and businesses, signs and banners have sprung…

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Image Credit: Shutterstock Call it what you want… for now. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have become the couple that everyone is talking about. After Taylor, 33, went to several of Travis’ football games, Travis, 34, supported the Grammy Award winner on her Eras Tour in Argentina, where they shared a cute kiss at the stadium on November 11. Taylor even changed the lyrics to her hit song “Karma” to mention the Kansas City Chiefs tight end. Travis and Taylor have yet to confirm they’re actually in a relationship in their own words. But their actions certainly say a lot. With…

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Songyee Yoon PhD ’00, an entrepreneur, innovator, investor, and leader in AI and the gaming industry, has been appointed as a School of Engineering visiting innovation scholar for the 2023-24 academic year. Yoon, who is as a member of the MIT Corporation, serves as president and chief strategic officer of NCSOFT, a world leader in game publishing and digital entertainment. Under her leadership, NCSOFT has expanded to include locations in seven countries on three continents. She played a pivotal role in founding the NCSOFT AI Center, a state-of-the-art AI research facility that has helped the company develop and integrate the…

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We hope it will enable people to better manage their pain at work and improve people’s working lives. We’re going to look at how useful and practical the PAW Toolkit is for people to use, by testing it in a trial and looking at health, wellbeing, and work outcomes over time. We are one of just six research teams in the UK that has been awarded funding from the Nuffield Foundation and Versus Arthritis as part of a £1.94 million investment into research to improve work and wellbeing for people with musculoskeletal conditions. We are running a multicentre randomised trial…

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