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Key Aspects: The Miami Marathon will cause traffic congestion and delays near PortMiami on Sunday, January 25, 2026. Carnival Cruise Line has alerted guests on Carnival Celebration and Carnival Horizon to adjust for extra traffic. Other cruise lines are also in port that day and as many as 65,000 guests may be impacted. Carnival Cruise Line has reached out to guests booked on Carnival Celebration and Carnival Horizon for departures on Sunday, January 25, 2026. The ships are homeported from PortMiami, and Sunday is the date of the 24th Annual Miami Marathon and Half Marathon, with an expected 18,500 participants.…

AI Mode, Google’s conversational Search feature for complex questions, is getting more personalized. The tech giant announced on Thursday that it’s bringing “Personal Intelligence” to AI Mode, enabling it to tap into your Gmail and Google Photos to provide more individualized responses. The company first debuted Personal Intelligence last week in the Gemini app to allow the AI assistant to tailor its responses by connecting across your Google ecosystem, starting with Gmail, Photos, Search, and YouTube history. The opt-in feature is now starting to roll out to AI Mode to Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers in English in…

The lifeless creature was found this morning at Pevensey Bay, wrapped in an orange sack used to carry onions.  Numerous items have been washing ashore along the Sussex coastline in recent weeks, after tens of shipping containers fell off cargo ships in rough seas.  This has included thousands of bags of frozen chips and sacks of onions appearing on beaches near Eastbourne in recent days. Brigitte saw the seal this morning when walking her dog (Image: Brigitte Crunden) Wealden District Council confirmed the presence of a shipping container at Pevensey Bay last week. It also said that polystyrene foam had…

Bitgo has priced its initial public offering (IPO) at $18 per share, raising about $213 million and entering public markets with a valuation of roughly $2 billion. Bitgo IPO Signals Continued Institutional Appetite for Crypto Infrastructure Bitgo’s shares began trading Jan. 22 on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker BTGO, following pricing […] Source link

Despite the global startup ecosystem still struggling to achieve gender parity among founders and CEOs, there is still a remarkable cohort of women building and running billion-dollar-valued companies. These leaders are demonstrating that women are not just activiely engaging in role within tech and business innovation, but are also leading valuable startups on a global level.   What Exactly Constitutes a Unicorn?   A “unicorn” is a privately held company that has a status and valuation of a billion dollars or more. As unicorns are fairly rare, each female-led unicorn is a prominent example of breaking the gender bias in…

Twenty years ago, a Duke University professor, David R. Smith, used artificial composite materials called “metamaterials” to make a real-life invisibility cloak. While this cloak didn’t really work like Harry Potter’s, exhibiting limited ability to conceal objects from the light of a single microwave length, those advances in material science did eventually trickle down to electromagnetism research. Today, Austin-based Neurophos, a photonics startup spun out of Duke University and Metacept (an incubator run by Smith), is taking that research further to solve what may be the biggest problem facing AI labs and hyperscalers: how to scale computing power while keeping…

Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our Sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of these planets were discovered thanks to data from NASA’s retired Kepler mission and NASA’s current TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission. However, the enormous treasure trove of data from these missions still contains many yet-to-be-discovered planets. All of the data from both missions is publicly available in NASA archives, and many teams around the world have used that data to find new planets using a number of techniques. In 2021, a team from NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon…

Spotify is rolling out Prompted Playlists, a new AI playlist creation tool, to Premium subscribers in the U.S. and Canada. The feature, which was originally tested in New Zealand, allows users to make a playlist by describing what they want to hear, in their own words. Prompted Playlists builds on an earlier AI playlist product, launched in 2024, which allowed for simpler prompts like “get focused at work with instrumental electronica,” or “get pumped up with fun, upbeat, and positive songs.” Instead, the new Prompted Playlists feature lets users explain in more detail, and in a conversational mode, what they…

Tunbridge Wells’ Matt Weston and Thanet’s Taylor Lawrence have been included in Team GB’s skeleton and bobsleigh squads for the Winter Olympics.The Games, in Milano Cortina, Italy, take place from February 6-22 and will be Weston’s second after Beijing 2022 where he finished 15th.Team GB’s Winter Olympics squad for Milano Cortina 2026 features Tunbridge Wells’ Matt Weston alongside Thanet’s Taylor Lawrence. Picture: Team GBHe couldn’t be in better form, too, after last week becoming the first British man to win three IBSF Overall World Cup titles with victory in Altenberg, Germany. That success followed consecutive World Championship golds.“I couldn’t really…

Two days after settling a lawsuit accusing Snapchat of causing social media addiction and mental health issues, Snap announced that it’s introducing new parental controls. Parents and guardians can now use Snapchat’s “Family Center” tool to see how much time their teen is spending on the platform, along with additional details about the new friends they add. With these new features, Snap is likely looking to appease regulators and parents over concerns about safety and screen time on its platform. Parents can now see the average amount of time their teen spent on Snapchat each day over the previous week.…