- Apple releases eight small AI language models aimed at on-device use Ars Technica
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‘Romeo & Juliet’ producers condemn racist backlash aimed at Tom Holland’s costar – Entertainment Weekly News
- ‘Romeo & Juliet’ producers condemn racist backlash aimed at Tom Holland’s costar Entertainment Weekly News
- Romeo & Juliet theatre star suffers ‘barrage’ of online racial abuse The Guardian
- Tom Holland’s ‘Romeo & Juliet’ To “Transfer To Broadway After Tickets Sell Out In Two Hours” Deadline
- Director of Tom Holland-Led ‘Romeo & Juliet’ Responds to “Deplorable Racial Abuse” of Castmember Hollywood Reporter
- Romeo and Juliet star suffers ‘barrage of deplorable racial abuse’ after being cast alongside Tom Holland Sky News
IRS announces withdrawal process for Employee Retention Credit claims; special initiative aimed at helping businesses concerned about an ineligible claim amid aggressive marketing, scams | Internal Revenue Service – IRS
- IRS announces withdrawal process for Employee Retention Credit claims; special initiative aimed at helping businesses concerned about an ineligible claim amid aggressive marketing, scams | Internal Revenue Service IRS
- IRS unveils ‘special withdrawal process’ for small businesses that claimed pandemic-era tax credit CNBC
- Regret Claiming That Pandemic Employer Tax Credit? IRS Now Lets You Take It Back The Wall Street Journal
- Eye on Scams: Scammers attempting to use your business to get COVID relief funds KLFY
- IRS Announces Special Process For Withdrawing Inappropriate ERC Claims Forbes
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US imposes new sanctions aimed at choking off Russia’s access to battlefield supplies and revenue – Yahoo News
- US imposes new sanctions aimed at choking off Russia’s access to battlefield supplies and revenue Yahoo News
- Russia-Ukraine war: US imposes new Russian sanctions Al Jazeera English
- New US sanctions target Russian access to battlefield supplies -Treasury Reuters
- Imposing Additional Sanctions on Those Supporting Russia’s War Against Ukraine – United States Department of State Department of State
- Australia Sanctions More Russian Entities, Individuals In Response To Ukraine Invasion Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
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Sanofi taps Scribe for in vivo partnership worth more than $1.2B biobucks aimed at sickle cell and beyond – FierceBiotech
- Sanofi taps Scribe for in vivo partnership worth more than $1.2B biobucks aimed at sickle cell and beyond FierceBiotech
- Sanofi licenses CRISPR enzyme in bid to develop safer, simpler sickle cell cure STAT
- Mirum Pharmaceuticals buys Travere Therapeutics portfolio of bile acid drugs for up to $445M – San Francisco Business Times The Business Journals
- Sanofi goes back to Scribe Evaluate Pharma
- East Bay’s Scribe Therapeutics lands 2nd big deal with Sanofi, this one aimed initially at sickle cell disease – San Francisco Business Times The Business Journals
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Legislature passes bill aimed at averting Milwaukee financial crisis, lifting aid to local governments – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Legislature passes bill aimed at averting Milwaukee financial crisis, lifting aid to local governments Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Wisconsin shared revenue: Senate approves Milwaukee bankruptcy avoidance plan | FOX6 News Milwaukee FOX6 News Milwaukee
- MKE Teachers union calling shared revenue deal an ‘attack’ on Milwaukee students WISN 12 News
- Shared revenue plan gives money back to Wisconsin cities but creates school funding controversy WeAreGreenBay.com
- What the Wisconsin shared revenue agreement could mean for K-12 education Fox11online.com
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Missouri AG announces rule aimed as ending transgender care for minors – St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Missouri AG announces rule aimed as ending transgender care for minors St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey Announces Emergency Regulation on Gender Transition Interventions for Minors Missouri Attorney General’s Office
- Missouri attorney general issues rules to restrict gender-affirming care for transgender kids St. Louis Public Radio
- Missouri AG announces rule to restrict gender-affirming care for minors St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Missouri to restrict gender-affirming care for minors The Associated Press
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Florida, West Virginia and Missouri withdraw from bipartisan effort aimed at maintaining accurate voter rolls – CNN
- Florida, West Virginia and Missouri withdraw from bipartisan effort aimed at maintaining accurate voter rolls CNN
- 3 GOP states pull out of effort to thwart voter fraud Yahoo News
- Florida, two other states quit ERIC, the program that helps states maintain voter rolls The Washington Post
- Jay Ashcroft withdraws Missouri from group designed to help combat voter fraud • Missouri Independent Missouri Independent
- Several GOP states, including West Virginia, pull out of effort to thwart voter fraud Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Facebook owner Meta unveils new $1,500 VR headset aimed at businesses
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Facebook’s parent company, Meta, unveiled a high-end virtual reality headset that comes with a hefty $1,500 price tag. Meta hopes the new Meta Quest Pro headset will lure people to work and play in the still-elusive place called the “metaverse.”
Meta is in the midst of a corporate transformation that it says will take years to complete. The company is trying to evolve from a provider of social media platforms to a dominant power in a nascent virtual-reality construct called the metaverse — sort of like the internet brought to life, or at least rendered in 3D.
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., speaks during the virtual Meta Connect event in New York, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. Zuckerberg unveiled his company’s newest virtual-reality headset, the Meta Quest Pro, the latest (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
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The new headset costs $1,100 more than Meta’s Quest 2 headset (formerly known as Oculus Quest 2) and contains new technologies like high-resolution sensors that let people see mixed virtual and augmented reality in full color. It also has new eye tracking technology and “natural facial expressions” that mimic the wearer’s facial movements, so their avatars appear natural when interacting with other avatars in virtual-reality environments.
Meta’s competitor, HTC, sells its Vive Pro 2 full system set for $2,199 according to the HTC Vive website. The full system includes the motion controllers and Steam VR base stations, which are mandatory for operation.
The Meta Quest Pro headset during the virtual Meta Connect event in New York, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
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“Meta is positioning the new Meta Quest Pro headset as an alternative to using a laptop,” said to Rolf Illenberger, founder and managing director of VRdirect, which builds VR environments for businesses. But he added that for businesses, operating in the virtual worlds of the metaverse is still “quite a stretch.”
VR headsets are already popular with some gamers, but Meta knows that won’t be enough to make the metaverse mainstream. As such, it’s setting office — and home office — workers in its sights.
Horizon Workrooms during the virtual Meta Connect event in New York, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
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CEO Mark Zuckerberg has described the metaverse as an immersive virtual environment, a place people can virtually “enter” rather than just staring at it on a screen. The company is investing billions in its metaverse plans that will likely take years to pay off.
The Meta Quest Pro is available now to preorder for $1,499.99 and will launch on Oct. 25. It’s currently available for preorder on Amazon.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Brett Favre’s foundation, aimed at helping children and cancer patients, gave funds to USM athletics
From 2018-2020, Brett Favre’s charitable foundation, Favre 4 Hope, which has a stated mission to support disadvantaged children and cancer patients, donated more than $130,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi Athletic Foundation during the same years that Favre was working to finance a new volleyball center at the school.
Favre, a Southern Mississippi alumnus, is embroiled in a welfare scandal — extensively reported by nonprofit watchdog Mississippi Today — in which millions of dollars earmarked for people in need were misappropriated. Favre received $1.1 million for speeches he did not make, according to a state auditor report and court documents, and was instrumental in moving more than $5 million in welfare dollars toward the building of the volleyball facility while his daughter was a player on the USM volleyball team. He is among dozens of individuals and organizations being sued by the state. Favre paid back the $1.1 million, though the state says he still owes $228,000 in interest. He has not been charged with wrongdoing and posted on social media that he did not know where the funding for the volleyball facility came from.
In the same years Favre was soliciting money to build the volleyball facility, his charitable foundation, which received public donations, significantly increased its contributions to USM’s athletic fundraising arm. Tax records show that Favre 4 Hope gave the USM Athletic Foundation $60,000 in 2018, when no other charity received more than $10,000.