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Talking to David Balogun is like talking to, well, a 9-year-old.Despite the occasional tangent about quantum entanglement, David is a kid at his core. He competes in paper airplane races with his sister, presses cupped hands to his eyes to simulate glasses and gets antsy after sitting still for too long.”This is the normal 9-year-old part,” his mother, Ronya Balogun, tells CNBC Make It as she refocuses him on the conversation.David is one of the youngest people in the U.S. to earn a high school diploma. He graduated in late January from Reach Cyber Charter School, a tuition-free online school…
Russia’s oil exports have bounced back to levels last seen before it invaded Ukraine, despite a barrage of Western sanctions. Moscow’s exports of crude oil and oil products rose in March to their highest level since April 2020, jumping by 600,000 barrels a day, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in its monthly oil report Friday. The rise lifted Russia’s estimated revenue from oil exports to $12.7 billion last month. The revenue is still down 43% from a year ago, the IEA said, as Russia is forced to sell its barrels to a more limited pool of customers who can…
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Neosapience is a Korean startup that created a synthetic voice and video platform. It raised $21.5 million in Series B to expand to the US and elsewhere. It plans to bring its tech to Hollywood and has hired former Warner Bros. Discovery exec Tony Shin. Neosapience, a Korean startup, is poised to disrupt Hollywood with a voice and video AI platform.Founded in 2017 by former Qualcomm engineers as an AI voice service provider, Neosapience has since introduced a synthetic voice and video platform, Typecast, that turns written text into human-sounding voices for virtual actors. It’s also created a video avatar…
Contractors for YouTube, employed by the firm Cognizant, are holding a union election. Workers have said that Cognizant has been intensifying its push to quell the movement. The company has held meetings to dissuade additional workers from organizing, workers said. YouTube TV contractors are in the early stages of pushing toward unionization. Meanwhile four workers who spoke to Insider said their employer Cognizant, a major contracting firm for Google, has been clamping down on these efforts in its Austin, Texas office.The YouTube TV contractors’ efforts follow that of their colleagues at YouTube Music. Last October, a team that works on…
US prosecutors have unsealed drug charges against 28 defendants, including three sons of former Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán and Chinese chemicals business owners, as Washington intensifies efforts to crack down on the flow of deadly fentanyl.Prosecutors allege Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar and Ovidio Guzmán López — known as the Chapitos, or “little Chapos” — along with other co-conspirators controlled a sophisticated, violent and vertically integrated trafficking operation designed to “pump staggering quantities of fentanyl into the United States”.That also meant terrorising communities and torturing and killing victims in Mexico, prosecutors said. They described…
Jack Teixeira, wearing a green t-shirt and bright red gym shorts with his hands above his head, walked slowly backward toward the armed federal agents outside his home in North Dighton, Massachusetts, who took him into custody on charges of leaking classified documents. The carefully choreographed arrest of the 21-year-old Air National Guardsman stood in stark contrast to the Biden administration’s scramble one week earlier to deal with the fallout from the revelation that highly classified documents had been sitting publicly on the internet for weeks. Those leaked documents, which appeared to catch the Biden administration flat-footed, disclosed a blunt…
U.S. stock indexes extended the gains in the final hour of trade Thursday as a moderation in wholesale inflation and a jump in weekly jobless claims support the idea that the economy is gradually weakening, while the Federal Reserve may be approaching the end of its tightening cycle. The S&P 500 SPX, -0.21% advanced 1.4% and headed for its best close since February 7, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.42% rose nearly 400 points, or 1.2%, to 34,046. The Nasdaq Composite COMP, -0.35% jumped 2.1%, led by gains in the communication services and…
Digital-media and analytics firm Adobe Inc. ADBE, +0.15% agreed to pay $3 million to settle allegations that it made payments that ran afoul of anti-kickback laws and allowed them “to influence federal purchases” of its software, the Justice Department said on Thursday. The allegations center on “improper payments” Adobe was said to have made under its Solution Partner program “to companies that had a contractual or other relationship with the government that allowed them to influence federal purchases of Adobe software.” The DOJ, in a statement, said that between January 2011 and December 2020, “Adobe allegedly paid the companies a…
