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Gainesville, Fla. (AP) – The University of Florida Councillors’ Conference Committee approved Tuesday Santa Ono To become the next leader of Florida’s flagship university, you need another vote before it becomes official.Former University of Michigan president, Ono needs approval from the governing body of the State University System before becoming the 14th dean of the University of Florida.”The energy here at the University of Florida is clear and I am eager to join the incredible students, faculty and staff at Gator Nation,” Ono said in a statement.The school’s board of trustees will select the president and appointments will be subject…

Most delivery automations stop at the curb. But for Veho and Zurich-based robotics startup RIVR, the real challenge and opportunity lies in the final 100 yards from the van to the front door. In a pilot program launched in Austin on Tuesday, RIVR’s four-wheeled stair climbing streaming robot is described by CEO and founder Marko Bjelonic as a “roller skating dog.” Companies are starting to be small, they told TechCrunch exclusively. The highly monitored robot works every day, running 5-6 hours across Austin over several weeks. However, the two companies see it as an important step in solving the unique…

This escalation of demand for efficiency has created a direct drive for online casinos to adopt more agile financial solutions. The rise of rapid withdrawal casinos is a direct response to this growing pressure, reflecting a fundamental shift in industry priorities. Players expect to access their prize money as quickly as they are reasonable expectations given the refinement of modern banking and e-commerce. European pressure driver Several interconnected factors have contributed to strengthening pressure on online casinos in Europe to provide faster payments. Evolving Consumer Expectations: The digital economy conditions European consumers to expect immediacy. From instant bank transfers to…

The laws that votes are likely to pass eventually say it supports 90% of France in favor of laws that grant people with terminal illnesses the right to die.The French House of Representatives has taken the first step in a long process to approve the Die Rights Bill in its first reading and pass the law. A total of 305 lawmakers in the Legislature approved the law on Tuesday, with 199 representatives voting against the bill, granting patient medical assistance to end lives in defined circumstances. The text is supported by President Emmanuel Macron, but is opposed by several conservative…

By punishing the daytime heat, thousands of Palestinians drool through the fences, pierced the packed crowds and reached life-saving supplies, baring the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe given to Gaza with three months of Israeli aid. Israeli military shootings rattled in the background Tuesday in the overhead fuss of military helicopters, with desperate crowds struggling to reach the food distribution point in the state where Israel was wrapped on the first day of the operation. Television footage from Rafa in southern Gaza showed long-term people were concentrated in a large open field stacked with aid packages brought to the Gaza…

King Charles III gave a rare royal speech from Canadian Parliament, highlighting the country’s sovereignty in a new era of “dangerous and uncertainty.” Tuesday’s so-called “speech from the throne” was historic. It was the first time Charles had given a speech from Canada since he became king, and only the third annual speech was given to commence parliamentary sessions by the British monarch, not the crown representative. Speaking from the Ottawa Senate, Charles tried to build the event as what is happening during the equally historic “epoch.” In a statement, President Donald Trump’s destructive policies that have launched a trade…

Ward Halil emerges from the living flame, but her mother and two brothers are killed in an Israeli Air Force attack.Ward Halil stares at the camera, her eyes narrowly focusing as she remembers the horror she has experienced. “When I woke up I found a huge fire and saw my mother dead,” she says. She said she survived the Israeli air attack early Monday, which killed her mother, two brothers and 33 others. Video footage of the 6-year-old ward, with her tiny body silhouetted in flames after an attack on the Fami al-Jarjawi school in Gaza, shocks people all over…

If getting AI to replace human labor has become the subject of much debate. It’s still hard to say for certain if AI begins to take over previously human-made roles, but a recent survey by the World Economic Forum found that 40% of employers reduce staff that AI can automate tasks. Researchers at Signalfire, a data-driven VC company that tracks employment movements for over 600 million employees and 80 million companies on LinkedIn, believe that there could be the first indication of AI’s impact on employment. Analyzing employment trends, SignalFire noticed that tech companies hired more recent university graduates than…

Asyña, the project behind Bitcoin and its Layer 2 protocol’s unlawful smart multi-sigvault, has rolled out a major V2 upgrade and pushed it forward by securing fresh funds of $3 million. The round was led by Hivemind Capital and Tykhe Block Ventures and was supported by a lineup of SATS ventures, trust machines and angel investors. Portal Ventures led Asinya’s previous seed round along with Bitcoin Frontier Fund. For those new to the company, Assigna is a smart safe system that helps teams, DAOs and institutions manage Bitcoin’s finances safely. Vault supports $1.1 billion in assets and serves as a…

Self-driving truck startup Tusimple (now Createai) sent sensitive data (effectively a blueprint for American-made autonomous vehicle systems) to a Beijing-owned company after committing to the US government to halt such relocations, according to the Wall Street Journal. The transfer to a Chinese truck manufacturer occurred around February 2022. This comes a week after Tusimple signed an agreement in which US regulators ordered businesses to separate business and technology from China-based employees through firewalls and governance control. Data sharing continued until Tusimple’s deadline to comply with the contract six months later, according to hundreds of pages of communication seen by the…