Meta stock surges after Q2 results blow past expectations despite heavy AI spending

Meta stock surges after Q2 results blow past expectations despite heavy AI spending

Meta’s artificial intelligence spending spree appears to be paying off with investors, who sent the company’s stock soaring after hours on Wednesday following a blowout quarterly earnings report. The Menlo Park, California-based company easily beat Wall Street’s expectations for the second quarter, helped by higher advertising revenue and a growing user base on its flagship…

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First International Ready for Recycling Certificate Issued Under Hong Kong Convention

First International Ready for Recycling Certificate Issued Under Hong Kong Convention

GMS and the Liberian Registry have announced the landmark issuance of the world’s first International Ready for Recycling Certificate (IRRC) since last month’s entry into force of the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships (HKC). The certificate was granted to the vessel R PISCES, which will be recycled…

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Opinion: Why China won’t stop the fentanyl trade

Opinion: Why China won’t stop the fentanyl trade

Hundreds of seized fentanyl pills that imitate Oxycodone M30 are kept as evidence at the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Dallas Field Division lab, Aug. 1, 2023. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News/TNS) The United States won’t be able to solve the fentanyl crisis without help from its greatest rival. China is the world’s largest supplier of the…

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Massachusetts classroom cell phone ban

Massachusetts classroom cell phone ban

WORCESTER, Mass. – As legislation to ban students from using their cell phones at school gains traction in Massachusetts, one local teacher is hopeful state lawmakers will be able to solve the pervasive problem she’s been trying to tackle for several years.  What You Need To Know The Massachusetts Senate will vote on a bill…

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