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Facebook is rolling out features that aim to bring fans closer to their favorite creators: fan challenges and customized top fan badges. The fan challenges feature will allow creators to prompt their followers with specific challenges. Followers can participate by making a reel or a post as a response. To encourage more engagement and participation, the particular challenge hashtag will appear in a leaderboard that ranks the submissions in order of how many reactions it gets. These kinds of challenges have been popular on short form video platforms like TikTok and Instagram Reels, where users may participate in informal dance…
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Arnold Schwarzenegger downplayed the Trump administration’s climate skepticism Tuesday and threw his weight behind the Vatican’s environmental initiative, saying individual choice, local regulations and the Catholic Church’s moral leadership were far more important to “terminate” global warming.Schwarzenegger was at the Vatican to headline a three-day climate conference marking the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’ landmark 2015 environmental encyclical, Laudato Si (Praised Be). The document, one of Francis’ main legacies, cast saving God’s creation as an urgent moral imperative and launched a broad, grassroots movement that Pope Leo XIV has fully embraced and made his own.Schwarzenegger, the…
Passengers on a Delta Air Lines flight from Lagos, Nigeria, to Atlanta faced an unexpected two-day delay last week when a small fire on board forced the plane to turn around.Delta flight 55 took off from Lagos’s Murtala Muhammed International Airport (LOS) on September 23 without any issue. However, shortly after the Airbus A330-200’s departure, the crew received an indication of a “small-scale fire that was contained to one of the aircraft’s galley ovens,” a Delta spokesperson said. The issue was caused by food debris on one of the oven’s heating elements. As such, the crew decided not to use…
Job seekers in all fields can expect to soon be doing a lot more initial screening interviews. While that may sound like positive news, it doesn’t mean that there will suddenly be more open positions. Instead, recruiters, often bogged down with determining which applicants are qualified for the next round, will outsource the routine screening tasks — like checking backgrounds, salary needs, and availability — to (you guessed it) AI. Alex, a startup building an AI recruiter, says it’s already helping companies conduct video interviews and phone screens. Aaron Wang (pictured center, bottom row), who co-founded Alex about 18 months…
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lawyers for the Des Moines public schools leader detained by immigration authorities have asked a court to put deportation proceedings on hold.Attorney Alfredo Parrish said his law firm filed the request for a stay with the federal immigration court in Omaha, Nebraska, on behalf of Superintendent Ian Roberts. Parrish did not elaborate on the filing, which was made under seal, but said his firm planned a news conference later Tuesday.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Roberts last week, saying the Guyana native was living and working in the country illegally. A state board promptly…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government starts phasing out paper checks for most programs on Tuesday.The change, which was initiated through an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in March, will affect recipients of benefits including Social Security, Supplemental Security Income and tax refunds.Trump’s Republican administration argues the shift of all payments and collections to electronic methods is designed to protect taxpayers from fraud and stolen checks, speed up processing and cut costs. But advocates fear that the shift will hurt marginalized Americans who lack access to digital services and may not even know this phase-out is coming.“A lot…
Coaches and staff use the Scorability recruiting dashboard to discover, evaluate, and engage with recruitsScoreabilitySports tech platform Scorability has raised $40 million in fresh funding as the company looks to modernize college sports recruiting, the company announced on Tuesday.The funding round was led by Bluestone Equity Partners, with participation from sports merchandising giant Fanatics. Luther King Capital Management also joined the round, alongside returning investors Silverton Partners, Next Coast Ventures and Scorability’s co-founder Brian Cruver.The raise comes as the college sports landscape undergoes a seismic shift following a $2.28 billion NCAA antitrust settlement that paved the way for student-athletes to…
A Faraday Future electric SUV caught fire at the startup’s Los Angeles headquarters early Sunday morning, leading to an explosion that blew out part of a wall, the fire department told TechCrunch. The fire was extinguished in 40 minutes, and no injuries were reported. Damage to the building — a smaller two-story structure next to the larger portion of the headquarters (pictured above) — was severe enough that the city’s Department of Building and Safety has “red tagged” it, meaning it may need structural work before it can be occupied again. “We are aware of a fire at our facility…
More online platforms are giving secondhand shopping a digital upgrade, rolling out features like livestream shopping and AI-powered search to make thrifting faster and more exciting. Although choosing secondhand over new is often the more sustainable option, experts say it’s not a license to overconsume. They warn that resale has its limits, since buying more than you need still fuels waste, and shopping online can add emissions from servers and shipping, thrifted or not. eBay brought secondhand fashion to the runway. Experts say if you want to shop sustainably, skip the hauls and choose pieces you’ll actually wear. Here’s how…
NEW YORK (AP) — Crowds wore maga flowers and “pavas” — straw hats traditionally worn by jíbaros, Puerto Rican rural farmers. They drank Medalla beer and danced salsa. Over the course of a 31-date residency at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan, Bad Bunny worked a miracle, inspiring patriotism in the hearts of a proud Boricua people, and in those traveling to Puerto Rico for the first time. He performed on two stages, one showcasing the island’s natural beauty with its flamboyan and plantain trees, and another, a casita (“little house”), for the pari de marquesina, a house…