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Pamela Ross is a Bloomfield Free Press news writer. She writes about politics, health, and travel. Pamela has been a Bloomfield Free Press writer since 2017. She started her career as a freelance writer for various publications before making the jump to Bloomfield Free Press. She covers local and national news stories, with an emphasis on health issues and environmental issues.

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Tomasz Tunguz’s Theory Ventures has raised a $450 million second fund, filings say

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Theory Ventures has raised $450 million for its second fund, according to securities filings viewed by Fortune.  The firm was started in 2023 by Tomasz Tunguz, a former managing director at venture capital firm Redpoint. Tunguz made his name at Redpoint with investing wins like data analytics company Looker—sold to Google-parent Alphabet for $2.6 billion […]

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Cooper Union wins decisive court case against Aby Rosen over Chrysler Building

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Tempestuous legal drama over the Chrysler Building between Cooper Union and real estate mogul Aby Rosen ended in decisive victory for the bonafide New York school this week. On October 31, Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Jennifer Schecter sided with Cooper Union when Chrysler Building tenants were ordered to pay rent directly to the school instead of

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Amazon’s CEO dropped a big hint about how a new AI version of Alexa is going to compete with chatbots like ChatGPT

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More than a year after Amazon teased a new, smarter and AI-powered Alexa, the world is still waiting for the product’s release. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy didn’t provide an update on when the new Alexa will arrive, when he spoke during the company’s quarterly earnings call on Thursday. But he did give some details on

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Tim Cook says he uses ‘a very good formula’ to look for Apple employees—these are the 4 traits he seeks out

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Landing a job at Apple isn’t easy—but according to CEO Tim Cook, people who possess four specific qualities are much more likely to find themselves in the running. Speaking at the University of Naples Federico II in Italy in 2022—where he received an honorary degree in innovation and international management—Cook told students that it was

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Kongjian Yu discusses his Sponge City projects and how to implement the work on a global scale

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While most of the world dithers in the face of climate catastrophe, Beijing-based landscape architect Kongjian Yu has been implementing climate resilience projects on a vast scale. Winning the confidence of mayors all over his country, Yu’s design firm, Turenscape, has completed hundreds of infrastructure projects called “Sponge Cities” since its founding in 1998. These

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More than 60% of CEOs are ‘digitally illiterate’, according to their own employees

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Since the advent of ChatGPT, the world’s biggest companies have scrambled over each other to talk up their adoption of cutting-edge AI tools.  However, a growing number of their employees are frustrated t by their bosses’ “digital illiteracy”–holding them back from productivity gains promised by using AI. Research from tech.io in 2023 found two-thirds of

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Chicago Architecture Biennial names Florencia Rodriguez its 2025 artistic director

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The theme, artistic director, and dates for the sixth Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) were announced today. Shift: Architecture in Times of Radical Change will be shepherded by Florencia Rodriguez, marking CAB’s first Latina artistic director. Rodriguez is a director at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Architecture (UIC SoArch), and also an accomplished writer and

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LeBron James’ wife Savannah talks about her new business venture—and how she built up her own confidence

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Good morning! There’s an early voting gender gap, Female Founders Fund returned its first fund, and Savannah James built self-confidence while founding a new community for women. – Confidence in community. Over the two decades that her husband LeBron James has played in the NBA, Savannah James, for a long time, stayed out of the

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