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Andrew Callahan: It’s time to forget about Jerod Mayo getting firedFunding fuels production ramp-up at U.S.-based facility, bringing advanced lead detection and smart home technology to market SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. , Dec. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Notation Labs Inc. announced today the successful completion of a $2 million credit facility to scale up production of its innovative QwelTM smart home device. This funding provides the company with the financial flexibility and liquidity needed to expand manufacturing capacity and meet increasing customer demand as it prepares for market launch. The company has already initiated component procurement and manufacturing, including the order of 20,000 circuit boards from U.S.-based suppliers. Final assembly of the initial Qwel units will take place at the company's facility in Phoenix, Arizona . What Is Qwel TM ? QwelTM is a cutting-edge leak detection and prevention system designed to safeguard homes with advanced AI and machine learning technology. Its highly accurate sensors monitor critical factors like water pressure, temperature, flow rate and humidity to provide comprehensive protection. For more information about QwelTM or to stay updated on its release, visit https://www.qwel.io/ . About Notation Labs, Inc.: Notation Labs designs, engineers, and manufactures innovative smart water solutions to deliver high-quality products that empower homeowners. With a suite of advanced technologies, the company helps educate consumers on water conservation and equips them to make sustainable choices in their everyday lives. Driven by a mission to protect water resources for future generations, Notation Labs is at the forefront of water conservation efforts, leveraging breakthroughs in AI, machine learning, and Internet of Things (IoT) technology. The company is committed to making cutting-edge, water-saving devices that are not only highly effective but also affordable and accessible to households worldwide. By combining engineering excellence with a focus on sustainability, Notation Labs is redefining how consumers manage and conserve water. View original content: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/notation-labs-secures-2-million-credit-facility-to-accelerate-production-of-qwel-a-cutting-edge-lead-detection-and-prevention-system-302328185.html SOURCE Notation Labs, Inc.AP News Summary at 4:37 a.m. EST
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Shopping on Shein and Temu for holiday gifts? You're not the only oneIf the Democratic Party wants to win future elections outside of deep blue areas, it might just need to take inspiration from Goodwill Industries and embrace its philosophy of “A hand up, not a handout.” Many election analysts attribute President-elect Donald Trump’s win to one or two major factors, such as the economy or immigration. And as time goes on, political scientists like me may learn more. But one takeaway that is not really being discussed is the role of work, aspiration and prosperity. Warning: I will be painting with a very broad brush here. Please proceed with the understanding that some people in our society require services, and this is by no means a suggestion that they not receive the assistance they need. Patrick Ruffini, a Republican pollster and author of “Party of the People: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP,” recently joined New York Times columnist Ezra Klein on Klein’s podcast for an episode titled “The Book That Predicted the 2024 Election.” Ruffini shared polling that he conducted with Hispanic voters living in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas. He asked them what is the No. 1 problem they see today with the Democratic Party. Ruffini told Klein that the answer they gave “wasn’t ‘too woke’ or the buzzword of socialism.” Rather, they perceived the Democratic Party as being “the party of welfare benefits for people who do not work.” “And if you look at how the Democratic Party has been perceived in the last four years, in particular in terms of letting immigrants into the country, illegal migrants into the country, and there’s a perception that they’re getting government benefits and not working,” Ruffini said. “And all of this is coming at the expense of people who made their way in America who started from the very bottom of the rung and worked their way up the economic ladder through their own hard work and not necessarily through government policies.” This advice, if heeded, could have helped Vice President Kamala Harris in her campaign. Harris’ economic policy agenda focused on cutting taxes for working families, going after businesses and corporations for price gouging, lowering health care costs, expanding the child tax credit and offering $25,000 for new homebuyers. While Harris’ plan may have put more money in working Americans’ pockets, the focus seemed to be on the government’s role in helping citizens rather than empowering them to achieve their own success. Consider it in light of Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu’s famous quote, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” A Harris administration would have doled out a lot of fish. Back in May, Trump held a large rally in the South Bronx, New York, one of the most Democratic counties in the nation, where he tried to reach out to Black and Hispanic voters. While Trump’s speech was littered with lies about the 2020 election and other ramblings, he spent a large portion of that rally talking about success, both for the country and for individual Americans. “Do you remember I used to give talks on success before politics?” Trump told the crowd. “It starts with getting the right leadership. It also involves men and women just like you. ... I think we’re in the Bronx, we have young people, people that aspire to success.” As we sift through the data of the election, it appears Trump was able to reach at least some of those voters. For example, he increased his vote share in the Bronx by 11 percentage points to nearly 30% on Nov. 5. Trump won the 2024 election by turning out his base of supporters, but he also expanded his coalition among other voters, including several groups that have traditionally been a part of the Democratic base. VoteCast conducted a sweeping survey of the American electorate, interviewing more than 120,000 voters nationwide from Oct. 28 to Nov. 5. Its results found that Trump picked up a small but significant share of Black and Hispanic voters and made narrow gains with men and women. Harris lost support from this portion of the electorate as compared with President Joe Biden’s coalition in 2020. Talking about success seems to have bred electoral success. For years now, Democrats have been wringing their hands over the loss of the working-class voter to Republicans. Instead of trying to “help” workers with aid and programs, Dems should acknowledge, praise and encourage Americans’ labor. Schmidt writes for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: SchmidtOpinions@gmail.com . Get local news delivered to your inbox!
A Chinatown resident took the City of Vancouver and the Vancouver Police Department to court over a surveillance truck parked near her apartment. Karina Papenbrock-Ryan alleged the VPD violated her privacy and charter rights when it left its surveillance trailer on East Pender Street four years ago. The force calls the machine its . It consists of cameras and other equipment mounted on wheels. Police placed it outside the Chinese Cultural Centre in April 2020 in response to racist graffiti referencing COVID-19, the holocaust, and threatening violence against Asian people. The trailer was about one and a half blocks from Papenbrock-Ryan’s condominium. She estimated she walked through its field of view about 10 times without knowing what it was. When she saw a social media post explaining that it had cameras, she decided to modify her route so she wouldn’t walk past it anymore. “Ms. Papenbrock-Ryan describes this action as a test case dealing with the rights of the public to be free from mass surveillance by means of video cameras deployed in a public place or, put differently, general video surveillance without a specific investigative purpose,” judge Bruce Elwood wrote in his . Elwood dismissed Papenbrock-Elwood’s action but thanked her for bringing it forward. The case focused on whether her privacy was breached. Elwood explained there are already laws governing continually recorded police surveillance of public spaces, facial recognition technology, collection of personal information by the VPD, targeted surveillance during a criminal investigation, and the admissibility of video evidence during a criminal trial. The surveillance trailer records its video locally on a hard drive that’s wiped clean every four days unless an officer tries to access it. Though the judge accepted that Papenbrock-Elwood would have walked through its field of view, there’s nothing to suggest that a VPD officer accessed, reviewed, or distributed any images of her. Given the totality of circumstances, the judge didn’t think her privacy was violated. “At most, the footage of Ms. Papenbrock-Ryan would have disclosed her gender, her general appearance, her direction of travel, her mode of travel, and the date and time when she passed by,” the judge wrote. “It would not have revealed where she lives, where she works, where she was going, her religious or political beliefs, with whom she associates or any other biographical information about her.” Pepenbrock-Elwood’s privacy concerns also had to be balanced against community concerns following the hateful graffiti. “Provided it was working at the time, the [trailer] may have recorded a criminal act in progress, an image of a suspect, their direction and mode of travel, etc.” the judge wrote. “However, its primary purposes were to serve as a physical and psychological deterrent, and to reassure the community.” The judge looked at screenshots from the trailer and estimated its field of view at about 40 square metres. Its cameras were aimed at the Chinese Cultural Centre. The surveillance trailer ended up being removed in June 2020. It suffered technical difficulties that led to it not recording for several days. During that time, the trailer itself was tagged with graffiti.If you’re a Canadian who’s given into the home-country bias, you may be overexposed to TSX stocks and underexposed to some of the best-in-breed artificial intelligence ( ) winners out there, most notably the Magnificent Seven stocks. Indeed, the relative outperformed of the Magnificent Seven has been quite pronounced, with some calling for the group to slow down while the rest of the stock market catches up. Either way, I think the Magnificent Seven is a group of companies that probably won’t slow down anytime. Not while they’re continuing to pour large sums of cash into AI projects, many of which could start pulling in sizeable profits in the not-too-distant future. And while I still think Canadian investors should pick up the Canadian market bargains while they’re sitting around, the Magnificent Seven names more or less seem like must-owns at this point in time. At the end of the day, AI technologies stand out as revolutionary. And for Canadian investors seeking to do better than the TSX Index over the next decade, I’d say it’s going to be tougher if you don’t have the right exposure to the top U.S. mega-cap titans. In this piece, we’ll look at two names from the group that I view as essential. And while today’s valuations may not entail immense value, I view both stocks as worthy of a radar. Perhaps the new year will bring a correction that serves as a great buying opportunity for those Canadian investors looking to top up. Apple ( ) stock just hit a new all-time high of just over $243 per share. At just shy of 40 times trailing price to earnings (P/E), shares of the iPhone maker are close to the priciest they’ve been in a very long time. Despite the seemingly hefty valuation, I view some timely catalysts on the horizon that may just help AAPL run higher into 2026. Undoubtedly, Apple Intelligence is a technology that may finally give users who are hanging onto older models (many of whom are likely waiting for a major hardware redesign) a reason to head over to the local Apple Store to pick up the latest model. Apple’s next-generation silicon will be designed with Apple Intelligence in mind. As ChatGPT integration rolls out shortly while the firm continues adding its own AI innovations, perhaps the hefty premium on the stock is warranted, given the potential for iPhone sales to kick things up a notch. Meta Platforms ( ) is another Magnificent Seven AI beneficiary that strikes me as an essential component of any portfolio aiming to top the TSX Index over the long run. Unlike AAPL, shares actually look cheap at just 28.7 times trailing P/E. Moving ahead, Meta is pulling no punches when it comes to AI. It wants to land the knockout punch, and I think it’s well-positioned to do this under the great Mark Zuckerberg. He’s the last of the Magnificent Seven founders to remain as chief executive officer. And I’d argue his stewardship is more than worth paying up for. As the company spends billions on data centers and AI projects (think the Llama model), Meta could emerge as a relative value gem compared to its far-pricier AI software peers.
A new report from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found that President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) secretly obtained the phone call and text message records of 43 congressional staffers, two members of Congress in 2017 and 2018 and members of the news media. DOJ prosecutors obtained call and text logs from telecommunications companies and third-party providers including Apple through subpoenas, search warrants and court orders. It’s already known that President Trump’s DOJ tried to obtain communication records from Apple as part of an investigation into press leaks about stories that Trump associates made contact with Russian officials. The New York Times reported in 2021 that one of the subpoenas filed in 2018 demanded to see the accounts of 109 identifiers including Democratic Representatives Adam B. Schiff and Eric Swalwell of California, congressional aides and family members including one who was a minor. Now it appears that the scope of those subpoenas was much larger. The IG’s report says prosecutors attached gag orders to the subpoenas to prevent Apple and other companies from notifying their customers about the information orders. Most of the non-disclosure agreements were extended at least once, some of which stretched up to four years. The communication logs only showed the names of the parties involved in the calls and text messages. Even though the OIG’s report found no political motivation for prosecutors’ requests, he noted the subpoenas and other legal means of obtaining communication logs “risks chilling Congress’s ability to conduct oversight of the executive branch.” The report also says the DOH failed to convene the News Media Review Committee , a Justice Department advisory committee formed as part of an overhaul of its news media policies in 2014, to review its information requests calling its actions “troubling,” according to the report. Apple also took steps to limit the scope of legal requests following news of the subpoenas filed on Reps. Schiff and Swalwell. The tech company placed a limit of 25 identifiers per legal request on customers’ communication information in 2021.
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