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BlaBlaCar raises $115 million to build all-in-one travel app

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While last year’s lockdown has impacted carpooling, it shouldn’t be compared with trains or flights. Car is and will be the universal connector that doesn’t rely on train stations or bus stops,” Brusson said. The company wants to build a multimodal app where you can find all shared travel — carpooling, buses and soon trains.

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For those who want to turn travel into dollars, Fora can help start your next career

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Travel is back, at least according to experts who say travel bookings for over the Thanksgiving holiday are showing to be even higher than pre-pandemic levels. Anyone who loves travel or is that friend who always plans the best vacations, Fora has a tool for you. Travel agencies are a $100 billion market in the U.S. ,

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Why a 35-year-old travel IT company decided to slash its technical debt

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Public travel systems provider Amadeus opened for business way back in 1987 when four airlines wanted to offer a centralized booking system. Today, the company facilitates booking and inventory management for 216 airlines, as well as hotels, trains, airports, online travel companies and even corporations.

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Dear Sophie: Can our employee travel on DACA?

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Dear Sophie: Can our employee travel on DACA? Traveling abroad with Advance Parole. To answer your first question, your employee can travel to India to set up your office there only if he gets what’s called an “Advance Parole” document from U.S. She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives.

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Enhancing customer care through deep machine learning at Travelers

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New York-based insurance provider Travelers, with 30,000 employees and 2021 revenues of about $35 billion, is in the business of risk. On the role of the Chief Data Officer: Due to the nature of our business, Travelers has always used data analytics to assess and price risk. s SVP and chief data & analytics officer, has a crowâ??s

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VRAI wants to tackle the energy crisis by bringing VR simulation training to offshore wind sector

TechCrunch

Virtual Reality (VR) has struggled to transition too far beyond gaming circles and specific industry use-cases such as medical training , but with the burgeoning metaverse movement championed by tech heavyweights such as Meta , there has been a renewed hope (and hype) around the promise that virtual worlds bring. ” Training day.

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Is there a future in light-powered AI chips?

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The growing compute power necessary to train sophisticated AI models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT might eventually run up against a wall with mainstream chip technologies. CNBC, speaking to analysts and technologists, estimates the current cost of training a ChatGPT-like model from scratch to be over $4 million.

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