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GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Vignir Kristinsson smiled as two women, the only customers of the morning, entered a gift shop filled with handmade oak. One woman purchased a small tree stained black after perusing a variety of decorative items, from animals to kitchen cutting boards.Christinson, 64, said he made a living making cabinets for decades, but his daughter convinced him to turn his passion for woodworking into a business. Five years ago, he and his wife opened a store in Grindavik, a coastal town of 3,800 people about 50 kilometers (30 miles) southwest of Iceland’s capital Reykjavik. Business was good.…
Instagram has introduced a new privacy setting that puts all new and existing underage accounts into auto-private mode by default.Brandon Bell | Getty Imagesmeta The social media company announced Tuesday that it will limit the content teen users can see on Instagram to what they would typically encounter in a PG-13 rated movie.With the new content guidelines, Meta said it will hide certain accounts from youth, including accounts that share sexual content or media related to drugs and alcohol. Additionally, Instagram discourages posts containing swear words, but teens can still search for swear words.The changes come after the company faced…
What makes a passport “powerful”? Well, the clear measure is travel generosity, the ability to slip into destinations around the world without the need for a visa by simply waving your passport in the breeze. The Henry Passport Index is one of several rankings that measure the effectiveness of passports in this regard, and for the first time in its 20-year history, U.S. passports are completely absent from the top 10 list. Three Asian passports currently occupy the top of the leaderboard. Singapore offers visa-free access to 193 destinations around the world. Korea, 190 accessible. And Japan has 189 people.…
Mary Steenburgen, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen Each of her Diane’s Book Club co-stars paid tribute to the late actress. The Elf actress stressed that her late friend was “magical”. “There has never been anyone like her, and there never will be,” she said in a statement. “I loved her and felt happy to be her friend. Her love for her family. What a magical person she was!!!” “It’s hard to believe and accept that Diane has passed away,” Jane wrote in an Instagram post. “She was always a ray of life and light, always laughing at her weaknesses and infinitely…
With less than 24 hours until the U.S. government’s new port fees for Chinese-made cargo ships, importers are grappling with additional duties that include other Chinese-made machinery that is key to their supply chains.On Friday, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, after reviewing public comments on the previous rule, announced proposed amendments that include an additional 150% tariff on components that make up rubber-tire gantry cranes, rail-mounted gantry cranes, automatic stacking cranes, reach stackers, straddle carriers, terminal tractors, top loaders, and equipment.Taking into account the layering of previous tariffs on cranes, the new tariff rate could reach 270%.In addition…
Google is rolling out a series of changes to its Search and Discover pages, which the company shared in multiple announcements. This update introduces new AI-powered features to these key destinations, as well as improved navigation and the ability for users to collapse ads in Google Search. At first, the latter seems like a more surprising change, considering that advertising is Google’s main source of revenue. With this feature, users viewing Google search results will be able to tap a new button, Hide Sponsored Results, to collapse ads at the top of the search results page. Image credit: Google However,…
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A man scaled a steel fence in the middle of the night to evade police and used a beer bottle filled with gasoline to ignite the building he had occupied. Pennsylvania Governor’s Mansion He pleaded guilty Tuesday to attempted murder and other charges.Cody Ballmer, 38, also faces terrorism charges, including 22 counts of arson, aggravated arson, robbery and aggravated assault on the governor. Josh ShapiroThe April 13 attack, which caused millions of dollars in damage to a state-owned brick building, resulted in 21 counts of reckless endangerment and loitering. Under a plea agreement, Ballmer was sentenced…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff participates in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2025.Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Imagessales force The company is stepping up partnerships with leaders in generative artificial intelligence as investors continue to worry about the business risks software companies face from the rapid growth of AI.Just before its annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Salesforce announced Tuesday that it will now be making AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic available within its Agentforce 360 software. The day before, Salesforce extended Agentforce to support voice calls as well as text chats.”The…
johannesburg, south africa AP — At least 42 people were killed and 49 passengers were injured when a bus veered off the road and into an embankment on a rugged mountain pass in northern South Africa, authorities said Monday. The accident occurred around 6pm local time on National Highway 1 near the town of Louis Trichard, about 400 kilometers north of the capital Pretoria. The Ministry of Transport said in a statement that the victims included seven children, 17 men and 18 women. The statement said six people were seriously injured and another 31 people were taken to multiple hospitals…
halle berry celebrating her daughter NalaIt’s literally a huge milestone in the most amazing way. surely, catwoman The 17-year-old actress is looking forward to her next chapter,d celebrated with sweets. “Congratulations to my sweet angel Nala,” Halle wrote on her Instagram Story on Oct. 13, along with a video of a pink cake. “Congratulations on getting accepted into college early.” And the 59-year-old shares a nara with her ex-husband gabriel aubry-So that her daughter’s success wouldn’t go unnoticed, she showed off the cake and said, “You did it, Nala!” Written in white icing. Nahla’s success was long overdue. monster ball…