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Explaining the Vatican’s engagement with contemporary art thumbnail
San Diego Daily

Explaining the Vatican’s engagement with contemporary art

The Vatican is participating in the international art exhibition “La Biennale di Venezia” in Italy for the fourth consecutive year. A senior Vatican...

Pope Leo XIV: Use AI prudently because it can project ‘an unreal world’ thumbnail
San Diego Daily

Pope Leo XIV: Use AI prudently because it can project ‘an unreal world’

Pope Leo XIV encouraged young people to use social media and artificial intelligence (AI) prudently because “they can immerse us in an unreal...

DA-BFAR to boost aquaculture potential of samaral thumbnail
San Diego Daily

DA-BFAR to boost aquaculture potential of samaral

The Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) is promoting the culture of siganids, or rabbitfish (Siganus spp.), locally known as samaral, as...

Casino Plus hits new milestone with P100-million Color Game Ultimate Jackpot thumbnail
San Diego Daily

Casino Plus hits new milestone with P100-million Color Game Ultimate Jackpot

Casino Plus, one of the country’s leading responsible digital entertainment platforms licensed by the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR), announced today that...

PHL rolls out interoperable direct debit facility and Instapay for businesses thumbnail
San Diego Daily

PHL rolls out interoperable direct debit facility and Instapay for businesses

Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas main office in Manila. — BW FILE PHOTO By Katherine K. Chan, Reporter THE BANGKO SENTRAL ng Pilipinas (BSP)...

Warren Buffett is handing $140 billion to his family’s foundations. The way he’s doing it reveals how billionaire philanthropy really works thumbnail
Los Angeles Daily

Warren Buffett is handing $140 billion to his family’s foundations. The way he’s doing it reveals how billionaire philanthropy really works

After some drama surrounding Warren Buffett’s relationship with the Gates Foundation, the Oracle of Omaha decided to forgo his annual donation to the...

Inside Ikea’s big bet on humans in the age of AI thumbnail
Los Angeles Daily

Inside Ikea’s big bet on humans in the age of AI

The countertop was a problem far too unruly for AI to solve. When the customer called in to Ikea’s remote-sales center in Helsingborg...

New Dow CEO drives ‘transformation’ back to profitability amid oil market upheaval thumbnail
Los Angeles Daily

New Dow CEO drives ‘transformation’ back to profitability amid oil market upheaval

More than 30 years after joining Dow Inc. as an intern, Karen Carter became the CEO this year, taking the helm of a...

Trump’s dollar déjà vu: what an uncanny chart about the greenback shows about American exceptionalism thumbnail
Los Angeles Daily

Trump’s dollar déjà vu: what an uncanny chart about the greenback shows about American exceptionalism

Back in January 2025, Adam Turnquist built a chart. LPL Financial’s chief technical strategist had overlaid the U.S. Dollar Index’s trajectory across Donald...

Fast-food execs keep pushing for more AI systems, but fail to see the big picture: Customers still want humans thumbnail
Los Angeles Daily

Fast-food execs keep pushing for more AI systems, but fail to see the big picture: Customers still want humans

Fast-food chains have spent the past several years racing to automate everything from drive-through ordering to burger flipping using AI.   McDonald’s and Wendy’s...