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Uber Eats will apparently remove a scene from its Super Bowl ad that depicts a man having an allergic reaction to peanut butter, following backlash from some consumers and food allergy advocates — a sticky situation that brand experts say could have been avoided.The ad starts with a production assistant handing Jennifer Aniston a bag of fresh flowers, lotions and other goodies in a green Uber Eats bag. "I didn't know you could get all this stuff on Uber Eats," the woman says. "I gotta remember that.""Well, you know what they say," Aniston responds, tapping her noggin. "In order to remember something, you've got to forget something else. Make a little room." It's the setup for a procession of different characters — some celebrities, some not — who forget something significant just so they c...

AI is taking over—or, at least, that’s what many headlines suggest. Between replacing jobs, spreading misinformation online and the (currently unfounded) threat of AI leading to human extinction, there are plenty of concerns around the ethical and practical uses of AI. It’s a topic on many people’s minds. A 2023 KPMG report on AI found only two in five people believe current government and industry regulations, laws and safeguards are enough to make AI use safe. Here, we speak to Paula Goldman, the first-ever chief ethical and humane use officer for software company Salesforce, about why AI needs human oversight, how the tech can actually be used for good and the importance of regulation. In simple terms, what do you do in your job? I work to make sure that the technology that we produce...

Breadcrumb Trail LinksNewsEconomyLittle reason for central bank to abandon patient stancePublished Feb 09, 2024  •  2 minute read While Canada's job gains beat expectations, the picture wasn’t all rosy, say economists. Photo by National PostArticle contentThe Canadian economy added 37,000 jobs in January and the unemployment rate fell to 5.7 per cent, according to figures released Feb. 9 by Statistics Canada. While that beat expectations of a 15,000-job gain, the picture wasn’t all rosy. Here’s what economists had to say about the report.Douglas Porter, Bank of MontrealArticle content“Beyond the shiny headlines, the details were underwhelming,” Douglas Porter, chief economist and managing director of economics at the Bank of Montreal, wrote in a note to clients following the release of t...

The history of Las Vegas has been marked by a relentless churn of hotels, casinos, theaters and restaurants. But only recently has the city’s landscape included major professional sports teams.The Golden Knights of the National Hockey League were the first to start play here in 2017. The Aces of the Women’s National Basketball Association started in 2018, and the National Football League’s Raiders arrived from Oakland in 2020. Last year, Major League Baseball’s Athletics were given the go-ahead to make the same Oakland-to-Las Vegas move, and the National Basketball Association is expected to add a team in the coming years.Las Vegas’s transformation into a pro sports town reflects not just the leagues’ interest in the city and their general embrace of sports betting, but also the power of t...

One man got down on his knees and kissed the rug emblazoned with the ship’s logo. Another lifted his wife and swung her around, ecstatic to be among the roughly 5,000 passengers to embark on the inaugural sailing of the world’s largest cruise ship, the Icon of the Seas.For months, the 250,800-ton ship, which can carry nearly 8,000 people, has been making headlines — including some that have criticized its size and potential to damage the environment. But the passengers who plunked down $1,800 to $100,000 and boarded the ship at Port Miami in Florida on Jan. 27, said nothing could have prepared them for the vessel’s sheer scale.“It’s stunning,” said Christina Carvalho, a 43-year-old accountant from Oakland, Calif., as she stood on the ship’s Royal Promenade, gaping up at “The Pearl,” a giga...

In a bizarre theft reported from Georgia, USA, an Amazon delivery driver tried to steal a customer's dog after leaving the ordered package at their door.The incident took place in Henry County, Georgia, last week. Terrika Currence was home when the package arrived. She opened the door to take the package, but before she could understand what was happening, her daughter screamed that their dog had been stolen by the delivery man. "As I open the door to put the package in the house, and the dog food, my daughter screams and says, 'The Amazon guy stole our puppy'," she told WSB-TV.Currence immediately took out her mobile and began to record the exchange with the driver. In the video, the woman can be heard asking the man to return her dog as she continues to look inside his van.The moment she...

Last spring, it seemed Tucker Carlson might have reached the end of his fiery path through American media and politics.Fox News canceled his top-rated show, depriving Mr. Carlson of his nightly platform in prime time. But it kept him under a contract, worth more than $15 million a year, that prohibited him from taking a job with a rival.Under the old rules of the legacy media, Mr. Carlson would have been off the air and out of sight through the end of the 2024 election, when his contract runs out. But Mr. Carlson is no typical television star. And what was once normal in his industry is increasingly archaic, shattered by the new rules — or lack thereof — of the fractured online media world.In landing an exclusive interview with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia — released on Thursday o...