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U.S. Warns Spring Breakers Headed to Mexico, Jamaica or the Bahamas

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Nonetheless, she has taken new precautions for her upcoming trip, like packing additional health supplies and purchasing a security bar for the sliding balcony door of her hotel room. In the Bahamas, gang violence and a number of murders prompted U.S. In recent weeks, the State Department and U.S. What do the travel warnings say?

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Digital Currency and Trade Systems Are Tearing up the Rules

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Digital currencies could allow the government to see everything you purchase and constrain what you can and cannot do with your money. One serious concern in this new regime is the deterioration of personal data privacy and the rising power of data holders, both companies and government agencies.

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Falling Domestic Fares and an A.I. Arms Race: What Travelers Can Expect in 2024

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At the same time, companies like the online travel agency Hopper , which says it uses 70 trillion data points in its pricing prediction model, continue to work the problem from the other side, in a kind of A.I. Finally, A.I. The act proposes allowing retailers to choose a cheaper system that would reduce the fees.

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Satellite Imagery for Everyone

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What’s more, with the recent advances in artificial intelligence, companies can more easily extract the information they need from huge digital data sets, including ones composed of satellite images. These underwater sand dunes adorn the seafloor between Andros Island and the Exuma islands in the Bahamas.