Construction began this week on the new Big Beautiful White House Ballroom that will have room for nearly 1,000 guests for future White House social events and state dinners with world leaders. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump previously announced that he was planning to build the new ballroom at the White House and told…
Fashion tech startup Prevoir has closed a pre-seed funding round, raising $750,000 CAD to scale its platform. The Calgary-born company’s platform uses AI and computer vision to extract product attributes and connect them to sales and inventory data, helping fashion retailers and merchandisers curate collections, predict trends, and analyze sales performance. Prevoir closed the funding…
The practice of Transcendental Meditation offers a natural method for taking our attention deep within our conscious mind, far from the outside physical realm, with the intention of tapping into the source of thought. By focusing our attention on our awareness, we open the door to an altered state of consciousness. Once this meditative technique…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Since May 1, Amsterdam’s billboards and tram shelters no longer carry ads for burgers, petrol cars, or cheap flights. The Dutch capital is now the first in the world to ban public advertising for both meat and fossil fuel products. Where chicken nuggets and SUVs once competed for wall…
Freezing Kiev in the dark – Image Social Media X Kiev has started suffering like the frontlines. As the Russia-Ukraine war nears its fourth year, we’ve come to the point where Moscow forces’ combined missile-drone strikes have degraded enemy power generation and electrical grids so much that they can’t get it fixed before a new…
TikTok is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit that alleges the social media app did not disclose the scale or scope of personal information it collects from Canadian users, or disclose how that data was used to sell targeted advertising. The proposed lawsuit alleges no TikTok privacy policy disclosed to users that “TikTok was combining and…
Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in certain parts of Gaza that have remained under its control since the ceasefire with Hamas. The ceasefire agreement went into effect on October 10th; however, satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify show that portions of Gaza are still active war zones. Some have noticed that the operations inside Gaza…
“The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.” ~Arnold Schwarzenegger The gym. Just saying the word makes some people break into a sweat—and not the good kind. Bright lights. Mirrors everywhere. What do I wear? That “everyone is staring at…
The general manager of your favourite NHL team has likely used data gathered by Montréal-based Sportlogiq to inform their blockbuster trades and minor free agent signings. Last week, the AI-powered analytics platform made its own trade headlines after being acquired by sports operations platform Teamworks. Sportlogiq has already been providing its player tracking and event…
Social history versus art might well be the title of Tate Modern’s Tracy Emin A Second Life retrospective. 30 years ago her installation “My Bed” shot her to a tabloid fame and then gradually to national treasure though retaining her reputation as a “swearing, sexually aggressive provocateur.” Her initial foray into conceptual art was…
