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The Orange County Sheriff’s Department is piloting the VR headsets to create a virtual version of its crime centers, where cops monitor surveillance data in real time. https://lnkd.in/etfUCYZi

Checking your phone at work can pull your focus and even derail your day. Looking to get some productivity back and avoid infinite scrolling? Here are some tips: https://trib.al/aFyxqoE

Starting a business is always a risk, but some ventures have a reputation for being more stable than others. If you want to start your own business, but don't have a focus yet, consider these practical options. https://trib.al/xGMs0lx

At just 21 years old, Jordan Barclay has already achieved what many creators only dream of - over 10 million YouTube subscribers and a thriving media company on track to generate $10 million in annual revenue. Known to his fans as EYstreem, Barclay's journey from making videos in his bedroom to running a global enterprise offers valuable insights into the evolving creator economy. Read more: https://trib.al/fSjcOlE

Most students have arrived on college campuses for the fall semester and most bills for those college expenses have arrived for parents and legal guardians to pay as well. According to the Education Data Initiative, the average cost for a single year of college in the U.S. is $38,270.00 a year. That amount covers tuition, books, student fees, supplies and living expenses, and it represents a 4.11% increase that’s expected to compound on itself each year. Which means the total cost of a four-year degree cashes out at $162,776.99. That’s a significant amount for any budget. But when it comes to helping reduce the costs for your kid(s) to attend college, you have an unlikely ally in AI. Read more: https://trib.al/z9KiR4D

AI image generator Stable Diffusion was used to turn thousands of GoPro’d photographs of children visiting the park into child sexual abuse material, investigators say.

With clever use of generative AI, you can take a single article, interview or transcript and multiply it, creating a few months’ of posts from one solid idea. But how do you stretch one concept into twenty without losing quality?

Zac Brown, co-founder and lead singer of the country group, Zac Brown Band, recently listed his Georgia estate for $3.25 million. Located about 45 miles northeast of Atlanta, the property sits on Lake Lanier and has a seven-bedroom home, boat house, and a cedar dock.

Bacha Coffee at Singapore’s iconic Marina Bay Sands is wedged between Armani and Zara stores. Square tins of coffee beans adorn the café’s walls from floor to ceiling in eye-popping shades of saffron—the most expensive of which is Paraiso Gold from Brazil that retails at Bacha for S$1,100 ($840) per 100 grams. As customers sip their 100% Arabica coffee—of which there are over 200 varieties—and nibble on Comté cheese croissants, they can ponder digging a little deeper into their pockets for, say, a gold-plated metal and glass Sultan coffee pot selling for S$3,899. Getting a table at Bacha usually involves waiting in line and those impatient for their caffeine fix can try their luck just around the corner at the TWG Tea store, styled as an English tea room and with wall-to-wall displays of yellow tea tins. Here, TWG sells Imperial Gyokuro green tea from Japan when in stock for S$1,271 per 50 grams. “We are not just any coffee or tea shop,” says Ron Sim, whose privately held V3 Group owns and operates both chains. “We‘re building premium brands.” Sim is no stranger to creating much sought-after, high-end products. Bacha is a more recent addition to his brand portfolio. https://trib.al/VSwTJ2m

Back-to-school looks different this year as districts across America institute new programs banning smartphones, enabled by lockable pouches from 10-year-old company Yondr.