Tesla shareholders vote yes again to approve Elon Musk’s $56B pay plan | TechCrunch

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has secured enough shareholder votes to have his 2018 stock option compensation package approved. Shareholders also approved the company’s decision to re-incorporate of Tesla in Texas, moving it away from the state where Musk’s pay package was struck down: Delaware.

Shareholders present at the company’s annual meeting Thursday held at Tesla’s Texas gigafactory, cheered and gave a standing ovation when general counsel Brandon Ehrhart announced the results of the vote. The margin of victory was not immediately clear.

“I just want to start off by saying: Hot damn, I love you guys,” Musk said as he leapt around on the stage Thursday. “I think we’re not just opening a new chapter for Tesla, we’re starting a new book.”

5 Strategies to Know As You Scale Your Business | Entrepreneur

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Like every entrepreneur, you likely aspire to drive profits in your service-based company. But how do you achieve this goal? The answer lies in scaling. It’s imperative to grasp the difference between growing and scaling your operations. While growing entails taking on more projects to increase revenue, scaling focuses on improving profits without a significant surge in resources. Essentially, scaling means working smarter, not just harder.

You’ve got to grab every chance to make more profit without burning yourself out. So, here are five practical strategies that many service providers miss out on when they’re trying to make their businesses bigger and better.

How to Build Trust and Transparency With Your Customers While Taking Their Data | Entrepreneur

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Innovation starts with identifying the outcomes customers want to achieve — which is why most companies rely on modern tools and technologies to acquire vast amounts of customer information for creating personalized customer experiences.

You need your customers to share their details, including preferences, to ensure you create a seamless, engaging and personalized customer journey. However, this need is at odds with the growing concerns surrounding customer privacy. Now, more than ever, customers are growing increasingly protective of their personal data.

According to a survey conducted by Gartner, consumers are less comfortable with brands collecting other types of data, including browsing history. Only 27% of respondents feel comfortable sharing information pertaining to their employment, financial data and personal health.

How to block websites on iPhone | Mashable

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Whether you’re trying to manage screen time and avoid certain websites, or whether you’re setting some boundaries on your kid’s device, there’s an easy way to block sites on your iPhone.

If it’s specifically the latter, you can also set up parental controls on your iPhone — just know they’re not the full answer. But if you’re keen to know how to simply filter websites directly so they don’t show up in Safari, here’s an easy guide.

Everything AI allows you to do in Windows 11 that saves you time | Mashable

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AI is becoming a major part of our digital lives, and Microsoft has adopted the new tech with open arms. So much so that Microsoft now offers a huge range of AI tools straight from Windows 11, led by Microsoft’s new digital assistant, Copilot.

The real advantage of AI is that it can help you do your work faster. AI tools, at least right now, are excellent at helping users save time, so they can spend that time on other tasks. And, many more AI tools that can help you save time are on the way – so expect to be able to save more and more time over the next few months and years.

Curious about how you can save time in Windows 11 using AI? Here are the best features right now.

Apple needs to make the iPhone cool again. Today is its chance | CNN Business

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Apple hasn’t given users a significant reason to buy an upgraded iPhone for four years, since it rolled out 5G connectivity with the iPhone 12 — a worrying trend for the tech giant’s core business. That could change this week.

The iPhone brought in more than half of the company’s total revenue last year, but sales growth has lagged as customers have been slower to upgrade to new models. Longer upgrade cycles — the time between users’ new phone purchases — currently plague many device companies. But they’ve been especially painful for Apple as it grapples with compounding challenges that also include steep competition in the key China market and a landmark antitrust lawsuit.

Apple is expected to announce new artificial intelligence features at its annual Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday, which could supercharge its products and bring Apple back into competition with much of the rest of the tech world that has already gone full steam ahead on AI. And no product is more important to Apple than the iPhone.

French election shock hits stocks and the euro | CNN Business

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French markets and the euro were roiled Monday by President Emmanuel Macron’s surprise decision to call a snap election after his party lost to the far right in a vote for European lawmakers.

Big gains for the far right in the French election could force Macron to govern with a hostile parliament, making it harder for his centrist administration to pursue its policy agenda and raising doubts about its ability to put government finances on a more sustainable footing.

France’s CAC 40 index, which represents 40 of the biggest companies listed in Paris, fell 1.8% by 11.02 a.m. ET, with banks among the biggest losers. Europe’s benchmark Stoxx 600 index was trading 0.5% down on the day by the same time.

Salmonella outbreak tied to cucumbers sickens 162 | Live Science

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Cucumbers contaminated with Salmonella bacteria have been tied to an outbreak that has affected at least 162 people in the United States.

Of these, 54 people have been hospitalized and none have died, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported Wednesday (June 5).

The agency noted that the total number of sick people is likely higher than reported. That’s because some people recover from Salmonella infection without medical care, and it can take weeks to deduce that confirmed cases of the illness are connected to an ongoing outbreak.

1st Neuralink user describes highs and lows of living with Elon Musk’s brain chip | Live Science

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Noland Arbaugh has a computer chip embedded in his skull and an electrode array in his brain. But Arbaugh, the first user of the Neuralink brain-computer interface, or BCI, says he wouldn’t know the hardware was there if he didn’t remember going through with the surgery. “If I had lost my memory, and I woke up, and you told me there was something implanted in my brain, then I probably wouldn’t believe you,” says the 30-year-old Arizona resident, who has been paralyzed below the middle of his neck since a 2016 swimming accident. “I have no sensation of it—no way of telling it’s there unless someone goes and physically pushes on it.”

The Neuralink chip may be physically unobtrusive, but Arbaugh says it’s had a big impact on his life, allowing him to “reconnect with the world.” He underwent robotic surgery in January to receive the N1 Implant, also called “the Link,” in Neuralink’s first approved human trial.

How to Overcome Burnout by Focusing on Your Health | businessnewsdaily.com

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Most of us are familiar with workplace “burnout,” that feeling of fatigue, lack of motivation and declining productivity linked to overwork. But burnout is more than just a buzzword — it’s a real problem that must be taken seriously. The World Health Organization (WHO) officially recognizes burnout as an occupational phenomenon.

While workplace burnout is a legitimate concern, it’s essential to understand what it is (and isn’t) before self-diagnosing. Read on to learn how to recognize burnout warning signs and discover tips for combating burnout and bouncing back.