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Yahoo
07-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Arizona State football uniforms for 2025 season unveiled: 'Tradition meets evolution'
Last month, Arizona State football hinted at new uniforms for the 2025 season with a "Where tradition meets transformation" post on social media. The Sun Devils unveiled those new uniforms with a "Tradition meets evolution" post on Monday, July 7. Advertisement A maroon uniform and a white uniform were unveiled. The maroon uniform features gold letters and numbers, while the white uniform features maroon numbers and letters. "Arizona State" is emblazoned across the front of the new look. The maroon uniform includes Sparky on a gold helmet. The white uniform features a pitchfork on a white helmet. Both have Big 12 logos on the left shoulder and "PT42" patches under the neck, honoring Pat Tillman. The maroon jersey also has a Pat Tillman figure above the Big 12 logo. The Adidas symbol is on the right shoulder of both jerseys. Best dressed in Big 12? ASU football uniforms: Social media raves 'perfection' Advertisement More: Why Arizona State football is a top 10 national championship contender in 2025 season Photos: Arizona State's new uniform for 2025 season What do you think of the new look for Arizona State football? What do you think of Arizona State football's new uniform? Reach Jeremy Cluff at Follow him on X, formerly Twitter @Jeremy_Cluff. Support local journalism: Subscribe to today. This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Arizona State football uniforms for 2025 season unveiled
Time of India
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Top 7 Clash Royale decks for the 4 Card Showdown event
4 Cards Showdown event in Clash Royale (Image via Supercell) The best Clash Royale decks for the 4 Card Showdown event will help you get easy wins against your enemies. The 4 Card Showdown is a unique event where you build decks with only four cards, and every card returns to your hand instantly after use, leading to fast-paced, strategic gameplay. 7 Best Clash Royale Decks for the 4 Card Showdown Event Below are seven top-performing Clash Royale decks for the 4 Card Showdown event. Each deck is designed to maximize synergy and adapt to the limited card pool. 1. Skeleton Giant Clone Combo Cards: - Skeleton Giant - Clone - Firecracker - The Log Description: This is one of the best Clash Royale decks for the 4 Card Showdown event. It focuses on getting the Skeleton Giant to the opponent's tower, then cloning it for massive bomb damage. Firecracker provides ranged support to clear swarms, and The Log is used for additional swarm clear and chip damage. 2. Sparky Support Deck Cards: - Electro Wizard - Sparky - Lumberjack - Barbarian Barrel Description: Protect Sparky by keeping it in the back. Use Lumberjack and Barbarian Barrel to push forward, while Electro Wizard counters enemy Sparky and aerial units. Sparky delivers devastating shots to towers and high-health targets. 3. Skeleton Barrel Spam Cards: - Skeleton Barrel - Inferno Dragon - Minions - The Log Description: Spam Skeleton Barrels to pressure the opponent. Inferno Dragon counters tanks, Minions provide air support, and The Log clears ground swarms. Adjust your pushes based on your opponent's counters. 4. MK Firecracker Deck Top 5 BEST DECKS To Win 4 Card Showdown Cards: - Mega Knight - Firecracker - Skeleton Army - Suspicious Bush Description: The Mega Knight acts as a tank, supported by Firecracker for ranged damage. Skeleton Army swarms the battlefield, and Suspicious Bush provides sneaky tower damage. Use Firecracker behind Mega Knight to clear enemy troops. 5. Hog FC 3.0 Cycle Cards: - Hog Rider - Knight - Firecracker - The Log Description: This is one of the best ClHog Rider is your main win condition, supported by Knight as a mini-tank. Firecracker and The Log clear swarms and provide chip damage. This deck cycles quickly and maintains constant pressure. 6. Royal Hogs Dark Prince Cards: - Royal Hogs - Dark Prince - Musketeer - The Log Description: Royal Hogs are fast and split-push well. Dark Prince provides splash and mini-tank support, Musketeer offers air and ground ranged damage, and The Log clears swarms. 7. Inferno Dragon Control Cards: - Inferno Dragon - Electro Wizard - Skeleton Barrel - The Log Description: Inferno Dragon counters tanks, Electro Wizard handles swarms and stuns, Skeleton Barrel pressures towers, and The Log provides additional swarm clear and chip. This deck excels at both defense and offense. Summary Table for the best Clash Royale decks for the 4 Card Showdown event Deck Name Card 1 Card 2 Card 3 Card 4 Skeleton Giant Clone Skeleton Giant Clone Firecracker The Log Sparky Support Electro Wizard Sparky Lumberjack Barbarian Barrel Skeleton Barrel Spam Skeleton Barrel Inferno Dragon Minions The Log MK Firecracker Mega Knight Firecracker Skeleton Army Suspicious Bush Hog FC 3.0 Cycle Hog Rider Knight Firecracker The Log Royal Hogs Dark Prince Royal Hogs Dark Prince Musketeer The Log Inferno Dragon Control Inferno Dragon Electro Wizard Skeleton Barrel The Log Also read: These are the best Clash Royale decks for the 4 Card Showdown are tailored for the 4 Card Showdown event, offering a mix of aggression, control, and versatility. Try them out to find which one best fits your playstyle and maximize your wins in this unique Clash Royale challenge. Game On Season 1 continues with Mirabai Chanu's inspiring story. Watch Episode 2 here.
Yahoo
25-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Walmart's latest AI feature aims to help associates overcome language barriers
This story was originally published on CX Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily CX Dive newsletter. Walmart is rolling out AI-powered tools to its 1.5 million U.S. associates with the goal of offering more support for workers to help customers in real time, the retailer announced Tuesday. The new tools will be integrated into the Walmart associate app. The tools include a real-time translation feature that can facilitate multilingual conversations between associates and customers in 44 languages. The feature supports both text-to-text and speech-to-speech formats and includes Walmart-specific knowledge, such as recognizing the term 'Great Value' as the retailer's private brand. The retailer also plans to upgrade its existing conversational AI for associates in the coming months. The tool will offer step-by-step instructions for advanced support queries like, 'How can I process a return without a receipt?' Walmart is among a growing number of retailers putting generative AI apps directly in associates' hands to streamline their workdays and enhance customer service. Walmart associates already have experience with its conversational AI tool. More than 900,000 workers use the feature every week, totaling over 3 million queries daily, according to the company. The retailer is also introducing AI-driven task management, which uses the technology to prioritize and recommend tasks for associates. Early results have led to a reduction in the time store managers spend planning shifts for overnight stocking, and the retailer is piloting the tool for shifts other than stocking as well. Walmart has been experimenting with generative AI for two years with the goal of encouraging associates to use the technology every day. The retailer's earlier associate-facing AI implementation, which helped with inventory and let workers spend more time with customers, helped drive higher NPS during the 2023 holiday season. Earlier this month, Walmart also introduced AI for customers through Sparky, an automated assistant designed to help customers by summarizing reviews and planning purchases. While Walmart is one of the retailers at the forefront of generative AI integration for employees, the company isn't alone. The Home Depot is combining training and AI tools to improve associate product and project knowledge, which executives see as a key CX differentiator. Last year, Target rolled out its own AI assistant for associates, Store Companion, which answer process and procedure-related questions. Other examples include Verizon, which last year said that its generative AI assistant helped in-store associates find answers to 95% of customer inquiries, and Office Depot, whose associates use the ODP Personal Assistant to answer common questions. Error while retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Byte-Sized AI: Perfect Corp. and Nvidia Team Up; LuminX Gets Seed Round
Byte-Sized AI is a bi-weekly column that covers all things artificial intelligence—from startup funding, to newly inked partnerships, to just-launched, AI-powered capabilities from major retailers, software providers and supply chain players. AI platform LuminX announced early this month it had closed a $5.5 million seed round, supported by 1Sharpe, GTMFund, 9Yards, Chingona Ventures and the Bond Fund. More from Sourcing Journal Chain Reaction: Dispatch Science CEO Arthur Axelrad on Turning Logistics into a 'Customer Experience Engine' Inside VivaTech: LVMH Spotlights AI and Sustainability at Innovation Awards Study Finds Machine Learning Can Cut Fabric Dyeing Waste The San Francisco-based startup aims to create efficiency for logistics, supply chain and warehouse management functions. LuminX uses a combination of hardware and AI systems to allow the cameras it deploys to understand what's occurring in a facility in real time. The devices can be used at docks, on forklifts and more. The devices have the ability to identify products and pallets, track their movement through the warehouse, understand the condition of packages and more. From there, the devices' findings are processed through an AI system that communicates with a human operator about the state of the warehouse. LuminX contends that the technology can decrease the amount of manual work necessary and provide direct recommendations for reducing errors and inefficiencies. The startup plans to use the funding to add roles to its engineering team, scale up its go-to-market operations and refine the development of its technology for edge deployment. Alex Kaveh Senemar, the company's CEO and founder said the seed round will help expand LuminX's footprint in the supply chain and logistics realms. 'This pivotal funding allows us to scale our next-generation AI models, transforming how warehouses operate,' he said in a statement. 'Our edge-based vision language models represent a massive step forward, acting as an intelligent core for warehouse operations. They deliver new levels of automation and insight, helping to turn previously opaque processes into transparent highly efficient systems.' Walmart announced last summer that it was developing and beta testing a consumer-facing shopping assistant, designed to better guide consumers' e-commerce journeys. The retail giant announced last week that the assistant, which it calls Sparky, is now publicly available to consumers using its app. Sparky seems akin to Amazon's version of a shopping assistant, which it calls Rufus. The e-commerce behemoth made Rufus publicly available in September 2024, and the two companies continue to compete over technology—both that directly aiding consumers and the systems optimizing their operations behind the scenes. Sparky capitalizes on several of Walmart's existing AI capabilities, including review summaries. If a consumer asks Sparky whether a sundress will help keep them cool, the assistant can query existing reviews to give the consumer an idea of what other consumers have previously said about the dress' breathability and comfortability. Walmart also previously enabled AI-assisted search, which Sparky further takes advantage of; instead of starting their shopping journey in the app's search bar, consumers can ask Sparky for product recommendations. For instance, a consumer might ask, 'Could you please help me find the best back-to-school styles for my third grader?' In its announcement, Walmart contends that it intends to enable Sparky with agentic capabilities at some point. 'Ultimately, Sparky will solve everyday problems, freeing up time for what matters most. 'What's for dinner?' becomes a week of family-approved meal plans with ingredients automatically added to cart,' the company said. ''I need party ideas!' sparks a complete event planning session—theme, decorations, food and gifts—all highly personalized and coordinated within budget.' Those types of queries—'What's for dinner? Add the ingredients to my cart,' for instance—when posed to Sparky today, prompt a message telling the user that the assistant isn't able to help with the request. While discussion around planning for agentic AI is on the rise, many companies lack execution on agentic to date. Perfect Corp. announced this week that it has inked a computing partnership with technology giant Nvidia. Perfect Corp. offers virtual try-on, AI-powered recommendations, beauty simulation tools and other related applications to companies looking to make the e-commerce journey easier for their customers. But today, one of the most difficult pieces of generating real-time imagery like this is that it doesn't always fully reflect how a product will appear in real life. The new partnership with Nvidia is meant to help bridge those gaps, helping Perfect to achieve better color representation, more accurate renderings, faster performance and more. The company will leverage Nvidia TensorRT to speed up the rendering process, making the results feel near instant to consumers. It will also use Nvidia GPU capabilities, which help the models better create inferences about what a product will look like on an individual, helping to avoid the paper doll-esque virtual try-on experiences that so many consumers face in their e-commerce journeys. Alice Chang, CEO and founder of Perfect Corp., said she expects the partnership to accelerate the company's impact on the fashion, retail and beauty industries. 'We pioneer sustainable, high-touch, AI and AR-powered omnichannel beauty and fashion tech solutions that empower brands to enrich their relationships with customers,' Chang said in a statement. 'Our collaboration with NVIDIA is a pivotal step in pushing the boundaries of what's possible in beauty and fashion tech, allowing us to deliver even more immersive and personalized experiences to consumers worldwide.' PhotoRoom, which uses generative AI to aid sellers and brands in creating product images—in particular for marketplaces, like Depop—announced late last month it had acquired GenerateBanners. The financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition allowed the European startup to launch a new feature, called Visual Ads Automation. The tool allows PhotoRoom clients to easily generate advertisements for social, digital, email and more, customizing the content for individual consumer brackets or international markets. PhotoRoom allows customers to remove existing backgrounds and generate new backgrounds, add shadows and other details to match the new background and more. Now that it owns GenerateBanners, it has enabled clients to use those images to generate ads directly inside the platforms. Clients can load their own colors, fonts, logos and more to help the systems adhere to existing brand style, and the new tool can create batches of advertisements simultaneously. Matt Rouif, Photoroom's co-founder and CEO, said the platform's newly announced capabilities sweetens the deal for brands looking to reach customers and new markets in a scalable way. 'When you need the same product shot in ten languages and fifty formats, traditional creative workflows break.' Rouif said in a statement. 'Photoroom is becoming the AI creative agency for millions of businesses. Our new API lets teams generate on-brand visuals programmatically, at any scale, slashing costs and boosting performance.' The announcement of the acquisition comes several months after PhotoRoom announced a $43 million Series B round.
Associated Press
12-06-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Trans Canada Gold Corp. Ships 2,886 Barrels for the Month of May, From Its Lloydminster Multilateral Heavy Oil Well and Prepares for Upcoming Drilling Program
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA / ACCESS Newswire / June 12, 2025 / Trans Canada Gold Corp. (TSX-V:TTG)(OTCQB:TTGXF) ('Trans Canada' or the 'Company'), is pleased to announce that the Company has now completed another month of steady oil production for the month of May 2025, with trucking and oil sales to Altex. The Lloydminster multilateral well shipped 2,886 barrels (bbl) for the month of May and produced at an average daily rate of 96 bbl/d gross (20 bbl/d net) to the Company since being placed on production, representing its 18.75% working interest ownership in the well. Daily production and shipping sales were slightly impaired due to nine lost shipping days due to a routine pump change and routine equipment maintenance. Production shipping and sales commenced on the first newly drilled Multilateral well, a year ago on October 6th, 2023. Croverro Energy Ltd. is the Operator. The company is announcing the resignation of Christian Timmins as a member of the Board of Director's, with his decision pursue and focus on Pegasus Resources due to time commitment obligations. The Board wishes to thank Mr. Timmins for his contributions to the Company. DRILL PERMIT AND WELL LICENSE APPROVED The Company has now received formal approval for its new Lloyd 5-23-49-1W4 Well with the issuance of its well license and drill permit for the new 7 leg-multilateral well and drill program situated near Lloydminster, Alberta. The Company has agreed to participate to drill a 7 leg Sparky multi-lateral well with Croverro as operator for the Joint Venture. The newly proposed 5-23 multilateral well will be situated adjacent to the Company's successful 12-14 Multilateral Well, near Lloydminster, Alberta. Trans Canada has a 18.75% interest in the new well. This third multi-lateral horizontal well is expected to be similar to the company's successful 7HZ LLOYD 12-14-49-01W4 well, that was drilled in 2023 and encountered 2486 metres of oil pay in the Sparky Oil Formation. The 12-14 Sparky multilateral well has now produced over 100,000 barrels of oil and continues to produce consistently month over month. The newly permitted 5-23 multilateral well when drilled, is planned to open an estimated 3000 m of Sparky formation. The well is scheduled to be drilled later this summer subject to rig availability. Drilling, completion and equipping costs are expected to be $1.9 million ($350,000 net to Trans Canada). The well costs are fully funded out of production cash flow thereby preventing any share dilution. Commented Tim Coupland, 'We continue to focus on continued multilateral drilling success in the Sparky Zone, while navigating increased market volatility and lower energy prices in the oil sector. The company remains mindful of the current uncertainty within energy sector including tariff pressures and energy policy direction. We are expecting increased oil production for 2025 with our upcoming drill programs, and we are exploring additional exploration drilling and acquisition opportunities in both central Canada and the United States. The Company will continue with its newly adopted multilateral well drilling strategy for 2025-2026", using new state of the art multilateral well drilling techniques in Alberta and Saskatchewan, to create growth'. ABOUT TRANS CANADA GOLD CORP. - OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION/REVENUE PRODUCING WELLS The Company is a discovery focused Oil & Gas Resource Development and Mineral Exploration Company that is currently focused on developing and drilling its' production of conventional heavy oil exploration properties, increasing production capabilities, and increasing future oil production revenues through responsible exploration. The Company identifies, acquires and finances with its working interest partners, the ongoing development of oil and gas assets primarily situated in Alberta Canada. The Company has qualified Senior exploration management and Geological teams of professionals, seasoned in exploration production, field exploration and drilling. The Company currently works with Croverro Energy Ltd., who has demonstrated proficiency, expected of an experienced oil and gas technical team that has proven oil production, and revenue success with large multi-lateral wells currently under their supervision. The Company has the necessary manpower in place to develop its natural resource properties and manage its production properties. The Company is committed to minimizing risk through selective property acquisitions, and responsible exploration drilling, and maximizing long term petroleum and natural gas resource assets. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT: Tim Coupland, President and CEO Trans Canada Gold Corp. Tel: (604) 681-3131 [email protected] Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider, (as the term is defined in the Policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. SOURCE: Trans Canada Gold Corp. press release
