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Award-winning writer Lydia Davis is boycotting Amazon with her new collection of short storiesLydia Davis, an award-winning author and translator, will not sell her new book on Amazon in a protest of the company’s business model. The...
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Where marijuana is legal in the US in 2023The legalization of marijuana for both medical and recreational uses is trending in Europe and in the US. Since 2020, 11 US states have...
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We have some questions about CATL's powerful new battery technologyThe Chinese battery giant CATL has unveiled a new battery, claiming that it can eventually power civilian electric airplanes. That could be a...
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K-pop giant SM Entertainment was raided over suspected market manipulationAnother twist has come in the battle between K-pop’s biggest music labels . Read more...
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Tesla slashed prices for a sixth time this year to alleviate the loss of Biden's EV tax creditsTesla slashed US prices for some Model 3 and Model Y vehicles for the sixth time this year, according to its website , as the world’s largest...
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The next 90 days will tell us how high US rents will get in 2023Just like US inflation overall, prices on housing rentals continue to rise, but at a much slower pace than a year ago. What does that mean for...
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AI bots trained on Reddit conversations. Now Reddit wants to be paid for it.Artificial intelligence bots like Google’s Bard and OpenAI’s ChatGPT have been fed on a vast trove of information culled from the Internet....
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Get ready for job searches on LinkedIn to include a lot more parsing of company valuesIn the age of the purpose-driven company , people increasingly want the places they work for to align with their values. Whether that means...
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Taylor Swift didn’t fall for FTX because she asked a simple questionTaylor Swift’s inquisitiveness saved her from jumping on the doomed FTX bandwagon. Read more...
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Elon Musk made Twitter a more hostile place for trans peopleTwitter, the social media company newly dubbed as X Corp , has made another change to policies meant to prevent hate speech and abuse on the...
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India is now officially the world's most populous nationIndia is now the world’s most populous nation. Read more...
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Netflix is hitting the stop button on the DVD rental business that started it allNetflix’s DVD-by-mail business has reached its expiration date. Read more...
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Global mobile money transactions hit a record high in 2022If you sent money from your cell phone last year, you were part of a trillion-dollar enterprise. Mobile money transactions hit a record high of...
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Jamie Dimon will have to explain how much JPMorgan knew of Jeffrey Epstein's crimesJPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon will be questioned under oath about the bank’s alleged complicity in the sex trafficking ring run by Jeffrey...
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Saudi Arabia's cash-rich cricket league plan could ruin India's IPL partyWealthy Saudi Arabia is padding up to bat—and the world’s most-watched cricket league is, suddenly, nervous. But a happy ending is a...
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Dominion didn’t need a trial for a victory over FoxFox News will pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems to settle a defamation lawsuit that was just about to go to trial. While technically...
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Afghanistan's economy is set to rapidly shrink if foreign aid keeps fallingAfghanistan’s economy will contract after an anticipated 30% drop in foreign aid this year, according to a report by the United Nations...
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There is a road to parity for women in techMy daughter is in her first year of college. She’ll be charting her career path in today’s workforce in just a few short years. My advice is...
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The latest challenge to Ben & Jerry's progressive stance: a unionization effortIt’s workers at the least progressive companies who most need to unionize—right? Not necessarily. This week, ice cream scoopers at the Vermont...
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Why global markets are unimpressed with China’s economic reboundChina reported that its economy expanded in the first quarter of this year, performing better than expected. But global markets had a largely...
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The CBC has stopped using Twitter after Elon Musk designated it government-funded mediaThe Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC) announced it’s suspending the use of its Twitter account after CEO Elon Musk labeled the public...
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Spotify and Apple Music removed an AI-generated fake song by Drake and The WeekndPopular music streaming platforms Spotify and Apple Music have removed a hit song in which an AI imitates the studio voices of Canadian singers...
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The countries where people retire the youngestChina has the world’s youngest retirement age, according to data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). For...
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Elon Musk’s Twitter has even lost the man who popularized #hashtagsArguably, Chris Messina created a monster. Read more...
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Ana Gasteyer on creativity: The Quartz interviewRead more...
