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The Nobel Prize in Economics awarded this week to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson allows a lot of people to feel like winners. (Especially those in the know who refer to the group by the acronym “AJR.”) The general public wins in that all three have, unusually for academic economists, written extensively for […]
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Elon Musk is giving a series of events in Pennsylvania this week. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has donated more than $75 million to a pro-Trump super PAC. Read more ›
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Amazon has just revealed four new kindles, including the first color model. Here's everything you need to know about the features, pricing, and release dates. Read more ›
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The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 is a fantastic folding phone. However, Samsung newest foldable could be here before the month is over. Read more ›
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Subscription providers will be required to inform customers what they're signing up for, obtain customer consent, and provide clear mechanisms to cancel. Read more ›
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Australia is set to transfer nearly 50 American-made M1A1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, officials confirmed on Wednesday. Read more ›
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Amazon this week is discounting a collection of Apple Watch models, including the new Series 10 and Black Ultra 2 devices. Apple Watch Series 10 Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. You can get the 42mm GPS Apple Watch Series 10 for $374.28, down from $399.00.... Read more ›
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Kan Huang was a leader in Two Sigma's vaunted machine-learning techniques group. He's joining Cubist and Jin Choi will be sole head of the group. Read more ›
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The troubled startup has records of millions of Americans' DNA and personal information. Read more ›
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Amazon’s new Kindle family. | Image: Amazon Amazon just announced four new Kindle e-readers. The Colorsoft Signature Edition is the first color Kindle, there’s a new Kindle Scribe note taker, a faster version of its most popular Paperwhite, and a new entry-level Kindle. The Spanish-language announcement with US pricing seems accidental as none of the links to the Amazon store currently work. Nevertheless, here’s what we know. The Kindle Colorsoft... Read more ›
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Italy's Deputy Finance Minister Maurizio Leo has said the nation will raise taxes on capital gains on cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin to 42% from 26%, according to Reuters and Bloomberg. Read more ›
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Elizabeth Bagdon moved to San Antonio, Texas, for her partner's job. She misses the community feel and affordability of small-town Wyoming. Read more ›
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Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge The US Federal Trade Commission is taking action against subscriptions that are difficult to get rid of. On Wednesday, it adopted a final “click-to-cancel” rule requiring businesses to make canceling a subscription as easy as signing up. Under the rule, businesses can’t force customers to cancel a subscription using a method different from how they signed up. For example, if you signed up... Read more ›
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After a rocky initial start, passkeys are increasingly being adotped by Amazon users, the company claims. Read more ›
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Uber and Lyft driver Tristan Thomas said he's worried Tesla's robotaxis will threaten driver jobs, but thinks Elon Musk's 2027 timeline is unlikely. Read more ›
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Yesterday we noted that the new iPad mini 7 does not come with a charger in the box when sold in European countries, and it turns out that the same now also applies to entry-level iPads sold by Apple across the continent. Since its release in 2022, Apple's most affordable iPad has come with a USB-C charger in Europe, but the debut of the new iPad mini on Tuesday would... Read more ›
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A new patch for Baldur's Gate 3 on all platforms brings fresh fixes for the game's modding process, as well as several dozen other tweaks and improvements. Read more Read more ›
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Hosting a property on Airbnb is no longer a simple process. Customers can be finicky, ideal pricing can change on a dime, markets can become flooded and earnings can be difficult to track. The platform’s trying to simplify matters by introducing the Co-Host Network, which allows hosts to hire other hosts to manage properties. Here’s how it works. Property owners can peruse the network for other hosts and scoop them... Read more ›
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What’s a color screen for? Color book previews! | Image: David Pierce / The Verge For years, Kindle users have asked Amazon to make a color version of its e-reader. Now, the company is finally delivering: it’s launching the new Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition, a device that has a lot in common with the new Paperwhite except instead of black and white it’s color all over. The Colorsoft costs $279.99... Read more ›
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New submitter king*jojo writes: The owners of WinAmp have just deleted their entire repo one month after uploading the source code to GitHub. Lots of source code, and quite possibly, not all of it theirs. The deletion happened soon after The Register enquired about the seeming inclusion of Shoutcast DNAS code and some Microsoft and Intel codecs. Read more of this story at Slashdot. Read more ›
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Cities represent the future of humanity — and that means we must figure out how to make them more livable. The share of people who live in urbanized areas more than doubled in the US and across the world from 1900 to 2000. More than eight in 10 Americans live in cities today, as do […] Read more ›
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AI companies are on a mission to radically change our world. They’re working on building machines that could outstrip human intelligence and unleash a dramatic economic transformation on us all. Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, has basically told us he’s trying to build a god — or “magic intelligence in the sky,” as he […] Read more ›
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Voters in 10 states will weigh in on abortion-rights ballot measures this November, but only Nebraskans will cast ballots on two competing initiatives. Initiative 439 would establish a state constitutional right to abortion up to fetal viability or when necessary to protect the “health or life” of the pregnant patient. Initiative 434, however, would ban […] Read more ›
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“Social Security reform” is one of those soundbites you might hear every election cycle without anything ever changing. Politicians have been sounding the alarm for decades, saying that the program — which helps retirees, people with disabilities, and their families stay afloat — is quickly running out of money. So what’s actually at stake? Social […] Read more ›
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Most people know Sonoma County, the Northern California region sometimes called America’s Provence, for its lush vineyards, Mediterranean-style villas, and farm-to-table restaurants. But when I traveled to wine country last year, it was to observe a side of Sonoma that few outsiders know about: a dead-of-night animal rights protest at an industrial chicken slaughterhouse, located […] Read more ›
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What is the relationship between creativity and intelligence? That’s a fundamental, perhaps unanswerable, question. Is it also an obsolete one? The question today seems to be: What is the relationship between creativity and artificial intelligence? We tend to think of artistic creativity as a uniquely human endeavor, but what if it can be much more? […] Read more ›
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Insured losses from natural disasters around the world in the first half of the year have already topped $60 billion, 54 percent higher than the 10-year average. Three-quarters of insured losses were due to severe thunderstorms, flooding, and forest fires. More recent calamities like Hurricane Helene will push the toll this year much higher. Damage […] Read more ›
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Tomorrow is World Mental Health Day, and in many ways, it seems like the world has made great strides in mental health care. In 2023 alone, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) poured $1.25 billion into research studying how mental illness manifests in the brain. People are prescribed more psychiatric drugs now than ever, […] Read more ›
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The term “climate haven” never made much sense. After Hurricane Helene dumped two feet of rain on western North Carolina, many major media outlets marveled at how Asheville, which had been celebrated as a climate haven, had been devastated by a climate-related disaster. Some in the media later reported accurately that climate havens don’t actually […] Read more ›
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