Getty ImagesBuy now, pay later — and maybe more than you bargained for. The thing about buy now, pay later is that the later part always comes. Sometimes, the pay ends up being more than you think you’re signing up for, and often for stuff you shouldn’t have bought in the first place. The buy now, pay later — or BNPL — trend has been on the rise for years,... Read more ›
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Sen. Mark Warner announces the RESTRICT Act with some of the bill’s sponsors. | Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesSens. Mark Warner and John Thune have a bipartisan bill to deal with TikTok and beyond. There might be a new way to deal with TikTok in DC: a bipartisan bill from Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and John Thune (R-SD) that isn’t a TikTok ban — though it could lead... Read more ›
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Elon Musk speaks onstage during the the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on August 29, 2019. | Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty ImagesWe got GPT-4. We could stop there for now, placing a moratorium on new AI systems more powerful than that. Some of the biggest names in AI are raising the alarm about their own creations. In an open letter published Tuesday, more than 1,100 signatories called for a... Read more ›
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Nashville police respond to a shooting at Covenant School and Covenant Presbyterian Church on March 27, 2023. | Metro Nashville Police Department/APA shooting on Monday has left at least three students and three adults dead. Three children and three adults were killed in a shooting at the Covenant School, a private Christian school, in Nashville on Monday, according to police. Law enforcement also killed the suspect after confronting them inside... Read more ›
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is among the Republicans who have made anti-trans statements after the shooting. | Getty ImagesMultiple far-right lawmakers and commentators responded to the shooting with transphobic statements. After the horrific shooting at a school in Nashville on Monday, a group of prominent conservative lawmakers and commentators have released statements using the shooter’s purported trans identity to reinvigorate their ongoing efforts to erode trans rights. The comments follow... Read more ›
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AFP via Getty ImagesThe case for and against TikTok as a cultural force. You’ve likely heard that the US government is trying to ban TikTok. Lawmakers want to force TikTok to divest from its China-based parent company, ByteDance, and become a fully US-based company; if that doesn’t work (the Chinese government has said it would oppose this), a ban could come in the form of an executive order forbidding business... Read more ›
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Refrigerators have gotten a lot better over the decades — without sacrificing their utility. | James W. Welgos/Welgos/Getty ImagesThe underrated way energy efficiency has made life better, and climate progress possible. Consumer tech news tends to focus on the latest gadget like a new smartphone camera, but the boring old refrigerator ought to get its share of credit — when we weren’t looking, the fridge got really good. Since the... Read more ›
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Getty Images/EyeEmBuilding a longtermism that works for the people of tomorrow — and the people of today. What do you call someone who’s not a longtermist? It might sound like the first half of a joke, but it’s a question that at first glance would seem to lack a satisfactory answer. The proponents of longtermism — an offshoot of effective altruism (EA) — make their case based on three premises:... Read more ›
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Spanish personnel rest on a Leopard 2E tank during a training exercise for the Ukrainian military at a base outside Zaragoza on March 13, 2023. | Paul Hanna/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe debate around which weapons to send to Ukraine, explained. In January, all of Washington seemed rapt with the question of whether the US and Europe would send tanks to Ukraine. Should they? Would they? Why weren’t they? Was it... Read more ›
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Jason Sudeikis as Ted Lasso. | Apple TV+The Jason Sudeikis-Olivia Wilde breakup changed the way watching Ted Lasso feels. On the just-premiered third season of Ted Lasso, Apple TV+’s feel-good hit comedy, the big theme is about handling the bad things people say about you. Each character is facing cruel gossip and slander from former friends. The underdog British soccer club at the center of the show has to weather... Read more ›
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The features that make your voice unique. Most of us use our voices every day to communicate one way or another, but the way we produce sound is so much more than the words we say. Our voices are about as unique as fingerprints — similar on the surface, but with endless variations. As humans, we each essentially produce sound in the same physiological way, but it’s not as simple... Read more ›
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Gwyneth Paltrow claims that she did not ski into a retired 76-year-old optometrist. | Rick Bowmer/Getty ImagesCountersuing an optometrist for a ski slope collision is basically Gwyneth Paltrow’s White Lotus audition. This week marked the return of one of the most riveting shows featuring affluent white people, the limits of their kindness, the destruction they’re capable of, and the power they wield. No, it’s not that one. Or that one.... Read more ›
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Sold-out water section in a Giant Supermarket in the Fairmount neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 26, 2023. | Thomas Hengge/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesCity officials say it’s safe to drink following a chemical spill and previous recommendations to use bottled water. This weekend, Philadelphia became the latest US city to navigate uncertainty about its drinking water following a chemical spill in the Delaware River from a nearby latex manufacturer. Currently, Philadelphia’s... Read more ›
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Jonathan Majors, pictured at the European premiere of Creed III in London on February 15, 2023. | Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Warner BrosThe Marvel star faces domestic assault charges, and now other allegations spanning years. Jonathan Majors, Emmy-nominated Lovecraft Country and Creed III star, was arrested Saturday in Manhattan on misdemeanor charges of strangulation, assault, and harassment in a reported domestic dispute with his girlfriend. The charges came as a... Read more ›
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A woman pays her respects at a makeshift memorial for victims of a March 27 shooting, outside the Covenant School building at the Covenant Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 28, 2023. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty ImagesBiden again called for an assault weapons ban after the Nashville shooting. Why hasn’t Congress acted? The shooter who killed three children and three adults Monday at Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee,... Read more ›
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Protesters gather outside the Israeli Consulate to rally against Prime Minister Netanyahu on March 27, 2023 in New York. | Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty ImagesNetanyahu paused the judicial overhaul. Hard questions about Israel remain. Benjamin Netanyahu has taken such extreme measures as prime minister of Israel that he is undermining the myths that have shielded Israel for generations. It’s more difficult than ever to argue that Israel is the only democracy in... Read more ›
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And why that’s a big deal. For the first time in six decades, China’s population is shrinking, and it’s predicted it could create a demographic crisis. That’s because China isn’t just shrinking; it’s also aging. And the majority of Chinese couples are not considering having more than one child. Because of this, China is predicted to lose nearly 50 percent of its population by 2100. China’s population decline can be... Read more ›
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Nashville police respond to a shooting at Covenant School and Covenant Presbyterian Church on March 27, 2023. | Metro Nashville Police Department/APA shooting on Monday has left at least three students and three adults dead. Three children and three adults were killed in a shooting at the Covenant School, a private Christian school, in Nashville on Monday, according to WSMV4 News. The suspect is also dead, per Nashville police. The... Read more ›
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The bank is closed. | Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesTech’s favorite bank just failed. What does that mean for you? If you work in tech, you had probably heard of Silicon Valley Bank before now. If you’re not familiar with this seemingly regional bank, nobody’s blaming you. It had billions of dollars in deposits, but fewer than two dozen branches, and generally catered to a very specific crowd of startups, venture capitalists,... Read more ›
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Starbucks founder Howard Schultz will testify before the Senate this week about his company’s union-busting. | Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesA Senate hearing, strikes, and a shareholder vote could force Starbucks to take its union seriously. When it was clear that some of the first Starbucks might begin unionizing in late 2021, the company brought in the big guns. Starbucks’s longtime chairman and CEO Howard Schultz personally conducted captive audience meetings, where... Read more ›
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