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CEO Picks - The best that international journalism has to offer!  S10Editor's Note: For people who are young and healthy, there isn't clear evidence that spikes in glucose (which are much smaller than those experienced by people with diabetes) are detrimental to health. So while some people might be curious to see if manipulating this aspect of their biology changes how they feel, several experts said the potential benefits probably don't justify the cost. S12What was it like when human beings transformed the Earth?   When each of us is first born into this world, it might feel like the world was made for humanity. For the past few generations — now encompassing every living human being — there have been billions of us, spread out across every continent, with sprawling cities, towns, villages, and farms being home to most of us. And yet, the arrival of human beings on Earth was anything but an inevitability. Although the Universe created the conditions and ingredients that made our existence possible, it was only a series of unlikely events that unfolded that allowed our species, specifically, to rise to prominence. If even one of a countless number of outcomes had been different, our species may never have arisen on planet Earth.Around 300,000 years ago, however, the first examples of our species — Homo sapiens — arose in Africa, having evolved from our shared common ancestors. For nearly all of that time, we lived concurrently with other hominids like Homo erectus and Neanderthals, with all of us making use of fire, tools, clothing, language, and artificially-built shelters. There’s even evidence that many of us interbred with the other hominids. And yet, the passage of just a few hundred thousand years saw us rise from a primitive hunter-gatherer society to the technologically-advanced modern world. This is the final stage in the story of the Universe that brings us up to the present day: how human civilization developed, and the consequences of that development for our world in 2024.
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S11S13Debunking the 'billionaire = genius' myth  Professor and author Brian Klass joins us to debunk a common misconception about wealth – that all those who have it are smarter than average. Klass uses probability to explain that though this is an easy assumption to make, it’s technically not correct. He points to Elon Musk as a case study, noting that while Musk’s skills have contributed to his achievements, his success also depends on his pre-existing resources and collaboration with others. In situations where Musk has worked individually (such as during his acquisition of Twitter), he has seen less success, and, ultimately, less profit.
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S44Periodical Cicadas Emerge Every 13 or 17 Years. How Do They Keep Track of Time?  Periodical cicadas have a clever hack to help them figure out when to emerge after more than a decade undergroundThe year was 2011. Barack Obama was president, NASA’s space shuttles were retiring and Taylor Swift was on her second tour—and across a huge swath of the southeastern U.S., billions of tiny newborn cicadas rained down from tree branches to burrow into the soil.
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S26Corporate Learning Is Boring -- But It Doesn't Have to Be  Most corporate learnings aren’t cutting it. Almost 60% of employees say they’re interested in upskilling and training, but 57% of workers also say they’re already pursuing training outside of work. The author, the former Head of Innovation and Creativity at Disney, argues that creativity is the missing piece to make upskilling engaging and effective. From his experience, he shares four strategies to unlock creativity in trainings: 1) Encourage “What if?”, 2) respond “How else?” to challenges, 3) give people time to think by encouraging playfulness, and 4) make training a game.
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S9S18AI Seen Cutting Worker Numbers, Survey By Staffing Company Adecco Shows  ZURICH (Reuters) - Â Artificial intelligence will lead to many companies employing fewer people in the next five years, staffing provider Adecco Group said on Friday, in a new survey highlighting the upheaval AI will bring to the workplace.Tech companies, including global giants Google and Microsoft, have embarked on a wave of layoffs in recent months as they shift their focus to systems like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's chatbot Gemini.
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S19US FDA Issues Warning Letters to Retailers Against Underage Sale of ZYN Nicotine Pouches  (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday said it had issued warning letters and filed civil money penalty complaints against retailers engaged in underage sale of various flavors of ZYN nicotine pouches.The FDA said it had issued 119 warning letters to brick-and-mortar retailers and had filed 41 civil money penalty complaints seeking more than $55,000 in total for underage sales of flavored ZYN nicotine pouches, including espressino, black cherry, lemon spritz, and cucumber lime.
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S42S50How Will AI Impact the Supply Chain?  Wharton emeritus professor explains optimal machine learning and how it applies to the supply chain.Morris Cohen, Wharton professor emeritus of manufacturing and logistics, joins the show to discuss how AI will transform supply chain management.
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S23NYC Earthquake: How Brands From Casper to Skittles Reacted on Social Media  A 4.8 magnitude earthquake rocked New York City and the surrounding region for around 30 seconds on April 5, interrupting meetings and distracting workers just hours before their weekend break. Brands were quick to hop online to verify that yes, that was an earthquake. Companies such as TGI Fridays and Skittles posted on X (Twitter) with pithy jokes like "I'll take my Skittles shaken today, I guess." Casper, the DTC mattress brand, posted a slideshow of three tweet-like text posts of earthquake jokes on Instagram:
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S24Is Your Business Prepared for This Year's Hurricane Season?  On Thursday, Colorado State University researchers released their annual hurricane forecast for 2024, which anticipates a total of 23 storms. Among these, 11 are expected to intensify into hurricanes that could have a significant impact on local business owners.According to the CSU researchers, there is a "well above-average probability" that these 11 hurricanes will make landfall along the U.S. coastline and in the Caribbean during the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to November 30. Florida, Texas, and Louisiana have the highest probability of being hit by a major hurricane.Â
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S25Geno Auriemma's 5 Leadership Tenets Are A Masterclass For Driving Business Success  Geno Auriemma is among the most successful basketball coaches the sport has ever seen. Eleven national championships. Eight Naismith Coach of the Year awards. A 1,213-161 career record over 39 seasons with a 111 consecutive win streak within it. And two Olympic gold medals. Talk about greatness personified.Prior to his arrival to the University of Connecticut in 1985, the women's basketball program had only one winning season in its entire history. Now, the Huskies are unanimously recognized as the epitome of elite - a direct byproduct of Auriemma's ability to position his teams for success while continually adapting to the evolving intricacies of college basketball. He leads from the front, but his impact doesn't stem from Xs and Os alone. According to former UConn star and four-time WNBA champion Sue Bird, it's also due to his "innate, unique way of tapping into people. Seeing them for who they are, tapping into that and pulling it out."
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S283 Career-Building Strategies for an Increasingly Complex World of Work  Most workers used to have fixed roles within a hierarchical organization, but today the nature of work today is becoming fluid and dynamic. Project-based work and freelancing are increasingly common, and many roles are now defined by outcomes rather than hours spent at a desk. Success in this new work environment requires not only recognizing that this shift has taken place but also actively strategizing to leverage it to your advantage. It’s crucial, in particular, the authors argue, to adopt three key strategies: leveraging digital platforms and networks, utilizing open talent and freelancers as a secret weapon, and harnessing the power of AI to augment your capabilities.
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S31Ugmonk Analog Starter Kit Review: Go Analog to Be Productive If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDMany years ago, I asked my most accomplished, successful friend what his secret to success was. His answer was simple, but it also changed my life. He said, "I make a list of all the stuff I need to do, then I do it." He happened to use 3x5 index cards for his lists, so I copied the idea.
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S45Hallucinations Are Baked into AI Chatbots  Last summer a federal judge fined a New York City law firm $5,000 after a lawyer used the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT to draft a brief for a personal injury case. The text was full of falsehoods—including more than six entirely fabricated past cases meant to establish precedent for the personal injury suit. Similar errors are rampant across AI-generated legal outputs, researchers at Stanford University and Yale University found in a recent preprint study of three popular large language models (LLMs). There’s a term for when generative AI models produce responses that don’t match reality: “hallucination.”Hallucination is usually framed as a technical problem with AI—one that hardworking developers will eventually solve. But many machine-learning experts don’t view hallucination as fixable because it stems from LLMs doing exactly what they were developed and trained to do: respond, however they can, to user prompts. The real problem, according to some AI researchers, lies in our collective ideas about what these models are and how we’ve decided to use them. To mitigate hallucinations, the researchers say, generative AI tools must be paired with fact-checking systems that leave no chatbot unsupervised.
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S47Renewable Energy Shatters Records in the U.S.  The U.S. has never had as much wind, solar and hydropower. But experts say it’s not enough to meet future electricity demandWind and solar accounted for 76 percent of electricity production in Texas’ primary power grid last Friday. The next day, New England set its own record, with 45 percent of its power coming from wind, solar and hydropower.
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S49S8S14The Big Bang's mysteries and unsolvable "first cause" problem  If there’s one question that has been present throughout human history across all cultures, it’s the question of the origin of all things. Why is there a Universe? How come we exist in it to be able to ask this question? Across millennia, different cultures offered mythic narratives to address the mystery of existence. But with the development of modern science, the focus has shifted to a more quantitative approach — a scientific narrative of the origin and history of the Universe, the focus of modern cosmology.It all started in 1915 when Albert Einstein proposed his new theory of gravity, the general theory of relativity. Einstein’s brilliant innovation was to treat gravity not as a force acting at a distance, as did Newton, but as the curvature of space due to the presence of mass. Thus, according to Einstein, the orbital motions of celestial objects are caused by the spatial curvature of their surroundings. A way of visualizing this is by throwing marbles across a mattress. If no weight bends the mattress, the marbles will move along straight lines. But if you place a heavy lead ball on the mattress, the marbles that roll nearby will trace curved paths. If you practice your throws, you can get the marbles to circle the lead ball, somewhat like planets circle the Sun. Einstein’s theory allows physicists to calculate the geometry of the bent space around an object. He demonstrated his theory’s validity by both showing how Mercury’s orbit wobbles about the Sun (the precession of Mercury’s perihelium) and by computing how starlight gets bent as it travels near the Sun.
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S15Starts With A Bang podcast #104 - The magnetized galactic center  Have you ever wondered what the full story with the galactic center is? Sure, we have stars, gas, and an all-important supermassive black hole, but for hundreds of light-years around the center, there’s a remarkable story going on that’s traced out in a variety of elements at a whole slew of different temperatures. Imprinted in that material is a remarkable set of features that reveals the magnetic fields generated in our galaxy’s core, with some of them spanning much greater distances than have ever been seen elsewhere.It’s a testament to the power of multiwavelength astronomy, and in particular to the long wavelengths like the far-infrared, the microwave, and the radio portions of the spectrum that shows us these features of the Universe that simply can’t be revealed in any other way. To help bring this story to all of you, I’m so pleased to welcome Dr. Natalie Butterfield, a scientist at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), to join us on this episode of the Starts With A Bang podcast.
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S16GOP to SBA: Stop Promoting Voting  Republican Congressional leaders on Thursday slammed the Small Business Administration over its first-of-a-kind agreement to promote civic engagement in Michigan, calling out the the agency for alleged electioneering. House Small Business chair Roger Williams (R-TX) blasted the agency over the voter registration agreement with the Michigan Department of State, which could allow Michigan businesses to register employees to vote [RIGHT?] during SBA outreach events. The agreement would also direct Michigan state department to create a voter registration webpage, which the SBA will then advertise on its own channels to help people sign up to vote.
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S43It's Never Too Late to Take Climate Action  The depiction of the climate crisis as a cliff—once we fall off the edge, it’s game over—is nonsenseIt’s official: this February was the hottest one on record. You may have noticed something odd when you stepped outside your door and winter was missing. It turns out the weather weirdness was worldwide. In case you missed it, this comes on top of the news that January was the hottest ever, too, and that 2023 was the hottest year we’ve experienced so far.
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S20Meta Pushes Back on US FTC's Bid to Amend 2020 Privacy Settlement  (Reuters) -Â Meta Platforms has rebuffed an attempt by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to amend a 2020 privacy settlement, noting that it had voluntarily disclosed two technical errors related to its Messenger Kids app to the agency.In March, a U.S. appeals court ruled that the Instagram-owner cannot stop the FTC from reopening a probe into its Facebook unit's privacy practices for now, despite Meta's objections that it already paid a $5 billion fine and agreed to a range of safeguards.
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S27Embracing Business Practices That Actually Improve the World  The science is clear that the track we’re on is not good enough to prevent further catastrophic effects from climate change. We’re beyond a point where we can merely aim to do less bad; we need to actively regenerate the areas that have experienced significant degradation. Regenerative businesses aim to improve ecosystems and communities, rather than simply minimize harm to them. But in this rapidly expanding, philosophically attractive, and still unsettled space of regenerative business, those who want to take action on regeneration are working from many definitions and approaches. The authors unpack some of the competing definitions of regeneration and show how certifications can help organizations ensure their regeneration strategies and practices support a truly regenerative future.
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S35Sephora's Spring Sale Brings Big Discounts on Top-Rated Hair Tools (2024) A few times a year, Sephora discounts nearly its entire stock, and that includes some of our favorite hair straighteners, blow dryers, and hot brushes. The caveat? You need to be a Sephora Beauty Insider, which is free to join, and the percentage off the sale price is based on which membership tier you fall into. Some brands aren't included in the sale, like MAC and The Ordinary, and there are some limitations, like how you can buy only one Dyson and one Shark product.Be sure to enter code YAYSAVE at checkout or mention it in-store. All the prices listed here are 20 percent off for the Rouge portion of the sale. We'll update it when the next tier discounts start. Here are the details on the various tiers:
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S21Fed's Barkin: Confidence to Cut Rates Requires Breadth of Inflation to Narrow RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) - Â Richmond Federal Reserve President Thomas Barkin said he is focused intently on the persistent breadth of inflation across goods and services, and feels slower price increases need to be more widespread before he is comfortable cutting interest rates.Barkin, who is a voter this year on Fed interest rate policy, described in an interview on Thursday with Reuters how he will be parsing upcoming data as the central bank approaches a critical choice on starting rate cuts. Investors expect that first reduction may come in June, but it could get pushed to later in the year if key reports in the weeks ahead show insufficient progress on taming inflation.
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S37Crypto Magnate Do Kwon Found Liable for Multibillion-Dollar Fraud A federal jury in New York has found South Korean crypto magnate Do Kwonâand his company Terraform Labsâliable for defrauding investors who collectively sank billions of dollars into cryptoassets whose value later fell to near zero.Filed in February 2023 by the Securities and Exchange Commission, a regulatory body responsible for protecting US investors, the civil complaint alleged that Kwon and Terraform had "perpetrated a fraudulent scheme that led to the loss of $40 billion of market value," whereby they lied to investors about the prospects and stability of the cryptotokens they issued.
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S38He Got a Pig Kidney Transplant. Now Doctors Need to Keep It Working Richard Slayman made history on March 16 by becoming the first living person to receive a genetically edited pig kidney. This week, the 62-year-old Massachusetts resident reached another milestone by being discharged from the hospital after his groundbreaking procedure. Now comes the hard part: making sure his transplanted organ keeps working.Slayman was on dialysis for end-stage kidney disease when he underwent the four-hour surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. He said getting to leave the hospital was "one of the happiest moments" of his life, according to a statement released by the hospital. Now, he's recovering at home. "I'm excited to resume spending time with my family, friends, and loved ones free from the burden of dialysis that has affected my quality of life for many years," Slayman said in the statement.
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S30The Solar Eclipse Is the Super Bowl for Conspiracists Kate Middleton and the Baltimore Bridge collapse were just warm-ups. For conspiracists in 2024, the total solar eclipse taking place on April 8 is their Super Bowl.Over the past few weeks, social media channels, Telegram groups, and conspiracy-focused message boards have been flooded with every conceivable wild allegation about what will happen when the moon blocks out the sun.
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S32The 14 Best Travel Bags We've Tested (And Some to Avoid) If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDWhew! You've made it all the way across the globe. But have your toothbrush, pajamas, and running shoes made it, too? If you're a frequent traveler, it's easy to obsess over the logistics of getting your stuff clean, organized, and in good working condition upon arrival. Paying for a decent travel bag and a few useful accessories means buying a little peace of mind, especially when a few yards of zippers and some nylon are the only barriers between your precious belongings and the belly of an airliner.
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S48S29In Southeast Asia, Ramadan is an online shopping bonanza  For Fauzi Arif Hutama, who lives in the Indonesian city of Tangerang in Java, the holy month of Ramadan and celebrations for Eid al-Fitr are another excuse to check out deals on Shopee, the most popular e-commerce site in the country.The 29-year-old electrician buys everything from clothing to food for his four pet cats on the Singapore-based Sea’s Shopee site. For Eid, which falls on April 10, he plans to spend his holiday bonus — equivalent to his monthly salary of 9 million rupiah ($566) — on snacks and refreshments for his relatives and neighbors and to also make charitable donations online.
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S3310 Best Home Office Deals: Office Chairs, Webcams, Monitors Many of us on the WIRED Gear team have been working from home for years. We've got an expansive guide to the Best Work-From-Home Gear, but there's good news! Plenty of our recommendations are on sale right now. If your home office could use an upgrade, these tried-and-tested office chairs, keyboards, desks, and webcams are worth a look.Special offer for Gear readers: Get WIRED for just $5 ($25 off). This includes unlimited access to WIRED.com, full Gear coverage, and subscriber-only newsletters. Subscriptions help fund the work we do every day.
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S7S3Editor's Note: The authors hypothesized that lonely people pay attention to different aspects of situations from non-lonely people, which causes those who feel lonely to perceive themselves as being different from their peers. This would mean that loneliness can feed back on itself, becoming worse over time. S34An Interview With a Guy Who Got a Vasectomy During the East Coast Earthquake A 4.8-magnitude earthquake shook parts of the East Coast of the US on Friday. I was safe in my apartment wondering if the violent rocking in my building was because my neighbor was running their washing machine or if my building's bad pipes were finally about to rupture in a spectacular fashion.But Justin Allen, a stay-at-home father from Pennsylvania, was probably in the absolute last place you'd want to be during an earthquake. He was laid out on an examination bed with a doctor's hands, and pointy objects, snipping at his testicles.
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S2Editor's Note: Banks don't lend out money from reserves or deposits or other sources of pre-existing funds. Counterintuitively, the loans come first. S22U.S. Justice Department to Meet Boeing Fatal Crash Victims' Lawyers (Reuters) -Â The U.S. Justice Department next week will meet with lawyers for families of victims of two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people in 2018 and 2019, as the government decides whether to move ahead with a criminal case, according to correspondence Reuters reviewed."As we have ... done previously, we think it would be productive to hold a lawyers-only meeting approximately two weeks before the conferral," said Glenn Leon, the Justice Department's fraud section chief, in an email to lawyers for victims' families Reuters reviewed.
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S36Why the East Coast Earthquake Covered So Much Ground Friday morning at around 10:30 local time, a magnitude 4.8 earthquake popped three miles below Whitehouse Station, New Jersey. Though nowhere near the magnitude of the West Coast's monster quakes, the seismic waves traveled hundreds of miles, jostling not just nearby New York City, but Philadelphia and Boston and Washington, DC. The United States Geological Survey is urging the region to prepare for aftershocks of smaller magnitude.For a region not accustomed to earthquakes, it was a jolt. Its wide-ranging impact turns out to be not a quirk, but a byproduct of the East Coast's unique geology of ancient fault lines and rock composition.
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S46The Dunning-Kruger Effect Shows that People Don't Know What They Don't Know  David Dunning explains how people can avoid overestimating their own knowledge, a psychological bias called the Dunning-Kruger effectThe Dunning-Kruger effect describes a disturbing cognitive bias that afflicts us all. People with limited expertise in an area tend to overestimate how much they know—and we all have gaps in our expertise. That disconnect may explain why some patients turn to "Dr. Google" to make at-home diagnoses of complex medical problems, as well as the missteps we all make from time to time, from fixing the plumbing to representing ourselves in a court of law. Over the years, the Dunning-Kruger effect has gone from a scientific hypothesis to a popular meme, pulled out in shouting matches across social media. In the hierarchy of insults, there are few more powerful than invoking the idea that your opponents are so stupid that they don't even know how stupid they are. It's just one step short of calling the other side a bunch of Nazis, aka Godwin's Law—the traditional way that flame wars end.
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S6Editor's Note: "So why is the second law of thermodynamics the probable cause of aging? It governs the behavior of all molecules; it can explain the ultimate cause of all other theories of aging; it is testable using current technologies; it's falsifiable; it is universal and applies to both animate and inanimate objects." S17Google Parent Alphabet Weighs Offer For HubSpot, Sources Say  (Reuters) - Google parent Alphabet has been talking to its advisers about the possibility of making an offer for HubSpot, an online marketing software company with a market value of $35 billion, people familiar with the matter said.If Alphabet moves ahead with a bid, it would be a rare example of a major technology company attempting a mega deal amid heightened regulatory scrutiny of the sector under U.S. President Joe Biden's administration.
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S410 Affordable Ways to Spend Quality Time With Your Kids  It's not just Disneyland's prices that are going up. Museums, science centers, and other cultural meccas have to charge more for admission as the years crawl on. However, there are ways to get in at a reduced price. Many institutions offer family days or a "pay-what-you-can" day several times yearly. Some city libraries have a "culture pass" to check out for free admission to an art or culture institution. Your child's school may offer something similar. Do some Googling, and you'll likely never pay full price to see a priceless work of art with your kid. Since my family lives in the Southwest, we often drive by mountains my son wants to conquer. Rather than keep talking about it, my wife and oldest son crafted a plan for a weekly hike to work their way up to the tallest mountain in our area. I loved seeing the sense of accomplishment on their faces when they completed their final hike.
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S39Tesla Is Going All In on Robotaxis--Buckle Up Mark your calendars: Tesla CEO Elon Musk suggested this afternoon that his electric automaker is going all-in on autonomous vehicle techâÂÂand that TeslaâÂÂs robotaxi will be unveiled on August 8.The announcement, posted by Musk on X Friday afternoon, capped off a weird day of reports and counter-reports that sent TeslaâÂÂs stock on a roller-coaster ride, slipping down 6 points on the day before recovering in after-hours trading. Earlier in the day, Reuters reported that Tesla had canceled long-gestating plans to develop an affordable electric vehicle for the masses. The âÂÂnext generationâ vehicle is widely thought to be key to the electric automakerâÂÂs survival, especially as competition heats up in the EV space. Instead, the news agency reported, Tesla would focus on building a robotaxi, which would use much of the same hardware as the low-cost vehicle.
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S40The Power of Peer Groups (and How to Start One)  A peer group is a group of professionals who meet on a regular basis to confidentially share their current issues and exchange insights that will help each member excel. Their benefits have been proven by successful leaders and workers for centuries. If you want to form a peer group of your own, take the following steps:
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S41Three Times Eclipses Left Scientists 'More or Less Agog'  Total solar eclipses have set the stage for major scientific advancements—everything from the discovery of helium to the testing of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.This article is part of a special report on the total solar eclipse that will be visible from parts of the U.S., Mexico and Canada on April 8, 2024.
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S5Editor's Note: "If your total cholesterol is elevated because of the HDL, then you might not be at higher risk and actually might be somewhat protected," Gersch says, "so it's very important to not only get your total cholesterol levels, but to make sure it's broken down into the good and bad cholesterol."  |
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