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Why Project-Based Work Fails -- and How to Get It Right
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ALISON BEARD: Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business
Review. I’m Alison Beard. If the 20th century was all about
operational efficiency in businesses, the 21st century is all about
organizational change. And how do new initiatives, products and
services, strategies or business models advance? Through project work.
It’s what our guest today calls the project economy, and it’s
estimated to generate $20 trillion in economic activity and employ 88
million people in project management related roles by 2027.
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Substance use experts are sounding the alarm on another addiction:
gambling
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The session on gambling constituted a sharp pivot from the rest of the
conference, put on by the American Association for the Treatment of
Opioid Dependence, an advocacy group representing the nation’s more
than 2,000 methadone clinics. But it underscored the growing unease
across the public health world about harmful gambling behavior, which
some surveys show has increased by 30% in the last six years. “Why
don’t we consider gambling when we’re talking about opioids?”
asked Andrew Schreier, a director of clinical services for Community
Medical Services, a chain of opioid treatment programs. “There’s
actually a lot of information out there about gambling in relation to
opioid use. We often don’t talk about it.”
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The Time Trump Confused Finns About Forest Fires
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The president made up a fake Nordic fact to blame California for its
own natural disasters.
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Heat Waves Deserve Disaster Relief from FEMA, Petition Argues
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Places beset by heat waves should receive FEMA disaster funds just as
those hit by hurricanes or flooding do, labor unions, green groups and
public health advocates argue in a new petition
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Brain Science Has Discovered New Drug-Free Approaches for the Anxious
Adolescent
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Research on the developing brain points to new ways to help young
people with anxiety disorders
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Trump's Brazen Pact with the One Per Cent
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One thing we can say for sure about Joe Biden's three and half years
in office: it's been a very rewarding time to be an American
capitalist. Since the end of 2020, the S. & P. 500 has risen by
nearly fifty per cent, and the companies in the index have seen their
earnings per share nearly double. Big banks, hedge funds, and
private-equity funds have all made bumper profits; the Financial Times
recently reported that "founders and top executives of the largest
private equity groups in the US have seen the value of their shares
rise by more than $40bn since the beginning of 2023." The swelling
tide has also benefitted many investors and executives in the tech
sector. According to the Institute for Regional Studies, a Silicon
Valley research group, the market capitalization of companies based in
the Valley reached $14.3 trillion last year, and "venture capital
funding reached an astounding $30 billion."How grateful is the
capitalist class to Biden for presiding over this showering of riches?
In certain cases, not grateful at all, it seems. In the past few
weeks, the political media has been awash with stories about Wall
Street bigwigs and tech barons throwing their support behind Donald
Trump, whom some of them disowned following the January 6, 2021
assault on Capitol Hill. Back then, the billionaire Stephen
Schwarzman, who is chief executive of the Blackstone Group, a big
private-equity shop, denounced the attack as "appalling and an affront
to the democratic values we hold dear as Americans." Last month,
Schwarzman issued a statement: "I am planning to vote for change and
support Donald Trump for president." The Financial Times reported that
Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge-fund manager who campaigned to have
Claudine Gay removed as Harvard's president over her handling of
pro-Palestinian campus protests, is soon likely to throw his support
behind Trump, too.
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Apple Is Bringing A.I. to Your Personal Life, Like It or Not
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Last week, Apple held its Worldwide Developers Conference, the annual
event that is often used to showcase the company’s most significant
innovations. Much of the presentation this year was devoted to A.I.,
or, as the company is branding it, Apple Intelligence. Whereas Google
and Microsoft have leaped headlong into A.I. with their Gemini and
OpenAI products, respectively, Apple is so far taking a narrower
approach. The A.I. model it is unveiling on iPhone hardware is
relatively weak. A.I. models are measured on their number of
“parameters,” or the variables adjusted during the training
process; while OpenAI’s GPT-4 has more than one and a half trillion
parameters, Apple’s model has three billion. For queries that
require more horsepower, users will be offered the option to outsource
a task via the cloud to ChatGPT, via a corporate licensing deal that
is reportedly not in exchange for a fee but for exposure for OpenAI.
In other words, there’s no Apple-made superintelligent thinking
machine—at least not yet.Accordingly, the reaction to the conference
presentation has been somewhat muted. In New York magazine, John
Herrman wrote that it represented “a cautious approach by Apple,”
and speculated that the company might be wary of overinvesting in a
technology that isn’t quite as far along as it is often marketed to
be. In the Washington Post, Josh Tyrangiel described Apple
Intelligence as “the first rational theory of AI for the masses,”
praising the applications’ limited scope and the partnership between
the veteran computing company and the upstart OpenAI. I suppose we
should be celebrating the fact that Apple hasn’t entered the A.I.
arms race full throttle. Google’s rush to keep pace with
Microsoft’s A.I. developments has already resulted in the
accelerated decay of Google Search tools. But I had a less sanguine
reaction to the W.W.D.C. Apple Intelligence, a small model that could
eventually be nestled on more than a billion iPhones around the world,
crosses a kind of Rubicon: A.I. is entering our personal lives, and
once it’s there it’s not likely to retreat.
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Risking Everything to Lose Money
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Professional athletes are now playing sports in a gamblers’ world,
and it isn’t going well for them. In April, the NBA banned Jontay
Porter, a 24-year-old role player for the Toronto Raptors and a
younger brother of the Denver Nuggets star Michael Porter Jr., for
allegedly wagering on NBA games, including his team’s, and throwing
his own performances to influence prop bets. Porter was the first
active NBA player banned for gambling in 70 years, but he wasn’t the
only athlete facing banishment this spring. In June, Major League
Baseball suspended four players for betting on games and banned a
fifth, Tucupita Marcano, for life. Marcano’s alleged sin: betting on
hundreds of games, including 25 of his own team’s.What were these
guys thinking? How could they throw away their childhood dream—and
the chance at a long, lucrative career—by doing something so
reckless? Porter was low paid by NBA standards, but he had made more
than $2 million and stood to earn much more over the course of his
career. Marcano’s behavior is even more perplexing. Unlike Porter,
he wasn’t accused of trying to fix any outcomes; he was just betting
a lot—and losing a lot, too. According to information released by
MLB this month, Marcano began betting prolifically on baseball games
after suffering a season-ending injury last July—and lost almost 96
percent of those bets. Risking everything to make money is one thing.
Who risks everything to lose money?
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Americans With Food Allergies Are Getting a Bad Deal
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Precautionary allergen labels like those that say “Processed in a
facility that uses milk or may contain fish” are meant to address
the potential for cross-contact. For instance, a granola bar that
doesn’t list peanuts as an ingredient could still say they may be
included. And in the United States, these warnings are voluntary and
not regulated; companies can use whatever precautionary phrasing they
choose on any product. Some don’t use any labels, even in facilities
where unintended allergens slip in; others list allergens that may
pose little risk. Robert Earl, the vice president of regulatory
affairs at the nonprofit Food Allergy Research & Education, or FARE,
has even seen labels that include all nine common food allergens. “I
would bet my bottom dollar not all of those allergens are even in the
facility,” he says.Recognizing this uncertainty, food-safety
experts, allergy advocates, policy makers, and food producers are
discussing how to demystify precautionary allergen labels. One widely
considered solution is to restrict warnings to cases where visual or
analytical tests demonstrate that there is enough allergen to actually
trigger a reaction. Experts say the costs to the food industry are
minimal, and some food producers across the globe, including in
Canada, Australia, Thailand, and the United States, already
voluntarily take this approach. But in the U.S., where there are no
clear guidelines to follow, consumers are still left wondering what
each individual precautionary allergen label even means.
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This Is What Would Happen if China Invaded Taiwan
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In late March, a Taiwanese data analyst posted on social media about
an odd satellite image: It appeared that the Chinese military had
erected at one of its remote military bases in Inner Mongolia a series
of roads that perfectly re-created the roads around the presidential
palace in Taipei. The revelation only appeared to underscore the
seriousness with which Chinese officials are proceeding with President
Xi Jinping’s directive to be ready to invade the independent island
by the late 2020s. As part of the research for his new book, World on
the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st
Century, Dmitri Alperovitch journeyed to Taiwan, talked with multiple
high-level officials and national security planners in Taiwan and the
United States, and walked the possible invasion terrain to imagine
just how such an invasion might occur. His scenario, excerpted here
and which he imagines taking place on November 13, 2028, serves as the
new book’s prologue.The winter season in Taiwan—lasting from
November till March—is great for surfers. It’s no Bali or Hawaii,
as the size of the waves and their consistency may vary, but the
Northeast Monsoon, which brings in the cold China Coastal Current
water into the Taiwan Strait, where it meets the warm Kuroshio Branch
Current coming from the south, is known to form some significant
waves. The Taiwan Strait is only about a hundred meters deep—shallow
enough that during ice ages and the time of glaciers the island of
Taiwan was physically connected to the Chinese mainland; but even in
the modern era the 200-mile-long passage—which varies in width from
about 100 nautical miles down to just 70 nautical miles and is one of
the most vital shipping routes in the world—is known for frequent
storms, large swells, and blinding fog and is bedeviled by annual
summer typhoons from roughly May to October. Between the typhoons in
the summer and the stormy high-wave winter season, there is no
predictably perfect and easy time to launch a large-scale amphibious
invasion of Taiwan, especially with the strait registering about 150
days a year of winds above 20 knots, rough seas for amphibious ships
and landing craft. Any landing on Taiwan’s windy, shallow, and rocky
beaches during that time is fraught and risky. Which is why, in the
end, China decided to forego a beach landing and attempt an air
assault on the island’s port and airfield facilities, the seizure of
which would allow for rapid arrival of follow-on troops and logistical
supplies to facilitate a successful occupation.
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Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine
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Earlier this year, speaking to WIRED, Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity’s
CEO, described his product—a chatbot that gives natural-language
answers to prompts and can, the company says, access the internet in
real time—as an “answer engine.” A few weeks later, shortly
before a funding round valuing the company at a billion dollars was
announced, he told Forbes, “It’s almost like Wikipedia and ChatGPT
had a kid.” More recently, after Forbes accused Perplexity of
plagiarizing its content, Srinivas told the AP it was a mere
“aggregator of information.”The Perplexity chatbot itself is more
specific. Prompted to describe what Perplexity is, it provides text
that reads, “Perplexity AI is an AI-powered search engine that
combines features of traditional search engines and chatbots. It
provides concise, real-time answers to user queries by pulling
information from recent articles and indexing the web daily.”
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I tested out a buzzy new text-to-video AI model from China
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Kuaishou’s generative video model Kling, which could be poised to
transform how short clips are created for platforms like TikTok.
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The High Cost of Misaligned Business and Analytics Goals
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How and where do companies’ investments in new and improved data and
analytic capabilities contribute to tangible business benefits like
profitability and growth? Should they invest in talent? Technology?
Culture? According to new research, the degree of alignment between
business goals and analytics capabilities is among the most important
factors. While companies that are early in their analytics journey
will see value creation even with significant internal misalignment,
at higher levels of data maturity aligned companies find that
analytics capabilities create significantly more value across growth,
financial, and customer KPIs.
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How to Solve Your Company's Toughest Problems
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A conversation with Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei on
how to solve any problem in five clear steps.
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There's a New Product That Can Help With Today's Unique Legal Risks
With DEI
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DEI has found itself in the crosshairs of the culture wars. But one
entrepreneur has a solution already on the market that can help
assuage a founder's fears of legal risk.
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Giorgia Meloniâ™s hard-right European group claims a top EU job
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Italian PM aims to disrupt plans by other parties in the bloc’s
parliament to decide senior roles
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Bank of America tells Detroitâ™s Big 3 they canâ™t make money in
China and should just leave the hypercompetitive car market âas soon
as they possibly canâ™
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The situation is even less appetizing at Ford and the former Chrysler
group—merged with France’s Peugeot Citroen—now known as
Stellantis. The duo have thus far failed to carve out a sustainable
and significant share of the local car market, the largest in the
world with a record 30 million vehicles sold last year.GM however
seems to have no intention of giving Musk or its Chinese competition
that satisfaction. A spokesman for the company referred to comments
from CEO Mary Barra in April that it remains committed to the market.
While it has taken costs out, it is simultaneously adding to new
products in China including plug-in hybrids and luxury imports like
the Chevy Tahoe and GMC Yukon.
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Shopify has a nearly $1 trillion opportunity according to this
legendary Wall St. analyst
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That’s according to legendary wall street tech analyst Mark Mahaney
and his colleagues at the research firm Evercore ISI. Mahaney and
company recently upgraded Shopify’s stock to an “outperform”
rating with a price target of $75 per share. The stock was trading
around $64 at the time. And a major component of the Shopify upside
that Evercore sees has to do with Shopify’s work in recent years to
appeal to large enterprises in addition to small and mid-sized
merchants. In interviews with Shopify merchants, Mahaney and team
found that the moves seem to be working. In addition to Mattel and
Steve Madden, Shopify has also attracted large fast-growing brands
like Kim Kardashian’s Skims apparel company.
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Massachusetts 911 Outage Triggered By Firewall, Not A Hack, Officials
Say
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The outage, designated as a “technical issue” on Tuesday, forced
officials to ask people in Massachusetts to call precincts or pull on
emergency fire boxes in case of an emergency. The interruption came
amid the state’s first heat wave of the summer, which brought high
humidity and hot temperatures exceeding the 90 degree mark. Brian
Fontes, the chief executive of the National Emergency Number
Association, told The New York Times that upgrading the U.S. 911
system would cost an estimated $15 billion.
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FedExâ™s Secretive Police Force Is Helping Cops Build An AI Car
Surveillance Network
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Forbes has learned the shipping and business services company is using
AI tools made by Flock Safety, a $4 billion car surveillance startup,
to monitor its distribution and cargo facilities across the United
States. As part of the deal, FedEx is providing its Flock video
surveillance feeds to law enforcement, an arrangement that Flock has
with at least five multi-billion dollar private companies. But
publicly available documents reveal that some local police departments
are also sharing their Flock feeds with FedEx — a rare instance of a
private company availing itself of a police surveillance apparatus.To
civil rights activists, such close collaboration has the potential to
dramatically expand Flock’s car surveillance network, which already
spans 4,000 cities across over 40 states and some 40,000 cameras that
track vehicles by license plate, make, model, color and other
identifying characteristics, like dents or bumper stickers. Lisa
Femia, staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said
because private entities aren’t subject to the same transparency
laws as police, this sort of arrangement could “[leave] the public
in the dark, while at the same time expanding a sort of mass
surveillance network.”
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Astronomy's secret weapon in the resolution wars: interferometry
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When human eyes gaze up at the night sky, what we can see is
profoundly limited. The pupils of our eyes, which allow light through,
can only reach a maximum diameter of around 7 millimeters (0.28
inches) each, which limits the amount of light our eyes can collect
and, therefore, the faintness of the objects we’re sensitive to.
Because we can only see visible (optical) light, the maximum
resolution we can see is defined by the number of wavelengths that can
fit across the diameter of our pupils. It’s why the stars Mizar and
Alcor, the second star in the handle of the Big Dipper, can be seen as
two individual points of light by unaided human eyes, but the binary
star Albireo, within the Summer Triangle, requires binoculars or a
telescope to resolve into two separate stars.Traditionally, the
simplest way to improve your view of the Universe is to build
larger-aperture instruments: telescopes with larger collecting areas.
That gives them both more light-gathering power and also higher
resolution, as larger telescopes collect more light in the same amount
of observing time, and also as more wavelengths of the same type of
light can fit across the diameter of your telescope, producing sharper
images. However, larger telescopes are more expensive and more
challenging to build instruments for, as there are only two optical
telescopes larger than ~12 meters under construction today.
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From fan to showrunner: How "House of the Dragon" creator Ryan Condal
landed TV's biggest job
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The second season of HBO’s House of the Dragon picks up right where
the first left off. Rhaenyra Targaryen, played by Emma D’Arcy, is
(spoilers ahead) flying across the Narrow Sea in search of the charred
remains of her son, Lucerys, and his dragon. Across from the island of
Dragonstone, in the capital city of King’s Landing, her half-brother
Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) sits on the Iron Throne, counseled by his
mother Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke), grandfather Otto Hightower
(Rhys Ifans), and Kingsguard Commander Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel),
preparing for a civil war that will change Westeros forever. The Dance
of the Dragons is here, and when the dragons dance, the Seven Kingdoms
bleed.At first, fans did not have high hopes for House of the Dragon,
based on George R.R. Martin’s 2018 book Fire & Blood, which recounts
the history of the Targaryen dynasty from founder Aegon the Conqueror
all the way to Daenerys, the silver-haired heroine of the acclaimed
and as of yet unfinished book series A Song of Ice and Fire. Game of
Thrones, which was Ice and Fire’s TV adaptation, grew into one of
the most critically and commercially successful shows of all time —
until its final seasons failed to live up to audience expectations.
House of the Dragon, which premiered in 2022, might have continued
that trend. Instead, the show proved a return to form, offering the
same Shakespearean dialogue and political intrigue that made people
fall in love with Martin’s fictional universe back in 2011. The
second season is just as good, if not better.
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When are parents responsible for their kids' behavior?
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When the parents of Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley were
convicted of involuntary manslaughter, it was a watershed moment in US
school shooting cases. It was also a key moment in parental
culpability law, governing cases in which parents can be held legally
responsible for the actions of their children.Ethan Crumbley, who at
age 15 brought a gun to his high school and killed four people and
injured seven, pleaded guilty to 24 crimes at his own trial in 2022.
But for the first time in American history, a school shooter’s
parents were also convicted, of involuntary manslaughter, and
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The odds of Boeing emerging smoothly from the severe turbulence
that has rocked the company since a side panel blew off one of
its 737 MAX planes in January just decreased amid two grim
developments. The first was a report highlighting the aircraft
maker's difficulty finding a replacement for departing CEO Dave
Calhoun. The second was the outgoing executive's day fielding
tough questions from Senators looking into problems in the company's
production safety measures. Some lawmakers asked why the
embattled manager remains at the helm of the reeling aviation
manufacturer--a highly public spectacle that makes the stalled
effort to find his corporate successor even more urgent.The
convergence of those two events underlines the
enormous difficulties Boeing faces in battling through the
series of aircraft incidents, scandals, and business crises that
buffeted it since the start of 2024. The faltering hunt for a new
CEO was described in a Wall Street Journal report Monday,
explaining how the hunt for Calhoun's successor has run
into unexpected trouble. Calhoun in March announced he would
step down from his CEO role before the end of the year, though he
retains his board seat. The main reason nobody has yet been named
to the top job, the paper said, was that "(s)everal high-profile
candidates have turned down the chance to run Boeing"--apparently
looking at the opportunity less as a gift horse than as a bucking
bronco they'd have a tough time riding if they took the company's
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The FTC said in a statement Tuesday that it investigated the two
companies and "uncovered reason to believe" they are "violating or are
about to violate" the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, a
federal law which requires kid-oriented apps and websites to get
parental consent before collecting personal information of children
under 13.A spokesperson for the Justice Department declined to comment
on the substance of the referral from the FTC against TikTok.
"Consistent with our normal approach, the Justice Department consulted
with FTC in advance of this referral and will continue to do so as we
consider the claims. As always, the Department will be guided by the
facts and the law as well as our responsibility to protect the
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Amazon Labor Union Members Vote to Affiliate With the Teamsters
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The ALU members voted 98.3 percent in favor of the affiliation,
which will give them access to additional resources in their effort to
bring Amazon to the bargaining table, the International Brotherhood of
Teamsters said Tuesday."Together, with hard work, courage, and
conviction, the Teamsters and ALU will fight fearlessly to ensure
Amazon workers secure the good jobs and safe working conditions they
deserve in a union contract," Teamsters General President Sean M.
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The two citations issued in May by the California Labor Commissioner's
Office said Amazon.com Services LLC ran afoul of the state's Warehouse
Quota Law at facilities in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, east
of Los Angeles.The law, which took effect in 2022, "requires warehouse
employers to provide employees written notice of any quotas they must
follow, including the number of tasks they need to perform per hour
and any discipline that could come" from not meeting the requirements,
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Fed Officials Scan Data and Cautiously Ponder Rate Cuts
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Federal Reserve officials, heartened by recent data, are looking for
further confirmation that inflation is cooling and for any warning
signs from a still-strong labor market as they steer cautiously toward
what most expect to be an interest rate cut or two by the end of this
year.Outlining a litany of reasons for optimism that inflation is back
on track to the U.S. central bank's 2 percent goal after stalling
earlier this year, Fed Governor Adriana Kugler said on Tuesday she
believes monetary policy is "sufficiently restrictive" to ease price
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New Law in New York Requires Paid Break for Employees Who Need to Pump
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Employers are required to tell employees about the paid breaks. The
law applies to all public and private employers in the state. The
break time for pumping breast milk cannot be subtracted from an
employee's preexisting meal break or other paid break, according
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What Are EV Startups Doing to Ride Out Weak Demand?
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Demand has been weak for Fisker's flagship Ocean electric SUV. The
company cut jobs and paused investments to slow cash burn, partnered
with dealerships to boost sales and desperately sought an investment
from a major automaker to stay alive. None of that worked. The
startup has focused on reducing its cash burn by re-negotiating supply
contracts and building some components in-house. Rivian posted cash
and cash equivalents of $5.98 billion for the first quarter, compared
with $7.86 billion in the fourth quarter.
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Katy Perry-Backed Foods Firm Bragg Explores Sale
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Bragg Live Food Products, which is backed by celebrities Katy Perry
and Orlando Bloom, is exploring a sale that could value the maker of
apple cider vinegar at more than $500 million, including debt,
according to people familiar with the matter.The Santa Barbara,
California-based company, which also counts investment firm Swander
Pace Capital among its investors, is working with Bank of America to
solicit interest from potential buyers, which include private equity
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Appeals Court Sends Credit Card Late Fees Lawsuit Back to
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The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday suffered a
jurisdictional setback in a lawsuit challenging its new rule capping
credit card late fees at $8 when a federal appeals court held the case
should stay in Texas and not be sent to a judge in Washington, D.C.The
ruling by a three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals was a victory for business and banking groups
challenging a key part of the crackdown by President Joe Biden's
administration on "junk fees."
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Bryson DeChambeau's 'quirky' practice routine will help you perform in
any clutch situation like public speaking.
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Anyone who plays the game knows what happens next. As you approach the
bunker where the ball has come to rest, your heart beats faster, your
palms sweat, and your confidence crumbles. At least, that's what
happens to most of us when faced with a sand shot.On the 18th hole of
Sunday's final round, DeChambeau's approach shot landed in a bunker
about 55 yards from the hole. DeChambeau hit what he called "the
shot of my life" to four feet. He made the putt to clinch the title.
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Identify -- and Develop -- Your Natural Strengths
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When we think of self-improvement, we tend to focus on our weaknesses.
But that means we often underestimate our strengths — or even
don’t recognize them at all. In this article, the author explains
why we’ve developed this focus on weakness, and she then lays out a
program for identifying and developing our strengths, with a
particular focus on natural abilities that we might take for granted
and therefore overlook.
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The High Cost of Misaligned Business and Analytics Goals
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How and where do companies’ investments in new and improved data and
analytic capabilities contribute to tangible business benefits like
profitability and growth? Should they invest in talent? Technology?
Culture? According to new research, the degree of alignment between
business goals and analytics capabilities is among the most important
factors. While companies that are early in their analytics journey
will see value creation even with significant internal misalignment,
at higher levels of data maturity aligned companies find that
analytics capabilities create significantly more value across growth,
financial, and customer KPIs.
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How to Solve Your Company's Toughest Problems
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You’ve likely heard the phrase, “Move fast and break things.”
But Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei says speed and
experimentation are not enough on their own. Instead, she argues that
you should move fast and fix things. (That’s also the topic and
title of the book she coauthored with Anne Morriss.)
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Why China still runs on Windows
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On May 29, Microsoft’s China division announced a new partnership
with TencentiTencentBest known for its super-app WeChat, Tencent is a
Chinese technology conglomerate and a major player in the video gaming
industry.READ MORE, building a pathway for publishing Tencent’s
Android catalog on Windows. Tencent is best known as the company
behind WeChat — a super-app that’s virtually essential in China
— but it has a vast library of apps. It’s one of the world’s
biggest gaming companies and runs QQ Music, one of the country’s
most popular music-streaming services. Giving people a way to use
Tencent’s apps on the desktop is a good idea, but if you’re not
familiar with China, it might be a little surprising that the company
is looking to Microsoft to do it. Given the rising political tensions
with the U.S., couldn’t Tencent find a Chinese company to partner
with?But for the Chinese desktop market, Windows has become
indispensable. It’s hard to get solid numbers on desktop OS usage in
China, both because of piracy and general secrecy, but some analysts
have estimated Microsoft’s share as high as 80%. Given the nature of
Windows, that portion is probably heavily focused on offices and
industry. With so much of the excitement and growth in the sector
focused on mobile devices, there are few Chinese tech companies
interested in challenging Microsoft in the desktop space, so there’s
been no real threat to its dominance. If you’re making a product for
desktops, you’re making it for Windows.
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Singapore doubles down on lab-grown meat as Silicon Valley backs off
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Huber’s Butchery, in Singapore’s upscale Dempsey Hill
neighborhood, has long drawn shoppers looking for more than just cold
cuts. Starting last month, the deli’s freezer section has stocked
shredded chicken grown from cells in a lab, the first time anywhere in
the world that cultivated meat can be bought in a store, its
manufacturer said.Cultivated meat has been available at a handful of
restaurants in Singapore and the U.S. for a couple of years. But the
launch of Good Meat 3 — from California-based food technology firm
Eat Just — at Huber’s is a high point for the industry that has
been in the doldrums lately. Investor interest is flagging, and
cultivated meat has been banned in Italy, and in the U.S. states of
Alabama and Florida.
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When a new episode of AMCâ™s Interview With the Vampire aired
the Sunday before last, a particular sort of fuse was lit in online
conversations around the show. The fifth installment of the second
season, âÂÂDonâ™t Be Afraid, Just Start the
Tape,â was an impeccably written and acted horror film in
miniatureâÂÂthe sort of thing you watch with your mouth hanging
open, before pointing at your TV and saying, âÂÂAre you seeing
this, too?!?!âÂÂYet when thousands took to social media to ask
that very question, much of the commentary was underscored by
confusion, even concern, that people were, in fact, not seeing it,
tooâÂÂthat they werenâ™t seeing Interview With the
Vampire at all. For a show so good, many said, it was criminal that
more people werenâ™t watching and discussing it, and that
more critics werenâ™t covering it. âÂÂThis is the best
show on TV right now,â New York Times culture reporter Kyle
Buchanan wrote in one widely shared tweet. âÂÂI feel gaslit that
youâ™d all rather talk about mid or bad shows rather than
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6 Best Toasters (2024): Tested and Reviewed
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commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also
consider subscribing to WIREDAn essential appliance, the toaster makes
breakfast prep easy, adds flair to lunch time sandwiches and takes
care of the three billion Pop Tarts we consume each year in America.
Let's face it, few things in life are more delicious than a piece of
hot buttered toast, well, apart from maybe toast with eggs, bacon,
hash browns and a brew made with one of the best coffee makers. But
not all toasters are made equally, which is why we've been carb
loading in the name of research, so you can get the best for your
bread, bagel, muffin or crumpet.
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LG Gram Pro 17 Review: Ultralight and Ultra Hot
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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 WIREDChoosing a laptop inevitably involves a
matter of compromise. A lightweight, more portable device means a
small screen and a cramped keyboard. A larger laptop provides room to
stretch out and usually more powerâat the expense of portability.
What's an on-the-go creative to do? Is there a best of both worlds out
there somewhere?
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The Evergoods Civic Panel Loader 24L Is a Well-Made Minimalist
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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 WIREDI've had a mild obsession with bags since
grade school. I really wanted a Jansport backpack. What I got was a
generic copy on sale at the local sporting good storeâalmost a
Jansport, but not quite. It wasn't the label, I didn't care who made
the bag. It was build quality. The zipper snagged on the generic
version. The rear pocket wasn't as big.
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We've Tested the 9 Best TV Streaming Devices for 4K and HD
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Fusion Sparks an Energy Revolution
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In 2024, fusion technology will finally make the transition from basic
research to commercial application. The reason for that will be the
construction and completion of the first commercial fusion
demonstrators. These cutting-edge facilities are smaller than fusion
power plants. For instance, a laser-based fusion demonstrator might
use five to ten laser beams, while a commercial power plant can use
several hundred. However, they have a crucial roleâto prove that
fusion technology works on a small scale, paving the way for the
construction of larger fusion-power plants. In 2024, they will do just
this, starting to build devices that will finally achieve the elusive
goal of energy gain- in other words, outputting more energy than the
quantity needed to kickstart the fusion process. Hitting this
milestone is a critical step in addressing the steeply increasing
global energy demand, as fusion energy has the potential to provide an
abundant, carbon-free source of power.This story is from the WIRED
World in 2024, our annual trends briefing. Read more stories from the
series hereâor download a copy of the magazine.
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17 Management and City-Building Games for Armchair Tycoons
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consider subscribing to WIREDBefore kids and other responsibilities,
when I regularly gamed into the wee hours, playing management sims was
one of my favorite things to do. I spent countless days building in
Sim Tower, SimCity, and Theme Park. I ran a studio in The Movies,
managed a menagerie in Zoo Tycoon, and constructed the pyramids in
Pharaoh. My villainous lairs in Dungeon Keeper 2 and Evil Genius were
beyond compare. I built impregnable castles in Stronghold, and I sank
days into Game Dev Storyâa game about making games.
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Adobe Says It Won't Train AI Using Artists' Work. Creatives Aren't
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When users first found out about Adobeâ™s new terms of
service (which were quietly updated in February), there was an uproar.
Adobe told users it could access their content âÂÂthrough both
automated and manual methodsâ and use âÂÂtechniques such
as machine learning in order to improve [Adobeâ™s] Services
and Software.â Many understood the update as the company
forcing users to grant unlimited access to their work, for purposes of
training Adobeâ™s generative AI, known as Firefly.Late on
Tuesday, Adobe issued a clarification: In an updated version of its
terms of service agreement, it pledged not to train AI on its users'
content stored locally or in the cloud and gave users the option to
opt out of content analytics.
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NatGeo documents salvage of Tuskegee Airman's lost WWII plane wreckage
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In April 1944, a pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen, Second Lieutenant
Frank Moody, was on a routine training mission when his plane
malfunctioned. Moody lost control of the aircraft and plunged to his
death in the chilly waters of Lake Huron. His body was recovered two
months later, but the airplane was left at the bottom of the
lake—until now. Over the last few years, a team of divers working
with the Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum in Detroit has
been diligently recovering the various parts of Moody's plane to
determine what caused the pilot's fatal crash.
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Why Americans aren't buying more EVs
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Clint and Rachel Wells had reasons to consider buying an electric
vehicle when it came to replacing one of their cars. But they had even
more reasons to stick with petrol.
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What to Read to Understand How People Get Tricked
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Each of these titles will stick with you and, perhaps, make you more
likely to realize when you're not seeing the truth.Our brains are
wired to be deceived. I'm married to a professional magician, so I'm
intimately familiar with the kinds of techniques that can fool the eye
and trick the senses. But the human mind's vulnerability to
misdirection is more universal than that. Neurologists and
psychologists have found that our predilection for trusting othersâa
trait that has helped us survive as a speciesâis a major reason con
artists thrive. This trait also makes dissimulation fascinating and
appealing, especially in literature. Readers love the stories of
swindlers and their gullible targets, of grifters themselves being
tricked, and every iteration in between. They thrill us by upending
the expected and making us question our assumptions.
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Alex Jones Lost Everything--And Still Won
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Alex Jones couldn't help himself. On Friday, just before a federal
judge was set to decide the fate of Infowars, his conspiracy-media
empire, Jones spun up yet another conspiracy.He was on his way into a
Houston courthouse as part of the ongoing saga over lies he told about
the Sandy Hook school shooting. After six years of litigation, Jones
owes $1.5 billion in defamation damages. The "FBI and CIA" had
fabricated the charges against him, Jones explained, in his famously
gravelly voice, to the half dozen or so cameramen in front of him. The
agencies had organized a "deep-state operation against the American
people," he said, wiping the sweat off his head in the Houston heat.
"This is a very, very exciting time to be alive."
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Why Project-Based Work Fails -- and How to Get It Right
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ALISON BEARD: Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business
Review. I’m Alison Beard. If the 20th century was all about
operational efficiency in businesses, the 21st century is all about
organizational change. And how do new initiatives, products and
services, strategies or business models advance? Through project work.
It’s what our guest today calls the project economy, and it’s
estimated to generate $20 trillion in economic activity and employ 88
million people in project management related roles by 2027.
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Substance use experts are sounding the alarm on another addiction:
gambling
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The session on gambling constituted a sharp pivot from the rest of the
conference, put on by the American Association for the Treatment of
Opioid Dependence, an advocacy group representing the nation’s more
than 2,000 methadone clinics. But it underscored the growing unease
across the public health world about harmful gambling behavior, which
some surveys show has increased by 30% in the last six years. “Why
don’t we consider gambling when we’re talking about opioids?”
asked Andrew Schreier, a director of clinical services for Community
Medical Services, a chain of opioid treatment programs. “There’s
actually a lot of information out there about gambling in relation to
opioid use. We often don’t talk about it.”
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The Time Trump Confused Finns About Forest Fires
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The president made up a fake Nordic fact to blame California for its
own natural disasters.
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Heat Waves Deserve Disaster Relief from FEMA, Petition Argues
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Places beset by heat waves should receive FEMA disaster funds just as
those hit by hurricanes or flooding do, labor unions, green groups and
public health advocates argue in a new petition
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Brain Science Has Discovered New Drug-Free Approaches for the Anxious
Adolescent
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Research on the developing brain points to new ways to help young
people with anxiety disorders
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Trump's Brazen Pact with the One Per Cent
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One thing we can say for sure about Joe Biden's three and half years
in office: it's been a very rewarding time to be an American
capitalist. Since the end of 2020, the S. & P. 500 has risen by
nearly fifty per cent, and the companies in the index have seen their
earnings per share nearly double. Big banks, hedge funds, and
private-equity funds have all made bumper profits; the Financial Times
recently reported that "founders and top executives of the largest
private equity groups in the US have seen the value of their shares
rise by more than $40bn since the beginning of 2023." The swelling
tide has also benefitted many investors and executives in the tech
sector. According to the Institute for Regional Studies, a Silicon
Valley research group, the market capitalization of companies based in
the Valley reached $14.3 trillion last year, and "venture capital
funding reached an astounding $30 billion."How grateful is the
capitalist class to Biden for presiding over this showering of riches?
In certain cases, not grateful at all, it seems. In the past few
weeks, the political media has been awash with stories about Wall
Street bigwigs and tech barons throwing their support behind Donald
Trump, whom some of them disowned following the January 6, 2021
assault on Capitol Hill. Back then, the billionaire Stephen
Schwarzman, who is chief executive of the Blackstone Group, a big
private-equity shop, denounced the attack as "appalling and an affront
to the democratic values we hold dear as Americans." Last month,
Schwarzman issued a statement: "I am planning to vote for change and
support Donald Trump for president." The Financial Times reported that
Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge-fund manager who campaigned to have
Claudine Gay removed as Harvard's president over her handling of
pro-Palestinian campus protests, is soon likely to throw his support
behind Trump, too.
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Apple Is Bringing A.I. to Your Personal Life, Like It or Not
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Last week, Apple held its Worldwide Developers Conference, the annual
event that is often used to showcase the company’s most significant
innovations. Much of the presentation this year was devoted to A.I.,
or, as the company is branding it, Apple Intelligence. Whereas Google
and Microsoft have leaped headlong into A.I. with their Gemini and
OpenAI products, respectively, Apple is so far taking a narrower
approach. The A.I. model it is unveiling on iPhone hardware is
relatively weak. A.I. models are measured on their number of
“parameters,” or the variables adjusted during the training
process; while OpenAI’s GPT-4 has more than one and a half trillion
parameters, Apple’s model has three billion. For queries that
require more horsepower, users will be offered the option to outsource
a task via the cloud to ChatGPT, via a corporate licensing deal that
is reportedly not in exchange for a fee but for exposure for OpenAI.
In other words, there’s no Apple-made superintelligent thinking
machine—at least not yet.Accordingly, the reaction to the conference
presentation has been somewhat muted. In New York magazine, John
Herrman wrote that it represented “a cautious approach by Apple,”
and speculated that the company might be wary of overinvesting in a
technology that isn’t quite as far along as it is often marketed to
be. In the Washington Post, Josh Tyrangiel described Apple
Intelligence as “the first rational theory of AI for the masses,”
praising the applications’ limited scope and the partnership between
the veteran computing company and the upstart OpenAI. I suppose we
should be celebrating the fact that Apple hasn’t entered the A.I.
arms race full throttle. Google’s rush to keep pace with
Microsoft’s A.I. developments has already resulted in the
accelerated decay of Google Search tools. But I had a less sanguine
reaction to the W.W.D.C. Apple Intelligence, a small model that could
eventually be nestled on more than a billion iPhones around the world,
crosses a kind of Rubicon: A.I. is entering our personal lives, and
once it’s there it’s not likely to retreat.
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Risking Everything to Lose Money
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Professional athletes are now playing sports in a gamblers’ world,
and it isn’t going well for them. In April, the NBA banned Jontay
Porter, a 24-year-old role player for the Toronto Raptors and a
younger brother of the Denver Nuggets star Michael Porter Jr., for
allegedly wagering on NBA games, including his team’s, and throwing
his own performances to influence prop bets. Porter was the first
active NBA player banned for gambling in 70 years, but he wasn’t the
only athlete facing banishment this spring. In June, Major League
Baseball suspended four players for betting on games and banned a
fifth, Tucupita Marcano, for life. Marcano’s alleged sin: betting on
hundreds of games, including 25 of his own team’s.What were these
guys thinking? How could they throw away their childhood dream—and
the chance at a long, lucrative career—by doing something so
reckless? Porter was low paid by NBA standards, but he had made more
than $2 million and stood to earn much more over the course of his
career. Marcano’s behavior is even more perplexing. Unlike Porter,
he wasn’t accused of trying to fix any outcomes; he was just betting
a lot—and losing a lot, too. According to information released by
MLB this month, Marcano began betting prolifically on baseball games
after suffering a season-ending injury last July—and lost almost 96
percent of those bets. Risking everything to make money is one thing.
Who risks everything to lose money?
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Americans With Food Allergies Are Getting a Bad Deal
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Precautionary allergen labels like those that say “Processed in a
facility that uses milk or may contain fish” are meant to address
the potential for cross-contact. For instance, a granola bar that
doesn’t list peanuts as an ingredient could still say they may be
included. And in the United States, these warnings are voluntary and
not regulated; companies can use whatever precautionary phrasing they
choose on any product. Some don’t use any labels, even in facilities
where unintended allergens slip in; others list allergens that may
pose little risk. Robert Earl, the vice president of regulatory
affairs at the nonprofit Food Allergy Research & Education, or FARE,
has even seen labels that include all nine common food allergens. “I
would bet my bottom dollar not all of those allergens are even in the
facility,” he says.Recognizing this uncertainty, food-safety
experts, allergy advocates, policy makers, and food producers are
discussing how to demystify precautionary allergen labels. One widely
considered solution is to restrict warnings to cases where visual or
analytical tests demonstrate that there is enough allergen to actually
trigger a reaction. Experts say the costs to the food industry are
minimal, and some food producers across the globe, including in
Canada, Australia, Thailand, and the United States, already
voluntarily take this approach. But in the U.S., where there are no
clear guidelines to follow, consumers are still left wondering what
each individual precautionary allergen label even means.
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This Is What Would Happen if China Invaded Taiwan
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In late March, a Taiwanese data analyst posted on social media about
an odd satellite image: It appeared that the Chinese military had
erected at one of its remote military bases in Inner Mongolia a series
of roads that perfectly re-created the roads around the presidential
palace in Taipei. The revelation only appeared to underscore the
seriousness with which Chinese officials are proceeding with President
Xi Jinping’s directive to be ready to invade the independent island
by the late 2020s. As part of the research for his new book, World on
the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st
Century, Dmitri Alperovitch journeyed to Taiwan, talked with multiple
high-level officials and national security planners in Taiwan and the
United States, and walked the possible invasion terrain to imagine
just how such an invasion might occur. His scenario, excerpted here
and which he imagines taking place on November 13, 2028, serves as the
new book’s prologue.The winter season in Taiwan—lasting from
November till March—is great for surfers. It’s no Bali or Hawaii,
as the size of the waves and their consistency may vary, but the
Northeast Monsoon, which brings in the cold China Coastal Current
water into the Taiwan Strait, where it meets the warm Kuroshio Branch
Current coming from the south, is known to form some significant
waves. The Taiwan Strait is only about a hundred meters deep—shallow
enough that during ice ages and the time of glaciers the island of
Taiwan was physically connected to the Chinese mainland; but even in
the modern era the 200-mile-long passage—which varies in width from
about 100 nautical miles down to just 70 nautical miles and is one of
the most vital shipping routes in the world—is known for frequent
storms, large swells, and blinding fog and is bedeviled by annual
summer typhoons from roughly May to October. Between the typhoons in
the summer and the stormy high-wave winter season, there is no
predictably perfect and easy time to launch a large-scale amphibious
invasion of Taiwan, especially with the strait registering about 150
days a year of winds above 20 knots, rough seas for amphibious ships
and landing craft. Any landing on Taiwan’s windy, shallow, and rocky
beaches during that time is fraught and risky. Which is why, in the
end, China decided to forego a beach landing and attempt an air
assault on the island’s port and airfield facilities, the seizure of
which would allow for rapid arrival of follow-on troops and logistical
supplies to facilitate a successful occupation.
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Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine
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Earlier this year, speaking to WIRED, Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity’s
CEO, described his product—a chatbot that gives natural-language
answers to prompts and can, the company says, access the internet in
real time—as an “answer engine.” A few weeks later, shortly
before a funding round valuing the company at a billion dollars was
announced, he told Forbes, “It’s almost like Wikipedia and ChatGPT
had a kid.” More recently, after Forbes accused Perplexity of
plagiarizing its content, Srinivas told the AP it was a mere
“aggregator of information.”The Perplexity chatbot itself is more
specific. Prompted to describe what Perplexity is, it provides text
that reads, “Perplexity AI is an AI-powered search engine that
combines features of traditional search engines and chatbots. It
provides concise, real-time answers to user queries by pulling
information from recent articles and indexing the web daily.”
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I tested out a buzzy new text-to-video AI model from China
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Kuaishou’s generative video model Kling, which could be poised to
transform how short clips are created for platforms like TikTok.
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The High Cost of Misaligned Business and Analytics Goals
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How and where do companies’ investments in new and improved data and
analytic capabilities contribute to tangible business benefits like
profitability and growth? Should they invest in talent? Technology?
Culture? According to new research, the degree of alignment between
business goals and analytics capabilities is among the most important
factors. While companies that are early in their analytics journey
will see value creation even with significant internal misalignment,
at higher levels of data maturity aligned companies find that
analytics capabilities create significantly more value across growth,
financial, and customer KPIs.
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How to Solve Your Company's Toughest Problems
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A conversation with Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei on
how to solve any problem in five clear steps.
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There's a New Product That Can Help With Today's Unique Legal Risks
With DEI
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DEI has found itself in the crosshairs of the culture wars. But one
entrepreneur has a solution already on the market that can help
assuage a founder's fears of legal risk.
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Giorgia Meloniâ™s hard-right European group claims a top EU job
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Italian PM aims to disrupt plans by other parties in the bloc’s
parliament to decide senior roles
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Bank of America tells Detroitâ™s Big 3 they canâ™t make money in
China and should just leave the hypercompetitive car market âas soon
as they possibly canâ™
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The situation is even less appetizing at Ford and the former Chrysler
group—merged with France’s Peugeot Citroen—now known as
Stellantis. The duo have thus far failed to carve out a sustainable
and significant share of the local car market, the largest in the
world with a record 30 million vehicles sold last year.GM however
seems to have no intention of giving Musk or its Chinese competition
that satisfaction. A spokesman for the company referred to comments
from CEO Mary Barra in April that it remains committed to the market.
While it has taken costs out, it is simultaneously adding to new
products in China including plug-in hybrids and luxury imports like
the Chevy Tahoe and GMC Yukon.
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Shopify has a nearly $1 trillion opportunity according to this
legendary Wall St. analyst
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That’s according to legendary wall street tech analyst Mark Mahaney
and his colleagues at the research firm Evercore ISI. Mahaney and
company recently upgraded Shopify’s stock to an “outperform”
rating with a price target of $75 per share. The stock was trading
around $64 at the time. And a major component of the Shopify upside
that Evercore sees has to do with Shopify’s work in recent years to
appeal to large enterprises in addition to small and mid-sized
merchants. In interviews with Shopify merchants, Mahaney and team
found that the moves seem to be working. In addition to Mattel and
Steve Madden, Shopify has also attracted large fast-growing brands
like Kim Kardashian’s Skims apparel company.
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Massachusetts 911 Outage Triggered By Firewall, Not A Hack, Officials
Say
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The outage, designated as a “technical issue” on Tuesday, forced
officials to ask people in Massachusetts to call precincts or pull on
emergency fire boxes in case of an emergency. The interruption came
amid the state’s first heat wave of the summer, which brought high
humidity and hot temperatures exceeding the 90 degree mark. Brian
Fontes, the chief executive of the National Emergency Number
Association, told The New York Times that upgrading the U.S. 911
system would cost an estimated $15 billion.
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FedExâ™s Secretive Police Force Is Helping Cops Build An AI Car
Surveillance Network
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Forbes has learned the shipping and business services company is using
AI tools made by Flock Safety, a $4 billion car surveillance startup,
to monitor its distribution and cargo facilities across the United
States. As part of the deal, FedEx is providing its Flock video
surveillance feeds to law enforcement, an arrangement that Flock has
with at least five multi-billion dollar private companies. But
publicly available documents reveal that some local police departments
are also sharing their Flock feeds with FedEx — a rare instance of a
private company availing itself of a police surveillance apparatus.To
civil rights activists, such close collaboration has the potential to
dramatically expand Flock’s car surveillance network, which already
spans 4,000 cities across over 40 states and some 40,000 cameras that
track vehicles by license plate, make, model, color and other
identifying characteristics, like dents or bumper stickers. Lisa
Femia, staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said
because private entities aren’t subject to the same transparency
laws as police, this sort of arrangement could “[leave] the public
in the dark, while at the same time expanding a sort of mass
surveillance network.”
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Astronomy's secret weapon in the resolution wars: interferometry
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When human eyes gaze up at the night sky, what we can see is
profoundly limited. The pupils of our eyes, which allow light through,
can only reach a maximum diameter of around 7 millimeters (0.28
inches) each, which limits the amount of light our eyes can collect
and, therefore, the faintness of the objects we’re sensitive to.
Because we can only see visible (optical) light, the maximum
resolution we can see is defined by the number of wavelengths that can
fit across the diameter of our pupils. It’s why the stars Mizar and
Alcor, the second star in the handle of the Big Dipper, can be seen as
two individual points of light by unaided human eyes, but the binary
star Albireo, within the Summer Triangle, requires binoculars or a
telescope to resolve into two separate stars.Traditionally, the
simplest way to improve your view of the Universe is to build
larger-aperture instruments: telescopes with larger collecting areas.
That gives them both more light-gathering power and also higher
resolution, as larger telescopes collect more light in the same amount
of observing time, and also as more wavelengths of the same type of
light can fit across the diameter of your telescope, producing sharper
images. However, larger telescopes are more expensive and more
challenging to build instruments for, as there are only two optical
telescopes larger than ~12 meters under construction today.
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From fan to showrunner: How "House of the Dragon" creator Ryan Condal
landed TV's biggest job
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The second season of HBO’s House of the Dragon picks up right where
the first left off. Rhaenyra Targaryen, played by Emma D’Arcy, is
(spoilers ahead) flying across the Narrow Sea in search of the charred
remains of her son, Lucerys, and his dragon. Across from the island of
Dragonstone, in the capital city of King’s Landing, her half-brother
Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) sits on the Iron Throne, counseled by his
mother Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke), grandfather Otto Hightower
(Rhys Ifans), and Kingsguard Commander Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel),
preparing for a civil war that will change Westeros forever. The Dance
of the Dragons is here, and when the dragons dance, the Seven Kingdoms
bleed.At first, fans did not have high hopes for House of the Dragon,
based on George R.R. Martin’s 2018 book Fire & Blood, which recounts
the history of the Targaryen dynasty from founder Aegon the Conqueror
all the way to Daenerys, the silver-haired heroine of the acclaimed
and as of yet unfinished book series A Song of Ice and Fire. Game of
Thrones, which was Ice and Fire’s TV adaptation, grew into one of
the most critically and commercially successful shows of all time —
until its final seasons failed to live up to audience expectations.
House of the Dragon, which premiered in 2022, might have continued
that trend. Instead, the show proved a return to form, offering the
same Shakespearean dialogue and political intrigue that made people
fall in love with Martin’s fictional universe back in 2011. The
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When are parents responsible for their kids' behavior?
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When the parents of Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley were
convicted of involuntary manslaughter, it was a watershed moment in US
school shooting cases. It was also a key moment in parental
culpability law, governing cases in which parents can be held legally
responsible for the actions of their children.Ethan Crumbley, who at
age 15 brought a gun to his high school and killed four people and
injured seven, pleaded guilty to 24 crimes at his own trial in 2022.
But for the first time in American history, a school shooter’s
parents were also convicted, of involuntary manslaughter, and
sentenced to prison terms.
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The odds of Boeing emerging smoothly from the severe turbulence
that has rocked the company since a side panel blew off one of
its 737 MAX planes in January just decreased amid two grim
developments. The first was a report highlighting the aircraft
maker's difficulty finding a replacement for departing CEO Dave
Calhoun. The second was the outgoing executive's day fielding
tough questions from Senators looking into problems in the company's
production safety measures. Some lawmakers asked why the
embattled manager remains at the helm of the reeling aviation
manufacturer--a highly public spectacle that makes the stalled
effort to find his corporate successor even more urgent.The
convergence of those two events underlines the
enormous difficulties Boeing faces in battling through the
series of aircraft incidents, scandals, and business crises that
buffeted it since the start of 2024. The faltering hunt for a new
CEO was described in a Wall Street Journal report Monday,
explaining how the hunt for Calhoun's successor has run
into unexpected trouble. Calhoun in March announced he would
step down from his CEO role before the end of the year, though he
retains his board seat. The main reason nobody has yet been named
to the top job, the paper said, was that "(s)everal high-profile
candidates have turned down the chance to run Boeing"--apparently
looking at the opportunity less as a gift horse than as a bucking
bronco they'd have a tough time riding if they took the company's
reins.
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The FTC said in a statement Tuesday that it investigated the two
companies and "uncovered reason to believe" they are "violating or are
about to violate" the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, a
federal law which requires kid-oriented apps and websites to get
parental consent before collecting personal information of children
under 13.A spokesperson for the Justice Department declined to comment
on the substance of the referral from the FTC against TikTok.
"Consistent with our normal approach, the Justice Department consulted
with FTC in advance of this referral and will continue to do so as we
consider the claims. As always, the Department will be guided by the
facts and the law as well as our responsibility to protect the
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Amazon Labor Union Members Vote to Affiliate With the Teamsters
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The ALU members voted 98.3 percent in favor of the affiliation,
which will give them access to additional resources in their effort to
bring Amazon to the bargaining table, the International Brotherhood of
Teamsters said Tuesday."Together, with hard work, courage, and
conviction, the Teamsters and ALU will fight fearlessly to ensure
Amazon workers secure the good jobs and safe working conditions they
deserve in a union contract," Teamsters General President Sean M.
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The two citations issued in May by the California Labor Commissioner's
Office said Amazon.com Services LLC ran afoul of the state's Warehouse
Quota Law at facilities in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, east
of Los Angeles.The law, which took effect in 2022, "requires warehouse
employers to provide employees written notice of any quotas they must
follow, including the number of tasks they need to perform per hour
and any discipline that could come" from not meeting the requirements,
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Fed Officials Scan Data and Cautiously Ponder Rate Cuts
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Federal Reserve officials, heartened by recent data, are looking for
further confirmation that inflation is cooling and for any warning
signs from a still-strong labor market as they steer cautiously toward
what most expect to be an interest rate cut or two by the end of this
year.Outlining a litany of reasons for optimism that inflation is back
on track to the U.S. central bank's 2 percent goal after stalling
earlier this year, Fed Governor Adriana Kugler said on Tuesday she
believes monetary policy is "sufficiently restrictive" to ease price
pressures without causing a significant deterioration in the job
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New Law in New York Requires Paid Break for Employees Who Need to Pump
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Employers are required to tell employees about the paid breaks. The
law applies to all public and private employers in the state. The
break time for pumping breast milk cannot be subtracted from an
employee's preexisting meal break or other paid break, according
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What Are EV Startups Doing to Ride Out Weak Demand?
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Demand has been weak for Fisker's flagship Ocean electric SUV. The
company cut jobs and paused investments to slow cash burn, partnered
with dealerships to boost sales and desperately sought an investment
from a major automaker to stay alive. None of that worked. The
startup has focused on reducing its cash burn by re-negotiating supply
contracts and building some components in-house. Rivian posted cash
and cash equivalents of $5.98 billion for the first quarter, compared
with $7.86 billion in the fourth quarter.
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Katy Perry-Backed Foods Firm Bragg Explores Sale
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Bragg Live Food Products, which is backed by celebrities Katy Perry
and Orlando Bloom, is exploring a sale that could value the maker of
apple cider vinegar at more than $500 million, including debt,
according to people familiar with the matter.The Santa Barbara,
California-based company, which also counts investment firm Swander
Pace Capital among its investors, is working with Bank of America to
solicit interest from potential buyers, which include private equity
firms, the sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity.Â
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Appeals Court Sends Credit Card Late Fees Lawsuit Back to
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The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday suffered a
jurisdictional setback in a lawsuit challenging its new rule capping
credit card late fees at $8 when a federal appeals court held the case
should stay in Texas and not be sent to a judge in Washington, D.C.The
ruling by a three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals was a victory for business and banking groups
challenging a key part of the crackdown by President Joe Biden's
administration on "junk fees."
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Bryson DeChambeau's 'quirky' practice routine will help you perform in
any clutch situation like public speaking.
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Anyone who plays the game knows what happens next. As you approach the
bunker where the ball has come to rest, your heart beats faster, your
palms sweat, and your confidence crumbles. At least, that's what
happens to most of us when faced with a sand shot.On the 18th hole of
Sunday's final round, DeChambeau's approach shot landed in a bunker
about 55 yards from the hole. DeChambeau hit what he called "the
shot of my life" to four feet. He made the putt to clinch the title.
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Identify -- and Develop -- Your Natural Strengths
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When we think of self-improvement, we tend to focus on our weaknesses.
But that means we often underestimate our strengths — or even
don’t recognize them at all. In this article, the author explains
why we’ve developed this focus on weakness, and she then lays out a
program for identifying and developing our strengths, with a
particular focus on natural abilities that we might take for granted
and therefore overlook.
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The High Cost of Misaligned Business and Analytics Goals
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How and where do companies’ investments in new and improved data and
analytic capabilities contribute to tangible business benefits like
profitability and growth? Should they invest in talent? Technology?
Culture? According to new research, the degree of alignment between
business goals and analytics capabilities is among the most important
factors. While companies that are early in their analytics journey
will see value creation even with significant internal misalignment,
at higher levels of data maturity aligned companies find that
analytics capabilities create significantly more value across growth,
financial, and customer KPIs.
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How to Solve Your Company's Toughest Problems
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You’ve likely heard the phrase, “Move fast and break things.”
But Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei says speed and
experimentation are not enough on their own. Instead, she argues that
you should move fast and fix things. (That’s also the topic and
title of the book she coauthored with Anne Morriss.)
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Why China still runs on Windows
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On May 29, Microsoft’s China division announced a new partnership
with TencentiTencentBest known for its super-app WeChat, Tencent is a
Chinese technology conglomerate and a major player in the video gaming
industry.READ MORE, building a pathway for publishing Tencent’s
Android catalog on Windows. Tencent is best known as the company
behind WeChat — a super-app that’s virtually essential in China
— but it has a vast library of apps. It’s one of the world’s
biggest gaming companies and runs QQ Music, one of the country’s
most popular music-streaming services. Giving people a way to use
Tencent’s apps on the desktop is a good idea, but if you’re not
familiar with China, it might be a little surprising that the company
is looking to Microsoft to do it. Given the rising political tensions
with the U.S., couldn’t Tencent find a Chinese company to partner
with?But for the Chinese desktop market, Windows has become
indispensable. It’s hard to get solid numbers on desktop OS usage in
China, both because of piracy and general secrecy, but some analysts
have estimated Microsoft’s share as high as 80%. Given the nature of
Windows, that portion is probably heavily focused on offices and
industry. With so much of the excitement and growth in the sector
focused on mobile devices, there are few Chinese tech companies
interested in challenging Microsoft in the desktop space, so there’s
been no real threat to its dominance. If you’re making a product for
desktops, you’re making it for Windows.
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Singapore doubles down on lab-grown meat as Silicon Valley backs off
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Huber’s Butchery, in Singapore’s upscale Dempsey Hill
neighborhood, has long drawn shoppers looking for more than just cold
cuts. Starting last month, the deli’s freezer section has stocked
shredded chicken grown from cells in a lab, the first time anywhere in
the world that cultivated meat can be bought in a store, its
manufacturer said.Cultivated meat has been available at a handful of
restaurants in Singapore and the U.S. for a couple of years. But the
launch of Good Meat 3 — from California-based food technology firm
Eat Just — at Huber’s is a high point for the industry that has
been in the doldrums lately. Investor interest is flagging, and
cultivated meat has been banned in Italy, and in the U.S. states of
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Fans of 'Interview With the Vampire' Say the Stakes Have Never Been
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When a new episode of AMCâ™s Interview With the Vampire aired
the Sunday before last, a particular sort of fuse was lit in online
conversations around the show. The fifth installment of the second
season, âÂÂDonâ™t Be Afraid, Just Start the
Tape,â was an impeccably written and acted horror film in
miniatureâÂÂthe sort of thing you watch with your mouth hanging
open, before pointing at your TV and saying, âÂÂAre you seeing
this, too?!?!âÂÂYet when thousands took to social media to ask
that very question, much of the commentary was underscored by
confusion, even concern, that people were, in fact, not seeing it,
tooâÂÂthat they werenâ™t seeing Interview With the
Vampire at all. For a show so good, many said, it was criminal that
more people werenâ™t watching and discussing it, and that
more critics werenâ™t covering it. âÂÂThis is the best
show on TV right now,â New York Times culture reporter Kyle
Buchanan wrote in one widely shared tweet. âÂÂI feel gaslit that
youâ™d all rather talk about mid or bad shows rather than
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6 Best Toasters (2024): Tested and Reviewed
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commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also
consider subscribing to WIREDAn essential appliance, the toaster makes
breakfast prep easy, adds flair to lunch time sandwiches and takes
care of the three billion Pop Tarts we consume each year in America.
Let's face it, few things in life are more delicious than a piece of
hot buttered toast, well, apart from maybe toast with eggs, bacon,
hash browns and a brew made with one of the best coffee makers. But
not all toasters are made equally, which is why we've been carb
loading in the name of research, so you can get the best for your
bread, bagel, muffin or crumpet.
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LG Gram Pro 17 Review: Ultralight and Ultra Hot
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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 WIREDChoosing a laptop inevitably involves a
matter of compromise. A lightweight, more portable device means a
small screen and a cramped keyboard. A larger laptop provides room to
stretch out and usually more powerâat the expense of portability.
What's an on-the-go creative to do? Is there a best of both worlds out
there somewhere?
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The Evergoods Civic Panel Loader 24L Is a Well-Made Minimalist
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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 WIREDI've had a mild obsession with bags since
grade school. I really wanted a Jansport backpack. What I got was a
generic copy on sale at the local sporting good storeâalmost a
Jansport, but not quite. It wasn't the label, I didn't care who made
the bag. It was build quality. The zipper snagged on the generic
version. The rear pocket wasn't as big.
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We've Tested the 9 Best TV Streaming Devices for 4K and HD
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Fusion Sparks an Energy Revolution
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In 2024, fusion technology will finally make the transition from basic
research to commercial application. The reason for that will be the
construction and completion of the first commercial fusion
demonstrators. These cutting-edge facilities are smaller than fusion
power plants. For instance, a laser-based fusion demonstrator might
use five to ten laser beams, while a commercial power plant can use
several hundred. However, they have a crucial roleâto prove that
fusion technology works on a small scale, paving the way for the
construction of larger fusion-power plants. In 2024, they will do just
this, starting to build devices that will finally achieve the elusive
goal of energy gain- in other words, outputting more energy than the
quantity needed to kickstart the fusion process. Hitting this
milestone is a critical step in addressing the steeply increasing
global energy demand, as fusion energy has the potential to provide an
abundant, carbon-free source of power.This story is from the WIRED
World in 2024, our annual trends briefing. Read more stories from the
series hereâor download a copy of the magazine.
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17 Management and City-Building Games for Armchair Tycoons
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consider subscribing to WIREDBefore kids and other responsibilities,
when I regularly gamed into the wee hours, playing management sims was
one of my favorite things to do. I spent countless days building in
Sim Tower, SimCity, and Theme Park. I ran a studio in The Movies,
managed a menagerie in Zoo Tycoon, and constructed the pyramids in
Pharaoh. My villainous lairs in Dungeon Keeper 2 and Evil Genius were
beyond compare. I built impregnable castles in Stronghold, and I sank
days into Game Dev Storyâa game about making games.
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Adobe Says It Won't Train AI Using Artists' Work. Creatives Aren't
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When users first found out about Adobeâ™s new terms of
service (which were quietly updated in February), there was an uproar.
Adobe told users it could access their content âÂÂthrough both
automated and manual methodsâ and use âÂÂtechniques such
as machine learning in order to improve [Adobeâ™s] Services
and Software.â Many understood the update as the company
forcing users to grant unlimited access to their work, for purposes of
training Adobeâ™s generative AI, known as Firefly.Late on
Tuesday, Adobe issued a clarification: In an updated version of its
terms of service agreement, it pledged not to train AI on its users'
content stored locally or in the cloud and gave users the option to
opt out of content analytics.
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NatGeo documents salvage of Tuskegee Airman's lost WWII plane wreckage
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In April 1944, a pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen, Second Lieutenant
Frank Moody, was on a routine training mission when his plane
malfunctioned. Moody lost control of the aircraft and plunged to his
death in the chilly waters of Lake Huron. His body was recovered two
months later, but the airplane was left at the bottom of the
lake—until now. Over the last few years, a team of divers working
with the Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum in Detroit has
been diligently recovering the various parts of Moody's plane to
determine what caused the pilot's fatal crash.
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Why Americans aren't buying more EVs
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Clint and Rachel Wells had reasons to consider buying an electric
vehicle when it came to replacing one of their cars. But they had even
more reasons to stick with petrol.
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What to Read to Understand How People Get Tricked
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Each of these titles will stick with you and, perhaps, make you more
likely to realize when you're not seeing the truth.Our brains are
wired to be deceived. I'm married to a professional magician, so I'm
intimately familiar with the kinds of techniques that can fool the eye
and trick the senses. But the human mind's vulnerability to
misdirection is more universal than that. Neurologists and
psychologists have found that our predilection for trusting othersâa
trait that has helped us survive as a speciesâis a major reason con
artists thrive. This trait also makes dissimulation fascinating and
appealing, especially in literature. Readers love the stories of
swindlers and their gullible targets, of grifters themselves being
tricked, and every iteration in between. They thrill us by upending
the expected and making us question our assumptions.
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Alex Jones Lost Everything--And Still Won
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Alex Jones couldn't help himself. On Friday, just before a federal
judge was set to decide the fate of Infowars, his conspiracy-media
empire, Jones spun up yet another conspiracy.He was on his way into a
Houston courthouse as part of the ongoing saga over lies he told about
the Sandy Hook school shooting. After six years of litigation, Jones
owes $1.5 billion in defamation damages. The "FBI and CIA" had
fabricated the charges against him, Jones explained, in his famously
gravelly voice, to the half dozen or so cameramen in front of him. The
agencies had organized a "deep-state operation against the American
people," he said, wiping the sweat off his head in the Houston heat.
"This is a very, very exciting time to be alive."
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