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How Your Office Salad Can Change the World - Inc.com (No paywall)

Dilip Rao didn't need to start a business. As an investment banker at Credit Suisse, he was highly paid and good at his job. But on July 5, 2014, while crossing the street in Midtown Manhattan, the then 33-year-old newlywed was struck by a car. He suffered a concussion and a handful of other injuries, which rendered him temporarily unable to move his arms and legs.

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Night Terrors Could Also Affect Your Pets - Discover Magazine (No paywall)

Night terrors, often known as sleep terrors, have a sure way of making us feel rattled. After all, who wants to have anything other than peaceful sleep? Unfortunately, for those of us experiencing night terrors, undisturbed sleep is hardly ever achieved. Night terrors are a form of sleep disturbance that occurs when your brain is partially asleep and partially awake.

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Dramatic images show the dark side of cobalt mining boom - New Scientist (No paywall)

Taken near Kolwezi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a major cobalt reserve, Pascal Maitre’s photos draw attention to the huge appetite for this metal. This is driven by its high stability and energy density, which make it suited for use in everything from lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles to superalloys. The demand has led to corporations setting up vast extraction operations in the region, displacing villages.

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Is pharma still fearful of the Inflation Reduction Act? - STAT (No paywall)

Good summer morning! Today, we discuss the big Medicare price negotiations (and the not-entirely-meaningful numbers the White House is touting), see a 75% personnel cut at Lykos Therapeutics, and more.

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Mpox Vaccine Maker's Shares Continue Rising As Concern Over Virus Outbreak Grows - Forbes (No paywall)

Shares for mpox vaccine maker Bavarian Nordic continued to surge on Friday after the World Health Organization declared a public health emergency over an escalating outbreak of the disease in Africa, part of a wider rally for linked health stocks as nations mobilize to combat the virus and the company seeks approval to use the shot in adolescents.

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Why the 2024 Chicago convention is not the 1968 convention - The Economist (No paywall)

Democrats plan to convene in Chicago next week to celebrate as their presidential candidate a sitting vice-president who did not win a single primary vote. The candidate, a former senator, has a good record on civil rights but is tied to the White House’s support for an unpopular war. Kamala Harris may be no Hubert Humphrey, but the parallels with the Democrats’ calamitous Chicago convention of 1968 have sharpened since she replaced President Joe Biden at the top of the ticket. Party insiders ordained her, as they did Humphrey to replace Lyndon Johnson, and like Humphrey she has yet to distance herself from the president’s handling of a war that has infuriated her party’s left.

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These antique maps showed how people saw the world. What did they get right? - History (No paywall)

Humans have been captivated by the mysteries of the Earth and stars for centuries, documenting their explorations in stunning and varied ways. Egyptian scholar Claudius Ptolemy—known as the “inventor of geography”—revolutionized the field by recording latitude and longitude in the second century A.D., while Gerardus Mercator’s 16th-century world projection remains influential today.

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The Story That Hillbilly Elegy Doesn't Tell - The New Yorker (No paywall)

Last month, after I published an article about the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate J. D. Vance and his fixation on the traditional nuclear family, I received an e-mail from Donna Morel, an attorney in San Diego. Morel is a fact-checking hobbyistânotably, she exposed major fabrications in best-selling books by the late celebrity biographer C. David Heymann. After Donald Trump named Vance as his running mate, Morel had begun looking closely at "Hillbilly Elegy," the 2016 memoir that brought Vance to national prominence and provided the springboard for his foray into politics. Morel suspected that the book was "a little too made for Hollywood," she told meâin 2020, it was adapted into a movie starring Glenn Close and Amy Adamsâand she wanted to see if her hunch was correct.

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Has Zelensky walked into Putin's trap?

Some Russian state media outlets have suggested that the Kursk incursion was a "trap" for Volodymr Zelensky in which Vladimir Putin will ultimately prevail, as speculation mounts over Ukraine's objectives and end game for the daring operation.

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Defense tech startup Anduril aims to take a Tesla-like approach to weapons manufacturing

“We are starting to think a lot more about that three- to five-year kind of timeline for being ready to go if the market conditions were right and the company continues to grow as well as we have been,” he said.

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BMW makes the Internet happy, brings M5 station wagon to the US

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San Francisco aims to take down AI undressing websites in new lawsuit

Deepfake technology has become a major legal concern especially on the federal level. Last month, the US Copyright Office published a report on digital replicas and concluded that “a new law is needed.” Just a few days later, a bipartisan group of senators introduced the NO FAKES Act that would institute a new law protecting individuals from having their voice, face or body recreated with AI without their consent.

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Texas Instruments awarded $1.6 billion in CHIPS Act funding for domestic silicon production

After the bill passed in 2022, Biden said it would “strengthen our national security by making us less dependent on foreign sources of semiconductors.” He noted that it included “guardrails to ensure that companies receiving tax payer dollars invest in America and that union workers are building new manufacturing plants across the country.”

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FBI says Iranian hackers are targeting both presidential campaigns

A phishing campaign that the FBI believes is linked to Iran has been targeting members of the Trump and Harris camps as they seek to be elected as the president of the United States later this year.

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Harris vows to build 'opportunity economy' and attacks Trump on tax

"He [Trump] plans to give billionaires massive tax cuts year after year," she said. "And he plans to cut corporate taxes by over $1tn, even as they pull in record profits. And that's on top of the $2tn tax cut he already signed into law as president, which, by the way, overwhelmingly went to the wealthiest Americans and corporations, and exploded the national deficit.

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Another week in the circle of startup life | TechCrunch

California residents will soon be able to store their driver’s license or state ID in their Apple Wallet or Google Wallet apps, as the state’s government announced Thursday that support…

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Only 7 days left to save on TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 tickets | TechCrunch

California residents will soon be able to store their driver’s license or state ID in their Apple Wallet or Google Wallet apps, as the state’s government announced Thursday that support…

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Can Google Make Stoplights Smarter? - Scientific American (No paywall)

Traffic along some of Seattle’s stop-and-go streets is running a little smoother after Google tested out a new machine-learning system to optimize stoplight timing at five intersections. The company launched this test as part of its Green Light pilot program in 2023 in Seattle and a dozen other cities, including some notoriously congested places such as Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Kolkata, India. Across these test sites, local traffic engineers use Green Light’s suggestions—based on artificial intelligence and Google Maps data—to adjust stoplight timing. Google intends for these changes to curb waiting at lights while increasing vehicle flow across busy throughways and intersections—and, ultimately, to reduce greenhouse gases.

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The US government has to start paying for things again

Some of the ways I feel myself aging are obvious. Half of my hairs are white now. I can’t stay up past midnight. I hate loud restaurants and bars. I feel a deep urge to read long biographies of generals.

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How Climate Disasters Are Making Food Expensive Everywhere

In today’s climate-changing world, climate events thousands of miles away drive the cost of everything around us—from a flight ticket to a new piece of clothing to the market price of a meal at your favorite restaurant.

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Grant Cardone Says Wait Until The Federal Reserve Drops Rates To This Number To Buy A Home

While Cardone’s advice might appeal to some, it offers little comfort to the millions currently struggling with housing costs. The path to homeownership for many Americans remains steeper than ever, and it will likely take more than a drop in interest rates to level the playing field.

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From 'Perfect Candidate' to Sudden Exit: Inside the Fall of Columbia's President

Ultimately, she decided to resign from Columbia, accept the British Foreign Office’s offer to chair an outside review on development policy and return to her peerage in the House of Lords. The bruising environs of Westminster and Whitehall would be her safe harbor — away from the grandstanding and protesting of an American political season wrapped up with a grinding war many of her students reviled.

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Florida Woman Found Guilty of Manslaughter in Fatal Shooting of Black Neighbor

The panel of six jurors, who The Associated Press reported were all white, delivered its verdict after deliberating for just over two hours after closing arguments on Friday. The trial began on Tuesday.

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Kamala Harris wants to expand the Child Tax Credit and give new parents $6,000

The Harris campaign also announced proposals to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit to slash taxes by up to $1,500 for low-income individuals and couples who don’t have children and cut taxes to help Americans afford health insurance. Harris will also take aim at high prescription drug prices, expensive grocery bills, and Wall Street’s homebuying spree.

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Kamala Harris' plan to keep prescription drug prices down includes a $2,000 cap on out-of-pocket costs

“This plan builds on Vice President Harris’ leadership in removing medical debt from nearly all Americans’ credit reports and in helping secure American Rescue Plan funds to cancel $7 billion of medical debt for up to 3 million Americans,” the campaign wrote.

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A record number of homes in America are now worth $1 million or more

In the past 12 months, the total value of U.S homes rose $3.1 trillion to reach a record $49.6 trillion — and over the past decade that figure has more than doubled, surging nearly 120% from $22.7 trillion in June 2014.

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Wizz Air: Is 'all you can fly' subscription too good to be true?

While he says that Wizz\'s recovery \"when things go wrong has historically not been great\", they are still a \"perfectly reasonable choice\" for the thousands of passengers who may opt for its \"all you can fly\" option.

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The Price of Getting Inked

And business is booming like never before. The global tattoo market, which currently brings in about $2.2 billion, is expected to grow to more than $4 billion by 2032, according to Fortune Business Insights, a market research firm. There are over 20,000 tattoo parlors in the United States. Kari Barba, 64, is a tattoo artist and the owner of Outer Limits, which has two locations in California. She opened her first shop in 1983.

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Gaza Cease-Fire Talks to Resume in Cairo, as Mediators Race to Head Off Wider War

On Friday, Egypt, Qatar and the United States said in a joint statement that the mediators had presented Israel and Hamas with “a bridging proposal” consistent with the terms laid out by President Biden on May 31 and later endorsed by the U.N. Security Council.

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Opinion | We Now Have a Chance to Stop the Most Deadly Infectious Disease -- if We Act

The strategy that quelled TB in the United States after World War II has worked consistently wherever it has been applied: Screen all vulnerable populations to find cases, treat the infected and stop transmission by providing those exposed with preventive treatment — even if they have no symptoms. Tubercular bacteria can hide in the body for months or years before blooming into full-blown disease.

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GOP megadonor Miriam Adelson plans to do whatever it takes to help Trump win with $100 million PAC

There\'s been no indication that Miriam Adelson will stop giving, despite a report by The New York Times, citing sources, that said Adelson received angry text messages from a Trump aide complaining about the people who were running Preserve America.

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The Crimson Diamond is a wonderful EGA-like graphic adventure game for 2024

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Explosion of cicada-eating mites has the state of Illinois scratching

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New Windows 11 build removes ancient, arbitrary 32GB size limit for FAT32 disks

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ISP to Supreme Court: We shouldn't have to disconnect users accused of piracy

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Saudi man earns world record for 444 game consoles hooked to one TV

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Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app

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Passing part of a medical licensing exam doesn't make ChatGPT a good doctor

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Why the Fiat 500e could be your ideal second EV

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Fubo wins injunction to delay Disney-Fox-Warner's live sports streamer Venu

Fubo filed its lawsuit a couple of weeks after Fox-Disney-Warner’s initial announcement. Fubo’s antitrust lawsuit accused the trio of media giants of staging “a years-long campaign” to weaken its sports streaming service. The suit also claimed the joint venture would concentrate too many entities in one service and would hinder competitiveness and jack up prices for viewers and distributors.

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Google acknowledges it 'missed the mark' with onerous demands for Pixel 9 influencers

In the meantime, Google has just released a statement saying the wording was a mistake. Kayla Geier, communications manager at Google, said \"#TeamPixel is a distinct program, separate from our press and creator reviews programs. The goal of #TeamPixel is to get Pixel devices into the hands of content creators, not press and tech reviewers. We missed the mark with this new language that appeared in the #TeamPixel form yesterday, and it has been removed.\"

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OpenAI shut down an Iranian influence op that used ChatGPT to generate bogus news articles

The busted dud of an influence op follows the disclosure earlier this week that Iranian hackers have targeted both Harris’ and Trump’s campaigns. The FBI said informal Trump adviser Roger Stone fell victim to phishing emails. The Iranian hackers then took control of his account and sent messages with phishing links to others. The FBI found no evidence that anyone in the Harris campaign fell for the scheme.

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Microsoft boosts Windows' FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decades

If you really want to nerd out on ‘90s disk formats, Plummer’s three-year-old video goes into more detail about his arbitrary decision that — unbeknownst to him at the time — would last nearly 30 years.

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EU regulators question Meta about the shutdown of CrowdTangle

“We announced earlier this year that we would discontinue CrowdTangle because it did not provide a complete picture of what is happening on our platforms,\" a Meta spokesperson said in a statement to Engadget. \"We have built new, more comprehensive tools for researchers, called the Meta Content Library & API, and we remain in discussion with the European Commission on this matter.”

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Take $150 off a set of Sony noise-canceling headphones, plus the rest of the week's best tech deals

Consider all of this more of a PSA than a true deal, as we still need to actually review all of the new gear. We\'ll inevitably see discounts in the coming months as well. But the Pixel 8s were our favorite Android phones for most people last year, so there\'s at least reason to be optimistic if you want to get in early. For now, you can read our hands-on previews of the Pixel 9 series and the Pixel 9 Pro Fold if you\'re curious to learn more.

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Meta puts Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas VR on ice

There has been no reason given as to the indefinite hold. It’s likely been an extremely expensive undertaking to translate the game into VR, and this is at a time when reports indicate that the market is shrinking. So that could be it.

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The adorable building game Tiny Glade is coming to Steam on September 23

Best of all, you don’t have to worry if your hours of creation are in danger of being sacked and torn down by invading hordes or warring factions. Based on this trailer, it looks like Tiny Glade is the relaxing gaming equivalent of taking a long, warm bath.

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The Plucky Squire expertly transforms old ideas into something new

None of the individual elements in my playthrough were wild, unique things, but the way they connected and the level of polish to everything made me very excited to play the full game. It felt like, behind each turn of a page, there was a new little surprise just waiting to make me smile. The Plucky Squire was originally slated for a 2023 release, but is now due out on September 17. It\'s coming to Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, and will be free on PlayStation Plus’ Extra and Premium tiers.

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Fortnite returns to iOS in the EU as the Epic Games Store debuts on mobile

Meanwhile, I\'m looking forward to dropping back into Fortnite, in part because for the last several years my iPhone\'s nickname has been Doctor Doom, aka the Marvel villain who is the central figure in the new season. Also, I\'m dearly hoping that in short order Epic gives the people what they truly want: an emote of Chappell Roan\'s \"Hot To Go!\" dance in Fortnite. I would gladly spend all the V-Bucks I have on that.

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