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WorkWith Eras Tour book, Taylor Swift offers up a holiday surprise - WSJ Taylor Swift is closing the biggest chapter of her career—her mammoth “Eras Tour," which began in March 2023 and ends in December—with a 256-page book.The pop singer on Tuesday announced an Eras Tour retrospective tome, “The Official Eras Tour Book," putting a bow on what’s become the highest-grossing concert tour of all time. The new hardcover coffee-table book will include personal reflections written by Swift and more than 500 images, including exclusive performance and backstage shots. In addition, Swift is releasing vinyl and CD editions of “The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology," the expanded version of her latest album. Both will be available exclusively via Target on Nov. 29.The new merchandise comes as Swift returns to the U.S. to complete the final leg of her Eras Tour, the first concert trek to generate over $1 billion in ticket revenue. Having taken a two-month breather after a European run, Swift performs at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium on Friday, followed by engagements in New Orleans and Indianapolis, finishing her tour—after more than a year and a half—in Vancouver on Dec. 8. WorkHow Donald Trump Earned $605 Million Over The Last Three Years - Forbes Donald Trump makes more money today than he has in years. Out of office and back on the campaign trail, the former president earned an estimated $218 million of operating income last year, roughly double what he made during his final year in the White House. What changed? Trump’s golf game, mostly.
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WorkWork WorkWorkWorkWorkWork6G phone networks could be 9000 times faster than 5G - New Scientist Wireless data has been sent at 938 gigabits per second, or more than 9000 times the average speed of a current 5G phone connection. This would be the equivalent of downloading more than 20 average-length movies a second. The speed is a record for multiplex data where two or more signals are mixed. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkThe Woman Who Helped Send a Spacecraft to Europa, Jupiters Icy Moon - The New Yorker Just after noon on Monday, a SpaceX rocket stood on the same launchpad that once sent men to the moon. Hurricane Milton had recently ripped across Florida, whipping up winds of a hundred miles per hour in Cape Canaveral, but now the skies were a featureless blue. From a restricted viewing area not far away, Louise Prockter, a graceful scientist with sandy hair, glanced at a countdown clock and then back at the rocket, which carried her lifework. Surreal, she said softly. This just doesnt feel real. There were three minutes until ignition. WorkWorkSpaceX Launches Its Mega Starship RocketTowering almost 400 feet (121 meters), the empty Starship blasted off at sunrise from the southern tip of Texas near the Mexican border. It arced over the Gulf of Mexico like the four Starships before it that ended up being destroyed, either soon after liftoff or while ditching into the sea. The last one in June was the most successful yet, completing its flight without exploding. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkElon Musk gave $75m to his pro-Trump group in three monthsHe also has donated millions to another rightwing group, Building America’s Future, which has focused on reducing Kamala Harris’s support among Black voters. The group has also launched advertising criticising Joe Biden and Harris for their support at the Mexican border. WorkSupport automation firm Capacity grows with new cash and acquisitions | TechCrunch“Our growth strategy reflects what our customers are asking for: an all-in-one AI platform that delivers across all communication channels,” he added. “We’ve identified 24 steps of the customer experience that are ripe for support automation … Each acquisition adds specific tech and talent to help Capacity become a leading provider of AI-powered solutions for customer and employee experience.” WorkWorkOur favorite startups from Pear VC's invitational demo day | TechCrunchWhy it stood out: Software that adjusts difficulty based on individual student knowledge has been available for some time. However, TeachShare’s founders argue that many educational companies still offer a one-size-fits-all approach to curriculum development. This forces teachers to spend significant time modifying lesson plans to suit their specific classrooms. TeachShare aims to assist teachers in tailoring daily content, ensuring alignment with educational standards. WorkWarren Buffett Is Buying Shares of This Legal Monopoly Hand Over FistBank of America is an advertising partner of The Ascent, a Motley Fool company. Sean Williams has positions in Bank of America and Sirius XM. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Apple, Bank of America, and Berkshire Hathaway. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. WorkOil steadies after fall as Middle East uncertainty persistsComing up is the latest U.S. oil inventory data. The American Petroleum Institute's report is due later on Wednesday followed by the government's figures on Thursday. Both reports are published a day later than normal following a federal holiday. WorkWhat can Trump deliver on illegal migration? - WSJ We know Donald Trump can talk the talk on illegal migration. The question is what he would be able to deliver in a second term. In 2016 he vowed to wall off the southern border and send the bill to Mexico. It didn’t happen. Now Mr. Trump is promising to “carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history." WorkThe Rigor of Angels: Human Nature and the Nature of Reality, from Zeno to Heisenberg to BorgesEvery month, I spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars keeping The Marginalian going. For nearly two decades, it has remained free and ad-free and alive thanks to patronage from readers. I have no staff, no interns, not even an assistant — a thoroughly one-woman labor of love that is also my life and my livelihood. If this labor makes your own life more livable in any way, please consider aiding its sustenance with a one-time or loyal donation. Your support makes all the difference. WorkHow Americas Richest People Can Access Billions Without Selling Their StockOn Saturday, Elon Musk promised to sell 10% of his Tesla stake after 58% of people voted in a Twitter poll shared by the Tesla CEO. Yesterday, Musk began to follow through, exercising about 2.15 million Tesla stock options and selling shares to cover the taxes he owed as a result. Prior to this week, he has only ever sold Tesla shares twice—in 2010 and 2016—for pre-tax proceeds of $617 million ($593 million of that went to cover taxes he owed on options). Tesla’s stock has risen over 13,000% since his last sale, and Musk is now worth an estimated $281 billion (based on Wednesday’s closing price). WorkAre Those Stomach Troubles Celiacor Giardia?After coming down with an unidentifiable illness in the summer of 2006 while running high adventure trips at a Boy Scout camp in Southern California, he had been wracked with serious gastrointestinal dysfunction distress, depression, and brain fog. No matter how much he ate, he kept losing weight. At one point, he logged his caloric intake for a college nutrition class and found that he had been eating seven thousand calories a day, despite looking sickly thin. Around Thanksgiving of that year, it got so bad Johnson had to go to an urgent care because he was so dehydrated. WorkDoes China welcomeor dreadan Iran-Israel war? - The Economist LAST MONTH, as tensions escalated between Iran and Israel, China helped organise a five-day Chinese film festival in the Iranian capital, Tehran. It opened with a blockbuster: The Battle at Lake Changjin. The drama portrays the heroism of Chinese soldiers who fought against American troops in the Korean war of 1950-53. Strike one punch to avoid a hundred, Mao Zedong is shown exhorting his colleagues. Nationalist bloggers in China crowed about the films showing. Iran cannot sit idly by, even if the United States is behind Israel! wrote a widely read scribe. WorkThe Astonishing Lucy Fossil Was Discovered 50 Years Ago. Heres How It Rewrote the Story of Human Origins - Scientific American Every once in a great while paleontological fieldwork turns up a fossil so extraordinary that it revolutionizes our understanding of the origin and evolution of an entire branch of the tree of life. Fifty years ago one of us (Johanson) made just such a discovery on an expedition to the Afar region of Ethiopia. On November 24, 1974, Johanson was out prospecting for fossils of human ancestors with his graduate student Tom Gray, eyes trained on the ground, when he spotted a piece of elbow with humanlike anatomy. Glancing upslope, he saw additional fragments of bone glinting in the noonday sun. In the weeks, months and years that followed, as the expedition team worked to recover and analyze all the ancient bones eroding out of that hillside, it became clear that Johanson had found a remarkable partial skeleton of a human ancestor who had lived some 3.2 million years ago. She was assigned to a new species, Australopithecus afarensis, and given the reference number A.L.288-1, which stands for Afar locality 288, the spot where she, the first hominin fossil, was found. But to most people, she is known simply by her nickname, Lucy. With the discovery of Lucy, scientists were forced to reconsider key details of the human story, from when and where humanity got its start to how the various extinct members of the human family were related to one anotherand to us. Her combination of apelike and humanlike traits suggested her species occupied a key place in the family tree: ancestral to all later human species, including members of our genus, Homo. WorkWorkBig Money Flowed to Pro-Trump Groups in the Past Three MonthsElon Musk, the world’s richest man and the leader of Tesla and X, has invested $75 million in the super PAC that he created earlier this year, America PAC, according to the most-anticipated filing of Tuesday’s deadline. That total was actually a bit less than some people close to the group thought he might donate; they expected Mr. Musk to clear $100 million in giving from July to September. WorkTrump Escalates Threats to Political Opponents He Deems the 'Enemy'With early voting underway in key battlegrounds, the race for the White House is moving toward Election Day in an extraordinary and sobering fashion. Mr. Trump has long flirted with, if not openly endorsed, anti-democratic tendencies with his continued refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election, embrace of conspiracy theories of large-scale voter fraud and accusations that the justice system is being weaponized against him. He has praised leaders including President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary for being authoritarian strongmen. WorkWith Jets and Ships, China is Honing Its Ability to Choke Taiwan“Beijing is normalizing the use of these large scale military and coast guard activities under the Lai administration,” said Brian Hart, a fellow with the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “They have made it clear that if they see things that they perceive as provocative from Taiwan that they will respond this way.” TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 100,000 Industry Executives About Us | Advertise | Privacy PolicyUnsubscribe (one-click) You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs.
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