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JD Vance says Trump did not lose the 2020 election - Fortune
Vance’s refusal to say whether Trump lost was widely considered his
weakest debate moment with Walz, the governor of Minnesota, who called
the response “a damning non-answer.” The campaign for Democratic
presidential nominee Kamala Harris quickly turned the exchange into
a television ad.
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Taliban begins enforcing rule banning 'images of living beings' in
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Missed paychecks, free DVDs, useless kiosks getting in the way: Inside
Redboxs insane bankruptcy unwinding
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The chain of DVD-rental kiosks filed for bankruptcy in June after
racking up close to a billion dollars in debt. The bankruptcy case was
quickly converted to Chapter 7, legal speak for the end of the road
for a corporation that has no options left to restructure or recover.
“There is no means to continue to pay employees, pay any bills, or
otherwise finance this case,” bankruptcy Judge Thomas Horan said,
calling Redbox and its corporate parent “hopelessly insolvent.”
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Uber explored possible bid for Expedia in super app growth push - FT
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Buying the travel website would be the ride-hailing groups biggest
deal as it looks to diversify
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Can AI help Africa close the development gap? - FT
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Machine learning could have transformative effects on developing
economies and societies. But some fear a deepening digital divide
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Harris Vows to Be Different Than Biden in Fiery Fox Interview -
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Vice president pushes back on criticism in combative interview
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McKinsey cuts hundreds from China workforce - WSJ
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To reduce security risks associated with doing business in China, the
U.S.-based consulting firm has been separating its China operations
from other global operations, people familiar with the matter said—a
practice increasingly popular among multinational companies.
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China employs hackers and celebrities to undermine Taiwan - WSJ
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As Beijing dispatched its military Monday in a show of force that
encircled Taiwan, China’s coast guard posted a map showing its ships
ringing the island in a heart-shaped formation, describing it as “an
act of love."
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Whos normal, Trump or Harris? - WSJ [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79995&nl=daily]
What do voters want from this election, four years of big changes or
four rare years of stability? Which candidate, Kamala Harris or Donald
Trump, is likely to fulfill what seems to be the electorate’s
longing for a simultaneous mixture of disruption and normalcy?
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China test drives a Taiwan blockade - WSJ [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79995&nl=daily]
The U.S. election and war in the Middle East are dominating the
headlines, but don’t sleep on events in the Pacific. China this week
practiced a military blockade of Taiwan that is an all too real future
possibility.
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Defector Media started with a bang. It's an uphill climb to keep
growing just like in most of digital media. - Business Insider
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Four years ago, Defector Media launched with a great story: It was a
punchy, eclectic sports website run — and, crucially, owned — by
former employees of sports website Deadspin, who had quit en masse
after fighting with their owner.
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Ukraine is adding cages to another NATO tank type as it scrambles to
shield its armored vehicles | Business Insider India
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Rinat Akhmetov's Steel Front, a Ukrainian initiative, has been
building and installing steel screens on the German-made Leopard main
battle tank to provide added defense against inbound munitions like
rockets, missiles, and exploding drones.
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JPMorgans Alex Bruce on Being Private Equity's Continuity Candidate -
Bloomberg [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79995&nl=daily]
Investment bank JPMorgan and private capital specialist Campbell
Lutyens last year began to jointly offer advisory services around
so-called continuation fundsvehicles that allow buyout firms to hold
onto assets for longer.
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Obama caught on cam having a 'tense talk' with Biden, gets MAGA fired
up: Watch
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The video, with no audio, captures Obama shaking his head as Biden is
trying to convince him about something. Church music is playing in the
background as the two stand to pay homage to 96-year-old matriarch of
the Kennedy family at St. Matthew the Apostle Catholic Cathedral at
Washington, DC.
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Lunch breaks are shrinking as more workers than ever skip meals to
catch up on work
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In today’s fast-paced work environment, lunch breaks are quickly
becoming a thing of the past for many employees. At least that’s
what a new study from researchers at ezCater, a food-tech company, has
found.
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Poster Child Brown Dwarf Is Actually Twins Orbiting Each Other -
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But something was amiss with the first known brown dwarf, Gliese 229B.
Discovered by Caltech researchers at the Institute's Palomar
Observatory in 1994, astronomers noted that although Gliese 229B
weighed about 70 times more than Jupiter, it shined much more dimly
given its mass.
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The free-energy principle: Can one idea explain why everything exists?
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Neuroscience seems an unlikely place to find fundamental truths that
could apply to everything in the universe. Brains are specific objects
that do things that few, if any, other objects in the universe seem
capable of. They perceive. They act. They read magazine articles. They
are usually the exception, not the rule.
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Wait, Workers Want More Meetings? - Inc [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79995&nl=daily]
Last year, Shopify declared war on meetings. And its not just
Shopifyfounders, executives, and employees where frequently rail
against meetings for wasting time and crushing souls. But according to
a new report, many workers actually find them useful.
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Physicians Can Help Cut Costs. They Just Need the Right Incentives. -
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Health care organizations have long tried to enlist physicians in
their effort to control or reduce costs. One effective means for doing
so is to create an incentive system that rewards physicians for their
contributions. To design such a system, organizations should take into
account these considerations: whether the incentives should be broad
or narrow; whether they should be individual- or team-based; for how
long to compensate; how much to compensate; and what mix of financial
and nonfinancial incentives to offer.
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Archdiocese Of Los Angeles Agrees To Pay $880 Million Settlement To
Clergy Sex Abuse Victims - Forbes [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79995&nl=daily]
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles on Wednesday said it has agreed to pay
$880 million to settle claims of clergy sexual abuse dating back
several decades, which the victims' attorneys say is the largest such
settlement with a Catholic archdiocese.
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Does Israels new plan for Gaza include withholding food? - The
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HARROWING FOOTAGE of limbs attached to intravenous drips inside
burning hospital tents in Deir al-Balah in Gaza on October 14th was a
reminder that the war thereone of several fronts Israel has been
fighting on since Hamas massacred 1,200 people a year agois far from
over. Although the worlds focus is on Lebanon and a possible Israeli
retaliation against Iran, the horror in Gaza continues.
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Meta fires staff for abusing $25 meal credits - FT
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Workers used benefits to buy acne pads, wine glasses and laundry
detergent
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Bon Iver Is Searching for the Truth - The New Yorker
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Bon Iver is the alias of Justin Vernon, a singer, songwriter, and
producer from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Since 2007, when Vernon released
For Emma, Forever Ago, his dbut LP as Bon Iver, he has been making
formally experimental but gorgeously tender music that seems to take
equal inspiration from Bruce Hornsby and the Indigo Girls, Arthur
Russell and Aphex Twin. (The project namea version of the French
phrase Bon hiver, or Good winterwas borrowed from an episode of the
television series Northern Exposure, a deep and formative work in
Vernons life.) This week, Bon Iver will release SABLE, a three-song EP
and the bands first new music since 2019s i,i. SABLE, is only a little
more than twelve minutes long, but it feels revelatory, expansive, and
raw. Vernon has a couple of different voicesa spectral falsetto; a
deeper, throatier bellowbut its hard for me to think of another
contemporary singer whose vocals carry quite as much pure, unmediated
feeling.
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Fears Grow for Health of Pakistan's Jailed Ex-PM Imran Khan
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Concern is mounting regarding the health of Pakistans former Prime
Minister Imran Khan, who has spent over a year in a squalid prison
cell on a slew of charges his supporters insist are politically
motivated.
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Meet the all-new Kindle family, including the first color Kindle
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Our e-reader lineup also features a reimagined Kindle Scribe and the
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Why birds do not fall while sleeping
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It may sound like a tall tale, but that is more or less the one
recounted in a recent publication by a team of scientists at the
National Museum of Natural History (MNHN) and the CNRS, which explains
in the pages of the Journal of the Royal Society Interface1 how birds
can sleep while standing, without losing their balance. We know horses
and bovines are capable of this feat thanks to their four legs, but at
first glance this does not seem so evident for birds. Scientists agree
that this stability comes from one thing: tensegrity. Created from the
contraction of the words “tension” and “integrity,” tensegrity
is the property of a structure to remain stable and balanced thanks to
the subtle interplay of tension and compression in the elements of
which it is made.
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Federal Trade Commission Announces Final Click-to-Cancel Rule Making
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Traveling with Apple Vision Pro
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It’s a fantastic device to travel with—Be it by train or by plane,
it offers an unparalleled opportunity to selectively tune out your
environment and sink into an engaging activity like watching a movie
or just working on your laptop.
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EU decides X isn't worthy of its toughest regulations
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The EU has said it won't classify Elon Musk’s X as “gatekeeper”
– the bloc’s designation for the most significant digital
platforms- because it doesn’t think the social network is that big a
deal.
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For this cancer-focused digital health startup, an FDA rejection meant
the end of the road
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Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial
intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and
digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the
practice of health care and the business and policy challenges to
realizing tech’s promise. He’s also the co-author of the free,
twice weekly STAT Health Tech newsletter.
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Ireland's big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage
lives
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The transition year led Paul Mescal and Cillian Murphy to become
actors - and has had similarly seismic effects on thousands of
secondary school students. Should other countries follow suit'
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China Is Winning. Now What? - American Affairs Journal
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If we lost a trade war, how long would it take us to find out? The
vitality and flexibility of our financial system has obscured the
degree to which we are living in the aftermath of a Chinese trade war
victory—one in which the PRC not merely succeeded in subjecting the
developed countries to trade competition, but also engineered the
deindustrialization of both developed economies and many
middle-income ones. This was not, however, merely a malign effort by a
hostile foreign power. China profited from our own unforced errors and
economic distortions. Our loss of capacity and foreign export markets
shows that a naïve free markets, free trade perspective is inadequate
for the challenges that an increasingly millenarian PRC leadership
poses to the international system.
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Four economic truths that explain the USs bizarre election - FT
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A trip to Americas number 3 shopping mall offers answers to whats
really going on
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BYD Is Winning the Global Race to Make Cheaper EVs - Bloomberg
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The Chinese company is flooding markets with its carswhile the US is
doing everything it can to keep the booming brand out.
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No, tariffs dont fuel growth - WSJ [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79995&nl=daily]
Modern protectionists are desperate to find historical examples of
tariffs promoting industrialization and economic growth. To this end,
they increasingly argue that 19th-century America’s extraordinary
economic success was fueled by high tariffs. In an essay for the
Economist, former U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer insists
that “when America grew in the 19th century from a modest
agricultural country into the world’s largest economy, tariffs were
critical to its success." Oren Cass writes that “behind some of the
world’s highest tariff barriers, the United States transformed from
colonial backwater to continent-spanning industrial colossus." Michael
Lind says the U.S. during the 19th century “pursued a successful
import substitution strategy that transformed it from an agrarian to
an industrial economy with the help of tariffs."
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Peru Paamarca Archaeological Site Finds 'Hall of the Braided Serpents'
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“It’s very unusual for us to see the crowned woman seated on a
throne inside a building holding court,” said Lisa Trever, a
professor of art history and archaeology at Columbia University and
one of the Pañamarca researchers. “I think we can say with some
certainty that, regardless of who actually sat there, it was a throne
for a queen, the throne for a woman.”
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Harris distances herself from Biden, bashes Trump in tense Fox News
interview
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"Over the last decade, it is clear to me and certainly the Republicans
who are on stage with me, the former chief of staff to the president,
Donald Trump, former defense secretaries, national security adviser
and his vice president, one, that he is unfit to serve, that he is
unstable, that he is dangerous. And that people are exhausted with
someone who professes to be a leader who spends full time demeaning
and engaging in personal grievances and it being about him and
American people."
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Alone in the Dark: The Nightmare of Bangladesh's Secret Underground
Prison
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Mr. Arman had been a spoiled and chubby-cheeked lawyer when he
disappeared at the hands of paramilitary forces in 2016 — under no
criminal accusation himself, but seemingly held accountable for his
father’s decades as an Islamist activist and business magnate.
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Opinion | From This Pennsylvania Swing County, the Truth About
American Politics in 2024
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I have been interviewing voters in Pennsylvania for The Times since
2008 — and often in Bucks County, where I grew up. I find it a
useful lens out into America through a place that has a reputation for
civilized, or even genteel, politics.
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Opinion | AI, Aging and Shifts Globalization Will Shock the American
Economy
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The U.S. work force has never aged like this. In 2000, there were
about 27 Americans above the age of 65 for every one American of prime
working age (between the ages of 20 and 49). By 2020, this number had
increased to 39. By 2040, it will have risen to 54. Because these
changes are driven mostly by a decline in fertility, the U.S. work
force will also soon begin to grow more slowly. If immigration into
the United States is reduced, as seems likely no matter who wins the
election, this will only contribute to the aging problem.
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Nine's 'Punishment Island' work culture has had a painful human cost |
Amanda Meade
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"The anxiety I experienced before [each workday] was debilitating,"
one staffer said. "He would humiliate me in front of everyone else on
the team. I have endured thousands of micro-aggressions over time. It
is death by a thousand cuts ⦠There was a point when I wanted to
kill myself."
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Trump stands by debunked claims immigrants are eating pets at event
for Hispanic voters
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“I know that the vast majority of us have so much more in common
than what separates us, and part of what pains me is the approach that
frankly Donald Trump and some others have taken, which is to suggest
that it’s us versus them … and having Americans point fingers at
each other, using language that’s belittling people,” she said.
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Zepto eyes $100M from Indian offices in third funding in 6 months |
TechCrunch
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Zepto – which competes with Zomato-owned BlinkIt, Prosus-backed
Swiggy’s Instamart, and Tata’s BigBasket – has grown its
annualized net runrate considerably in recent months, according to
sources and an internal document reviewed by TechCrunch.
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Accel eyes stake in India's Truemeds at $330 million valuation |
TechCrunch
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If the new funding materializes, it would more than double Truemeds’
valuation, which was $132 million in an extended Series B round last
year. The startup originally raised the Series B funding from
investors including WestBridge Capital and Info Edge Ventures at a
valuation of $76.7 million, according to Tracxn, a venture insight
platform.
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ODD taps $27M for diamond chips to clear radioactive debris at
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant | TechCrunch
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Kate Park is a reporter at TechCrunch, with a focus on technology,
startups and venture capital in Asia. She previously was a financial
journalist at Mergermarket covering M&A, private equity and venture
capital.
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What weeks of early-voting data tell us about how Democrats and
Republicans are turning out in 2024
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While Virginia isn't a core battleground state this year, it does have
more than two weeks of mail-in and early in-person voting already in
the books, including hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots already
cast. We closely monitor early-voting trends to set expectations for
election night outcomes, and in Virginia a clear pattern has emerged
that could be part of a national trend.
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Ahead of public meeting, FDA signals flexibility in evaluating smoking
cessation treatments - STAT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79995&nl=daily]
In a perspective paper published with the National Institutes of
Health this week, the agency labeled the effort to help Americans quit
smoking a top priority and said it was willing to consider broader
endpoints in clinical trials of smoking cessation products.
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Flying Conservationists Teach Endangered Birds to Migrate - Scientific
American [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79995&nl=daily]
Parenting a flock of Northern Bald Ibises is a demanding job. For the
past six months, biologists Barbara Steininger and Helena Wehner have
spent every day hand-feeding and raising dozens of these endangered
chicks. They couldnt pass their fostering duties off on anyone else
during that timethe juvenile birds needed to imprint on them and them
alone.
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Exclusive: Act on "problematic" Chinese Arctic research, US officials
urged
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U.S. lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have asked the government
to do more to address scientific research by China in the territory of
America's Arctic allies that has potential military applications,
Newsweek has learned.
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Archdiocese of Los Angeles Agrees to Pay $880 Million to Settle Sex
Abuse Claims
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The agreement represents the near conclusion to decades of litigation
against the archdiocese, with only a few suits remaining. Over the
years, the archdiocese has sold off real estate, liquidated
investments and taken out loans to cover the staggering costs of
litigation.
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JD Vance says Trump did not lose the 2020 election - Fortune
Vance’s refusal to say whether Trump lost was widely considered his
weakest debate moment with Walz, the governor of Minnesota, who called
the response “a damning non-answer.” The campaign for Democratic
presidential nominee Kamala Harris quickly turned the exchange into
a television ad.
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Taliban begins enforcing rule banning 'images of living beings' in
Afghan media
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The early days of peer review: five insights from historic reports
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Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version
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recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility
mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued
support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.
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Missed paychecks, free DVDs, useless kiosks getting in the way: Inside
Redboxs insane bankruptcy unwinding
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79995&nl=daily]
The chain of DVD-rental kiosks filed for bankruptcy in June after
racking up close to a billion dollars in debt. The bankruptcy case was
quickly converted to Chapter 7, legal speak for the end of the road
for a corporation that has no options left to restructure or recover.
“There is no means to continue to pay employees, pay any bills, or
otherwise finance this case,” bankruptcy Judge Thomas Horan said,
calling Redbox and its corporate parent “hopelessly insolvent.”
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Uber explored possible bid for Expedia in super app growth push - FT
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Buying the travel website would be the ride-hailing groups biggest
deal as it looks to diversify
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Can AI help Africa close the development gap? - FT
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79995&nl=daily]
Machine learning could have transformative effects on developing
economies and societies. But some fear a deepening digital divide
Work
Harris Vows to Be Different Than Biden in Fiery Fox Interview -
Bloomberg [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79995&nl=daily]
Vice president pushes back on criticism in combative interview
Work
McKinsey cuts hundreds from China workforce - WSJ
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79995&nl=daily]
To reduce security risks associated with doing business in China, the
U.S.-based consulting firm has been separating its China operations
from other global operations, people familiar with the matter said—a
practice increasingly popular among multinational companies.
Work
China employs hackers and celebrities to undermine Taiwan - WSJ
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79995&nl=daily]
As Beijing dispatched its military Monday in a show of force that
encircled Taiwan, China’s coast guard posted a map showing its ships
ringing the island in a heart-shaped formation, describing it as “an
act of love."
Work
Whos normal, Trump or Harris? - WSJ [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79995&nl=daily]
What do voters want from this election, four years of big changes or
four rare years of stability? Which candidate, Kamala Harris or Donald
Trump, is likely to fulfill what seems to be the electorate’s
longing for a simultaneous mixture of disruption and normalcy?
Work
China test drives a Taiwan blockade - WSJ [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79995&nl=daily]
The U.S. election and war in the Middle East are dominating the
headlines, but don’t sleep on events in the Pacific. China this week
practiced a military blockade of Taiwan that is an all too real future
possibility.
Work
Defector Media started with a bang. It's an uphill climb to keep
growing just like in most of digital media. - Business Insider
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Four years ago, Defector Media launched with a great story: It was a
punchy, eclectic sports website run — and, crucially, owned — by
former employees of sports website Deadspin, who had quit en masse
after fighting with their owner.
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Ukraine is adding cages to another NATO tank type as it scrambles to
shield its armored vehicles | Business Insider India
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Rinat Akhmetov's Steel Front, a Ukrainian initiative, has been
building and installing steel screens on the German-made Leopard main
battle tank to provide added defense against inbound munitions like
rockets, missiles, and exploding drones.
Work
JPMorgans Alex Bruce on Being Private Equity's Continuity Candidate -
Bloomberg [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79995&nl=daily]
Investment bank JPMorgan and private capital specialist Campbell
Lutyens last year began to jointly offer advisory services around
so-called continuation fundsvehicles that allow buyout firms to hold
onto assets for longer.
Work
Obama caught on cam having a 'tense talk' with Biden, gets MAGA fired
up: Watch
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The video, with no audio, captures Obama shaking his head as Biden is
trying to convince him about something. Church music is playing in the
background as the two stand to pay homage to 96-year-old matriarch of
the Kennedy family at St. Matthew the Apostle Catholic Cathedral at
Washington, DC.
Work
Lunch breaks are shrinking as more workers than ever skip meals to
catch up on work
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In today’s fast-paced work environment, lunch breaks are quickly
becoming a thing of the past for many employees. At least that’s
what a new study from researchers at ezCater, a food-tech company, has
found.
Work
Poster Child Brown Dwarf Is Actually Twins Orbiting Each Other -
Discover Magazine [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79995&nl=daily]
But something was amiss with the first known brown dwarf, Gliese 229B.
Discovered by Caltech researchers at the Institute's Palomar
Observatory in 1994, astronomers noted that although Gliese 229B
weighed about 70 times more than Jupiter, it shined much more dimly
given its mass.
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The free-energy principle: Can one idea explain why everything exists?
- New Scientist [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79995&nl=daily]
Neuroscience seems an unlikely place to find fundamental truths that
could apply to everything in the universe. Brains are specific objects
that do things that few, if any, other objects in the universe seem
capable of. They perceive. They act. They read magazine articles. They
are usually the exception, not the rule.
Work
Wait, Workers Want More Meetings? - Inc [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79995&nl=daily]
Last year, Shopify declared war on meetings. And its not just
Shopifyfounders, executives, and employees where frequently rail
against meetings for wasting time and crushing souls. But according to
a new report, many workers actually find them useful.
Work
Physicians Can Help Cut Costs. They Just Need the Right Incentives. -
Harvard Business Review [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79995&nl=daily]
Health care organizations have long tried to enlist physicians in
their effort to control or reduce costs. One effective means for doing
so is to create an incentive system that rewards physicians for their
contributions. To design such a system, organizations should take into
account these considerations: whether the incentives should be broad
or narrow; whether they should be individual- or team-based; for how
long to compensate; how much to compensate; and what mix of financial
and nonfinancial incentives to offer.
Work
Archdiocese Of Los Angeles Agrees To Pay $880 Million Settlement To
Clergy Sex Abuse Victims - Forbes [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79995&nl=daily]
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles on Wednesday said it has agreed to pay
$880 million to settle claims of clergy sexual abuse dating back
several decades, which the victims' attorneys say is the largest such
settlement with a Catholic archdiocese.
Work
Does Israels new plan for Gaza include withholding food? - The
Economist [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79995&nl=daily]
HARROWING FOOTAGE of limbs attached to intravenous drips inside
burning hospital tents in Deir al-Balah in Gaza on October 14th was a
reminder that the war thereone of several fronts Israel has been
fighting on since Hamas massacred 1,200 people a year agois far from
over. Although the worlds focus is on Lebanon and a possible Israeli
retaliation against Iran, the horror in Gaza continues.
Work
Meta fires staff for abusing $25 meal credits - FT
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Workers used benefits to buy acne pads, wine glasses and laundry
detergent
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Bon Iver Is Searching for the Truth - The New Yorker
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Bon Iver is the alias of Justin Vernon, a singer, songwriter, and
producer from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Since 2007, when Vernon released
For Emma, Forever Ago, his dbut LP as Bon Iver, he has been making
formally experimental but gorgeously tender music that seems to take
equal inspiration from Bruce Hornsby and the Indigo Girls, Arthur
Russell and Aphex Twin. (The project namea version of the French
phrase Bon hiver, or Good winterwas borrowed from an episode of the
television series Northern Exposure, a deep and formative work in
Vernons life.) This week, Bon Iver will release SABLE, a three-song EP
and the bands first new music since 2019s i,i. SABLE, is only a little
more than twelve minutes long, but it feels revelatory, expansive, and
raw. Vernon has a couple of different voicesa spectral falsetto; a
deeper, throatier bellowbut its hard for me to think of another
contemporary singer whose vocals carry quite as much pure, unmediated
feeling.
Work
Fears Grow for Health of Pakistan's Jailed Ex-PM Imran Khan
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Concern is mounting regarding the health of Pakistans former Prime
Minister Imran Khan, who has spent over a year in a squalid prison
cell on a slew of charges his supporters insist are politically
motivated.
Work
Meet the all-new Kindle family, including the first color Kindle
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Our e-reader lineup also features a reimagined Kindle Scribe and the
fastest Kindle Paperwhite ever.
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Why birds do not fall while sleeping
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It may sound like a tall tale, but that is more or less the one
recounted in a recent publication by a team of scientists at the
National Museum of Natural History (MNHN) and the CNRS, which explains
in the pages of the Journal of the Royal Society Interface1 how birds
can sleep while standing, without losing their balance. We know horses
and bovines are capable of this feat thanks to their four legs, but at
first glance this does not seem so evident for birds. Scientists agree
that this stability comes from one thing: tensegrity. Created from the
contraction of the words “tension” and “integrity,” tensegrity
is the property of a structure to remain stable and balanced thanks to
the subtle interplay of tension and compression in the elements of
which it is made.
Work
Federal Trade Commission Announces Final Click-to-Cancel Rule Making
It Easier for Consumers to End Recurring Subscriptions and Memberships
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The .gov means it’s official. Federal government websites often end
in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure
you’re on a federal government site.
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Traveling with Apple Vision Pro
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It’s a fantastic device to travel with—Be it by train or by plane,
it offers an unparalleled opportunity to selectively tune out your
environment and sink into an engaging activity like watching a movie
or just working on your laptop.
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EU decides X isn't worthy of its toughest regulations
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The EU has said it won't classify Elon Musk’s X as “gatekeeper”
– the bloc’s designation for the most significant digital
platforms- because it doesn’t think the social network is that big a
deal.
Work
For this cancer-focused digital health startup, an FDA rejection meant
the end of the road
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Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial
intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and
digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the
practice of health care and the business and policy challenges to
realizing tech’s promise. He’s also the co-author of the free,
twice weekly STAT Health Tech newsletter.
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Ireland's big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage
lives
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The transition year led Paul Mescal and Cillian Murphy to become
actors - and has had similarly seismic effects on thousands of
secondary school students. Should other countries follow suit'
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China Is Winning. Now What? - American Affairs Journal
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If we lost a trade war, how long would it take us to find out? The
vitality and flexibility of our financial system has obscured the
degree to which we are living in the aftermath of a Chinese trade war
victory—one in which the PRC not merely succeeded in subjecting the
developed countries to trade competition, but also engineered the
deindustrialization of both developed economies and many
middle-income ones. This was not, however, merely a malign effort by a
hostile foreign power. China profited from our own unforced errors and
economic distortions. Our loss of capacity and foreign export markets
shows that a naïve free markets, free trade perspective is inadequate
for the challenges that an increasingly millenarian PRC leadership
poses to the international system.
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Four economic truths that explain the USs bizarre election - FT
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A trip to Americas number 3 shopping mall offers answers to whats
really going on
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BYD Is Winning the Global Race to Make Cheaper EVs - Bloomberg
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The Chinese company is flooding markets with its carswhile the US is
doing everything it can to keep the booming brand out.
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No, tariffs dont fuel growth - WSJ [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79995&nl=daily]
Modern protectionists are desperate to find historical examples of
tariffs promoting industrialization and economic growth. To this end,
they increasingly argue that 19th-century America’s extraordinary
economic success was fueled by high tariffs. In an essay for the
Economist, former U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer insists
that “when America grew in the 19th century from a modest
agricultural country into the world’s largest economy, tariffs were
critical to its success." Oren Cass writes that “behind some of the
world’s highest tariff barriers, the United States transformed from
colonial backwater to continent-spanning industrial colossus." Michael
Lind says the U.S. during the 19th century “pursued a successful
import substitution strategy that transformed it from an agrarian to
an industrial economy with the help of tariffs."
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Peru Paamarca Archaeological Site Finds 'Hall of the Braided Serpents'
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“It’s very unusual for us to see the crowned woman seated on a
throne inside a building holding court,” said Lisa Trever, a
professor of art history and archaeology at Columbia University and
one of the Pañamarca researchers. “I think we can say with some
certainty that, regardless of who actually sat there, it was a throne
for a queen, the throne for a woman.”
Work
Harris distances herself from Biden, bashes Trump in tense Fox News
interview
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"Over the last decade, it is clear to me and certainly the Republicans
who are on stage with me, the former chief of staff to the president,
Donald Trump, former defense secretaries, national security adviser
and his vice president, one, that he is unfit to serve, that he is
unstable, that he is dangerous. And that people are exhausted with
someone who professes to be a leader who spends full time demeaning
and engaging in personal grievances and it being about him and
American people."
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Alone in the Dark: The Nightmare of Bangladesh's Secret Underground
Prison
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Mr. Arman had been a spoiled and chubby-cheeked lawyer when he
disappeared at the hands of paramilitary forces in 2016 — under no
criminal accusation himself, but seemingly held accountable for his
father’s decades as an Islamist activist and business magnate.
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Opinion | From This Pennsylvania Swing County, the Truth About
American Politics in 2024
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I have been interviewing voters in Pennsylvania for The Times since
2008 — and often in Bucks County, where I grew up. I find it a
useful lens out into America through a place that has a reputation for
civilized, or even genteel, politics.
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Opinion | AI, Aging and Shifts Globalization Will Shock the American
Economy
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The U.S. work force has never aged like this. In 2000, there were
about 27 Americans above the age of 65 for every one American of prime
working age (between the ages of 20 and 49). By 2020, this number had
increased to 39. By 2040, it will have risen to 54. Because these
changes are driven mostly by a decline in fertility, the U.S. work
force will also soon begin to grow more slowly. If immigration into
the United States is reduced, as seems likely no matter who wins the
election, this will only contribute to the aging problem.
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Nine's 'Punishment Island' work culture has had a painful human cost |
Amanda Meade
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"The anxiety I experienced before [each workday] was debilitating,"
one staffer said. "He would humiliate me in front of everyone else on
the team. I have endured thousands of micro-aggressions over time. It
is death by a thousand cuts ⦠There was a point when I wanted to
kill myself."
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Trump stands by debunked claims immigrants are eating pets at event
for Hispanic voters
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“I know that the vast majority of us have so much more in common
than what separates us, and part of what pains me is the approach that
frankly Donald Trump and some others have taken, which is to suggest
that it’s us versus them … and having Americans point fingers at
each other, using language that’s belittling people,” she said.
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Zepto eyes $100M from Indian offices in third funding in 6 months |
TechCrunch
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Zepto – which competes with Zomato-owned BlinkIt, Prosus-backed
Swiggy’s Instamart, and Tata’s BigBasket – has grown its
annualized net runrate considerably in recent months, according to
sources and an internal document reviewed by TechCrunch.
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Accel eyes stake in India's Truemeds at $330 million valuation |
TechCrunch
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If the new funding materializes, it would more than double Truemeds’
valuation, which was $132 million in an extended Series B round last
year. The startup originally raised the Series B funding from
investors including WestBridge Capital and Info Edge Ventures at a
valuation of $76.7 million, according to Tracxn, a venture insight
platform.
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ODD taps $27M for diamond chips to clear radioactive debris at
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant | TechCrunch
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Kate Park is a reporter at TechCrunch, with a focus on technology,
startups and venture capital in Asia. She previously was a financial
journalist at Mergermarket covering M&A, private equity and venture
capital.
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What weeks of early-voting data tell us about how Democrats and
Republicans are turning out in 2024
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While Virginia isn't a core battleground state this year, it does have
more than two weeks of mail-in and early in-person voting already in
the books, including hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots already
cast. We closely monitor early-voting trends to set expectations for
election night outcomes, and in Virginia a clear pattern has emerged
that could be part of a national trend.
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Ahead of public meeting, FDA signals flexibility in evaluating smoking
cessation treatments - STAT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79995&nl=daily]
In a perspective paper published with the National Institutes of
Health this week, the agency labeled the effort to help Americans quit
smoking a top priority and said it was willing to consider broader
endpoints in clinical trials of smoking cessation products.
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Flying Conservationists Teach Endangered Birds to Migrate - Scientific
American [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=79995&nl=daily]
Parenting a flock of Northern Bald Ibises is a demanding job. For the
past six months, biologists Barbara Steininger and Helena Wehner have
spent every day hand-feeding and raising dozens of these endangered
chicks. They couldnt pass their fostering duties off on anyone else
during that timethe juvenile birds needed to imprint on them and them
alone.
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Exclusive: Act on "problematic" Chinese Arctic research, US officials
urged
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U.S. lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have asked the government
to do more to address scientific research by China in the territory of
America's Arctic allies that has potential military applications,
Newsweek has learned.
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Archdiocese of Los Angeles Agrees to Pay $880 Million to Settle Sex
Abuse Claims
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The agreement represents the near conclusion to decades of litigation
against the archdiocese, with only a few suits remaining. Over the
years, the archdiocese has sold off real estate, liquidated
investments and taken out loans to cover the staggering costs of
litigation.
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