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- The top 25 stories curated by editors and fellow readers!

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America Does Not Have One President at a Time - Foreign Policy (No
paywall)

Then came the phone calls. Some, such as the five-minute call with
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, carried promises of follow-up
meetings. Others lasted longer as foreign leaders sought assurances
about the president-elect’s policy intentions. Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly came away from his 25-minute call
somewhat reassured, despite Trump’s prior pledge to end Kyiv’s war
with Russia before he took office.

Then came the phone calls. Some, such as the five-minute call with
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, carried promises of follow-up
meetings. Others lasted longer as foreign leaders sought assurances
about the president-elect’s policy intentions. Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly came away from his 25-minute call
somewhat reassured, despite Trump’s prior pledge to end Kyiv’s war
with Russia before he took office.

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Some patients are paying up to $50,000 per year in fees for concierge
medicine. Heres whats behind its rise - STAT (No paywall)
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Money can buy lots of stuff. But one of its greatest perks is the
ability to make life more frictionless: A first-class airline ticket
will expedite you through the airport and onto the plane. An upgraded
theme park ticket will allow you to cut to the front of the line.

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Solar Panels Are Getting More Efficient, Thanks to Perovskite
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Two ingredients is better than one when it comes to PV technology.















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These companies are creating food out of thin air
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Dried cells--it's what's for dinner. At least that's what a new crop
of biotech startups, armed with carbon-guzzling bacteria and plenty of
capital, are hoping to convince us. Their claims sound too good to be
true: They say they can make food out of thin air.

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US regulators plan to investigate Microsoft's cloud business
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developments around the world. Stay informed and spot emerging risks
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Why Canada Dry's 'made from real ginger' claim isn't on U.S. cans
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Emily Scott grew up drinking ginger beer in the Caribbean, so when her
son brought some Canada Dry Ginger Ale over, she thought she'd give it
a go. But if she were sipping a Canada Dry in the U.S., she might have
been less surprised.

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My Colleague Repeats Herself Constantly
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And I'm losing my mind. I work with an older woman who repeats herself
constantly. She has the same three jokes and says them daily, and
expects us all to laugh and/or respond as if we haven't heard them
before. I notice my younger colleagues nodding and smiling. I am less
genteel.














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Zelensky says war will 'end sooner' once Trump becomes president
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is certain the war with
Russia will "end sooner" than it otherwise would have done once Donald
Trump becomes US president.

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OpenAI's tumultuous early years revealed in emails from Musk, Altman,
and others
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A lawsuit by the world's wealthiest man against one of the fastest
growing companies of all time is necessarily interesting stuff. But
while the allegations are yet to be proven, the case has already
exposed a batch of emails between Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and others
during OpenAI's early days.














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The Self-Driving Revolution Is Real--and It Could Be Spectacular
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Timothy B. Lee joins Derek to explore the world of AI and self-driven
cars, as well as its applications and implications.

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Donald Trumps shake-up of EV rules would be huge positive for Tesla -
FT (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=95302&nl=daily]
Ending consumer subsidies for battery-run cars will lead to wider
losses at the electric-car makers US rivals














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How Public Key Cryptography Really Works, Using Only Simple Math
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The security system that underlies the internet makes use of a curious
fact: You can broadcast part of your encryption to make your
information much more secure. Introduction For thousands of years, if
you wanted to send a secret message, there was basically one way to do
it.

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It's the Illness That Has No Cure. but This Doctor Believes He's Found
the Answer to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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Chronic fatigue and long Covid remain poorly understood, but Dr
Perrin's unusual techniques are having surprisingly positive results.














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A Love Song to the Philippines: The Revolutionary Power of Jessica
Hagedorn's 'Dogeaters'
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Dogeaters wasn't just the first Filipino American novel I ever read;
it was the first work of literary fiction I picked up on my own
outside of a classroom. I was in my mid-twenties. I had already ...

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I built a 'tiny house' Airbnb hotel and sold it for $7 million. Here's
why I decided to walk away when I did.
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This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with
Isaac French, 27, about selling his Texas-based micro-resort in 2023.
Business Insider has verified the sale of the property with
documentation. The following has been edited for length and clarity.














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Running out of Gmail storage? How to get another 15GB for free (and
not lose anything)
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Anytime you create a new email account using Google, you get 15GB of
storage, which is generous for coming with no price tag. But that 15GB
can fill up quickly, especially because that chunk of data storage
includes any videos and pictures you download to Google Drive and
Google Photos.

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Google DeepMind is making its AI text watermark open source
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The tool, called SynthID, is part of a larger family of watermarking
tools for generative AI outputs. The company unveiled a watermark for
images last year, and it has since rolled out one for AI-generated
video.













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Quentin Tarantino's favorite thriller of 2020 is now on Netflix
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Despite being one of only two movies Quentin Tarantino said he would
have paid to see in theaters during the pandemic, Unhinged feels like
a movie that's perfectly concocted for a great night on Netflix.

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How Decision-Making Improves with Age
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Summary: Adolescents are known for making less optimal, noisy
decisions, but a recent study reveals that these tendencies decrease
with age and are linked to improvements in complex decision-making
skills.

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The best podcasts of 2024, as picked by The Economist - The Economist
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BroomgateSubcultures often make for podcast gold. This show relives
the greatest controversy in curling, a sport that marries ice hockey
and shuffleboard. John Cullen, a comedian and former curler, narrates
the scandal with authority.

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Trumps Cabinet And Key Roles: Karoline Leavitt For Press Secretary,
Steven Cheung For Communications Director Among Latest Picks - Forbes
(No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=95302&nl=daily]
President-elect Donald Trump selected his campaigns lead press
secretary Karoline Leavitt as White House press secretary Friday, not
long after he selected campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung as White
House communications directorthe latest choices for top-level
administrative posts, as Trump has made a flurry of appointments since
winning the election last week.

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Whats Going On With Trumps Cabinet? Live Updates. - Intelligencer (No
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President-elect Donald Trump isnt wasting any time reminding everyone
what its going to be like when Donald Trump is president. He continues
to announce his various picks for his next Cabinet, rewarding his most
loyal allies, setting the tenor for what his second administration
will try to accomplish, and showing little apparent concern over what
anybody else will think. His most contentious picks include (now
former) congressman Matt Gaetz as attorney general, Fox News host Pete
Hegseth as Defense secretary, and vaccine conspiracy proponent Robert
F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary. Below are live
updates on Trumps latest Cabinet picks, along with some of the
reactions, concerns, and commentary that follows.

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More than 100 small-caps fall 10-26% as indices decline over 4%
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With main indices, the broader indices also extended the losing streak
on the second consecutive week ended November 14, with mid- and
small-cap indices falling 4 percent each. The benchmark extended the
profit booking with 2.

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Surveillance and the Secret History of 19th-Century Wearable Tech
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From jealous spouses to paranoid bosses, 19th-century pedometers
quantified suspicion and reshaped the dynamics of surveillance.

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Distraught Amazon employees send AWS chief open letter against RTO
policy, calling it an 'outright abdication' of its role as industry
leader
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On Wednesday, 523 employees in the Amazon Web Services division sent
its chief executive, Matt Garman, an open letter detailing their
frustration with the new policy.

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There's been 20 Netflix No. 1 shows so far in 2024 -- here's the 5
worth watching now
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We're heading into the last few months of 2024. In these 43 weeks, 20
Netflix shows have laid claim to the No. 1 spot, according to
Netflix's global chart.

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Have breakfast for dinner, let kids sleep in their clothes ... and 12
other easy tips for better evenings
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If you're often tempted to reach for a ready meal at the end of a busy
day, it may be a good idea to add some ultra-easy home-cooked suppers
to your arsenal.

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The Truth About Dark Empaths
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They seem sensitive and caring - but really they just want to
manipulate you. So how do you recognize the danger signs?

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Hindenburg Buch Allegations: SEBI Invoking Section 7(9) of RTI Act to
Avoid Sharing Information Raises Further Questions
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Debating the 'Healthy Longevity Initiative'
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With non-communicable diseases in focus, a World Bank report proposes
a healthy longevity initiative which takes a life course approach

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Insurers Say Bear That Damaged Luxury Cars Was Actually a Person in a
Costume
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California is seeing its share of bear break-ins. Now it's seen a fake
one -- someone in a bear costumer rummaging through luxury cars.

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How Big Toilet Paper dupes us all
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Our mission could not be more clear and more necessary: We have a duty
to explain what just happened, and why, and what it means for you. We
need clear-eyed journalism that helps you understand what really
matters. Reporting that brings clarity in increasingly chaotic times.
Reporting that is driven by truth, not by what people in power want
you to believe.

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Inside the Secret Summit That Tried to Stop Deadly Rap Wars
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Before Tupac Shakur's murder, Quincy Jones brought stars together to
discuss state of hip-hop and try to end rap violence.

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Will New Battery-Powered Trains Replace Diesel, and Are They Safe?
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Manufacturers see lithium power as the future of rail travel in the UK
- but the trains could pose unique challenges.

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In Memoriam: Thomas E. Kurtz, 1928-2024
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With deep sadness, we say goodbye to computer pioneer Thomas Kurtz.
Thomas Eugene Kurtz (Feb. 22 1928-Nov. 12, 2024) was an American
mathematician, computer scientist and co-inventor, with John Kemeny,
of the BASIC programming language and Dartmouth Timesharing System.

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Highly Confident People Avoid These 14 Behaviors
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Those who are certain of themselves tend to avoid these actions.

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"Confusion and disinformation": Experts sound alarm on RFK vaccine
policies
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Trump has rolled out a number of controversial Cabinet picks in the
last few days, including Kennedy, whose vaccine comments has long
sparked the ire of leading scientists and public health experts.

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The Painful Pleasures of a Tattoo Convention
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The art endures partly because it's rooted in the moment--the
surrender of one person to another.

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Japan's Unusual Way to View the World
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Wabi-sabi offers a refuge from the modern world's obsession with
perfection, and accepts imperfections as all the more meaningful -
and, in their own way, beautiful.

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Virality in cartography: What makes a map go viral?
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When you think about viral content, maps are not the first thing that
comes to mind. And yet, it is not uncommon to see maps of all shapes
and sizes dominating social conversations about various issues - as
well as non-issues.

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Macron Left Powerless by EU Trade Push With French Farmers Up in Arms
- Bloomberg (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=95302&nl=daily]
Macrons EU influence, legacy threatened by trade deal that could set
Paris on a collision course with Brussels

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The High Stakes Of Labeling--Costco's Butter Recall, Explained
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Would you toss your butter in the trash if the label left out one
critical detail? For some Costco shoppers, the answer is yes,
according to the latest FDA guidance.

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The Highs and Lows of Running Your First Marathon, By the Numbers
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How to run 26.2 miles the hard way.

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How 3 Companies Are Using AI to Mimic Expert Judgement - Harvard
Business Review (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=95302&nl=daily]
Advanced AI is facilitating the transfer of expertise from humans to
machines and back to humans like never before. This article examines
three cases of where this has occurred and suggests how these advances
in technology could boost the effectiveness of your decision making to
improve competitiveness. The companies include a venture capital firm
looking to improve initial vetting of investment opportunities, a
satellite data analytics company looking to assess the credit risks of
small-holder farmers, and the R&D unit of an Australian company
looking to upskill its employees problem-solving skills.

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Host of the COP29 climate talks Is raining on his own parade - WSJ (No
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Each year, the rotating host of the annual United Nations climate
change conference rallies countries to confront global warmingand
usually avoids airing grievances against geopolitical rivals or
praising fossil fuels.

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6 Rules for Better, More Inclusive Economic Development in Cities
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Urban leaders need to kick the incentive habit and take a more
inclusive approach to growing local economies.

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Trumps top team sets stage for White House power grab - WSJ (No
paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=95302&nl=daily]
WASHINGTONIn naming a set of unconventional nominees to run federal
departments, Donald Trump this week also took steps to push for a
broader goal: realigning the balance of power among Washingtons major
institutions so that more authority flows from the White House.

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8 Things You Should Do for Your Bones Every Day, According to
Orthopedic Doctors
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Orthopedic doctors have a bone to pick with all the people who forget
theyre carrying a very important skeleton around every day. We might
not be able to see our ribs or tailbone or humerus, but its still
important to make bone health a prioritybecause its tied to every
other aspect of well-being.

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How a Soviet Swamp Rat Scheme for Azerbaijan Went Horribly Wrong
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A Soviet zoologist with a passion for long-extinct mammals set out to
reinvigorate the landscape of the Caucasus in the 20th Century.
Azerbaijan still bears the scars of his ambition.

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10 Underrated Family Classics to Watch With Your Kids
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These movies are too good to be forgotten.

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Hackers now use ZIP file concatenation to evade detection
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Hackers are targeting Windows machines using the ZIP file
concatenation technique to deliver malicious payloads in compressed
archives without security solutions detecting them. The technique
exploits the different methods ZIP parsers and archive managers handle
concatenated ZIP files.

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