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Editor's Note: On Reddit, one person likened brain zaps to the sound of "heavy winds" in their head, similar to when you yawn. Another described it as a "sudden onset of dizziness and disorientation" or like a "mini seizure". Online, people claim they get brain zaps after stopping use of drugs like Lexapro (escitalopram), Cymbalta (duloxetine), and Paxil (paroxetine), but they can happen when you stop taking any type of antidepressant, including both selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs).
| Work New Jersey governor asks Biden for federal help on unexplained drones a?? as it happened  It's important here to say that this was no publicity stunt. There were no press releases to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution nor quiet tipoffs from Walker or his team. He simply seemed to be back in Athens to take care of long unfinished business. |
| Work What are the flying objects spotted in New Jersey?  Drones, and flying them, are regulated by strict FAA laws and regulations, which include compulsory registration for most types of private and commercial unmanned aerial systems, as well restrictions on where and when they can be flown. For instance, it is prohibited to fly UAS near airports, military installations and facilities, and over people, depending on their size. It is a criminal offense to shoot down drones because of the safety implications. The FAA has the authority to close airspace to all drone flights at its discretion. |
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| Work TSMC Lifts the Curtain on Nanosheet Transistors  TSMC described its next generation transistor technology this week at the IEEE International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) in San Francisco. The N2, or 2-nanometer, technology is the semiconductor foundry giant's first foray into a new transistor architecture, called nanosheet or gate-all-around. |
| Work YouTube quietly made some of its web embeds worse, including ours  For about a year, I've gotten notes from readers asking why our YouTube embeds are broken in one very specific way: you can no longer click the title to open the video on YouTube.com or in the YouTube app. This used to work just fine, but now you can't. |
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| Work Australian start-up launches first solar-powered battery swap station  Janus Electric, a New South Wales based start-up that has developed technology to electrify trucks and use swappable batteries, has unveiled its first solar-powered battery swap station at the Moorebank Intermodal Precinct in Sydney. |
| Work How Much Control Do You Have Over Your Own Happiness?  Social conditions and inequality affect well-being. So, why do we keep insisting "happiness is a choice"? |
| Work 10 Debut Novels That Are Also Their Authors' Masterpieces  The list skews historical, because lots of stellar young writers still have their masterpieces in them--or so we hope. |
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| Work AMD shares 30x25 progress: New AI machines are 28.3 times faster than 2020 machines  Performance efficiency is key to rapid performance increase of AI and HPC processors, so AMD and other companies are fighting for it fiercely with every new product generation. |
| Work Pharmalittle: We're reading about Editas layoffs, House Republicans probing CVS, and more  Editas plans to lay off 65% of its staff -- around 180 employees -- as it shelves its lead gene-editing program for sickle cell disease |
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| Work The conclusion(?) to the bird flu mystery and a Syrian doctor on coming to the U.S.  “I’d be lying to say I don’t always hope that this will be the last therapy, no more swings at the bat,” said Brian Koffman, a patient who has relapsed multiple times. “The reality is you kick the can down the road. But you hope, by the end, there’s another can to kick.” He’s now in remission due to the new therapy. |
| Work Up and down the ladder: The latest comings and goings  And here is our regular feature in which we highlight a different person each week. This time around, we note that Accent Therapeutics promoted Serena Silver to chief scientific officer from vice president, biology. Prior to joining Accent two years ago, Silver worked at Fulcrum Therapeutics, where she was vice president, discovery biology. |
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| Work GLP-1 drugs spark disagreements in Trump's circle  The case shows the dark side of “biobucks” deals, as STAT’s Adam Feuerstein writes. Although BMS advanced one of the antibody drugs developed by Padlock to the clinic, the promised milestone dollars have yet to be shared with investors. |
| Work South African regulator decides Vertex provides sufficient access to CF drugs, angering activists  The coordinated effort was only the latest attempt by cystic fibrosis patients and their supporters to draw attention to what had become an expanding campaign to widen access to Vertex medicines. In recent years, patients and their families helped to spark skirmishes between the company and numerous cash-strapped governments. A particularly vitriolic battle occurred in the U.K. |
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| Work Why SoundHound AI Stock Is Skyrocketing Today  On rare occasions, our expert team of analysts issues a “Double Down” stock recommendation for companies that they think are about to pop. If you’re worried you’ve already missed your chance to invest, now is the best time to buy before it’s too late. And the numbers speak for themselves: |
| Work Trump's floated idea to shutter FDIC would be political heavy lift, say analysts  (Reporting by Arasu Kannagi Basil and Jaiveer Shekhawat in Bengaluru, Lananh Nguyen in New York, and Matt Tracy, Pete Schroeder and Douglas Gillison in Washington; Writing by Michelle Price; Editing by Noor Zainab Hussain, Anil D'Silva and Rosalba O'Brien) |
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| Work How To Earn $1,000 In Passive Income On This Dual Dividend King And Aristocrat Paying A Chunky 7.46% Per Share  Real estate is a great way to diversify your portfolio and earn high returns, but it can also be a big hassle. Luckily, there are other ways to tap into the power of real estate without owning property. Arrived Home's Private Credit Fund’s has historically paid an annualized dividend yield of 8.1%*, which provides access to a pool of short-term loans backed by residential real estate. The best part? Unlike other private credit funds, this one has a minimum investment of only $100. |
| Work Can I Live Comfortably at 65 with $750K in Savings and $1,800 Social Security?  Are you a financial advisor looking to grow your business? SmartAsset AMP helps advisors connect with leads and offers marketing automation solutions so you can spend more time making conversions. Learn more about SmartAsset AMP. |
| Work Where Will Nvidia Stock Be in 10 Years?  John Mackey, former CEO of Whole Foods Market, an Amazon subsidiary, is a member of The Motley Fool's board of directors. Suzanne Frey, an executive at Alphabet, is a member of The Motley Fool's board of directors. Will Ebiefung has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Advanced Micro Devices, Alphabet, Amazon, Bitcoin, Nvidia, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. |
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| Work Local unions group seeks ouster of Kroger CEO after $7.5 billion buyback plan  Since Kroger has terminated the merger agreement, the company is in a position to resume share repurchases which was paused since the merger agreement in 2022, the company spokesperson added. |
| Work Ask an Advisor: I Inherited $200k in an IRA, but I'm in the 35% Tax Bracket-What's the Best Way to Withdraw  Please note that Brandon is not a participant in the SmartAsset AMP platform, nor is he an employee of SmartAsset, and he has been compensated for this article. Questions may be edited for clarity or length. |
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| Work Why AMD Is a Much Stronger Investment than Intel (INTC)  AMD is currently part of my growth portfolio strategy, and I have set a ‘take profit’ price target of $175, which I am likely to elevate as time progresses. I have considered investing in Intel previously, but given the current uncertainty, I prefer to allocate capital to robust management teams and fortified market positions. AMD offers this in spades, while Intel has shown repeated inconsistency that leaves its investment case currently fragile. |
| Work Could Super Micro Computer Stock Be the Comeback Story of 2025?  On rare occasions, our expert team of analysts issues a “Double Down” stock recommendation for companies that they think are about to pop. If you’re worried you’ve already missed your chance to invest, now is the best time to buy before it’s too late. And the numbers speak for themselves: |
| Work Broadcom stock soars as company touts 'massive' AI opportunity  Meanwhile, Raymond James analyst Srini Pajjuri said he’s “reluctant to chase the stock at current levels” given that it's trading at 33 times its 2025 fiscal year price-to-earnings ratio. Pajjuri maintained his Market Perform rating. |
| Work At this price, this EV is effectively a mobile battery with a free car thrown in  This week's article in Renew Economy by Giles Parkinson on plummeting battery prices got me thinking. CSIRO's latest Gencost report found that batteries had decreased by over 20% in the past year, although this may be an underestimate, as is usual in all things renewable. |
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| Work 'Is It Better To Leave Children A 401(k) Or Cash?' - Suze Orman Proposes A 3rd Option But Adds 'Stop Worrying About The Kids'  Studies show 50% of consumers think Financial Advisors cost much more than they do — to debunk this, this company provides matching for free and a complimentary first call with the matched advisor. |
| Work Super Micro Computer Taps Evercore to Raise Capital  Super Micro’s auditor, Ernst & Young LLP, resigned in October, citing concerns about the company’s governance and transparency. The company is also facing a US Department of Justice probe following a report from short seller Hindenburg Research. |
| Work I Withdrew $85k from My 401(k) This Year But It Increased My Medicare Premiums. Is This Permanent?  Are you a financial advisor looking to grow your business? SmartAsset AMP helps advisors connect with leads and offers marketing automation solutions so you can spend more time making conversions. Learn more about SmartAsset AMP. |
| Work 31-Year-Old Inherits $200K, Asks Redditors for 'Trump-Friendly' Stock Ideas to Invest - Top 7 Stocks He Likes and Recommendations  What's more, Alpine Note — Basecamp can be rolled into another Alpine Note for compounding returns, or into another of EquityMultiple's rigorously vetted real estate investments, which also carry a minimum investment of just $5K. Basecamp is exclusively open to new investors on the EquityMultiple platform. |
| Work Exclusive: Activate and The Engine Accelerator team up to train scientists to become founders | TechCrunch “We’ve normalized a pace that’s too slow, especially when you’re talking about climate,” Wadia said. “If we have a shot to move a scientist quicker down this pathway to further success, then that’s well worth the time and investment to do that.” |
| Work It's the end of the road for Cruise, and Bluesky is still taking off  Anthony Ha is TechCrunch’s weekend editor. Previously, he worked as a tech reporter at Adweek, a senior editor at VentureBeat, a local government reporter at the Hollister Free Lance, and vice president of content at a VC firm. He lives in New York City. |
| Work Liquid AI just raised $250M to develop a more efficient type of AI model | TechCrunch  Liquid AI, an AI startup co-founded by robotics luminary Daniela Rus, has raised $250 million in a Series A led by AMD. |
| Work The 51 most disruptive startups of 2024 | TechCrunch  Before TechCrunch, Ingrid worked at paidContent.org, where she was a staff writer, and has in the past also written freelance regularly for other publications such as the Financial Times. Ingrid covers mobile, digital media, advertising and the spaces where these intersect. |
| Work What failed before might succeed now -- or fail again -- and other startup bets | TechCrunch  In an interview, Lead Edge Capital founder and managing partner Mitchell Green told TechCrunch editor-in-chief Connie Loizos that there is “too much money chasing too few companies that are overvalued.” This makes his firm increasingly steer away from typical venture capital deals and toward buyout-like “control deals” more commonly associated with private equity. “I also refuse to invest in companies at 100 times or 200 times or 500 times revenue. That game will end badly,” he predicted. |
| Work Kalshi CEO admits enlisting influencers to dis Polymarket in a now-deleted podcast segment | TechCrunch  Kalshi, unlike Polymarket, has been legally permitted to accept trades from U.S. residents since 2021. In September the company also won a lawsuit that permitted it to accept bets on election outcomes. |
| Work Fury grows as US politicians demand answers about mysterious drones  “Millions of people around here are getting nothing but, ‘Don’t believe what you see’. The saying after 9/11 that if you see something, say something, has become: ‘If you see something, don’t worry about it’. |
| Work Amazon donates $1m to Trumpa??s inaugural fund as tech cozies up to president-elect  Amazon CEO Andy Jassy also lauded the win on X, saying it was a "hard-fought victory" and that "we look forward to working with you". Amazon's stock has risen 14% since the election. Amazon did not return a request for comment. |
| Work Priest who worked in Texas and Louisiana tentatively set to plead guilty to sex assault  Meanwhile, at a courthouse in Covington, Louisiana, north of New Orelans, Patrick Wattigny pleaded guilty to molesting two minors whom he met through his work as a priest and received a five-year prison sentence. |
| Work US supreme court to hear fuel firmsa?? challenge to Californiaa??s emission limits  Another ruling in June, overturning a decades-old decision known colloquially as Chevron, is also expected to make environmental regulations more difficult to set and keep, along with other federal agency actions. |
| Work Steven Bartlett accused of amplifying dangerous health claims on his podcast  Bartlett praised the products in three sponsored posts shared on Facebook in February and March. However, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) claimed that the adverts were misleading as they did not make it clear that Bartlett was an investor in Zoe and a director of Huel. |
| Work ChatGPT now understands real-time video, seven months after OpenAI first demoed it  OpenAI has finally released the real-time video capabilities for ChatGPT that it demoed nearly seven months ago. On Thursday during a livestream, the company said that Advanced Voice Mode, its human-like conversational feature for ChatGPT, is getting vision. |
| Work Mother and boyfriend wheeled body of toddler around Ipswich after murder  “The murder of any child is, in my opinion, the worst crime imaginable. When they are killed at the hands of those who were supposed to protect and care for such a young and innocent life, it is somehow even worse. Tragically, this is exactly what happened to two-year-old Isabella Wheildon.” |
| Work a??This cana??t happen againa??: passenger describes Birmingham funfair ride crash  A spokesperson for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said: "We appreciate the concern around this incident and are working with the relevant authorities. We also have specialists attending the site today. There will be an investigation to establish what happened." |
| Work Man jailed for life for raping and killing NHS worker on park bench  “Natalie’s family have shown extreme courage and dignity throughout what has been a harrowing investigation and trial. We thank them for their support and continue to offer them our sincere condolences for the devastating loss of Natalie.” |
| Work Prince Andrew says he a??ceased all contacta?? with alleged Chinese spy after government advice  Judges were told that in a briefing for the home secretary in July 2023, officials claimed H6 had been in a position to generate relationships between prominent UK figures and senior Chinese officials "that could be leveraged for political interference purposes". |
| Work Syrian rebels reveal year-long plot that brought down Assad regime  “We affirm that minorities in Syria are part of the nation and have the right to practice their rituals, education, and services like every other Syrian citizen. The regime planted division, and we are trying, as much as possible, to bridge these divides,” al-Hamwi said. |
| Work Unidentified drones spotted over US air base in Germany, report says  “The safety of BASF sites is our top priority,” a company spokesperson said in an emailed statement. “We therefore keep an eye on suspicious activities at all times and work closely with the relevant security authorities.” |
| Work Nancy Pelosi hospitalized after sustaining injury on Luxembourg trip  Pelosi has been a prominent figure in Washington over a tenure spanning seven presidential administrations. She first served as House speaker from 2007 to 2011, then regained the job in 2019 after her party took back control of the chamber in the 2018 midterm elections. |
| Work Ex-FBI informant agrees to plead guilty to lying about Bidensa?? Ukraine ties  Smirnov is being prosecuted by the same special counsel who brought federal gun and tax charges against Hunter Biden. Hunter was supposed to be sentenced this month on his convictions in those cases until he was pardoned by his father. |
| Work Energy generators poke holes in Duttona??s nuclear plan as questions over costings pile up  Another heatwave early next week across big population centres in Melbourne and Sydney one day, then Sydney and south-east Queensland the next, is due to again strain power supplies. One wildcard is how the ageing coal-fired power stations will cope, including the biggest of them all, Origin Energy's Eraring plant. The sudden unavailability of just one of its four 720-megawatt units may be the difference between smooth sailing or a stormy ride for power authorities. |
| Work Man charged for alleged Nazi salutes inside Sydney hotel  Two of the first people convicted under laws that outlawed displays of Nazi symbolism had their guilty verdicts overturned in November after a judge found their public salutes could not be definitively linked to the fascist German regime. |
| Work Queensland Labor publicly criticised the LNPa??s unprecedented youth crime laws a?? so why did it wave them through?  Implicit in the need for that motion is an admission that, among the cohort of government MPs, there are plenty who would wind back abortion rights if given a chance. The four-year gag on debate means that questions will eventually be asked about what happens after the 2028 election. |
| Work UK joins Italy and Japan to develop British fighter jet to rival Americaa??s F-35  Kimito Nakae, the president of JAIEC, said: "As we now embark upon the exciting and important journey towards the success of GCAP, I acknowledge that the way might not always be simple and straightforward. However, we will not only deliver the GCAP on time but also at a level that exceeds all of our expectations." |
| Work Trump invites Chinaa??s leader Xi Jinping to his presidential inauguration  There was no immediate confirmation of which other foreign leaders may be invited, although there is speculation that an invitation could be extended to Viktor Orbán, Hungary's hard-right prime minister, whom Trump repeatedly praised on the campaign trail and who has visited him at Mar-a-Lago. There was also speculation surrounding the possible attendance of Giorgia Meloni, Italy's prime minister. |
| Work Ontario premier suggests stopping US liquor imports over Trump tariff threat  This article was amended on 13 December 2024. A previous version said Ontario was the largest province in Canada; to clarify, it is the largest by population but not by land area – the latter is Quebec. |
| Work Argentinaa??s president Javier Milei given Italian citizenship, sparking outrage  Libertarian Milei and conservative Meloni have established a close relationship. When they met in Buenos Aires last month, the Argentine leader gave his Italian guest a statuette of himself wielding his trademark chainsaw. |
| Work The Morning After: The Game Awards had some surprises this year  The biggest news stories this morning: Adobe's new Photoshop tool can clean away window reflections, Threads' take on Bluesky Starter Packs is live, Reddit is removing links to Luigi Mangione's manifesto. |
| Work The extremely online life of the American teenager  Nearly half of US teens are "almost constantly" online, though the platforms they spend their time on vary significantly, according to a new Pew survey. Despite some variety in their overall online habits, virtually all teenagers use YouTube. |
| Work Engadget Podcast: Apple's Genmoji are AI disappointments  Listen below or subscribe on your podcast app of choice. If you've got suggestions or topics you'd like covered on the show, be sure to email us or drop a note in the comments! And be sure to check out our other podcast, Engadget News! |