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This New York City basketball court just became a spectacular work of art
If you’re driving by Tomkins Square Park in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, you’ll notice a startling pop of color. The park’s basketball court is painted a bright sky blue, with lines of purple and...
View ArticleJudges halt much of Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan
Federal judges in Kansas and Missouri on Monday together blocked much of a Biden administration student loan repayment plan that provides a faster path to cancellation and lower monthly payments for...
View ArticleNovo Nordisk’s Wegovy weight-loss drug gets green light in China
Novo Nordisk‘s hugely popular weight-loss drug Wegovy has been approved in China, it said on Tuesday, the world’s second-largest economy and the country estimated to hold the highest number of...
View ArticleTesla is recalling the Cybertruck due to issues with the windshield and trunk...
Tesla once again is issuing a physical recall for its Cybertruck. Tesla is calling back 11,688 of its electric trucks due to a faulty front windshield wiper that could make it hard for the driver to...
View ArticleToxic pollution from the East Palestine train derailment reached 110 million...
On February 3, 2023, a freight train owned by Norfolk Southern carrying thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals derailed in the town of East Palestine, Ohio. For days, flames engulfed the rail cars,...
View ArticleNTSB: Norfolk Southern withheld information during East Palestine train...
Norfolk Southern and its contractors botched the decision to blow open five vinyl chloride tank cars after last year’s disastrous derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, and trackside detectors that might...
View ArticleBiden administration probes three Chinese companies over data access
The Biden administration is investigating China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom over concerns the firms could exploit access to American data through their U.S. cloud and internet businesses by...
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Gen Z’s beloved energy drinks are everywhere—Starbucks has one now too
A fruity new beverage that comes with a jolt of energy is now available at Starbucks. On Tuesday, the coffee chain introduced three Iced Energy drinks . . . each containing nearly enough caffeine to...
View Article2 years later, Biden’s gun safety law makes strides to stop gun violence
More than 500 people—some linked to transnational cartels and organized crime rings—have been charged with gun trafficking and other crimes under the landmark gun safety legislation President Joe...
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Oslo’s brilliant new tourism ad is enticing visitors by telling them not to come
“I wouldn’t come here, to be honest.” That’s the opening line to a tourism ad that debuted yesterday from Oslo’s official marketing agency, VisitOslo. The commercial follows a begrudging native...
View ArticleThe Great Resignation is over, but workers still want to quit
Over the past year, many experts have declared that the Great Resignation is finally over—including the very professor who coined the term. As the era of workers quitting their jobs en masse has come...
View ArticleCentral banks should use AI to ‘sharpen’ inflation predictions, BIS report says
Central banks should embrace the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) the Bank for International Settlements (BIS)has said, but stressed the technology should not replace humans when it comes to...
View ArticleAI tools are coming to Gmail, Google Drive, and Firefox
If you’ve been avoiding integrating artificial intelligence into your day-to-day life, that’s about to get more challenging. Google has announced plans to roll out AI “side panels” in its Gmail...
View ArticleAirbus cuts financial targets and takes $965 million space charge
Airbus softened key industrial and financial targets and took a hefty 900-million-euro ($965 million) charge for its troubled space activities as Europe’s largest aerospace group sought a clean slate...
View ArticleFloodbase is using space data to improve flood insurance
Amid climate change and rising waters, Floodbase is seeking to use space data to streamline the flood insurance process, reducing the load for insurers and getting money into people’s hands for...
View ArticleThis solar panel manufacturer has reaped billions thanks to Biden’s...
As he campaigned for the presidency, Joe Biden promised to spend billions of dollars to “save the world” from climate change. One of the largest players in the solar industry was ready. Executives,...
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Mschf just turned Venmo into a giant game of Survivor
Venmo continues to be the strangest of social networks. One-part split-the-bill tool, one-part dating app(?), it is a confounding, emoji-filled receipt of life’s transactions you mostly have nothing...
View ArticleOlympian Michael Phelps testifies in Congress about doping ahead of Paris games
U.S. swimming great Michael Phelps told a congressional panel on Tuesday that anti-doping measures “have fallen short” in a case involving Chinese swimmers ahead of this summer’s Paris Olympics....
View ArticleBiden administration awards $85 million to L.A., Hawaii, and more for...
The Biden administration on Wednesday announced the award of $85 million in housing funds to 21 state and local governments for a new program aimed at helping them remove barriers to the development...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court sides with Biden administration in social media ‘jawboning’...
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Biden administration Wednesday in a case concerning whether the government’s efforts to pressure tech platforms to moderate users’ content—a practice often...
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