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Biden adminstration completes key environmental report needed for a lithium mine

The Biden administration on Thursday published a key environmental report for Ioneer’s Rhyolite Ridge lithium mine in Nevada, the last step needed before approving what would become one of the largest...

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Amazon debuts Amelia, an AI assistant for its sellers

Amazon.com announced on Thursday a new artificial intelligence application that it says will help its independent sellers with sales metrics, inventory maintenance and product advertising, among other...

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Nike stock jumps after hours on news that CEO John Donahoe is being replaced...

Shares of Nike (NYSE: NKE) jumped in after-hours trading on Thursday after news broke that CEO John Donahoe is leaving the company and will be replaced by Elliott Hill, a Nike veteran who had held a...

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Who is Nike’s new CEO? Elliott Hill—many old employees’ favorite pick for the...

CEO John Donahoe is departing Nike after a tumultuous four years at the company. He is being replaced by Elliott Hill, who will step in as president and chief executive on October 14. Hill is a...

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Nvidia is partnering with this AI firm to refine climate tech

United Arab Emirates-based artificial intelligence company G42 has teamed up with U.S. chipmaker Nvidia to work on climate tech, G42 said on Friday, ahead of the first-ever visit to the White House by...

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Telegram’s chatbots involved in massive medical data breach 

Stolen customer data including medical reports from India’s biggest health insurer, Star Health, is publicly accessible via chatbots on Telegram, just weeks after Telegram’s founder was accused of...

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Stick with Uber Eats: Olive Garden is rolling out home food delivery with a...

Olive Garden, a longtime holdout against third-party delivery apps, reversed course on Thursday by announcing a partnership between its parent company, Darden Restaurants, and the ride-hailing company...

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Pagers were the original ‘always on’ device well before the deadly attack on...

The small plastic box that beeped and flashed numbers was a lifeline to Laurie Dove in 1993. Pregnant with her first baby in a house beyond any town in rural Kansas, Dove used the little black device...

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Coffee prices are set to soar due to drought in this country

Silvio Almeida’s coffee plantation sits at an ideal altitude on a Brazilian hillside, whose clay-rich soil does well at retaining moisture from rainfall and a nearby reservoir.Lately, though, water is...

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A Texas pipeline explosion has turned into a criminal investigation

A pipeline fire that burned in a Houston suburb for four days finally went out Thursday as authorities announced a criminal investigation into the blaze that had roared into a towering flame, forcing...

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This 20-yr old fashion fund has launched American designers to stardom

Amid the curated electronic music, models’ cold stares and magazine editors lining the runway at New York Fashion Week this season, several designers felt a particular sense of urgency.In a little...

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Baby powder recall hits Amazon and distributors in 12 states over fears of...

Dynarex Corporation has announced a recall of its Dynacare Baby Powder. According to a news release published Thursday by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the product was recalled over possible...

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Building better with sophisticated technologies and data

Major construction sites are more than building plans, hard hats, and concrete. They are, in fact, sprawling and complex ecosystems that require contractors to balance design specs with rising...

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‘Skinny girl’ videos are invading social media. Health experts are concerned

Across social media, influencers who have amassed large followings by sharing weight-related tips and promoting “skinny” lifestyles. One of the most controversial, Liv Schmidt, built a community of...

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How to prepare for the coming quantum leap

Companies and educators need to start preparing now for quantum computing’s place as a disruptor in the marketplace, or risk falling behind the rapid pace of innovation, Rensselaer Polytechnic...

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Civil rights groups urge Fortune 1000 companies to keep DEI programs

A broad group of civil rights organizations called on the CEOs and board members of major companies Thursday to maintain their commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that have come...

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Nuclear plant Three Mile Island is reopening to power Microsoft AI’s growing...

Microsoft is going nuclear. Nuclear power, that is. In an unprecedented move that could be a game changer across the energy and technology sectors, Constellation Energy Corp. announced Friday it has...

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BurgerFi and Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza closed restaurants: Full list and map...

Fans of BurgerFi burgers and Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza may have discovered recently that their favorite meals are a bit more difficult to come by. That’s because BurgerFi International, the parent...

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Why social media companies keep copying each other

Snapchat is combining its Stories and Spotlight functions into one vertical video feed. That feed just happens to look almost identical to TikTok.  The new function, called Simple Snapchat, taps into...

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FTC goes after drug middlemen for allegedly jacking up insulin prices

The price of insulin has exponentially increased in recent years. Now, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is suing three companies over allegedly inflating the cost of the drug at the expense of...

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