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28,000 Samsung union members could stage a walkout on June 7

A Samsung Electronics union in South Korea will begin escalating strike action next week by staging the first ever walkout over demands for higher wages, union officials said on Wednesday. The...

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This job will pay you $2,500 to watch movies at the theater this summer

The summer box office is off to a horrible start, but just because Hollywood isn’t making bank from movie theaters doesn’t mean you can’t. CableTV.com has announced it is hiring for the position of...

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Gamma founder Grant Lee on making slide-creation effortless

For many organizations, presentations are the language of persuasion. They lead to decisions, investments, and—when done badly—headaches.  For those who hate PowerPoint or lack design skills,...

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A Boeing lockout of firefighters may soon end

Boeing and a union representing about 125 of its firefighters said Wednesday they had reached a tentative contract deal, the planemaker and union said in a joint statement. Boeing in early May locked...

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3 survival tips for parents of ‘boomerang’ kids

If you are a new graduate trying to move away from home and get your start in life: Sorry. For aspiring homebuyers, the United States just experienced its highest-priced April ever recorded, according...

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Michael Jordan is back and sweating for Gatorade

“Be Like Mike.” “Is it in you?” There was a time in the 1990s and 2000s that these were among sports’ most iconic taglines. Gatorade ads were as quoted and popular as most Nike ads, thanks of course...

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Here are the companies OpenAI has made deals with to train ChatGPT

OpenAI’s chatbots scored a big new data source following the company’s deal with News Corp. in May. With the stroke of a pen, ChatGPT and the company’s other services added the Wall Street Journal,...

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Stop & Shop is closing some locations, adding to the list of underperforming...

Dutch-based retailer Ahold Delhaize has shared plans to close a number of its Stop & Shop stores as part of a broader strategy to improve the performance of the supermarket chain. The announcement...

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These Ikea essential boxes make moving into your college dorm...

Moving into a new college dorm is a notoriously stressful process. Arriving in a new place, meeting a new roommate, hauling boxes up several flights of stairs (often with bedraggled parents in...

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American Airlines sued for race discrimination after removing 8 Black...

American Airlines was accused in a lawsuit on Wednesday of race discrimination for temporarily removing three Black men from a flight from Phoenix, Arizona, to New York City. In a complaint filed in...

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White House to support new nuclear power plants in the U.S. to fight climate...

The White House on Wednesday plans to announce new measures to support the development of new U.S. nuclear power plants, a large potential source of carbon-free electricity the government says is...

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ConocoPhillips to buy Marathon Oil in $22.5 billion deal—another energy...

ConocoPhillips on Wednesday agreed to buy Marathon Oil in a $22.5 billion deal, the latest in a series of mega-mergers in the oil and gas industry as companies look to bolster reserves. The U.S. oil...

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Hackers are mounting an attack on the Internet Archive

Taking a look at your long-ago favorite Geocities page has been a bit challenging of late and now the Internet Archive is explaining why. The nonprofit’s Wayback Machine, which stores old versions of...

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What’s more potent and harder to regulate than nicotine in vapes? Nicotine...

Nicotine alternatives used in vapes being launched in the U.S. and abroad, such as 6-methyl nicotine, may be more potent and addictive than nicotine itself, though the scientific data remains...

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Nissan owners with older cars warned to stop driving them due to deadly...

Nissan is urging the owners of about 84,000 older vehicles to stop driving them because their Takata air bag inflators have an increased risk of exploding in a crash and hurling dangerous metal...

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Pride Month: Drag performers work together to fight back against hate

“Drag is joy, but it’s under attack. Our very existence, our self-expression, our art—all of it is being threatened. And we’ve had enough.” That’s the opening salvo of Qommittee, a group of drag...

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Meta says deceptive content about Israel-Hamas war was ‘likely AI-generated’

Meta said on Wednesday it had found “likely AI-generated” content used deceptively on its Facebook and Instagram platforms, including comments praising Israel’s handling of the war in Gaza published...

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Gemini crypto exchange returns over $2 billion to customers after Genesis...

Bankrupt crypto lender Genesis and crypto exchange Gemini have returned over $2 billion in crypto to 232,000 retail customers in their jointly managed Gemini Earn program, giving customers a 242%...

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Why Some Tech Implementations Fail

In the current B2B technology landscape, the difference between a transformative tool and an expensive decoration is not the technology itself—it’s how you use it. It’s telling that 81% of B2B tech...

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How to transition nontechnical teams to use GenAI

Like the internet and cloud computing before it, generative AI (GenAI) is forever changing the way we work and do business, so much so that 62% of consumers would rather use a chatbot than wait to...

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