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Trump Media is 'as volatile as any stock I can ever recall,' expert says

Trump Media & Technology Group’s first month on the Nasdaq has been “abnormally volatile” — but that wasn’t a surprise to one expert. John...

yesterday 10

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Rocio Fabbro

Ozempic hits booze sales, Moderna likes AI, and Biogen's blockbuster drug: Pharma news roundup

A new report from Morgan Stanley finds that people using GLP-1 drugs — among them Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound — reduce their...

yesterday 10

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Bruce Gil

Matthew McConaughey is still Salesforce's AI cowboy

Salesforce officially released its AI chatbot Einstein Copilot at its World Tour NYC event in Manhattan on Thursday. Per usual, the company flashed...

yesterday 8

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Laura Bratton

Anglo American rejected BHP’s ‘highly unattractive’ takeover bid and its stock jumped

Anglo American stock climbed 5% in London after it turned down BHP Group’s takeover bid Friday.Read more...

yesterday 10

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Rocio Fabbro

Sam Altman's Worldcoin crypto is running out of 'orbs.' But what are orbs?

Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency project founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that has seen rapid growth, is now running low onorbs — the devices used for...

yesterday 10

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Vinamrata Chaturvedi

Hertz is ditching even more electric cars

Hertz is ditching more of its fleet of electric vehicles, which it says are unreliable and more expensive than gas-guzzlers, as it reports a $392...

yesterday 10

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William Gavin

Saudi Arabia is building a megacity in the desert. It's not going well

Over the last several years, Saudi Arabia has been working on a massive infrastructure project that its leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman...

yesterday 4

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Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo

Ozempic threatens booze and cigs, an AI glossary, tech troubles, produce pesticides: The week's most popular

It’s not only food CEOs who need to worry about their bottom lines thanks to in-demand weight loss drugs like Ozempic. Big Tobacco and Alcohol...

yesterday 3

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Quartz Staff

Tesla's Elon Musk bets on driverless, Volkswagen bets on China, EV demand roars back: Autos news roundup

Don’t worry, Tesla investors. Even if Elon Musk disappears — whether kidnapped by aliens or the Terminator — his company will still figure...

yesterday 3

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William Gavin

Tesla's 2-million EV recall is being probed by the feds

Tesla is facing a new probe from U.S. auto safety regulators related to its Autopilot driver assistance technology, even as a separate...

yesterday 3

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William Gavin

China is backing away from facial recognition technology — at least in hotels

Thanks to data privacy concerns, Chinese officials are reportedly telling hotels in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hangzhou to stop scanning...

yesterday 2

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Britney Nguyen

Chipotle's avocado-cutting robot, Coca-Cola's AI bet, Express' bankruptcy: Retail news roundup

In the world of retail, American fashion brand Express has filed for bankruptcy and plans to close over 100 stores imminently. Chipotle will deploy...

yesterday 2

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Francisco Velasquez

The TikTok ban bill is law. Now comes the legal battle

President Biden signed the TikTok ban into law on Wednesday, forcing China-based Bytedance to sell the app or face a ban in American app stores....

yesterday 2

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Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo

He was an anti-union Volkswagen worker. The Hollywood strikes changed his mind

Workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tennessee plant recently voted to join the United Auto Workers union, making it the first factory outside the...

yesterday 2

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Collin Woodard / Jalopnik

Japan’s Moon lander survived a rough landing

Japan had its moment in the Moon’s glow earlier this year when scientists landed a lunar probe on the surface of our nearest celestial neighbor....

yesterday 2

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Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik

Los Angeles is spending millions on AI cameras that will issue parking tickets

Artificial intelligence is an intimidating technology that’s held an increasingly influential and still unproven role in our lives, and now Los...

yesterday 2

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Logan Carter / Jalopnik

AbbVie's newer drugs are offsetting losses of the world's once best-selling medication

AbbVie raised its full year profit guidance today, even as sales of its flagship medication have continued to fall. Read more...

yesterday 1

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Bruce Gil

Meta's AI annoys, Microsoft and Amazon under scrutiny, banks go all-in: AI news roundup

There’s no escaping AI, it seems, with a researcher predicting the technology will “be in every nook and cranny” of big banks, and vaccine...

yesterday 1

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Britney Nguyen

Unilever sales are rising because beauty shopping is back

Shoppers are purchasing name-brand beauty products again, and that’s lifting sales at consumer goods company Unilever. The London-based Unilever...

yesterday 1

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Francisco Velasquez

Elon Musk is once again richer than Mark Zuckerberg

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is once again wealthier than Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and that’s thanks to Meta’s recent market capitalization loss. Read...

yesterday 1

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Francisco Velasquez

Trump Media's roller-coaster first-month, from 'meme stock' highs to bruising lows

It’s been one month since Trump Media & Technology Group debuted on the Nasdaq to much fanfare, after its merger with blank check company Digital...

yesterday 1

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Rocio Fabbro

A Chinese space station got hit by debris and astronauts scrambled to make emergency repairs

China’s space station crew carried out two spacewalks this past winter to repair the solar wings attached to the core module, which had been...

yesterday 1

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Passant Rabie / Gizmodo

The 10 best images of Jupiter and its moons from NASA's Juno probe

Jupiter and its moons are a diverse and dynamic subdivision of our solar system’s neighborhood, one that NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been...

yesterday 1

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Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo

7 AirPods tips you need to get started

If you have really basic questions about your new AirPods, this guide will help you with everything from connecting them to cleaning them. It also...

yesterday 1

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Dua Rashid / Gizmodo

Apple and Google pulled several AI apps that advertised deepfake nudes

Apple and Google have removed apps that promised deepfake nudes from the App Store and Google Play, according to a report from 404 Media.Read more...

yesterday 0

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Laura Bratton

Snap stock popped 30% after a sunny first-quarter earnings report

Snap shares jumped 30% Friday after the company reported improved sales and a big increase in premium subscribers.Read more...

yesterday 0

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Laura Bratton

Wall Street sees Google stock rallying to $200 because maybe Google can win AI after all

Wall Street thinks Google stock will keep surging after a brief stall in February and March.Read more...

yesterday 0

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Laura Bratton

Bird flu traces have been found in cows' milk. Should we be worried?

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Thursday that genetic fragments of the H5N1 bird flu virus have been detected in one in five...

yesterday 0

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Bruce Gil

The IRS’ challenge to TurboTax and H&R Block is working

If there’s one thing that all Americans — divided they may be — can agree on, it’s that taxes are a pain. Centuries of that philosophy is...

yesterday 0

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William Gavin

Tesla stock bounces back after a dreadful few months marked by layoffs and tanking sales

Tesla stock has started to make its long-awaited comeback this week after — repeatedly — bottoming out at new 52-week lows earlier this month....

yesterday 0

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William Gavin

The owner of the ship that struck Baltimore's Key Bridge is being sued — again

A Baltimore publisher is suing the owner and operator of the DALI, the cargo ship responsible for the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse on March...

yesterday 0

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William Gavin

OpenAI's Sam Altman, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, and other tech leaders are joining a new federal AI safety board

Some of the people driving today’s artificial intelligence boom are getting another responsibility — this time to ensure the U.S. government...

yesterday 0

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Britney Nguyen

Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and the 20 other leaders on the new AI safety board

The people responsible for driving the current artificial intelligence boom are now being tasked with advising the U.S. government on how to safely...

yesterday 0

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Britney Nguyen

The Property Brothers say 7% interest rates mean 'a lot of crying'

U.S. mortgage rates recently hit a new high for the year (so far), as inflation fears continue to creep up. The average rate on the 30-year fixed...

yesterday 0

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Andy Mills

Fast-fashion giant Shein is the latest to face EU's strictest digital regulations

Online fast-fashion retailer Shein will soon face stricter digital regulations from the European Union, the world’s largest trading bloc said in...

yesterday 0

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Francisco Velasquez

AI just powered Google to a $2 trillion market cap

Google parent Alphabet crossed the $2-trillion threshold for market capitalization on Friday, thanks to a stock surge powered partly by its work...

yesterday 0

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Vinamrata Chaturvedi

The Nasdaq and S&P 500 had their best week since November as Google joined the $2 trillion club

It was a strong day for all three major U.S. stock indexes after a big selloff the day before. Google parent Alphabet crossed the $2 trillion...

yesterday 0

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Vinamrata Chaturvedi

The Nasdaq soars 300 points as Google and Microsoft earnings power stocks higher

The tech-heavy Nasdaq and other U.S. stock indexes breathed a sigh of relief on Friday morning after a big selloff the day before, thanks partly to...

yesterday 0

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Vinamrata Chaturvedi

A crypto company is suing the SEC for overreach in regulating Ether

Ethereum developer and the company behind crypto wallet MetaMask Consensys has filed a lawsuit in a Texas court alleging regulatory overreach by the...

yesterday 0

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Vinamrata Chaturvedi

What's next for TikTok after Biden signed the ban bill

Congress passed a bill this week that forces TikTok to be sold or face a nationwide ban. President Biden signed it into law Wednesday, starting a...

yesterday 0

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Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo

A Tesla executive sold $181.5 million worth of stock shortly after quitting

Former Tesla executive Andrew Baglino is looking to pocket some cash wealth on his way out the electric vehicle-maker’s door. Baglino, who...

yesterday 0

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Rocio Fabbro

Trump Media stock's many ups and downs in just 1 month

In the month since it debut on the Nasdaq, Trump Media & Technology Group’s market value has soared to almost $10 billion, and plunged to below...

yesterday 0

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Rocio Fabbro

Starbucks and its workers union have made ‘significant progress’ in contract bargaining

Starbucks and the union representing its workers ended a two-day contract bargaining session over a variety of issues on a positive note, having...

yesterday 0

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Rocio Fabbro

Laid off Tesla workers are getting two months severance pay

Tesla cut 10 percent of its workforce a few weeks ago, and now we’re getting a better look at what sort of severance package its recently...

yesterday 0

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Andy Kalmowitz / Jalopnik

Struggling EV startup Fisker says 4 companies are in talks to buy it

We learned last month that despite Fisker beginning production on its Ocean SUV, the startup automaker lost nearly half a billion dollars last year...

yesterday 0

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Collin Woodard / Jalopnik

They cut a giant cruise ship in half to make it even bigger and it's amazing to watch

There’s something slightly unnerving about seeing an enormous cruise ship out of water. A skyscraper-sized vessel propped up by a few planks of...

yesterday 10

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Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik

EV mandates will 'kill' the car industry, Stellantis CEO says

Jurisdictions around the world are imposing EV mandates, regulating ICE vehicles out of production and sale. This is probably a necessary step to...

yesterday 0

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Amber Dasilva / Jalopnik

NASA had to put the Hubble Telescope into 'safe mode' because of a glitch

NASA’s iconic Hubble Space Telescope isn’t doing so well. The observatory has been suffering from a pesky glitch affecting its gyroscope, causing...

yesterday 1

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Passant Rabie / Gizmodo

There's a mysterious ecosystem underneath the driest desert on Earth

The Atacama Desert — an arid, unpopulated swath of northern Chile that is home to some of the most perceptive ground telescopes on Earth — is...

yesterday 0

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Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo

Net neutrality has been restored, as the FCC brings back Obama-era rules repealed under Trump

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) killed net neutrality back in 2017 under former President Donald Trump, but on Thursday, it brought it...

previous day 10

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Oscar Gonzalez / Gizmodo

Why do planes have those curved winglets?

Millions of consumers trust airlines with their lives each day, but few passengers understand how these massive flying tubes stay airborne and why...

previous day 9

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Logan Carter / Jalopnik

Microsoft stock jumps thanks to its AI and cloud business

Software maker Microsoft reported strong third-quarter earnings on Thursday, led in part by its AI technology and cloud businesses, it said in a...

previous day 7

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Francisco Velasquez

The biggest real estate mistakes you can make, according to the Property Brothers

Drew and Jonathan Scott of HGTV’s new series “Backed by the Bros” — also known as the Property Brothers — spoke with Quartz for the latest...

previous day 10

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Andy Mills

Are self-driving cars safe enough yet?

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previous day 7

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Rocio Fabbro, William Gavin, And Andy Mills

Elon Musk's SpaceX could spinoff Starlink in a big IPO this year, investment adviser says

Kyle Wool, chief executive officer of Dominari Securities, spoke with Quartz for the latest installment of our “Smart Investing” video...

previous day 10

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Andy Mills

Microsoft-backed Rubrik is going public today. Here's what you need to know.

Rubrik, a Microsoft-backed data management software company, is going public on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday. Under the ticker symbol...

previous day 20

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Vinamrata Chaturvedi

The Dow plunges 650 points as tech earnings disappoint and the economy slows

Stocks started Thursday with heavy bleeding. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged more than 650 points after quarterly earnings reports from...

previous day 10

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Vinamrata Chaturvedi

Bill Gates and Sam Altman invest in nuclear power and you should too, financial adviser says

Kyle Wool, chief executive officer of Dominari Securities, spoke with Quartz for the latest installment of our “Smart Investing” video...

previous day 10

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Andy Mills

Apple and Microsoft do cybersecurity well, but consider buying Palo Alto stock, adviser says

Kyle Wool, chief executive officer of Dominari Securities, spoke with Quartz for the latest installment of our “Smart Investing” video...

previous day 6

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Andy Mills

Toyota bet big on hybrids and it's paying off

While most automakers around the world made a sudden pivot to electric cars, Toyota held off and decided to stick with hybrid models and slowed its...

previous day 5

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Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik

HGTV's Property Brothers react to mortgage rates rising over 7%

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previous day 3

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Andy Mills

NASA will test sunlight-powered space travel after the launch of a solar sail

A new experimental mission by NASA is now flying in orbit, aiming to use photons from the Sun to propel its way to higher altitudes. Read more...

previous day 2

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Passant Rabie / Gizmodo

Southwest Airlines is leaving airports, limiting hiring — and still dealing with Boeing headaches

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previous day 3

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William Gavin

A Nvidia-backed startup just unveiled AI avatars that can express human emotions

An AI startup backed by Nvidia introduced its next generation of AI avatars that can understand context from text inputs and express human...

previous day 3

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Britney Nguyen

Micron will get $6.1 billion in CHIPS Act funding for plants in New York and Idaho

The U.S. isn’t slowing down its efforts to bring chipmaking stateside to compete with China, and the country’s largest maker of computer memory...

previous day 1

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Britney Nguyen

Meta stock plummets 15% because Mark Zuckerberg still spending and losing tons of money on the Metaverse

Meta stock plummeted more than 15% in pre-market trading on Thursday, even as the Facebook parent company reported better-than-anticipated sales in...

previous day 2

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Vinamrata Chaturvedi

The 10 worst airlines for screwing up your bags

It would be easy to presume that airlines would spare no expense to ensure that passengers’ luggage meets them at their destination, considering...

previous day 3

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Ryan Erik King / Jalopnik

7 hidden Google Maps features and how to use them

I have always used Google Maps but never cared enough to look beyond the basic features. It wasn’t until today that I made an effort to explore...

previous day 2

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Dua Rashid / Gizmodo

A NASA Mars rover is in a great place to search for signs of life

Unlike its predecessor Curiosity, NASA’s Perseverance rover is explicitly intended to “search for potential evidence of past life,” according to...

previous day 3

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Sean Mcmahon / The Conversation

Google stock surges on soaring profits

Google parent Alphabet reported a surge in profits of nearly 60% in the first quarter of this year versus the same period a prior year.Read more...

previous day 2

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Laura Bratton

Salesforce says its AI chatbot won't hallucinate – well, probably

Salesforce on Thursday announced the general availability of its chatbot for businesses, Einstein Copilot.Read more...

previous day 2

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Laura Bratton

Automakers are still killing off small cars even though they keep regretting it

The EV revolution has hit a stumbling block. Sure, sales are technically rising, but they’re not rising anywhere near as quickly as projected....

previous day 2

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Lawrence Hodge / Jalopnik

More than 1 in 5 cars sold on Earth this year will be electric

More than 1 in 5 cars sold around the world in 2024 are expected to be electric — and demand is poised to surge higher the next decade, according...

previous day 1

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William Gavin

Animals in space: 11 sad and strange stories

From spiders struggling to make webs in orbit to bats clinging to the outside of the Space Shuttle, the history of animals in space is as...

previous day 2

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George Dvorsky / Gizmodo

Let's talk about bird flu because the situation isn't looking great

Food and Drug Administration officials reported this week that lab tests have found genetic material from strains of H5N1 avian influenza in...

previous day 1

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Ed Cara / Gizmodo

There's a new way to see inside a single cancer cell

A team in the U.K. has found a new window into cancer, thanks to a novel imaging technique that allows them to take a detailed look at the fatty...

previous day 2

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Ed Cara / Gizmodo

Merck's stock rises on sales of its blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda

Merck’s stock jumped 3% to about $130 during Thursday morning trading after the New Jersey-based pharmaceutical company reported higher than...

previous day 3

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Bruce Gil

Harvey Weinstein's rape conviction has been overturned by New York's highest court

New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction over allegations of rape and ordered a redo, arguing that the...

previous day 4

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William Gavin

Bitcoin falls below $64,000 as Meta, Microsoft and Alphabet continue to drop

Bitcoin fell below $64,000 Thursday morning as tech stocks continued to decline. The flagship cryptocurrency was trading around $63,240 in...

previous day 5

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Vinamrata Chaturvedi

Major drugmakers are bracing to lose their most lucrative patents this decade

Pharma giants Merck and Bristol-Myers Squibb are both getting ready for some of their key drug patents to expire in the next few years. Both...

previous day 1

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Bruce Gil

Drug sales keep beating Wall Street's expectations and boosting some pharma stocks

It has been a busy week for pharma giants reporting their latest quarterly earnings and a lot of them have exceeded analysts’ estimates. Read...

previous day 3

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Bruce Gil

Moderna's chief executive wants employees to use ChatGPT no less than 20 times a day

One of the world’s top vaccine-makers is partnering with a major AI company to advance medicine — and its chief executive is excited.Read more...

previous day 2

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Britney Nguyen

A little-known bill payment company scammed consumers out of millions, feds say

Doxo, a relatively unknown bill payment platform, has allegedly been deceiving and scamming consumers for years through deceptive online marketing...

previous day 2

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William Gavin

Honda and Toyota are investing billions to build more EVs in North America

Toyota Motor and Honda Motor are the latest automakers to plan billions of dollars in electric vehicle-related investments in North America as...

previous day 2

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William Gavin

Jefferies' CEO sold millions in stock to buy himself a yacht

Investment bank Jefferies’ chief executive officer Rich Handler has sold off shares for the first time — to purchase a yacht, among other things,...

previous day 2

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Francisco Velasquez

Southwest Airlines may drop its open seating policy

Southwest Airlines is considering changing its notorious seating policy, according to chief executive officer Bob Jordan. Read more...

previous day 1

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Francisco Velasquez

Chipotle tells employees not to eat chicken on the job

Chipotle is hogging its chicken from employees in a bid to keep up with surging demand from customers.Read more...

previous day 1

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Francisco Velasquez

Coca-Cola is betting AI can help it compete against Red Bull and Pepsi

Coca-Cola is betting that AI can helpit pop. The beverage company has signed afive-year partnership with Microsoft to streamline its workplace...

previous day 2

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Francisco Velasquez

The Dow drops 300 points on low economic growth, high inflation, and weak tech earnings

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and other major U.S. stock indexes had recovered from earlier steep losses toward the end of the day Thursday, but...

previous day 1

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Vinamrata Chaturvedi

Microsoft-backed Rubrik just soared 20% on its IPO day

Rubrik, a Microsoft-backed company that makes data management software, went public on Thursday and the stock quickly soared 20% . Under the ticker...

previous day 2

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Vinamrata Chaturvedi

Americans 'just work harder' than Europeans, CEO of the world's largest wealth fund says

European companies are falling behind their American counterparts in innovation and technology because of a “mindset issue,” says Nicolai Tangen,...

previous day 2

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Rocio Fabbro

Businesses are betting on office amenities to boost their return-to-office push

To lure workers back to the office, companies are looking for buildings that feature attractive amenities and are located in vibrant, buzzy...

previous day 2

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Rocio Fabbro

Boeing now has a ‘negative’ outlook from both Moody’s and S&P Global

S&P Global Ratings revised its outlook on Boeing to “negative” from “stable” on Thursday — just one day after Moody’s Ratings downgraded...

previous day 3

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Rocio Fabbro

An asteroid will make a close flyby of Earth, and scientists are excited

In about five years’ time, a potentially hazardous asteroid will swing by Earth at an eerily close distance of less than 20,000 miles (32,000...

previous day 2

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Passant Rabie / Gizmodo

You can buy a flame-throwing robot dog for almost $10,000 if that's your thing

The year is 2024 and technology is doing incredible things. For the first time ever, you can purchase a walking robot dog with a flame thrower on...

previous day 10

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Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo

Will Nvidia and the AI boom lead to a nuclear energy boom?

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wednesday 5

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Andy Mills

Palo Alto, Crowdstrike, and Zscaler could have a big year, says exec

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wednesday 10

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Andy Mills

AI can apparently predict a person's political stance just by reading their face

A study recently published in the peer-reviewed American Psychologist journal claims that a combination of facial recognition and artificial...

wednesday 6

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Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo

Cities are scrambling to find trees that can survive the century

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.Read more...

wednesday 5

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Laura Hautala / Grist

There's a new theory about how one of earth's 'quasi-moons' war born

For nearly a decade, a near-Earth asteroid named Kamo’oalewa has invoked speculation over how it came to orbit the Sun in total synchrony with...

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Passant Rabie / Gizmodo

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