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5 new ways TurboTax made filing your taxes harder this year

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Clint Rainey

P(doom) is AI’s latest apocalypse metric. Here’s how to calculate your score

So, what’s your p(doom) score? The term that began as a half-serious inside joke on tech message boards to describe the odds that AI destroys...

08.12.2023 20

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Frankly, CVS’s simplified drug pricing plan is more confusing than ever

America’s largest retail pharmacy chain, CVS, unveiled a new drug pricing formula on Tuesday, a move it said will simplify costs while demystifying...

07.12.2023 10

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TikTok owner ByteDance has an AI play—and U.S. lawmakers won’t like it

ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, is reportedly planning to unveil a new platform this month so it can compete better with OpenAI. According to...

05.12.2023 6

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‘A whole lot hotter’ for rich people: Research suggests the wealthy’s ‘luxury’ shield against climate change is melting

Scientists use the term “luxury effect” to refer to the fact that the wealthier and whiter your neighborhood becomes, the likelier your block is...

02.12.2023 5

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3 companies you didn’t know were Christian-based, and one you probably did

Our new feature about Chick-fil-A explores the Christian principles behind the company. That got us thinking about other popular brands that are...

01.12.2023 1

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Chick-fil-A’s drive-through of the future could serve 720 cars per hour

When aspiring Chick-fil-A franchise operators are finally awarded a restaurant (the process is long and involved), they receive strong encouragement...

30.11.2023 5

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The surprising location of one of Chick-fil-A’s highest-grossing restaurants

Brandon Hurst runs one of the busiest Chick-fil-As in the country. As we stand outside together during the lunch rush at his four-year-old...

29.11.2023 10

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Is it okay to like Chick-fil-A?

“Are we boycotting Chick-fil-A over this?” a podcaster named Joey Mannarino asked his followers on Twitter last May, accusing the fried-chicken...

29.11.2023 20

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Wendy’s, Burger King franchise empires are going bankrupt. Is the fast-food model broken?

Is the beloved American fast-food-franchise model facing a reckoning? In the past year, and more frequently in recent months, franchisees that were...

17.11.2023 10

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What if Rumble users actually lean Democrat? That’s what its CEO claims

Video-streaming platform Rumble is famously the site that Russell Brand fled to after being demonetized by YouTube in the wake of accusations of...

16.11.2023 3

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Conservative pro-family activists have a new boycott target: the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

In its 99-year history, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has endured a helium shortage during World War II, a blizzard in 1989, and...

14.11.2023 10

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Select cuts: Inside Big Meat’s fight to measure greenhouse gases with alternative math

A cohort of scientists, who’ve won the support of Big Meat, are inching their way towards convincing governments and international climate...

13.11.2023 10

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Election Day 2023: 5 key ballot issues to watch with the biggest implications for 2024 and beyond

Tuesday, November 7, is an off-year Election Day, in a cycle when many states don’t even bother holding elections—and whose results, clustered...

07.11.2023 6

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Before Mike Johnson became House speaker, he lobbied for a Noah’s Ark theme park—and it’s exactly how you picture it

The new speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives is Mike Johnson, a four-term Republican from Louisiana’s 4th district who’s a so-called...

27.10.2023 40

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‘Culture of fear’: Scientists blast journal that fired its editor for tweeting ‘Onion’ article on Gaza war

The editor-in-chief of a prominent open-access science journal was fired from his position this week after tweeting about the war in Gaza. On October...

26.10.2023 4

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Lil Wayne and The Rock are right: Wax museums are frustratingly bad at depicting Black celebrities

Since Sunday, two separate wax figures—one of actor Dwayne Johnson, the other of rapper Lil Wayne—have gotten slammed not just by puzzled fans and...

25.10.2023 10

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Pfizer’s ‘casual’ layoffs livestream is the next Better.com CEO gaffe—and workers are livid

While other industries got reamed by the pandemic, it’s said that pharmaceutical giant Pfizer “won” by moving tens of billions of dollars worth...

24.10.2023 2

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Computer scientists have predicted whether your startup will fail based on your personality

Ask business experts what qualities they believe successful startup founders possess, and there’s a number and metric for everybody: It’s three...

20.10.2023 3

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Enemy of the right, deserted by the left: Is ESG’s future grim in a new anti-woke society?

In March, conservative critics enthusiastically blamed Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse on the nefarious forces of ESG. By then, “environmental,...

19.10.2023 6

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The fight against Big Oil has a new target, and it’s leaving the home front

The climate change fight in America is pivoting to a new front. Activists are mounting a new campaign to oppose not the use of fossil fuels by...

18.10.2023 3

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Former tech CEO being sued for defrauding JPMorgan has hit back with dramatic allegations

Charlie Javice, the 31-year-old charged with defrauding JPMorgan of $175 million with her student-aid startup Frank, is now arguing that the bank and...

17.10.2023 5

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Why Microsoft’s $29 billion tax bill could be the knockout punch in a decade-long fight with the IRS

Way back in 2012, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) launched the largest-ever audit in history, accusing Microsoft of stashing billions in offshore...

13.10.2023 20

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Elon Musk couldn’t seem to find any Hamas-Israel disinformation on X, so we found a bunch for him

Thierry Breton, the European commissioner charged with enforcing the E.U.’s new Digital Services Act (DSA), warned on Tuesday that X’s platform...

12.10.2023 5

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Elon Musk killing article headlines on X could offer Threads a second chance

On Thursday morning, New Yorker contributor Merve Emre tweeted a link to a 2022 profile she’d written. Unfortunately, hours prior, X (formerly...

06.10.2023 7

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Same-sex sexual behavior is everywhere in the animal kingdom. Scientists have a surprising theory on why

Science has treated same-sex sexual behavior as an “evolutionary conundrum” because it (generally) doesn’t help animals to reproduce, thus...

05.10.2023 3

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The cannabis industry still lacks diversity. Improving access is a joint effort

With the large cannabis companies now reporting $1 billion in annual revenue and the big dispensary chains now operating in over a dozen states,...

03.10.2023 10

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Ray Dalio: The U.S. and China are toeing a “red line” on the brink of war, but here’s why we don’t need to worry

Geopolitical tensions between America and China are moving humans “quite close to a red line” that may herald the start of a new world order,...

02.10.2023 6

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How much should startup founders pay themselves in salary? Increasingly, the answer is $0

On the whole, startup founders seem to have been busy this year enjoying the spoils of their hard labor: Their median salary, according to a new...

27.09.2023 4

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America has 5 days before 3.2 million kids could be left without childcare

In five days, the U.S. will go over what’s being called, un-euphemistically, a “childcare cliff.” September 30 marks the day that federal...

26.09.2023 10

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Jason Blum opens up about the Hollywood strikes: Rhetoric on both sides is ‘not helpful’

21.09.2023 5

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The U.S. military is begging American citizens to help find a missing stealth F-35 fighter jet

Last week, footage from a theater in Denver tracked Representative Lauren Boebert’s every misbehavior while on a date to see Beetlejuice the...

18.09.2023 2

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