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Ruth Chavez and her son, Jonathan, witnessed the attack while on vacation in New Orleans.
  • A man drove into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on New Year's Day, killing 14 people.
  • Ruth Chavez, 40, was there celebrating with her 17-year-old son. They narrowly escaped harm.
  • She told BI she hoped the horrific attack wouldn't ruin their beloved mom-and-son tradition.

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It's hard to find a company that had a better 2024 than NVIDIA. Even after some choppiness in recent weeks, the chip giant's stock price finished last year up 178 percent, and its market cap of more than $3.3 trillion dollars — with a T — is currently second only to Apple. That's thanks to the fact that the ongoing AI revolution is powered largely by NVIDIA processors


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I used to work at Hermès and saw customers make the same mistakes over and over again.
  • As a former Hermès employee, I saw customers make some common mistakes when shopping in-store.
  • It's important to understand that most shoppers can't just walk in and buy a Birkin bag.
  • Customers should have a good relationship with their sales associate, but they shouldn't bug them.

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Just a few weeks before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in for his second term, Meta is shaking up its global affairs team — a crucial body overseeing things like content policy, elections, and its independent oversight board.

Nick Clegg, former deputy prime minister of Britain and chief of Global Affairs since 2018, announced he would be leaving the company in the new year, replaced by


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Apple’s newest iPad Pro, which features an M4 chip, is on sale starting at $899 right now. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

While the best iPad deals usually land during major sale events like Black Friday and Amazon Prime Day, many great iPad deals are attainable outside those times. The day-to-day discounts may come and go like changing winds, but there’s



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Hisense unveiled its latest L9 series laser TV — the L9Q — at CES 2025. The “television” (an ultra-short-throw laser projector paired with a screen) comes with one of five screen sizes, ranging from 100 to 150 inches. The L9Q is the first in the series with auto screen alignment to ease the transition when you project it onto a different-sized screen.

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Elon Musk at an AI event in London in the UK in 2023.
  • Elon Musk made a string of bold posts on UK politics, calling for the prime minister to be removed.
  • Some UK politicians embraced parts of his campaign, including a renewed focus on a rape-gang scandal.
  • Others did not. Few joined the calls to remove PM Keir Starmer, who won an election in July.

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For the first time ever, Tesla has reported a decline in deliveries, causing stock prices to dip.

The EV company shared its Q4 production and delivery report on Thursday, giving us a full picture of its overall deliveries for the past year. Tesla delivered 1.79 million vehicles in 2024, compared to 1.81 million vehicles in 2023. After the report was published, stock prices dipped 7 percent before



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A screenshot that seems to suggest billionaire Elon Musk is cosplaying superfan “Adrian Dittmann” — showing X account permissions beyond that of an ordinary user — is almost certainly fake, a source at X tells The Verge.

The source, who claims no knowledge of Dittmann’s identity, says an image posted


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You can keep tabs of Twelve South’s PlugBug 50 charger through the Apple Find My app. | Image: Twelve South

It’s easy to lose small stuff like laptop chargers when you’re constantly on the go, which is why Twelve South’s PlugBug is handy. It’s a USB-C wall charger that Apple users can keep tabs of via the Find My App, and it’s currently down to its best price yet. Normally



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Samsung is allegedly not done adding AI features into its flagship phones.

That's according to prolific (and often correct) leaker Ice Universe on X, via Tech Radar. This latest leak suggests that Samsung is about to one-up Apple Intelligence in some nondescript way. According to Ice Universe, some of the new features haven't even been leaked yet, so they might be total surprises if/when Samsung