Wall Street's hacks and habits to stay on top of its game

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  • Wall Street's top performers are hard workers who tend to work long, intense hours.
  • Business Insider asked its 2024 class of Wall Street stars about how they stay mentally sharp.
  • Here's how finance professionals are unwinding and staying grounded.

Call it superstitious, but Mark Zhu, a 34-year-old managing director at Blackstone, likes to start every day the same way. He has two

TikTok parent company ByteDance has a tool that's scraping the web 25 times faster than OpenAI

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TikTok parent company ByteDance is amassing huge volumes of web data way faster than the other major web crawlers

ByteDance may be planning to release its own LLM, and is aggressively using its web crawler, "Bytespider," to scrape up data to train its models, Fortune reported.

Bytespider showed up on the scene in April, and since then, its rate of consumption puts web scrapers from OpenAI, Google

5 tasteful fall decorations to add to your home, and 3 tacky ones to skip, according to an interior designer

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Interior designer Ashley Childers told Business Insider that she "lets nature guide seasonal decor" by using naturally found colors and textures for fall.

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  • Interior designer Ashley Childers shared her favorite fall decor pieces, and which ones to skip.
  • "I see people go overboard with the faux: faux pumpkins, faux plants, faux everything," she said.
  • Natural wreaths and

How to use the new Apple Cash Tap to Cash feature in iOS 18

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iPhone and Apple Watch users who prefer paying with Apple Cash over other apps like Venmo can now send or receive money in person using Tap to Cash. All transactions using this method are private, which means your phone number and email aren’t shared with the other party. Let’s see how you can use Tap to Cash.

To use Tap to Cash, you and the other person must have an iPhone that’s

Apple Pencil Pro drops under $100 for the first time

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The Apple Pencil Pro is a much easier recommendation at $99. | Photo: David Pierce / The Verge

Spending another $129 to get the Apple Pencil Pro after upgrading to the latest iPad Pro and iPad Air devices is a hard pill to swallow. That pill is a little bit smaller now, thankfully. It’s currently discounted to $99 ($30 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Target, the latter