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Lauren Barrett moved to Celina, Texas, a small town about an hour's drive from downtown Dallas, in 2023.
  • Lauren Barrett, 33, moved to Celina, Texas, America's fastest-growing city of under 20,000 people.
  • The city, about an hour's drive from downtown Dallas, is booming with new homes and new residents.
  • Barrett, a real-estate agent, said people are flocking to Celina for its



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  • Retail earnings have painted two very different pictures of how shoppers are feeling lately.
  • While middle-income Americans still have money to spend, low-income shoppers are much more stressed.
  • Inflation and employment could determine whether shoppers pull back even more, one analyst said.

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Hardware enthusiast site AnandTech is shutting down after nearly three decades of covering computers. AnandTech’s final editor-in-chief, Ryan Smith, announced the news in a farewell post this morning, writing, “...Few things last forever, and the market for written tech journalism is not what it once was — nor will it ever



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Nintendo has provided a fresh look at The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, the upcoming Switch game that makes the titular princess the playable protagonist for the very first time. Like many folks, I've been looking forward to this one, but one key question remained unanswered until this preview: where the heck is Zelda's sword? Earlier gameplay videos focused on her ability to create "echoes"



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Google's AI arm is reportedly tapping into "bioacoustics" — a field that blends a combination of biology and sounds that, in part, help researchers gain insights on how pathogen presence affects human sound. As it turns out, our sounds convey tell-tale information about our well-being.

According to a Bloomberg report, the search-engine giant built an AI model that uses sound signals to "predict



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Bharat Bhagani worked in the UK office of Goldenway Global Investments.
  • A former compliance officer was awarded about £565,000 ($745,000) by an employment tribunal.
  • It found Bharat Bhagani was unfairly dismissed after alerting UK authorities to a number of issues.
  • He worked for the UK office of a Hong Kong-based company called Goldenway Global Investments.

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Google Play Store can now download, install, and update multiple Android apps simultaneously. Previously, if you attempted to run all your updates manually, Play Store would only process a single app at a time. Now, as we’ve tested, it can do up to three.

As reported by Android Police, Google has tested concurrent app updates for Play



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  • An OpenAI filing denies copyright claims from authors including Michael Chabon and Ta-Nehisi Coates.
  • It includes a quote from OpenAI's latest model intended to show its ability to learn and synthesize.
  • This is one of more than two dozen lawsuits pending against OpenAI.

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TikTok is giving users a way to more precisely shape what kind of content they see on their feeds — or at least signal to the algorithm what they’re interested in.

Under Content preferences > Manage topics (which can be found in “Settings and Privacy”), users can adjust sliders to signal they want more or less of certain topics in their For You Page. Topics