Teacher found a lucrative side hustle decorating college kids' dorm rooms

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A dorm room that Shelly Gates designed at Mississippi State University.

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  • Mississippi teacher Shelly Gates, 49, designed her daughter's dorm room at Mississippi State in 2020.
  • After she posted photos of it, other moms started hiring her to design their college kids' dorms.
  • Gates, who runs her dorm business on the side, said over-the-top rooms are part of Southern culture.

This as

A bank exec stole $47 million for a crypto scam, and now he’s going to jail

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A Kansas man was sentenced to 24 years in prison after pouring $47.1 million into a pig butchering scam — using money from the bank he was in charge of. Shan Hanes, the former CEO of the small Heartland Tri-State Bank, pleaded guilty to embezzlement after routing the funds to scammers’ crypto accounts, causing the bank to

The DOJ files an antitrust suit against a software company for allegedly manipulating rent prices

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The Department of Justice and eight states’ attorney generals filed an antitrust lawsuit against rental software company RealPage on Friday, accusing it of using algorithms to drive up rent prices nationwide. The suit alleges RealPage’s software, YieldStar, gathers sensitive information from landlords and rental companies, which it feeds into algorithms that recommend prices and practices that

When is the next Prime Day? We now know it's this October.

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UPDATE: Aug. 23, 2024, 11:40 a.m. EDT This article has been updated with the latest information about Prime Big Deal Days 2024, which has officially been announced by Amazon for this October.

With Amazon's 2024 Prime Day sale in the rearview, you may be wondering: When is the next Prime Day sale? Thankfully, we know the answer to that question (mostly).

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Best back-to-school laptops: I review laptops for a living and these are the top 3

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Finding the best back-to-school laptop for students can be taxing, to say the least. With so many different brands to choose between and different spec configurations to compare, it can quickly become overwhelming. Luckily, I’m here to make your back-to-school laptop search a little easier.

I’ve been reviewing laptops for years, so you could say I know my way around a laptop. At this point, I’ve

Elon Musk says X staff can get their stock — if they prove they deserve it

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Elon Musk sent an email to X staff overnight about their much-anticipated stock grants — but there’s a catch.

In an email to staff viewed by The Verge, the company is planning to award stock options based on the anticipated impact of employees. That means staff have to submit a one-page summary telling

I'm an American living in Paris with my French husband. We sometimes fight over our cultural differences.

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The writer, left, sometimes fights with her French husband, right.

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  • I'm an American who married a French man, and we live in Paris together.
  • He loves to smoke and doesn't like air conditioning, so we often fight.
  • I frequently remind myself that we just have different backgrounds.

The hardest part about being in a relationship with someone from another country is the cultural