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College students can easily declutter their dorm rooms.
  • I'm a professional declutterer, and I know dorm rooms can get messy.
  • College students should take advantage of vertical space for organization.
  • Students should also practice tidiness and routine decluttering.

Dorm rooms aren't really known for being roomy. Plus, you're (or your kid is) probably sharing with someone who



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A mom works from home with her son beside her.
  • I worked in HR for over 15 years and I left my job while I was pregnant with my first child.
  • I realized that working in HR for that long has actually made me a better parent.
  • I can listen to my child and help them find solutions to their problems.

After over 15 years in HR, I stepped away from my career. The draining nature of



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New Zealand is the world's largest kiwi exporter, shipping out over $1 billion of fruit annually. But a little over a decade ago, a deadly plant disease called PSA nearly wiped out the industry. A scientist named Russell Lowe saved it with a new breed called SunGold, which has overtaken green varieties as the most popular kind. We visited New Zealand to see how it grows, picks, ships, and breeds



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It's a big day for Epic Games. Not only has the company rolled out the latest season of Fortnite, it has achieved a long-held ambition by bringing the Epic Games Store to mobile devices. The app marketplace is now available on iOS in the European Union (after the bloc required Apple to allow third-party app stores on iPhone and iPad) and on Android worldwide. As a result, that means Fortnite is



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At Google’s gadget launch this week, it took almost half an hour before Google actually talked about its new gadgets. There’s a lot to be excited about inside the new Pixel 9 lineup and the Pixel Watch 3, but Google’s event made its true priorities clear. AI matters more to Google than Pixel, more than Android, more than just about anything.

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A tank is seen next to defensive fortifications in a video said to show Ukrainian forces during the early hours of their Kursk invasion on August 6.
A tank is seen next to defensive fortifications in a video said to show Ukrainian forces during the early hours of their Kursk invasion on August 6, 2024.
  • Ukraine stunned the world with a shock invasion of Russia's Kursk region last week.
  • A new video published by Ukrainian paratroopers appears to capture the first hours of the incursion



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Margrethe Vestager, the European Union's commissioner for competition, won't be back for a third term and will be stepping down this year. According to the Financial Times, the Danish government will be nominating a different candidate as EU commissioner after Vestager's political party didn't do well in the previous election. Vestager is known for being one of Europe's top antitrust authorities



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UK fintech Revolut has been valued at $45bn following a share sale by employees, making it Europe’s most valuable private tech company and shaking up the world of traditional finance.  An employee share sale is when staff sell their company shares either to the company they work for, external investors, or on the open market. In Revolut’s case, its employees sold a portion of their shares to



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Ikea has launched an upgrade to its stock-counting drone system — and now it’s coming to the US, too. The Swedish furniture chain announced that the autonomous drones will soon operate alongside workers in its Perryville, Maryland, distribution center, where Ikea started installation this summer.

The Verity-branded drones also come with a new AI-powered system