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• A $35 million settlement fund will be established due to a class action lawsuit against Apple.
• The 2019 lawsuit said iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus had audio issues, which Apple denied.
• Some iPhone customers can receive up to $349.

Apple reached a $35 million settlement with iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus users who said their phones had audio problems. That

• Joe Biden's debate performance disappointed Democrats, and even he knows it.
• Voters have worried about Biden's age, which showed during the debate.
• Despite his age, simply slowing down and saying less would have helped, a speech coach told BI.

Even President Joe Biden knows his debate performance was off.

Voters and legislators

Redbox’s owner, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, filed for bankruptcy protection overnight. This comes at the tail end of a month in which the DVD rental company defaulted on loans, saw an order for its cars to be repossessed, and missed payroll for employees.

Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment informed employees of the filing late

• Celebrity real-estate broker Ryan Serhant has appeared on reality shows for a decade.
• A new Netflix show tracks Serhant and his colleagues as they negotiate deals for wealthy clients.  
• Beyond stunning homes, Serhant said he wants to showcase some hard parts of the brokerage business.

In 2012, Instagram didn't have

YouTube has really been pushing its users to join YouTube Premium lately. The main selling point for most is the ad-free YouTube experience — ad-free without having to use an ad blocker, that is, and the company has recently been cracking down on ad blocker use.

But YouTube seems to realize it's not just the ad-free experience that will attract potential paying Premium subscribers.

• Companies are turning to consulting firms to help work out how to use AI effectively.
• Their clients are asking about how machine learning and generative AI can transform businesses.
• Consultants told BI that questions also include how to make AI worth the investment.

It's possible

While people who own and sell cryptocurrency have always had to pay taxes on their earnings, a new rule finalized by the US Treasury Department can ensure that they're paying the proper amount on their sales. The new rule will require cryptocurrency platforms like exchanges and payment processors to report their users' transactions to the Internal Revenue Service. According to The Wall Street

Most of the time when you delete a file, it’s actually not wiped from existence immediately — as recently discovered by a man whose wife came across illicit texts he’d been sending (and which he thought he had got rid of on his iPhone). The man is now suing Apple.

Marital infidelity aside, the safety net that’s put in place for

Hollywood has been trying to adapt William Gibson’s groundbreaking 1984 cyberpunk novel Neuromancer for years—and now it really seems the latest attempt, taking the form not of a feature film but a series at sci-fi hub Apple TV+—is truly happening. After a February announcement heralding the show, followed by Callum…

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• The US has sent Israel at least 14,000 2,000-pound bombs since October 7, Reuters reported.
• Highly destructive 2,000-pound bombs have been used to devastating effect in Israel's offensive in Gaza.
• US military aid to Israel has totaled $6.5 billion since the start of the war on Hamas, a US official has said.

The US has