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Bob's Red Mill became fully employee-owned in 2020.
  • Bob's Red Mill became employee-owned in 2020 with an Employee Stock Ownership Program or ESOP.
  • CEO Trey Winthrop said when founder Bob Moore died, the ESOP helped with the transition.
  • Winthrop said being employee-owned boosts employee engagement and makes his job easier.

When 94-year-old Bob Moore died in February, Bob's Red Mill not



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The Teenage Engineering OP-XY feels like an upgraded version of the company’s six-year-old OP-Z. | Image: Teenage Engineering

Teenage Engineering’s new OP-XY is a portable synthesizer and sequencer that looks similar to the company’s OP–1 Field. But functionally it’s instead a more capable upgrade to the company’s six-year-old OP-Z, with a stronger focus on layering sounds



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President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the HHS.
  • Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
  • The president-elect previously vowed to let Kennedy "go wild on health."
  • Kennedy, 70, is a vaccine skeptic who supports removing fluoride from water supplies.

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Over the past 10 years, I've traveled to all 63 US national parks.
  • Over the past 10 years, I've traveled alone to all 63 major US national parks.
  • First-time travelers often don't realize they sometimes have to secure reservations ahead of time. 
  • It's also important for visitors to respect the land, the wildlife, and their own physical limits. 

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Google will stop serving political advertisements in the European Union. The decision, announced in The Keyword blog, is in response to an upcoming new rule for the bloc that "introduces significant new operational challenges and legal uncertainties for political advertisers and platforms." The company says the Regulation on Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising has an overly broad



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Elon Musk.
  • Elon Musk will co-lead the Trump White House's Department of Government Efficiency.
  • Musk is known for his intense work ethic and willingness to make drastic cuts to save costs.
  • Musk has slept on Tesla's factory floor and told SpaceX workers to walk out of unnecessary meetings.

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TikTok will let advertisers pull in content from Getty Images when using the platform’s AI ad creation tool. With the integration, advertisers can use Getty’s licensed images and videos to make ads containing AI-generated content, including AI avatars that look like real people.

The integration will be available through TikTok’s Symphony Creative Studio



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Valve’s Steam store is more than just a place to buy computer games online. It’s an active community of gamers. Unfortunately, a sizable portion of those gamers are posting an “unprecedented” amount of hateful, racist and anti-Semetic content on the gaming site’s cyber social gathering place Steam Community, according to a report from the Anti-Defamation League.

The organization found 1.83 million