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• Shopify stunned investors after reporting a surprise loss for the first three months of the year.
• The e-commerce platform posted a $273 million loss for the first quarter.
• It marks new low following its boom years during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Shopify shares plunged almost 20% on Wednesday after the e-commerce giant sunk into the red for the first three months of the year.

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• Business Insider looked at how young adults aged 25 to 34 spent their money in 1989 compared to 2022.
• The findings show us how prices and habits changed since boomers were young adults.
• Young adults today are spending less

• Tokyo police arrested a yakuza boss, accusing him of stealing Pokémon cards.
• The yakuza once had a fearsome, violent reputation. This arrest marks a shift to petty crimes.
• Anti-gang laws and lower profits have made yakuza membership less appealing to younger Japanese.

Tokyo Metropolitan Police last week arrested an executive of the Takinogawa

Instagram has added a bunch of new features for Stories, offering users new ways to share posts, photos, and videos with their followers.

The latest additions to the app's roster of tools include some that are interactive, like "Reveal": a way to post a hidden, blurred story that will only reveal itself once a follower sends a DM. This could be a fun new way to connect with followers, but it's

Nearly all of FTX’s former customers will get back almost 100% of the money they lost at the time of the cryptocurrency exchange’s collapse — if not more.

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Update: Wednesday, May 8, 9:08 a.m. ET: NASA has rescheduled the Starliner Crew Flight Test mission for no earlier than Friday, May 17 at 6:16 p.m. ET, as SpaceNews reports. The delay will allow United Launch Alliance to return the rocket to its Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) near the launch pad to replace a…

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FTX says most customers affected by the cryptocurrency exchange’s collapse will get all their money back. Bankruptcy lawyers for the fallen firm say they’ve collected assets valued at up to $16.3 billion — more than they will need to repay the company’s estimated $11 billion debt.

John Ray III, the chief restructuring officer of FTX, says the company is

A team of researchers have built a vision implant with tiny electrodes the size of a neuron, seeking to help blind people see again. The development of vision implants first emerged in the 1990s. The technology targets patients suffering from damage to the eye, but whose visual cortex— the brain’s visual centre — is active and able to receive signals. But despite the solution’s potential, existing

Get a look at the next episode of Star Trek: Discovery. The Suicide Squad adds a new member in a new clip from My Adventures With Superman season 2. Plus, the final season of Snowpiercer gets a release date. Spoilers, away!

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• Footage shared by a Ukrainian battalion appears to show exploding drones striking Russian 'cope cages.'
• Both Russia and Ukraine have used the cages as makeshift missile defenses on vehicles.
• However, experts have told BI that the

The Department of Justice is looking into whether Tesla committed securities and wire fraud around its self-driving vehicle claims, Reuters reports today, citing three sources familiar with the matter.

The investigation, which was first reported in October 2022 but has been going on since at least late

The United States has taken further action to limit China's technological advancement, revoking licenses that allowed Intel and Qualcomm to buy and sell chips to Huawei Technologies, the Financial Times reports. The decision will impact chips Huawei uses for computers and mobile phones and is effective immediately.

Huawei has been on US trade restrictions lists since 2019 but has recently made