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• I hired a virtual assistant and work with her five hours a week.
• It was hard to ask for help, but since she started three years ago, my productivity has improved.
• During that time, I've finished my book and started a business.

I burned a pot of black beans the day I hired my virtual assistant. I was on break

Pluto is the most famous dwarf planet, due in part to its very public demotion from ninth planet of the solar system two decades ago. 

But a relatively obscure dwarf planet in the main asteroid belt could be the most accessible icy world to Earthlings in space. Though it's less than 600 miles wide, Ceres appears to be rich in water ice, and new research from Purdue University and NASA's Jet

• Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina, causing widespread damage.
• Local breweries, crucial to the economy, face significant losses and uncertain recovery timelines.
• Businesses and distributors are struggling to keep staff employed and rebuild one of NC's top industries.

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Lana Linge has $42,000 in credit-card debt, but it's not the giant tab that has her most frustrated.

The 29-year-old says she takes full responsibility for her debt. After getting her first credit card in her early 20s, Linge accumulated small amounts of debt but was always able to pay it off. That changed in 2020: Linge struggled with managing her spending on necessities and other

• Four tires on a Ryanair Boeing 737 Max burst upon landing at Milan Bergamo Airport.
• Pictures showed a bare metal wheel left a long scratch on the runway.
• Italy's third-busiest airport shut the runway for at least nine hours, canceling flights.

A major Italian airport had to close a runway on Tuesday after it was damaged when a Ryana

Microsoft is releasing a new version of Office this week, designed for people that don’t want to subscribe to Microsoft 365. The standalone Microsoft Office 2024 release is now available for both consumers and small businesses, and includes locked-in-time versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook across both Mac and PC.

Office 2024 includes

• Manuelle Pires attended a four-day Harvard course on entertainment, media, and sports.
• The course, designed by Anita Elberse, costs $12,500 and includes accommodation and meals.
• Pires applied strategies from the course to enhance content creators' business models in Brazil.

This as-told-to essay is based on a

WhatsApp is catching up with Google Meet and Zoom.

On Tuesday, the company announced that it added backgrounds and filters to video calls. The filters on offer include options such as warm, cool, black and white, dreamy, and fisheye. You can also choose from backgrounds such as living room, office, beach, forest, and sunset. If none of these quite work for you, there's also the option to just blur

• The F-16s that Ukraine's allies are giving it are older-generation aircraft.
• That means they can't outclass Russia's best jets, a former US general and NATO official told BI.
• They lack the armaments needed to make them superior to Russian fighters.

The old F-16 models that Ukraine's

I got a chance to demo Recall — and it's a lot more polished than I thought.

What is Recall? Only the most controversial AI-powered feature that Microsoft has dropped this year.

Long story short, it's like your own personal digital scrapbook. Using frequently taken screenshots, it saves snapshots of your PC activity, allowing you to go back and revisit them whenever you want.

Thanks to a timeline

There's a tweet from former President Donald Trump I think about a lot. It is unintentionally hilarious and indicative of how the human experience works.

A dozen years ago he posted: "The Coca Cola company is not happy with me--that's okay, I'll still keep drinking that garbage."

Say what you want about the man — perhaps that he's a race-baiting compulsive liar who's hell-bent on subverting long

The James Webb Space Telescope's latest psychedelic view reveals an exploded star.

But this supernova is special. That's because, from our perch in the galaxy, the new stellar blast appears three times in a warped line — like it's floating in front of a funhouse mirror. This distorting effect happens because objects in space can be so massive — often clusters of galaxies — that they warp the cosmos