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• The US residential market added $2.4 trillion in value last year, listings site Redfin said. 
• Rates haven't budged far from multi-year highs and sellers are on the sidelines. 
• Persistent work-from-home dynamics continue to push up values in many suburbs. 

The housing

Oppo is returning to Europe after a pause, in a move that was announced a month after the company resolved patent disputes with Nokia.

• Google had to pull parts of its fancy Gemini AI model after it spat out inaccurate images and text.
• One theory is that Googlers are too woke and infected what could be a useful AI tool.
• There's another more extreme and interesting theory, though.

Google's latest AI product launch went so badly, there's now a conspiracy theory floating around that the

• Declining boomer ownership will free up 9.2 million homes by 2035, a Freddie Mac report found.
• The 32 million homes owned by boomers will drop to 23 million by 2035, when the oldest members of the group are pushing 90.
• Homeownership rates "gradually starting to decline as households age beyond age 75

Last year brought us lots of fantastic animated films and while Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem was the outlier in terms ofOscar nominations, it might be the first to get a sequel.

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Federal Communications Commission Chair Jessica Rosenworcel shared a new proposal Wednesday that would make it harder for domestic abuse survivors to be stalked through their cars’ location tracking systems.

The notice of proposed rulemaking would kick off a process for the FCC to consider how it can use existing

• Apple shareholders rejected a proposal to release an AI transparency report.
• AFL-CIO, a labor union federation, wants big tech companies to publish ethical guidelines for the technology.
• But Apple's shareholders said on Wednesday that creating

Substack newsletter writers and readers can now send direct messages to each other. The company says this was a highly requested feature and it adds to the platform's slate of social networking tools.

You'll find DMs in the Chat tab on the app and website. You can start a private conversation from that tab, someone's profile page or by selecting the Share option on a note or post. When you get a

In a statement that’s likely to spark controversy, Klara announced that its AI assistant does the work of 700 full-time agents. The statement might raise skepticism for those who remember that the Swedish fintech unicorn laid off roughly the same number of people in 2022, citing inflation and economic uncertainty. Others might also recall that in December, the company freezed hiring on account of

• Monica Lewinsky is the face of Reformation's new workwear line, which dropped on Tuesday.
• Some twentysomething TikTokers said they're only just discovering who Lewinsky is.
• Young people called the former White House intern an "icon" and a "legend" in social media posts.

Monica Lewinsky: former White House intern

ChatGPT's new widget on Android phones gives access to shortcuts, including the ability to open up text, camera, image, voice query, or start a conversation mode.

Bitcoin’s price surged past $63,000 and then receded just a bit under on Wednesday, reaching a level the crypto coin hasn’t seen since November 2021. While it still has a little way to climb to reach an all-time high of $68,000, that level feels comfortably within reach. And if you’re feeling uneasy about the rally,…

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