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The New Yorker Hotel.
  • Mickey Barreto booked a one-night stay at the New Yorker Hotel in 2018 for $200.57.
  • He stayed on, paying no rent for five years thanks to a local housing law.
  • Police arrested him in February. He's now facing fraud charges and possible jail time.

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  • The job market has impressed recently, but there are worrying signals beneath the surface.
  • Wall Street forecasters have pointed to four signs of weakness flashing in the US labor market. 
  • That weakness heightens recession odds, especially if unemployment begins to rise meaningfully. 

Today's job market looks to be on solid footing, but there are subtle signs that hiring is


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ASUS’ ROG Zephyrus G14 has been one of our favorite gaming laptops for damn near half a decade. But the 2024 model is on another level. That’s because even without a fresh generation of GPUs from NVIDIA, ASUS went and redesigned the entire thing anyway. And the result is a notebook with a gorgeous aluminum unibody chassis with a more mature design that doesn’t need to throw RGB lighting in your



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Ever wondered what the inside of an Apple Vision Pro looks like?

Truthfully, I hadn't, but that doesn't matter because now you can take a peek, if you want.

The industrial CT and X-Ray equipment company Lumafield posted a blog post on Tuesday (with an accompanying YouTube video) showcasing what the internals of an Apple Vision Pro (as well as a Meta Quest 3 and Quest Pro) look like. The results, as



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An EU court struck down sanctions against Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman.
  • A top EU court struck down sanctions against two billionaire Russian oligarchs on Wednesday.
  • Judges found there was insufficient evidence that they had backed Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.
  • The oligarchs, Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven, are worth almost $20 billion combined, per Bloomberg.

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In a rare move, Google is extending everyone access to subscriber-exclusive Photos tools. Free Google Photos users are getting its enhanced editing features without paying a minimum of $20 annually. This means all users will get a few of Google's AI-powered tools, such as Photo UnBlur, Magic Eraser and Magic Editor.

Photo UnBlur works just as it sounds, giving greater clarity to a photo that's a



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Larry Ellison is expected to help finance a deal for his son David to buy Paramount.
  • Producer David Ellison trying to take control of Paramount, the troubled media company.
  • Ellison's father, Oracle founder Larry Ellison, is expected to help finance the proposed deal.
  • But some people are suggesting that Oracle would also "power" Paramount. Which doesn't make sense.

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Internet sleuths can find almost anyone (stock image).
  • Internet sleuths took less than 24 hours to find a man who seemingly ghosted his family.
  • It reveals a culture of online justice, where individuals who've wronged others are hunted down.
  • Experts warn that digital justice can overstep, yet legal rulings seem to support the practice.

It's been a big week for internet