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Tyrone White was a member of the 65 Menlo Gangster faction of the Crips gang in South Central Los Angeles during the late '80s and '90s. White held the position of a street soldier and participated in drug dealing, gangbanging, and neighborhood drive-bys. He later joined a police force in Oklahoma. After resigning, he went to jail for robberies.

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Agata Pona often went without health insurance and worked while sick living in the US, but she has more affordable insurance and longer sick days in Poland.
  • Agata Pona and her husband left the Bay Area and moved to Poland in 2015.
  • She says that she felt immediate stress relief living in Poland.
  • Pona was able to easily get an entry-level tech job, longer sick days, and two-week



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Not all hotels are created equally.
  • Business Insider asked hotel employees about the red flags to look for when checking into a hotel.
  • Burnt-out light bulbs and dust in common areas may be signs a hotel isn't clean or well-maintained.
  • Pay attention to how your bed is made to get a feel for the quality of housekeeping services.

Airbnb is losing clients to hotels — but that


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The recent CrowdStrike crash took place at the intersection of bad cybersecurity and bad cloud computing. The headlines showed the world what many of us have long warned about — that concentrating power with a handful of tech titans is dangerous and can have devastating real-world consequences.  It didn’t take a cyberattack to cause this global crisis — just a simple mistake. One faulty update



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A federal judge issued a last-minute partial block on a Texas law that would require some large web services to identify minors and filter what they see online. Called HB 18 or the Securing Children Online Through Parental Empowerment (SCOPE) Act, it was signed into law last year and was set to take effect over the weekend on September 1st. But a late



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Employees working on a Boeing 737 Max at the factory in Renton, Washington.
  • A Boeing employee told The Seattle Times they face pressure "to make miracles happen."
  • Others told investigators that planes move down factory lines with defects to maintain production speed.
  • A team captain said there's a high turnover of staff because it's a
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ESPN's broadcast of the US Open was cut short for DirecTV users on Sunday after Disney issued a blackout midway through on all of its networks. It occurred after a 2019 deal expired without a new agreement for a licensing deal between the two companies.

Unsurprisingly, DirecTV and Disney disagree on which company is to blame. "The Walt Disney Co. is once again refusing any accountability to



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  • New dating app First Round's on Me recently raised $3 million in seed funding.
  • Founded by Joe and Hannah Feminella, FROM launched in 2020 and prioritizes planning dates.
  • The app offers premium subscriptions and in-person events to monetize and foster IRL connections.

Many dating apps these days feel like an endless void of swiping, matching, and messaging.

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The OceanXplorer off the coast of the Azores.
  • OceanXplorer, a 285-foot research vessel, contains cutting-edge tools for ocean science.
  • Billionaire Ray Dalio bought the former oil ship and helped transform it into a world-leading research vessel.
  • Ray Dalio's son wants the ship to inspire ocean conservation through advanced research and documentaries.

The OceanXplorer is