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  • The bond market's famous recession gauge has been flashing for 18 months.
  • A downturn could be delayed for months after the yield curve first inverts, Paul Dietrich said.
  • He predicted a recession would hit the economy "sometime soon."

A famously accurate recession indicator has been flashing for 18 months without an economic slowdown materializing — but the inverted yield


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Ukrainian forces firing at a Russian position with a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer 2C22, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on April 21, 2024.
  • Global military spending in 2023 rose to the highest levels ever recorded, analysts said.
  • The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said the spike was the steepest rise since 2009.
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If you use Sonos speakers, chances are you’ve used their app and encountered at least a little frustration at some point. I don’t think it’s a bad app when you consider the many functions it needs to juggle: finding and playing music from dozens of services, managing multiple connected speakers, running people through setup and troubleshooting and so on. But at the very least, it’s fair to suggest



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Sonos has heard you, its users, and it made its mobile app better.

That, at least, is the company's promise as it unveiled its new mobile app, as well as an all-new web app, on Tuesday.

The upcoming app refresh does away with tabs on the bottom of the screen, instead providing access to Sonos system controls, your music library, recently played items, and the search bar, all on the Home screen.



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If you still have your old Rock Band guitars lying around, it’s now possible to use them in Fortnite’s Rock Band-like music mode. As promised at launch, Fortnite Festival now supports a handful of guitar controllers across PC, PlayStation, and Xbox. The announcement comes as part of a fresh update headlined by Billie Eilish.

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Today, Sonos is officially introducing the redesigned mobile app that I showed you earlier this month. It’ll roll out for both Android and iOS on May 7th, but the company’s desktop apps aren’t coming along for the ride: Sonos will discontinue its controller apps for Windows and macOS in the near future. Taking their place is a new web app that will allow you to



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Sébastien Vaniček keeps teasing his Evil Dead spinoff. Get a new look at Dakota Fanning’s creepy new horror, The Watchers. James Gunn has a Creature Commandos update. Plus, what’s to come on Chucky. Spoilers, away!

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Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness, the director's cut version of Castlevania for the Nintendo 64, is a classic today despite issues like blurry graphics and wonky gameplay. You'd think a title designed in the last century (well, 1999) would have no new surprises, but there's a twist to the story. A new Konami Code has been found and it's interesting enough that Castlevania fans may want to give it



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An aircraft in reclamation at the Pinal Air Park in Marana, Arizona.
  • Pinal Air Park in Arizona is one of the largest aircraft storage facilities in the world.
  • The multi-million business boomed during the pandemic as airlines worldwide grounded hundreds of jets.
  • The airpark is also a hub for maintenance, as well as re-configuring jets when they get a new operator.
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Elon Musk is currently embroiled in a battle with Australian authorities over demands for X to remove violent content of a stabbing that took place during a livestreamed service at a church in Sydney last week. Musk is arguing that such decisions could give countries the power to control “the entire internet,”



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A Chinese flag flies near buildings in the central business district on a polluted day in Beijing on February 27, 2018.
  • Chinese banks are helping to aid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the US alleges. 
  • The US is considering sanctions to cut Chinese banks off from the dollar, according to The Wall Street Journal.
  • However, it may speed up de-dollarization efforts by China and

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