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• Amazon ran an uncover operation to gather information on rival retailers, according to a new report.
• Dubbed "Big River Services International," it sold products through Walmart, eBay, and others.
• Big River employees reportedly hid their connections to Amazon, even from

Subscriptions to the budgeting app Quicken Simplifi are half off through April 21. The price has been brought down to just $2 per month, which is billed annually at $24. The deal also extends to Quicken Classic, which adds more features for investments and tracking taxes. This tier now costs $4 per month, instead of $8 per month. It’s also billed annually.

Quicken Simplifi is pretty much the

• House Speaker Mike Johnson is splitting Ukraine and Israel aid into separate votes.
• Democrats have generally opposed this, but are now willing to go along with it.
• But progressive Democrats — who increasingly oppose

• The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage just broke 7% for the first time this year, the highest since November 2023.
• Higher-for-longer interest rate outlooks have pushed up borrowing costs, keeping affordability low. 
• Home purchase mortgage applications surged by 5% this week as buyers rushed to get through a narrowing window of opportunity. 

The 30-year fixed

Google Maps will reportedly tap into satellite connectivity for instances when you cannot connect to Wi-Fi nor a cellular network.

How do we know? According to PiunikaWeb, new code references in Google Maps beta v11.125 indicate the app can determine users' location via satellite connectivity.

For the second time this year, Meta has given the Quest 2 a permanent price cut. The company has dropped the price of the base headset with 128GB of storage to $199, down from $249. Until January 2, the company was charging $299 for the Quest 2.

Of course, the price cut comes in the wake of the company rolling out the far more powerful and capable Meta Quest 3, which starts at a far higher price

• During WWII, scientists experimented on themselves to help divers and submarine crews.
• The scientists conducted over 600 experiments on themselves, breathing CO2, oxygen, and more gases.
• The British Admiralty used their data for recon missions, including before D-Day.

On January 18

• Commercial foreclosures jumped 117% year-to-date in March, data from ATTOM shows.
• It reflects difficulty for the real-estate market, which has been hurt by high interest rates. 
• Offices have led the drawdown, with sector delinquency rates still rising in the first quarter.

The commercial real estate market is still struggling, made all the more clear by the rapid upswing

Star Trek: Discovery is really good with time. We knew this almost immediately when one of its earliest episodes to really wow us was “Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad,” a delightful time loop caper. We knew it again, when it flung caution to the wind and catapulted itself into a future no Star Trek show had…

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