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Happy Friday! Fast food has definitely gotten pricier over the years. But it might shock you by how much. Your favorite McDonald's meal might have doubled in price since

• Apple is cutting more than 600 staff after reportedly shelving two projects.
• The iPhone maker risks losing focus and falling behind its rivals in the AI race, analysts say.
• Apple stock has slid 12% this year as concerns about growth and regulation mount.

Apple's decision to cut more than 600 employees in California speaks to the challenges facing the technology

• NATO's secretary general is proposing a plan for the alliance to control future aid packages.
• The plan would have the US step aside from leading the group that coordinates weapons deliveries to Ukraine.
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• President Biden has flagged commercial space launch companies like SpaceX for aviation excise taxes.
• The firms currently do not pay the tax, which is tagged to the price of airline tickets. 
• The FAA is already struggling to keep up with the pace of space launches.

President Joe Biden wants

Today’s competition could not be more divergent in the battle of the everything laptop. On one hand, we have Apple and its M3 MacBook Pro, a design that has remained the same for the past several years. The company is hinging its hopes on a simple design that works along with the strong performance of the M3 chips,…

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• Interior designers shared the bathroom trends that will be in and out for spring 2024.
• Textured bathtubs and cabinets can make a bathroom's design more interesting.
• All-white bathrooms and graphic tiles are falling out of favor this spring.

Renovating a bathroom isn't

A new Carbon Majors Database report, which examines carbon dioxide emissions, found that just 57 companies were responsible for 80 percent of the global carbon dioxide emissions between 2016 and 2022. ExxonMobil, which topped the list of United States companies, contributed 1.4 percent of all global carbon dioxide emissions. It has net zero emissions targets.

Nearly 200 parties adopted the 2015

• An Israeli strike on an Iranian diplomatic facility in Syria this week killed top IRGC officials.
• The attack is part of a years-long shadow

Which is the best wireless car charger for iPhone? I now have the answer because I went through several awful car chargers from Amazon — and I finally found a good one.

Filtering Amazon results to "Avg. Customer Review," which implies that the top listings feature the highest-rated products, I purchased two car chargers that ended up being duds.

One had an adjustable arm that, within weeks of

• China's young people are abandoning retirement savings, The New York Times reported.
• The aging population and declining birthrate have intensified the pension crisis.
• High unemployment rates and low-paying jobs are also an issue.

China's pension system is facing a reckoning.

A rapidly aging population, difficulties finding a job, and

• Reed Hastings kept losing money as an investor so he sticks to owning Netflix stock and index funds.
• "The few times that I've done investing, I've lost my shirt," Netflix's ex-CEO told "The Tim Ferriss Show."
• Warren Buffett advises most people to invest in index funds instead of trying to beat the market.

Reed Hastings is a

• McDonald's plans to buy back all 225 of its restaurants in Israel from its long-standing franchisee.
• Israeli stores stridently back the Israeli military, which sparked boycotts in other markets.
• It highlights a flaw in the global franchise model, where