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Srivastava learned to swim at 68 years old, and now swims three times a week.
  • Vijaya Srivastava learned to swim at the age of 68 to lose weight.
  • Now, seven years later, she's incorporated swimming and fitness into her life, and loves it.
  • She shared tips for getting fit at any age with Business Insider.

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Is the second time the charm for Google's foldable? In this episode, Devindra chats with Senior Writer Sam Rutherford about his hands-on impressions of the new Pixel 9 Pro Fold. It has bigger screens and a sleeker design than its predecessor, but how does it compare to the other foldables out there? And why isn't it called the Pixel Fold 2?!


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Congress can’t get enough of the Meta boss. Nineteen members of Congress are now pressing Mark Zuckerberg to explain why Meta has allowed ads for cocaine, ecstasy and other drugs on both Facebook and Instagram. It comes after the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) used Meta’s ad library to find 450 Instagram and Facebook ads that included “photos of prescription drug bottles, piles of pills and



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Ye and Taylor Swift have been feuding on and off since 2009.
  • Taylor Swift appears to be reigniting her feud with Ye in the new version of her album.
  • She retitled the diss track "thanK you aIMee" to "thank You aimEe," seeming to call out Ye.
  • It came the same week she blocked Ye's album from the top slot of the Billboard 200 chart.

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Sydney Sweeney in "Immaculate."
  • The bloody ending of "Immaculate" is purposely ambiguous.
  • Sydney Sweeney nailed the final scene, in which she gives birth,  on her first try.
  • Here's how it was made, and how sound design kept the ending open to interpretation.

When Sydney Sweeney brought director Michael Mohan the script for "Immaculate," she told him she just wanted to be "covered in



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Russian-American dual citizen Ksenia Karelina was accused of treason for making a donation to a charity supporting Ukraine.
  • A Russian court sentenced US-Russian dual national Ksenia Khavana to 12 years in prison for treason.
  • Khavana was arrested in Yekaterinburg, Russia, for donating $51 to a Ukraine-supporting charity.
  • Her sentencing followed the release of US journalist Evan



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Fortnite is finally back on iOS, just over four years after Apple booted it from the iOS App Store — but it’s only available in the EU. The game is launching today on both a new iPhone version of the Epic Games Store and through AltStore PAL, another third-party app store. The Epic Games Store is



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Russian President Vladimir Putin's meets top military officials in the Kremlin amid the Ukrainian incursion in Kursk in August, 2024.
  • Ukraine knows how to exploit Russian President Vladimir Putin's weak spots.
  • Its invasion of Kursk undermined Putin's image as a strongman protector of Russian security.
  • The attacks have the potential to erode Russians' support for



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The last time you could download Fortnite on an iPhone was four years ago. Now it's back — but only in Europe.
  • Apple and Epic Games, the games company behind Fortnite, have been fighting since 2020.
  • After essentially banning Fortnite four years ago, Apple is grudgingly letting it back on its devices — but only in Europe.
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Taylor Swift has become a billionaire during the Eras Tour.
  • Taylor Swift has yet to weigh in on the 2024 presidential election.
  • She previously endorsed Joe Biden in 2020 and has criticized Donald Trump several times in the past.
  • Swift began speaking publicly about politics in 2018. Here's a complete timeline of her journey.

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Comparable sales are down in Starbucks' two biggest markets.
  • Starbucks is hiring a new CEO, and analysts hope he'll get the coffee chain back on track.
  • Comparable sales are down in its two biggest markets: the US and China.
  • Analysts say Starbucks needs to focus on its prices: "Starbucks isn't known for value."

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Revolut cofounders Nikolay Storonsky, and Vlad Yatsenko, right.
  • Revolut has secured a $45 million valuation via a secondary share sale.
  • The London-based neo-bank recently obtained a UK banking license after several years of waiting.
  • Founded in 2015, it has 45 million customers and reported revenues of $2.2 billion in 2023.

Revolut has secured a $45 million valuation via a secondary share sale