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• Goldman Sachs broke down the repercussions of the US election in 2024.
• They note that elections impact economic growth, monetary policy, and financial uncertainty.
• A Trump-Biden rematch could be "particularly market-relevant," the bank said.

A record share of the world's

Bullitt Group, the UK-based smartphone manufacturer behind the rugged handsets of Cat, Land Rover, and Motorola, has seemingly shut down. On Monday, Mobile World Live spotted several Bullitt Group employees on LinkedIn saying that the company folded on January 26th

This article was originally published on .cult by Melina Zacharia. .cult is a Berlin-based community platform for developers. We write about all things career-related, make original documentaries, and share heaps of other untold developer stories from around the world. Honeypot presents the story of Ruby on Rails. Hear the origin story from the engineers who worked on the project from day one. And

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The U.S. has a big syphilis problem on its hands. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that reported cases of the sexually transmitted infection once again climbed in 2022, reaching a total not seen in over 70 years. In slightly better news, reported cases of gonorrhea have taken a slight…

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• Scientists in Japan observed plants sending tiny, mist-like messages to each other through the air.
• This is the first time we've seen visual evidence of plants talking to each other.
• The researchers think the plants are warning each other of dangerous threats.

That sweet, earthy smell

With Kingsman: The Secret Service and Kick-Ass, English filmmaker Matthew Vaughn has twice shaken up stiff action subgenres with explosive energy and irreverence. These movies not only delivered gonzo violence, cascades of cursing, and bawdy sex jokes but also launched sequels. With the action-comedy Argylle, Vaughn seems to be at it again. But this time, he's surrendered the hard-R rating that's

The CEOs of five major tech companies will make a case for why their platforms are safe for kids.

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The CEOs of Meta, Snap, Discord, X and TikTok testified at a high-stakes Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on child exploitation online. During the hearing, Mark Zuckerberg, Evan Spiegel, Jason Citron, Linda Yaccarino and Shou Chew spent nearly four hours being grilled by lawmakers about their records on child safety. 

The hearing was the first time Spiegel, Citron and Yaccarino testified to

For a while, #DeleteFacebook would trend every couple of months on social media. Countless people were fed up with Facebook’s endless parade of scandals, they claimed, and this time they were finally pulling the plug. Some people did, but Facebook’s user base continues to grow years later. Now Amazon is experiencing a…

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• Non-financial corporate defaults almost tripled from 2022 to 2023, Moody's said.
• Analysts expect defaults to climb further in 2024.
• In the fourth quarter of 2023, private-equity-backed companies led total defaults.

Defaults among non-financial corporations nearly tripled in 2023 compared to the year prior, and Moody's

The Pew Research Center has published an updated survey of US adult social media usage. Although YouTube (especially) and Facebook retain their dominant status from the last poll in 2021, TikTok is the fastest-growing platform, with more than a third of adults now saying they use the app.

The survey polled 5,733 US adults between May 19 and September 5, 2023. YouTube was far and away the most used