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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.
  • Salesforce is trimming its workforce by about 1%.
  • The cuts will affect around 700 employees, The Wall Street Journal reported.
  • Salesforce laid off about a tenth of its headcount last year.

Salesforce is cutting about 700 employees, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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Microsoft is adding touch controls to its Xbox apps for iOS and Android devices. The software maker started testing the touch controls in beta versions of the Xbox mobile apps this week, allowing Xbox owners to remotely control their consoles and play games on phones and tablets without a Bluetooth controller.

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23andMe found out it was attacked by hackers in October
  • 23andMe found out it was hacked five months after it was breached, per a regulatory filing. 
  • The DNA testing company said it was breached in May but didn't find out until October from Reddit posts.
  • The firm reportedly blamed customers for the breach, saying they didn't update their passwords. 

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The estate of late comedian George Carlin is suing the creators of a comedy "special" that used AI to recreate his persona.

Posted on YouTube in early January, the AI-generated George Carlin: I'm Glad I'm Dead was scripted and presented by comedy AI Dudesy, steered by humans Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen. The hour-long video doesn't actually feature the real comedian, who died in 2008. Instead, it's



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Some cities have average commutes of over 35 minutes.
  • East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, has the longest average commute time at 36.2 minutes one way.
  • The New York City metro area ranked second, while four California cities were in the top eight.
  • With rents in New York City at over $4,600 on average for a one-bedroom, many are moving to the suburbs.

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A for rent sign advertising a row house in northeast Capitol Hill, is pictured on Monday, August 26, 2019, in Washington D.C.
A for rent sign advertising a row house in northeast Capitol Hill, is pictured on Monday, August 26, 2019, in Washington D.C.
  • Cheap rent has gotten much harder to find as housing costs have surged over the last decade.
  • The number of homes that rent for under $1,000 has plummeted, Harvard researchers found.
  • Meanwhile, half of renters spend more than 30% of their income on

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Taylor Swift at the 2024 Golden Globes.
  • Swifties are furious with Elon Musk's X after AI-generated explicit images of the singer went viral.
  • One image remained up for 17 hours and attracted more than 45 million views, The Verge reported.
  • Musk has slashed X's content-moderation teams since taking over the site in 2022.

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Country legend Dolly Parton also co-owns two companies.
  • Dolly Parton tells Business Insider her best career advice is to find "who you are, and do it on purpose."
  • While Parton is best known for a music career, she also co-owns two companies.
  • Parton advises Gen Z workers not to be afraid of changing career paths.

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GM's driverless Cruise division is under investigation by both the Department of Justice (DoJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), The Washington Post has reported. The probes follow an incident last year in which a jaywalking pedestrian was struck by a Cruise autonomous vehicle and then dragged 20 feet, worsening her injuries.

At the same time, yesterday Cruise released its own third



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Sydney Sweeney has taken on intense high school drama, intense vacation drama, and intense convent drama — so it's really no surprise that isn't too phased by a few spicy wings.

Appearing on First We Feast's Hot Ones, the actor munches through increasingly spicy wings while casually chatting about everything from the outfits in Euphoria to her favourite books.

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A photo of Japan's robotic moon lander shows that though the spacecraft did make the quarter-million-mile journey to the lunar surface, it landed upside down.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency — NASA's Japanese space counterpart known as JAXA — released the image Jan. 25, five days after it descended onto the moon. Shortly after touchdown, the mission team for SLIM — short for Smart Lander



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Jorge Reyes was surprised the no-shoes policy enforced in most Swedish homes extended to the offices.
  • Jorge Reyes had never been to Finland before he moved from Bogotá, Colombia, to Helsinki. 
  • He was prepared for the extreme weather, but other aspects of Finnish culture shocked him. 
  • Naked saunas, no shoes at work, and acceptable dating protocol all took Reyes off guard. 

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