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Very few people have heard the only copy of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, the Wu-Tang Clan album that disgraced pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli bought at auction in 2015. Starting next month, though, you’ll be able to hear a curated, 30-minute excerpt of the album, provided you



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Soldiers and sailors assemble the floating pier off the shore of Gaza in the Mediterranean Sea.
  • US soldiers were evacuated from beached Army boats after a storm damaged the floating pier in Gaza.
  • Three Army boats were beached in Gaza over the weekend after high seas broke apart the aid pier.
  • Repairing the pier could take over a week, disrupting the US effort to send aid to Palestinians



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YouTube CEO Neal Mohan took over the top job in 2023.
  • YouTube was founded by three PayPal employees in 2005.
  • Since launching, it's become the most popular free video-sharing platform in the world.
  • Take a look at the history of YouTube.

In its 19-year history, YouTube has become the undisputed king of online video.

It has well over 2 billion monthly users who watch hundreds of hundreds



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Vivek Ramaswamy has been buying up shares of BuzzFeed.
  • Investor and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has laid out his plans for BuzzFeed.
  • He envisions turning the company into a Twitter/X-style user-generated content company.
  • But BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti controls the company, and doesn't take Ramaswamy seriously. So what's the endgame here?

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Browser bloat has long been a problem, but now Microsoft is doing something about it, and not by reducing features but by speeding the browser up. The company is working to make Edge’s user interface more responsive, starting with its Browser Essentials menu.

This menu — which displays information about Edge’s performance — is now 42 percent faster, thanks



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A former OpenAI board member is opening up about CEO Sam Altman.
  • An ex-OpenAI board member revealed new details about Sam Altman's brief ousting as CEO.
  • Helen Toner said Altman lied to the board "multiple" times and was "withholding information." 
  • Toner claimed he didn't tell the board about ChatGPT's release; they found out on Twitter, she said. 

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American political parties usually make a big production out of nominating their presidential candidate, but not this year. The Democratic Party plans to nominate President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris over Zoom, according to CBS News, ahead of a previously scheduled convention in late August.

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