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  • Work-from-home Fridays are becoming popular among white-collar laptop workers.
  • Offices get fewer bookings on Fridays, and leisure businesses are seeing a Friday bump.
  • Some workers told BI they use the day to do spa treatments and eschew on-camera meetings.

For Hannah Kristin, the last day of the workweek has a new name: Hair Mask


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  • Google Translate supports 133 languages and can translate text, audio, or images.
  • You can type or speak into the Google Translate app, or even take a picture of foreign text.
  • Google Translate uses a system called Google Neural Machine Translation, which learns over time.

When you think of traveling, a number of Google services come to mind — you might use Google Maps to plan



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  • The average Croatian leaves their parents' home at 33 years old — the highest age in the EU.
  • It's expensive for young people to buy or rent in Croatia. BI visited Dubrovnik to investigate.
  • Millennials there described feeling like teens in their 30s, despite being business owners and parents.

Lukša Malohodžić is 27 and runs a successful business —



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French for “under vacuum,” sous vide cooking involves immersing vacuum-sealed food in a temperature-controlled water bath until the food is cooked to your liking. It might sound intimidating, and it’s true that this cooking method was once the province of professional cooks with expensive equipment. But that’s not the case anymore — not only is sous vide cooking more accessible than ever now, but



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A screenshot of a clip posted by the 110th Mechanized Brigade that appears to be footage from a video game.
  • A Ukrainian brigade announced the destruction of a Russian Su-25 using what appears to be video-game clips.
  • The 110th Mechanized Brigade posted the footage on Facebook on Thursday, celebrating its reported win.
  • The footage resembles gameplay from



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Out with the gods, in with... a post-apocalypse. After some teasing, Fortnite just launched its latest battle royale season — we’re up to Chapter 5: Season 3 — and it’s heavily inspired by Mad Max and Fallout (in fact, Fallout is part of it). It’s called “Wrecked,” and it introduces a new wasteland region, a larger focus on vehicular combat, and, for some



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"Only one-in-four U.S. adults say it's extremely or very important to have a four-year college degree in order to get a well-paying job in today's economy," the Pew Research Center said in a report on Thursday.
  • Most Americans don't think that going to college is worth it these days.
  • Only 1 in 4 adults think you need a degree to get a high-paying job, per the Pew Research

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OpenAI will not enforce any nondisparagement agreement former employees had signed and will remove the language from its exit paperwork altogether, the company told Bloomberg. Vox recently reported that OpenAI was making exiting employees choose between being able to speak against the company and to keep the vested equity they earned. Employees could lose millions if they choose not to sign the



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A woman takes a selfie on a yacht.
  • China's social media is cracking down on influencers trying to get famous by showing off wealth.
  • Some of its biggest platforms said they've removed thousands of posts of luxury flaunting.
  • All of the companies announced bans on the same day, indicating an industry-wide push for reform.

Wealth-flexing for clout is now officially bad behavior