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After a couple years of Google playing with generative AI features (for better and worse) on its Pixel phones, Apple is reportedly going to do the same with the next iPhone.

First reported in October by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is experimenting with several ideas involving AI to possibly incorporate into the iPhone 16 hardware, the next version of iOS, or both. Now, tech leaker @Tech_Reve is



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A federal judge upheld the dismissal of a class action lawsuit that alleged automakers unlawfully collected and recorded car owners’ text messages, as first reported by The Record. In a ruling on Tuesday, the Seattle-based judge said the claims aren’t severe enough to be considered a violation of the state’s Washington Privacy Act



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  • Beef prices recently notched $8 a pound, topping a pandemic record of $7.90 a pound, USDA data shows.
  • The hike is being driven by a shrinking cattle supply as feed costs surge, the FT reported.
  • Surging feed costs come as the southwest US recovers from the lowest rainfall seen in 1,200 years.

Beef prices have spiked to a record high recently as a megadrought that slammed



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Almost all mortgage rates are down since this time last week, and since a month ago. Although the decreases are gradual, this downward trend is still a good sign for hopeful homebuyers.

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Omegle has shut down.

After 14 years, Omegle is dead. The chat website experienced a bit of a revival during the pandemic, but now it's gone offline for good. The internet has mixed feelings about its shutdown.

The chat service worked by pairing two random users together so they could talk to each other, over video or text. It's a cool idea, in theory, an attempt to facilitate human connection online. But it was also



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A police cruiser outside a boarded-up Fendi retail store in San Francisco in November 2021.
  • Early 2022 seemed to be a dire time for San Francisco, with shocking examples of retail crime.
  • Retailers pointed to raging shoplifting stats as stores closed, contributing to the city's "doom loop."
  • But according to a recent report, retail crime in San Franciscio is now 5% below its pre



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2024 isn't here quite yet, but daters are already working on their "sexolutions," according to eharmony. The longtime dating app released its latest Dating Diaries, a report on how 1,600 adults 21 and over surveyed in late September and early October this year feel about sex and love. All participants are either dating, in a relationship, cohabitating, or married, and results were weighed to be



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GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
  • Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign said he did not intend to call Volodymyr Zelenskyy a Nazi.
  • Instead, a spokesperson told The New York Times that the GOP presidential hopeful was "talking quickly."
  • The campaign said Ramaswamy was referencing a highly criticized moment during Zelenskyy's recent visit to Canada.

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Apple has faced a major setback in its longstanding €14.3bn tax dispute with the EU after an adviser to the bloc’s highest court said an earlier ruling over the tech giant’s business in Ireland should be thrown out and the case re-run.  Advocate General Giovanni Pitruzzella of the EU Court of Justice said in an advisory opinion that Apple’s win in a lower EU court should be shelved because of a



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CPI forecast
  • Inflation is poised to hit the Fed's long-term 2% target by April of next year, according to ING Economics.
  • ING said falling oil, rent, and vehicle prices are set to drive a continued period of disinflation.
  • The ongoing decline in inflation suggests that the Fed is done hiking interest rates.

Our Chart of the Day is from ING Economics, which shows that inflation is set to hit the Federal


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We haven't heard much about Netflix film The Archies since June, but finally we've got a delightful trailer that makes it look like an absolute blast.

From Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara director Zoya Akhtar, the Indian remake of Riverdale takes the Archie Comics back to its actual heyday: the swinging '60s. Set in a fictional hill station town called Riverdale, The Archies is a large-scale musical