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Elon Musk at the VivaTech conference in Paris.
  • With great wealth inevitably comes influence and power.
  • But Elon Musk is pushing the boundaries, given how many industries he's dominating.
  • With a growing empire of rockets, EVs, social media, and AI, Musk is gaining political clout.

Elon Musk isn't known for staying in one lane.

He either sits at the head or owns six companies — Tesla, SpaceX, the


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Vladimir Putin has privately expressed interest in a cease-fire under the condition that Russia can hold on to the territories it seized so far in Ukraine.
  • Russia's war in Ukraine has lasted longer than President Vladimir Putin anticipated.
  • Putin has considered a cease-fire since the early weeks of Russia's invasion, NYT reported.
  • He renewed that interest but only under the



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TL;DR: Microsoft Windows 11 Pro is on sale for £19.73, saving you 87% on list price.


Upgrading your operating system is a great way of renewing your computer with improved security and a nicer interface. The only problem is the price. Some computers can upgrade to Windows 11 for free, but if you want 11 Pro, it can get pretty expensive. That is, unless you get it while it’s on sale. If you want to



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Renting is an increasingly popular option, even for high-income earners.
  • Average monthly mortgage payments reached record highs in 2023 with the Fed's interest rate hike.
  • Renting is an increasingly attractive option even for high-income earners.
  • More and more households with $1 million-plus incomes are renting, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

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Oh hey there! If you're here, it must be time for Wordle. As always, we're serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today's answer.

If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for Dec. 24's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

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Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.

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Microsoft is investing billions into building a data center campus in southeastern Wisconsin.
  • Microsoft has plans to build a data center in Wisconsin. 
  • Earlier this month the company bought more than 400 acres of land that included a pumpkin farm. 
  • Microsoft is one among several tech giants investing into data centers in the AI arms race. 

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Rescuers freed a man trapped from the waist down in a cliffside crevice after a 19-hour effort.
  • Rescuers freed a man from a cliffside crevice in San Diego on Friday.
  • The man said he had been trapped there for days before passersby noticed him.
  • The rescue operation took 19 hours.

After a grueling 19-hour operation on a San Diego cliffside, rescuers successfully extricated a



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Apple CEO Tim Cook.
  • Tim Cook is the current Apple CEO.
  • Before Cook, Steve Jobs took Apple from a deficit to a $309 million profit in his first year as CEO.
  • The first CEO of Apple was Michael Scott.

Tim Cook has been the CEO of Apple Inc. since 2011.

The company has had seven chief executives since its founding in April 1976 and incorporation in 1977, with Michael Scott in



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Idaho authorities used DNA analysis to identify a suspect in the cold-case murder of Wilma Mobley in 1995.
  • Idaho authorities said they've solved the 28-year-old cold-case murder of Wilma Mobley.
  • Mobley, 84, was strangled and attacked with an "axe type instrument" in 1995.
  • Police found DNA on the clasp of Mobley's underwear that matched her neighbor, Danny Lee Kennison.

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