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• Melissa Hedden, 41, struggles to afford housing and moves between Airbnbs and hotels.
• Hedden's family are ALICEs  — Americans who are asset-limited, income-constrained, and employed. 
• Pandemic unemployment checks briefly helped Hedden, but her financial stability

• The tariffs signal that the US won't accept another wave of Chinese imports, Paul Krugman wrote.
• The previous "China shock" was damaging to US employment, given the localized nature of US industry.
• China is relying on heavy production to manufacture its way out of an economic slump.

President Joe Biden's fresh

As Anthropic tries to take on the AI giants, it has a new big-name executive on board: the company announced this morning that Mike Krieger is its new chief product officer. Krieger, of course, was one of the co-founders of Instagram and spent the last few years working on

Ahead of Global Accessibility Awareness Day this week, Apple is issuing its typical annual set of announcements around its assistive features. Many of these are useful for people with disabilities, but also have broader applications as well. For instance, Personal Voice, which was released last year, helps preserve someone's speaking voice. It can be helpful to those who are at risk of losing

I’m excited to announce Notepad, a new weekly newsletter I’ll be writing at The Verge.

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Netflix has finally named and dated its new anime series Terminator Zero, releasing worldwide on August 29th. If you recall your convoluted time-traveling, skin-wearing cyborg apocalypse history, you’ll realize that’s the 27th anniversary of the series’ Judgment Day, when the machines begin their conquest of humanity. Well, one of them, anyway.

The show is

Outer Range’s first season was a wild ride—a sci-fi Western about a rancher whose land contains a mysterious hole made of time itself. The Prime Video series returns with plenty of fresh weirdness, but it feels sharper—as star Josh Brolin promised—with a plot that’s less meandering this time around.

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What started as a 24-hour hackathon project last weekend could empower the open-source community to upend the smart glasses industry. Five team members built a $20 pair of smart glasses, dubbed Open Glass, that connects what you see and hear to an AI chatbot, such as Meta’s Llama 3.

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Remember meme stocks?

In early 2021, the stock price of video game retailer GameStop pumped immensely after a Reddit community of traders, led by a trader known as Roaring Kitty (or DeepFuckingValue on Reddit), started buying en masse. This in turn caused the demise of hedge fund Melvin Capital that was shorting GameStop stock (shorting, in the simplest of terms, is betting on the stock price

• "Bluey" fans are worried the series could end with its third-season finale on Sunday.
• The "Bluey" brand is worth an estimated $2 billion but faces some challenges going forward.
• The kids TV show ranked among the most-watched streaming series in America last year.

Fans of the children's TV sensation "Bluey" feared

This might come as a shock to you but the things people put on social media aren't always truthful — really blew your mind there, right? Due to this, it can be challenging for people to know what's real without context or expertise in a specific area. That's part of why many platforms use a fact-checking team to keep an eye (often more so look like they're keeping an eye) on what's getting shared