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• Buyers react more to the change in mortgage rates than the actual rates themselves, Compass CEO Robert Reffkin said.
• The rate relief comes as inventory is loosening up, which is an encouraging sign for buyers.
• "A key question is will the Fed lower rates in the March meeting before the spring market, or in the May meeting afterwards."

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NASA just combined all of my favorite things: space, lasers, and cats. In a first-of-its-kind demonstration of deep space optical communication, the space agency streamed a high-definition video from 19 million miles away from Earth. And as it turns out, NASA is just as obsessed as we are when it comes to sharing cat…

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• I became close friends with the new girl at the media job I had in my 20s.
• We became so close that she started sleeping on my couch, and I helped her get my dream job.
• When she left the company, we stopped talking and I felt used.

When I was in my early 20s, I worked a great media job, and I thought I had it made. I was

• Steve Huffman told Fast Company that Reddit in its early days didn't feel like a real business. 
• He explained that its success and profitability far exceeded his expectations. 
• The company is in talks with investors about an IPO in early 2024 with a valuation of $15 billion.

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Cybersecurity incidents are constantly in the news these days, but you’ll soon be hearing about a lot more of them. That’s because a new rule from the Securities and Exchange Commission went into effect on Monday, requiring all public companies to report data breaches in just four days.

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If there's one thing that was obvious about 2023, it was the fact that there was always something else happening. Out of everything that was announced, released, or introduced over the year, these are just a few of my favorites.

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Hi! Chick-fil-A on a Sunday!? That could be a reality if one New York politician gets his way. More on his argument for why the popular chain should stay open and the locations that could be impacted.

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• The hype cycle is as strong as ever, but has AI actually peaked already?
• No AI model has convincingly beaten OpenAI's GPT-4 since it was released in March.
• It raises questions about how much of a step-change in performance is possible from this point.

We are only one year into a post-ChatGPT

• Israel's campaign in Gaza started in the north but has now shifted to the southern area.
• Researchers mapping the damage say more than a third of the buildings in the strip have been destroyed.
• Tens of thousands of munitions — a mix of precision and unguided — have been dropped on the enclave.

Israel's continued

The generative AI movement may dominate today’s headlines, but another technological transformation is gaining momentum under the radar—the proliferation of autonomous service robots. Their surge in popularity continues to be fueled by their ability to improve efficiency and reduce the need for manual labor in repetitive, hazardous tasks, as well as more recent advancements in sensor fusion and

Adobe just abandoned its $20 billion deal to buy Figma, and now we know why. In an interview on the Decoder podcast with The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel, Adobe general counsel Dana Rao said that the company couldn’t prove to European regulators that the acquisition wouldn’t harm competition in the future — that is, that Adobe

Michael Mann’s biopic of the Italian sports car maker feels at home in the director’s canon of obsessive men. But have we been here before too many times?

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