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Waste tires can act as breeding grounds for malaria and cause fires. One Nigerian aims to recycle every one of her country's discarded tires.

When it came to making the stars of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza come to life, Blumhouse and Universal brought out the big puppeteering guns from the Jim Henson Company.

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Can you heat up a pan to 30,000 degrees Fahrenheit? That’s the burning question at the center of this proposed class action lawsuit, which claims the advertising for SharkNinja’s nonstick cookware violates the laws of physics and thermodynamics.

While SharkNinja is the company best known for its Shark robovacs and Ninja kitchen gadget, this lawsuit takes

The Washington Post reported Friday that Reddit might cut off Google and force users to log in to Reddit itself to read anything, if it can’t reach deals with generative AI companies to pay for its data. Initially, Reddit seemed to deny the report. “Nothing is changing,” Reddit spokesperson Courtney Geesey-Dorr told The Verge, adding

• Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell were among 19 co-defendants — including Trump — who were indicted in Georgia this year.
• Both of them requested speedy trials and were set to go to trial next week.
• But just before their criminal trials began, Powell and Chesebro flipped and struck plea deals with prosecutors.

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• The CEO of Fortune 500 company TIAA explained why she gave up on work-life balance.
• Thasunda Brown Duckett takes a more methodical approach to making time for her personal life

New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit Thursday morning against cryptocurrency companies Gemini Trust, Genesis Global Capital, and Digital Currency Group (DCG) for defrauding over 230,000 investors of over $1 billion.

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• The stock market's volatility gauge is signaling a trough in the S&P 500.
• Futures for the CBOE Volatility Index indicated more uncertainty about the near term than longer term.
• Such backwardation is typically associated with low points in the stock market.

The CBOE Volatility Index is one of the market's

Thousands of workers in southern Pakistan spend their lives mining and cooking limestone. The process releases plumes of toxic smoke, polluting the environment and poisoning workers.

In July 2022, the Webb Space Telescope detected an intense jet shooting across the equator of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. The jet is traveling at about 320 miles per hour (515 kilometers per hour) and is about 25 miles (40 km) in altitude, corresponding to Jupiter’s lower stratosphere.

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• Steve Eisman of "The Big Short" fame told the Wall Street Journal his current investing outlook. 
• He calls his thesis "revenge of the old school," noting he likes "old economy" stocks. 
• Eisman, who was played by Steve Carell in the movie, also said there is no new housing crisis.

Bond yields are hovering near 5%, stocks are under pressure, and the housing market has frozen over

In a continued effort to make a dying platform profitable, Elon Musk unveiled two subscription tiers for X, formerly known as Twitter. At the same time, Musk continues his vendetta against news publishers by stripping The New York Times’ official account of its gold verification checkmark, as first spotted by the…

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