Fat Bear Week winner is revealed. She's a rebel.

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Katmai National Park and Preserve announced the winner of the 2023 Fat Bear Week competition. The winner is the dominant female bear 128, also known as "Grazer."

My Uber rating was higher than my GPA. I landed my first job after tweeting that at Uber.

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Cherylyn Wee's tweet at Uber and her first day on the job at Uber Singapore's office.

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  • Cherylyn Wee is a 32-year-old sales director who landed her first job after tweeting at Uber.
  • She says that a key takeaway was that being constantly online can pay off in unexpected ways.
  • Wee believes that people early in their careers should be intentional with their social-media posts.

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Falcon International Bank Review 2023

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Prime Day is your best shot at a 'cheap' Garmin Fenix or Epix

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When it comes to Garmin watches, "expensive" is a relative term. But the Garmin Epix and Fenix watches are *truly* expensive, which makes Prime Day a great shot to snag one for a "reasonable" price.

Utah sues TikTok for getting children ‘addicted’ to its algorithm

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Utah’s Division of Consumer Protection (UDCP) is suing TikTok over allegations that the app’s “addictive nature” harms children and that TikTok deceptively obscures its relationship with ByteDance, its parent company in China. The state’s lawsuit is the latest in a long-and-growing string of bans and legal action from US-based

A US Navy carrier strike group is now in place to stop anyone from making the Israel-Hamas war any worse than it already is

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Navy aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford
USS Gerald R. Ford in the Atlantic Ocean on March 19, 2023.

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  • The Navy's most advanced supercarrier arrived in the eastern Mediterranean on Tuesday.
  • US Central Command said the ship was moved to deter anyone from escalating the Israel-Hamas war.
  • US defense officials said they were also considering sending the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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One third-party Reddit app on iOS is going charge you $3.99 per month to use it

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Reddit’s new usage-based API pricing is now in effect, and while the potential costs forced many third-party apps to shut down, a handful of apps are pivoting to paid subscriptions to help pay for Reddit’s API fees. On Monday, the developer of one surviving iOS app, Narwhal, announced the monthly fee for the app: $3.99 per month.

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Sam Bankman-Fried was a terrible boyfriend

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She didn’t even get equity! | Photo illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Bloomberg, Getty Images

Bankman-Fried thought Alameda’s brand wasn’t as good as FTX’s — so he put his sometime-lover in charge of it.

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I'm a Columbia University student and an Israel Defense Forces reservist. I immediately made plans to return to Israel following Hamas' attacks even before I got my official call-up.

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Shira Guez (right) is a 24-year-old Columbia University student and reservist in the Israeli Defense Force.
Shira Guez (right) is a 24-year-old Columbia University student and reservist in the Israeli Defense Force.

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  • Shira Guez, 24, an Israeli student at Columbia University, flew back to Israel on Monday night.
  • Guez is a reservist in the Israeli Defense Forces and was preparing to return even before she was called up. 
  • She told Insider that she was