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• Inflation and Fed hikes have pushed mortgage rates to their highest rate in 20 years. 
• 30-year

Owners of select BMW cars will be able to let their vehicles drive them around autonomously next spring.

On Friday, the German automaker announced it would launch Level 3 automated driving for its BMW 7 Series cars in March 2024, with pre-orders starting in December.

Level 3 refers to the Society of Automobile Engineers (SAE) standard for automated driving, which goes from Level 0 to Level 5. At

I’ve always had a soft spot for Sony’s refreshed, slimmed-down consoles ever since the adorable PS One. All the Sony consoles I’ve owned were launch versions that are bigger and goofier-looking than their eventual redesigns — giving me massive FOMO — but I think my love affair for “slim” PlayStations is now at an

• The James Webb Space Telescope spotted a twin of the Milky Way in the depths of the universe. 
• The galaxy formed shortly after the Big Bang, which was thought to be impossible. 
• This could

• Israeli is focused on hunting down a Hamas leader whom they blame for the October 7 attacks.
• Yahya Sinwar is surrounded in the ruins of Gaza City, Israel's defense minister said.
• Israel has called Sinwar "a dead man walking"

Israeli forces have Hamas' top leader surrounded in the ruins of Gaza

• Bitcoin's price has doubled since FTX collapsed a year ago.
• It's outperforming both the S&P 500 and the "Magnificent 7" Big Tech stocks in 2023.
• Hopes that US regulators will soon approve a spot bitcoin ETF have powered the cryptocurrency to stellar gains.

FTX filed for bankruptcy on November 11, 2022.

Just under a year later, bitcoin is

Apple’s cofounder Steve Wozniak, Woz, is “back home and feeling good” after he was hospitalized for a minor stroke in Mexico City Wednesday, according to an interview he gave with The New York Times Thursday. The 73-year-old technology legend, who was in Mexico to speak at the World Business Forum, was admitted to ABC…

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Happy Friday! A bit of inspiration for you as we head into the weekend. A team at NYU Langone conducted the world's first whole eye transplant. And there's hope he may even be able to see out of it one day. 

In today's big story, we're looking at how crypto

• Waffle House workers want their wage to go up to $25 an hour.
• They're also demanding 24/7 security and an end to mandatory meal deductions regardless of whether staff eat during their shift.
• Workers rallied outside the company's headquarters in Georgia on Wednesday to demand the changes.

Waffle House workers are demanding a $25 minimum hourly wage and constant security

The current generation of consoles is getting its first redesign, with Sony’s new PlayStation 5 “slim” now finally landing after its October announcement. The revised PS5 may not be all that small, but it does feature a unique detachable disc

• A Microsoft software update forced some users to answer a survey before they closed OneDrive.
• Some users complained, with one calling the company "desperate and clingy." 
• Microsoft said the poll only applied to a "small subset" of users and had now ended. 

Change can be difficult. But it can also be infuriating. Especially when that

These $100 earbuds offer good sound and impressive noise cancellation for the price, and they bring back the wing tip design of the Galaxy Buds Plus.

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