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• Luxury brands seek new retail storefronts in a bet that shoppers prefer in-store experiences.
• The Journal reported Kering, which owns Gucci and Saint Laurent, spent $1.4 billion on a building in Milan.
• E-commerce surged during the pandemic, but luxury brands thrive in hands-on environments.

While vacancies in retail real estate have

• Women's college basketball popularity is up, but their revenue still lags behind the men's teams.
• There is also a disparity in how much the women's teams competing in this year's Final Four earn
• Increased viewership and NIL deals are expected to narrow the revenue gap.

The popularity of women's college

• Tech giants have been scrambling to find new data sources to train their AI systems.
• Meta considered several ways to harvest data, including buying Simon & Schuster, the Times reported.
• It also considered dealing with lawsuits instead of negotiating licensing deals, the Times wrote.

Tech giants are scrambling to find new data sources to fuel the AI arms race.

And at

Google is working on a feature that is so simple and so useful that I’m shocked it hasn’t been part of our lives for a decade: a way to look up a phone number that just called you, right from your recent calls screen. X user AssembleDebug tipped off PiunikaWeb to a new “Lookup” button in the beta version of the Google Phone app that, when tapped

Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal reported that AI companies were running into a wall when it comes to gathering high-quality training data. Today, The New York Times detailed some of the ways companies have dealt with this. Unsurprisingly, it involves doing things that fall into the hazy gray area of AI

• As President Biden looks to November, seniors could play a decisive role in his reelection bid.
• Biden has maintained a relatively stable share of support among voters aged 65 and older.
• This support could give him an important electoral lift in an array of key swing states.

With President Joe Biden facing a

• The federal government is paying attention to the growth of in-game video game currencies.
• Financial services offer customer protections, but gaming services adopt a 'buyer beware' approach.
• The rise in gaming assets' value has led to more hacking attempts, account theft, and

After a few legal setbacks from Warner Bros., The People’s Joker has made its way to theaters this weekend in New York. The parody film sees director/writer Vera Drew as the Harlequin, a trans woman trying to make it in comedy after recently moving into a small town. With a number of other Batman villains also getting…

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• Home insurance companies are using drone footage to find reasons to drop customers.
• They have drones, manned planes, and surveillance balloons at their disposal.
• However, the images can be misleading or outdated, leading to unjust policy cancellations.

Here's another reason to hate drones.

Insurance companies across the nation

Geek Squad agents have been flooding Reddit with images of their badges and posts about “going sleeper” after the company reportedly conducted mass layoffs this week. A former employee who spoke to 404 Media said they were sent an email notifying them to work from home on Wednesday and were then called individually to be told the news about their jobs. Some, per 404 Media’s sources and numerous

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire has a lot of characters it’s juggling, and one of the most important wasn’t even actually in the film’s marketing. That would be Melody, played by Gossip Girl’s Emily Alyn Lind, a 16-year-old who quickly strikes up a friendship with McKenna Grace’s Phoebe Spengler. The twist? She’s a ghost…

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