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“Do you believe in the multiverse?” our petite and cheerful guide Angelina asked me when I told her what I do for a living, while navigating the rambunctious street’s of Hanoi’s Old Quarter. It was not a conversation I was expecting to have on a vegan street food tour in Vietnam, but as Angelina studies AI and VR (and as we are both avid Marvel fans), our chat took a turn down a dimensional rabbit



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Sam Bankman-Fried.
Sam Bankman-Fried.

Hi! We've got a new photo of a supermassive black hole that also provides some clues about one of the most mysterious parts of our galaxy.

In today's big story, disgraced crypto executive Sam Bankman-Fried finds out how long he's going



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Recession outlook
  • The Fed's interest rate forecasts signal an imminent recession, economist David Rosenberg says.
  • In previous soft landings, the Fed usually cut rates by 75 basis points, but they're forecasting a 150 basis-point reduction by 2025.
  • Stock investors are eagerly awaiting the central bank's pivot to looser monetary policy. 

The Federal Reserve's interest rate forecasts are


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buying a home
  • US income earners must make $75,849 to afford a starter home, Redfin reported.
  • That's an 87% jump from the how much a buyer needed to earn pre-COVID, in 2020.
  • Affordability is starting to improve, as mortgage rates are slowly sliding this year.

US starter homes are now roughly half as affordable as in 2020, as buyers must now earn nearly twice as much to purchase the typical



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Ashley Kosko and one of her Stanley cups.
Ashley Kosko and one of her Stanley cups.
  • Ashley Kosko, 37, is a huge fan of Stanley cups. She currently owns at least 80 of them.
  • She also bedazzles the cups and sells them online for upwards of $400 each.
  • Kosko said she knows many people don't understand her hobby, but she still loves it.

Owning a single Stanley cup has become the ultimate cool-girl status symbol.

Ashley Kosko has a



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A man in a tiger costume looks angry while holding up a bag of cereal.

A massive cast makes up Netflix's upcoming historical comedy Unfrosted, Jerry Seinfeld's directorial debut about warring cereal rivals in the 1960s.

The trailer above teases Kellogg's and Post going up against each other to try to create the ultimate breakfast pastry, and pretty much everyone we see on screen is a big name. Alongside Seinfeld (who also co-wrote the movie), Melissa McCarthy, Jim



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Ever since Tamagotchi Uni became globally available last summer, it’s felt like a product with a lot of unrealized potential.

Bear in mind, I say this as someone who loves this device and has run it daily since launch. But on top of all the basic activities one would expect at this point from the digital pet toy, the Wi-Fi capable Tamagotchi Uni promised users the “Tamaverse” — a virtual



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Google Pixel 8 owners can have a little on-device AI, as a treat. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge

We did it, y’all. We bullied Google into letting the Pixel 8 run on-device AI. Starting with the next Pixel feature drop, the Pixel 8 will use Gemini Nano for a couple of AI features.

Google announced Gemini Nano as its mobile-optimized large language model in December