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• US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warns that China's big industrial-production push could destabilize the global economy.
• China's growing clean energy industry has oversupplied markets with cheap solar panels and EVs, she said in prepared comments that will be delivered on Wednesday.
• "It is

Google plans to shake up its smartphone strategy in 2024 by releasing three different models of the upcoming Pixel 9. That’s according to 91mobiles, with the site now claiming that the renders published earlier this year (created by OnLeaks) were in fact of the Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro “XL” — and not the regular Pixel 9, which it’s sharing for

When you hit your 20-somethings, nobody tells you how to adult. So now, four months away from the end of my lease, I need to figure out how to move across the country for the first time by myself. I could ask my parents, but where's the fun in that — I am a big boy after all. This means obviously, as a reporter for an esteemed tech outlet, the solution is artificial intelligence.

I mean why not

Around the release of ChatGPT in 2022, AI became the buzzword du jour for tech investors and startups, so it's only natural that in our tech-saturated consumer world, AI would become a buzzword in home electronics and appliances just a short time later. And boy is it ever a buzzword. If you're shopping for an appliance with "AI" shoehorned into its specs, someone will sell you something. 

But you

In a very telling interview at Davos earlier this year, Bill Gates spelled out who AI is meant to help: "It is so dramatic how it improves white collar productivity. And later, with the robotics — not yet — but eventually, blue collar productivity," Gates told Bloomberg. AI that can make you a hundred times faster at writing emails? Your wish is Big Tech's command. AI that can build an entire car

• At least 12 Palestinians drowned trying to reach aid off Gaza's coast, local paramedics said.
• Footage shows hungry Palestinians rushing toward the airdropped aid that had landed in the sea.
• Hamas called for an end to airdrops and the reopening of land crossing for humanitarian aid.

At least 12

After Canva’s acquisition of Affinity design software sparked concern regarding the future of its one-time purchase pricing model, both companies are now promising that users won’t be forced into subscribing to the service — ever.

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• Kylie Adamec moved to Portugal in 2022 after struggling to get her career off the ground in the US.
• Once she started working for herself, she couldn't afford cities like Chicago or New York City.
• She took a chance on herself and moved to Portugal and it opened her eyes to new possibilities.

This as-told-to essay is

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• North Korea censored a broadcast featuring the English gardening TV host Alan Titchmarsh.
• It blurred out his legs in an episode where he was wearing jeans.
• North Korea regards jeans as a symbol of Western imperialism and tries to obscure them in media.

North Korea censored

A new study finds that Bitcoin mining paired with green hydrogen could help speed up a transition to clean energy — an eyebrow-raising claim, considering strong evidence that the cryptocurrency is a big polluter.

To avoid any misconceptions

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and its sequel both touched on how difficult it tends to be for superheroes to juggle all of their various responsibilities. But Sony’s new short film, The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story, from director Jarelle Dampier and writer Khaila Amazan digs a bit deeper into Miles Morales’ head to emphasize why it’s important for people to share their