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• Billionaire Harlan Crow bought Clarence Thomas' mom's house — which the justice partly owned — in 2014.
• The sale was undisclosed, raising questions about the ethics of billionaires secretly doing business with Supreme Court justices.
• Thomas' lawyers now say the secret deal happened in part because of the terrible conditions of the neighborhood.

   

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• Entry-level software engineers can make over $170,000 in total compensation at Meta and Google, Blind found.
• Blind reported that Meta and Google have higher pay for entry-level engineers than Apple and Amazon do.
• The data is based on Blind users' self-reported compensation between January 2022 and

The Eris coronavirus variant has been spreading at an increasing rate, and scientists are noticing a pattern during the warmer months. Here's what we know about the variants spreading in the US this summer.

Every now and then, a device comes along and challenges you to consider the viability of an entirely new product category. That’s precisely what Lenovo is doing with the Yoga Book 9i. By replacing the traditional physical keyboard with a second display, the company is rethinking what a laptop can do. In tight confines, you can rely on a virtual keyboard or an included magnetic alternative. But

Few filmmakers could ever, or would ever, release their new film without any promotion. But few filmmakers are Hayao Miyazaki who released his latest film, The Boy and the Heron, in Japan this summer without so much as a still image, let alone a trailer. It’s coming to theaters in the U.S. later this year and now a…

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• The Transportation Security Administration has warned of a busy holiday weekend heading into Labor Day. 
• The agency said 14 million people are expected to fly between Friday and Wednesday. 
• The Department of

• The mantra in real estate has long been "location, location, location," but that may be changing.
• A home's neighborhood is no longer the top priority for house hunters, a Fannie Mae survey found.
• Instead, affordability is now the biggest consideration, as

• Around 70 new dinosaur tracks have been revealed in a dried-up riverbed in Texas.
• Intense drought conditions have caused the river to dry up two years in a row.
• The giant tracks are thought to belong to the Acrocanthosaurus and the Sauroposeidon. 

A series of tracks thought to belong to dinosaurs that roamed the earth

Labor Day weekend isn't known as an especially fruitful time for tech deals, but we've found a few notable discounts on good gear ahead of the holiday anyway. Both the 13- and 15-inch versions of Apple's M2 MacBook Air are down to all-time lows, for one, as are Hisense's well-reviewed U6K and U8K TVs. The new Beats Studio Buds + are $40 off, while Solo Stove is running a sale on its popular