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Mortgage rates have inched down slightly compared to last week. After first spiking above 7% earlier this month, 30-year mortgage rates are back down and hovering just under 7%.

But rates

I thought I had malware on my main Windows 11 machine this weekend. There I was minding my own business in Chrome before tabbing back to a game and wham a pop-up appeared asking me to switch my default search engine to Microsoft Bing in Chrome. Stunningly, Microsoft now thinks it’s ok to shove a pop-up in my face above my apps and games just because

It’s been years and years since the bleeding edge of the smartphone world was truly exciting. The industry may want us to salivate over its latest 5G, 108-megapixel, folding-screen masterpiece, but my mouth remains bone dry. To me, it’s because the ceiling of what’s possible hasn’t risen much in the last four or five years, but the floor has maintained its slow creep northward. On paper, the just

The Fairphone 5 is the latest sustainably produced and repairable handset from Dutch smartphone company Fairphone. Like its previous devices, the Fairphone 5 is made with ethically sourced materials by workers who are given a living wage bonus and is designed to be easy to repair with a

• China and Russia have tried to fuel the dedollarization movement over the past year.
• But the buck is likely to remain the dominant currency in international trade, according to India's oil and gas minister.
• It’s “not so easy” to displace the greenback, Hardeep Singh Puri told CNBC.

The US dollar

• Short-term rentals were in high demand this summer, despite market headwinds.
•  Insider spoke to Airbnb hosts about what guest behavior they struggle with the most.
• They shared their experiences of petty complaints, 2 a.m. requests, and theft.

As summer vacations come to an end, over 4 million Airbnb hosts around the world are winding down after their

• J.M. Smucker has an RTO policy that requires workers to be on-site only during 22 "core" weeks.
• During these weeks, the company's campus in Orrville, Ohio, is between 70-80% full, the WSJ reports.
• The Smucker model appears to be a hit with workers, who can live