Samsung debuts its own 'AI-powered' smart recipe app

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As it promised last week, Samsung has launched Food, a "personalized, AI-powered food and recipe" app in eight languages and 104 countries around the world. It draws on the food database of Whisk, an app Samsung acquired a few years back — and resembles a version of Whisk the company revealed last year. Given Samsung's large presence in kitchens with its smart fridges and other appliances, the

Warren Buffett turns 93 today. Here are 6 of the investing icon's best birthday stories.

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Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett talks to reporters while holding an ice cream at a trade show during the company's annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska May 3, 2014.

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  • Investing icon Warren Buffett turned 93 on Wednesday, August 30.
  • The Berkshire Hathaway CEO may be celebrating his Apple bet, charity work, and remarkable career.
  • Here are six of Buffett's best comments and

Vin Fast suffered an $83 billion wipeout after the EV start-up's shares plunged 44% in a single day

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VinFast only expects to produce 50,000 cars this year.

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  • VinFast stock plunged 44% Tuesday, reducing its market value by $83 billion.
  • The EV maker's shares are thinly traded and it expects to sell just 50,000 cars this year.
  • Before Tuesday, VinFast had soared more than 800% in one of the year's best market debuts.

VinFast's stunning stock-market debut hit a brick wall Tuesday after the

4 Big Tech giants have plowed over $1 trillion into stock buybacks in 10 years — more than Tesla or Meta's entire market value

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Apple CEO Tim Cook.

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  • Four Big Tech firms splurged over $1 trillion on stock buybacks in 10 years, S&P Global data shows.
  • Apple spent over $600 billion on its own shares, more than Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta combined.
  • The quartet's outlay on buybacks exceeds the market values of Tesla, Meta, and Berkshire Hathaway.

Four Big Tech companies have plowed a combined $1 trillion

Burger King must face a lawsuit claiming it makes its Whoppers look much larger and meatier on its menus, a judge rules

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The lawsuit claims Burger King changed its images of Whoppers to make its meat content look twice as large.

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  • Burger King has to face a lawsuit claiming its burgers look larger and meatier on its menus, a judge ruled.
  • The lawsuit claims the chain changed its images of Whoppers to make its meat content look twice as large.
  • Burger King, whose motion to dismiss was partly

The Modular Fairphone 5 Is Good, but It's Still No Repairable iPhone

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I love the Fairphone’s ethos. It’s an Android-powered, modular smartphone that you can repair yourself. The company, same name as its product, launched its fifth-generation flagship, the Fairphone 5, and the device is Fairphone’s most polished product yet, with an OLED display, increased water resistance, and a bigger…

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Google totally didn't mean to leak the Pixel 8 Pro on its own website

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Google has published a photo of the Pixel 8 Pro before it has even unveiled the device...on the day Apple announced the iPhone 15 launch event on September 12th. An account on X (formerly Twitter) called Android Setting (via The Verge) has spotted a photo of a person holding a beige-colored phone against their ear on a page in the Google Store. We could no longer see the image on the page, which

Mortgage Interest Rates Today | Rates Down a Bit From Last Week

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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