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• The 30-year fixed mortgage rate spiked to 6.87% in the last week, the highest level in two months. 
• Elevated borrowing costs for prospective buyers sent mortgage applications lower. 
• A hot inflation report for January is likely to keep borrowing costs elevated as the Fed stays hawkish. 

Mortgage rates surged to a two-month high in the last

• GOP members narrowly voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday.
• The impeachment happened a week after the Senate's bipartisan border

I never played the original Mario vs. Donkey Kong, which came out in 2004 for the Game Boy Advance.  So I brought no nostalgia or past experience to the new version coming out this week, which feels thoroughly modern in all ways except the gameplay. Mario is limited — he can’t run quickly, he doesn’t jump very high, you lose a life with a single mistake. Coming from the brand-new Super Mario Bros

When I was a kid, I was given a Virtual Boy — Nintendo’s very ‘90s predecessor to the VR headsets we know today — and I loved it. Since then, I’ve been obsessed with adding new technology to my gaming experience including a 3D projector for movies and gaming, saving up for my first HTC Vive headset, and even tiptoeing into the Metaverse. 

When I started seeing videos of the XREAL Air glasses

• A 1,000-year-old cemetery discovered near Kyiv, Ukraine, is presumed to have a pagan history.
• Researchers found some skeletons with buckets on their feet and elaborate rings around their necks.
• The mysterious burial

• Recession odds are below 50%, but a Fed policy mistake could worsen them, Mohamed El-Erian told CNBC.
• If they keep rates longer than necessary, such as cutting after June, the chances of a recession rise.
• Tuesday's CPI data was a wake-up call for investors who have

Retail giant Walmart is reportedly in talks to acquire budget TV maker Vizio, according to The Wall Street Journal. The $2 billion deal would make Vizio a house brand for Walmart and would allow the company to directly compete in the affordable smart TV space currently dominated by Amazon and Roku.

It would also give Walmart access to all of that sweet, sweet customer data collected by Vizio’s

Just shy of two years to the day we learned that it was over, we will finally see Star Trek: Discovery begin its final mission. After years and years of clips, trailers, and teases, Paramount has officially confirmed just when season five will begin streaming.

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Is anyone alive better at being a celebrity than Jennifer Lopez? Whether you know her from Grammy-nominated albums, her barrage of absolutely winsome romantic comedies, her bold turns in sexy comedies like Out of Sight and Hustlers, or even her tabloid-plagued love life, everyone and their mother and their grandmother knows JLo. A multi-hyphenate pop icon, she's forged the persona of a glamour

Researchers at Apple have unveiled Keyframer, a prototype generative AI animation tool that enables users to add motion to 2D images by describing how they should be animated.

In a research paper published on February 8th, Apple said that large language

It’s Valentine’s Day and digital romances are blossoming. Across the world, lonely hearts are opening up to virtual lovers. But their secrets aren’t as safe as they may seem. According to a new analysis by Mozilla, AI girlfriends harvest reams of private and intimate data. This information can then be shared with marketers, advertisers, and data brokers. It’s also vulnerable to leaks. The research

The dinner plate of the future might include some beefy rice. No, not beef and rice. Beef rice. In a new study, researchers in Korea say they’ve created rice infused with muscle and fat cells from cows. The hybrid grain purportedly contains more protein and fat than typical rice, and the team argues that it should be…

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