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• Economists are the most critical of the Fed's tight policy they've been in 13 years, an NABE survey shows.
• 21% of economists polled think the Fed's policy is "too restrictive" — up from 14% in March and August last year, and the most since 2011.
• That scrutiny comes as the Fed recently signaled that rate cuts

Lisa Frankenstein writer Diablo Cody and director Zelda Williams join us to play the Newlywed game.

Many of us have been doing the remote and hybrid thing for a few years now, right? Maybe it’s time to give our hard-working home offices the career bumps they deserve.

This roundup of laptops, webcams, and other essentials from Lenovo will help you dial in your overworked WFH situation and take it to the next level. Many of these picks also work overtime as gaming rigs and streaming gear, so get

As the world electrifies, the race is on to build better batteries that take you further, charge faster, are safer, and more sustainable.  Dutch startup LionVolt is developing 3D solid-state batteries that it says ticks all the above — and it’s just raised €15mn to scale up production. LionVolt — a spinout from TNO’s Holst Centre in Eindhoven, the Netherlands — is working on solid-state batteries

The Biden campaign has launched a TikTok account in a visible effort to reach younger voters.

In the President's first video, posted last night at the time of the Super Bowl, he answered questions like "Jason Kelce or Travis Kelce", "games or commercials", and "Trump or Biden". You can guess his answer to that last one. The video, which garnered 4.2 million views, was captioned simply: "lol hey

I was recently sitting in a hot tub with a friend — a glaciologist who studies how quickly the southern ice is sliding into the sea — when she mentioned that she had recently planned her honeymoon using ChatGPT. Our fellow bathers burst into laughter. “You’d done it, too?” This, apparently, is the present state of get-togethers among friends in

AI, once an ambiguous science fiction trope, has become an ambiguous business buzzword, as every technology product races to implement what Silicon Valley thinks is the greatest innovation since the internet. But lost in the conversation are stories about the people building it and using it. If large language models and automated systems will, indeed, upend labor and

The Mini is a bite-sized version of The New York Times' revered daily crossword. While the crossword is a lengthier experience that requires both knowledge and patience to complete, The Mini is an entirely different vibe.

With only a handful of clues to answer, the daily puzzle doubles as a speed-running test for many who play it.

So, when a tricky clue disrupts a player's flow, it can be

• UK aircraft carriers failed twice in a row to play their part in NATO exercises.
• First HMS Queen Elizabeth broke down, then its replacement also didn't launch as scheduled.
• It has put the

• The IDF claimed to have found a Hamas nerve center directly underneath the UNRWA HQ in Gaza.
• The UNRWA's chief said the agency was unaware of what was happening beneath its compound.
• Israel's Ambassador to the UN disputed this, calling on the UNRWA chief to

President Joe Biden has a message for the right-wing conspiracy theorists who were convinced he was rigging the Super Bowl in favor of Taylor Swift’s boyfriend: The plan went off without a hitch.

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Good morning! What a game. Congrats to the Chiefs fans and Swifties. Speaking of Taylor, she wasn't the only celeb at the game. Here are some other high-profile attendees. 

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