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Saba Capital founder Boaz Weinstein thinks there's money to be made in closed-end funds, which are ignored by Wall Street.
  • Boaz Weinstein, Bill Ackman, and Marc Lasry have submitted a joint offer for Sculptor Capital, the WSJ reported.
  • The billionaire investors have made the bid at over $12 per share, according to the report.
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A man walks past an unexploded tail section of a 300mm rocket which appear to contained cluster bombs, fired at eastern Ukraine in April 2022.
  • Ukraine's use of US cluster bombs is deterring Russian attacks, The Washington Post reported. 
  • The US decision to provide Ukraine with the weapon was controversial. 
  • The weapons disperse bombs and shrapnel over a wide



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Robotaxi services from Cruise and Waymo have been allowed to operate across the whole of San Francisco.
  • San Francisco is getting ready to tell robotaxi operators: not so fast.
  • Officials say they will appeal a decision allowing robotaxis to operate across the whole city.
  • A decision to greenlight citywide services has proven to be controversial amid accidents.

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Almost two years after its initial announcement in October 2021, Samsung says the first game to support the HDR10 Plus Gaming standard is nearing release. That game is The First Descendant, a free-to-play third-person shooter from Nexon which is running an open beta starting September 19th.

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Elon Musk says the service formerly known as Twitter is getting rid of the option to block other users, except in DMs. There, you’ll still be able to block unsolicited messages from anyone sending malicious, offensive missives, which is for some, the majority of their DMs.

But Musk said it "makes no sense" to block other users instead of muting them. Outside DMs, the mute option will still be



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Lawrence Summers, then Director of President Barack Obama's National Economic Council, participates in a question-and-answer session during a luncheon with the Economic Club of Washington at the J.W. Marriott April 9, 2009 in Washington, DC.
  • China's economy is finally hitting a wall after years of optimism about the nation's future, Larry Summers said. 
  • According to

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Royal Saudi Air Force F-15Cs fly with US Air Force F-15Cs in June 2019.
  • Saudi Arabia is reportedly considering a large number of French-made Dassault Rafale fighter jets.
  • Such a purchase would be a break from Saudi Arabia's long history of buying US and British jets.
  • If Riyadh is shopping around, it suggests it doesn't think its traditional partners will be as reliable



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Apple Shortcuts have just become a bit more useful to Tesla owners.

In the latest version (4.24.0) of its mobile app for iOS, Tesla rolled out support for Apple Shortcuts. A quick memory refresher: Shortcuts is a free app that comes with the iPhone and iPad, allowing you to set up time-saving settings for various actions (or even roll up several actions into one shortcut). You can access them with



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Last year, a friend came to me with a strange tech problem. “The algorithm is screwing me over,” he said, peering over a drink at a bar in Manhattan’s East Village. Anthony, a 31-year old engineer who asked to withhold his real name, had been on the dating app Hinge for five years. He said he always had a hard time…

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Dr. John Warnock, who co-founded the revolutionary company Adobe, has died aged 82, Adobe announced on Saturday. He is survived by his wife, Marva Warnock, and three children; no cause of death has been released. 

"It is with profound sadness that I share that our beloved co-founder Dr. John Warnock passed away at the age of 82," wrote Adobe Chair and CEO Shantanu Narayen. "John has been widely



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Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard University to start Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975.
  • Microsoft's cofounder Bill Gates lacked motivation when he was at school and was 'lazy' at math. 
  • He admitted in his podcast that he used to think "the less effort you put in, the cooler you were." 
  • The billionaire dropped out of Harvard University to join the computing revolution and



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Jeremy Grantham.
  • Jeremy Grantham compared the post-pandemic boom in stocks to the dot-com bubble.
  • He expects stocks to fall and a recession to hit as hot air escapes the overheated market.
  • The GMO cofounder doubts AI buzz can offset the impact of higher interest rates and tech woes.

Jeremy Grantham has compared the post-pandemic market mania to the heydays of the dot-com