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Kelsey Lam said the suburbs feel secluded and less social than the city.
  • Kelsey Lam is a zillennial who left Philadelphia to live in the suburbs in 2021.
  • She feels the suburbs don't cater to her age group as much as cities do.
  • However, she plans to stay for now, saying she'd prefer to raise a family in the suburbs.

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Electric heat pumps are energy efficient and don't burn fossil fuels.
  • States are expected to dole out billions of dollars in rebates later this year for heat pumps.
  • There's already a 30% tax credit for homeowners who make energy-efficiency upgrades.
  • Nine states pledged to boost heat pump sales to 65% of the heating and cooling market by 2030. 

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Sometimes epic television means kingdoms at war, monarchs overthrown, ancient prophecies revealed. But sometimes it means something more akin to our own lives, to everyday, awkward, practical, long-game romances, elevated through cinematic splendour and tracked over decades. 

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The NFL holds a unique space in Americans' hearts and minds, even as the media landscape has fractured into smaller and smaller niches.

The NFL is America's favorite TV show. At a moment when people are tuning out of a lot of what's on broadcast and cable, the league is the one entity that manages to keep Americans glued to their screens. In an age of splintering tastes, football is the


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Like many of us, Alisha Fredriksson is terrified about climate change. But unlike many of us, she’s rolling up her sleeves and doing something about it.   Two years ago the young entrepreneur co-founded Seabound — a London-based startup on a mission to decarbonise the shipping industry.  Unlike other modes of transport like cars or buses, big shipping companies have few technologies at their



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Members of the Climbing Kilimanjaro team summiting Kilimanjaro.
  • Justin Stephen Mtui has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro over 300 times as a porter and guide.
  • He started his tour company Climbing Kilimanjaro in 2008 to improve the treatment of porters.
  • Mtui said even fit, healthy tourists are often unprepared for how difficult the hike can be.

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A customer pays for their food at a Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurant on April 26, 2023 in Austin, Texas.
Minimum wages for California fast-food workers will increase to $20 an hour in April.
  • Chipotle customers in California should brace themselves for higher menu prices this year.
  • Chipotle's CFO said it needed "significant" price increases to offset a new wage law.
  • The law will put fast-food workers' wages up to $20 an hour from April.

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A key feature of Apple's Vision Pro VR, er, spatial computing headset is Personas that that lets people see a digital version of themselves during calls, Zoom meetings, etc. At launch, they looked a bit creepy, but Apple has improved them considerably in the latest release, according to posts on X spotted by MacRumors. They're now more realistic, so users look less like impressionist paintings and



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Nick Burns moved to Singapore in early 2020 and plans to stay.
  • Nick Burns made a horizontal move at his company and transferred from San Francisco to Singapore.
  • The COVID-19 guidelines were strict when he first moved, but he loves his new home.
  • Despite missing Mexican food and his car, he plans to stay in Singapore during his earning years.

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Walmart Spark drivers say pay has declined from highs early in the pandemic.
  • Walmart offered some Spark drivers as little as 52 cents to deliver orders to customers' homes. 
  • That doesn't even cover the cost of gas for independent contractors, one told Business Insider.
  • Walmart said that the offers were "a temporary issue" that it has since corrected.

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TikTok, an app I used to spend at least 45 minutes scrolling through before bed. Now it's changed — for the worse.
  • My beloved TikTok, the app I used to spend endless hours delighted by, has changed. 
  • The emphasis on shopping and TikTok Shop ads has really bummed me out.
  • There's something else off – there's a sameness, and less of the surprising whimsy that made it fun.

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NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured new images of Jupiter’s moon Io during its latest flyby, coming within an eerily close distance of the most volcanically active world in the solar system for a second time in less than two months. The close encounter also shows what appears to be a pair of plumes erupting from the…

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