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Even NASA is not immune to layoffs. The agency says it's cutting around 530 employees from its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California amid budget uncertainty. That's eight percent of the facility's workforce. JPL is laying off about 40 contractors too, just weeks after imposing a hiring freeze and canning 100 other contractors. Workers are being informed of their fates today.

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• Maryland Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks stressed the importance of "first chances" in boosting societal outcomes. 
• "There is no economic growth without us investing in humans," Alsobrooks told BI in an interview.
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X hit the number one slot among free apps on Apple’s App Store Wednesday, just as another celebrity image scandal was going viral on its platform.

The hashtag “drakevideo” was trending as of Wednesday in the US, after a video that users speculated to be the rapper Drake half nude and engaged in a sexual act spread across the service.

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A driverless Waymo vehicle struck a cyclist in San Francisco, causing minor injuries. It was the latest incident in the city at a time when tensions around autonomous vehicles are particularly high after a driverless Cruise vehicle injured a pedestrian.

The incident, which was first reported by Reuters, occurred at 3:02PM on

• Microsoft posted its Super Bowl ad for Copilot, its AI assistant, with no mention of the new Bing. 
• It's a sign that Microsoft is shifting its AI priorities towards its ChatGPT rival. 
• Despite low usage, Microsoft doesn't see its AI search tool as a failure, an exec told The Verge. 

Microsoft's appears to be focusing its

• Lyft says it will start guaranteeing drivers earn 70% of their riders' payments each week.
• The company also said it would provide drivers more insight into how their pay is calculated.
• Many ride-hailing drivers have complained about declining pay and a

The new sports streaming service from broadcast behemoths ESPN, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Fox could cost between $45 and $50, according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke withCNBC.

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The Biden administration recently announced that it would be requiring large cryptocurrency mining operations to report electricity usage, via a press release from The Energy Information Administration. This follows concerns that the industry could pose a threat to the nation’s electricity grids and hasten the impacts of climate change.

To that end, the EIA has targeted 137 “identified commercial

• In 2023, Texas welcomed 473,000 new residents, the most of all 50 states.
• The state's recent growth can be largely attributed to communities of color.
• People of color who moved to Texas said they were attracted by jobs and more-affordable homes.

When Jasmine Cambridge moved from Atlanta to Austin, she was thrilled

• It turns out that Americans under 40 did pretty well during the pandemic-era.
• A new analysis from Liberty Street Economics finds younger Americans saw their net worths swell.
• That might be because their new pandemic stimulus let them invest more. 

It turns out that the pandemic was a boon for America's youngest workers.

A new analysis from the Liberty Street Economics blog

A harrowing story of orcas trapped in an icy prison off the coast of Japan has come to a happy ending. The dozen or so whales were spotted earlier this week near the island of Hokkaido, appearing to be enclosed by ice with no available way to help them. On Wednesday, however, officials reported that the orcas managed…

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