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• A giant "city killer" asteroid will safely shoot past Earth today traveling at 41,000 mph.
• Its closest approach to Earth will be 1.77 million miles, over seven times the distance to the moon.
• You can't see it with the naked eye, but you can watch the event live

For its first phones of 2024, Samsung focused so much on its “Galaxy AI” features that, physically, the Galaxy S24 series doesn’t appear to be much different than the S23. Once again, the company's phones aren’t different enough to justify upgrading from their predecessors, especially knowing that the S23 series, Z Fold 5, Z Flip 5 and Tab S9 will be getting at least some of these AI features late

You want your lawyer to be on your side. The more passionate they are, the better. If they’re so passionate they can’t control their emotions, though, you might be in trouble. That’s exactly what happened to Elon Musk in a recent court case. Todd Maron, former General Counsel for Tesla and the billionaire’s former…

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For such an influential game, Persona 3 has a bit of a complicated release history. It first launched on the PS2 in 2006 and ushered in a whole new era for the franchise, mashing together an RPG with a life sim, tasking players with balancing dungeon crawling with the day to day of a normal high school student. That release was followed by a special edition —

• Sustainable aviation fuel is an alternative to fossil-based jet fuel made from refining used cooking oil and waste animal fats.
• Neste, a Finland-based renewable fuels company, has its largest refinery for SAF production in Singapore.
• Neste's vice president explains how this innovation will impact aviation and climate change.
• This article is part of our "Business for Good" series

• Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly watches Fox News.
• She reportedly tunes in to "The Five" and stresses about negative coverage.
• "It got in her head and caused high anxiety," said one former aide.

Vice President Kamala Harris's media diet includes Fox News, according to Axios.

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• Mark Zuckerberg's Meta declared its first dividend and another $50 billion in approved buybacks.
• The social-media giant may just be a cash cow, but it risks signaling its growth is slowing.
• Warren Buffett has flagged the downsides to paying a dividend, and railed against bad buybacks.

Meta announced its first dividend and another $50 billion of authorized stock buybacks

• When I applied to Yale and got in, I thought the hard part was behind me.
• But on campus, there was even more competition to get into the top clubs, organizations, and classes.
• The competitive nature of college admissions breeds more competition on Ivy campuses.

Applying to college in 2017 was one of the most stressful

• Tesla settled a lawsuit alleging it mishandled hazardous waste in California.
• District attorneys alleged Elon Musk's company disposed of waste at the wrong trash sites.
• Tesla previously said it's addressing its waste management programs.

Tesla is set to pay $1.5 million to settle a

• Malaysia's new king was appointed on Wednesday as part of the country's rotating monarchy. 
• The king and his family are worth an estimated $5.7 billion, Bloomberg reported.
• He spends his wealth on luxury cars, private jets, and Singapore real-estate.

Malaysia has a new billionaire king who spends his fortune on vintage cars

SAVE $50: As of Feb. 2, the Razer BlackShark V2 Pro is on sale for $129.99 at Best Buy, down from $179.99. That's a discount of 27%. It's our favorite gaming headset that we've ever tested, so get one at a discount while you can.

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Gary Bowser loves video games, but Nintendo turned him into a villain. No, not just because he shares a name with Bowser, the actual villain of the Mario franchise. The human Bowser helped mod Nintendo’s gaming consoles so people could play free, pirated versions of its video games. Then one day, he woke up with three…

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