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• Growing hope for an economic soft landing is misplaced, economist Ken Rogoff wrote this week. 
• The Harvard economist sees the runway for the economy in an "earthquake zone" in 2024. 
• The US faces a tough balancing act between controlling debt and inflation, he said. 

There's little reason to be optimistic about a soft-landing, as the economy is set to land in an "earthquake

• Firebrand Rep. Lauren Boebert is flirting with the idea of ousting Speaker Mike Johnson.
• She said on Steve Bannon's podcast she doesn't "want to get there, but we need leadership."
• Boebert previously had a hand ensuring any GOP member can file a motion to vacate the speaker.

Nearly four months after

• Meta and Amazon shares soared Friday.
• The Big Tech giants' gains came after they posted stellar results for the last three months of 2023.
• Apple had a rougher ride, dipping 3% at the opening bell as sales in China disappointed.

Meta Platforms and Amazon added more than a quarter of a trillion dollars to

Oxford PV has built the most efficient solar panel ever made. The solar cell can convert 25% of the sun’s energy it receives into electricity, compared to an industry average of between 15-20%.  The Oxford University spinout credits the breakthrough to its perovskite-on-silicon tandem solar cells. Perovskite, a calcium titanium oxide mineral, is better at absorbing light than the crystalline

Stealing the Vision Pro's thunder, Meta announced on Thursday that the Quest 3 headset will support not one, but two new features the Apple headset boasts.

This comes as Apple Vision Pro headsets officially hit store shelves on Friday.

Meta Quest 3 supports

• Russian military bloggers criticized Russian tactics in Ukraine, a US think tank said. 
• They said Russian troops continue to gather in large groups, enabling drones to target them. 
• Ukraine has used drones to counter Russia's manpower and equipment advantages. 

Russian

• Walmart has spent months testing and rolling out a facial recognition tool to verify its Spark drivers.
• But some say the feature didn't recognize them, leading Walmart to deactivate their accounts.
• Some Spark drivers appear to be using accounts under other peoples' names, Business Insider previously reported.

Last Thursday, Walmart

Microsoft has started internally testing a new custom emoji feature for its Microsoft Teams communications platform. Multiple sources tell The Verge that Microsoft employees learned about the surprise new capability after animated emoji of Pepe the Frog — a meme with a troubled past — started appearing in reactions and messages on early internal versions of

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Happy Groundhog Day! Here's hoping Punxsutawney Phil doesn't disappoint us the way Sephora bummed out some of its employees by giving them a "stale" cookie after hitting $10 billion in revenue.

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Adobe’s Firefly AI, the text-to-image tool behind features like Photoshop’s generative fill, will be available on the Apple Vision Pro as a native app, alongside the company’s popular Lightroom photo editing software already demonstrated during the headset’s

You can grab a pair of the well-reviewed Google Pixel Buds Pro earbuds for $140 via Wellbots. Just enter the code “60ENGDGT” at checkout to get that sweet discount of $60, which is 30 percent off the MSRP. This isn’t the lowest price ever for these earbuds, but it’s close.

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