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• The implosion of New York Community Bancorp highlights an unusual risk for banks: growing too fast.
• New York Community Bancorp's 64% stock crash was in part caused by the increased regulatory scrutiny it received after crossing $100 billion in assets.
• "The irony is that if it wasn't for the regional banking crisis, New York Community Bancorp may never have triggered the $100

T-Mobile wants you to see it as more than a wireless company, so it’s flattering its customers with status. The company is launching a new program called Magenta Status, which includes a set of new perks for subscribers as well as the benefits already offered by T-Mobile Tuesdays. The

The production pipeline for mainstream video games has always been hectic. The AAA factory is powered by rigid marketing plans and periods of soul-sucking crunch, and while this process has resulted in incredible games over the years, it's also been detrimental to developers' mental health and long-term job stability. Layoffs have long been baked into the video game industry, but in recent months

• Hundreds of private jets are expected to flood Las Vegas this weekend for Super Bowl LVIII.
• Parking space is limited to only about 500 spots across four Vegas-area airports.
• Eyes are on Taylor Swift's potential travel to the game after her string of concerts in Tokyo this week.

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• Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi confirmed "the Taylor Swift effect" in a recent interview.
• Khosrowshahi said that local Uber teams plan specifically for her when she comes to town. 
• Uber joins companies that have weighed in on Taylor Swift's economic impact.

Yes, "the Taylor Swift effect" is real.

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• Humans have left 227,000 kilos (over 500,000 pounds) of garbage on the moon. 
• Some scientists say we've entered the "lunar Anthropocene," an epoch defined by our impact on the moon.
• They warn that humanity should consider our potential negative impacts on the moon's surface.

Humans have always looked at the sky, using the stars

After months of frustration, NASA finally got the Bennu asteroid sample container open in January, revealing the large amounts of asteroid scooped up by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Now, a top member of the mission says the distant hunk of space rock may be a planetesimal—a planet’s building block—that once belonged to…

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With Valentine's Day coming up, there's no better time to invest in pleasure. From Feb. 7 through Feb. 15, sex toy brand Ava is offering 20% off its entire Amazon storefront.

One year after fully embracing generative AI chatbots, Microsoft is giving Copilot a fresh lick of paint. Copilot now has a more streamlined design on the web and in its mobile apps. The company says there's a cleaner look and feel for the chatbot's responses, while Copilot will display a carousel of suggested prompts to highlight what it can do.

The redesign comes just ahead of the Super Bowl

Sports documentaries are becoming a popular genre among streamers, from Netflix to Apple TV Plus.

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A few months back, I was walking around DesignerCon and something impossible caught my eye. It was a Star Wars Black Series figure, but something was off. This looked different. It looked, dare I say, too good. The face looked so much better than usual. The outfit somehow more detailed and interesting. Then I stepped…

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Behold the volcano-blanketed moon, Io.

After swooping by Jupiter's tortured moon on Feb. 3, NASA's Juno spacecraft beamed back some of the closest-ever images of this unique world. The agency's deep space probe came within just 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) of Io, following a similar pass just over a month ago. Planetary scientists hope these much-anticipated flybys will answer fundamental questions