A perfect storm of food-stamp cuts and low tax refunds is looming — and discount chains like Dollar General and Big Lots could feel the pain

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A shopper passes through the bread aisle of a Big Lots store.

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Google, Meta, and Snap would be the biggest winners if TikTok is banned, with shares set to rise on billions in new ad revenue, CFRA says

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US lawmakers may ban TikTok. Senator Mark Warner speaks during the news conference to introduce the Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information Communications Technology Act, or RESTRICT Act, in the Capitol on Tuesday, March 7, 2023. . Warner is flanked from left by Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., Sen. John Thune, R-S. Dak., Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc., Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., and Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah.

After losing billions of dollars on the metaverse, Mark Zuckerberg's launching a 'top-level' team at Meta to develop AI products for WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram

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After losing billions of dollars on the metaverse, Mark Zuckerberg's launching a 'top-level' team at Meta to develop AI products for WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram.

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Snapchat Hops on AI Bandwagon

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The large language model AI bandwagon is getting awfully full lately. Now Snap, the company that owns Snapchat, announced Monday it’s shoving an AI into its app so that users who are really bored talking with friends and real humans can instead have a friendly conversation with a somewhat unhinged digital tool.

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The Best Apps and Tools For Enhancing Your Windows Taskbar

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The taskbar is at the center of everything you do on Microsoft’s operating system—launching and closing apps, switching between windows, personalizing the desktop—and has been around in some form since Windows 1.0. You’re definitely familiar with it. What you might not be familiar with is that you can actually…

Meet a Gen Xer forced to cut $135 from her monthly grocery budget as emergency food stamps suddenly end in March: 'We don't know how we're going to make it'

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Millions of Americans are about to be forced to cut up to $258 a month out of their grocery budgets as emergency food stamps suddenly end in March

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Google is facing its first real competition in search

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Snap plunges 11% on ugly earnings and analyst warnings that 'issues are intensifying' at the social media company

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Snapchat announced on Monday it plans on introducing mid-roll ads in select Snap Stars' public stories.

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The Disney100 Begins With Dazzling Cinematic Experiences at Disneyland

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It’s perfectly fitting that Mickey Mouse, the icon Walt Disney credits for the start of the Walt Disney Animation studios, is finally getting a ride at Disneyland just in time for Disney’s 100th anniversary.

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