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Nov 02 2024BUSINESS

Amazon Workers Push Back on Office Mandate, Want More Data

It seems like Amazon employees aren't too happy with their bosses’ decision to make everyone come back to the office five days a week. Over 500 of them even wrote a letter to one of the top executives, saying they want real data to back up this change, not just vague observations. Until recently, Am

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Nov 02 2024ENTERTAINMENT

Magical Showdown: Agatha's Finale Pulls in Viewers

"Agatha All Along" wrapped up with a bang on Disney+, drawing in a big crowd for its final episodes. The series saw a significant jump in viewers, with 4. 6 million tuning in for Episode 8 and 3. 9 million for Episode 9, just one day after they were released. That's a nice boost compared to the firs

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Nov 02 2024POLITICS

Trump Ally Wants Vaccine Data To Prove They’re Unsafe

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , a prominent Trump supporter, is eyeing federal health data to show that vaccines are unsafe. This was revealed by Howard Lutnick, a co-chair of Donald Trump's transition team, during a recent CNN interview. Lutnick echoed Kennedy's controversial views about vaccines, includin

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Nov 01 2024BUSINESS

Job Numbers Mix-up: Strikes, Storms, and What's Really Going On

October's job numbers release before the election is raising some eyebrows. We've seen striking aerospace machinists and hotel workers, like 41, 400 new striking workers mostly from Boeing, and voice actors in the video game industry. Boeing's hit hard, planning to cut 17, 000 jobs, or 10% of their

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Nov 01 2024BUSINESS

AI Stocks Take a Hit: Microsoft and Meta's AI Spending Shocks the Market

Thursday was a rough day for tech investors as stocks related to AI took a nosedive. The culprits? Microsoft and Meta, two giants in the tech world, both signaled that they'll need to spend big on AI in the future. This news didn't sit well with investors, who had been hoping for more growth. Micro

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Oct 31 2024ENVIRONMENT

How Weather Data Disappearance Could Hit Wildfires and Food Prices

Imagine a river that vanishes into a hole and reappears elsewhere, like a magic trick but in nature. That's the Popo Agie River in Wyoming. Scientists traced its path using red dye way back in 1983 and found it takes two hours to flow through tiny rock crevasses under the surface. This river is cruc

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Oct 26 2024TECHNOLOGY

AI Searches Stumble into Old Race Debates

You might think that searching for IQ scores of different countries would bring up a mix of results. But recently, AI-powered search engines from Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity have been throwing up some troubling findings. These searches have been dishing out deeply racist and long-debunked rese

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Oct 26 2024TECHNOLOGY

A Researcher's Shocking Discovery: OpenAI's Data Practices

Meet Suchir Balaji, a former employee at OpenAI. He's got some serious concerns about how his old company collects data for AI models like ChatGPT and DALL-E. Balaji claims that OpenAI isn't playing by the rules when it comes to copyright laws. He says OpenAI took data from the internet to train the

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Oct 24 2024POLITICS

Trump and Harris: A Close Race in the South

Who's leading who? That's a tough call in Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina! A recent Marist poll says Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump are tied in these sunny states. In Arizona and North Carolina, Trump's just ahead by a bit, with a 50-49% and 50-48% lead, respectively. B

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Oct 23 2024POLITICS

2024 Election: A Tight Race Like Never Before

Harry Enten, a senior political data reporter at CNN, recently made an exciting discovery while examining polling data for the upcoming 2024 election. He found that the race between Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and Republican candidate Donald Trump is incredibly close. In fact, it might be the c

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