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Feb 04 2025ENTERTAINMENT

A Star Takes the Spotlight: Cannes Film Festival’s New Leader

A prominent French actress, Juliette Binoche, is stepping into a new role. She's taking over as jury president for the 78th Cannes Film Festival. This isn't just any festival; it's the world's most prestigious one. This year, Cannes is showcasing leadership by a woman for the second time in a row.

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Feb 04 2025FINANCE

Tariff Talk: Stock Market Swings and Sell-Offs

The markets simmer down but not out of the woods. Recent instability in the markets could have been caused by many factors but today the hot topic is the uncertainty that the tariff battle is causing. Tariff tit for tat. Some international retailers now playing hot potato. The shenanigan

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Feb 04 2025FINANCE

Healthy Snack Moves for PepsiCo

Getting healthier to you may sound like something of a chore. Here's a different take on this idea: Let's talk about how some companies, like PepsiCo, are navigating the rising tide of health-conscious consumers and inflation at the same time. One big area to get heads around is the decrea

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Feb 04 2025TECHNOLOGY

Keeping Locked: Controlling Your Phone Is No Longer Tied Down

Last year, Google rolled out Gemini, an assistant replacing Google Assistant for Android users which pushed to replace Google Assistant. Many people did not find Gemini as capable initially; it demanded users to unlock their phones to do anything. Time has passed, and Gemini has gotten bigg

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Feb 04 2025POLITICS

Meet the Trans Faces of Texas

While Governor Greg Abbott was speaking on TV, something else was happening. A group supporting LGBTQ rights showed some ads on TV. These ads had three transgender people being themselves. The ads were made by GLAAD and Ground Media. These guys wanted to show people that being transgender is no

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Feb 04 2025SCIENCE

Back to the Basics: Jonas Salk, Distant Discovery and China's Polio Vaccine

Vaccines come from different places and times, even if not made in the USA. In the 1980s someone was brewing up a new vaccine in China. A vaccine to fight polio. It was called the Sabin strains-derived inactivated polio vaccine (sIPV). This vaccine is part of the polio research legacy, so it is

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Feb 04 2025TECHNOLOGY

LinkedIn: Making Video a Big Deal

LinkedIn is stepping up its video game, taking a cue from the likes of TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. Video content is becoming a bigger deal on LinkedIn. The professional networking site, owned by a tech company, is seeing a surge in video uploads—36% more than last year. That's a lot! It's clear

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Feb 04 2025CRYPTO

Kotaku's Crypto Chaos: A Social Media Muddle

Imagine waking up to a sudden flood of weird crypto ads on your favorite gaming news site's social media. That's what happened to Kotaku's followers on X. The X page looked like a hacker had thrown a party of cryptocurrency promotions, replacing all the usual posts about gaming news. At fir

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Feb 04 2025ENVIRONMENT

Man's Best Friend's Impact on Human Society

It's good to think about how controlling dog numbers can help the economy and well-being of both humans and dogs. As well as trying to lessen the problem of stray dogs, successfully ensuring the wellbeing of dogs and humans so they can get along is a challenge that is often overlooked. When planning

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Feb 04 2025SCIENCE

Predicting Molecules: Zou and MDockPP's Journey

CAPRI challenges are a way for teams to prove their skills in predicting how biomolecules will work together without any prior knowledge. This story looks at two teams, humans lead by Zou and a server group run by MDockPP, as they took on 9 rounds of these CAPRI challenges known as 47-55. One of th

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