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Investing
Friday Feature: Roots Academy
Colleen Hroncich Jackie Gallo’s daughter started kindergarten in fall 2019. “She was doing okay, but I could see the ways that…
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Investing
Food Aid Failure in Ethiopia
Chris Edwards and Krit Chanwong The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced it will restart sending food aid…
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Investing
Pick Up Speed on CBDCs, Says IMF
Nicholas Anthony There is no question that governments and international organizations are pushing central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs. One…
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Economy
Ransomware group reports victim it breached to SEC regulators
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) One of the world’s most active ransomware groups has taken an unusual—if not unprecedented—tactic to pressure…
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Economy
“Make It Real” AI prototype wows devs by turning drawings into working software
Enlarge / A shot of tldraw’s “Make it Real” in action, provided by Ashe on X: “Ok…@tldraw is super fun.…
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Economy
Unauthorized “David Attenborough” AI clone narrates developer’s life, goes viral
Enlarge / Screen capture from a demo video of an AI-generated unauthorized David Attenborough voice narrating a developer’s video feed.…
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Economy
No Bing, no Edge, no upselling: De-crufted Windows 11 coming to Europe soon
Enlarge / Users in the extended European Economic Area will soon be able to avoid most of the things that…
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Investing
The US Labor Market Explains Most of the Increase in Illegal Immigration
Alex Nowrasteh The flow of illegal immigrants across the southern border has markedly increased over the last several years. In…
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Economy
The “Windows App” for Mac, iOS, and browsers is a fancy remote desktop, for now
Enlarge / If you have a bunch of Windows systems, Microsoft now has an app for that. It’s called “Windows…
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Economy
From toy to tool: DALL-E 3 is a wake-up call for visual artists—and the rest of us
Enlarge / A composite of three DALL-E 3 AI art generations: an oil painting of Hercules fighting a shark, a…
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