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Investing
How Can You Miss a Deadline Before You Even Exist?
Thomas A. Berry and Isaiah McKinney Corner Post is a convenience store and truck stop in Watford City, North Dakota. Like…
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Minnesota Repeals Its Drug Paraphernalia Laws
Jeffrey A. Singer On May 19, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed into law a bill legalizing all drug paraphernalia, including testing…
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Economy
Fake Pentagon “explosion” photo sows confusion on Twitter
Enlarge / A fake AI-generated image of an “explosion” near the Pentagon that went viral on Twitter. (credit: Twitter) On…
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Investing
High Earners Make Relatively Smaller Tax Errors
Chris Edwards Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D‑OR) held a hearing last week to counter the House Republican plan to…
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Economy
Adobe Photoshop’s new “Generative Fill” AI tool lets you manipulate photos with text
Enlarge / An example of a 1983 file photo of the Apple Lisa computer that has been significantly enhanced by…
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Investing
The Libertarian behind the World’s First Freedom of the Press Act
Johan Norberg UNESCO has just designated the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act of 1766 a “Memory of the World.”…
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Economy
Here’s how long it takes new BrutePrint attack to unlock 10 different smartphones
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have devised a low-cost smartphone attack that cracks the authentication fingerprint used to unlock the…
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Investing
California Tries Charging for Electricity Based on Income
Marc Joffe In California, private sector innovation is giving way to public sector experimentation. From the state that pioneered special…
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Investing
Collateral Damage of IRS Audits
Chris Edwards The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 boosted the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) budget over the coming decade by…
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Investing
La Sombrita, or, How to Fail at Infrastructure
Paul Matzko Los Angeles spent $200,000 on La Sombrita (‘“in the shade”), a bus stop shade/light structure that provides little shade or…
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