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This TikTok user says a popular YouTube music channel is in fact AI

Are you really a student if you’ve not done a late night study session soundtracked to an unending lo-fi beats playlist on YouTube? According to Google Trends, searches for the term “lo-fi” on YouTube...

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Egg prices stay high as holiday baking season approaches its peak

Egg prices are rising once more as a lingering outbreak of bird flu coincides with the high demand of the holiday baking season.But prices are still far from the recent peak they reached almost two...

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Teslas, Hondas, and VWs may get price hikes if Trump’s tariffs extend to Mexico

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday pledged tariffs on the United States’s three largest trading partners—Canada, Mexico, and China—detailing how he will implement campaign promises that could...

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Disney agrees to pay $43 million to settle gender discrimination lawsuit

Walt Disney has agreed to pay $43.3 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that its female employees in California earned $150 million less than their male counterparts over an eight-year period, the...

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Traveling for Thanksgiving? Here’s your survival guide to record-breaking crowds

If you thought last year’s holiday travel was insane, well, buckle your seatbelt. AAA projects 79.9 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from their home over Thanksgiving, an increase of 1.7...

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End of an era: the last tenant that gave this NYC ‘hood its name is moving out

When John Jobbagy’s grandfather immigrated from Budapest in 1900, he joined a throng of European butchers chopping up and shipping off meat in a loud, smelly corner of Manhattan that New Yorkers...

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‘We are not satisfied’: Kohl’s stock tumbles amid slumping sales and gloomy...

In the days before Thanksgiving, retail investors want reasons to be hopeful—after all, we’re about to enter the busiest shopping period of the year. But for Kohl’s investors today, that hope seems to...

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Rivian secures $6.6 billion loan from the Biden administration to build a...

President Joe Biden’s administration announced Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Energy will make a $6.6 billion loan to Rivian Automotive to build a factory in Georgia that had stalled as the...

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Housing market shift: Where home prices are actually falling

Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. Some regional housing markets in states, such as Texas, Florida, and Louisiana,...

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Starbucks and other retailers hit with ongoing ransomware attack on software...

Major supply-chain software provider Blue Yonder is working to restore its systems after a ransomware attack hit the Panasonic-owned firm last week. Blue Yonder, which counts Starbucks, major U.K....

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How Trump’s tariff plans could rattle currency markets

It may just be the turn of currency markets to play “bad cop” to the incoming U.S. administration’s proposed tariff hikes—sideswiping its trade threats by catapulting the dollar higher. In recent...

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When does Spotify Wrapped 2024 come out? Here’s what we know and how you’ll...

As we barrel toward the end of the year, one thing on the minds of many music lovers right now is Spotify Wrapped, the audio streaming service’s annual recap of the music they listened to in 2024....

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Automakers carry on with EV transition plans despite Trump’s threat to kill...

If President-elect Donald Trump makes good on his threat to kill federal tax credits for electric vehicle purchases, it’s likely that fewer buyers will choose EVs. Yet tax credits or not, auto...

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18-year-old Butterball turkey video haunts company at its busiest time of the...

On Thursday, millions of families will sit down for a dinner that, in general, centers around turkey. And in a sizable portion of those homes, Butterball will be the turkey they devour. But with just...

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For Black Friday deals, these 3 sites are all you need

I’m in my mid-forties. Things are going gray in places and my hips hurt for no reason. And back in my day, Black Friday was one day: the Friday after Thanksgiving. You went to Best Buy (the actual...

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U.S. trade tensions escalate as Mexico’s Sheinbaum suggests retaliatory tariffs 

President Claudia Sheinbaum suggested Tuesday that Mexico could retaliate with tariffs of its own, after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose 25% import duties on Mexican goods if...

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Pony AI stock price: Chinese autonomous car company’s Nasdaq IPO will be...

Pony AI is having its initial public offering today. The firm, which is based in Silicon Valley but also has a headquarters in Guangzhou, China, makes autonomous mobility tech that can turn cars into...

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Canada blasts Trump’s tariff threat

Canadian officials on Tuesday blasted President-elect Donald’s Trump’s threat to impose sweeping tariffs, as the leader of the country’s most populous province called Trump’s comparison of Canada to...

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How Biden’s AI tech could play a role in Trump’s immigration crackdown

President-elect Donald Trump will return to power next year with a raft of technological tools at his disposal that would help deliver his campaign promise of cracking down on immigration—among them,...

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How to rescue climate change from the culture wars

Household appliances used to be a safe conversation topic, if a boring one. But these days, many Republican politicians see gas stoves, refrigerators, dishwashers, and laundry machines as symbols of...

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