Business & Economy: 10 of 10
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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai earned $226 million last year, making him one of the world's best-paid bosses
The Google owner's CEO is only paid an annual salary of $2 million, but has also been given shares every three years worth more than $200 million.
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Apple patent reveals Apple Pencil could gain an Acoustic Resonator that will allow it to be found via the 'Find My' App
Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to adding Apple Pencil to Apple's list of devices that could be a part of "Find My" devices service. Currently Apple Pencil is not on Apple's list of devices that could be tracked but will in the future, according to today's patent.
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Uber Eats launching robot delivery option in Fairfax, Virginia, as part of partnership
A popular shopping and dining district in Northern Virginia will start to see sidewalk delivery robots carrying Uber Eats orders. Uber Technologies and robotics company Cartken on Thursday unveiled the new AI-powered robot deliveries in the Mosaic District of Fairfax, Virginia.
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Netflix’s Bold Ultimatum for Harry and Meghan: No Work, No Pay
If you are among the many people who tried and failed to get tickets for the Eras Tour, just know there are worse fates than being rejected by Ticketmaster’s cruel lottery system. You could have been snubbed by Taylor Swift personally, despite being a famous person yourself. The Wall Street Journal reported that Meghan Markle wrote Swift a personal letter inviting her to be a guest on her podcast Archetypes, but “the pop star declined, through a representative.”
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Peter Schiff Criticizes Bitcoin's 20% Surge, Arguing Gold is Still a Better Inflation Hedge
On March 14, 2023, Euro Pacific Capital CEO Peter Schiff posted a tweet about Bitcoin that sparked a debate within the crypto community. Schiff tweeted that Bitcoin had surged by 20% after a long-awaited change in direction from the Federal Reserve, but he also pointed out that gold had only risen by 2.5%. Schiff went on to suggest that the fact that Bitcoin had experienced a larger increase did not mean that it was a better anti-inflation tool than gold.
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CBS is taking some pretty drastic measures to cut its sitcom budgets
A few weeks back, we reported on a strange wrinkle facing the upcoming seasons of Law & Order and its variouis spin-offs, as NBC and Dick Wolf Productions attempted to find a way to keep the shows going despite budgets dropping all over the place in Hollywood at the moment. Their solution seemed pretty damn drastic: Cutting back individual season orders for almost all of the performers across the shows, meaning that none of them (except possibly major leads) would be in every episode of a season.
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Aubrey Plaza's satirical ad for 'wood milk' violated federal law, a new complaint says
A nonprofit has accused a "Got Milk?" advert featuring "The White Lotus" actor Aubrey Plaza of violating federal laws. The ad, which was created using funding from a US Department of Agriculture program to promote dairy milk, features Plaza talking up "Wood Milk," a milk alternative made from trees. At the end of the spot, she reveals that the product is fake. "Only real milk is real," Plaza said.
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The world's obsession with economic growth is killing nature, report finds
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Price Controls Can Work, Sorry If This Offends
There’s something about the phrase “price controls” that drives some people — mainly economists — around the bend. But history shows that market economies rarely go very long without needing some form of price control — especially in a crisis.
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US farmers win right to repair John Deere equipment
The grassroots movement has grown among consumers around the world as repair costs soar.
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Who owns the code? If ChatGPT's AI helps write your app, does it still belong to you?
It's complicated. So we reached out to legal experts for some definitive answers.
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Can you master multi-cloud with certifications? Cloud network architects say maybe
Almost everyone uses multi-cloud, but mastering it is extraordinarily difficult.
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Reddit's Valuation Has Fallen Even Further, Fidelity Says
Reddit is facing a crisis both in its user base and its finances. After protests and backlashed ravaged the platform in the wake of Reddit opting to charge for access to its API, the company’s valuation has been sliced. TechCrunch reports that the Blue Chip Growth Fund at Fidelity, a major financial services provider, has reduced its estimates of Reddit’s holdings following an already poor estimate earlier this spring.
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11 of the Sleaziest Snake Oil Ads From Truth Social
Former President Donald Trump is reportedly planning to abandon Truth Social, the destitute social media platform he created after Twitter and Facebook kicked him off their sites. But in recent months, both Twitter and Facebook have welcomed him back. That’s bad news for Truth Social which, like all social media platforms, makes its money on holding users’ attention long enough to show them ads.
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Why the video game industry is making a big mistake by ignoring older adults
In April, AARP held its first Games Summit at its headquarters in Washington D.C., and for many people outside the video game industry, the event might seem like a head-scratcher. An organization focused on advocating for people in the 50-plus demographic talking about video games, a medium typically thought to be for younger people?
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This Startup Is Making Ultra-Strong Building Panels Out of Grass
Construction is a major carbon emitter. The manufacture of cement alone accounts for eight percent of the world’s emissions. But humanity certainly isn’t about to stop building things—in fact, fixing the housing shortage should be near the top of our list of problems to solve. So we need to find more sustainable ways to build, and if they can be cheaper to boot, even better.
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I tried Delta's new free inflight Wi-Fi. Here's how fast it was
Delta's new free inflight internet service is better and more stable than earlier services and free to all SkyMiles members.
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Peter Thiel's Founders Fund got its cash out of Silicon Valley Bank before it was shut down, report says
Bloomberg reported that Thiel's VC fund took all its cash out of SVB after encountering problems with transfers during a "capital call."
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Ryanair aims for 10% full year profit growth on strong summer
Ryanair aims to boost profit by 10% this year after almost record earnings for its last financial year, CEO Michael O'Leary said on Monday, and it may do better if rival airlines' "irrationally exuberant" summer fare forecasts are right.
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Welcome to the Next Generation of Agricultural Drones
The newest crop of drones promises farmers greater sustainability and autonomy, while drawing interested newcomers into the field.