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News Image The Wait Is Over, The Kindle Has Gone Color and You Can Pre-Order It Now

See your digital books and graphic novels as they're meant to be seen with the $280 Kindle Colorsoft, which drops on Oct. 30.

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News Image Peanut Panic on Planes Is Overblown, Researchers Say

In a new review of the evidence, scientists have found little evidence to support the fear that peanut and tree nut allergens can be spread through the air of a plane cabin.

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New definition has fewer Dutch living in poverty

Fewer people in the Netherlands live in poverty than in previous estimations, largely due to a new definition of poverty drawn up by

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News Image Was this the sickest iPod?

I never owned an iPod Mini. Even as a college freshman back at the time of its introduction, I was already more of a full-size iPod kind of nerd. Mine was the third-gen model with the backlit buttons, which I maintain was the best version ever released. I wanted the most storage possible for the flourishing music collection that I’d amassed through years of painfully slow downloads over Napster, LimeWire, and Usenet groups. (There were some legal iTunes purchases mixed in there, I promise.) But by 2004, the iPod had a starting price of $299 and could run as high as $399. Apple needed to offer a music player that many more people could afford. And that came in 2004, the year of the first-ever iPod Mini. Onstage at Macworld, Steve Jobs...

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Can AI make us feel less alone? The founder of Manifest thinks so

Amy Wu, founder of the AI-based mental health app Manifest, has a bold prediction for the next wave of tech. “Separately from the AI trend, I think so many people are seeing this loneliness epidemic that’s happening with Gen Z,” she said. “There is no doubt in my mind that there will be unicorns that […]

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Eclipse opens an NYC office with plans to bolster its presence on the East Coast

After nearly a decade, industrials-focused VC Eclipse expanded out of Silicon Valley. The firm opened its second office in New York’s Soho neighborhood with plans to invest more on the East Coast. Eclipse backs startups in sectors including manufacturing, supply chain, healthcare, and infrastructure, among others, both through its early stage and early growth-focused funds. […]

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Permira completes Squarespace acquisition after upping bid to $7.2B

Website builder Squarespace is no longer a publicly-traded company, after private equity firm Permira procured all remaining common stock in the firm. Permira first revealed plans to acquire Squarespace back in May, offering shareholders in the NYSE-traded company $44 per share — this equated to an equity valuation of $6.6 billion, and an enterprise valuation […]

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News Image Eglu Pro Chicken Coop Review: A Better Box

Our tester’s chickens find their happy place in the new Eglu Pro.

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News Image Guy Who Threw Away $500 Million Bitcoin Hard Drive Sues Local Government to Search Dump

What do you do when you've thrown half a billion dollars worth of crypto in the trash?

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News Image Melodrama!

In 2004, I was an undiagnosed neurodivergent teenager who had given up on trying to fit in. It felt like everyone was trying to mold me into their version of perfect by chastising me when I did something “wrong.” It was confusing, exhausting, and demoralizing. I managed to make a few friends in high school who seemed to just get me, but the last thing I wanted to do was talk about how I felt — until all my friends started signing up for blogging accounts on Melodramatic.com. Shielded by the anonymity of a screen name, it was the first time I felt safe talking about my mental health — and discovered there were so many other teenagers like me who felt the same way. Even all these years later, if you search “Melodramatic.com” on Reddit,...

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India’s central bank orders Sachin Bansal’s Navi to halt loans

India’s central bank ordered four non-bank lenders, including Navi Finserv and DMI Finance, to halt loans from October 21, citing excessive interest rates and regulatory breaches. The Reserve Bank of India said (PDF) the firms violated rules on pricing, income assessment, and asset classification. This action follows months of warnings about responsible lending practices, it […]

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Large funds temper pension increase expectations

Several large pension funds are tempering expectations about a possible increase in pensions.

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News Image Ferrari F80 2024: Specs, Price, Availability

The stats are staggering: 0 to 62 mph in just 2.1 seconds, 1,000 kilos of downforce at 155 mph, Formula One tech throughout. But the most interesting thing about this jaw-dropping hyperhybrid is Ferrari's unfulfilled dream to eject passengers altogether.

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News Image Lebanon: Cholera fears for communities uprooted by war

The UN health agency has warned that a first case of highly infectious cholera virus has been detected in northern Lebanon, raising fears that those displaced by Israeli bombardment may already be at risk from the potentially deadly disease.

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News Image Remember Blockbuster?

It was a chilly winter morning in 2004. The scene was Stanley, Idaho — a city with a population of 101 and a current temperature of negative 17. My boyfriend, who had lured me here from London, England, handed me a bright red envelope and asked if I could drop it in the mailbox on my way into town. “What’s Netflix?” I asked, peering at the white letters printed on the side. “It’s DVD by mail,” he said. “They send you movies in the mail. You send them back when you’re done. Then, they send you another one.” It was a revelation. While Netflix had been growing in the US since its launch in 1998, it wouldn’t cross the pond for another eight years. For the rest of the world, movie night in 2004 still meant a pilgrimage to the video store. As...

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News Image All of Our Gadgets Just Keep Talking

This week, we cover the latest hardware using voice controls and generative AI, including a collar that lets you chat with your pets. Also, this podcast is changing shape, and we tell you all about it.

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News Image Lebanon: Drone brought down by UNIFIL ship as cross-border fire intensifies

The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) reported on Thursday that one of its Maritime Task Force vessels off the southern Lebanese coast intercepted an approaching drone.

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News Image World News in Brief: Famine in Sudan, 400,000 now in Syria from Lebanon, women in the military, olive farmers in Palestine

A staggering 97 percent of Sudan’s internally displaced along with civilians who’ve remained, are facing severe levels of hunger UN independent experts warned on Thursday, accusing Government troops and their rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of using “starvation tactics” against 25 million civilians in the country.

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