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News Image Disney Hopes to Replace Bob Iger as CEO in 2026

According to The New York Times, Iger's second reign as Disney CEO is coming to an end.

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Ireland adopts Online Safety Code for video-sharing platforms including TikTok

Ireland’s media and internet watchdog, Coimisiún na Meán, has adopted and published an Online Safety Code that will apply to video-sharing platforms headquartered in the country from next month — including the likes of ByteDance’s TikTok, Google-owned YouTube, and Meta’s Instagram and Facebook Reels. Under the Code, in-scope platforms are required to have terms and […]

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News Image 14 Best Bluetooth Speakers Our Testers Jammed With in 2024

These are our favorite portable speakers of all shapes and sizes, from clip-ons to a massive boom box.

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Final countdown: 7 days until TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 kicks off

T-minus 7 days until TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 officially kicks off! One of the year’s biggest tech events is ready to dominate the Bay Area’s thriving tech landscape for almost the entire week. Get ready for one of the biggest tech gatherings, taking place October 28-30 at Moscone West in San Francisco. Tech experts from every […]

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News Image Elon Musk Is Trying to Be the MrBeast of Politics

The billionaire is giving away $1 million a day to registered voters. The lottery is the next evolution of politics as entertainment in America.

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Uprise wants to help small businesses make better financial decisions

Small business creation has been on the rise in the U.S. since the pandemic. There are a lot of tech tools designed to help these companies with things like payroll or setting up retirement benefits — but more tools doesn’t mean small businesses know how to use them to make smart decisions. Uprise is looking to […]

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News Image 8 Thoughtful Gifts for Your Coworkers

You see them every single day (almost). Our curated guide features personalized gifts for every office personality, from the foodies to the minimalists.

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Video: Rare porpoise mating ritual spotted on Oosterschelde

An exceptional mating ritual in a group of porpoises happened on the Oosterschelde this weekend, reported the Stichting Rugvin.

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News Image AMD’s highly anticipated 9000-series X3D desktop CPUs arrive on November 7th

AMD is officially announcing its first next-generation X3D desktop processors today, based on its latest Zen 5 architecture. I’d love to tell you which Ryzen 9000-series X3D chips are arriving next month, but AMD is strangely only teasing a release date of November 7th and providing no pricing or further details. AMD has only provided a single slide about this X3D announcement, ahead of Intel’s Core Ultra 200-series launch on October 24th. Rumors had suggested AMD would announce its highly anticipated Zen 5 X3D chips a day after Intel’s performance embargo for the Ultra 9 285K, but AMD has decided to tease the existence of next-gen X3D processors a little earlier than expected. Thanks to other leaks, we’re expecting to hear more about...

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News Image Amazon Finally Ditches Plastic Air Pillows, but Environmentalists Say It’s Not Enough

Across the globe, Prime packages will now be cushioned by paper.

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News Image Tropical Storm Oscar is making Cuba’s nationwide power outage even worse

Tropical Storm Oscar is making it harder to restore power in Cuba after a massive, prolonged power outage that preceded the storm. The nation’s power grid failed on Friday after Cuba’s largest power plant went offline, leaving more than 10 million people without electricity. The grid reportedly collapsed four more times before Oscar made landfall as a Category 1 storm on Sunday evening. Oscar is hitting a key region for power generation where at least two important power plants in the city of Holguín Santiago de Cuba are located. The storm creates “an additional inconvenience,” the Associated Press reports Energy Minister Vicente de la O Levy saying in a news conference. The storm is still barreling through Cuba today, posing new dangers...

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