"“I looked at Whitney this morning and said, ‘Wow, from the youngest woman to take a company public to an immigrant that came here on a scholarship—this is what Bumble is is all about.'” Jones has spent the past year integrating new AI-powered workflows into Slack and said she plans to incorporate more AI into Bumble’s apps as well."
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"Now we’re on strike Freakonomics author: ‘Objections to data science in K-12 education make no sense’ Why boomers are catching up with AI faster than Gen Zers, according to Microsoft’s modern work lead The growing case for doing less: How harmless cancers are being overdiagnosed in America The opinions expressed in Fortune.com commentary pieces are solely the views of their authors and do not n..."
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"“I looked at Whitney this morning and said, ‘Wow, from the youngest woman to take a company public to an immigrant that came here on a scholarship—this is what Bumble is is all about.'” Jones has spent the past year integrating new AI-powered workflows into Slack and said she plans to incorporate more AI into Bumble’s apps as well."
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"“Often, an increase in credit card debt is a sign that the economy is expanding—but if it happens when inflation is still squeezing consumers’ budgets, when the cost of servicing that debt is high, and when the economic outlook is uncertain at best, there’s probably a more troubling explanation: An increasing number of consumers are being forced to use credit cards to make ends meet.”"
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"In fact, some neuroscientists now believe that the transcendent, reality-warping trip is just a side effect of psychedelics—one that isn’t sufficient or even necessary to produce the mental-health benefits the drugs seem to provide.For several years, researchers have understood that the hallucinatory effects of psychedelics can, in theory, be separated from the other ways the drugs affect our m..."
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"Its characters aren’t making bold romantic moves; they’re interrogating their assumptions of what is ultimately an unknowable phenomenon.In that sense, the film has more in common with this year’s Past Lives, the indie that explored the intricacies of both platonic and romantic love, than with anything high-concept."
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"In Lucid's $LCID SPAC presentation from 2021 it forecasted it would bring in revenue of $5.5 Billion and deliver 49K vehicles in 2023Lucid has now brought in $438.1 Million of Revenue so far this year and now projects it will deliver between 8K-8.5K vehicles this year pic.twitter.com/TPbJvW8aLQ— Evan (@StockMKTNewz) November 7, 2023 That’s why Tuesday’s news that the two smaller rivals appear t..."
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"The idea: Whether a bot or a human is attempting to log in with multiple passwords doesn’t particularly matter—it’s sketchy either way.Activity monitoring, according to Leroy, is already more common than reCAPTCHA’s visual challenges, but still, “visual challenges will continue to exist for the foreseeable future,” he said."
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"Other top concerns included any kind of interruption in business operations, an economic slowdown, and the inability to attract and retain talent, according to participants, who spanned internal company roles, industries, and locations around the world."
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"Further discoveries made among her mom’s files proved her mom had been the perpetrator of all of it—and revealed that she was not only guilty of her daughter’s identity theft, but of fraud committed in Betz-Hamilton’s dad and grandfather’s names."
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"In a memo distributed on November 2nd, Julie Rodriguez, Mr Biden’s campaign manager, argued that “Team Biden-Harris is well-prepared to defeat whoever emerges from the extreme MAGA Republicans’ primary field,” citing the $91m in cash that the campaign already had in hand."
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"“We tend to think of productivity as the biggest driver of return, but in many cases, it is the long-term strategic application and the ability to drive the long-term strategic direction of the company, which leads to outsize returns,” he explains."
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"That doesn’t work for companies who need to make long-term investment plans: “If you invest like we do—heavy assets, shopping centers, stores, factories, jobs—you don’t switch that and de-risk one year to another,” Brodin said."
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"Research shows that women without a college degree are more likely to get an abortion than women with more education.Even so, it still might be possible for pro-lifers to nudge the nation in their direction by pushing for something well short of abolition, such as a strict national limits on abortion access after 15 weeks of pregnancy, a policy for which Republican presidential candidates Ron D..."
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"On October 23, Eisen announced on his reactivated X account: “I have been informed that I am being replaced as the Editor in Chief of @eLife for retweeting a @TheOnion piece that calls out indifference to the lives of Palestinian civilians.”Eisen’s ouster is a startling example of someone getting fired for expressing a view about the conflict in the Middle East, but similar incidents have proli..."
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"In the restaurant world, where online reviews have an ascendant power over a business’s bottom line, Dragon Lee is doing what other spots can’t, or won’t: It’s arguing with its customers.When I walked into Dragon Lee a few weeks ago, a significant portion of Warrensburg, population 3,215, seemed to share a Wednesday-afternoon craving for Americanized Chinese food."
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"Students may be ill, for instance; in the early grades, their parents may consider school an extension of day care and not worry about the amount of class time the student is missing; or, in later grades, the students themselves may not find the material engaging—which may be more likely to be the case if, during the pandemic, they missed out on education that their current coursework is intend..."
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"The report underscores how consumer spending patterns are shifting, with higher levels of inflation, rising interest rates and credit-card delinquencies eroding purchasing power, Jim Doucette, consumer products and retail leader at EY-Parthenon, said in an interview."
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"By the time he met my English mother, he was in America studying for a Ph.D.I grew up between two worlds, spending most of my life in England, and most of my summers immersed in Palestinian culture with my family in California.In my father’s home, we ate maqluba, a cinnamon-infused upside-down chicken, vegetable, and rice dish."
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"“As a professional network, our members rightly expect their experience on LinkedIn to be professional in nature and any form of harassment is not tolerated,” a spokesperson for the company told Fortune, while adding that when it sees “content or behavior that violates our Professional Community Policies, we take action, including the removal of content or the permanent restriction of an accoun..."
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