"The Bureau of Land Management quietly posted a notice on its website last week that it no longer will use the devices across the 390,625 square miles (1,011,714 square kilometers) it manages nationally — an area twice the size of California — much of it where ranchers graze cattle and sheep."
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"US shoppers will spend as much as $12.4 billion online during Cyber Monday, according to Adobe, which adjusted its initial forecast of $12 billion upward based on stronger-than-expected spending on Black Friday and the popularity of buy-now-pay-later features that let shoppers stretch their budgets with credit."
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"If your holiday isn’t coming together in the way you’d hoped, it’s easy to feel left out of something that seems to include every other person.Given her comment about adopted children and parental love, she might also have her own long-standing feelings of “otherness” for not being able to have a biological child, if that was the case (many adoptive parents are made to feel “othered” by society..."
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"Since morticians started showing glimpses of their jobs online during the pandemic, there’s been a huge spike in interest in the career: In 2021, nationwide new student enrollment in accredited mortuary science programs jumped 24% over 2020, according to the American Board of Funeral Service Education."
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"After programmers designed it in 1959, Cobol quickly became the de facto language for data processing, which meant that banks, insurers, government agencies, and any other company dealing with terabytes of information wrote and maintained millions of lines of Cobol code."
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"In the case that they’re giving their child money for a down payment, with no expectation of repayment, parents should consider either utilizing the lifetime gift tax exemption mentioned above, or the annual gift tax exemption, which for this year is $17,000 (or $34,000 for married couples)."
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"Now we’re on strike Merit-based flexibility could be the future of work as return-to-office mandates fail to prop up productivity China’s export restrictions on critical minerals are threatening the viability of EV makers–and forcing them to innovate Melinda French Gates: ‘It’s time to change the face of power in venture capital’ The opinions expressed in Fortune.com commentary pieces are solel..."
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"468 Number of complaints, questions, or comments Maryland’s DOT State Highway Administration received from local government agencies regarding the Boring Co.’s proposal to dig a tunnel between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., according to emails obtained by Fortune via a FOIA request."
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"“Naturally you’re going to feel like you’re on your backfoot because you haven’t been in the workforce for the past few years, perception will be everything and you don’t want to be perceived as less committed or working less hard just because you’ve taken that career break,” Johnson-Jones said."
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"Usually, you get from Point A to Point B, and you get to see all of the points in between, even if you don’t do it in the time frame you were sold.In 1971, when the government took over responsibility for passenger-rail service, forming Amtrak, The New York Times speculated that passenger-rail enthusiasts would be “extinct by 1985.”"
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"Already, Fain asserted in an interview with The Associated Press, the contracts have benefited workers in nonunion auto companies: Soon after the UAW won major pay raises for its workers, Toyota, Honda, Hyundai and Nissan — all nonunion operations — raised their own workers’ pay in what Fain characterized as an obvious bid to stop the UAW from unionizing those workforces."
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"Solar Roof and standard panel production at its Gigafactory 2 in upstate New York now remains so low that Tesla had to hire low-level IT analysts inputting data for self-driving cars, says Sean Ryan, a state senator representing the Buffalo area, just to hit employment targets imposed as conditions for receiving state aid."
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"is giving its 9,000 US factory workers a 10% raise in January and eliminating a tiered pay structure, becoming the latest nonunion auto manufacturer to boost wages following the United Auto Workers winning record contracts from the Detroit carmakers."
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"I asked Sam Altman whether decisions made by OpenAI’s leaders might one day lead to unemployment among the masses. “Jobs are definitely going to go away, full stop,” he told me. He couldn’t have known then that his would be among the first"
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"The boost of caffeine is “a religion” for van Raemdonck: “If I don’t have that, and I’ve started a meeting, I say, ‘give me one minute.’” Neiman Marcus’ company philosophy encourages employees to work in the best way for themselves, “wherever and whenever you can deliver the impact,” van Raemdonck explained."
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"Like many other people, she sought out creative outlets in isolation; rather than baking banana bread or learning to needlepoint, though, she art-directed and photographed herself in a Valley of the Dolls–style shoot for W magazine, playing a character who was part Factory girl, part murderous fembot.Read: Promising Young Woman sets a ravishing trapAfter the movie’s release, Fennell started rec..."
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"The film poses a question the previous Hunger Games movies largely avoided: How exactly did the Games become such a cultural phenomenon—and why do we, by extension, still have an appetite for more?Read: Chain-Gang All-Stars is Gladiator meets the American prison systemThat may sound too meta and heady for a YA series that once placed a heavy emphasis on which suitor its heroine would choose (Te..."
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"The pass, which lets patrons fly from May 1, 2024, through April 30, 2025, allows passengers unlimited free flights (well, technically, they’ll have to pay one cent) to any domestic or international destinations served by the carrier, including Puerto Rico, Mexico and Latin America."
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"In a blog post released this afternoon, OpenAI—the artificial-intelligence juggernaut for which Altman was the CEO—announced that he would be leaving, effective immediately, because, according to the statement, “he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board.”The statement did not specify the nature of Altman’s alleged misrepresentations, but they must have concerned seriou..."
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