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SOCIAL MEDIA
Meta launches Instagram spinoff Instants as a standalone app
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Instagram is trying out another way to engage younger audiences, via a Snapchat-like separate app called Instants that emphasizes the raw, unedited content sharing of temporary photos. As displayed in these images, Instants opens to the camera, like Snapchat, and lets users…
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ENTERTAINMENT
‘Joe Turner’s Come and Gone’ comes and goes
The new Broadway revival of “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” gets a lot right. Scene by scene, it often captures the richness of August Wilson’s writing. But it never quite builds into a fully satisfying whole, and several key performances remain a work in progress. Among the 10 plays that make up Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle, this 1910s-set drama stands as…
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LIFESTYLE
Things to Do in Brooklyn This Weekend
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REAL ESTATE
Work on Madison Avenue bus lane redesign begins
Work finally began this week on long-delayed dedicated bus lanes along a congested stretch of Madison Avenue. On Friday, the city’s Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Mike Flynn announced that work has started on extending double bus lanes along the avenue from 23rd to 42nd Streets, a project aimed at improving commutes for about 92,000 daily riders who often deal…
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Litecoin gives post-attack update, but other devs doubt zero-day theory
Valid transactions that occurred during the affected blocks were not impacted and remain on the main chain, the Litecoin development team said. Source link
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FINANCE
George Kamel to Newlywed Saving Too Much
A 24-year-old with $122,000 in total investable assets and zero debt is ahead of 99.9% of Americans; spending $3,000 on a vacation represents a negligible opportunity cost against decades of wealth building. Extreme frugality becomes counterproductive once debt is eliminated and emergency savings are established, as foregoing experiences could damage quality of life and relationships. A recent study identified one…
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MARKET
‘AI genuinely freaks me out’: Do I leave my $150,000 nonprofit job for a $215,000 data analytics position — with a 50-minute commute?
“Between layoffs and AI taking over lower-level data work, I’m not sure jumping ship for a big raise makes sense.” Source link
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SOCIAL MEDIA
Lawmakers in Turkey pass teen social media ban
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Turkey is the latest country to implement teen social media restrictions, with lawmakers passing a bill that will restrict access to social media platforms for children under 15. As reported by AP News, lawmakers in Turkey voted on April 22 to support…
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GADGET
Canadian premier wants to ban social media and AI chatbots for kids in Manitoba
Manitoba could be the first province in Canada to establish a social media ban for kids, but the proposal’s details aren’t very clear yet. The province’s premier, Wab Kinew, announced during a fundraiser event on Saturday and on X that Manitoba would put in place a ban for social media and AI chatbots for its youth. “They’re doing these very…
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MOBILE
Samsung’s domestic chip manufacturing gets disrupted briefly by a labor protest
We still don’t know much about how the situation was handled or whether or not it was even amicably resolved, but Reuters reports that on April 23 and April 24, during the night shift from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., many workers in the Samsung factory complex in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, skipped work in order to protest. For reference,…
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