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Best Apple Watch apps for boosting your productivity

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Malcolm Gladwell tells young people if they want a STEM degree, ‘don’t go to Harvard.’ You may end up at the bottom of your class and drop out

If you have sky-scraping dreams of attending an Ivy League university, maybe reconsider, according to author Malcolm Gladwell. “If you want to get...

Three in four Americans say groceries are so expensive they’ve been forced to cut down on other spending thumbnail
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Three in four Americans say groceries are so expensive they’ve been forced to cut down on other spending

Echoing its data throughout the year, Toast found that menu prices continued to climb in November, often exceeding the current inflation rate of 2.7%. If you like your (retail)...

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Management professors who studied the dreaded work offsite say think twice about skipping it this year

What do you do when an announcement about an “offsite” hits your work inbox? Chances are you might sigh and begrudgingly add the...

At the edges of the AI data center boom, rural America is up against Silicon Valley billions thumbnail
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At the edges of the AI data center boom, rural America is up against Silicon Valley billions

The land around Hassayampa Ranch, 50 miles west of Phoenix, is dotted with saguaro cacti and home to coyotes, jackrabbits, and rattlesnakes. Its...

2026 will be the year you get fooled by a deepfake, researcher says. Voice cloning has crossed the ‘indistinguishable threshold’ thumbnail
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2026 will be the year you get fooled by a deepfake, researcher says. Voice cloning has crossed the ‘indistinguishable threshold’

Over the course of 2025, deepfakes improved dramatically. AI-generated faces, voices and full-body performances that mimic real people increased in quality far beyond...

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Dua Lipa and Shania Twain help Glastonbury lift profits and boost charity funding

Glastonbury Festival has reported a rise in profits after a strong year that featured performances from global stars including Dua Lipa and Shania...

UK set to become world’s fifth-largest economy by 2040, but living standards slip thumbnail
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UK set to become world’s fifth-largest economy by 2040, but living standards slip

The UK is on course to overtake Japan and become the world’s fifth-largest economy by the end of the next decade, according to...

Boxing Day sales set to fall by £1bn as cost-of-living pressures bite thumbnail
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Boxing Day sales set to fall by £1bn as cost-of-living pressures bite

Boxing Day sales are expected to deliver a £3.6 billion boost to UK retailers this year, around £1 billion less than in 2024,...

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The Museum of Failure is coming to the UK – and Britain’s flops are centre stage

Britain’s long and often spectacular history of mismanaged inventions, doomed projects and ill-fated ideas is finally getting its own cultural institution. Next spring,...