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- Gen Z’s new American Dream: Skip the mortgage, book the flight
Young Americans are trading square footage, new cars and even moving out for plane tickets, even as airfares jump more than 20%.
- After housing protests turned violent, Spain will tax seasonal rentals to build a 10 billion euro fund into first-home loans
Spain passed 21 housing measures after tends of thousands protested the country's housing affordability crisis and ahead of snap elections
- Elon Musk is a trillionaire again—and he’d still be the richest person on the planet even if he gave everyone $90
Musk could buy everyone on the planet a pair of Apple AirPods, a three-course dinner, or a nice pair of Levi’s jeans, and he’d still be the world’s richest with $298 billion.
- As AI reshapes the consumer journey, L’Oréal is rethinking its marketing engine
Underneath the ads, TikTok campaigns, and virtual try-ons lies an increasingly complex infrastructure of data, technology, and AI. To succeed today, marketers need to understand the “pipes and plumbing”, says L’Oréal’s Asmita Dubey.
- Trillions of ‘ghost particles’ pass through your body every second. The scientist who hunts them just won the Nobel Prize
Francis Halzen turned Antarctic ice into a giant detector for elusive neutrinos, with sensors buried 8,200 feet below the surface.
Technology
- Googlebook "Better Together" phone features don't work with Samsung at launch
Googlebooks require Android 17, but Samsung's Android 17 phones won't work yet.
- Why is NASA bringing 7,500 contractors back to work as civil servants?
"The administrator's directive is a coherent and necessary vision for the future."
- All-electric camping gets a solar upgrade: The 2027 Pebble Flow
The Pebble Flow has a 45 kWh LFP battery and can even charge an EV.
- Big Oil asks Supreme Court to kill climate lawsuits before trial
Oil companies say federal law should block state climate deception claims.
- OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The reports of OpenAI agents harming 3rd party sites keep coming.
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