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  • With AirPods 2 rumored, are AirPods safe to buy this holiday season?

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    Rumors have circulated in recent months that Apple was close to releasing a successor to the AirPods, its popular $159 wireless Bluetooth earbuds. There were a number of reasons to believe that, too. The original AirPods are quickly closing in on being 2 years old, and there were plenty of big Apple events to release an […]

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  • Holiday travel with children: Follow this checklist to keep kids safe and smiling

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    t’s holiday travel season, and millions of Americans will be taking to roads, rails and skies, many with children in tow. Family travel policies are continually changing, so it can pay to double-check the particulars before you leave home. Being inconvenienced on vacation is bad enough, but being inconvenienced with kids can turn any trip […]

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  • Tim Allen reveals original ‘Santa Clause’ script is ‘a little darker’: ‘I shot and killed Santa’

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    Tim Allen made a shocking revelation. The “Last Man Standing” star revealed Wednesday on “The Tonight Show” that the original “The Santa Clause” script was supposed to play out much differently. “The original ‘Santa Clause’ is a little darker, written by two comedians, and I actually shot and killed Santa, in the original movie. He […]

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  • 3 ways to use social proof in marketing

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    The other day I was walking downtown with my friend when we walked past a street performer. He was just a regular guy, nothing fancy, but he was definitely good at singing and he was engaged in my performance. My friend remarked that “I can never walk past street performers without cringing.” Now imagine, if […]

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  • Nissan votes unanimously to fire Chairman Ghosn, ending two decade reign

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    YOKOHAMA, Japan/PARIS – Nissan Motor Co’s (7201.T) board voted unanimously to oust Chairman Carlos Ghosn on Thursday after the shock arrest of the industry heavyweight, ushering in a period of uncertainty for its 19-year alliance with Renault (RENA.PA). The Japanese firm said its board also voted to remove Greg Kelly – who like Ghosn has […]

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  • IBM and Columbia University Launch Two Blockchain Startup Accelerators

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    On Nov. 19th, 2018, IBM and Columbia University announced the introduction of two new blockchain startup accelerators as critical components of their center for research, education, and innovation in blockchain technology and data transparency. IBM Network and Columbia Launch to accelerate industry adoption The joint venture, part of the Columbia-IBM Center for Blockchain and Data Transparency, will provide 20 entrepreneurs […]

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  • Mystery of tech CEO found shot dead, family killed in mansion fire deepens; brother arrested for setting own home ablaze

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      The brother of a man who was found shot dead outside his burning New Jersey mansion as part of an apparent quadruple homicide was arrested on Wednesday, after officials disclosed that he set his own home ablaze earlier the same day. The body of Keith Caneiro, the 50-year-old CEO of tech company Square One in Asbury […]

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  • ‘The Big Issue’ Newspaper Launches Blockchain Platform to Promote Impact Investing

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    The Big Issue, a street newspaper sold by the homeless in the U.K. and other countries, is launching a blockchain-driven platform to promote impact investing, The Financial Times reports Monday, Nov. 18. Three investment companies — UK Standard Life Aberdeen, U.S. Columbia Threadneedle, and AllianceBernstein — will join The Big Issue as founders of the platform dubbed The Big Exchange. According to the FT, […]

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  • The Insidious Ways Women Bear the Brunt of Climate Change

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    Our fight to protect the planet is incomplete without a gender-based perspective There’s a fetid haze in the air when I call emergency medicine physician Dr. Cecilia Sorensen, who is fresh off an ER shift at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora, Colorado. I’m in California, some 150 miles from Paradise, where the Camp Fire has […]

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  • Why Movie Stars Need To Stop Saying They’re Not Celebrities

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    They say “you’re nobody till somebody loves you,” and many of us take that to heart in more ways than one. The stakes are even higher when you factor in the mechanisms of our discontent that line up all the instruments — utilized to judge how many hearts we are able to collect from shifty strangers. Shit […]

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