The Biden campaign didn’t respond to the stolen content.
Iranian hackers sought to interest President Joe Biden’s campaign in information stolen from rival Donald Trump’s campaign, sending unsolicited emails to people associated with the then-Democratic candidate in an effort to interfere in the 2024 election, the FBI and other federal agencies said Wednesday.
There’s no indication that any of the recipients responded, officials said, and several media organizations who have said...
The American icon filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday.
Tupperware Brands filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, after years of struggling with poor demand for its food storage containers and rising financial losses.
It comes weeks after reports claimed that Kylie and Timothée Chalamet — who have been linked romantically since April 2023 — are getting “very serious.”
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Lions coach Dan Campbell is selling his suburban Detroit home to get more privacy.
Research on the visual patterns that foreshadow migraines may reveal clues on how painful headaches arise from the brain even though it has no pain receptors.
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NFL kickers are rewriting the record books for distance and accuracy in 2024.
When the NFL moved back the extra point from the 2-yard line to the 15 in 2015, the reasoning was basically that the kicks were too boring. NFL kickers made 99.3% of their extra points in 2014, the season before the rule change, and the league thought that pushing it back would both make the kicks more difficult and incentivize teams into going for two.
It worked, for the most...
Caitlin Clark was getting buckets on the soccer field, too.
Caitlin Clark is the definition of a generational athlete. Clark was one of the very best players in women’s college basketball from the moment she stepped on the floor for Iowa, leading the country in scoring as a true freshman in 2020-2021, and leading the nation in both scoring and assists as a sophomore. Clark’s breathtaking ability eventually earned her a huge national following as she led the Hawkeyes to...
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Today on Decoder, we’re talking about the big Google antitrust trial that’s currently taking place in a federal courthouse. No, not the one you’re thinking of — it’s the second Google antitrust case in just as many months. The company lost a landmark case in August in which a court ruled that it had an illegal monopoly in search.
This time around, the Department of Justice is claiming Google has another illegal monopoly in the...
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Pocketpair has responded to the lawsuit filed against it by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company. The studio that developed Palworld, the game at the heart of the suit, issued a statement early this morning saying it doesn’t know what patents it violated. “At this moment, we are unaware of the specific patents we are accused of infringing upon, and we have not been notified of such details,” the statement read.
According to Nintendo’s press release, the reason...
Crocs has been collecting old, worn-out pairs through a takeback program, and turning them into new shoes.
A new shoe from Crocs looks just like the company’s classic clog, but look closely and you’ll see multicolored flecks throughout the almond-colored material. Those flecks are from old, worn-out pairs of Crocs sent back to the company through its take-back program. The new shoe, called the Keep It Going Classic Clog, is the first circular shoe from Crocs, with 25% of the material in...
Best Friends Animal Society is closing an education gap to save animals’ lives
About 415,000 dogs and cats are killed every year in animal shelters across the U.S. because they don’t have safe places to call home. One of the contributing factors, experts have come to realize, is a knowledge gap in the field of animal services. Leading the efforts to close that gap is a national animal welfare organization widely recognized for its mission to end the killing of pets in shelters.
A collaborative culture is behind Universal Display Corporation’s industry-leading display materials
Electronic display screens in every size and form—including those used in smartphones, computer monitors, tablets, and televisions—have become a dominant mode of interfacing with the world. In this current environment, two factors have become especially important: power usage and image quality.
Curing childhood cancer inspires a spirit of innovation at ALSAC
Spurred by innovative treatments, roughly 80% of children diagnosed with cancer in the U.S. today will likely survive the disease. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, in Memphis, has played a major role in this encouraging trend. Since its founding in 1962, St. Jude has made its treatments accessible regardless of a family’s ability to pay. St. Jude has now renewed its focus on the rest of the world, specifically poorer...
People around the country are waiting to see if California will put state controls on the development of large ‘frontier’ models.
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The week of September 14th saw 219,000 unemployment claims, but economists had forecast 230,000.
The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week, suggesting job growth picked up in September.
The aging population will have many needs, and the labor market needs to adapt.
We are beginning to see shifts in the workforce that are influenced by an increasingly older population. Requests for more flexible schedules to care for aging family members. Vocal and much needed advocates calling out ageism in the recruitment process. The rise of fractional executives to lead organizational functions, especially in start-ups. This is not a phase; this will be the new way of working. Here’s why.
Dairy and meat don’t have to induce guilt—or climate change—as farming is about to change.
From the world’s largest food companies to consumers, we are focused on finding ways to reduce our impact on climate change. For some, the solution has been to give up a staple on tables across the country—the burger.
Old school newspaper hawkers will be handing out copies of the ‘Gotham Gazette,‘ a newspaper inspired by the new show ‘The Penguin.’
Given the semi-annual world-ending events and the bevy of unhinged, heavily costumed folks behind them, a comic book universe would be an objectively terrible place to live. Luckily, New York City is not Gotham City—even though it inspired it. But if you pass through Grand Central Station today, or Little Italy, or Times Square, you’ll see...
The last time the Fed cut interest rates on the cusp of an election was 1984.
The Federal Reserve’s decision to cut interest rates by half a percentage point on Wednesday marked the closest the central bank has come in launching an easing cycle on the cusp of a U.S. presidential election in nearly half a century.
According to a new survey from Pew Research, 17% of U.S. adults now regularly get news on the video-sharing site, up from only 3% in 2020.
About 17% of adult Americans now get their news on TikTok, compared to only 3% of Americans in 2020.