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Amid hurricanes, a small business disaster loan program could run out of funds within weeks

As is typical after a disaster, the government is offering aid to small businesses that were in Hurricane Helene’s path.

The Small Business Administration could run out of money to fund disaster loans in the wake of Hurricane Helene’s devastation.

Fast Company

Chris Morris

Here’s what the Google Play lawsuit ruling means for Android users

The final ruling in the ‘Fortnite’-maker’s court battle against Google could lead to changes in the Google Play store for Android users. Here’s what to know.

Epic Games scored a massive victory against Google Monday, when the judge overseeing the case issued his final ruling, ordering the company to largely open up its Google Play app store to competition for the next three years.

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AI pioneers win Nobel Prize in physics

Hinton, 76, helped develop a technique in the 1980s known as backpropagation instrumental in training machines how to ‘learn’ by fine-tuning errors until they disappear.

Two pioneers of artificial intelligence — John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton — won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is revolutionizing the way we work and live but also creates new threats for humanity.

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21 Deals That Are 50% Off And Over To Check Out During Fall Prime Day

Let’s cut to the chase — if you’re not interested in so-so deals, this list is for you.

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21 Fall Prime Day Deals That’ll Give You At Least $100 Off

You better act fast, otherwise you will be paying at least a hundred bucks more for all of these products when Prime Day’s over.

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Mike Reiss

Source: Pats to start rookie QB Maye vs. Texans

The Patriots are planning to turn to rookie first-round pick Drake Maye to start Sunday's game against the Texans, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Tuesday.

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Expert picks for the 2024-25 season: Stanley Cup, division winners, awards

Can the Panthers repeat? Who are the favorites for the Hart, Calder, Vezina, Norris and other major trophies?

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Antonio G. Di Benedetto

Apple’s M3 MacBook Airs are at their best prices for Amazon’s Prime Day

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Despite some murmurs about new Macs coming soon, it’s a good time to buy a MacBook Air right now. That’s because the 2024 class of MacBook Air laptops with M3 processors is discounted by up to $275 during Amazon’s October Prime Day sale that’s currently ongoing.

Here’s the quick and dirty on how much you can currently get Apple’s jack-of-all-trades laptop for:

The base 13-inch M3 MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM and 256GB SSD is $849...

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Victoria Song

The Oura Ring Gen 3 is 20 percent off

Last-gen models are an easy way to snag discounts. | Image: Victoria Song / The Verge

There’s a new Oura Ring 4 on the block, but if you’d rather snag a deal, the last-gen model is 20 percent off for Prime Day.

So long as you don’t have new product FOMO, this is an excellent opportunity for bargain hunters. Retailers and companies love discounts on older models right after launching a new one! This is the Horizon model as well, which is normally more expensive than the base Gen...

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Andrew J. Hawkins

GM teases next-gen Chevy Bolt EV: faster charging, multiple models

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General Motors teased some new details about the next-generation Chevy Bolt, which is expected to make its official debut later this year as a model year 2026 vehicle.

At an investor event today, GM president Mark Reuss teased the new Bolt during a portion of the event in which the livestream was cut for “confidential” reasons so that the company could show images of the still-unannounced vehicle. But Reuss’ presentation could still be...

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Lauren Feiner

FEMA adds misinformation to its list of disasters to clean up

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is fighting misinformation on top of a major storm cleanup in Florida as Hurricane Milton rapidly intensifies just after Hurricane Helene rocked the state.

FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell told reporters on a call Tuesday that misinformation around the storms is “absolutely the worst I have ever seen,” according to Politico. FEMA posted a rumor response page about the hurricane, and...

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Wes Davis

Mastodon switches things up to make its app a little easier to use

Mastodon is getting some much-needed tweaks. | Image: Mastodon

Mastodon just released version 4.3 of its web app, and CEO Eugen Rochko says its new updates, like grouped notifications, should make the open social network easier to use.

For example, a “Who to follow” carousel that shows up in the home tab now recommends a mix of “generalized results” such as profiles that are popular in your language and personalized recommendations based on who you follow, making it easier to...

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Gulf of Mexico Ocean Temperatures Are Record Hot, Fueling Milton

Milton grew into a Category 5 hurricane in less than a day as it crossed warm oceans across the Gulf of Mexico.

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Solar power is growing in Africa, bringing stable electricity to millions

Central and West Africa have some of the world’s lowest electrification rates.

Companies that bring solar power to some of the poorest homes in Central and West Africa are said to be among the fastest growing on a continent whose governments have long struggled to address some of the world’s worst infrastructure and the complications of climate change.

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Burundi farmers unite to get fair prices for avocados

The government ramped up its efforts to organize avocado exports earlier this year as dollar shortages fueled sporadic shortages of sugar and other goods.

Farmers in a remote part of Burundi know to look for a truck parked by a highway when it is time to sell their avocados. They materialize from villages and form a crowd around the vehicle, watching closely as crews weigh and load the crated fruits.

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Sarah Bregel

Roblox stock falls after Hindenburg blasts the social gaming platform over bots and pedophiles

The research firm, which has taken a short position in Roblox’s stock, released a report arguing the company does not do enough to keep children safe.

On Tuesday, Roblox—the gaming platform popular with Gen Z and Gen Alpha—saw its stock take a dive. Roblox stock fell 9.4% in early trading, even as it’s already dropped by 15% this year. As of midday trading, it’s down by around 3% today.

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Pavithra Mohan

Why Spotify is still all-in on remote work

“You can’t spend a lot of time hiring grown-ups and then treat them like children,” Spotify HR chief Katarina Berg said in a recent interview.

In September, Amazon announced that it was making a drastic change to its hybrid work policy, requiring almost all employees to return to the office five days a week as of next year. Months earlier, Dell told its employees that anyone who was fully remote would no longer be eligible for promotions, effectively forcing them to return to the...

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