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Companies keep selling harmful products – but history shows consumers can win in the end

Companies keep selling harmful products – but history shows consumers can win in the end

In 2023, 42 state attorneys general sued Meta to remove Instagram features that Meta’s own studies had shown – and independent research had confirmed – are harmful to teenage girls. The same year, a report…

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Online spaces are rife with toxicity. Well-designed AI tools can help clean them up

Online spaces are rife with toxicity. Well-designed AI tools can help clean them up

Imagine scrolling through social media or playing an online game, only to be interrupted by insulting and harassing comments. What if an artificial intelligence (AI) tool stepped in to remove the abuse before you even…

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Oil prices climb on fears of Middle East conflict escalation By Reuters

Oil prices climb on fears of Middle East conflict escalation By Reuters

By Gabrielle Ng and Katya Golubkova SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Oil prices rose for a second consecutive session on Monday, with concerns escalating over potential supply disruptions in the Middle East after Israel stepped up attacks on…

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How the US government can stop ‘churches’ from getting treated like real churches by the IRS

How the US government can stop ‘churches’ from getting treated like real churches by the IRS

The Family Research Council is a conservative advocacy group with a “biblical worldview.” While it has a church ministries department that works with churches from several evangelical Christian denominations that share its perspectives, it does…

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A new immersive cinema is helping firefighters to better prepare for megafires

A new immersive cinema is helping firefighters to better prepare for megafires

As summer approaches, the threat of bushfires looms. Earlier this month, an out-of-control blaze in Sydney’s northern beaches burnt more than 100 hectares of bushland, threatening nearby homes. Climate change is making bushfires larger, hotter…

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Analysis-LME lags rival exchanges as battery metals trading gains momentum By Reuters

Analysis-LME lags rival exchanges as battery metals trading gains momentum By Reuters

By Eric Onstad LONDON (Reuters) – The London Metal Exchange is being left behind in the race to dominate trade in metals used for EV batteries such as lithium and cobalt as other exchanges gain…

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Labor unions are mobilizing in new and old industries alike

Labor unions are mobilizing in new and old industries alike

What do violinists, grocery store clerks, college dorm counselors, nurses, teachers, hotel housekeepers, dockworkers, TV writers, autoworkers, Amazon warehouse workers and Boeing workers have in common? In the past year or so, they’ve all gone…

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NZ’s government plans to lift a ban on gene tech outside the lab – here’s what people think

NZ’s government plans to lift a ban on gene tech outside the lab – here’s what people think

The government’s recently announced plan to end New Zealand’s effective ban on the use of gene technologies outside the laboratory has reignited debate about this historically contested topic. While the government aims to pass legislation…

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Here’s how crude oil prices could rise- Wells Fargo By Investing.com

Here’s how crude oil prices could rise- Wells Fargo By Investing.com

Investing.com – Crude oil prices have retreated of late, but the situation is likely to change soon as US oil production begins to slow, according to Wells Fargo. After being positive for most of 2024,…

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Hurricane Helene power outages leave millions in the dark – history shows poorer areas often wait longest for electricity to be restored

Hurricane Helene power outages leave millions in the dark – history shows poorer areas often wait longest for electricity to be restored

Hurricane Helene left more than 4 million homes and businesses in the dark across Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas after hitting Florida’s Big Bend region as a powerful Category 4 storm late on Sept. 26,…

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