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Can Artificial Intelligence Make Insurance More Affordable?

Can Artificial Intelligence Make Insurance More Affordable?

AI rapidly transforms industries by optimizing processes, enhancing data analytics and creating smarter, more efficient systems. Traditionally, the insurance sector determines pricing by manually analyzing various factors — including coverage type — to calculate risk ...

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How India’s Restructured Rocket Force Makes Conflict With China More Likely

How India’s Restructured Rocket Force Makes Conflict With China More Likely

On March 11, 2024, the Indian government announced that it had successfully tested an Agni-V ballistic missile with ...

Overconfidence In NFL Drafts: A Lesson For Investors

Most NFL general managers (GMs) are optimistic and…

Cocoa Hyperinflation Accelerates As Grindings Show No Demand Destruction

Cocoa hyperinflation is insane. The latest data from the futures…

‘I Worked For Abramovich?’: Soccer Players Were Owned By Oligarch Via Offshore Deals

Former Chelsea owner locked young players across Europe…

This Year’s Cicada Invasion Will Be Double The Trouble

For the first time in more than 200…

How The Pentagon Rewrote Pitch Perfect 3

Pitch Perfect 3 appears on the surface to…

Chinese Organized Crime’s Latest U.S. Target: Gift Cards

Chinese crime rings already dominate the illegal marijuana…

Scientists Create Atomically Thin Gold With Century Old Japanese Knife Making Technique

Scientists Create Atomically Thin Gold With Century-Old Japanese Knife Making Technique

Graphene has been hailed as a wonder material, but it also set off a rush to ...

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The Copper Supply Shortage Is Here

The Copper Supply Shortage Is Here

With the AI boom and green energy push fueling fresh copper demand, and with copper mines aging and not enough projects to match demand with supply, the forecasted copper shortage has finally arrived in earnest. Coupled with persistently high inflation in the US, EU,…

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US Says Two ‘Forever Chemicals’ Are Hazardous, Tells Polluters To Pay

US Says Two ‘Forever Chemicals’ Are Hazardous, Tells Polluters To Pay

The US Environmental Protection Agency on Friday classified two so-called “forever chemicals” as hazardous substances, meaning those responsible for releasing them ...
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How Debt To GDP Ratios Have Changed Since 2000

How Debt-To-GDP Ratios Have Changed Since 2000

  Government debt levels have grown in most parts of the world since the 2008 financial crisis, and even more so ...
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Ringside: How Much Water Will $30 Billion Buy?

Ringside: How Much Water Will $30 Billion Buy?

If raised, Shasta Dam could have been filled to capacity this year, and last year. This article was written by Edward Ring and originally published by The California Globe. So far this year I had the privilege of attending two…

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How To Avoid Human Made Pandemics

How To Avoid Human-Made Pandemics

How do you pitch a news story about people agreeing rigorously with each other? That question was raised by a journalist during a report presentation at the UN by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Independent Task Force on Research with Pandemic Risks. This…

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Bronx Business Leaders Oppose Busway That Would Help 85,000 Riders

Bronx Business Leaders Oppose Busway That Would Help 85,000 Riders

It’s a brawl in the Boogie Down. Some Fordham Road business leaders are giving their top customers a big “Bronx cheer”…

Mapped: The Top U.S. Exports By State

Mapped: The Top U.S. Exports By State

The U.S. exported over $1.3 trillion in goods in 2020, the second-highest amount worldwide. This article was written by NeoMam Studios and originally…

California Home Sales Fall Nearly 21% in June, Signaling Market Cooloff

California Home Sales Fall Nearly 21% In June, Signaling Market Cooloff

Home sales hit lows not seen since the COVID-19 lockdown, Great Recession. According to a new report from the California Association of Realtors…

Existing Home Sales Dive Another 5.4 Percent In June Down Fifth Month

Existing Home Sales Dive Another 5.4 Percent In June, Down Fifth Month

The weakness in housing accelerates further in June. Existing home sales are down 21.1 percent since January. This article was originally…

Is It Time For Canada To Apologize To Libya?

Is It Time For Canada To Apologize To Libya?

Canada said their war in Libya was to defend human rights and enable democracy. But, NATO’s 2011 assault has unleashed a…

US Lawmakers Want FTC To Crack Down On Overpromising And Dishonest VPNs

US Lawmakers Want FTC To Crack Down On Overpromising And Dishonest VPNs

Senator Ron Wyden and Representative Anna Eshoo are urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to take action against abusive and deceptive…

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Weird & Wacky News (26th Edition)

From around the corner, down the street, and up your alley, here are some stories that are hitting the headlines… Dateline:…

Producer Prices Close To Record Levels In June

Producer Prices Close To Record Levels In June

If you’re hoping red-hot inflation will cool down significantly in the coming months, you’re probably going to be disappointed if producer prices provide…

ESPN Subscription Cost Will Jump 43 Next Month

ESPN+ Subscription Cost Will Jump 43% Next Month

Walt Disney co.’s ESPN+ will jack up the monthly price for the live sports streaming service, hoping customers won’t mind shelling…

House Passes $850 Billion NDAA, Adding $37 Billion More Than Biden Requested

House Passes $850 Billion NDAA, Adding $37 Billion More Than Biden Requested

The Senate still has to pass its own version, which will be even bigger, than the two chambers will negotiate the…

Kids Teens Spends More Time On Chinese Platform TikTok Than Google Owned YouTube Globally

Kids, Teens Spends More Time On Chinese Platform TikTok Than Google-Owned YouTube Globally

According to new data, children and teenagers spend an average of 91 minutes per day on the Chinese short-video platform TikTok,…

Teva Pharmaceuticals Reached $24.8 Million Settlement With San Francisco Over Role In City-Wide Opioid Epidemic

Teva Pharmaceuticals Reached $24.8 Million Settlement With San Francisco Over Role In City-Wide Opioid Epidemic

Teva will provide $20 million worth of overdose reversal drug Narcan. San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu announced on Tuesday that…

Payment For Order Flow The SECs Plan To End It

Payment For Order Flow & The SEC’s Plan To End It

“Payment For Order Flow” remains a contention between retail investors and Wall Street. On the one hand, it creates the ability to…

New Job Openings Drop In 47 States, Nationally Down 17 Percent

New Job Openings Drop In 47 States, Nationally Down 17 Percent

LinkUp has interesting charts on job openings. Let’s investigate. LinkUp reports Job Openings Dropped 3% in June. This article was originally published…

The Evolution Of Media: Visualizing A Data-Driven Future

The Evolution Of Media: Visualizing A Data-Driven Future

In today’s highly-connected and instantaneous world, we have access to a massive amount of information at our fingertips. This article was…

Hidden Oil Gems In Los Angeles

Hidden Oil Gems In Los Angeles

In the land of all things holy, weird, and everything in between, Los Angeles is home to endless surprises. Los Angeles…

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Demolish Highways – And Replace Them With What?

As cities convert more of their highways to tunnels, they should apply market-based strategies for reusing the newly-fallow land. This article…

If Inflation Doesnt Rapidly Dissipate Gold Prices Will Prove Dramatically Undervalued

If Inflation Doesn’t Rapidly Dissipate, Gold Prices Will Prove Dramatically Undervalued

Volatility in the markets this year has largely been driven by the rise in inflation. So if rapidly rising price pressures…