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Kevin Warsh is a reasonable choice for the next Federal Reserve chair. His obvious strength is his previous stint on the Fed during the Global Financial Crisis. He knows the institution and everyone in global central banking circles.

The uncomfortable financial stress on low- and middle-income Americans is evident in the December 2025 consumer delinquency rates.

TikTok Strikes Deal for New U.S. Entity, Ending Long Legal Saga

Headline should definitely include “Oracle” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

The Chinese finance whizz whose DeepSeek AI model stunned the world Liang Wenfeng is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.

Yes, but…. “We’re committed to open source forever,” says Wu.” buff.ly/ebrDmkB

This AI model ‘studied’ physics — and learnt to forecast extreme weather Combining artificial intelligence with a conventional climate model can predict heatwaves faster than the standard model alone.

"They were surprised and impressed to find that one of them, the GraphCast model developed by Google DeepMind in London, would have accurately forecast the event eight days before it occurred." buff.ly/PIzPDql #climateai

In the first half of this year subscribers spent nearly half a billion hours watching the first four seasons. buff.ly/5HyovWH

Precision autonomy for sustainable farming with TRIC Robotics Explore the future of farming with autonomous agtech solutions for sustainable pest control in high-value crops like strawberries.

For TRIC, the critical technical hurdle was navigation.

Many of the rest are only marginally better. FT's here is decent.

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Opinion | I Thought Graham Platner Was Finished. What I Saw in Maine Changed My Mind.

“He was wearing a Dropkick Murphys hoodie, a reminder of the antifascist punk scene he grew up in, which still shapes his worldview.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

The last time executives were broadly optimistic about hiring was the second quarter of 2023... buff.ly/4LoUlii

60% probability of recession from @markzandi and team at @economics_ma buff.ly/VQSCISd

"If elected, Mr. Bresnahan told voters, he would co-sponsor legislation to ban stock trading by members of Congress, a practice he said “needs to come to an end immediately.”"

Still no bill.

Top Ten Holiday Gifts for a Coroner - Christina VandePol Wondering what to get your favorite coroner? My top ten holiday gift ideas for bringing holiday cheer to your local last responders.

Top Ten Holiday Gifts for a Coroner... #7 Skinnier (dead) bodies and #10 Smoke and CO alarms

Hundreds More Nazca Lines Emerge in Peru’s Desert With drones and A.I., researchers managed to double the number of mysterious geoglyphs in a matter of months.

With drones and A.I., researchers managed to double the number of mysterious geoglyphs in a matter of months.
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