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Jury Duty’s first season convinced a member of the public he was taking part in a documentary about how courts work – but it was really a reality show where everyone else was actors. Its company retreat-based sequel ups the stakes brilliantly If ever there was a TV show that ...

A few things on the end of Horizon Worlds, the metaverse that Mark Zuckerberg believed in so much that he renamed his company:  1) It’s very sad that many of the people who worked on it have been unceremoniously laid off because their leaders appear to have no idea what ...

Tinder plans to let machine vision algorithms loose on your camera roll. Instead of building a profile on their own, AI will scan users’ locally-stored photos—everything from gym selfies to pictures of their family, sensitive documents and dick pics—to help construct profiles by determining what users’ interests and values are. ...

North Oaks, Minnesota is the only city in the United States that is not on Google Maps Street View. YouTube documentarian Chris Parr, who grew up not too far from North Oaks, set out to change that earlier this year. For a brief few days, he literally put North Oaks ...

What does Trump’s Truth Social post after gas field attacks tell us about US-Israeli alignment? ...

The News Jerome Powell came in hot yesterday, as central bankers go: Flatlining job growth is “what the economy needs” given “nonexistent growth in the labor force, which we’ve never had in our history,” he said yesterday. “That is balance [but] not a really comfortable balance.” It was a remarkable ...

Alaa’s view Gulf states have spent the past decade trying to reduce their reliance on oil and gas. But when they begin counting the costs of the Iran war, it is still hydrocarbons – and the vast wealth built on them — that will cushion the economic shock. The war ...

Hadley’s view With Iran now threatening vital economic lifelines across the Gulf — including airports, energy infrastructure, and ports — the idea of collective defense is gaining ground. The notion isn’t new, but it has stalled for decades. The region could use that cooperation now. Qatar’s former prime minister Hamad ...

In a worst-case scenario, $307 billion could be withdrawn from Gulf banks by local residents, according to S&P Global Ratings. Regional banks have about $312 billion in cash or at central banks to cover such outflows, but may be forced to cash out some investments to maintain liquidity. The ratings ...

Gulf patience is not unlimited. This was the main takeaway from an overnight press briefing by Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, after he hosted his counterparts from the Gulf and the wider region in Riyadh. The kingdom was under fire as they met, with the loud booms of ...