How Misinformation and Partisan ‘New Media’ Changed a California Town
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How Misinformation and Partisan ‘New Media’ Changed a California Town

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines With its horse-trodden roads, endless fields of almond blossoms and cowboy heritage, the 20,000 person town of Oakdale, Calif., fits the American West of imagination. And for decades, its media diet was classically all-American, too. Nightly news broadcasts played on living room televisions….

Sam Altman’s Start-Up Launches Eye-Scanning Crypto Orbs in the U.S.
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Sam Altman’s Start-Up Launches Eye-Scanning Crypto Orbs in the U.S.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Spend enough time in San Francisco, peering into the cyberpunk future, and you may find that weird things start seeming normal. Fleets of self-driving cars? Yawn. A start-up trying to resurrect the woolly mammoth? Sure, why not. Summoning a godlike artificial intelligence that…

Amazon’s Mixed Earnings Report Sends Share Prices Down
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Amazon’s Mixed Earnings Report Sends Share Prices Down

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As much as Amazon may have wanted to dodge the spotlight in President Trump’s trade war, there was no avoiding it for America’s largest online retailer. First, the e-commerce company was entangled in the fleeting spat Tuesday with the White House over a…

At a Dubai Conference, Trump’s Conflicts Take Center Stage
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At a Dubai Conference, Trump’s Conflicts Take Center Stage

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Sitting in front of a packed auditorium in Dubai, a founder of the Trump family cryptocurrency business made a brief but monumental announcement on Thursday. A fund backed by Abu Dhabi, he said, would be making a $2 billion business deal using the…

Trump’s Tariffs Put China’s E-Commerce Superpowers to the Test
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Trump’s Tariffs Put China’s E-Commerce Superpowers to the Test

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Follow live updates on the Trump administration. The auditorium at Alibaba’s headquarters was packed with attendees, leaning against the wall and squeezing onto the stairs. Hundreds of Chinese small-business owners listened raptly as a stream of representatives from Alibaba, the Chinese online shopping…

Amazon Launches First 27 Project Kuiper Internet Satellites
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Amazon Launches First 27 Project Kuiper Internet Satellites

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The battle of billionaires in space between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk is ready to enter a new arena: satellite internet. Amazon, the company that Mr. Bezos started as an online bookseller three decades ago, is now a merchandising behemoth, the owner of…

Opinion | Trump Says He Wants to Save the U.S. Auto Industry. His Policies Could Destroy It.
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Opinion | Trump Says He Wants to Save the U.S. Auto Industry. His Policies Could Destroy It.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump has created what could be called a Luddite trap for the American auto industry: His tariffs aim to protect it from foreign competition, while his domestic policies threaten to cut it off from innovation. Together, they risk leaving U.S. automakers isolated…

Saying ‘Thank You’ to ChatGPT Is Costly. But Maybe It’s Worth the Price.
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Saying ‘Thank You’ to ChatGPT Is Costly. But Maybe It’s Worth the Price.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The question of whether to be polite to artificial intelligence may seem a moot point — it is artificial, after all. But Sam Altman, the chief executive of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI, recently shed light on the cost of adding an extra…

The Cybercriminals Who Organized a 3 Million Crypto Heist
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The Cybercriminals Who Organized a $243 Million Crypto Heist

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A quiet honor student who had recently graduated from Immaculate High School in Danbury, Veer Chetal was about to begin studying at Rutgers University in New Jersey. In 2022, he completed a “future lawyers” program, and a story that year on the Immaculate…