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John Oliver Trashes Jay Leno’s Late-Night Advice: ‘Hard Pass’

John Oliver Trashes Jay Leno’s Late-Night Advice: ‘Hard Pass’

John Oliver isn’t interested in Jay Leno’s advice about what today’s late-night hosts are doing wrong. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter out Tuesday, the Last Week Tonight host was asked about Leno’s take that late nights hosts like Oliver, Jon Stewart, Seth Meyers, and others are “cozying too much to one side or the other” in their political …

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RIP to the Macintosh HD hard drive icon, 2000–2025

RIP to the Macintosh HD hard drive icon, 2000–2025

That version of the icon persisted through the Apple Silicon-era Big Sur redesign and was still with us in the first public beta build for macOS 26 Tahoe that Apple released last week. The new beta also updates the icons for external drives (orange, with a USB-C connector on top), network shares (blue, with a globe on top), and removable …

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Trust in US economic data on the line: Easy to lose, hard to restore – Reuters

Trust in US economic data on the line: Easy to lose, hard to restore  Reuters Can we still trust the monthly jobs report? (Update) : The Indicator from Planet Money  NPR America’s Economic Data Disaster Is Worse Than We Thought  Bloomberg.com Lessons from the rest of the world on politicizing economic data  marketplace.org Investing Through a Cloud of Dubious Data  Investopedia Source link

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Google Pixel 10 ‘Soon’ teaser goes hard on iPhone’s AI Siri delays

Google Pixel 10 ‘Soon’ teaser goes hard on iPhone’s AI Siri delays

With a little over two weeks until the announcement, a new Pixel 10 “Soon” teaser from Google heavily needles how Apple hasn’t been able to ship the Siri AI upgrades for the iPhone 16.  The 30-second “Google Pixel 10 | Soon” teaser uploaded on Monday to the Made by Google YouTube channel is set to an instrumental version of “The …

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A hard earned three points: Sounders top Santos Laguna

A hard earned three points: Sounders top Santos Laguna

SEATTLE – The Seattle Sounders claimed consecutive wins for the first time in two months after beating Santos Laguna 2-1 in Leagues Cup action on Sunday. A 75th-minute Georgi Minoungou second-yellow red card and a late Santos goal made things tighter than they should have been, but an 8th-minute own-goal from defender Oscar Ortega and Minoungou’s 72nd-minute goal proved enough …

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Top economist warns the U.S. is ‘on the precipice of recession’ — and it will be hard for the Fed to come to the rescue

Top economist warns the U.S. is ‘on the precipice of recession’ — and it will be hard for the Fed to come to the rescue

The shocking jobs report on Friday wasn’t the only red flag. Indicators from the past week paint an overall picture of an economy that’s headed for a downturn, according to Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi. After months of looking remarkably resilient in the face of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, the economic outlook has suddenly turned gloomier. “The economy is …

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Trump’s Tariffs Are Making Money. That May Make Them Hard to Quit. – The New York Times

Trump’s Tariffs Are Making Money. That May Make Them Hard to Quit.  The New York Times What are tariffs, how do they work and why is Trump using them?  BBC Trump tariffs have netted $20 billion: Where the money comes from  Axios Breakingviews – US policy incoherence sets a tariff trap  Reuters US Takes In $87 Billion From Tariffs In First Half Of 2025  NDTV …

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Prince Harry Denies Punching Prince Andrew So Hard He Made His Nose Bleed

Prince Harry Denies Punching Prince Andrew So Hard He Made His Nose Bleed

A war of words erupted Saturday over shocking claims that Prince Harry punched Prince Andrew so hard he left him with a bloody nose and that Andrew called Harry’s wife, Meghan Markle, an “opportunist.” The allegations were made in an explosive new book, Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, by the highly respected writer and historian …

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