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- Dollar carry trades set to trounce world’s booming stock markets
A simple strategy of borrowing in low-yielding currencies like the Japanese yen or the Swiss franc and putting your money in dollars is winning.
- Apple is now selling a $150 sling for your iPhone made by the same designer who created Steve Jobs’ iconic black turtleneck
Steve Jobs once approached Issey Miyake to create a standard uniform for Apple employees.
- In the absence of jobs numbers, slop bowls and fast food can show a lot about the economy
Taken together, they paint a portrait of a cash-strapped consumer.
- The rise of Yann LeCun, the 65-year-old NYU professor who is planning to leave Mark Zuckerberg’s highly paid team at Meta to launch his own AI startup
LeCun is a Turing Award winner and considered one of the pioneers of modern artificial intelligence.
- My Favorite New Superhero Show Isn’t Actually A TV Show At All
Dispatch takes story games to a whole new level, and might just be the best game of the year.
Technology
- US states could lose $21 billion of broadband grants after Trump overhaul
Ernst bill would send broadband grant money to Treasury for deficit reduction.
- Google announces even more AI in Photos app, powered by Nano Banana
Google's Nano Banana is powering a raft of new features in the app.
- You won’t believe the excuses lawyers have after getting busted for using AI
I got hacked; I lost my login; it was a rough draft; toggling windows is hard.
- Pirelli’s Cyber Tire might become highway agencies’ newest assistant
Pirelli's Cyber Tire can work for the greater good as well as the driver.
- The Download: surviving extreme temperatures, and the big whale-wind turbine conspiracy
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The quest to find out how our bodies react to extreme temperatures Climate change is subjecting vulnerable people to temperatures that push their limits. In 2023, about 47,000 heat-related deaths are believed to…
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