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- Amazon Music Pays Creators Twice What Spotify Pays: Top Law Firm Finds
A streaming royalty calculator is causing questions in the music industry, revealing Spotify takes a much bigger cut of gross revenue, and Amazon Music takes no cut at all.
- Luxury Must Amplify Meaning—As Living Well Now Outranks Owning More
In a softening luxury goods market, meaning has become the new currency, reshaping demand, raising expectations and requiring brands to earn the right to be purchased.
- Updated AEW-NJPW Forbidden Door 2026 Match Card After Go-Home Dynamite
A three-way tag team match involving the Young Bucks joined the match card for the AEW-NJPW Forbidden Door pay-per-view.
- Paris court gives oil giant Total Energies half a year to tighten climate policies. Climate activists cry foul
The decision comes in the midst of a brutal heat wave. Climate organizations accuse TotalEnergies of being the biggest historical greenhouse gas emitter.
- Pink Floyd’s Legendary Album Hits A Longevity Milestone
Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here becomes the band's third set to reach 600 weeks on the U.K.'s Official Rock & Metal Albums chart — and second with one iteration.
Technology
- Feds deny Polestar authorization to sell cars in US from model year 2027
Unlike with Volvo, there will be no authorization for Polestar to sell its cars here.
- Repositioning retail for the AI era
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping retail, but not in the ways consumers might immediately notice. The biggest transformation may not be flashy virtual try-ons or chatbot shopping assistants, but in how decisions are made behind the scenes: how products surface in search results, how inventory moves through supply chains, how engineers ship code faster, and…
- Apple ratchets up prices, blames the cost of memory
Some Macs are hundreds of dollars more expensive today than yesterday.
- The "sad inevitability" of Europe's heat wave
Europeans are baking under their second heat wave of the summer.
- New effort will get genome sequences for entire Endangered Species list
Colossal Biosciences will be biobanking tissues from all of them as well.
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