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☆ The ‘Star Wars’ timeline is confusing. Here’s when ‘The Acolyte,’ ‘Ahsoka’ and more take place
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

Worry not, padawans: CNN has laid out a comprehensive timeline of the “Star Wars” canon so you can follow all of the franchise’s time-jumps without getting lost in space. These details are pulled from the official “Star Wars” resources “Ultimate Star Wars” and “Star Wars Character Encyclopedia,” as well as a chart of the eras explored throughout the franchise. ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ (animated series)Ahsoka is Anakin's padawan in "The Clone Wars," and he lovingly calls her "Snips." ‘Star Wars Rebels’Kanan Jarrus, Zeb Orrelios and Sabine Wren take on the Empire in "Star Wars Rebels." ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’Heroes attempt to find the plans to blow up the Death Star in "Rogue One."

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☆ OCD made me question every aspect of my identity — even my sexuality. Here's how I overcame it and found the love of my life.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Elle Warren | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

For almost 10 years, I struggled with a type of OCD known as sexual orientation OCD (SO-OCD). When I moved to a progressive city, I accepted my queerness and now I'm engaged to the woman I love. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementAlegra Kastens, LMFT, founder of the Center for OCD, Anxiety, and Eating Disorders, told me: "OCD doesn't exist in a vacuum. She had a queer friend who lived in the building, and that friend flirted with me.

Persons: —, I'd, You've, Alegra, queerness Organizations: Service, Michigan Locations: Denver

☆ Your Google Docs are (probably) safe from AI training
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-09 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Google Docs that are publicly available have been used to train Google's AI. But just what is a "publicly available" Google Doc? AdvertisementI use Google Docs like a chaos gremlin: constantly and with a nihilistic approach to organization and labeling. That's why I was alarmed when it was revealed that Google had been using "publicly available" Google Docs to train its artificial intelligence. So, for now, unless you're tweeting out links to your spreadsheets, your Google Docs were probably not used for any AI training or considered otherwise to be "publicly available."

Persons: —, Katie Notopoulos, that's Organizations: Google, Service, Business

☆ Opinion: The problem with Beyoncé’s ‘Jolene’
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-04 | by ( Opinion Holly Thomas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

It’s hardly my place to conclude how much of Beyoncé’s riff on “Jolene” is autobiographical, but I think we can safely assume she wants us to guess. That approach applies perfectly to country music (though she insists “Cowboy Carter” is “a ‘Beyoncé’ album,” not a country album). In “Daughter,” the track that follows “Jolene” on “Cowboy Carter,” Beyoncé continues on the theme of adultery. Whether or not Beyoncé’s “Jolene” has anything to do with her real life — or anyone’s — I think it’s a mistake to see it as a departure from Parton’s version. For someone cycling through the stages of post-cheating grief, Beyoncé’s “Jolene” reads like the “anger” prequel to Dolly’s “bargaining” “Jolene.” As listeners, the point isn’t to imitate either of them, or to know the roots of every phrase.

Persons: Holly Thomas, Katie Couric, CNN —, Holly Thomas Holly Thomas, Beyoncé’s, Dolly Parton’s, Jolene, ”, Cowboy Carter, Jolene — she’s, Parton, “, Beyoncé, don’t, ” Beyoncé, Azealia Banks, Jay, I’m, Tina, Jolene ”, Cowboy Carter ”, Dolly, Becky, Z, She’s, Becky ”, coos Organizations: Katie Couric Media, CNN Locations: London, Houston, Louisiana

☆ Polar ice is melting and changing Earth’s rotation. It’s messing with time itself
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Laura Paddison | Rachel Ramirez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Exactly when that will happen is being influenced by humans, according to a new study, as melting polar ice alters the Earth’s rotation and changes time itself. The hours and minutes that dictate our days are determined by Earth’s rotation. But after a long trend of slowing, the Earth’s rotation is now speeding up. Melting polar ice is slowing the impact on Earth’s rotation and has delayed the date by three years, pushing it from 2026 to 2029, the report found. Changes in Earth’s rotation over the long term have been dominated by the friction of the tides on the ocean floor — which has slowed down its rotation.

Persons: Patrizia, ”, Duncan Agnew, Agnew, Ted Scambos, ” Agnew, “, Olivier Morin, Scambos Organizations: CNN, Time Department, International Bureau, University of California San, University of Colorado Boulder Locations: France, University of California San Diego, Scoresby Fjord, Greenland, AFP

☆ The rise of the job-search bots
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Aki Ito | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +18 min

Unlike the other bots, which ingested job openings into their own sites, LazyApply submitted applications via external job boards. AdvertisementUnlike the other bots, LazyApply did all the applying in real time, right in front of my eyes. Hugo Herrera for BISo far, though, it looks like the arrival of job bots is only making the problem worse. But the job bots at LazyApply and other services never get tired. Still, I came away from my time among the job-search bots feeling the way I do about much of AI.

Persons: they're, hadn't, Sonara, Hugo Herrera, LazyApply, American Aki, Aki Ito, Carlson, Boston Globe —, CareerBuilder, Tony Riggins, I've, Teal, Marc Cenedella, Cenedella, John Henry, —, didn't, it's, Bob, you'd, Emily Lamia, Lamia, she's, underpaid Organizations: BI, AK, Boston Globe, Employers, Bloomberg, The Boston Globe, Facebook, YouTube, Business Locations: America, American, That's

☆ Meet the DIPS parents: Double Income, Public School. They've got it better than the POLKs, or Parents of Little Kids.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-25 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

But the double whammy of housing plus childcare costs doesn't hit all parents — just parents of very young kids. However, after-school programs or an afternoon babysitter are typically a fraction of the cost of full-time day care.) I propose we call them: DIPS, or Double Income, Public School. For example, Massachusetts has the highest average childcare costs, where day care for an infant is $24,472. I'm stuck in between — one kid in public school and a younger one still in day care.

Persons: —, Alcynna Lloyd, Lloyd, Zillow, it's, I'm, Rich, Stanley, you'll, they'll, POLK Organizations: Service, Business, Public School, Kids, Nationwide Locations: Los Angeles, San Diego, California, Massachusetts, Iowa, In Massachusetts

☆ Market leadership is getting even narrower as the 'Magnificent 4' takes over
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( Bob Pisani | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Meta's strong earnings has been a major factor in pushing up overall S & P 500 earnings estimates. The S & P 500 is up 4% for the year, but the equal-weight S & P 500 is up only 0.2%. Only about half the stocks in the S & P 500 are up this year. The two main small-cap indices, the Russell 2000 and the S & P SmallCap 600 , are both down 3% for the year. "If the S & P 500 was the Mag 7, it would be trading above 10k now."

Persons: Russell, we've Organizations: Nvidia, Microsoft, New York Stock Exchange, Software, NVIDIA, Apple

☆ You’ve Planned Your Play. Now Play Your Plan.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Sam Sifton | More About Sam Sifton | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

For those of us who take Thanksgiving seriously, who plan and plan and cook and cook, this last Sunday before the feast marks the real start of the holiday. I’m short two dozen chairs!) That’s OK. Everything will turn out just fine. I trust the process. So I’ll spend a few hours working my plan and then turn to a simple dinner of chicken thighs cooked under a brick with a cheesy Hasselback potato gratin (above) on the side, a dress rehearsal for a new drop on Thursday.

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☆ I was drowning in student-loan debt, so I bought a house and flipped it. I used the profit to pay off my loans.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( Ryan Crawley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Since I couldn't pay down my debt, I bought a house, flipped it, and then sold it. I used the money I made to pay off all of my student loans, and now I feel free. Between rent, utilities, car insurance, and student loans, I was breaking even every month. I wondered how I could pay back my student loans within a few years instead of decades, and I started brainstorming ways I could save money. I immediately paid off all of my student loansWith the money from the sale, I brought my student-loan debt down to zero.

Persons: Sallie Mae, I'd, I'm Organizations: HGTV Locations: Lake Thunderbird , Illinois

Our experts answer readers' student loan questions and write unbiased product reviews (here's how we assess student loans). I had my own student loan repayment journey after amassing nearly $70,000 in student loan debt. I realized that my student loan payment amount could be used to pay my condo fees on a home that I owned and in which I was building equity. 3 steps I took to pay off $70,000 in student loan debt1. I chose to double my paymentsMy student loan payment was $450 and I doubled it every month.

Persons: — Organizations: Service, College of Charleston, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford Locations: Wall, Silicon, Charleston , South Carolina, Charleston, New York

☆ This Vietnamese automaker is worth more than Ford and GM. But it hasn’t sold many cars
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Vietnamese electric vehicle company Vinfast is already more valuable than Ford (F) and GM (GM), based on its stock price, despite just entering the US market. For one thing, when critics got the chance to drive the company’s first US-bound product, the VF8 electric SUV, the resulting reviews weren’t what any automaker would hope for. The VF-8 electric vehicle from VinFast, a Vietnamese automaker producing electric cars and SUVs, is displayed at their showroom in Santa Monica, California, on September 13, 2022. In 2022, VinFast sold 24,000 cars globally. By comparison, Volkswagen Group sold 8.3 million vehicles in 2022 and Ford sold 4.2 million.

Persons: ”, Miguel Cortina, MotorTrend, Arstecnica, ” VinFast, Apu Gomes, Cortina, VinFast, VinGroup, Vinhomes Organizations: CNN, Ford, GM, Getty, Paris, South, Hyundai, Kia, Volkswagen Group, VinGroup Locations: Santa Monica , California, AFP, California, Vietnam, VinUni

☆ Fact Check-Satirical video of ankle monitor for kids taken seriously
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Video endorsing an ankle monitor for children was intended as satire and does not show an authentic product, the content creator said in an email to Reuters. The video shows a person picking up a product called “my first ankle monitor” manufactured by “little yikes” and then testing it on their toddler. The video was originally posted by a page called “Legboot” across their social media accounts (here), (here) and (here). A closer look at the packaging of the ankle monitor reveals a “Legboot” logo at the bottom right corner. Ankle monitor for children is not an authentic product and was created as parody.

Persons: ”, Read Organizations: Reuters, Walmart, Facebook Locations: Shampooty

☆ How to Improve a Summer Tomato Sandwich? Furikake.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Sam Sifton | More About Sam Sifton | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There may be no better summer sandwich than a tomato one, on white bread smeared wall-to-wall with mayonnaise and sprinkled lightly with flaky salt and a little cracked black pepper. But as he so often does when he’s cooking, Eric Kim recently came up with a few tweaks that take things to new heights. For his sandwich (above), in addition to lightly toasting the bread (that’s a yikes for some), Eric adds to his salt and pepper a sprinkle of furikake, the savory-sweet Japanese spice blend and rice seasoning. The seaweed in the mixture, he wrote for The New York Times Magazine, “amps up the tomato’s savoriness, intensifying the harmony of fruit, carb and condiment.”Excellent! (Will I go further off-piste and add a sautéed soft-shell crab to each of the sandwiches?

Persons: Eric Kim, Eric, Will Organizations: The New York Times Magazine Locations: furikake

☆ While women's soccer boasts fierce LGBT advocates, FIFA reviews transgender rules
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Lori Ewing | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Critics of transgender inclusion in women's sport say going through male puberty imbues athletes with a huge physical advantage that transition does not mitigate. The U.S. women's team, including Rapinoe, famously lost 5-2 to an under-15 FC Dallas boys team in an informal training match in 2017. In much of the world, trans people are just lucky to stay alive. LGBT advocates say the debate over transgender inclusion in women's sport has also made for an increasingly hostile environment for gender diverse people in North America. According to LGBT website Outsports, a record of at least 87 out players will compete at the World Cup, more than double the 38 who played in the 2019 version.

Persons: Megan Rapinoe, Martina Navratilova, Rapinoe, Navratilova, Sue Bird, Joanna Harper, Nilla Fischer, Barbra Banda, Quinn, Sarah Gregorius, FIFPRO, You've, Lori Ewing, Nick Mulvenney, Michael Perry Organizations: Athletics, Aquatics, FIFA, trailblazer, WNBA, FC Dallas boys, Reuters, Equatorial, Zambia, Nations, Canada, Toronto Star, England, Thomson Locations: MANCHESTER, England, Australia, New Zealand, U.S, Canadian, Equatorial Guinea, North America, Tokyo

☆ Meta could become even more dominant in social media with Threads
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Washington CNN —In less than 48 hours, Meta’s Twitter rival Threads has surpassed 70 million sign-ups, upended the social media landscape and appears to have rattled Twitter enough that it is now threatening legal action against Meta. By promoting Threads through Instagram, and by sharing Instagram user data with Threads to let people instantly recreate their social networks, Meta has significantly greased the onboarding process. The issue isn’t limited to the realm of social media. Rather than viewing it through the lens of a social media market, one helpful way to look at the issue is from the perspective of the advertising market, he said. That could lead to further antitrust scrutiny for Meta even if the question about competition in social media is ambiguous.

Persons: Elon, Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, ”, Instagram, Musk, ” Reddit, Alexis Ohanian, Ohanian, Agustin Reyna, Reyna, Adam Mosseri, Geoffrey Manne, ” Manne, Zuckerberg, Manne, Jeff Blattner, Mosseri, Charlotte Slaiman, “ Organizations: Washington CNN, Meta, Twitter, EU, Google, Center for Law Locations: Europe, Brussels, Portland , Oregon, Washington

☆ Outdoor Voices founder is mocking the athletic brand on social media after her contentious ouster 3 years ago
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Haney founded the activewear brand in 2013 and stepped down as CEO in 2020. She founded Outdoor Voices in 2013 as a direct-to-consumer activewear apparel brand catering to everyday women who participate in recreational activities like jogging and leisure hikes. Outdoor Voices had raised $64 million in funding, reached a $110 million valuation, and gained a cult following of millennial women. Tyler Haney founded the activewear brand Outdoor Voices in 2013. Haney and Outdoor Voices did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

Persons: Tyler Haney, Haney, —, Guy Raz, Mickey Drexler, Rick Kern, Emily Weiss, Away's Jen Rubio, Gabrielle Conforti Organizations: Service, OG, Outdoor, Getty, New York Times, Outdoor Voices, Urban Outfitters, TechCrunch

☆ Wearing Apple's Vision Pro for 30 minutes put a big red mark on the forehead of WSJ's gadget reviewer
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Nicholas Carlson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Wall Street Journal gadget reviewer Joanna Stern got to try out Apple's new Vision Pro. Stern's video then zooms in, the contrast and lighting shifts, and you see this…WSJ tech reviewer's forehead looks red after she wore an Apple Vision Pro WSJ/Joanna Stern/YouTubeYikes! Apple told Stern any discomfort she encountered after wearing Vision Pro goggles may have been because it only had limited-sized "light seals" at the demonstration space. Apple's Vision Pro is constructed of aluminum alloy and a snazzy single piece of exterior glass, which is why it looks so much nicer than the competition. Apple's new Vision Pro headset was announced on Monday at the company's WWDC conference.

Persons: Joanna Stern, Stern, Apple, Ben Gilbert, Apple It's Organizations: Wall, Apple Vision, Apple

☆ Travel news: Best airlines, city break inspirations and ambitious bridges
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( Maureen O'Hare | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —In CNN Travel’s latest news roundup, we bring you the world’s best airlines for 2023, city break inspiration from Texas to Mongolia to Ecuador and why China might have overstretched itself by building a 15-mile, $6.7 billion bridge. Air New Zealand – which just topped a list of 2023’s best airlines – is on the case by asking all of its international departing travelers to hop on the scales as part of a passenger weight survey, the results of which are thankfully anonymous. Destination inspirationPop quiz: What was the world’s first capital city be listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site? And now that the country’s president has vowed to revitalize the city, the future’s looking bright, too. Here’s our roundup of 20 of the world’s best nude beaches.

Persons: CNN —, CNN Travel’s, Genghis, Kublai, it’s, Richard Linklater’s, Matthew McConaughey’s, San, Trevi Fountain, Venice, ”, Mount Everest’s Organizations: CNN, Air, Zealand, Federal Aviation Administration, Airbus, UNESCO, Developers, Pride Locations: Texas, Mongolia, Ecuador, China, United States, America, Rome, Athens, Quito, Inca, Karakorum, Austin , Texas, Bay Area, San Francisco, New York, Rwanda, Kigali, Dubai, Nantucket, Mount

☆ 'It's like watching a snuff film': Media elites shocked by The Atlantic's surgical dismantling of CNN boss Chris Licht
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( Nicholas Carlson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

("I'm a fucking machine," Licht told me one day, when I asked why he was skipping a meal.) A clear-the-air town hall where he gets irritated with the CNN journalist interviewing him. Licht told Alberta. The big blunder Alberta returns to over and over in the story is the May 10 Trump town hall. Another media big wig, but one not at the conference, told me he thinks Licht is "done" at CNN.

Persons: moly, Chris Licht, Tim Alberta, Matt Dornic, Licht, Joe Maysonet, chirping, Zucker, Jeff Zucker, Here's Licht, Whatsapp, —, isn't, it's, Nikki Haley, Lago Organizations: CNN, Facebook, Alberta, Trump, Capitol, cnn, Cnn, Mar Locations: Alberta, Hudson, COVID, Puck, Trump, American

☆ Pedro Pascal says he got an eye infection from fans recreating his ‘Game of Thrones’ death scene
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —When it comes to weird fan interactions, Pedro Pascal wins. During roundtable with The Hollywood Reporter, Pascal had a chat with Jeff Bridges, Kieran Culkin, Damson Idris, Michael Imperioli, and Evan Peters. Talk turned to some interesting encounters with viewers of their shows. “And then I remember getting a bit of an eye infection.”Yikes! During the fourth season of the hit HBO series, Pascal’s character is killed by Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane (played by Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson), who gouges his eyes out before cracking his skull.

☆ A scientist scraped a black dot on his forehead and filmed it under a microscope, revealing dozens of crawling face mites
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Erin Heger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

He saw dozens of tiny face mites, aka Demodex mites, crawling around on the plate. This is more common in people with weakened immune systems that can't keep the population of Demodex mites under control. You can't get rid of face mites, and you shouldn't want toBecause Demodex mites live inside your pores, it's nearly impossible to scrub them out, Robinson said. Our face mites are a testament to that. Check out more footage of these face mites in the video below:

☆ 10 Things in Tech: Best side hustles, Tesla Roadsters, and ChatGPT stylist
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

After just a few short years of hype, the metaverse is already headed for the graveyard of failed tech ideas. The metaverse, according to Zuckerberg, was supposed to be the next evolution of the internet and our tech lives. But the rise and fall of the metaverse can teach us some important lessons about the tech industry as a whole. All the tech companies citing AI in their layoff announcements. Many major tech companies like Google and IBM even mentioned AI in their layoff announcements.

☆ Wells Fargo is pushing for quantity over quality in its private bank
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Which brings us to a fantastic story about Wells Fargo's decision to reorganize how it serves its ultra-rich clients. And while many understood some changes were necessary, nearly everyone agreed the bank didn't go about it the right way. Read more about Wells Fargo's chaotic reorganization of its private bank. It's the latest move in what has been an active 12 months for the bank's tech division. The accounting firm had signed off on financial statements from Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic, the Financial Times reports.

☆ The Star Wars timeline: All movies and shows in chronological order
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

These details are pulled from the official “Star Wars” resources “Ultimate Star Wars” and “Star Wars Character Encyclopedia,” as well as experts from outlets like USA Today and the AV Club. ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ (animated series)Ahsoka is Anakin's padawan in "The Clone Wars," and he lovingly calls her "Snips." ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’"Solo" shows how Han and Chewie became best friends. ‘Star Wars Rebels’Kanan Jarrus, Zeb Orrelios and Sabine Wren take on the Empire in "Star Wars Rebels." ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’Heroes attempt to find the plans to blow up the Death Star in "Rogue One."

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