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The 2-month-old female pygmy hippo has become an internet star. A bakery in Bangkok said Sunday on Facebook that it would have to limit orders for its Moo Deng look-alike cakes because demand was so high. Other videos of Moo Deng on the TikTok account also have millions of views. Pygmy hippos have been classified as an endangered species, with their numbers dwindling from poaching and just 2,000 of them believed to be alive in the wild, according to the Pygmy Hippo Foundation. An adult pygmy hippo can live up to 50 years and reach half the height of a full-size hippo.

Persons: Moo Deng, ”, Athit Perawongmetha, Moo Deng’s, Moo Deng chomping, veggies, Narongwit Chodchoi Organizations: Thai Embassy, Facebook Locations: Thailand, Chonburi, Tokyo, Bangkok

☆ Jim Cramer says Nvidia gets a do-over on Wall Street — and another big move looms
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Wall Street appears to have given Nvidia a mulligan. A number of positive headlines around AI demand have lifted Nvidia and other stocks that benefit from the adoption of the buzzy tech. "There's kind of a do-over in terms of what happened with [CEO Jensen Huang], what happened with Nvidia," Cramer said on "Squawk on the Street," referring to the response to its much-ballyhooed earnings report Aug. 28 . The Investing Club also has a stake in Broadcom, which like Nvidia had been punished after its recent earnings report. Advanced Micro Devices , another AI chipmaker, and Eaton , which makes electrical equipment used in the expanding data center market, have added about 13% and 7%, respectively, this week.

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☆ On this island in Italy, people often live to 100—here are 4 of their key habits for a long, happy life
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-12 | by ( Raeleen D'Agostino Mautner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

They comprise what's called a "Blue Zone," an area of the world where people tend to live exceptionally long lives. Longevity researcher Dr. Giovanni Mario Pes and his colleagues discovered that happy, productive centenarians were not outliers in this part of Sardinia. Here are some practices that may be linked to their exceptional longevity — and may help the rest of us live longer, healthier lives. Sardinians 'eat fresh, home-cooked meals'You won't find most elders in this Blue Zone chomping on a fast-food hamburger with one hand on a steering wheel. There are no additives or preservatives when they make their own pasta or bread, like pistoccu bread or su coccoi sourdough bread.

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☆ San Diego Zoo shares first look at new giant pandas following their arrival in US
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Kaila Nichols | Amanda Musa | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

CNN —San Diego’s newest giant pandas are acclimating well to their new state-side home, the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance said Tuesday. The zoo shared first-look photos of the pair, Yun Chuan and Xin Bao, who are the first giant pandas to enter the United States in 21 years, according to the zoo. Since their arrival in the Golden State on June 27, the zoo says, “They are acclimating well to their new home in a private habitat and will not be viewable to the public for several weeks.”Yun Chuan is a nearly five-year-old male who can be identified by his "long, slightly pointed nose," the zoo said. San Diego Zoo Wildlife AlliancePhotos of the new residents show Yun Chuan chomping on a blade of grass and Xin Bao lounging in her enclosure. CNN’s Jessie Yeung, Manveena Suri and Fred He contributed to this report.

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☆ A ‘House of the Dragon’ Party Without a Silvery Wig in Sight
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Nancy Coleman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Where does the story pick up this season on HBO’s fantasy epic “House of the Dragon”? “So,” the actor Tom Glynn-Carney told a reporter on Monday night at the Season 2 premiere at Manhattan’s Hammerstein Ballroom, everything “hits the fan.”His character in the “Game of Thrones” prequel, the newly crowned King Aegon II Targaryen, holds a grip on the throne that is tenuous at best. His brother has just killed their nephew in what could best be described as death by dragon chomp. And his sister Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen is on the brink of going nuclear — as Targaryens tend to do — likely with more dragon chomping. Even as Mr. Glynn-Carney, Matt Smith and other “Dragon” actors laid out the violence in store for the new season — which returns June 16 — the show’s impending civil war stood in stark contrast to the evening’s cocktails and joviality, with not a single silvery wig in sight.

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☆ I always wear my engagement and wedding rings. Men still don't believe I'm married.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-01 | by ( Julie Charnet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read preview"I'll have a gin and tonic," I'd told the bartender after taking the last seat at the bar. I sat down and texted my husband, Jon, that I'd made it to the jazz club. Advertisement"Oh, no thanks, I'm waiting for my husband," I disclosed — raising my left hand with wedding and engagement rings. Later, when my tongue hit the ice in my glass, I heard him say,"I don't think you're married, or your husband isn't coming." Rick looked up at him.

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☆ Amazon is pouring big bucks into geek culture — and Critical Role's Matt Mercer just dropped a major hint about the series fans have been waiting for
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewTo all the Critters, as members of the Critical Role fandom are known, I come bearing excellent news. The cast of Critical Role has remained tight-lipped about "The Legend of The Mighty Nein," their second Amazon-backed animated series. For the uninitiated, Critical Role is a juggernaut in the tabletop roleplaying game industry. "We're heavy in development on Campaign Two's animated series right now, and it's coming along so well," Mercer told me. Advertisement"Things that we didn't get to see in the campaign, we now get to explore as part of the animated series," Mercer said.

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☆ Sam Altman's act may be wearing thin
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . In today's big story, we're looking into how some in Silicon Valley are starting to sour on OpenAI's Sam Altman . AdvertisementFrom hardball tactics when raising funds to relentless self-mythologizing about his role in the future of tech, Altman's act is wearing thin on some . Even VCs uninterested in AI deals are quickly becoming servants to Altman's AI empire. Big market, fall hard.

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Though one of the most potent and long-running (or at least long-stomping) forces in movies, Godzilla has never before rubbed elbows at the Academy Awards. At the Oscar luncheon, Steven Spielberg warmly greeted Yamazaki and told him he had seen “Godzilla Minus One” three times. But “Godzilla Minus One” returns to the essential nature of Godzilla as a sober symbol of nuclear holocaust and atomic trauma. My intent was to put a spotlight on what Godzilla represented.”In “Godzilla Minus One,” just as WWII is ending, Godzilla is growing. But unlike more broadly blockbuster-styled Godzilla films, “Godzilla Minus One” is rigorously rooted in a Japanese perspective.

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And it certainly wouldn’t be the first time states have lent a hand to Abbott to help border security efforts. Kevin Stitt also sent National Guard troops to the border last year – about 50 of them each – to, at least symbolically, bolster Abbott’s efforts. “[Abbott] is exactly right to invoke Texas’ constitutional authority to defend itself,” she said in a statement. “It's unfortunate that there is a governor in Texas, Governor Abbott, who has politicized this issue of what's happening on the border. “Governor Greg Abbott is using the Texas National Guard to obstruct and create chaos at the border,” Rep. Joaquin Castro, Texas Democrat, said in a statement.

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☆ A 'Sesame Street' puppet wrangler says she bakes real cookies for Cookie Monster, though you probably wouldn't want to eat them
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

It turns out Cookie Monster is chomping down on real cookies when he's on-screen. AdvertisementSesame Street's Cookie Monster really loves his namesake treats, but you'd probably lose your appetite once you find out the recipe for it. The company's co-founder, Jim Henson, created the furry character in 1966 for a General Foods Canada commercial. AdvertisementThough the cookies aren't exactly edible, David Rudman, who has been playing Cookie Monster since 2001, is all praise for MacLean's recipe. Representatives for The Jim Henson Company did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.

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Interest rates for long-term borrowing for capital improvements also would be less costly for Pine Tree Power. The anger and frustration from electric ratepayers in Maine is a far cry from the days when Iberdrola bought Central Maine Power, the state’s largest electric utility. The privately operated, nonprofit Pine Tree Power utility would contract with a private grid operator through a competitive bidding process. But Pine Tree Power would face some of the same constraints as CMP and Versant. And, like the existing utilities, Pine Tree Power would have no control over the actual cost of electricity, which comprises about half of consumers' monthly bills.

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Get prepared to watch Rangers vs. Diamondbacks live streams with the tips we'll share below. Where to watch Rangers vs. Diamondbacks live streams in the USIn the US, the World Series will be exclusively broadcast on Fox. How to watch Rangers vs. Diamondbacks in CanadaSportsnet Plus is streaming all 2023 World Series games in Canada. How to watch Rangers vs. Diamondbacks in AustraliaESPN is your destination for 2023 World Series innings in Australia. World SeriesFriday, Oct. 27 — World Series Game 1: Diamondbacks vs. Rangers, 8:03 p.m.

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HOUSTON (AP) — Max Scherzer is set to pitch another Game 7 in Houston with visiting teams undefeated in the series. Texas also won Games 1 and 2 in Houston. Cristian Javier, the Game 3 winner when the defending World Series champion Astros won 8-5, will pitch again for Houston. The 26-year-old right-hander is 6-1 with a 2.08 ERA in 16 postseason games, winning all four of his starts. You look at matchups and things like that, but they’re all ready to go.”Scherzer will be making his 24th postseason start for five different teams.

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☆ A New Era of Psychedelics in Oregon
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Mike Baker | More About Mike Baker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In a carpeted office suite, Alex Beck settled onto a mattress and, under the watch of a trained guide, began chomping through a handful of “Pumpkin Hillbilly” mushrooms. Now he was ready for a different kind of journey, a psychedelic trip through the nether regions of his own mind. As he felt his thoughts starting to spin, his “facilitator,” Josh Goldstein, urged him to surrender and let the mushrooms guide him. Stigmatized in law and medicine for the past half-century, psychedelics are in the midst of a sudden revival, with a growing body of research suggesting that the mind-altering compounds could upend psychiatric care. Governments in several places have cautiously started to open access, and as Oregon voters approved a broad drug decriminalization plan in 2020, they also backed an initiative to allow the use of mushrooms as therapy.

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“I do intend to file a motion to vacate against Speaker McCarthy this week. But now, knowing full well he’s likely to soon face a so-called motion to vacate vote, McCarthy is taking his detractors head-on – and in increasingly combative terms. If the Senate bill advanced, McCarthy would have a harder time arguing his bill was the solution. 3 Senate Republican, opposed the Senate bill, breaking with McConnell, according to a source familiar with the matter. But that wasn’t enough to convince House Democrats to oppose the funding bill with a shutdown looming.

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☆ TikTok Shop-ocalypse hits food sellers as the platform cracks down on homemade goods like freeze-dried candy
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Dan Whateley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

TikTok added new language to its product policies earlier this month for its recently launched e-commerce platform TikTok Shop, boxing out merchants who sell homemade food items like candy. Linares garnered over 1,400 sales through TikTok Shop in the last month, per documentation viewed by Insider. Freeze-dried candies have become a massive category and a big business on TikTok Shop. Users have already purchased thousands of freeze-dried products through TikTok Shop, per sales tallies visible to users in the app. 'TikTok Shop can really giveth and they can really taketh away'This isn't the first time Wilkerson's store has been dinged by TikTok Shop.

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☆ NFL Week 2: How to watch and Sunday’s top picks
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Hannah Brewitt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —The NFL season is in full swing. After an opening week filled with both excitement and disappointment, Week 2 began on Thursday with the Philadelphia Eagles’ victory over the Minnesota Vikings. Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow, left, is hit by Cleveland Browns safety Grant Delpit on September 10, 2023 in Cleveland. The Monday Night Football double-feature is the first of three this season, occurring again in Week 3 and Week 14. Australia: NFL+, ESPN, 7PlusBrazil: NFL+, ESPNCanada: NFL+, CTV, TSN, RDSGermany: NFL+, ProSieben MAXX, DAZNMexico: NFL+, TUDN, ESPN, Fox Sports, Sky SportsUK: NFL+, Sky Sports, ITV, Channel 5US: NFL+, CBS, NBC, FOX, ESPN, Amazon Prime

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☆ Trump’s Mug Shot Is a Natural Fit in the History of Presidential Portraits - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Cara Finnegan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

If Adams worried about the photographs he posed for, later presidents worried about the photographs they didn’t consent to. It’s well known that the White House sought to keep evidence of Franklin Roosevelt’s physical disability out of sight, but advisers were also anxious that even the most routine candid shot might make him look bad. As the first social media president, Barack Obama walked the line between control and interactivity. The administration took advantage of nearly every new social media outlet as it emerged. In addition, White House photographers, led by Pete Souza, built a huge visual archive of presidential photographs shared in real time on Flickr.

Persons: Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin, Roosevelt, Barack Obama, Pete Souza Organizations: White, Photography, White House, Flickr

☆ Here's the trade on Meta ahead of earnings, according to top analysts
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Brian Evans | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The forthcoming quarterly results from Meta Platforms on Wednesday have analysts chomping at the bit. Ahead of Meta's second-quarter results on Wednesday after the closing bell, here's how some analysts on Wall Street are trading the social media behemoth. Citi analyst Ronald Josey reiterated a buy rating on Meta stock on Tuesday, accompanied by a $360 per share price target. META YTD mountain Meta stock has surged nearly 150% from the start of the year. Bank of America's Justin Post reiterated his buy rating on Meta stock in a July 17 note with a $350 per share price target, similarly to Nowak.

Persons: Ronald Josey, Josey, Morgan Stanley's Brian Nowak, Nowak, of America's Justin Post, Post, — CNBC's Michael Bloom Organizations: Meta, Facebook, JPMorgan, FactSet, Citi, Microsoft, of America's

☆ Patrol dogs are terrorizing and mauling prisoners inside the United States
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Hannah Beckler | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +64 min

But prison patrol dogs aren't deployed for chases; they are used inside the prison walls. Tri-State Canines training facility, Warren, OhioVirginia Department of Corrections patrol dogs are typically Belgian Malinois, Czech shepherds, or German shepherds. Department patrol dogs are trained to bite once and hold to minimize flesh tears and lacerations. Patrol dog kennels, Virginia Department of CorrectionsThe patrol dog kennels are even smaller, at 6 feet by 10. A veterinary technician who treated patrol dogs at a clinic in Lebanon, Virginia, said she was told not to touch the patrol dogs in her care without their handler present.

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☆ Fox News anchors are practically begging Trump to participate in their GOP presidential debate next month
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Fox News personalities are chomping at the bit for Donald Trump to participate in their GOP debate. Several Fox News anchors are practically begging former President Donald Trump to attend their GOP presidential debate on August 23 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, The Washington Post reported. "When you have a big lead, you don't do it," Trump told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo last week. When the network hosted a GOP debate in August 2015 (wherein Trump famously sparred with Megyn Kelly), the network drew in 24 million views, the Post reported. When Trump pulled out of another Fox debate months later, the network logged about half as many views.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Maria Bartiromo, Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, John Roberts, Piers Morgan, Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, Doocy, he's, Kilmeade, Fox, Frank Luntz, Megyn Kelly Organizations: Fox, Fox News, Trump, Washington, The Washington Post, GOP, Post, Dominion Locations: Milwaukee , Wisconsin

☆ British workers keep getting pay raises — despite the Bank of England urging them not to ask for more money
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Elliot Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Both Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey and U.K. Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt on Monday told an audience in the City of London that high wage settlements were harming their efforts to contain inflation. Much of the increase in pay has been driven by the private sector, with annual wage growth increasing to 7.6% in the three months to April. However, Bank of England Governor Bailey noted in his Mansion House speech on Monday that the British economy has proven unexpectedly resilient. Last summer saw a slew of strikes and protests as real wages, which reflect the power of a worker's pay after accounting for inflation, declined at a record rate. "No question about it, current nominal wage growth remains far too high relative to the sustainable rate of probably around 3.5-4.0% yoy.

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Silicon Valley is bracing for what it fears will be an "extinction event" threatening the survival of hundreds of startups. Tom Loverro, a investor at 40-year-old Bay Area venture capital firm IVP, has been loudly warning for months on Twitter and in media interviews about a coming "mass extinction event" for startups. The total volume of venture capital investment into US startups has slumped for six consecutive quarters, according to data firm Pitchbook. Even a last-ditch slashing of the startup's prospective valuation — a "down-round," in Silicon Valley parlance — didn't whet investors' appetites. Over the past year, many startups that rely on Silicon Valley funding have been steeling themselves for the slowdown to avoid similar fates.

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Livestream shopping started on social media in China, and according to Coresight Research, has grown into a $512 billion market. The secret to his success, he told CNBC, has been diving into the world of livestream shopping. However, CEO Deborah Weinswig told CNBC the firm has since revised that projection. The firm also estimates livestream shopping will account for more than 5% of total e-commerce sales in the U.S. by 2026. Influencer Danielle Santana hosts live shopping shows on Amazon , selling products from other businesses — everything from cheese graters to make-up sponges.

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