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☆ Uber and Lyft drivers share their top strategies for getting you to leave a tip — and why going the extra mile for riders often isn't worth it
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Read previewChristina, an Uber and Lyft driver in Las Vegas, said about half of her passengers tip on a good day. Some riders have told her they don't know how to tip, forcing her to show them on the app. Ride-hailing drivers told Business Insider that customer tips are hard to come by. Related storiesSome drivers like Jillian, 67, who drives in Santa Clarita, California, have a simple solution for getting more tips — asking riders directly. The inconsistency is working against some driversAlex Santiago, a 48-year-old Uber driver in northern Virginia, used to dress business casual and catered music to passengers.

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☆ I quit teaching to become a luxury-travel advisor. Since making the transition, I've learned a lot and grown professionally.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Mariette Williams | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Kaylee Stith left teaching to join The Travel Mechanic as a travel agent last year. AdvertisementKaylee Stith is a travel agent at The Travel Mechanic, a luxury-travel agency in North Carolina. Have a niche when you're starting outIt's good to have a niche to present yourself as an expert in when starting out. AdvertisementLessons I've learned so farI attended the annual Ensemble travel-agent conference in Las Vegas last year. It's been a tough lesson, but I've learned and grown so much this past year.

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☆ Kenya rocked by fresh protests despite president’s U-turn over tax bill
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Nimi Princewill | Larry Madowo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Police in Kenya fired tear gas on protesters as a fresh wave of demonstrations swept the country, despite President William Ruto’s U-turn on controversial tax plans. In a surprise move on Wednesday, Ruto said he would not sign the finance bill, saying he had been “listening keenly” to the Kenyan people. “It’s more than about the finance bill now,” Maria, a Kenyan protestor from Nairobi told CNN. Some have called on President Ruto to resign for failing to withdraw the unpopular bill much earlier to save the lives lost. Others are seeking justice for the deceased protesters and demanding the recall of lawmakers who voted in support of the finance bill.

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☆ Bed Bath & Beyond board members were concerned Ryan Cohen got insider info before his $60 million windfall, new deposition details show
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Jennifer Sor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Bed Bath & Beyond board members were concerned Ryan Cohen was getting insider information. Sue Gove, the company's CEO, said in a deposition that she was concerned about Cohen's relationship with board members. AdvertisementBed Bath & Beyond board members were concerned Ryan Cohen received insider information before making $60 billion selling the company's stock, according to a deposition by CEO Sue Gove. Ben Rosenzweig, one of the directors on Bed Bath & Beyond's board, was known to have private contact with Cohen, the deposition said. Their conversations revolved around the personalities of other board members and whether Cohen's nominees for Bed Bath & Beyond's board were let in on calls, according to the testimony.

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☆ AI pioneer Illia Polosukhin, one of Google's 'Transformer 8,' wants to democratize artificial intelligence
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Katie Tarasov | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Before Illia Polosukhin left Google in 2017, he had a brainstorming lunch and then returned to his desk to build what may have been the very first transformer, the neural network architecture that makes generative artificial intelligence possible. Seven of the "Transformer 8" joined Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at GTC, Nvidia's annual developer conference in San Jose on March 20, 2024. From left to right: Lukasz Kaiser, Noam Shazeer, Aidan Gomez, Jensen Huang, Llion Jones, Jakob Uszkoreit, Ashish Vaswani and Illia Polosukhin. All eight of the authors have now left Google, although Polosukhin was the first to depart. Watch the video to hear the full conversation between CNBC's Katie tarasov and and Illia Polosukhin.

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☆ To curb kids’ use of screens, parents may have to cut back on their own
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Maya Davis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The study, published this month in the journal Pediatric Research, shows that parents’ screen use is associated with increased adolescent screen time – along with problematic social media, video game and mobile phone use. The data revealed that 72.9% of parents said they use screens around their adolescents. “Even if parents think their kids are not paying attention, the data shows one of the biggest predictors of preteen screen use is what their parents do with screens in front of them,” Nagata said. In the US, the surgeon general has called for warning labels on social media apps to mitigate “significant harms” associated with their use. “There’s going to be a lot more guidance for parents to help their children navigate social media,” Nagata said.

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☆ For Atlanta entrepreneurs, how to vote comes down to more than 'How's business?'
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( J.J. Mccorvey | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

He applauds the Biden administration's efforts to extend federal student loan relief and access to capital to entrepreneurs, for example. Today, Trump leads Biden in Georgia by 43% to 38%, according to a new Atlanta Journal-Constitution survey of likely voters, an edge just outside its 3.1% margin of error. Social issues are business issues," said Molly Dickinson, founder of Banner Day, a branding agency that works closely with "traditionally underserved" entrepreneurs. "Small-business owners make business decisions based on how comfortable they feel in their home lives and in their everyday lives." "Business has been OK," Chey said, but food and labor costs have taken a toll.

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Frank Bruni: Olivia, Matt, I thank you for joining me and I wonder if you’re as disoriented as I am. A general-election presidential debate in June? Matthew Continetti: The dizziness you feel is the result of a truly strange presidential election. Biden and Trump are the oldest presidential candidates in history, and among the least liked. Olivia Nuzzi: I am usually disoriented when I look at our political landscape.

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☆ My parents struggled in blue-collar jobs. Paying off their mortgage and retiring them is my proudest achievement.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Charissa Cheong | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewThis as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Simmy Dhillon, from London, about financially supporting his parents. They stayed in their blue-collar jobs for so long because they couldn't afford to take risks. It's been my proudest achievement, and I don't think anything can top it. AdvertisementIn June, we paid a lump sum of around £51,000 using dividends from the business to pay off my parents' mortgage. If I had a salaried job, even if it paid well, I don't think I'd be able to support my family in the same way.

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☆ Bronny James selected by Lakers with No. 55 pick in NBA Draft, joins father’s team
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Mike Vorkunov | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Bronny James, the eldest son of Lakers star LeBron James, indeed has a home in the NBA, on his father’s team. “My dream has always just been to put my name out, make a name for myself, and, of course, get to the NBA,” James said at the NBA Draft Combine in May. Bronny: Los Angeles Laker. pic.twitter.com/TvhkzEs9sO — Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) June 27, 2024The Lakers went 47-35 last season, falling to the Denver Nuggets in the first round of the playoffs. pic.twitter.com/BnxozT7CGj — NBA (@NBA) June 27, 2024“It’s still lingering,” he said.

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☆ Greg du Toit: Award-winning photographer on a life spent in the wild
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Victoria Barauna | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Playing safe is not an option for wildlife photographer Greg du Toit. Unlike many in his field, du Toit says he doesn’t use bait, camera traps, digital manipulation, captive bred animals or drones. Du Toit says that his photographs may look beautiful, "but the reality of getting those photographs is very different." Du Toit famously once spent 16 months photographing lions at a waterhole in Kenya’s South Rift Valley. Du Toit: I want to photograph animals in their wild habitats, doing what they naturally do.

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☆ If you use these 3 phrases you have healthier boundaries at work than most employees
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Aditi Shrikant | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Almost half, 44%, of workers report feeling burned out, according to a 2024 survey by the Society for Human Resource Management. One way to keep your job from draining you is to set boundaries around who you interact with and what tasks you take on. Here are three phrases that can help you set healthy boundaries at work and come off as a team player. You can say: "Yes and I just need to get to these other tasks. If you are on a deadline or have an overwhelming amount of work to do, these meetings can be extra frustrating.

Persons: Brandon Smith, I've, Robert I, Sutton Organizations: Society for Human Resource Management, CNBC, Stanford University

☆ I learned CPR with my kids. Then, my 14-year-old used it to save his friend's life.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Kelly Burch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Marlana Hodgins and her son, Trevor. After our friend's incident he brought home his CPR dummies and taught me and our three kids how to do CPR in our living room. I had been CPR certified as a teen, but my kids — who are now 12, 14 and 16 — were learning for the first time. I never imagined that my middle son, Trevor, would soon be using his skills to save a life right in our home. Later, in the hospital, doctors and nurses said the efficient CPR that Trevor delivered likely saved J.J.'s life.

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☆ Despite high demand, kidneys donated by Black Americans are more likely to be thrown away. Here’s why
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Ana S. Iltis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Making matters worse, kidneys from Black donors in the U.S. are more likely to be thrown away as a result of a flawed system that erroneously considers all Black donor kidneys as more likely to stop working after a transplant than kidneys from donors of other races. Research on previous transplants shows that some kidneys donated by Black people are more likely to stop working sooner after transplantation than kidneys donated by people from other races. This could explain the data on Black donor kidney failure rate. And since Black kidney recipients are more likely to receive kidneys from Black donors, this approach could perpetuate transplant disparities. One way researchers are working to identify higher risk kidneys is using the APOLLO study, which assesses the impact of key variants on donated kidneys.

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☆ OpenAI's CTO says AI tools can 'expand our intelligence,' but may cause some creative jobs to disappear
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Cheyenne Devon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

OpenAI's chief technology officer Mira Murati says AI may help expand humans' creativity — but the technology could wipe out some creative jobs as well. On June 19, Dartmouth College's school of engineering held a discussion with Murati about the potential effects OpenAI's tools, such as ChatGPT, may have on different industries. OpenAI's tools will "lower the barrier for anyone to think of themselves as creative," she added. However, she also said AI tools could have a potentially disruptive impact on creative industries. "Some creative jobs maybe will go away, but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place if the content that comes out of it is not very high quality," she said.

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☆ Céline Dion insisted on keeping muscle spasm footage in documentary, director says
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Rosa Rahimi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Céline Dion insisted that graphic footage of herself having a violent muscle spasm should stay in a new documentary about her life, the film’s director has said. In an interview with Variety, Irene Taylor, the director of “I Am: Céline Dion,” said the legendary singer insisted on keeping the “intensely revealing” moment in the final cut. Upon being shown the footage, “the very first thing she said was, ‘I think this film can help me,’” according to Taylor. Only minutes before, Dion had finished two days of recording for the first time in four years. Despite her discomfort and uncertainty about filming the incident, Taylor told Variety that she held on to her boom mic and kept filming.

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☆ Kenyan President Ruto withdraws controversial finance bill following violent protests
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Lauren Kent | Stephanie Busari | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Kenyan President William Ruto said Wednesday that he will not sign a controversial finance bill that had sparked deadly protests in the country and left at least six people dead. “Having reflected on the continuing conversation regarding the content of the finance bill 2024, and listening keenly to the people of Kenya who have said loudly that they want nothing to do with this Finance Bill 2024, I concede, and therefore I will not sign the 2024 finance bill,” Ruto said during a television address Wednesday. But the concessions were not enough to quell protests amid the rising cost of living. On Tuesday they turned deadly when security forces fired teargas and live ammunition at protesters. “I send my condolences to the families of those who lost their loved ones in this very unfortunate manner,” Ruto added.

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candidate who would make a genuine difference for Trump in the campaign and in the November election vote? What matters most about Trump’s choice? First, as Democrats like to point out when questions of Joe Biden’s age come up, Trump is also pretty damn old. So the possibility that his vice president would succeed Trump in the middle of his term is not implausible. Ross Douthat: It’s not just that Trump is old, it’s also that — fears of his permanent power notwithstanding — he’s term-limited, which means that his V.P.

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☆ 'Real Housewives of Orange County' star admits she's unsure — at times — about being so public with her son's identity. But she knows it'll help LGBTQ+ families like hers.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Jane Ridley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementIn 2021 — the year that the family was featured in the 16th season of "RHOC" — Max's then 14-year-old younger sister, Katerina (known as Kat), came out as a lesbian. The star told BI she asked the teen if she was OK with the exchange being aired on TV. He's in middle school, and he's got enough to deal with," she told BI. "You just have to create a safe and comfortable environment for them and just let them know that you care," she told BI. As for her own parents, Dubrow told BI that she "came from a very 1950s family," and matters like sex were pushed under the rug.

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☆ Analysis, fits for all 58 NBA Draft picks from John Hollinger and Sam Vecenie
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( John Hollinger | Sam Vecenie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +109 min

He’s going to be a killer rebounder, monster screener and will consistently establish his position even against some of the stronger NBA players. I’m done doubting Edey, even as an NBA player. As an enormous ballhandler with serious touch and incredible vision as a passer, Topić is clearly an NBA player, even if it doesn’t all translate. Shannon is an elite athlete, but the NBA game requires more nuance, especially if he continues to be an inconsistent shooter. However, I also think he’s more than just a floor spacer on offense in spot-up situations and potentially as an off-ball scorer.

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☆ I'm a real-estate agent in the Hamptons. Here are the hottest spots to see and be seen this summer.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I've been a real-estate agent in New York City, Long Island, and the Hamptons for five years. I'm also on the second season of the HBO show "Selling the Hamptons," and I'm the founder of Finding Space, a weekly newsletter of the trends I'm seeing in real estate. 1 recommendation if you want to be away from the crowds and remain exclusive while having access to the beach and East Hampton. AdvertisementEast Hampton has a bit more to doPeople really gravitate toward East Hampton. These are the Hamptons hot spots for summer 2024I always rave about this Mediterranean-inspired restaurant in East Hampton called Sí Sí.

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☆ The yuan's status as a global currency might be gaining ground. But top CEOs see more hurdles to clear
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Evelyn Cheng | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A bank employee count China’s renminbi (RMB) or yuan notes next to U.S. dollar notes at a Kasikornbank in Bangkok, Thailand, January 26, 2023. Beijing has long touted its ambitions for increasing global use of the Chinese yuan — also known as the "renminbi" or "RMB" — in an international financial market where the U.S. dollar is the dominant currency. watch nowLast year, the HKEX announced a "Dual-Counter" program that allows investors to trade Hong Kong-listed securities in Hong Kong dollars or Chinese yuan. The euro was slightly higher at 5.6%, while the U.S. dollar dominated with a nearly 85% share, the data showed. A maturing financial marketDeveloping more Chinese yuan-denominated investment products also requires a maturation of the local financial sector.

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☆ A 'fancy coffee' offer to a friend helped her get a temp job at Facebook — where she worked up to VP
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewBefore Ami Vora became a Meta VP, she worked as a temporary employee in Facebook's PR department and slept on couches. Vora spoke about how she got her first job at Facebook on an episode of "Lenny's Podcast" published Sunday. The ex-Meta exec ended up becoming VP of product at Facebook, and VP of product and design at WhatsApp. "This wasn't exactly what I'd been hoping for," Vora wrote in her post. Vora would later become a director at Instagram, VP of product at Facebook, and VP of product and design at Whatsapp, according to her LinkedIn.

Persons: —, Ami Vora, Vora, couldn't, I'm Ami, I'd Organizations: Service, Facebook, Meta, Business, Microsoft, Lean Locations: Silicon Valley, New York, Palo, San Francisco, California, Whatsapp

☆ As a gay Black man living in a conservative small town, wrestling and drag helped me find the courage to be myself
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementGrowing up in Murfreesboro, being this out, proud gay Black man was kind of just frowned upon. And Princey was just kind of this quiet individual who never really went around too much, and just did my own little thing. I just saw so much pageantry there, and so much charisma, and I was like, "This is kind of drag." Related storiesI thought my wrestling name was going to be "Princey," but my coaches were like, "Nah, not really." It was kind of like having a wrestling coach, but it was just my drag mom.

Persons: Princey, Priyanka, —, Brian Maxwell, Kerry Awful, Brian, Greg Endries, you've, that's Organizations: Service, Max, Business, Wrestling, Crux Wrestling, HBO Locations: Murfreesboro, Alabama

☆ Rivian and VW join up to design vehicle software
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Rivian and Volkswagen Group are forming a joint venture to create vehicle software, the two companies announced Tuesday. The two automakers did not provide a name for the new joint venture company or name its leadership team. Rivian’s fundamental vehicle software design is expected to provide the basis for the new company’s software. The technologies designed by the company will include both the user-interface software that runs things like the entertainment system and gauges and deeper vehicle software that interacts with things like the vehicle’s motors. VW already has its own vehicle software subsidiary, Cariad, and that company will continue with its work, VW chief executive Oliver Blume said on a conference call.

Persons: CNN —, RJ Scaringe, that’s, ”, Scaringe, it’s, Oliver Blume, what’s, Blume, ” Scaringe Organizations: CNN, Volkswagen Group, VW, Volkswagen, Porsche’s, Porsche Locations: Georgia, Atlanta

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