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☆ The 10 best U.S. cities for finding a job—New York and L.A. are not on the list
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

For those seeking new job opportunities, geography could be one way to narrow the search. Personal finance company WalletHub recently looked at more than 180 cities across the country and ranked its best cities for jobs based on metrics such as job openings per job seeker and median annual incomes. Here are the top 10 cities for job search according to WalletHub. "This ensures there will be plenty of hiring opportunities for people entering the workforce," says Cassandra Happe, WalletHub analyst. 1 best U.S. city to live in is Cambridge, Massachusetts—see which other cities made the listMoving to a new city?

Persons: Cassandra Happe, Daniel Zhao Organizations: jobseekers, U.S Locations: WalletHub, Scottsdale , Arizona Tampa , Florida Salt Lake City , Utah Columbia , Maryland Austin , Texas Atlanta , Georgia Seattle, Washington Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania Plano , Texas Boston , Massachusetts Scottsdale, Tampa, Salt Lake City, Cambridge , Massachusetts, U.S

☆ The 10 US cities with the longest commute times
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, has the longest average commute time at 36.2 minutes one way. The New York City metro area ranked second, while four California cities were in the top eight. Data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that residents of East Stroudsburg, a city about 40 miles north of Allentown in Pennsylvania, have the longest commute times of any metro area. The average commute time in East Stroudsburg — sometimes considered the gateway to the Poconos — may be the longest since residents often work in larger metropolitan cities like New York City, Allentown, or Philadelphia. The Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario area similarly has commute times of nearly 33 minutes as it's near the Los Angeles area.

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Simon has a “complete mental health network” in New Hampshire and an apartment, said Dantas, who asked for home confinement, including an electronic monitoring device. Simon has a record of driving away from New Hampshire authorities, prosecutors said. Simon is now accused of multiple charges, including two counts of manslaughter, armed robbery, assault and leaving the scene of an accident. He appeared in court Thursday to be arraigned on several additional charges, including negligent operation of a motor vehicle and failing to stop for a police officer. In New Hampshire, Simon has served time in both the state corrections department secure psychiatric unit and in the state prison on charges including reckless conduct and assault.

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☆ Did syphilis originate in the Americas? Ancient DNA offers some insight
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

In France, it was named the “Neapolitan disease” after the French army got infected during its invasion of Naples, Italy, in the first documented syphilis epidemic. A complex disease caused by a complex bacteriumWithout treatment, syphilis can cause physical disfigurement, blindness and mental impairment. Others believe T. pallidum bacteria always had a global distribution but perhaps grew in virulence after initially manifesting as a mild disease. Some bones had marks characteristic of infection with T. pallidum — the bacteria effectively eat away at bones, leaving concave lesions. “The modern tools available for extracting DNA from ancient samples, for enriching the treponemal DNA, and obtaining deep sequencing from samples has rapidly increased our understanding of the Treponema.”

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☆ Israeli hostage posters at Harvard vandalized with antisemitic messages
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —Israeli hostage posters that were hung up at Harvard University had been vandalized with antisemitic messages just as students returned from winter break. Footage shared with CNN by Harvard student Alexander Kestenbaum shows a handful of hostage posters defaced with messages such as “Israel did 9/11.” A poster of a four-year-old Israeli hostage was defaced, while “LIES FAKE” was scrawled over another hostage poster. Photos and videos geolocated by CNN indicate the vandalized posters were hung just outside Holworthy Hall, a first-year student dorm located on the northern edge of Harvard Yard. The Harvard spokesperson said the vandalized posters near the Thayer Gate have been removed and the Harvard University Police Department is investigating the incident. “Instead, they were confronted with vandalism, the defacement of hostage posters, and vile antisemitic conspiracy theories.

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☆ Why that ‘last mile’ of the inflation fight may be more challenging
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Inflation measures how fast prices are rising for goods and services — anything from concert tickets and haircuts to groceries and furniture. That means further broad disinflation likely won't come from consumer goods, economists said. In fact, attacks by Houthi rebels on ships in the Red Sea threaten to disrupt a key transit corridor and may trigger higher goods inflation if it persists, El-Erian explained. While down from more than 7% last year, services inflation still sits at 5.3%. Why this may all be 'nonsense'Not all economists think the last mile of disinflation will be harder than what came before, however.

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☆ Opinion: Our possibly short national nightmare
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

“My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over,” President Gerald Ford said. “Our campaign is the last best hope of stopping the Trump-Biden nightmare,” the former UN ambassador said. If not, it won’t be as protracted a “national nightmare” as the two-year-long Watergate scandal that put Gerald Ford in the Oval Office. Though, depending on your point of view, the real nightmare could begin after the swearing-in. Yet, John Avlon wrote, Trump and some members of the House GOP, want to tank an emerging compromise in the Senate that would couple border security measures with aid to Ukraine.

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☆ My great-uncle was 70 years older than me. We built a friendship by sending letters to each other.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Rosalind Moran | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Despite being separated by oceans and years, my great-uncle became a dear friendMy great-uncle was born in 1921, meaning we had an age gap of over 70 years. As someone who also loves languages, writing, and talking to many different people, his undimmed intellectual curiosity proved inspiring to me. An additional ongoing gift from my friendship with my great-uncle is that of writing letters. Since writing to him and realizing how differently — and beautifully — people sometimes express themselves in long-form handwriting, I began writing letters to friends and receiving letters in turn. Some of my friendships now have a precious quality they potentially wouldn't otherwise have were it not for letters.

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☆ X is left with advertisers pushing dubious cryptocurrency and AI 'undressing' apps, users say after Musk's outburst
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Some X users are complaining the site is overrun with ads pushing crypto and AI "undressing" apps. Social media experts say an advertiser exodus has left X reliant on less reputable buyers. AdvertisementElon Musk's war on advertisers seems to be having some unintended consequences for X. Business InsiderOther suspect advertisements have been spotted on the site, with users also complaining about a surge in ads on their timelines for "undressing" apps. "It also shows the race to the bottom that the X platform has fallen into," he added.

Persons: Elon Musk, —, Elon, xqCDa7Ilgm, kevin harrish, Jeff MacDonald, Mekanism, Hamza Mudassir, Musk, Alex Jones, MacDonald, Linda Yaccarino, X, Matt Navarra Organizations: Social, Service, Business, Twitter, Media, Cambridge University, Apple, Disney, The New York Times, Times, IBM, Walmart

☆ 4 tips to lose weight and keep it off even if your genes make you overeat, according to an expert in the genetics of obesity
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Kim Schewitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Our genetics play a big role in how easy we find it to gain and lose weight. But it's possible to be a healthy weight despite your genes, an expert in the genetics of obesity said. Don't focus on calories aloneTo lose weight, you have to be in a calorie deficit , meaning you're burning more calories than you consume. Focus on your health over your appearancePeople want to lose weight for lots of reasons but a common motivation is to fit into societal beauty ideals. This can prove to be a weak motivator in the long run though, and doesn't necessarily benefit your health, Yeo said.

Persons: —, it's, Giles Yeo, Yeo, you've Organizations: Service, University of Cambridge Institute of Metabolic, US News, Research

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Five of the six major conferences have a leader or co-leader that failed to make the NCAA Tournament last season. Four of the major-conference leaders that got left out of March Madness last season have reached a Final Four within the last decade. 4 North Carolina, which went 20-13 and turned down an NIT bid last season, is unbeaten in Atlantic Coast Conference competition. “No matter what we’re going through — ups and downs — we’re just connected.”Oregon also added a few transfers during the offseason. But for now, it also could assure that the Badgers don't get let out of the field for a second straight season.

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☆ NASA's James Webb Space Telescope broke its own record to discover the oldest black hole yet, but it has astronomers even more confused about the beginning of the universe
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewThe James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the oldest black hole ever detected, breaking its own record. It's about 40 million years older than the record-breaking black hole Webb also discovered and announced in November. AdvertisementA cosmic clue in this black hole's outsized appetiteA disk of hot gas swirls around a feeding black hole in this illustration. AdvertisementPeering at the early universe with Webb "is like upgrading from Galileo's telescope to a modern telescope overnight," Maiolino said. He added that his team hopes to search for smaller "seeds" of black holes with future Webb observing time.

Persons: —, James Webb, Webb, Nick Risinger, JWST, Chandra, Daniel Holz, Roberto Maiolino, Maiolino Organizations: Service, Business, ESA, Hubble, Sky Survey, NASA, CSA, University of Chicago, New York Times, University of Cambridge, JPL, Caltech

☆ Why this newlywed couple plans to get a postnup: We don't want 'some random judge' making money decisions for us
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Kamaron Mcnair | In Kamaronmcnair | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Similar to prenuptial agreements, a postnup outlines which partner maintains ownership over which assets in the event of a divorce. The main difference is that with a postnup, you're already married when you get it, which has a couple of important implications. Any assets acquired since the wedding, and even some acquired as an individual, such as retirement accounts, become "marital property" once you're married. The couple had a "misconception" that prenup and postnup agreements are for couples with vastly different net worths, Bhaloo says. We don't want to leave that up to the government — we don't want some random judge making that decision for us."

Persons: Jenna Bhaloo, Neil Desai, they're, Desai, Bhaloo, it's Organizations: Boston University Locations: Cambridge , Massachusetts, Durham , North Carolina, Chicago

☆ Opinion: For the Houthis, war is a way of life
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Peter Bergen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

I think they’re probably ill-advised because I don’t think they’re going to do what they are intended to do. I don’t think they’ll deter the Houthis. This is such an unequal war because the whole character of war has changed. I don’t think it would make the slightest bit of difference whether the US designated them or not. I think they’re on the way to becoming Hezbollah.

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☆ An academic analyzed everything Mark Zuckerberg said publicly for 20 years — but still doesn't feel like he knows him
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The academic launched the project after the Meta boss discussed privacy issues in interviews. AdvertisementA lot has changed for Mark Zuckerberg since the drunken night at Harvard in 2003 when he decided to release Facemash. Mark Zuckerberg is CEO of Facebook owner Meta. "The Zuckerberg Files came out of a project where I was thinking about how Zuckerberg talks about privacy," Zimmer explained in the documentary. Zimmer thinks the exhaustive project has been "really insightful" in helping track the maturity of both Zuckerberg and his company.

Persons: Michael Zimmer, Mark Zuckerberg's, intentensly, Zimmer, —, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, Meta, Kevin Dietsch, David Kirkpatrick, Sheera Frenkel, Kara Swisher, He's, he's, Elon Musk Organizations: Service, Harvard, Facebook, Zuckerberg, San Francisco Chronicle, Capitol, Cambridge, Meta Locations: Marquette, Hawaii

☆ Multiple sclerosis is more common among white Europeans. Researchers studying ancient DNA may have figured out why.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewGenes that may have once helped ancient herders fight infectious parasites could contribute to autoimmune diseases today, like multiple sclerosis. For example, rates of MS are twice as high in the northwest of Europe, including in Scandinavia, compared to southern Europe. AdvertisementThey analyzed teeth and bones from Europe and Western Asia, adding to an ancient DNA database of about 1,600 genomes. Northern Europeans are also more susceptible to MS than in southern Europe, where Yamnayan ancestry is less common. AdvertisementFor some people, this inflammatory response can go overboard and start attacking the body's own cells, as with MS, Iversen said.

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☆ Ancient DNA reveals genetic roots of multiple sclerosis and other diseases
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-11 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

These genetic variants may have subsequently proved beneficial to European populations in making the shift from hunting and gathering to farming. “DNA from hunter-gatherers is present at higher levels in Northeastern Europe, which means the region has an elevated genetic risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease,” Barrie said. Similarly, the ancient genetic information shed light on the evolutionary history of traits such as height and lactose tolerance. And for most traits, MS included, the genetic effects are the result of multiple genetic variants,” he said. “Ultimately, we can’t say that MS came from Bronze Age populations, but these populations’ movements and environments contribute to differences in MS risk today.”

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☆ Harvard's first Black president received so many death threats that police watched her residence 24/7, report says
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-06 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Gay, who last year became the first Black president in Harvard's nearly 400-year history, had retained the support of the powerful Harvard Corporation after her widely-criticized congressional testimony. Throughout the ordeal, she received a torrent of death threats, racist notes, and phone calls which only intensified as December progressed, according to The Times. Gay, who had only recently moved into the Harvard president's official residence, would pick up the phone only to be met with racial slurs, per the report. AdvertisementThe Times also reported that Gay's residence was being watched 24 hours a day. In her statement, Gay also called out not only critics of her prior work but also the personal racist attacks that had been lobbed at her.

Persons: Claudine Gay's, Gay, Ryan D, Enos Organizations: Harvard, Harvard Corporation, Jewish, The New York Times, The Times, Jan, Corporation Locations: Harvard's, Israel, Cambridge, United States

☆ Neri Oxman admits to plagiarizing in her doctoral dissertation after BI report
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-04 | by ( Katherine Long | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. BI identified four instances in Oxman's dissertation in which she lifted paragraphs from other scholars' work without including them in quotation marks. In those instances, Oxman wrote in a post on X , using quotation marks would have been "the proper approach for crediting the work. Oxman wrote on X that after she has reviewed the original sources, she plans to "request that MIT make any necessary corrections." Oxman now leads an eponymous company, Oxman , focused on "innovation in product, architectural, and urban design," she wrote on X.

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☆ AI is accelerating the recruitment process — but tech leaders warn of bias and other risks
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-20 | by ( Nicholas Fearn | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

HR and recruitment teams are beginning to use AI tools in multiple stages of the hiring process. But beware: AI recruitment can still be riskyWhile AI technology is helping recruiters in many ways, there are some risks to consider and mitigate. In 2022, researchers at Cambridge University found that AI recruitment tools weren't capable of eradicating bias or boosting diversity during the hiring process. These problems often arise because of biased historical data used for training AI recruitment technologies, Maynard said. Jackson recommended that companies develop strict policies governing the use of AI hiring tools and provide their recruitment teams with bias training.

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☆ Best Banks and Credit Unions for 2024
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-18 | by ( Martha C. White | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +13 min

While its checking interest rate is set much lower, you do earn interest on every dollar of your balance—its flagship checking account was also Buy Side’s top pick in the Best Checking Account category. CaveatsCapital One’s savings account APY beats most national banks and is competitive among online banks. The Ally Online Savings and Ally Spending accounts (the latter is the bank’s flagship checking account) were our top picks for digital banks in Buy Side’s Best Checking and Best Savings rankings. In Buy Side’s roundups, Alliant took the top spot among credit unions in our Best Checking and Best Savings rankings. How we pickedTo pick Buy Side from WSJ’s Best Banks, we evaluated dozens of banks and credit unions, looking for institutions that offered the best combination of high interest, low fees and flexible account options for savings, checking and CDs.

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☆ Meta to expand encryption on Messenger making it similar to WhatsApp
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-07 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Because of the encryption technology "nobody, including Meta, can see what's sent or said, unless you choose to report a message to us," Loredana Crisan, the head of Messenger, wrote in an accompanying blog post . Since 2016, Messenger users could choose, or opt-in, to safeguarding their chats via a process referred to as end-to-end encryption, which scrambles peoples' communications so that third-parties can't eavesdrop and access the data. Although Meta's other messaging app, WhatsApp, also utilizes end-to-end encryption, privacy advocates have generally considered Signal to be a more secure communication service because it collects less user data. "After years of work rebuilding Messenger, we've updated the app with default end-to-end encryption for all personal calls and messages," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post on Wednesday. In 2022, Meta conducted a test on Messenger that let users back up their end-to-end encrypted conversations in case they needed to access them on another device.

Persons: Crisan, what's, Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg Organizations: Meta, Facebook, Cambridge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Apple, IBM Locations: Nebraska, San Bernardino , California, WhatsApp, United Kingdom

But industry experts say governments need to offer incentives for companies to bring sustainable AC technologies to market and scale up. Removing humidity requires cooling air to the point at which water vapour becomes a liquid to be drained. This inability to get rid of humidity without first cooling the air makes conventional ACs less efficient. The company's AC prototype uses these materials to dry out air, aiming to produce fewer emissions than traditional ACs. More than 1 billion people living in warm climates still lack access to cooling, according to nonprofit Sustainable Energy for All.

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☆ Selena Gomez reminds us of the elegance of elbow gloves at the 2023 Academy Museum Gala
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —At the 2023 Academy Museum Gala in Los Angeles last night, not one, but three celebrities arrived in a decidedly retro accessory: Evening gloves. First popularized in the 16th century, the opera glove (usually categorized as being between 19 and 23 inches in length) has long been a dependable garment to elevate and exaggerate any ensemble. Gomez wore her accessories over her opera gloves. Marilyn Monroe created an iconic opera gloves moment, teaming them with a bustier dress in the 1953 movie "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." For its latest Fall-Winter 2023 campaign, Versace dressed down a pair of black croc-effect leather elbow gloves with blue denim jeans.

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☆ Blackstone explores sale of Anthos Therapeutics -sources
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( David Carnevali | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Signage is seen outside the Blackstone Group headquarters in New York City, U.S., January 18, 2023. Anthos, which does not generate any revenue because its products have not yet hit the market, could be worth several billion dollars in a potential sale, significantly more than the $250 million that Blackstone invested when it founded Anthos in 2019, the sources said. The company's anticoagulants have made significant progress in late-stage clinical trials, the sources added. Blackstone is working with investment bankers to explore a sale of Anthos, the sources said, cautioning that no deal is certain and requesting anonymity because the matter is confidential. Anthos has licensed from Novartis an antibody used in the development of its blood thinners and granted it a minority stake.

Persons: Blackstone, Anthos, Bayer, Eliquis, David Carnevali, Leslie Adler Organizations: Blackstone Group, REUTERS, Blackstone Inc, Anthos Therapeutics, Novartis AG, Novartis, Myers Squibb, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Thomson Locations: New York City, U.S, Cambridge , Massachusetts, Anthos, Bristol, German, New York

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