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☆ Earth's inner core is more like a ball of butter than a solid metal sphere, a new study suggests
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Scientists have long thought Earth's inner core is like a huge solid metal ball. It could help explain why Earth's magnetic field is so weird. Jung-Fu Lin / UT Jackson School of GeosciencesThe Earth's inner mush revealedA 2021 study had already started to question the big-iron-ball assumption. Seismic waves, they found, weren't really going through the Earth in a way consistent with a fully solid core. AdvertisementAdvertisementIt recreated the intense pressure and temperature conditions found in the inner core inside a lab, and combined that data with a much more advanced computer model.

Persons: Youjun Zhang, We've, that's, Jung, Fu, Lin, Fu Lin, weren't, Jessica Irving, Zhang Organizations: Service, University of Texas, UT Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Bristol, Science, National Academy of Sciences Locations: Sichuan, shockwaves, England

☆ 'Thrown to the wolves': How private investors are jacking up rents and ripping off college students
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( James Rodriguez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +19 min

The eye-popping numbers are part of a longer-term shift toward private college housing. Moody's Analytics recently warned of an "affordability crisis" for college students, noting that since 2019, rents for student housing in a sample of notable college towns had grown faster than those of regular apartments. Student housing goes privateThe gold rush in student housing is a relatively new phenomenon. Back in the 1980s and '90s, most college students either lived in bland, cinder-block-walled dorms or in conventional apartments farther from campus. Even with his frugality, he came to realize that the prices in West Campus were "impossible to rationalize" for a college student.

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While the tour has already begun, we can show you how to buy Aerosmith tickets for all the remaining shows. If you're looking to buy Aerosmith's Peace Out: Farewell Tour tickets, we've got you covered. Aerosmith 2023/2024 tour scheduleAerosmith's Peace Out: Farewell Tour has 37 concert dates remaining across 2023 and 2024. While the Farewell Tour will include two stops in Canada, all other shows will be held in the United States. At the time of writing, it seems Aerosmith will not be embarking on an international leg for their Peace Out: Farewell Tour.

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Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 7, 2023. With Trump dominating the 2024 Republican presidential field, Romney has faced powerful headwinds at home in solidly Republican Utah. Romney was the only Republican senator to vote to convict Trump at both Senate impeachment trials. 2 Senate Republican, told Reuters he would miss Romney most on economic issues. Brad Wilson, the Utah state House of Representatives speaker, has not declared his candidacy for Romney's seat.

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☆ GOP Sen. Mitt Romney says he will not run for reelection
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah on Wednesday announced that he will not seek reelection next year. "While I'm not running for reelection, I'm not retiring from the fight," Romney, 76, said in a video posted to X, formerly Twitter. Romney said in August that he would reveal his decision on running for another Senate term by the fall. Romney joined six other Republican senators in 2021 who voted to convict Trump following his second impeachment for allegedly inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. Trump, 77, ripped Romney in an all-caps social media post celebrating his decision to retire as "fantastic news for America."

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☆ Insider Today: Analyzing Google salaries
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

In today's big story, we're taking a deeper look at the leaked Google salary data by looking at pay ranges across various factors. The sheet detailed 2022 base salaries, equity, and bonuses from over 12,000 Google employees in the US. Google employees who identified as being of Black/African descent had a median base salary at least $23,000 below their Asian, White, and Middle Eastern/North African colleagues. The gap didn't improve among software engineers, as those of Black/African descent had a median base salary $24,500 lower than those of white or European descent. Google employees who identified as being of Black/African descent had a median base salary at least $23,000 below their Asian, White, and Middle Eastern/North African colleagues.

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☆ US is sending Ukraine ammunition that can not only pierce Russian tank armor but also ignite inside
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The US officially announced Wednesday it will send Ukraine depleted-uranium tank ammunition. This powerful ammunition gives Kyiv the capability to not only punch holes in Russian armor, but also do additional damage inside enemy vehicles as the fragments potentially ignite. The Pentagon listed the 120 mm depleted-uranium tank ammunition as part of a $175 security assistance package that was officially revealed on Wednesday. The US is not the first NATO member to send Ukraine depleted-uranium ammunition. The latest US security assistance announcement, which includes the depleted-uranium tank rounds, comes ahead of what is expected to be an imminent delivery of 31 Abrams tanks.

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☆ The top 20 areas real-estate investors are piling into for high population growth, increasing rental demand, or price appreciation, according to a property-data firm
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

When it comes to single-family homes, it's predominantly investors, according to recent data from CoreLogic, a property-data firm that tracks real-estate transactions. But whether they are small or large investors, they are targeting specific areas, according to the data. "All the others make sense as these have been hot real estate investment areas that have been hot for a very long time in terms of investment. Small investors are active all around the country and make up most of the investors, he said. The below table is based on CoreLogic public records data for single-family transactions.

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☆ Elon Musk, who's fathered 10 children, reportedly donated $10 million to fund a fertility and population research project
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Per a new Bloomberg report, the billionaire donated $10 million to a project researching fertility. The money was given by The Musk Foundation to the University of Texas at Austin in 2021. A Bloomberg report revealed Monday that he's backed that up with a $10 million donation to a fertility and population research project. The PWI is a joint project of the University's Population Research Center and its economics department. Musk and a UT Austin spokesperson did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment, sent outside US working hours.

Persons: Elon Musk, Will MacAskill —, Sam Bankman, Musk, Grimes Organizations: Bloomberg, The Musk Foundation, University of Texas, Morning, Population Research Center, UT Austin Locations: Austin

☆ 2 huge employers just said they're dumping Wegovy from their health plans. It's a sign of a crackdown on popular weight-loss drugs.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Ascension and the University of Texas System are set to stop paying for workers' weight-loss drugs. Jenny started taking the popular weight-loss injection Wegovy in February and saw results almost immediately. picture alliance/Getty ImagesThe crackdown on insurance coverage for weight-loss drugs may be just beginning. Renee Rayburg, a consultant at Pharmaceutical Strategies Group who helps companies manage their spending on prescription drugs, said she hadn't seen many employers retreat completely from covering weight-loss drugs, as Ascension is doing. Any weight-loss drugs that hit the market in the future would also be excluded.

Persons: Jenny, Wegovy, Ascension, Renee Rayburg, hadn't, Saxenda, Angela Fitch, Fitch, Eli Lilly's Mounjaro, Getty, Marianne Ayala, Tracy Spencer, Spencer, Drugmakers, haven't, she's, that's Organizations: University of Texas, Companies, Pharmaceutical, Group, PSG, Wegovy, UT, Obesity Medicine Association . Obesity Medicine, Obesity Medicine Association, Food, Novo Nordisk's Wegovy, Novo Nordisk

☆ Webb telescope spies most distant supermassive black hole ever recorded
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered yet another astounding discovery, spying an active supermassive black hole deeper into the universe than has ever been recorded. And scientists were perplexed to find just how small the celestial object’s central black hole measures. “This black hole clocks in at about 9 million solar masses,” according to a NASA news release. Into the CEERS 1019 galaxyThe relative smallness of the black hole at CEER 1019’s center is a mystery for scientists. The astronomical community is already pouring over data that could pinpoint other, more distant black holes.

Persons: James Webb, Webb, ” Rebecca Larson, Larson, It’s, We’re, Jeyhan, “ Webb, ”, Seiji Fujimoto Organizations: CNN, NASA, Sun, University of Texas, Rochester Institute of Technology’s School of Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology, NASA Hubble, UT Austin, Austin Locations: Austin, New York

☆ Here are 5 questions investors should consider when jumping into the huge rally in the 'Magnificent 7' stocks this year
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Filip De Mott | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

There are five key questions for investors looking at the heavily concentrated rally in stocks this year. Though recent commentary points to artificial intelligence as the catalyst for the current tech stock surge, BofA chalks ut up to a few other factors as well. But while that period ended in consolidation and some steep losses for investors, the current tech rally differs in an important way. Today's top seven firms are much bigger than many tech firms in 2000, which signals that they can afford to deal with stiffer regulation. Investors can expect opportunities to broaden beyond the seven mega-cap stocks, and valuations for the equal-weighted S&P will exceed them.

Persons: —, BofA, Bubbles, COVID Organizations: Service, Bank of America, Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Big Tech, Tech, Investors Locations: Wall, Silicon

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☆ James Beard Award 2023 winners announced
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Marnie Hunter | Forrest Brown | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The awards have been presented in the Windy City since 2015 and are set to remain there through 2027. Like last year, much of the 2023 show was focused on showcasing the new push for greater diversity. The James Beard Foundation has been mired in controversy over the past few years. The winner of the South category, Natalia Vallejo, is the first Puerto Rican native to win a James Beard Award. Here’s the full list of the 2023 James Beard Restaurant and Chef Awards nominees.

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☆ Citadel's red-hot run has led to a new problem: It's harder than ever to nab an internship there
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Paige Hagy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Billionaire Ken Griffin's Citadel internship program is attracting more students than ever before. Citadel, the $57 billion hedge fund, and market maker Citadel Securities recruit hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students every year for an 11-week summer internship program. The internship starts Monday, with a kickoff week at the Four Seasons in Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach. "We think of campus recruiting very much the same way that other firms think of executive recruiting," Mitro said. "All of it is geared towards simulating what life would be like for them if they were to join the firm," Mitro said.

Persons: Ken, Matt Mitro, Griffin, Mitro, It's, it's, commerciality, UT Austin — Organizations: Citadel, Citadel Securities, New, Wayback, NASA, US Army, MIT, UC Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, UT Austin, Mathematical Association of America, Intercollegiate, Discover Citadel Locations: Fort Lauderdale, Palm, Citadel, Miami, New York City, Singapore, Paris, Palm Beach, New York, Chicago, London, Hong Kong

☆ What happens next with debt deal? Wall Street economists gauge the odds on passage from here
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Michelle Fox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

An agreement on the United States' debt ceiling doesn't necessarily mean a smooth path to President Joe Biden's desk. Several Wall Street economists agree the deal will likely get signed, but not without some bumps along the way. House Committee on Rules meeting Before the legislation reaches the House for a vote, it must go through the 13-member House Committee on Rules — nine Republicans and four Democrats. "If all three vote against and no Democrat votes in favor, the bill will fail," Hatzius wrote in a Monday note. Tight House vote It's expected to be a tight vote in the House.

☆ How the technology behind ChatGPT could make mind-reading a reality
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-23 | by ( Donie O'Sullivan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Neuroscientists at the University of Texas in Austin have figured out a way to translate scans of brain activity into words using the very same artificial intelligence technology that powers the groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT. Before entering the fMRI machine, CNN correspondent Donie O'Sullivan was given specialized earphones to listen to an audiobook during his brain scan. While the technology is still in its infancy and shows great promise, the limitations might be a source of relief to some. While the technology at the moment only works in very limited cases, that might not always be the case. “Technology can improve and that could change how well we can decode and change whether decoders require a person’s cooperation.”

Persons: ”, It’s, ” Alexander Huth, ” Huth, Huth, Dorothy, Donie O'Sullivan, CNN Huth, can’t, Jerry Tang, ” Tang, “, Sam Altman, Altman, Tang Organizations: CNN, University of Texas, UT Austin Locations: Austin , Texas, Austin, San Francisco, Texas

☆ Seven waiting at bus stop in Texas bordertown killed when struck by vehicle
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Ken Dilanian | Corky Siemaszko | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

A section of the Border Wall is under construction just south of the UT-Brownsville/Texas Southmost College campus next to the Rio Grande River. The 20-foot high concrete and steel wall is being built in sections throughout south Texas. Seven people waiting at a bus stop in a Texas border city were killed and a dozen more were injured early Sunday when a vehicle rammed into them in what investigators believe was an intentional act, officials said. The victims were at a stop located near a Catholic Charities facility in the city of Brownsville when they were struck, a senior law enforcement official told NBC News. One of the injured was airlifted to Valley Baptist Medical Center in nearly Harlingen, the department said.

☆ Scientists say they made a mind-reading AI that can turn brain scans into a readout of your thoughts
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Scientists say they trained AI to recreate a story from a brain scan. The AI was able to read their brainwaves and recreate the story accurately, per a study. The AI was able to accurately predict what the story was about by reading only the participant's brainwaves, per the study. The story doesn't come out exactly like it was told An annotated diagram shows how the AI can read brainwaves and generate a story. The technique can't break into private thoughtsScientists used this brain scanner to collect brainwaves to feed to the AI.

☆ CEO says many of his remote workers didn't open their laptops for a month, and 'only the rarest of full-time caregivers' can be productive employees
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Clearlink CEO James Clarke said remote workers "quietly quit" and didn't open laptops in a month, Vice reported. A representative didn't address the remarks, but said Clarke "could not be more excited" for the company. Clearlink's CEO James Clarke reportedly told employees that he believed many remote workers have "quietly quit" and become so brazen that dozens at his company "didn't even open" their laptops for a month. "And those were all remote employees, including their manager — for a whole month." Clearlink is a private company with 800 employees, a company representative told Insider.

☆ California and other Western states lead in unhealthy levels of air pollution, report shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Emma Newburger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The "State of the Air" report found that nearly 120 million people, more than a third of the population, lived in areas with unhealthy levels of air pollution between 2019 and 2021. The report assigned letter grades reflecting the number of days that air quality in a specific area reached unhealthy levels on the Air Quality Index. Exposure to unhealthy levels of ozone air pollution makes breathing difficult for more people across the U.S. than any other single pollutant, the report said. Wildfires in the region were a major factor in the increasing number of days and places with unhealthy levels of particle pollution, the report found. The report used data from air-quality monitors managed by state, local and tribal air pollution control authorities in counties across the country.

☆ The next big thing in Big Tech career path is an AI-based 'bilingual' job skillset
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( Eric Rosenbaum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Microsoft unveiled new versions of its Bing internet-search engine and Edge browser powered by the newest technology from ChatGPT maker OpenAI. But the biggest one of all may be next, he says, through the combination of artificial intelligence and branches of science involved in medicine. But the opportunity won't translate into achievement without a new form of collaboration between the classic big tech talent and the medical field. One of her portfolio companies, Insitro, was founded by Stanford AI researcher Daphne Koller (Koller co-founder edtech company Coursera). "There is lots of exciting big talent opportunities coming from big tech and big cap pharma," she said.

☆ Ukraine's getting depleted-uranium tank rounds that can punch holes in Russian armor, and Moscow's not happy about it
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The UK has indicated that it'll provide Ukraine with tank shells consisting of depleted uranium. When used in tank shells, the material is particularly effective because its bulk allows the munitions to penetrate through enemy armor. Cody Bialcak, Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technicians, safely remove over 500 depleted uranium rounds on June 23, 2022 at Tooele Army Depot, UT. US officials have said repeatedly that Russia has likely lost half its tank force in Ukraine, if not more. And depleted uranium shells in the hands of Ukrainian tank operators may make life harder for Russia's armor forces.

☆ UniCredit board member did not quit due to alleged spat over CEO pay - chairman
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MILAN, March 17 (Reuters) - The former head of the remuneration committee and board member of UniCredit (CRDI.MI), Jayne-Anne Gadhia, did not quit the bank due to alleged disagreements over the pay package of CEO Andrea Orcel, the chairman of Italy's No.2 lender said on Friday. UniCredit is proposing hiking Orcel's fixed salary by 30% while a corresponding increase in the variable pay would be tied to the group beating financial targets. Hitting 2023 goals would leave Orcel with the same overall pay of up to 7.5 million euros ($5.33 million) as in 2022, making him one of Europe's best paid bank executives, thanks to a reduction in the compensation's variable component, which will be all in shares and spread over a longer period. "The suggestion that Dame Jayne-Anne left the bank 'after skirmishes ... over [chief executive] pay' is false, as we have repeatedly said", Chairman Pier Carlo Padoan said in a letter to the Financial Times, referring to an opinion piece published by the British newspaper on March 13. ($1 = 0.9378 euros)Reporting by Gianluca Semeraro; editing by Federico MaccioniOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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