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Another anti-government protest had come and gone in Pakistan’s once peaceful capital, and Saira Bano was ready to get her city back. For four days, Islamabad had been a tense battleground after supporters of a jailed former prime minister, Imran Khan, marched into the city. The capital, home to 2.4 million people, became a “container city” as the authorities stacked more than 700 shipping containers to block key routes and maintain order. Schools and shops closed, internet service was cut, and roads teemed with thousands of police officers scrutinizing passers-by. “This is not the Islamabad I grew up in,” said Ms. Bano, a schoolteacher who had to cancel her classes for three consecutive days.
Persons: Saira Bano, Imran Khan, , Bano Locations: Pakistan’s, Islamabad
This week, bill pay service doxo released The Bill Pay Economy™ 2024. In the report, shared exclusively with CNBC Make It, doxoINSIGHTS found that Americans spend close to $3.35 trillion per year on the ten most common household bills. Using data sourced from bill pay activity on the doxo platform, and rent and mortgage numbers from the U.S. Census, they analyzed costs across the 50 largest cities in the country to rank the most — and least — expensive. "The biggest indicator of an expensive place to live is housing," Powell says. "People spend the most on where they live, whether that's mortgage or rent."
Persons: doxo, doxoINSIGHTS, Liz Powell, Powell Organizations: CNBC, Census, Utilities, Cable, Mobile, West Coast Locations: U.S, West, West Coast ., California
Faced with a bruising price war in the fast growing but crowded domestic market for electric vehicles, Chinese automobile manufacturers are pressuring suppliers to deliver hefty cost cuts. China’s BYD, the world’s largest manufacturer of electric vehicles, asked a supplier to reduce its product prices by 10 percent starting next year, according to a company email that was apparently leaked and circulated widely on the internet in China. He Zhiqi, BYD’s executive vice president, said that the competition for so-called new energy vehicles — China’s preferred phrase for fully electric and gas-electric hybrid vehicles — was entering a “decisive battle” or “knockout match,” according to the email with the subject line “BYD Passenger Vehicle Cost Reduction Requirements in 2025.”“In order to enhance the competitiveness of BYD passenger cars, we need the entire supply chain to work together and continue to reduce costs,” Mr.
Persons: China’s BYD, , Mr Locations: China
In a wide-ranging interview, Jen Wong, chief operating officer of Reddit, said other platforms have 80% to 90% of users outside of the U.S. while about half of her company's current users are based internationally. "The opportunity, the way I think about it, is every language is an opportunity for another Reddit." India opportunityAmong the company's fastest-growing markets in terms of users is the U.K., the Philippines, India and Brazil. Advertising opportunityGrowth in markets like India can propel Reddit to boost ad revenue, its main source of income. This has not yet happened in many markets, but Reddit is keeping an eye on many of its fastest growing countries, Wong said.
Persons: Jakub Porzycki, Jen Wong, Reddit, Wong Organizations: Nurphoto, Getty, CNBC Locations: U.S, India, Brazil, Philippines
AdvertisementThe rate of AI model improvement appears to be slowing, but some tech leaders say there is no wall. A fierce debate over whether improvements in AI models have hit their limit has taken hold in recent weeks, forcing several CEOs to respond. Others, including Marc Andreessen, say AI models aren't getting noticeably better and are all converging to perform at roughly similar levels. AdvertisementOne solution that companies are exploring is synthetic data, an artificial form of data generated by AI. Aymeric Zhuo, cofounder and CEO of AI startup Agemo, said that AI reasoning "has been an active area of research," particularly as "the industry faces a data wall."
Persons: Sam Altman, Fabrice Beaulieu Dario Amodei, Anthropic, Jensen Huang, Marc Andreessen, Henri Tilloy, Jensen, Justin Sullivan, Matthew Zeiler, Eric Landau, Landau, Sharon Zhou, Zhou, Daniele Panfilo, Bard, it's, Thomas Wolf, Jonathan Frankle, Ilya Sutskever, Satya Nadella, Aymeric Zhuo, Sivesh Sukumar, OpenAI, Noam Brown, It's, Adam Selipsky, Dario Amodei, Noah Berger, Anthropic's, they've, Microsoft's Copilot Organizations: Nvidia, Business, Google, French VC, Companies, Vox Media, OpenAI, Reuters, TED, Gemini, Web, Getty Companies, Investors Locations: Santa Clara
AdvertisementKamala Harris' campaign sought an appearance on "Hot Ones," but the show declined. Harris campaign officials said "Hot Ones" didn't want to delve into politics. Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign wanted her to appear on the popular internet show "Hot Ones," but the show declined, campaign officials said. He asked why that may not have happened, citing "Hot Ones" as an ideal fit for the vice president. Advertisement"Never in time has there been a candidate better suited for a podcast than Kamala Harris on 'Hot Ones,'" he said.
Persons: Kamala Harris, Harris, Dan Pfeiffer, Jen O'Malley Dillon, Walz, Quentin Fulks, Stephanie Cutter, David Plouffe, Pfeiffer, Barack Obama, Bowen Yang, Paul Mescal, Jimmy Fallon, Donald Trump, Joe Rogan, Trump, Rogan, Plouffe Organizations: Democratic, Business Locations: Texas, Austin
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Generative artificial intelligence has taken Silicon Valley by storm since the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot in November 2022. There was a lot of optimism over the potential of GenAI gadgets at the CES trade show in January, said Paul Gagnon, vice president for analyst firm Circana. Additionally, consumers may find current GenAI devices too expensive, and they may be confused about what the devices can actually do, he said. The reality is that while GenAI has captivated Silicon Valley, it's still "inning zero" in regard to widespread adoption, Bajarin said. Despite Silicon Valley not having a breakout year for GenAI hardware, here are a few GenAI devices early adopters can buy.
Persons: chatbot, Paul Gagnon, Gagnon, we've, — there's, hasn't, Ben Bajarin, Ray, Bajarin, Ryan Reith, Reith, GenAI, Steve Koenig Organizations: Nvidia, CES, Creative, Microsoft, Apple, Intel, Dell, Lenovo, IDC, Consumer Technology Association Locations: Silicon
Elon Musk, whose Starlink satellite constellation is the biggest, wields power in the new Trump administration. SpaceX's Starlink and other mega-constellations of satellites could damage the atmosphere in ways we don't yet understand, scientists say. About 100 scientists signed a letter in October asking the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates satellite launches in the US, to pause mega-constellations. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 56 Starlink internet satellites launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Without an environmental review, it's unclear what the impact of SpaceX's Starlink plans will be.
Persons: Elon Musk, Trump, SpaceX's Starlink, Putin, Elon, , Jonathan McDowell, Musk, Donald J, Brandon Bell, Paul Hennessy, Joseph Wang, Michelle Hanlon, there's, Starlink Organizations: SpaceX, Research, Federal Communications Commission, Harvard, Getty, Geophysical Research, University of Southern, National Environmental, FCC, NEPA, Center for Air, Space, University of Mississippi School of Law, Trump, of Government, Federal Aviation, California Coastal Commission Locations: Russia, Cape Canaveral , Florida, University of Southern California, Texas, California
Is bald Reddit the nicest place on the internet?
  + stars: | 2024-11-27 | by ( Oscar Holland | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +6 min
CNN —The internet isn’t as nice a place as it used to be. Reddit’s r/bald is a 143,000-strong community (comprised mostly of, presumably, bald men) offering advice, support and encouragement to those who’ve taken, or are considering taking, “the plunge” by shaving off their thinning hair. “If there was a top 10 of bald glow ups, you’d be in there somewhere,” reads one of the 13,000 replies. Friends and loved ones may tell us how great we’d look bald but, sadly, we often care more about what strangers (rather than people whose opinions really matter) think of us. There are other ways in which the platform’s design encourages courteous behavior among bald men and beyond.
Persons: Elon Musk, , , Karl Lagerfeld, you’d, “ Bro, Jason Lancaster, Reddit, I’ve Organizations: CNN, Twitter Locations: Reddit
“Are we supposed to hold space for Trump supporters now?” co-host Joy Behar joked. Within the last week, search interest for "holding space" was beating out the newly declared word of the year "demure," according to Google Trends. “It’s campy the way it all happened and it’s authentic.”Neither Grande nor Erivo has commented on the viral interview publicly. However, Grande sent Out a laughing emoji in response to an Instagram story the magazine posted about the viral interview, Gilchrist said. In the finale of part one, fans find out whether Elphaba decides to "hold space" for her values.
Persons: Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Tracy E, Gilchrist, Erivo, Grande, nodded, Chris Murphy, Carrie Bradshaw, Bradshaw, , Joy Behar, Gilbert Flores, ” Gilchrist, Ariana, Gregory Maguire, Frank Baum's, Oz Organizations: Broadway, Fair, Merriam, Empire, New York City Gay, ABC, Trump, Google, Variety, Universal Pictures, Comcast, NBC News Locations: Instagram, Webster, New York
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Persons: I’ve, Harry Rabinowitz —, Lindsay Schneider, Apple Airtag, Harry Rabinowitz, Carote, TikTok Organizations: Walmart, Black, 6AM, Walmart Plus, NBC, Walmart Apple, Fujifilm, Samsung, Amazon Alexa, Root, Apple ., Apple, Microsoft, Google, Walmart NBC, Facebook, Twitter
Traffic infractions against Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill — which escalated to a tense police confrontation caught on video two months ago — were summarily dismissed on Monday when officers didn't come to court, records showed. Bystanders recorded video of Hill lying face down on the ground as officers placed his hands behind his back and appeared to cuff him. At least two Dolphins teammates, tight end Jonnu Smith and defensive lineman Calais Campbell, were driving by, saw Hill pulled over and stopped to help. All of those Dolphins made it to their Sept. 8 season opener, won by Miami, 20-17, over the visiting Jacksonville Jaguars. “If I wasn’t Tyreek Hill, Lord knows, I probably would have been, like, worst-case scenario, I would have been shot or would have been locked up” and “put behind bars, you know, for a simple speeding ticket,” Hill told NBC News a day after the incident.
Persons: , didn't, Hill, Patricia Henrys, Andy Slater, Jonnu Smith, Calais Campbell, Campbell, Walter Payton Man, , ” Hill Organizations: Miami Dolphins, Dade, Dolphins, Miami, Jacksonville Jaguars, NBC Locations: Miami, Dade County
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Four members of Pakistan’s security services were killed as thousands of former Prime Minister Imran Khan's supporters broke through government barricades and clashed with law enforcement in the country's capital Islamabad Tuesday. It is extremism,” Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said in a separate statement issued by his office. The protests were sparked by demands for Khan’s release from jail and the resignation of the federal government over what they call rigged general elections this year. Interior minister Mohsin Naqvi said Khan’s party rejected a government offer to rally on the outskirts of the city. Authorities say that only the courts can order Khan's release, who was ousted from government in 2022 through a no-confidence vote in parliament.
Persons: Imran Khan's, Shehbaz Sharif, Farooq Khan, , Khan, Imran Khan’s, Bushra Bibi, Ali Amin Gandapur, Bibi, Muhammad Reza, AAMIR QURESHI, Mohsin Naqvi, Khan’s, Mushtaq Yusufzai, Freddie Clayton Organizations: Pakistan —, Islamabad Tuesday, , Authorities, NBC News, Shipping, PTI, Anadolu, Getty, AFP, . Locations: PESHAWAR, Pakistan, country's, Islamabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Khan, Peshawar, London
SYDNEY, Australia — Google and Facebook-owner Meta Platforms urged the Australian government on Tuesday to delay a bill that will ban most forms of social media for children under 16, saying more time is needed to assess its potential impact. Google and Meta said in their submissions that the government should wait for the results of an age-verification trial before going ahead. The age-verification system may include biometrics or government identification to enforce a social media age cut-off. “In its present form, the bill is inconsistent and ineffective.”The law would force social media platforms, and not parents or children, to take reasonable steps to ensure age-verification protections are in place. ByteDance’s TikTok said the bill lacked clarity and that it had “significant concerns” with the government’s plan to pass the bill without detailed consultation with experts, social media platforms, mental health organizations and young people.
Persons: Anthony Albanese’s, Meta, ” Meta, , ByteDance’s TikTok, ” TikTok, Elon Musk’s Organizations: Google, Facebook, Meta, , Liberal Locations: SYDNEY, Australia, U.S
AABRA, Lebanon — Mayada El Sayed, duct tape wrapped around her fingers to prevent bruising, efficiently strips ripe olives from a tree, seemingly undeterred by the ever-present threat of bombs. Mayada El Sayed plucks olives from a tree. Anagha NairHezbollah began firing rockets into northern Israel the day after Hamas terror attacks on Oct. 7, 2023. Anagha NairMushantaf said many other farmers had been unable to get into their groves and that their harvests would go to waste. “I was born in this village, and I know my grandfather used to go to the olive grove and have a nap in the summer under a tree,” he said.
Persons: Mayada El Sayed, Sayed, Haret Saida, Mayada El, Anagha Nair, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, , , Walid Mushantaf, Bustan El, Anagha Nair Mushantaf, ” El Sayed, — Ibrahim, Ahmed, Zainab, Youssef Muqbil, Rose Bechara Organizations: United Nations ’, Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations Locations: AABRA, Lebanon, Bustan El Zeitoun, Beirut —, Israel, Haret, Golan, Olives, Lebanese, Egypt, Deir Mimas, Beirut
Opinion | Don’t Break Up Google
  + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Herbert Hovenkamp | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Last week, the Justice Department and a group of states presented the judge with a plethora of proposed remedies. It would also be barred from making itself the default search engine on its own products and disallowed from preferring its own products in search results. The test for a successful remedy is whether the market becomes more competitive, with higher output or a better experience for consumers. At this point, the Justice Department has not sufficiently explained why its proposed actions are an appropriate remedy. Some of the proposals were not addressed at any length in the judge’s opinion in the Google trial at all.
Persons: Amit P, Mehta Organizations: Google, D.C, Court, Department, Apple, Justice Department, Antitrust
Observably, both DI- and DI+ are reversing course, suggesting an early sign of a trend change. Support/Resistance Beyond technical indicators, traditional support and resistance levels further validate this trade setup. OLED has shown strong support at the 160 level, with the stock rebounding from this area, reinforcing the bullish case. To take a bullish trade on OLED, I'm using a trade structure called a "bull call spread." If OLED keeps going up from here and the stock price is above $170, a 170-175 call spread is also a feasible trade setup.
Persons: OLED Organizations: Dow Jones, Trump, Display Corp, DI, CNBC, NBC UNIVERSAL Locations: OLED
Google proposes fresh tweaks to search results in Europe
  + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
Google has proposed more changes to its search results in Europe after some smaller rivals complained about lower traffic to their sites resulting from previous tweaks by the Alphabet unit and as EU antitrust regulators consider levying charges against the company under new EU tech rules. Under the Digital Markets Act, Google is prohibited from favouring its products and services on its platform. The latter three groups said their direct booking clicks have fallen by 30% due to recent Google changes. "We think the latest proposal is the right way to balance the difficult trade-offs that the DMA involves," Bethell said. "We're very reluctant to take this step, as removing helpful features does not benefit consumers or businesses in Europe," Bethell said.
Persons: Oliver Bethell, Bethell, We're, crosshairs Organizations: Google, Digital Markets, Big Tech Locations: Europe, Germany, Belgium, Estonia
‘Demure’ is Dictionary.com’s 2024 word of the year
  + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Karina Tsui | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
CNN —“Demure,” a word that went viral over the summer, has been named Dictionary.com’s 2024 word of the year — beating out other contenders like “brainrot,” “brat,” and “weird.”In an announcement Monday, the site said that the word experienced a “meteoric rise in usage” in 2024 — up 1,200% between January and August — a spike that was largely attributed to TikToker and beauty influencer Jools Lebron’s popularization of the phrase “very demure, very mindful” in a series of satirical videos that shook the internet. “That’s the joke!”The satire is clearest in a clip in which the TikTok star asserts that she’s going to behave in a demure, mindful way while going out on the Las Vegas Strip. I don’t dog-ear pages, I put in a bookmark,” RuPaul said in a video promoting online bookstore Allstora. Lebron, who is transgender, said that the fame from her “demure” videos has helped her finance the rest of her transition. “Brat,” another word that has taken on new meaning in 2024, was named Collins Dictionary’s word of 2024 for being one of the most talked about words on and offline.
Persons: , , Lebron, Marge Simpson, Patty, Selma, Demure, ” Dictionary.com, she’ll, Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Lopez, RuPaul, Kardashian, Patrick Ta, Jimmy Kimmel, Dictionary.com, Collins Organizations: CNN, Las Locations: ,
CNN —Thousands of supporters of Pakistan’s jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan broke through barricades around the capital Tuesday and marched into Islamabad, clashing with security forces and demanding his release. The latest protests came as Islamabad bolstered security for an official visit by Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko, who arrived in the capital on Monday for three days of talks with Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Policemen fire tear gas shells to disperse supporters of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party during a protest to demand the release of former prime minister Imran Khan, in Islamabad on November 26. In recent days, thousands of Khan supporters have been arrested in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces as authorities tried to prevent the protest march. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party's supporters shout slogans as they protest to demand the release of former prime minister Imran Khan, in Hasan Abdal, on November 25.
Persons: Pakistan’s, Imran Khan, Khan, Mohsin Naqvi, Aleksandr Lukashenko, Shehbaz Sharif, Aamir Qureshi, Khan’s, Bushra Bibi, Ali Amin Gandapur, Naqvi, Hasan, Imran Khan's, ” Naqvi, , , Kamran Bangash, party's, Hasan Abdal, ” Khan, Sharif, Organizations: CNN, Authorities, Pakistan’s, Pakistan, Getty, Protesters, Reuters, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Paramilitary, “ Rangers, PTI Locations: Islamabad, Belarus, Pakistan, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, , Punjab province, Hasan Abdal, Imran Khan's Pakistan, Punjab, Rawalpindi, Hasan
With former high-flying gambling stocks struggling so far in the fourth quarter, it's tempting to write off the entire group. MGM is only up about 10% since the August market low, and CZR is slightly above the S & P 500 in terms of performance. Over the same period, we can see that DraftKings Inc (DKNG) is up around 35%, doubling the return of the S & P 500. FLUT has now made a new 12-month relative high, as the strong performance in Q4 has outpaced other gambling stocks as well as the major equity benchmarks. As long as these two gambling stocks continue to demonstrate strong relative strength characteristics, we feel they represent excellent opportunities into year-end 2024.
Persons: FLUT, David Keller Organizations: Caesars Entertainment, MGM Resorts International, MGM, Nasdaq, CMT, CNBC, NBC UNIVERSAL
In the latest episode of "Happy Sad Confused," Mescal said his algorithm has "too much" of him. Related Video Threads vs. Twitter: What we know about the apps"I've got to quit the internet," Mescal responded. Related storiesGoing on a digital detoxMescal is not the only celebrity to have considered taking a break from social media. Instead of completely abstaining from social media, setting limits may be more helpful in managing phone addiction, Neha Chaudhary, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, previously told BI. Chaudhary recommends unfollowing accounts that can negatively impact your mental health to curate a more positive social media feed.
Persons: Paul Mescal, Mescal, Josh Horowitz, Lucius, Connell Waldron, Selena Gomez, Neha Chaudhary, Chaudhary Organizations: CBS
And while these larger social media platforms still dwarf Bluesky, the startup now has more than 22 million users and is not showing any signs of slowing down. Bluesky had experienced a previous surge in July 2023 after X, then still named Twitter, temporarily limited the number of posts users could read per day. Just days before Musk officially took over Twitter, the Bluesky team publicly unveiled more details about their project and rolled out a waitlist for the Bluesky app. Despite Bluesky starting as a side project within Twitter, the startup has lost its last connection to the original micro-blogging app. Bluesky is looking for ways to support the users "who are actually the ones making the network awesome and fun," Wang said.
Persons: Rose Wang, Elon Musk's, Bluesky, Wang, David Carr, Carr, Jay Graber, Jack Dorsey, Jay, Graber, Daniel Holmgren, Paul Frazee, Dorsey, Parag Agrawal, Musk, Nostr, Jack, we're, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Johnston, Johnston, Gen, That's, It's, Similarweb's Carr Organizations: Twitter, CNBC, Brazilian Supreme, Google, Yahoo, Myspace, Facebook, Anthropic, Delaware State, PBLLC, Bluesky, Blockchain Capital, Blockchain, cryptocurrency Locations: Brazil, San Francisco
Pakistan deployed its army within the nation’s capital on Tuesday with orders to shoot protesters if necessary, as deadly clashes escalated between the police and supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan. The government said that at least six members of the security force had been killed in the violence, as thousands of protesters marched to Islamabad to demand his release from prison. Patriotic songs blared from vehicles, and supporters of Mr. Khan danced in front of the slow-moving convoy, some chanting, “Revolution! Revolution!”Mr. Khan, an enormously popular politician and former cricket star who has been jailed since August of last year, called for the demonstration over the weekend. Pakistan’s military-backed civilian government put the capital on lockdown, blocking major highways and suspending cellular and internet services in several areas.
Persons: Imran Khan, Mr, Khan Locations: Pakistan, Islamabad
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