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☆ Scientists used DNA to unlock who wore a 25,000-year-old pendant
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary AnthropologyA deer tooth pendant has revealed details about the woman who wore it between 19,000 and 25,000 years ago. The groundbreaking analysis by a team of European researchers marks the first time scientists have successfully isolated ancient human DNA from a Stone Age artifact. Gregory BretonWith large ears and adorable faces, sand cats went viral seven years ago when their kittens were photographed in the wild for the first time. Although smaller than domestic cats, sand cats live in harsh environments with scorching heat, hunt venomous Saharan horned vipers and rely on blood from prey as a source of water. To unravel the many mysteries of sand cats, researchers tracked 22 of the felines that had been fitted with radio collars for four years.

☆ Here are Friday's biggest analyst calls: Amazon, Tesla, CVS, Microsoft, XPO, AT&T, Spotify & more
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Michael Bloom | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Bank of America reiterates Alphabet as buy Bank of America says it's bullish heading into Alphabet earnings next week. JPMorgan reiterates Amazon as a best idea JPMorgan says it's bullish heading into the e-commerce giant's earnings report next week. "We continue to see streaming music & audio as an attractive growth market and remain OW WMG and SPOT." Stephens initiates SentinelOne as overweight Stephens initiated the cyber security company with an overweight and says it has "best-in-class growth." JPMorgan reiterates Charles Schwab as overweight JPMorgan says Charles Schwab could be worth more if it were to "de-bank."

☆ Square is changing its strategy to focus on larger sellers — here's why
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( Madeline Stone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Square is focused on engaging large sellers, says Christine Loh, the general manager of e-commerce. In recent months, other e-commerce software providers, including Shopify, have also placed more emphasis on larger sellers as a way to hedge their bets. To cater to larger sellers, Square doubled down on features like preordering capabilities and loyalty program integrations. "But then also larger sellers, I think especially during this challenging economic time, they don't want to deal with piecing together a bunch of complex solutions. Analysts say that supporting large businesses could offer good value at a time when many are tightening their belts.

☆ A Square exec says the company is targeting larger sellers, reflecting a growing trend amid economic uncertainty
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Madeline Stone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Large sellers "don't want to deal with piecing together a bunch of complex solutions," Loh said. In recent months, other ecommerce software providers like Shopify have also placed more emphasis on larger sellers as a way to hedge their bets. To cater to larger sellers, Square doubled down on features like preordering capabilities and loyalty program integrations. "But then also larger sellers, I think especially during this challenging economic time, they don't want to deal with piecing together a bunch of complex solutions. Analysts say supporting large businesses could offer good value at a time when many are tightening their belts.

☆ Macron Skips Consensus to Govern Like Jupiter in Raising France’s Retirement Age
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Stacy Meichtry | Noemie Bisserbe | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

PARIS—When France’s President Emmanuel Macron was re-elected last year he vowed to turn the page on his tendency to exercise power in a style he once described as “Jupiterian,” a reference to the king of the gods in ancient Roman mythology. Mr. Macron said he would govern as a consensus builder in his second term, piecing together majority votes in a highly polarized Parliament.

☆ Dilemma for France’s Macron: to Govern, or Not to Govern, as an Imperious ‘Jupiter’
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Stacy Meichtry | Noemie Bisserbe | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

PARIS—When French President Emmanuel Macron was re-elected last year he vowed to turn the page on his tendency to exercise power in a style he once described as “Jupiterian,” a reference to the king of the gods in ancient Roman mythology. Mr. Macron said he would govern as a consensus builder in his second term, piecing together majority votes in a highly polarized Parliament.

☆ This startup is one step closer to cracking the code on 3D printing shoes with a $3 million investment led by former Nike executives
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Matthew Kish | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The company makes 3D-printed footwear. Footwear manufacturing is inherently wasteful and time consuming. Hilos' technology works like this: When a customer purchases a shoe, Hilos makes another one available in a matter of days. Hilos makes soles from a type of plastic, technically TPU, or thermoplastic polyurethane, that is made from 80% recycled material. "If you started with the premise of, 'I want to make a new footwear company,' how would you do it?

☆ Sam Bankman-Fried — who once said every book should be a '6-paragraph blog post' — says he's written over 1,000 pages about FTX's collapse while under house arrest
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sam Bankman-Fried has previously said "I would never read a book" and prefers blog posts. But since he's been under house arrest, SBF has written over 1,000 pages, the FT reported. Bankman-Fried passes his time writing and speaking to his lawyers, the paper said. Last September, in an interview with Sequoia Capital, a major investor in FTX, Bankman-Fried said he was skeptical of books as a concept, saying: "I would never read a book." "I think, if you wrote a book, you fucked up, and it should have been a six-paragraph blog post," he added.

☆ A Young Architect Finds an Ideal Setting in the Island of Antiparos
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Sarah Medford | Photography Giulio Ghirardi For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Piecing together small, often forgettable jobs is a rite of passage for a young architect. In the summer of 2013, Argyro Pouliovali, 26 and pregnant with her first child, designed an information hub for an upstart Athens art fair in her native Greece. A year later, she was finishing a cheap and cheerful renovation of a beachfront hotel her husband had bought on Antiparos while staying with him and their infant son on the Cycladic island. “Actually, it was the opposite—how to just refresh a place without showing that somebody had touched it. I know it was a very Cycladic cliché, but it’s a lovely one so you don’t want to spoil it.”

☆ Australia's radioactive capsule to be moved to storage as investigation starts
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-02 | by ( Lewis Jackson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] A view shows the area where a radioactive capsule was found, near Newman, Australia, February 1, 2023. The week-long search retracing the truck's journey involved 100 people from at least five government agencies using specialised radiation detection equipment. Capsule was found south of the town of Newman after a week-long search. Western Australia's Chief Health Officer Andrew Robertson launched an investigation on Wednesday and said prosecutions would be considered under state radiation safety laws dating to 1975. A report for Western Australia's Health Minister is due in several weeks.

☆ A booming market for gear to help seniors grow older at home is creating an opportunity for investors
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( Michelle Fox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +13 min

Alphabet, Amazon and Best Buy are among the fund's plays on the aging in place theme. Best Buy breaks into the space It's Best Buy that has really been doubling down on its efforts to break into the space. Best Buy sees the role of technology within health care becoming much more important. Medicare Advantage's health care at home coverage includes primary care, transitional care when someone is released from a hospital and often hospice care, she said. That should lead to higher earnings power, said Baker, who has a buy rating and $237 price target on Lowe's stock.

☆ Prince Harry's 'Spare' ghostwriter has written 3 other bestselling memoirs, including 'Shoe Dog' for Nike founder Phil Knight
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Prince Harry's bestselling memoir 'Spare' was ghostwritten by J.R. Moehringer, who has written a number of other bestselling memoirs. Prince Harry's blockbuster memoir "Spare" is already a runaway success, shattering sales records as readers rush to learn details both salacious and mundane about the British royal's life. American author J.R. Moehringer ghostwrote Prince Harry's memoir "Spare", as well as memoirs from tennis star Andre Agassi and Nike founder Phil Knight. Leonardo Cendamo | Hulton Archive | Getty ImagesThough he has not done any press for "Spare", Moehringer has opened up about the ghostwriting process in the past. He has ghostwritten two other bestselling autobiographies: 2009's "Open" for American tennis star Andre Agassi and 2016's "Shoe Dog" for Nike founder Phil Knight.

☆ A former Noma intern at the $500-a-person restaurant said she was forbidden to laugh and paid nothing to assemble beetles out of fruit leather in silence
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An intern at Noma said she was told not to laugh during an unpaid stint at the world's top restaurant. Namrata Hegde worked at Noma in 2017 but said she spent little time learning about cooking. The closure comes as founder René Redzepi told the Times that he cannot compensate staff fairly while keeping the restaurant open. Her managers, who were junior chefs at Noma, told Hegde that she was not allowed to make noise, including laughter, while she worked, she told the Times. "I thought an internship was about me learning, as well about contributing to Noma's success," Hegde told the Times.

☆ I moved twice for my spouse's career — then we got divorced. Here's what the experience taught me.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Laura Wheatman Hill | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Laura Wheatman Hill was relieved the first time she had to move for her husband's career. Once in Philadelphia, Wheatman Hill found a satisfying job, but had to give it up to move again. Now that she and her husband are divorced, Wheatman Hill said she'd do things differently. I worked hard for years in a career that didn't pay well or appreciate me. I love my kids, and I'm rebuilding my career — still teaching sometimes, but mostly writing from my home in Oregon.

☆ ‘I just want a home to go back to’: Months after a historic flood, relief remains elusive for some in Kentucky
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | Minyvonne Burke Is A Senior Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

Reducing the red tapeIn the weeks and months after the flood, FEMA received more than 16,700 applications for disaster assistance. More than 60% of Kentucky flood victims who applied for assistance have been approved, it said. To assist with the process of getting aid, FEMA said its specialists have contacted Kentucky flood survivors directly, requesting any missing information and scheduling inspections. Beshear’s office also sent $500 grants to residents who qualified for FEMA assistance. The checks were a part of more than $12.2 million donated to the Team Eastern Kentucky Flood Relief Fund.

The bare-bones indictment against Bankman-Fried - which could be amended with more details and co-defendants as the case progresses - suggests prosecutors have a long road ahead piecing together what they have described as one of the biggest financial frauds in American history. “A trial is probably 14 to 18 months out,” said Michael Weinstein, a white-collar criminal defense lawyer and former federal prosecutor. On Tuesday, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams in Manhattan said a grand jury had indicted Bankman-Fried on wire fraud, securities fraud, commodities fraud, campaign finance law violations and conspiracy charges. The indictment came just weeks after Bankman-Fried's $32 billion crypto exchange collapsed - an extraordinarily fast turnaround for prosecutors. Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas on Monday but indicated he would fight extradition to the United States.

☆ Startup Choira uses 5G technology to help musicians jam together virtually with minimal latency
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Sarah Fielding | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Choira uses 5G tech to minimize latency problems and allow musicians to jam together virtually. This article is part of "How 5G Is Changing Everything," a series about transformational 5G tech across industries. Choira, a new platform from Mumbai where musicians can connect virtually, uses 5G technology to minimize latency problems and give people a chance to rock together, wherever they are. In addition to jam sessions with friends, Choira users can connect with well-known musicians to collaborate on songs for displayed rates. These people can create a track through Choira for no cost, but Choira retains the rights to the song.

Chapin had been staying overnight at the home when the four were fatally stabbed in the early morning of Nov. 13, authorities said. From top left, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle. Detectives are piecing together the final hours of the roommates' lives, with thousands of tips pouring in and requests for more videos from the neighborhood to aid in the investigation. Funke and Mortensen, identified by police as "two surviving roommates," are not believed to have been involved in the crime. Mortensen in her letter said she would never forget her three roommates nor Chapin, who she described as an older brother.

In recent years, researchers have looked for supplements, in particular to data like JOLTS, to provide more nuance about job market dynamics. "When JOLTS came along it was stepping into a data void that it has done a good job of filling. An expanded JOLTS survey may get directly at that and other issues in the future, said Paul R. Calhoun Jr., who was involved with developing the survey in the 1990s and is its current manager. "You got all these job openings," Calhoun said. "We had the unemployment rate, so we knew how many people there are who are looking for work and don't have a job.

☆ A TikTok star breaks down how much it costs to make stunt videos, like welding 2 cars together and sending a GoPro down a water hole
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Here's how much he spent on "First Double-Sided Prius" and "GoPro Down A Treacherous Water Hole." While creators like him may earn a lot, Sawyer said, they also spend a lot — and not only on videos. Sending a GoPro camera down a water holeThe idea for this video came when Sawyer saw a post on TikTok showing a water canal in Oregon. In total, Sawyer spent about $2,500 on it, including an estimated $300 on gas he put into the car he rented once in Oregon. The series made him $1,456 from ads on his long-form YouTube video and about $3,750 from creator funds on TikTok and YouTube Shorts.

☆ Tosca Musk, Elon’s sister, has a business venture of her own – and it’s all about romance and female sexuality
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Faith Karimi Cnn Photographs Austin Steele | Faith Karimi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

It’s their first public film premiere since the pandemic started. Musk, 48, is the force behind Passionflix, which adapts romance novels into movies and streams them to a devoted niche audience. “Passionflix focuses on adapting romance novels exactly as the fan and the author envision it,” Musk says in a separate CNN interview. From left to right: Tosca Musk, Kimbal Musk, mother Maye Musk and Elon Musk at Maye's 50th birthday party in 1998. One of the founding members, she says she spent the pandemic years curled up on her couch, watching Passionflix movies.

☆ From $32 billion to criminal investigations: How Sam Bankman-Fried's empire vanished overnight
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Mackenzie Sigalos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +17 min

Alameda's success spurred the launch of crypto exchange FTX in the spring of 2019. A Twitter fight with the CEO of rival exchange Binance pulled the mask off the scheme. Alameda, FTX and a host of subsidiaries Bankman-Fried founded have filed for bankruptcy protection in Delaware. On Nov. 2, CoinDesk reported a leaked balance sheet showing that a significant amount of Alameda's assets were held in FTX's illiquid FTT token. On Nov. 6, according to Bankman-Fried, the exchange had roughly $5 billion of withdrawals, "the largest by a huge margin."

☆ After losing almost all of his fortune, FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried said he's about to break down exactly what went down at the crypto exchange
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sam Bankman-Fried has posted a series of cryptic tweets spelling out: "What happened." "This is all as I remember it, but my memory might be faulty in parts," Bankman-Fried tweeted Tuesday. Bankman-Fried had tweeted on Friday that he planned to share a thorough account of what happened at FTX. Bankman-Fried told The New York Times on Sunday that since FTX had collapsed, he'd been coping better than expected. Bankman-Fried has resigned as CEO of FTX, while FTX, Alameda Research, and roughly 130 affiliated companies have begun Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.

☆ Exclusive: At least $1 billion of client funds missing at FTX
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( Angus Berwick | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

The exchange's founder Sam Bankman-Fried secretly transferred $10 billion of customer funds from FTX to Bankman-Fried's trading company Alameda Research, the people told Reuters. While it is known that FTX moved customer funds to Alameda, the missing funds are reported here for the first time. Asked about the missing funds, Bankman-Fried responded: "???" Bankman-Fried showed several spreadsheets to the heads of the company's regulatory and legal teams that revealed FTX had moved around $10 billion in client funds from FTX to Alameda, the two people said. The documents showed that between $1 billion and $2 billion of these funds were not accounted for among Alameda's assets, the sources said.

☆ At least $1 billion of client funds missing at failed crypto firm FTX, sources say
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

At least $1 billion of customer funds have vanished from collapsed crypto exchange FTX, according to two people familiar with the matter. The exchange’s founder Sam Bankman-Fried secretly transferred $10 billion of customer funds from FTX to Bankman-Fried’s trading company Alameda Research, the people told Reuters. While it is known that FTX moved customer funds to Alameda, the missing funds are reported here for the first time. Asked about the missing funds, Bankman-Fried responded: “?? The documents showed that between $1 billion and $2 billion of these funds were not accounted for among Alameda’s assets, the sources said.

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