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☆ What your teen actually wants you to do when they are upset
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Madeline Holcombe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Maybe a hug from a parent no longer solves problems for a teen as it did in their childhood. But when it comes to teenage mental health, adults can do a lot to help, according to new data. The survey found that 1 in 6 parents have a hard time comforting and communicating with their teen. ridvan_celik/E+/Getty ImagesThe worsening mental health and rising stakes of teens often puts parents in a difficult place. That scenario is why it’s important for parents and caregivers to have their own mental health resources, said Dr. Whitney Trotter, a doctor of nursing practice, psychiatric and mental health nurse practitioner and registered dietitian in Austin, Texas.

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☆ Women's Online Reviews Are More Reliable Than Men's, Study Finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Emily Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

What men say, on the other hand, isn't at all telling. "This relationship is completely explained by drug reviews written by females; reviews written by males have no explanatory power." In their analysis, women tended to be more articulate and detailed in their drug reviews and experience, while men were vaguer. One 2023 study looking at Yelp reviews found that the persuasiveness of reviews by gender depended on product category. Other research, however, suggests that even for areas stereotypically seen as being in women's realm, women's reviews aren't perceived as more valuable than men's.

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☆ We almost had a secret Deadpool Christmas movie — and it was going to be marketed as a deliberately bad buddy cop movie to avoid leaks
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Jason Guerrasio | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Reynolds revealed on an episode of "Hot Ones" that he had once planned to promote an intentionally bad-sounding movie called "Alpha Cop" as a ruse. As Reynolds pointed out on "Hot Ones," marketing a fake movie would help with leaks of what was being cooked up for the next Deadpool movie. "Ryan's idea was, the $100-plus million that studios spend on marketing a big Marvel movie, fuck that, let's do 'Alpha Cop,'" Wernick said. There was even an 'Alpha Cop' poster made. "Deadpool & Wolverine" is in theaters now.

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☆ A.I.’s Benefits Outweigh the Risks - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( David Brooks | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

I’m optimistic, paradoxically, because I don’t think A.I. I don’t think A.I. In fact, I think instead of replacing us, I think A.I. are based on an underestimation of the human mind. “mind” is like the human mind.

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☆ StubHub tricks people with ‘bait-and-switch’ pricing scheme, DC attorney general alleges
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —Millions of sports fans and concertgoers are being duped by a deceptive pricing scheme at StubHub that hides the true cost of tickets until the very last moment, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by Washington, DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb. The lawsuit accuses StubHub of deploying pricing tactics that “trick” consumers into overpaying for tickets and are designed to boost profits. “StubHub uses a classic bait-and-switch scheme,” the lawsuit said, describing what’s known as “drip pricing” where only part of the product’s price is advertised initially. “We strongly support federal and state solutions that enhance existing laws to empower consumers, such as requiring all-in pricing uniformly across platforms.”According to the lawsuit, StubHub did use an “all-in pricing” model from 2014 to 2015 where the advertised prices included the mandatory fees. However, the company abandoned that more transparent model after testing found that customers were more likely to ultimately buy tickets when those fees are only shown at the end, the lawsuit said.

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☆ Starbucks Reinvented How It Runs Its Cafés to Cut Down on Wait Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Called the "Siren Craft System," it overhauls the workflow at some 10,000 of its coffeehouses in an effort to reduce inefficiency, speed up orders, and boost customer satisfaction. Every fast-food outlet, Starbucks cafés included, is a little factory. The new system instructs baristas to push cold drinks down in the queue in favor of hot ones. But the fact is, the cold drinks also take longer to make. The higher-grossing cold drinks take so long to make, in fact, that they're actually pretty low-margin.

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☆ Podcast: Samsung bets on the Galaxy Ring and AI as its next big thing
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +42 min

Along with its S24 series of smartphones, foldable devices, smartwatches and now the Galaxy Ring, Samsung is hoping to lock users into its world of products held together with its suite of artificial intelligence features, known as Galaxy AI. Arjun KharpalOne of the things Samsung said was look, the ring is one product, but we've got the watch, we've got the smartphone. I think that's the right approach for Samsung, I don't think they have unrealistic expectations for volumes on this. And you'd feel like if there was some sort of Apple ring, it would do pretty good volumes. Do you think Samsung is seriously looking at ways to monetize this via subscriptions or other kinds of service business model?

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☆ José Torres Gil makes BMX history for Argentina during ‘best final ever’ at Paris Olympics
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Place de la Concorde, Paris CNN —Triumph and tragedy are everywhere you look at the Olympics, and the men’s BMX park final on Wednesday had a surfeit of both. Martin crashed on both of his runs, his title defense wilting in the Paris heat, while Jeanjean recovered superbly on his second run to take a hard-earned bronze medal. As for the triumph, take José Torres Gil, the Argentinian rider who won his country’s first individual gold medal in a cycling discipline with a stunning initial score of 94.82. Great Britain’s Keiran Reilly took silver after packing trick after trick into his second run, hauling himself above Jeanjean with the final act of the competition. “It’s not easy at all when you’ve been training day-in, day-out for a year and you fall on the first trick, the first run,” Jeanjean said.

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☆ We’ve been wrong about a key contributor to human happiness
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

But it can really, really help. To do that, I collect large-scale data in the course of people’s everyday lives … That’s kind of the 100,000-foot view. And I think that’s the kind of thing that doesn’t really stop at any magic threshold. I think people need to think about this more of kind of like a happiness portfolio. And oh, by the way, getting some daily exercise, not living in an environment that’s really polluted, that would be good.

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But, as events this week in Paris have once again shown, when it comes to women’s skating, Japan’s teenage girls are on fire. Fourteen-year-old Coco Yoshizawa’s late surge helped her beat compatriot Liz Akama, 15, to the gold medal at La Concorde Urban Park, Paris on Sunday. Sakura Yosozumi, then 19, and Kokona Hiraki, then 12, topped the 2021 Tokyo women’s park event. “Since there’s no age limit for skateboarding at the Olympics, any youngsters can compete,” Hiraki, the youngest Olympic medalist since 1936, told CNN in July. Lars Baron/Getty ImagesSkewing youngJapan aside, women’s skateboarding across both categories is dominated by teenage athletes.

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☆ The 'great rotation' faces its biggest test yet: earnings from Microsoft, Meta, Apple and Amazon
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-28 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +15 min

That will be the case in this jam-packed week , with the earnings from Microsoft on Tuesday, Meta Platforms on Wednesday, and Apple and Amazon on Thursday. If Alphabet said it cut back on data-center spending, then it would be alleged the company is falling behind Amazon and Microsoft in the AI race. The company also is now dogged by another competitor in search engines after ChatGPT creator OpenAI announced a prototype of SearchGPT . Apple reports on Thursday, and if you think the cloud-computing heavyweights are spending on too much AI, then you should be buying Apple. President Joe Biden always chose to have his agencies wear down tech companies.

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☆ Why Elon Musk Is Supporting Donald Trump: to Save Tesla From Disaster
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-28 | by ( Linette Lopez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

As market competition heated up, Tesla started cutting prices, which turned into an industrywide price war that Tesla isn't winning. It's a steep fall, considering Tesla's share of the EV market used to be as high as 80%. Critics balked, but Musk assured the Tesla community that this was the only strategy to save the company. Musk is looking for ways to buy time for Tesla — and one of those ways is to get Trump elected. Preserving Tesla's market position is imperative until he can conjure another product that people are excited to buy.

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☆ Rayssa Leal takes bronze in street skateboarding as 14-year-old Coco Yoshizawa wins gold
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-28 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

When Brazilian superstar Rayssa Leal stuck her all-important final trick of the women’s street skateboarding final at the Paris Olympics, a deafening roar went up from the many green-and-gold-clad fans watching on. “It was like a gold medal because … she had to make it,” Brazilian fan Michelle Arruda, who bought tickets for the women’s street skateboarding to watch Leal a year ago, told CNN Sport. “And here I am, with a second Olympic medal from the Games. “You are awesome.”Leal rests during the women's street skateboarding prelims. Heavy rain on Friday had caused the men’s street skateboarding to be postponed by two days, but the women’s event was blessed with bright sun.

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☆ US nabs a cartel leader after El Chapo's son tricks him onto a flight across the border: report
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The Justice Department arrested two cartel leaders Thursday. One, El Chapo's son, worked with authorities to trick the second, leader El Mayo, onto a plane, according to CNN. At his trial, El Chapo argued El Mayo was the real boss behind the cartel. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Cofounder Ismael Zambada Garcia, also known as "El Mayo," and Joaquin Guzman Lopez — the son of the cartel's other jailed cofounder, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman — were arrested in Texas and are facing multiple charges related to manufacturing and trafficking fentanyl, Garland said.

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Will These Sensational Skateboarding Tricks Win Japan Olympic Gold? Tokyo Olympics results If scored with the new format Total ATHLETE ATHLETE Total Yuto Horigome Japan Kelvin Hoefler Brazil Kelvin Hoefler Brazil Jagger Eaton U.S. Yuto Horigome Japan Jagger Eaton U.S. Tokyo Olympics results Yuto Horigome Kelvin Hoefler Jagger Eaton Japan Brazil U.S. NYJAH HUSTON UNITED STATES Yuto Horigome JAPAN Rome 2022 5 START Huston landed 13 tricks while Horigome only did 7. NYJAH HUSTON UNITED STATES Yuto Horigome JAPAN Rome 2022 Huston landed 13 tricks while Horigome only did 7. NYJAH HUSTON UNITED STATES Yuto Horigome JAPAN Rome 2022 5 START Huston landed 13 tricks while Horigome only did 7.

☆ Stop trying to charge your Tesla faster with the wet towel 'hack,' company warns
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewTesla issued a warning against using the wet towel charging "hack" that's been circulating among some owners online. Related storiesIt's not a surprise that Tesla owners are looking for hacks to charge their vehicles faster. The damp towel trick is just one example of the many experiments Tesla owners have tried out. Other YouTubers have made videos using oranges or water bottles to cheat the sensors in the steering wheel. (Elon Musk has said the company is removing the steering wheel nag in upcoming software).

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Best Grocery Credit Cards of 2024Introduction to Grocery Credit CardsIf you spend a lot of money on groceries, using a rewards credit card that offers bonus rewards at the supermarket makes sense to maximize this necessary expense. Note that credit card lenders may use many different variations of credit score models when considering your application. The ones reviewed here are the best grocery credit cards in 2024, according to Business Insider's team of credit card experts. Best for Cash Back on Groceries With No Annual Fee: Capital One SavorOne Cash Rewards Credit CardBest for cash back on groceries with no annual fee Capital One SavorOne Cash Rewards Credit Card Apply now lock icon An icon in the shape of lock. Best Credit Card for Groceries Frequently Asked QuestionsAre grocery credit cards worth it?

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☆ Who will light the Olympic cauldron? Here are 10 potential candidates
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Mark Puleo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

The lighting of the Olympic cauldron is a spectacle steeped in both tradition and secrecy. With just one day until the opening ceremony, the identity of the individual who will light the cauldron remains unknown. The 25-year-old led France to 2018 World Cup triumph, becoming the second teenager in history (after Pelé) to score in a final, then led France to another World Cup final in 2022. He was the team’s leading scorer during its 1998 World Cup title run and later transitioned to coaching after retirement. AdvertisementTony ParkerTony Parker had his number retired before a French Olympic tuneup game earlier this month.

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☆ The sober dating revolution is here, and Gen Z is leading it
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Lindsay Dodgson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Gen Z is earning a reputation as the sober-curious generation that prioritizes their health, well-being, and authenticity when finding a partner. Ryan Mairs, 28, is a "Zillennial" on the cusp between millennials and Gen Z and has noticed the shift. Gen Z are drink less regularly than millennials, according to Statista data. AdvertisementA recent survey by DatingNews.com found that 65% of millennial and Gen Z respondents said they would prefer a "dry" first date. She's the founder of the sober dating platform Club Pillar, launching this summer.

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☆ Cold showers: What the science says about the benefits
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

This practice is known as cold water immersion, a type of cryotherapy or cold therapy — which can be applied for medical or therapeutic purposes in various ways. In modern times, some people wonder if cold showers, a more accessible form of this trend, could also do the trick. Taking cold showers may have benefits for your mental and cardiovascular health, experts say. But experts have ideas for why cold showers might work, based on what scientific and anecdotal evidence there is, he added. Taking a cold showerIf you want to try taking cold showers and have been cleared by your doctor, start small, experts said.

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☆ Tesla keeps touting future plans. But without specific details, investors aren't buying it.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In today's big story, we're looking at another Tesla earnings report that was light on details about big future plans . The approach worked well last quarter when Tesla's earnings report was even worse than expected . However, big-picture plans without concrete details fell flat for investors this time around. It's Tesla's silver lining amid the EV market slowdown. But as beneficial as competitors were to Tesla this quarter, others seem to be gearing up for battle.

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☆ Duolingo Is the Meanest App in the App Store. Gen Z Loves It.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Kelli María Korducki | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

After all, I knew perfectly well what I'd signed up for: learning Portuguese from the biggest asshole on the App Store. It might be an overstatement to call tough love the secret sauce for engaging Gen Z customers. It followed that in 2023 with a send-up of personal-injury-attorney TV ads: "Lawyer Fights Duolingo Owl for $2,700,000." Despite the research, Duolingo insists its guilt-tripping notifications do the trick of enticing people to drop whatever they're doing to log on to the app. When Duolingo's head of product, Cem Kansu, posted a thread in 2020 about the success of "the passive aggressive reminder," several unhappy Duolingo users chimed in.

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☆ Americans Still Shop for Luxury Items in Physical Stores, Not Online
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Emily Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

It found that people generally have a strong preference for a brick-and-mortar experience when buying luxury items. Online luxury sales picked up during the pandemic but have since come back down to earth. The overarching theme is that many consumers haven't warmed up to shopping luxury — namely, ultra-luxe items and brands — online. AdvertisementWe try to treat luxury with the same e-commerce experience we use for paper towels, and that just doesn't work. For the most part, luxury brands prefer that customers would rather shop in-store.

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