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One of retailers' top priorities is to figure out how to gain an edge over Amazon. To do this, many retailers are attempting to differentiate themselves by creating highly curated experiences that combine the personal feel of in-store shopping with the convenience of online portals. See... Читать дальше...

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• President Donald Trump called former White House adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman a "lowlife" Saturday. 
• Trump was responding to a question from the press pool about Manigault Newman's tell-all memoir that was announced this week.
• "Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House" reportedly contains a number of bombshell allegations against Trump from Manigault Newman's time in the West Wing, though some of them have been contradicted or widely discredited. Читать дальше...

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The downfall of US brick-and-mortar commerce is overblown — despite sharp gains in e-commerce, which will nearly double between now and 2021, the lion’s share of purchasing continues to take place in-store. And that’s unlikely to change anytime soon, since the online environment can’t... Читать дальше...

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• The Horizon Air mechanic who took off in a plane without permission at Seattle-Tacoma (Sea-Tac) Airport was a ground service agent with Horizon Air since 2015, authorities said Saturday.
• They said the man had undergone various background checks and had full security clearance to be close to the aircraft, but that it was unclear how he was able to operate the plane for about an hour before crashing.
• The mechanic, who has been described as a... Читать дальше...

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• China has one "combat ready" aircraft carrier, another one undergoing preparation for service, and another one still in development.
• The Liaoning, an old Soviet heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser refitted to become China's first aircraft carrier, and the Type 001A, China's first indigenously-produced aircraft carrier, are both limited in their combat capabilities due to several glaring weaknesses.
• Striving to enhance the power of its carrier fleet... Читать дальше...

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• The founders of sock company Bombas appeared on "Shark Tank" in 2014.
• They landed a deal with Daymond John and, in 2017, Bombas brought in nearly $50 million in revenue.
• The founders said they didn't take the investors' insults personally because they knew it was all in the name of good TV.

"No one would want to sit in and watch one of my regular investor meetings," said David Heath. "They’re pretty cordial. People are asking... Читать дальше...

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• Americans come from everywhere, and every family has a story about where they come from.
• Self-reported ancestries in America include Italian, German, and Mexican heritage.
• Using Census Bureau data assembled by the Minnesota Population Center, we found the most common self-reported ancestry in every state.

Americans come from all over the world, and have countless stories about where they and their families come from.

The... Читать дальше...

Courtesy of VIPKid

• The Chinese education startup VIPKid, which connects fluent English-speaking teachers with Chinese students, raised $500 million in April for a valuation of over $3 billion.
• The company is led by its 35-year-old high-school dropout founder, Cindy Mi, who believes the company can help bridge cultural gaps between China, the US, and elsewhere while making high-quality education accessible and increasing interactions between people of different cultures.
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• Amazon has a specific philosophy when it comes to filling corporate job openings.
• It's spelled out in a 1998 letter from CEO Jeff Bezos, in which he called hiring talented people "the single most important element" of guaranteeing Amazon's success.
• He told employees to always consider three questions before hiring a candidate. 

Amazon is always looking to fill a ton of jobs.

But before you can land a corporate role with the online retail behemoth... Читать дальше...

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• The Greek island of Mykonos is known as a party capital and is a vacation hot spot for millionaires and billionaires.
• More than any place I've visited in recent memory, the island feels like two completely different places depending on how much you are willing to spend.
• That perception was driven home by the differences between my stay at a $130/night guesthouse and a $1,000/night room at one of the island's ritziest resorts.
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Just as back-to-school fashions go in and out of style, different classes offered in schools rise and decline in popularity over the years. The basics like math, science, and language arts aren't going anywhere, but other parts of school curricula continue to adapt to changing technologies and student needs.

Here are six once-popular classes and school activities that aren't usually offered anymore in the US — and what they've been replaced with. Читать дальше...

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• The Farmer's Dog is a personalized meal delivery service that's most easily described as "Blue Apron for dogs."
• Tech investors are throwing money at the Brooklyn startup, which has raised a total of $11 million from Shasta Ventures, SV Angel, and others. They believe it's the future of dog food.
• After feeding my dog The Farmer's Dog food for almost two months, I can see why. My dog Nubs loves it.

I wouldn't call my dog Nubs a picky eater. Читать дальше...

Melia Robinson

Robots could kill off jobs in the future — but at least they come bearing pizza.

Founded in 2015, Zume Pizza uses robotics and artificial intelligence to make pizza more quickly. Machines press mounds of dough, squirt and spread sauce, and lift pizzas in and out of the oven, in a fraction of the time it would take human workers to do the same.

Now SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $750 million in Zume, Bloomberg reports. The cash infusion could help ramp up the pizza delivery company's side hustle... Читать дальше...

HBO

• The San Francisco Bay Area's housing market is so bleak, even tech workers are struggling to buy a home there.
• A survey by Blind found that 59% of employees at Bay Area tech companies said they cannot afford homes.
• Cisco, eBay, and Intuit had the highest percentage of employees who said home ownership is elusive.

In Silicon Valley, buying a home is out of reach even for the region's tech workers.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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It seems like Salesforce CEO and founder Marc Benioff never leaves the spotlight.

Between Salesforce's annual Dreamforce mega-conference in San Francisco, his philanthropy, and his willingness to take political stands, it seems like he's always in the spotlight — even if, sometimes, it's because he's facing protests over Salesforce's work with the United States Customs and Border Patrol.

Salesforce itself is in a good position: Under Benioff's leadership... Читать дальше...

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• Google is reportedly looking for a partner to deliver cloud services to China. 
• The report comes as Google is said to be preparing a version of its search engine for China — and that complies with government censorship rules. 
• Microsoft and Amazon have already tapped local partners in China to deliver cloud services, because of the country's strict rules around data needing to stay within its borders.

Google is looking to make a grand re-entry into China... Читать дальше...

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• Snapchat and Instagram filters are influencing how young people think about beauty.
• Alarmingly, more people are requesting plastic surgery to look better in selfies, according to the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
• And in one disturbing emerging phenomenon, dubbed "Snapchat dysmorphia," some patients are getting plastic surgery to look more like their filtered selfies.
• According to Boston University researchers... Читать дальше...

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Magic Leap

• Magic Leap is a secretive Florida-based startup that makes augmented-reality headsets.
• On Wednesday morning, it launched its first device: Magic Leap One. It's a product that's over six years and $2.3 billion in the making.
• The first media impressions were published on Wednesday morning, and they all point to the same problem shared by Microsoft's HoloLens headset: a tiny field of view.

The next step after smartphones is almost certainly some form of augmented reality ... Читать дальше...

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Trevor Daneliuk first started hitchhiking about four years ago, when he was still a college student studying accounting. Today, the 24-year-old Canadian has hitchhiked in 25 countries, and says he's been picked up by generous drivers close to a thousand times. 

His current trip will take him across all 50 United States — he's been to 48 at the time of publishing — and is being funded with the money he makes through Twitch, the Amazon-owned video livestreaming service... Читать дальше...

Darren Weaver

Apple's App Store has over 2 million apps, so it can be hard to find which ones are worth your time and which ones aren't. 

That's why Apple built in a rating system, to let users say which apps are 1-star and which ones are 5-star worthy. Apple's ratings and reviews influence how apps show up in search results, and you can see the rating before you download.

But which apps over the 10 years since the App Store first launched have had the most uniformly positive reviews? Читать дальше...

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The landmark Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade and subsequent rulings upholding it have granted Americans the right to abortion since 1973, but the reality of that right varies dramatically from state to state.

Since Roe became the law of the land, individual states have found dozens of ways to make it as difficult as possible for patients to actually access the procedure.

From strict regulations on clinics and bans on abortion after a certain number of weeks... Читать дальше...

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• If bartenders had one-way tickets to Mars, it's likely they would pack plenty of booze for space. 
• Robb Report asked their favorite bartenders and mixologists what they would drink on Mars, which include plenty of Tanqueray gin to share with martians and Jack Daniel's whiskey for 'shots to celebrate.'
• Since glassware probably wouldn't be necessary in space, bartender Jim Meehan suggests we'd have to  "keep the lips of those bottles... Читать дальше...