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Are you having any fun?
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startups (or big creative undertakings) don’t fail because of lack
of money, or a competitor coming out of nowhere. They fail because the
people running them give up. And why do founders give up? They’re
miserable. They spent years living in a grinding, joyless environment,
waiting for some distant milestone to validate all the pain. When the
milestone doesn’t arrive on schedule—or arrives and feels
anticlimactic—disillusionment sets in. The founder flame goes out.

Atlassian’s “ShipIt Days”: Periodically, Atlassian lets
employees spend 24 hours building anything they’re passionate about.
People form spontaneous teams, eat pizza all night, and ship prototype
features. It’s intense, but it’s also fun. Some of their best
product innovations originated here.

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Editor's Note: Most startups (or big creative undertakings) don't fail
because of lack of money, or a competitor coming out of nowhere. They
fail because the people running them give up. And why do founders give
up? They're miserable. They spent years living in a grinding, joyless
environment, waiting for some distant milestone to validate all the
pain. When the milestone doesn't arrive on schedule - or arrives and
feels anticlimactic - disillusionment sets in. The founder flame goes
out.

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Greenlanda??s prime minister calls for calm after Trump comments
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In Denmark, the prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, said on Wednesday
night that she had met Egede earlier in the day and had spoken on the
phone with several European leaders. "You can be sure that we, as a
government, are doing everything we can to safeguard Denmark's - and
the Commonwealth's - interests," she wrote on Instagram. The US, she
added, was Denmark's closest ally.

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5 ChatGPT Prompts For Passive Income: Make Money While You Sleep
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BySenior Contributor Jodie Cook covers ChatGPT prompts & AI for
coaches and entrepreneurs.Following Everyone dreams of making endless
passive income, but few know how to make it happen. To make money
while you sleep, do the work when you're awake. For this to go well,
hope is not a strategy.






















 










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Man told he can't recover ?600m of Bitcoin from tip
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James Howells had argued that his former partner had mistakenly dumped
the hard drive containing a Bitcoin wallet in 2013, and he wanted to
access the site and recover the cryptocurrency.

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Eric Schmidt's New Secret Project Is An AI Video Platform Called
'Hooglee'
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has spent the last few months working
on an artificial intelligence project that aims to capitalize on the
booming landscape of AI video generation.







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Japanese Yakuza Leader Pleads Guilty to Nuclear Materials Trafficking,
Narcotics, and Weapons Charges
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Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, of Japan, pleaded guilty in Manhattan, New York,
today to conspiring with a network of associates to traffic nuclear
materials, including uranium and weapons-grade plutonium, from Burma
to other countries, as well as to international narcotics trafficking
and weapons charges.

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#62. A Brief History of Moral Panics Concerning Kids and Their Chosen
Media
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Whenever a new technology comes along that creates a revolutionarily
new means of communication or amusement, the young glom onto it and
their elders, or a highly vocal group of them, believe it is leading
to the wreck and ruin of the young. A term commonly applied to such
reactions is moral panic.















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The method in Trump's Greenland madness
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The Danes appear more inclined to take Trump at his word. Last month,
King Frederik issued a decree that edited Denmark's centuries-old coat
of arms to more prominently feature the Greenlandic polar bear.
Meanwhile, Greenland's government has renewed its calls for
independence.

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How Poop Could Help Feed the Planet
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Once you get over the ick factor, new technologies are efficiently
transforming human waste into agricultural solutions.







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Tesla Sweden strikes leave over 100 Supercharger stalls waiting for
power
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Tesla drivers and others with electric vehicles (EVs) have had to wait
in line to access the company's Supercharger stations in Sweden during
holiday travel in recent weeks, as ongoing sympathy strikes have
blocked more than 100 new stalls from getting energized during the
winter season.

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Why kids need to take more risks: science reveals the benefits of
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On a warm, sunny beach near Melbourne, Australia, Alethea Jerebine
watched her daughters scrambling up a jumble of rocks. "Can they do
that?" she worried about her 10-year-old and 13-year-old. The rocks
were pocked with crevices and so steep that they gave Jerebine
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41% of companies worldwide plan to reduce workforces by 2030 due to AI
| CNN Business
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Artificial intelligence is coming for your job: 41% of employers
intend to downsize their workforce as AI automates certain tasks, a
World Economic Forum survey showed Wednesday.

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Why AI Progress Is Increasingly Invisible
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OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever made waves in November when he
suggested that advancements in AI are slowing down, explaining that
simply scaling up AI models was no longer delivering proportional
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The unwitting environmentalists in the fight against poachers:
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The African white-backed is a reliable homebody. Baldheaded,
stern-eyed, a white-backed can be counted on to circle the vast
savannahs of Murchison Falls National Park wearing a high-tech
tracking device that alerts Ugandan rangers to poaching incidents.

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The stock market embraced higher yields. Now it fears them. - WSJ (No
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It is part of a switcheroo by investors over the past month. They have
shifted from thinking that higher Treasury yields are just an
unwelcome side effect of the stronger growth promised by
president-elect Donald Trump, to worrying that higher borrowing costs
might end up being very important. If the concern is right, get ready
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Musk says DOGEs goal to cut $2 trillion in spending is best-case
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I think if we try for $2 trillion, weve got a good shot at getting
one," Musk said Wednesday in a conversation with Mark Penn, chairman
and chief executive of ad company Stagwell, that was livestreamed on
Musks social-media platform X.

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A flurry of health tech deals announced ahead of JPM - STAT (No
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Billionaire Frank McCourt Leads Formal Offer To Buy TikTokHeres
Everything We Know As Ban Looms - Forbes (No paywall)
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The People's Bid for TikTok, a project a spearheaded by Project
Liberty founder and billionaire investor Frank McCourt, has delivered
a proposal to the video app's Chinese parent company ByteDance to buy
TikTok's U.S. assets ahead of a ban on the popular social media app
set to take effect Jan. 19.

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Mark Zuckerbergs U-turn on fact-checking is cravenbut correct - The
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Apart from the million-dollar wristwatch, it had the look of a hostage
video. On January 7th Mark Zuckerberg posted a clip to Facebook and
Instagram in which he announced changes to his social networks
content-moderation policies in response to what he called the cultural
tipping point of Donald Trumps election. There have been too many
mistakes and too much censorship, he said, adding that Mr Trumps
return provides an opportunity to restore free expression. He also
appointed Dana White, an ally of Mr Trumps, to Metas board (as well as
John Elkann, the boss of Exor, which part-owns The Economists parent
company).

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Corporate borrowers kick off 2025 with record-setting $83bn bond
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Issuers pounce on surging investor demand for debt before Donald Trump
returns to the White House

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Private Equity Hits the Brakes on Riskiest Types of Controversial
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Firms step back from loans solely for the purpose of payouts GPs have
listened to concerns, says Perpetuals Wiehenkamp

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Why is this cold snap so extreme? The jury is still out.
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Everything to Know About Jimmy Carters Funeral Services
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President Joe Biden declared Jan. 9 a National Day of Mourning, and
ordered all executive departments and agencies of the federal
government to close out of respect for the former President, who died
on Dec. 29 at the age of 100. But ceremonies honoring Carter started
before then, on Jan. 4, when a motorcade transported Carter through
his hometown of Plains, Georgia. On Jan. 7, the former President began
lying in state, which lasted until the day of his state funeral.

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The U.S. Should Not Politicize LNG Exports - Foreign Policy (No
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Argument: The U.S. Should Not Politicize LNG Exports

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Threads and Instagram are for politics now, says Adam Mosseri
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It's been nearly a year since Instagram and Threads defaulted to
blocking recommendations of "political" content from accounts you
don't already follow, but now Instagram boss Adam Mosseri says,
"...we're going to be adding political content to recommendations" on
both platforms.

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Severe tax penalties on these cash transactions; check I-T dept's
latest note
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The Income Tax Department has recently published a brochure stressing
the importance of avoiding cash transactions to reduce the risk of tax
penalties.

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In a first, EU Court fines EU for breaching own data protection law
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BRUSSELS - In a first, the EU General Court ruled on Jan 8 that the
European Commission must pay damages to a German citizen for failing
to comply with its own data protection regulations.

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One child star from Accrington Stanley milk advert thrived... the
other was jailed for murder
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Remarkably, the original script for Rivals was not meant to make any
mention of Accrington Stanley, according to the now 44-year-old Rice.

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FTC Finalizes Order with H&R Block Requiring Them to Pay $7 Million
and Overhaul Advertising and Customer Service Practices for 2025 and
2026 Tax Seasons
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The Federal Trade Commission finalized an order requiring the tax
preparation company H&R Block to make a number of changes for the 2025
tax filing season in addition to longer-term changes.

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Silicon Valley is foaming at the mouth with the promise of AI
'agents.' These are the startups to watch.
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Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has prophesied that this may be the
year the first "agents" -- a set of artificial intelligence tools that
can perform tasks on their own -- "join the workforce.

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AI ignited a private market boom. Now wealthy investors want more
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“There are a whole bunch of great companies that are owned privately
that do want to make their way into the public markets,” Pick said.
“I think we’re going to see the IPO market slowly work its way
back, larger names coming to market.”

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Ford reveals a special edition of its $325,000 Mustang GTD called
'Spirit of America'
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The Mustang GTD features a supercharged 5.2-liter V8 engine that
produces 815 horsepower and 664 pound-feet of torque â the most
powerful production Mustang in history. The car's top speed is 202
mph.

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France Indicts Founder of Notorious Website Used in Pelicot Rape Case
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Mr. Steidl “firmly denies the accusations made against him, and
undertakes to cooperate fully to demonstrate his lack of
responsibility for the alleged offenses,” his lawyer, Julien
Zanatta, told Agence France-Presse.

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Perplexity will now show hotel information from TripAdvisor
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Last summer, Perplexity announced plans to add an ad revenue program
to its AI-powered search engine. The company has drawn accusations of
plagiarism and copyright infringement from several publishers,
including The New York Times, Condé Nast, The Wall Street Journal and
the New York Post.

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DotLumen's haptic headset could help blind people navigate
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Amariei said DotLumen will begin selling its headset in Europe in the
near future, with the price expected to come in under €10,000. As
steep as that sounds, he added the price to train a guide dog is
significantly higher. In the US, the Guide Dog foundation says it
costs $50,000 to breed, raise, train and place an assistance dog.

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Google can automatically make a podcast based on your Discover feed
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The experimental feature is going live today in the US, according to
9to5Google, though it might take a while to start seeing the option to
generate a podcast. It's not clear yet if Google has plans to roll it
out to other regions, and there are no guarantees that it will get a
wide release.

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Anita Bryant, singer and anti-gay rights crusader, dies aged 84
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In response to Bryant’s anti-LGBTQ beliefs, gay right activists
boycotted Florida orange juice, the Hollywood Reporter reported. It
added that Bryant said she lost approximately half-a-million dollars
in concert bookings.

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US Senate advances Laken Riley Act, which would detain undocumented
immigrants for theft
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“House Republicans heard the voices of those who wanted change and
voted to pass the Laken Riley Act,” Mike Johnson, the newly
re-elected speaker of the House, said in a statement on Tuesday. “We
will always fight to protect Americans, and today’s success is just
the beginning of Republican efforts to undo the catastrophic damage
caused by years of the Democrats’ failed leadership.”

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ICON, a builder of 3D printed homes last valued around $2 billion,
cuts about 25% of staff | TechCrunch
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Exclusive: Scale AI hit by its second wage theft lawsuit in less than
a month
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“Hopefully our case will help the company take responsibility for
and fix its misclassification of workers, and provide relief to those
aggrieved workers like our client who have suffered wage violations in
the past,” Schwartz said. 

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DoorBox debuts its new and improved smart delivery box at CES 2025 |
TechCrunch
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The mobile app not only sends alarm notifications but also serves as a
surveillance camera, allowing users to view live camera feeds when
sensitive packages are expected. The app also lets users lock or
unlock the DoorBox remotely.

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Scout Motors CEO Scott Keogh at CES 2025: modern cars have become
'dystopian' and 'disconnected'
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I believe in it strongly, because I think social media has made us
disconnected, politics has made us disconnected. If you can build a
car and build an environment — even if it’s as minuscule as a
switch — that gets us back to this connection, that is good.

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PrettyDamnQuick snaps up $25M to speed up online checkout | TechCrunch
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Before TechCrunch, Ingrid worked at paidContent.org, where she was a
staff writer, and has in the past also written freelance regularly for
other publications such as the Financial Times. Ingrid covers mobile,
digital media, advertising and the spaces where these intersect.

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Innovaccer aims to become healthcare's AI powerhouse with $275M Series
F | TechCrunch
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This vision has resonated with investors. Rashmi Gopinath, who first
invested in Innovaccer when she was a managing director at M12 and is
now a co-founder and managing partner at BAM Corner Point (also an
investor), praised the company for being proactive at integrating AI
solutions.

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Rounded is an AI orchestration platform that lets anyone build an AI
voice agent | TechCrunch
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Rounded has raised €600,000 so far (around $620,000) from UC
Berkeley’s deep tech accelerator SkyDeck and several business
angels. But given that artificial intelligence remains an extremely
buzzy industry, I’m sure the startup will raise more money in the
coming months.

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What, Exactly, Happened to Justin Trudeau? And What Happens Next in
Canada?
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criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Every
few years, Americans across the country are beleaguered with a
Herculean task usually reserved for the sainted: They must think about
Canada.

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US declares genocide in Sudan. Critics say Biden acted too late. - WSJ
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President Bidens decision to accuse a Sudanese paramilitary group of
genocide in the final days of his administration drew criticism as too
little too late, with tens of thousands of people already dead after
20 months of fighting in the East African country.

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Canada on Trumps proposed union: Thanks, but lets just Be friends -
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TORONTOThe last time the U.S. seriously floated the idea of taking
over Canada, it was 1866, and the dust had just settled on the Civil
War. Still angry that the English tried to help the Confederacy, a
U.S. politician introduced a bill in the House of Representatives
calling for the annexation of British North America.

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Palisades and Eaton Fires Show Rising Dangers of Fast-Moving Blazes -
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Strong winds blow embers as the Palisades Fire burns homes on the
Pacific Coast Highway amid a powerful windstorm on January 8, 2025 in
Los Angeles, California. The fast-moving wildfire has grown to more
than 2900-acres and is threatening homes in the coastal neighborhood
amid intense Santa Ana Winds and dry conditions in Southern
California.

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Russian propagandist behind Alaska secession calls goes into coma
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A Russian state TV host who suggested that Alaska secede from the
United States and become part of Russia once more has fallen into a
deep coma, according to his wife. Tigran Keosayan, 59, has experienced
"clinical death" after being hospitalized at the beginning of
December.

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Man Convicted in Pizzagate Shooting Is Killed in Confrontation With
Police
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The shooting at Comet Ping Pong, a pizza parlor in Washington came
amid a frenzy of false online rumors and accusations during the 2016
presidential campaign that the restaurant was holding children as sex
slaves as part of a child-abuse ring led by Hillary Clinton. The
conspiracy theory was started after people misinterpreted emails from
the account of John Podesta, the chairman of Mrs. Clinton’s
campaign, that were released by WikiLeaks.

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