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Mutual Fund Investors Face Unwanted Tax Bills. Are You on the List?




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Ford is slashing the working hours of some of its German factory employees amid what it calls a 'significantly lower than expected' demand for its EVs

Ford is getting its workers in Cologne, Germany, to work fewer hours. The carmaker said a "lower than expected demand for electric vehicles" brought on the shift. The carmaker has more than 4,000 employees at its Cologne plant. Ford is slashing the work hours of its manufacturing plant workers in…




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SoftBank is Nvidia's first Blackwell chips customer. Here's what they're going to be used for




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Teraco Taps Absa for $442 Million Loan for AI-Ready Facility

In This Article: (Bloomberg) -- Teraco Data Environments Ltd. hired Absa Group Ltd. to syndicate an 8 billion rand ($442 million) loan as the company gears up for a new facility to meet rising demand from artificial intelligence applications. Most Read from Bloomberg The facility will push…




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Australian Buyout Financing Activity Gets Boost From Lumus Deal




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Israeli forces strike Oct. 7 attacker's cell in Gaza

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said on Wednesday that it eliminated a militant cell member, Yasser Ghandi, in Gaza's Shejaiya area who allegedly participated in the October 7 attack in Israel that l...




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7-Eleven starts talks with ACT on $47bn takeover bid as ‘white knight’ emerges

Convenience store operator receives rival buyout offer from members of founding family




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Factbox-Seven & i's reported offer and the biggest management buyouts to date

In This Article: By Kane Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Japan's Seven & i Holdings said on Wednesday it has received a buyout proposal from its vice president who is a member of its founding Ito family. The statement follows a Bloomberg report that the 7-Eleven owner was considering a management buyout…




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An all-new 650 hp Cadillac, Hertz is selling off more EVs, and something weird at Tesla

On today’s exciting episode of Quick Charge, we’ve got the Vistiq! It’s all-new, three row SUV from Cadillac that packs 650 hp and can go from 0-60 mph in under 3.5 seconds, a serious word from Rivian, and something fishy at Tesla. We’ve also got word that Hertz is selling off even more of its…




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Thames Water gets backing from three-quarter of creditors; markets eye US inflation – business live

Emergency funding deal would give struggling water company £3bn lifeline Thames Water has been teetering on the brink of collapse since being described as “uninvestible” in March when shareholders refused to pour in more cash. The government has been on standby for nationalisation through a…




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Would Donald Trump's Iran Crackdown Benefit Russia? Experts Weigh In

Even before Donald Trump named Elise Stefanik the new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, the New York representative had touted how the president-elect would return to a "maximum pressure" campaign on Iran. The Wall Street Journal said Trump would "drastically increase" sanctions to "choke…




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Google DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3's source code and model weights for academic use, which could accelerate scientific discovery and drug development

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Google DeepMind has unexpectedly released the source code and model weights of AlphaFold 3 for academic use, marking a significant advance that could accelerate scientific…




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Trump Forms DOGE With Elon Musk And Vivek Ramaswamy At The Helm: Will It Impact Tesla CEO's Role At The EV Giant And SpaceX?

President-elect Donald Trump, on Tuesday, greenlit the formation of the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE, the acronym which almost sounds like a parody of the cryptocurrency known as Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE). As the department promises to restructure federal agencies and reduce…






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Cold Fusion 9 Application Mappings Access Denied

Cold Fusion 9 Mappings I have been trying to tackle this problem for some time now and have had little to no success with mapping directories directly in the Application.cfc. Trying to extend the Application.cfc seems to be an answer at this time, but not sure just yet. A particular post brought about the ideal […]




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How to win the war Against Black Hatters and Spam

Free is Killing the Internet This is because of fake accounts on Facebook, Google, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Twitter and blogs which are the main source of the problem. These company’s should join Google and Bing by creating structured data. We will not even get into the scams and spammers coming from fake e-mail accounts on Yahoo! […]




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Do Natural Organic Positions and AdWord Postions Work Interactively?

How Organic Placement is Affected Some people seem to be hell-bent on believing that it matters. There is no problem with believing it does have a direct effect on organic placement, but the fact of the matter is; it does not. Although you are entitled to believe what you want to believe, but knowing whether […]




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The Google web Directory Smack Down – The Good the bad the Ugly

Why can Google just not index these web directories they believe to be not so worthy? Google can still let company’s submit to directories but do not have to index these directories. Sure Google can still then chose which ones are valid or not.  So what is now considered an honest legitimate directory for safe […]




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How to Improve Your NAP for Better Local Placement

Okay, Hopefully you are Awake.  The article is for sure helpful, especially if you are looking to increase your SEO Local presence.  Some simple strategies for finding out more about your competition is to just simply locate the competitors on the local 7-Pack listing in the results and copy and past the address in the […]




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Ten Best SEO Practices to Follow to Help Your Business

The Problem Recently an individual was trying to understand why their website had been dropped from the search engine results. There are several factors that can cause your website to lose placement completely or drop significantly enough that you may need to search several pages back in the results to find your site again. There are […]




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Open Gateway: Step into mock lunar orbit habitat at Space Center Houston

The public can now step into the future of lunar exploration at Space Center Houston by entering an early mockup for Northrop Grumman's Gateway astronaut accommodations around the moon.




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'Crumb trails' of meteoroids could reveal potentially dangerous comets years before they reach Earth

Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, new research shows.




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Trump appoints SpaceX's Elon Musk to help head regulation-slashing 'Department of Government Efficiency'

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency, which aims to 'dismantle government bureaucracy.'




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How QR Codes Enhance Computer Use and Accessibility

QR codes are widely used for quick access to websites and information, but they’re also a helpful tool for simplifying tasks on computers. With a QR code generator, users can connect mobile devices to computers, share files, link to online resources, and even enhance security.

The post How QR Codes Enhance Computer Use and Accessibility appeared first on ThinkComputers.org.




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More fun with IFS Fractals

I have been playing with some iterated function systems again. These images were built using two affine transformations, one being a rotation through 20 degree composed a scaling of 90% and the second is a general affine transformation chosen at random. Some of the best of these results I have attached here. I have added...




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Estimating The Fractal Dimension of the Spiders of Mars

Above is an image of “dry ice spiders” on Mars. Every spring the Sun warms up the Martian south polar icecap and causes jets of carbon-dioxide gas to erupt through the icecap. These jets carrying dark sand into the air and spraying it for hundreds of feet around each jet forming these wonderful spider-like structures....




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General equation for Space-Time geodesics and orbit equation in relativistic gravity

Orbit equation and orbital precession General Relativity explains gravity as Space-Time curvature and orbits of planets as geodesics of curved Space-Time. However, this concept is extremely hard to understand and geodesics hard to compute. If we can find an analytical orbit equation for planets like Newtonian orbit equation, relativistic gravity will become intuitive and straightforward...




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Gravitational time dilation and black hole

In this article, we derive the gravitational time dilation factor in a new manner, which allows us to identify the mathematical cause of Schwarzschild radius, to give a theoretical way to avoid it and to compute properties of black hole. General relativity effects are computed as simple as in special relativity. Observability of black hole...




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Step by step rotation in normal and high dimensional space and meaning of quaternion

The orientation of body in space is defined 3 by angles. The step by step rotation process and chain of three-dots multiplication give an easy way to compute pile of rotations in 3D and high dimensional space and give a general orientation system. A visualization of quaternion is proposed. The orientation of a rigid body...




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Extending complex number to spaces with 3, 4 or any number of dimensions

Multidimensional complex systems with 3, 4 or more dimensions are constructed. They possess algebraic operations which have geometrical meanings. Multidimensional complex numbers can be written in Cartesian, trigonometric and exponential form and can be converted from one form to another. Each complex numbers has a conjugate. Multidimensional complex systems are extensions of the classical complex...




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Radius of a black hole for relativity and Newtonian mechanics

For Newtonian mechanics The Schwarzschild radius is the radius of the event horizon of a black hole. Amazingly, we can compute it with Newtonian mechanics, which is explained below. Consider a big mass M which creates the gravitational acceleration a for a small mass m at the distance r from M, see figure 1 and...





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The Practice of Letting Go

By Leo Babauta Most of our stresses and frustrations come from our unwillingness to let go. Hear me out: think about something you’re stressing about, or someone you’re frustrated about. What thought do you have about that person or situation that causes the frustration? It’s often an invisible thought, that we don’t realize we have, […]

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The Practice of Examining Our Beliefs

By Leo Babauta There’s a practice that I find to be really valuable, and I call it “Examining Beliefs.” If you regularly engage with this, it will transform you. Let’s say there’s something you want to do but you feel stuck — maybe you’re procrastinating a lot, maybe you’re stuck in an old habit. The […]

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5 Stoic & Zen Practices That I Believe In

By Leo Babauta I believe in finding powerful practices for transformation wherever we can find them. And the Stoic philosophers Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca are huge inspirations for me. I’ve found there to be a huge overlap between Stoicism and Zen Buddhism, even if there are also some key differences. The overlap between Zen & […]

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16.2: Can We Just Buy Out J.K. Rowling? (Reaction Pod)

The internet went crazy today when a rumor seemed to break through about the always-destined Harry Potter television show — specifically that while no series is actually in the works, WB is now officially shopping for writers and pitches for an HBO Max event. We did a quick-and-dirty reaction pod with our three hosts and our good friend Proma Khosla, a longtime LeakyCon staffer and Mashable entertainment reporter, to break down the news, what it means for the franchise, and what the fandom does now. 

Basically, we decided the fandom just needs to get a trillion dollars together and buy the franchise from JKR. 

You can follow Proma on Twitter at @promawhatup  and read her Mashable articles here!

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Girl Sends Fan Mail to Tom Hanks, and Receives Legendary Response Back From the Man Himself








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Tennis Player Li Na Gives the Best Acceptance Speech After Winning the Australian Open




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Make America Kittens Again With a New Chrome Extension That Replaces Pictures of Trump With Cats

Do you use Google Chrome? Do you want to look at pictures of kittens instead of Donald Trump? Install this! It doesn't work on every news site, but it's still pretty darn great. PS - If you already have the extension installed and you're trying to look at these examples, they'll all be replaced with kittens. It's magic!










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Why must the dog always scratch with his back paw?




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All colors go well with black !