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Home Depot rides America’s housing affordability problem to sales increase on home DIY projects

Home Depot’s sales improved during its second quarter as customers focused on smaller projects during the summer months with the U.S. housing sector still mired in a slump. Revenue incre...

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Berkshire Reshapes Its Stock Portfolio: ETFs in Focus

Berkshire Hathaway BRK.B significantly increased its Alphabet GOOGL stake in the second quarter of 2026, raising its holdings by 83% to about 106 million shares. The position was worth nearly $38 b...

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Brianna Labuskes on Reckoning and Using Memory as a Tool in Crime Fiction

People like to think of memory as a video, something they can pull out and watch and then put carefully back into its case for future viewings. But memory is malleable, fallible. Half the time it d...

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Square Accelerates Push to Integrate Small Business Finance

Square’s refresh of its Square Credit Card, which was announced last week, is part of parent company Block’s broader strategy to more closely integrate payments, banking, credit and bill management...

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Canada-US trade talks continue as 50% tariffs deadline nears

Trade talks between Canada and the U.S. are coming down to the wire as the Aug. 19th deadline approaches. Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and his team were in Washington Monday, raci...

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Swig’s ‘dirty soda’ boom grows beyond Utah as investor touts ‘Starbucksification’ of soft drinks

Swig, the Utah-born beverage chain that helped popularize "dirty soda," is finding some of its strongest growth well beyond its home state.Andrew K. Smith, managing director and co-founder of resta...

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Uber COO says there's a downside to being at the top

Uber COO Andrew Macdonald said large companies with new ideas move more slowly than startups as employees get "fat" on the resources.Zed Jameson/Bloomberg via Getty ImageUber is one of the largest ...

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Veerama’s affordable Indian fare has people queuing up

Veerama, the sole breadwinner for her family, runs Amma Food Corner in her hometown of Seremban. (Theevya Ragu @ FMT Lifestyle)SEREMBAN: They say the way to the heart is through the stomach. At Amm...

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Skyworth electric SUVs on pause in Australia before they even arrived

One of the newest Tesla Model Y rivals from China to set its sights on Australia has hit the brakes before the first examples ever reached showrooms. Plans to sell electric S...

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With Massive Trove of Evidence, Judge Limits Prosecution Exhibits In Corruption Case Against Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao

Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao made her latest appearance in federal court on Friday, where US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers told prosecutors to limit their evidence exhibits from 1,700 do...

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BHP CEO plays down Canada uranium talk, stays focused on four pillars

Craig's response is notable for what it does not do, deny the NexGen speculation outright, rather than for any new strategic signal, which keeps the door open to eventual uranium expansion without ...

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Russian FM slams Japan for seeking to cover up its own military moves

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday advised the Japanese leadership to focus on its domestic affairs instead of launching "attacks" against Russia.Lavrov made the remarks when commenti...

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Ferrari’s widely mocked EV breaks auction record

RM Sotheby'sThis is the part of the rom-com when the bullied nerd stuns at prom: A custom model of Ferrari’s first electric vehicle, the Luce, sold for $40 million over the weekend, becoming the mo...

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Her Roommate Was Charging People to Use Their Shared Living Room—So She Reported Her to the Landlord

Shutterstock If you live with someone who you’re not necessarily really friends with, there should ideally be some unspoken rules. Be courteous, be clean…and don’t rent out the living room so str...

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Kings Told Tyrese Haliburton To Buy House Before Trade

SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 31: Tyrese Haliburton #0 of the Sacramento Kings reacts after making a basket against the Dallas Mavericks during the second quarter at Golden 1 Center on December...

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I took a four-year career break to raise kids – I lost £130,000 of pension savings

When Sara Bell became a mother, she went from earning £145,000 a year in a high-flying finance job to becoming financially dependent on her husband. She took four years out of work in total ...

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African startups invited to apply for Commonwealth Startup Fellowship

African startups are invited to apply for the 2026/2027 Commonwealth Startup Fellowship, a six-month programme designed to help high-potential startups from low and middle-income Commonwealth count...

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LIST BUILDING LIVE: 4000 Subscribers by Hosting Your Own Bundle with Leticia Jadene

We've been discussing collaboration a lot lately. Now, we're walking the walk with our first virtual audio summit. Tune in because this session is the perfect place to start to understand the power...

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Balaji Srinivasan's attempt to build a 'techno-optimist' commune got shut down. Now he's trying again in Kazakhstan.

Balaji Srinivasan asked tech optimists to apply to the school in a Monday X post.Bloomberg/Getty ImagesBalaji Srinivasan said his Network School has reopened in Kazakhstan.Network School offers tec...

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I used AI as a "requirements interviewer" on a 17-page spec and it found ~400 inconsistencies. Full prompt inside.

PM here. A few months ago I got handed a 17-page functional spec that "looked fine". Instead of asking AI to rewrite it, I tried the opposite: I told it to *interview me* — closed multiple-choice q...

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Record Galaxy Z Fold 8 sales fail to save Samsung’s mobile unit from losses

It is no secret that people are loving the Galaxy Z Fold 8. Pre-orders have broken all previous records for a Galaxy device, and sales remain strong across multiple countries. However, this succe...

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