Business, Spoken

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Business, Spoken episodes

May 30, 2024 Judge Hints at Plans to Rein In Google’s Illegal Play Store Monopoly
“Google as an illegal monopolist will have to pay some penalties,” US federal judge James Donato said Thursday, in a hearing discussing next steps after a jury found the company breached antitrust laws.

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8 min
May 29, 2024 From What's New: A Life-Extension Drug for Big Dogs Is Getting Closer to Reality
We're bringing an extra episode from our show What's New.

The FDA has yet to approve any drugs for life extension. But biotech company Loyal is now a step closer to bringing one to market—for dogs.

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9 min
May 29, 2024 How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet
Thanks to a flaw in a decade-old version of the RoboForm password manager and a bit of luck, researchers were able to unearth the password to a crypto wallet containing a fortune.

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12 min
May 28, 2024 WTF Is With the Pink Pineapples at the Grocery Store?!
Using DNA from tangerines and tobacco, food scientists have made a familiar fruit tastier—and more Instagrammable—than ever. We looked into it so you don’t have to.

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12 min
May 27, 2024 Drivers Are Rising Up Against Uber’s ‘Opaque’ Pay System
In London, Uber drivers are protesting a new payment system that they say makes it impossible to understand the algorithms that decide how much they get paid.

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9 min
May 24, 2024 US Sues to Break Up Ticketmaster and Live Nation, Alleging Monopoly Abuse
The US government has filed an antitrust suit against Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, for allegedly abusing their dominance in the ticketing market to extinguish healthy competition.

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9 min
May 23, 2024 Local Coworking Spaces Thrive Where WeWork Dared Not Go
A disused church, a school, and a motorcycle garage are among the hyperlocal new coworking spaces cropping up to offer remote workers a place to go.

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10 min
May 22, 2024 Google Taps AI to Show Shoppers How Clothes Fit Different Bodies
A new breed of online ad allows brands to pay Google to offer shoppers AI-generated images that show how items of clothing would look on different skin tones and body types.

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9 min
May 21, 2024 Craig Wright Lied About Creating Bitcoin And Faked Evidence, Judge Rules
A UK judge has determined that Craig Wright forged evidence in a campaign to prove he is Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin, in a move that prevents him from bringing further lawsuits in the country.

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10 min
May 20, 2024 The Race to Buy TikTok Is On—but There Might Not Be a Winner
Investors are interested in buying TikTok so that it can avoid a US ban. But even if ByteDance accepts, a takeover will be far from simple.

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10 min

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