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Wearable tech for your dog? Life360 releases a new pet tracker
Millions of people already use the Life360 app to track the location of their family members and loved ones. Now the California tech…
Swedan Margen
Swedan Margen contributes to L'Officiel Lifestyle with a focus on business and entrepreneurship.
Swedan covers business developments, emerging companies, entrepreneurial stories, and trends influencing industries and the broader economy.
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Business
China’s EV boom saddles its auto insurers with losses
China’s giant electric vehicle insurance market is flailing. Losses are piling up, as companies’ risk models haven’t kept up with changes…
News
It Was Just an Accident’s Anti-Fascist Chic
Panahi’s manipulation of liberal sentiment appeals to the Cannes culture that always rewards progressive banalities. Source link
News
TextEdit and the Relief of Simple Software
The so-called desktop first appeared on a home computer in 1981, with the release of the Xerox 8010 Star Information System. That device…
Politics
Ingrassia withdraws nomination for special counsel position over 'Nazi' and racist texts
Paul Ingrassia, President Trump's pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel, withdrew his nomination late Tuesday after reports that he…
Business
Driverless Waymo taxis under investigation after failing to stop for a school bus
Around 2,000 Waymo vehicles are under investigation after reports of one of the self-driving taxis navigating around a school bus while…
Business
OpenAI launches its own browser to compete with Google
OpenAI launched its own web browser called Atlas, hoping to use its artificial intelligence superpowers to take away market share from…
News
Should We Look on New Technologies with Awe and Dread?
The inevitable progress of technology, in other words, makes the technological sublime elusive. And it’s also true that technologies tend…
News
Comey Pretrial Motions Highlight Patent Failure of the Indictment to State a Crime
The case should be dismissed. Source link
Politics
Speaker Johnson pledges not to block vote to release government's Epstein files
House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday said that he would not stand in the way of allowing a vote on a bill to force the Justice Department…
Politics
Vladimir Putin’s Endless Reprieve
The Russians are dragging their feet, and why wouldn’t they? Source link
Business
US Fed to trim rates twice more this year; 2026 rate path very unclear
The new forecast follows a recent shift in expectations by Fed policymakers toward additional reductions The Federal Reserve will lower…
Politics
Trump’s cane sugar push for Coca-Cola faces supply chain hurdles
The rollout of Coke made with US cane sugar is slow due to supply limits and business realities President Donald Trump pushed Coca-Cola to…
Business
Soilbuild Construction mulls spin-off, SGX listing of precast and prefab business
Potential listing will be subject to market conditions, commercial negotiations and relevant regulatory and approvals Soilbuild…
News
The Towering Musical Integrity of Christoph von Dohnányi
In September, 1943, a thirteen-year-old German boy named Christoph von Dohnányi wrote an innocuous-seeming letter to his uncle Dietrich:…
News
The Light of “The Brothers Karamazov”
What is the light in “The Brothers Karamazov”? It is the voices. “The Brothers Karamazov” is a novel of voices. Men, women, young, old,…
News
In the Dark Releases “Blood Relatives,” an Examination of a Notorious British Crime
On an August night in 1985, five members of one family were shot dead at Whitehouse Farm, a country manor in the rural county of Essex, in…
Business
Shares of doormaker surge as it secures planning permit for student accommodation in Australia
Shares of Singapore doormaker HS Optimus surged on Tuesday (Oct 21), after it secured a permit for a 14-storey purpose-built student…
Politics
Maine Democrat running to unseat Susan Collins to stay in race after discovery of Reddit postings
Old online comments made by a U.S. Senate candidate in Maine in which the candidate appeared to endorse political violence, dismiss rape…
Business
Brazil green-lights oil drilling near mouth of Amazon River ahead of U.N. climate summit
Brazil's government approved on Monday exploratory drilling by state-run oil-giant Petrobras near the mouth of the Amazon River. The…
Business
Wilmar Indonesia unit general manager charged over sugar imports
The unlawful raw sugar imports have allegedly caused state losses amounting to 578 billion rupiah The general manager of Wilmar…
Business
Why did Amazon's AWS outage disrupt Snapchat, Ring and many other services?
People struggled to access social media app Snapchat, online game Fortnite, payments app Venmo and other popular online services on Monday…
Business
Christoph Niemann’s “Market Shift”
For the cover of the October 27, 2025, Money Issue, the artist Christoph Niemann set out to visualize how the preposterously rich pay a…
Politics
Video: How Trump Aims to Redefine the Military
new video loaded: How Trump Aims to Redefine the Military President Trump and his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, have been reshaping the…