Quartz producing location Spruce Pine, North Carolina just got hit by hurricane Helene. The fallout on the tech industry could be huge.
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The massive US port strike has begun: 'We are prepared to fight as long as necessary'
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UK vendors started boycotting the Etsy platform over its payment reserves system
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Medical researchers report that the workers who make quartz countertops are dying of lung disease at a young age
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America's first law regulating AI bias in hiring takes effect this week
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The long, incredibly tortuous, and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font
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Denmark's prime minister Mette Frederiksen wrote part of a speech using OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT to highlight the risks of artificial intelligence
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The temptation of high oil prices is shaking Norway's climate commitments
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Iceland is bringing back the forests razed by Vikings – recent data shows tree-cultivating efforts are paying off
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Why audiences in China are loving Green Book
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Flintknapping quartz arrowheads
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Why are people getting worse at “The Price Is Right”?
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Scientists now think that being overweight can protect your health
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Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message encryption
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Lesotho's prime minster wants to stay in power to avoid being charged for his wife’s murder
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A handful of US cities have passed soda taxes, but are they working?
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Home bakers have created an international yeast shortage. Shelves are empty, but stores say it’s temporary
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How precious metals sellers psychologically manipulate elderly conservatives
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DoorDash made its couriers agree to binding arbitration, and now a federal judge has ordered them to pay almost $10 million to arbitrate over 5000 claims filed by couriers
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Finland's family cafes are helping solve one of parenting's biggest problems – loneliness
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In terms of reading test score points per hour of learning, Finnish students came out on top, followed by kids in Germany and Sweden
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Two of America’s biggest coal plants closed this month
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Nokia's collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an internet wonderland
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China is forcing the world to rethink recycling
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We asked some of the boldest thinkers what the world will be like in fifty years. Here’s what their answers tell us about the future
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California is banning the tiny bottles of shampoo in hotels
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As Denmark turns away from cash – MobilePay app is more popular than Facebook
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Norway will pay $150 million to Gabon to battle deforestation and reduce greenhouse gas emissions
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Why Norwegian Air is failing – since the start of 2019 the airline has hit a near-constant spell of turbulence
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A new Swedish bicycle is made from 300 recycled Nespresso pods
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The FBI thinks Long Island Iced Tea’s infamous pivot to blockchain was sweetened by insider trading
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The researcher behind the smartphone “horns” study sells posture pillows
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Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ebola outbreak cases have doubled in just two months crossing the 2,000-mark
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Data shows “Game of Thrones” is taking a historic critical nosedive
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After men in Spain got paternity leave, they wanted fewer kids
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TikTok might be a Chinese Cambridge Analytica-scale privacy threat
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Microsoft staff are openly questioning the value of diversity
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Samsung’s Galaxy Fold is breaking before it’s even out
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Hear what a genderless AI voice sounds like—and consider why it matters
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The US government has redefined “pink slime” as ground beef
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Tim O'Reilly: The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy
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A German mint just released a coin commemorating seventy years of currywurst
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Monarch butterfly populations in the west are down an order of magnitude from last year
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Watch live: Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate hearing
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The epic rise and fall of the name Heather
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A debate over the word for ‘grandmother’ in China exposes a linguistic and political rift
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How yogurt fueled the rise of civilization
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Everything bad about Facebook is bad for the same reason
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An Arctic heatwave pushed temperatures in Siberia anomalously high
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We're experiencing the biggest revolution in movie ticket prices in decades
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