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A study shows that cellphone bans didn't improve US students' test scores (engadget.com)

2026-05-04 | by Jackson Chen | get Educational Tech Study Guide → | tags: national bureau of economic research, smartphone bans, school attendance

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A Federal Worker Was Fired for Filming DOGE. Now She’s Running for Congress (wired.com)

2026-05-04 | by Makena Kelly | get Dogecoin T-Shirt → | tags: doge, consumer financial protection bureau, elon musk

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Jamie Dimon Says This Problem Is Killing Companies — and He Blames ‘Jerks’ Who Won’t Fix It (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-01 | by Sherin Shibu | tags: jpmorgan chase, jamie dimon, bureaucracy

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Russia cloaks launch schedule after spaceport falls in Ukraine's sights (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-30 | get Satellite Launch Prep Kit → | tags: roscosmos, plesketsk cosmodrome, starlink

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A federal agent said WhatsApp's encryption is a lie. Then the investigation was shut down (techspot.com)

2026-04-29 | get Encrypted Messaging Security Book → | tags: whatsapp, meta, end-to-end encryption

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The AI Revolution Is Mostly Marketing — and Here’s the Proof It’s Overhyped (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-27 | by Solo Ceesay | get AI Chatbot Assistant → | tags: amazon, jack dorsey, silicon valley

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Why second chance hiring is smart business (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-22 | get Second Chance Hiring Guide → | tags: second chance hiring, justice-involved, bureau of labor statistics

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Why work still sucks for women (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-17 | tags: gender pay gap, census bureau, glass ceiling

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The Real Advantage Small Businesses Have Over Big Brands (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-16 | by Duncan Wardle | get Small Business Tech Toolkit → | tags: small business, bureaucracy, innovation

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Half of all US employees now use artificial intelligence at work, crossing landmark threshold for first time — Gallup data shows daily and weekly usage hitting all-time high of 28% in Q1 2026, with 65% feeling positive about its impact on productivity (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-14 | by Ben Stockton | get AI Work Assistant → | tags: artificial intelligence, google alphabet, national bureau of economic research

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Approvals for Nvidia and AMD AI chip exports to China stall under government bottleneck — 20% staff turnover hobbles Bureau of Industry and Security (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-13 | by Luke James | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: nvidia, amd, ai chips

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USD Purchasing Power in Real Time Since 2000 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-07 | get Inflation Calculator Tool → | tags: bureau of labor statistics, cpi-u, us dollar

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More evidence for Samsung’s secret new Galaxy Buds just surfaced (androidauthority.com)

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Russian ‘Starlink Rival’ established with 16 satellites launched, aims for 900 by 2035 — commercial operation to begin next year with 250 sputniks (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-25 | by Mark Tyson | get Starlink Satellite Model → | tags: starlink, rassvet, bureau 1440

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OpenAI Cofounder Deletes Controversial Analysis of Which Jobs Are Getting Steam Engined by AI (futurism.com)

2026-03-18 | by Victor Tangermann | get AI Content Creation Toolkit → | tags: openai, andrej karpathy, vibe coding

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Black women are the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-03-17 | get Entrepreneurship for Women Book → | tags: black women, entrepreneurship, u.s. bureau of labor statistics

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US Job Market Visualizer (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-16 | get LinkedIn Premium Subscription → | tags: bureau of labor statistics, github, ai exposure

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US Job Market Visualizer – Andrej Karpathy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-16 | get Data Visualization Software → | tags: bureau of labor statistics, andrej karpathy, job market

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FTC declines to enforce a kids privacy law for data collected to verify users’ ages (theverge.com)

2026-02-26 | by Lauren Feiner | get Facial Recognition System → | tags: ftc, coppa, silicon valley

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Mystery donor gives Japanese city $3.6M in gold bars to fix water system (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-20 | get Water purification system → | tags: bureau, bureau said, city

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US bans Chinese software from connected cars, triggering a major industry overhaul (techspot.com)

2026-02-06 | get Autonomous driving system → | tags: bans, bans code, bureau

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U.S. population growth rate dropped in 2025 amid Trump’s immigration crackdown (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-27 | get Economy → | tags: census bureau, contributed, drop

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U.S. population growth rate drops last year amid Trump’s immigration crackdown (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-27 | get Economy → | tags: census bureau, contributed, drop

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A 26,000-year astronomical monument hidden in plain sight (2019) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-20 | get Pyramids → | tags: axial, bureau reclamation, monument

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The 26,000-Year Astronomical Monument Hidden in Plain Sight (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-20 | get Neutron Star → | tags: axial, bureau reclamation, monument

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I've Raised 8 Figures of Funding as a Black Founder — Here's How to Overcome the Bias and Prejudice in VC (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-01-16 | get Investment → | tags: bureaucracy, capital, founders

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Judge rules White House must continue to fund CFPB (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-30 | get Consumer Financial Protection Bureau → | tags: agency, agency money, bureau

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U.S. consumer watchdog faces extinction in 2026 as Trump says it’s ‘very important’ to shut it down (feeds.feedburner.com)

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Bureau of Meteorology's new boss asked to examine $96M bill for website redesign (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-24 | get Weather station → | tags: asked, asked examine, boss

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Bureau of Meteorology asked to examine $96.5M bill for website redesign (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-24 | get Weather station → | tags: asked, asked examine, bureau