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2 St. Louis residents are suing the city’s basic income program in an attempt to halt what they call ‘unconstitutional’ $500 monthly payments to low-income families
26 Jun

2 St. Louis residents are suing the city’s basic income program in an attempt to halt what they call ‘unconstitutional’ $500 monthly payments to low-income families

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As St. Louis continues its guaranteed basic income pilot, two residents are suing to cut the program's funding. The lawsuit alleges that the city's plan to give low-income families $500 a month is unconstitutional in the state of Missouri.Submitted to a circuit court on June 13, the lawsuit claims that it is a Missouri Constitutional violation for local leaders to give cash to residents in the form of basic income. The suit cites a clause in the state's Constitution that prohibits all municipalities and political corporations from granting "public money or property to any private individual."The plaintiffs, Greg Tumlin and…
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Rimac’s Super-Sleek Robotaxi Has More Room Than a Rolls-Royce
26 Jun

Rimac’s Super-Sleek Robotaxi Has More Room Than a Rolls-Royce

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The Rimac Group describes Verne—its new autonomous ride-hailing service—as its “next impossible thing.” First, founder Mate Rimac established his eponymous electric hypercar company in Croatia, a country with no history of carmaking. That went well. Porsche, Hyundai and Softbank all took stakes. The Volkswagen Group gifted him a majority stake in Bugatti in return for access to his propulsion tech in future models.Rimac Technology now supplies electric drivetrains to Porsche, BMW and Aston Martin, among many others, and it is developing advanced energy storage tech, too.And now there's Verne, Mate's autonomous ride-hailing service launched today in Zagreb, the Croatian capital. Named after…
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I’m a real-estate agent in the Hamptons. Here are the hottest spots to see and be seen this summer.
26 Jun

I’m a real-estate agent in the Hamptons. Here are the hottest spots to see and be seen this summer.

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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jonathan Yarton, a 27-year-old real-estate agent from Rochester, New York. It's been edited for length and clarity.I've been a real-estate agent in New York City, Long Island, and the Hamptons for five years. I'm also on the second season of the HBO show "Selling the Hamptons," and I'm the founder of Finding Space, a weekly newsletter of the trends I'm seeing in real estate.Six months into my career, the COVID-19 pandemic hit. I started helping people find rentals in the Hamptons as a way to leave the city. I'm also familiar…
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Xi Jinping admits China is ‘relatively weak’ on innovation and needs more talent to dominate the tech ‘battlefield’
26 Jun

Xi Jinping admits China is ‘relatively weak’ on innovation and needs more talent to dominate the tech ‘battlefield’

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China's leader, Xi Jinping, made several admissions of the country's shortcomings in its race to become the world's tech powerhouse, saying its innovation is "relatively weak" and that its scientists are overburdened.To be sure, Xi's remarks on Tuesday at a national conference in Beijing lauded China's science industries overall.But he also highlighted glaring challenges and pressed the country to focus on tech growth, which he said is now the "main battlefield of international competition.""Although the country's science and technology development has made great progress, its original innovation capabilities are still relatively weak," Xi said.Indeed, Xi mentioned innovation 55 times in…
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Elon Musk is reigniting his space feud with Jeff Bezos: ‘Sue Origin’
26 Jun

Elon Musk is reigniting his space feud with Jeff Bezos: ‘Sue Origin’

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Blue Origin recently expressed concerns over the environmental impacts of SpaceX's rocket launches on nearby facilities in a filing to the FAA, which the agency published on Friday.The company also recommended imposing a cap on the Starship-Super Heavy mega-rocket's "launch, landing, and other operations" so that it would have a "minimal impact on the local environment, locally operating personnel, and the local community.""An obviously disingenuous response," Musk said on X on Tuesday. "Not cool of them to try (for the third time) to impede SpaceX's progress by lawfare.""Sue Origin," Musk said in a subsequent post, taking a jab at the…
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We live in a world where top Twitch streamer Kai Cenat got a therapist to help him beat a video game boss he was stuck on for over 60 hours
26 Jun

We live in a world where top Twitch streamer Kai Cenat got a therapist to help him beat a video game boss he was stuck on for over 60 hours

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Frustrated with his performance against a video game boss, Twitch streamer and YouTuber Kai Cenat went viral on Tuesday evening for bringing a therapist to his livestream to help process his emotions.Cenat, 22, was well into his 60th hour of fighting the final boss of the "Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree" when Aubri Williams appeared in his streaming room.Williams, a full-time model who also provides counseling sessions, told Cenat that someone booked him an appointment with her, but did not say who.What ensued was a bizarre blend of two worlds. For half an hour, Cenat haphazardly talked through the…
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