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Best Crypto to Buy Now: How to Pick the Right One in April 2025

The best crypto to buy now isn’t always the loudest one trending on social media, it’s the one with real potential behind the buzz.  With April 2025 in full swing, choosing the right coin means looking beyond short-term noise and spotting innovation early.  That’s where rising stars like Dawgz AI come into play. Currently in

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Accenture CEO Julie Sweet asks new hires what they’ve learned in the last 6 months: ‘If they can’t answer that question, we know they’re not a learner’

Employers are struggling to find the best way to pinpoint the talent they need to drive their businesses to success in the rapidly changing world of AI. Accenture CEO Julie Sweet, though, has a simple question to identify whether her interviewees are ready for the job. In an interview on the In Good Company podcast

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Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are ‘ripping up trade’ after decades of precedent. Here’s how tariffs got so lopsided in the first place

President Donald Trump is taking a blowtorch to the rules that have governed world trade for decades. The “reciprocal’’ tariffs that he is expected to announce Wednesday are likely to create chaos for global businesses and conflict with America’s allies and adversaries alike. Since the 1960s, tariffs — or import taxes — have emerged from negotiations between dozens of

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Trump task force will probe $8.7 billion in funding for Harvard after Columbia bowed to federal demands

Harvard University has become the latest target in the Trump administration’s approach to fight campus antisemitism, with the announcement of a new “comprehensive review” that could jeopardize billions of dollars for the Ivy League college. A federal antisemitism task force is reviewing more than $255 million in contracts between Harvard and the federal government to make

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Social Security website crashes as agency pushes users online

The Social Security Administration said it’s investigating the cause of recent incidents that have prevented beneficiaries from accessing their online accounts, after the portal went down temporarily. The MySSA portal, which allows Social Security recipients to manage their benefits online, experienced a “full outage” Monday morning, according to a system notice sent to agency employees.

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Microsoft’s AI-assisted damage assessment is playing a pivotal role in the aftermath of the Myanmar earthquake

Just after sunrise on Saturday, a satellite set its long-range camera on the city of Mandalay in Myanmar, not far from the epicenter of Friday’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake that devastated the Southeast Asian country’s second-largest city. The mission was to capture images that, combined with artificial intelligence technology, could help relief organizations quickly assess how many buildings had collapsed

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Jason Momoa Is Officially Returning for Dune Messiah

In news that won’t be surprising for those who’ve read Frank Herbert’s novels, Jason Momoa, who played Duncan Idaho in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part One, will be coming back for the filmmaker’s third movie in the franchise, Dune Messiah. In an interview with Collider to promote his upcoming movie Minecraft, Momoa answered as follows when

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Trump is knowingly steering the economy off the cliff with tariffs

Over the weekend, Donald Trump’s reassurance of a more generous approach to tariffs was reversed again, apparently returning to draconian across-the-board 20% tariffs. The president’s imminent Rose Garden “Liberation Day” announcement of universal tariffs on everything coming into the U.S. from everyone—accompanied by the Trump-driven 10% decline in the stock market over the last month—is just the

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