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Sep 23, 2020
Two of the founders of Dreamhaven delve deeper into their vision for their new game development and publishing company.
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Sep 23, 2020
In another outgrowth of the pandemic, service sector workers say they are losing out on tips and other pay predicated on engaging customers.
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Sep 23, 2020
Another brutal coronavirus move
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Sep 23, 2020
The state-funded German safety net known as Kurzarbeit, which keeps salaries flowing to employees even when their work has dried up, is getting renewed attention as governments around the world grapple with the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. Countries from France to Italy and the U.K. have rolled out similar schemes, and have been discussing whether to prolong them. Germany's relatively contained rise in unemployment stands in stark contrast to the U.S. labor market experience, un
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Sep 23, 2020
With the stock markets on a wild ride for much of 2020, the predictability and reliability of Social Security are more important to Americans than ever.
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Sep 23, 2020
After a surge in demand from homebound fitness buffs, Peloton faces a raft of challenges and potential stiff competition from heavy hitters.
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Sep 23, 2020
It's a new crime but it isn't new. It has a silly name but it's no joke. Spoofing, a way to manipulate financial markets for illegitimate profit, is blamed for undermining the integrity of trading and contributing to the scariest crash since the financial crisis. Spoofers trick other investors into buying or selling by entering their own buy or sell orders with no intention of filling them. That creates fake demand that pushes prices up or down. Long considered disreputable but rarely dangerous,
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Sep 23, 2020
Owners reported their cars weren't connecting to the Internet Wednesday, though the issue appeared to have been resolved a short time later.
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Sep 23, 2020
TikTok has withdrawn its lawsuit against the Trump administration as it works against a deadline to avoid a deal in the U.S.
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Sep 23, 2020
Though business conditions and outlooks have improved, the Business Roundtable survey says the path to economic recovery remains fragile.
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Sep 23, 2020
The Justice Department asked Congress on Wednesday to adopt a new law that could hold Facebook, Google and Twitter legally accountable for the way they handle some controversial content on the Web, as the Trump administration ratchets up its attacks on social media sites ahead of the 2020 election.
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Sep 23, 2020
Trump insists protesters are now throwing Bumble Bee tuna cans, in the midst of pandemic tuna shortage
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Sep 23, 2020
Charlie Scharf apologized in a memo to the entire company "for making an insensitive comment reflecting my own unconscious bias."
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Sep 23, 2020
Black K-pop artists and fans struggle to fit into a genre quickly going mainstream. Their sense of isolation is emblematic of the growing pains of K-pop, as the multibillion-dollar industry tries to respond to the demands of the Black Lives Matter movement and overcome the missteps of the past.
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Sep 23, 2020
REAL ESTATE MATTERS | Since the husband is considering retirement, he should not retire until they have completed the refinance.
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Sep 23, 2020
The industrialized world has been spewing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases faster than they can be contained for centuries. Climate change, and growing popular frustration about the inadequate response, is pushing countries to take action, or at least say they will. Becoming carbon neutral -- also known as climate-neutral or net zero -- is now a legal requirement in some countries, while European authorities are adopting legislation to become the first net zero continent. Even oil compa
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Sep 23, 2020
Both the Apple Watch Series 6 and Fitbit Sense have new blood-oxygen apps. They're mostly useless.
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Sep 23, 2020
Rome is sounding out UniCredit about buying a stake in Monte Paschi. Italian taxpayers may end up the victims again.
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Sep 23, 2020
The beloved former chief executive is leading a sizable team of Blizzard alums in the development of two new games.
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Sep 23, 2020
TOWN SQUARE | The apartments have floor-to-ceiling windows with black-out shades, plank flooring, a washer and dryer, barn doors, built-in bookcases and black matte fixtures.
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Sep 23, 2020
Both the Apple Watch Series 6 and Fitbit Sense have new blood-oxygen apps, but The Washington Post's Geoffrey Fowler says they're mostly useless.
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Sep 23, 2020
A ban of American companies will likely backfire.
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Sep 23, 2020
Its rowhouses are architectural stars, but residents love its diversity and vibrancy even more.
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Sep 22, 2020
In most cases, it's impossible to pinpoint how someone caught SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19. It is too small to see with the naked eye, so its infectious journey can't be tracked from one person to another. That leaves scientists and health authorities gleaning the most likely transmission pathways from the available evidence and what's known about how other respiratory pathogens spread. Close personal contact with infected people via mouth and nose secretions was thought to b
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Sep 22, 2020
The company aims to build a battery that can make the transition to electric vehicles more sustainable.
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Sep 22, 2020
China and India, two nuclear-armed powers with a combined population of 2.7 billion, have gathered thousands of troops at a disputed border in a remote area of the Himalayas. It's the latest flare-up in a long history of border troubles between the two countries that includes a war in 1962 and a skirmish near Bhutan in 2017. The tensions along the 3,488 kilometer (2,167 miles) un-demarcated border come at a time of growing Chinese assertiveness and as India grapples with the coronavirus pandemic
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Sep 22, 2020
The Wednesday meeting comes nearly four months after the president signed an executive order that opened the door for the federal government to oversee the way tech companies police political speech online.
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Sep 22, 2020
The meeting between the administration and top Republican attorneys general threatens to escalate the White House's dispute with Silicon Valley as the industry is increasingly taking action against the president's most controversial posts.
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Sep 22, 2020
Morgan Stanley, Walmart and others at NYC's climate week make new vows to cut carbon emissions. Meanwhile General Electric announced it will no longer build new coal-fired power plants. And with the pandemic sweeping the country, climate week has been a lot quieter than it had been last year.
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Sep 22, 2020
The Government Accountability Office recommended that the Treasury Department and the IRS do more to update estimates of eligible recipients who have yet to file for a stimulus payment.
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Sep 22, 2020
Under the new proposal, the Department of Labor — which has the power to investigate worker complaints about misclassification — said it would adopt a few guidelines to test whether workers should be considered employees or contractors.
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Sep 22, 2020
A couple with three kids deals with pandemic in a new home in Howard County, Md.
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Sep 22, 2020
Tesla built its name on electric vehicles that could travel hundreds of miles farther than their competitors. Now it aims to build a battery that can last four or five times the lifespan of a typical internal-combustion-engine car.
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Sep 22, 2020
Supporters of a U.S. conspiracy theory known as QAnon have been a feature on the fringes of American politics since late 2017. The internet-fueled movement has crept closer to the mainstream, with some believers advancing in campaigns for congressional seats and President Donald Trump, given the opportunity to throw cold water on the movement's rhetoric, choosing instead to say he appreciates how its adherents seem to like him.
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Sep 22, 2020
Spain, France and the U.K. have a shot at turning things around provided Covid-19 fatigue doesn't take hold.
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Sep 22, 2020
The action underscored how online actors in China have taken an interest in election-year politics in the United States.
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Sep 22, 2020
A darkly funny game about the kind of work we do today.
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Sep 22, 2020
A report by Sens. Bob Casey and Ron Wyden, citing federal data, criticized the Trump administration for doing too little to protect nursing home residents as the disease spiked in the Sun Belt states this summer.
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Sep 22, 2020
House and Senate Democrats criticized a Defense Department decision to re-purpose $1 billion in coronavirus funds and spend it on defense capabilities.
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Sep 22, 2020
Residents are attracted by the architecture and sense of community.
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Sep 22, 2020
There were hopes a strong Halloween would lead to a good holiday season for the U.K.'s hospitality and retail sectors. That's looking unlikely.
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Sep 22, 2020
The pandemic sent New York City residents relocating to the Catskills.
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Sep 22, 2020
One of the world's most widely used commodities — palm oil — is also one of its most controversial. Cheap, efficient and extraordinarily versatile, it's found in thousands of everyday products, from cookies and ice cream to shampoo and fuel. Yet surging cultivation of oil palm trees has come at the expense of vast swathes of tropical rainforest in Southeast Asia. Environmental concerns spurred the introduction of so-called sustainable palm oil, but the uptake has been slow and the program has fa
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Sep 22, 2020
A Google employee sued the company and still works there. In a new legal filing, his attorneys want to know whether Google can view the employee's Google data, as well as the Judge's. Google so far hasn't answered.
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Sep 22, 2020
TOWN SQUARE | Materials that are safe and can stand up to sometimes messy kids are important so that the space continues to look good for the long-term.
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Sep 22, 2020
A vile conspiracy theory seems as contagious as the coronavirus, and perhaps as dangerous.
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Sep 22, 2020
ASK THE BUILDER | In situations where you simply can't install a traditional vent pipe that is hidden behind the plumbing fixtures, the best solution is a traditional loop vent.
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Sep 22, 2020
Amid the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, soccer adversaries have joined forces to raise money for their beloved tavern.
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Sep 22, 2020
A couple with three kids deals with pandemic in a new home in Howard County, Md.
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Sep 22, 2020
But the streaming giant doesn't need to buy Quibi to find it.
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Sep 22, 2020
With some employers offering work from home on a permanent basis, and others offering more space and privacy to the workers who do come in, office rents are projected to fall. And those lower prices could make New York and San Francisco affordable and livable again.
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Sep 22, 2020
Shortly after Congress passed the Cares Act, the Pentagon began directing pandemic-related money to defense contractors.
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Sep 22, 2020
The heads of the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department appear before Congress as negotiations around a new coronavirus relief bill have almost entirely fizzled.
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Sep 21, 2020
The Justice Department is expected to brief state attorneys general this week about its imminent plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against Google, setting in motion a landmark legal clash between the U.S. government and the search and advertising behemoth.
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Sep 21, 2020
Beijing's latest energy policy will sharply increase wind and solar, but can't save the climate on its own.
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Sep 21, 2020
Government data vastly underestimate Americans' exposure to Chinese stocks.
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Sep 21, 2020
Trump says Americans must have total control. ByteDance says it will keep majority control. The deal is far from a sure thing.
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Sep 21, 2020
In testimony before the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell will note that the path forward depends on controlling the coronavirus and "on policy actions taken at all levels of government."
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Sep 21, 2020
Purchasing the creator of The Elder Scrolls and other video-game franchises narrows the gap between Microsoft's Xbox console and Sony's market-leading PlayStation.
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Sep 21, 2020
Financials fell sharply after an explosive report alleging that several major banks knowingly facilitated suspicious transactions.
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Sep 21, 2020
For years, the industry relied on foot traffic from millions of tourists to keep their doors open. The coronavirus has forced them to find a new way.
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Sep 21, 2020
Base prices for the single-family houses range from $889,900 to $949,900.
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Sep 21, 2020
The surprising partnership between Bethesda and Xbox, valued at $7.5 billion, could have a positive influence on Series X, even without exclusivity.
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Sep 21, 2020
Fires, blackouts, high taxes, poverty, scarce housing, urban squalor, lousy schools — it's a wonder anybody stays.
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Sep 21, 2020
The U.S. Constitution establishes just one requirement for the job of Supreme Court justice: "good Behaviour."
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Sep 21, 2020
Sports leagues around the world have wrestled with how to fake crowd noise, as playing in empty or near-empty stadiums became the bargain of playing through a pandemic. The NFL tapped two audio wizards to find a solution.
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Sep 21, 2020
Tariffs aren't the only weapon in a trade war. Countries are also turning to blacklists to restrict the economic activities of certain foreign companies. While such measures are often described as necessary to preserve national security, they're increasingly being deployed as policy tools to gain leverage in trade negotiations. In the case of the U.S. and China, disputes over human rights or geopolitics also can play a role.
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Sep 21, 2020
AFFORDABLE HOME OF THE WEEK | The main level has an open floor plan with hardwood floors, a powder room and, in the kitchen, granite counters, a custom-designed backsplash and stainless-steel appliances.
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Sep 21, 2020
With a few quick swipes of a Magic Eraser, your walls — and even grimy baseboards and windowsills — can be looking like new.
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Sep 21, 2020
There's agreement among three financial regulators that the Community Reinvestment Act should be revised to keep pace with online banking. But there's disagreement over how to do so.
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Sep 21, 2020
The ruling means neither the ban on WeChat nor a separate one on the short-form video app TikTok will take place as originally scheduled.
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Sep 21, 2020
Financials fall sharply after a blockbuster report alleging that large banks have long profited from illicit dealings
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Sep 21, 2020
REAL ESTATE MATTERS | Setting up a system to cast ballots online is one option.
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Sep 21, 2020
An incumbent superpower and a rising one are finding coexistence increasingly difficult. Jockeying for position in a changing world, the U.S. and China are facing off on all sorts of issues, most -- but not all -- involving economic rather than military might. Here's a rundown of some big disputes, some with significant real-world consequences and others that for now are mostly symbolic.
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Sep 21, 2020
The short-video maker's Chinese parent company is seeking to tamp down domestic controversy over the deal.
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Sep 21, 2020
St. Jude offers in-person classes five days a week when many other schools are remote.
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Sep 21, 2020
The move figures to significantly bolster Microsoft's Game Pass offerings ahead of the Series X console launch this November.
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Sep 21, 2020
Trevor Milton was the electric-truck maker's biggest cheerleader, but his departure may help the company move on better from a short-seller attack.
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Sep 21, 2020
The BuzzFeed/ICIJ report on suspicious activity reports is deeply troubling. Banks and their supervisors need to do much, much better.
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Sep 21, 2020
The phrase "if you see something, say something" isn't just about packages left on the subway. Banks around the world have a similar duty. The first line of defense against money laundering and other financial crimes often boils down to the thousands of bank employees flagging transactions that somehow don't look right or sending them to the government for investigation. In the U.S., those referrals are called suspicious activity reports, or SARs. They are in the news again after a group of medi
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Sep 21, 2020
The country's oil minister talks tough to fellow OPEC members and oil traders alike.
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Sep 19, 2020
The online auction site is a massive customer for the Postal Service: its second-largest retail customer, after only Amazon. Increasing unreliability of USPS delivery has led eBay to shift some of its business to private company UPS instead.
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Sep 19, 2020
The U.S. Constitution establishes just one requirement for the job of Supreme Court justice: "good Behaviour." It specifies that members of the country's top judicial body are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. The details were left to lawmakers to work out -- or fight over, as they have pointedly in recent years as conservatives and liberals have battled for dominance in the court. The current rules give Republican President Donald Trump a shot at replacing liberal Justice
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Sep 19, 2020
Alexey Navalny is Russia's most prominent opposition figure, an anti-corruption investigator whose exposes have targeted President Vladimir Putin's inner circle.
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Sep 19, 2020
Microwave popcorn has boomed in the pandemic. Movie theater popcorn has tanked. American popcorn farmers have taken note.
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Sep 19, 2020
For businesses such as Lemonade, whose executives appeared in branded masks for their IPO, it's a chance to demonstrate their socially conscious identity
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Sep 19, 2020
But plant-based milk is a sensible venture when you consider how little of the white stuff produced on farms ends up being sold as a liquid.
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Sep 19, 2020
In "Tell Me Why," the character work delivers. A lot of the rest doesn't.
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Sep 19, 2020
Can Hollywood keep making franchise movies in the coronavirus era?
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Sep 19, 2020
Views on a thorny moral and medical issue are remarkably unsettled for a debate that has played out over generations.
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Sep 19, 2020
Michelle Singletary has an honest conversation about affirmative action. And, we take your questions about voting this year, starting with a listener in California.
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Sep 19, 2020
The latest barrier is unnecessary, porous and costly.
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Sep 19, 2020
The order banning the apps is unprecedented in the United States, officials said.
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Sep 19, 2020
Here's what the executive order banning WeChat could mean for its millions of users in the US, and what they should do next.
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Sep 19, 2020
WeChat is China's most popular messaging app. With a monthly user base of 1 billion, it trails only Facebook and WhatsApp. Here's what you need to know.
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