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[ad_1] Sling TV is one of the best live TV streaming services you can sign up for without breaking the bank. With plans starting at $45.99 a month (and cheaper, thanks to new short-term passes), it’s an excellent midrange option with a healthy assortment of popular channels and features that cord-cutters crave. But Sling isn’t the only live TV option out there, and there are some areas where it falls behind more expensive services. To help you decide if Sling TV is the right choice for you and your household, we’ve broken down everything you need to know, including our thoughts…
[ad_1] Meta announced on Monday that it’s bringing an AI assistant to Facebook Dating. This chatbot is intended to help users find matches who are more closely tailored to what they are looking for. For example, Meta might suggest users ask it to find “a Brooklyn girl in tech” or a user could ask the AI to help refine their profile. Meta also says that it’s “helping people avoid swipe fatigue” with a new feature called Meet Cute, which gives users a weekly “surprise match” chosen based on its algorithm. The company says Facebook Dating matches among adults ages 18…
[ad_1] There’s a classic Simpsons episode in which the sly businessman Mr. Burns recruits real Major League Baseball players to join his company softball team in order to win a bet. But when the championship is on the line, Mr. Burns pulls eight-time National League all-star Darryl Strawberry for a substitute, Homer Simpson. “You’re a left-hander, and so is the pitcher. If I send up a right-handed batter, it’s called playing the percentages,” Mr. Burns says to Strawberry. “It’s what smart managers do to win ballgames.” High-level baseball is very mathematically-driven, with teams hiring dozens of data engineers to study…
[ad_1] JPMorgan Chase fraudster Charlie Javice wants to delay her September 29 sentencing, saying she cannot fly.The delay request is not sitting well with federal prosecutors and Javice’s Manhattan judge. On Monday, they joined in demanding details and supporting evidence.Prosecutors wondered in a letter to the judge if she can travel by train or car. And the judge himself asked why, exactly, can’t she fly, denying the delay, at least for now.”I am unable to grant this request, unless I am presented with evidence that travel is likely to be injurious to Defendant’s health,” US District Court Alvin K. Hellerstein…
[ad_1] President Donald Trump’s H-1B visa crackdown is putting more pressure on Big Tech and IT outsourcing giants, which are already grappling with tariff threats and other geopolitical turbulence.That’s according to analysts at TD Cowen who assessed the damage from Trump’s new H1-B visa fee over a frantic weekend.For companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and major IT services providers such as Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services, and Cognizant — some of the largest H-1B sponsors — the new rules could upend staffing models. Amazon and AWS alone secured more than 12,000 approvals in the 2025 fiscal year to date, according to…
[ad_1] Facebook has an answer for swipe fatigue.Yes, it’s AI.Facebook Dating, Meta’s dating app feature housed within the Facebook app, rolled out an AI assistant on Monday to help people find matches.”People are really tired of swiping through hundreds of profiles to eventually get to a match and a date,” Neha Kumar, a product manager on Facebook Dating, told Business Insider. “We’re trying to figure out: How can we tackle this challenge that is pretty pervasive in dating?”Facebook’s new AI dating assistant is a chatbot experience that lets users search for compatible matches — skipping over the swipe.”You could say,…
[ad_1] Investors who want to take advantage of a generational opportunity to capture attractive income on municipal bonds may not want to wait much longer, according to strategist Tom Kozlik. Yields have already fallen by about 34 basis points — or 0.34 percentage point — since the beginning of September, he said. Bond yields move inversely to prices, so when yields fall, prices rise. “The opportunity for investors to lock in generationally attractive yields is slipping away every day,” said Kozlik, head of public policy and municipal strategy at Hilltop Securities. “The cost of waiting is rising every day.” He…
[ad_1] (PRO Views are exclusive to PRO subscribers, giving them insight on the news of the day direct from a real investing pro. See the full discussion above.) Pfizer is spending more than $7 billion to buy biotech Metsera to try to catch cup in the obesity drug market. Investors reacted by bidding shares of Pfizer higher in Monday morning trading, an atypical reaction to when a company is coughing up a big chunk of dough for an acquisition. “Getting into GLP land… it’s kind of been the Holy Grail for everybody,” said Tim Seymour of Seymour Asset Management in…
[ad_1] Ahead of the curve — he practically lives there. Before most of the world had even asked ChatGPT its first question, Elad Gil was writing early checks into companies like Perplexity, Character.AI, and Harvey. That’s just a slice of his story. His track record spans seed and Series A investments in over 30 unicorns and involvement with some of the most iconic names in tech, including Stripe, Airbnb, Coinbase, Instacart, Notion, Figma, Flexport, GitLab, and many more. This October, Gil takes the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 in San Francisco for a one-on-one fireside chat. He’ll cover his…
[ad_1] After months of rumors and political back-and-forths, we finally have some more concrete details about a TikTok sale.On Monday, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt confirmed that the US is endorsing a bid from a consortium of majority US investors who will own and operate TikTok in the US. On Sunday, President Donald Trump said in an interview on Fox News’ “The Sunday Briefing” that a slew of billionaires are expected to be involved in the deal, including Oracle’s Larry Ellison, Michael Dell, and, potentially, the Murdochs.After the sale, which is expected to be finalized this week, TikTok users in…