The Slow Death of Hollywood

Posted on July 15, 2019 by HeyJK

Welcome to Big, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here. First, housekeeping. I’m launching a new section of Big called “From the Mailbag,” which are emails from readers.

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I Come to Bury Biden, Not to Praise Him

Posted on July 14, 2019 by HeyJK

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Where Are All the Bob Ross Paintings? We Found Them.

Posted on July 13, 2019 by HeyJK

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Bob Ross painted more than 1,000 landscapes for his television show — so why are they so hard to find? We solve one of the internet’s favorite little mysteries. Watched the video? Here are a few more details.

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Scientists may have found a better way to spot early signs of dementia: our eyes

Posted on July 11, 2019 by HeyJK

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As our body’s central control center, the brain has to keep going at all costs. It makes sense that it’s surrounded by biological safeguards: a bony skull, a sack of tissue, and blood vessels that filter out most infectious bugs.

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Yes, the baseball is different — again. An astrophysicist…

Posted on July 9, 2019 by HeyJK

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Welcome to baseball, circa 2019. Balls are flying, and records are falling. Players are on pace to hit 6,618 home runs, 1,000 more than last season’s 5,585 and 500 more than 2017’s all-time high of 6,105.

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Toyota testing improved solar roof for electric cars that can charge while driving

Posted on July 5, 2019 by HeyJK

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Toyota is testing a new and improved version of the solar power cells it previously launched on the Japan-exclusive Prius PHV, in a pilot along with partners Sharp and Japanese national research organization NEDO.

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Posted on July 1, 2019 by HeyJK

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Bonsai Brands

Posted on July 1, 2019 by HeyJK

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The energy in the DTC sector is undeniable. In just about every vertical we see new businesses taking advantage of the evaporation of friction in launching an ecommerce brand. With the democratisation of tools like Shopify and Instagram Ads anyone can launch a DTC business.

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1 in 5 Employees Is Highly Engaged and at Risk of Burnout

Posted on June 28, 2019 by HeyJK

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Dorothea loved her new workplace and was highly motivated to perform. Her managers were delighted with her high engagement, professionalism, and dedication.

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BFR | Earth to Earth

Posted on June 28, 2019 by HeyJK

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The BFR will be capable of taking people from any city to any other city on Earth in under one hour.

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Genius Catches Google Copying Song Lyrics

Posted on June 18, 2019 by HeyJK

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“Over the last two years, we’ve shown Google irrefutable evidence again and again that they are displaying lyrics copied from Genius,” said Ben Gross, Genius’s chief strategy officer, in an email message.

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America’s Job Listings Have Gone Off the Deep End

Posted on June 14, 2019 by HeyJK

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Are you a code sensei? A customer-service rock star? Do you have a passion for sales? Will you devote your life to conference calls, leaving your family and friends behind while you camp out under your desk, ready to dial in at any time?

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An Oral History of Vincent D’Onofrio’s Perfect Men in Black ‘Sugar Water’ Scene

Posted on June 12, 2019 by HeyJK

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Approximately once a week, I think about a single scene from 1997’s Men in Black.

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Robots are breaking out of their cages on the factory floor, and here’s what they are doing

Posted on June 10, 2019 by HeyJK

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Collaborative robots, or cobots, have been working with humans on the factory floor for years, but when it comes to the large-scale industrial robots that can lift and move massive pieces of manufacturing, the danger to human workers is so great that the robots are bolted down to the factory floor b

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HBO cancels ‘Vice News Tonight’

Posted on June 10, 2019 by HeyJK

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HBO is not renewing its nightly news series with Vice News, The Hill has learned. Vice News CEO Nancy Dubuc announced in an email to staff Monday morning obtained by The Hill that the cable news company had “made the decision not to renew Vice News tonight” after seven seasons.

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FedEx to End U.S. Express Business With Amazon

Posted on June 8, 2019 by HeyJK

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Delivery giant, in severing U.S. air contract, says it wants to focus on other retailers FedEx Corp. FDX 0.75% is ending its air-shipping contract with Amazon.com Inc. in the U.S., evidence of escalating tensions between the longtime partners as the e-commerce giant builds its own delivery network.

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This ID Scanner Company is Collecting Sensitive Data on Millions of Bargoers

Posted on June 3, 2019 by HeyJK

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We’ve all seen it, and some of us have lived it: A bar patron mouths off to a bouncer, tags a wall, gets in a fight, or is just too drunk and disorderly. They’re not just kicked out for…

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