As a former Mint user, I had to find a new budgeting app not too long ago. Intuit, parent company of Mint, shut down the service in March 2024, and prompted users to transition to its other financial app, Credit Karma. However, after testing Credit Karma myself, I found it to be a poor Mint replacement — that meant I needed to branch out and look elsewhere for a trusted app to track all of my
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- McDonald's is thinking of how to better feed customers on weight loss drugs.
- GLP-1 drug users are known to have suppressed appetites and a preference for protein-rich foods.
- Food brands like Shake Shack and Conagra Brands have released products that are "GLP-1 friendly."
McDonald's is gearing up
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- Olympic skier Tess Johnson, 25, says she never travels to competitions without her journal.
- The American mogul skier journals twice daily — and also carves out time to write before her races.
- She says journaling gets her in the right headspace and helps her stay present and off her phone.
Olympic skier Tess Johnson, 25, starts and ends every day with
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- Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said he works in two shifts and sleeps for six hours a night.
- Hassabis packs his office days with back-to-back meetings.
- He said that he's followed this schedule for about a decade.
You're not the only one with a strange sleep routine.
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- The House voted to block President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canada.
- Six Republicans join Democrats in the rebuke against Trump's tariffs.
- The resolution heads to the Senate but is expected to be largely symbolic.
The US and Canada relationship has been tense since President Donald
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- Anthropic says it won't pass electricity increases tied to AI data centers onto Americans.
- "We will pay for 100% of the grid upgrades needed to interconnect our data centers," the company said.
- The announcement comes as AI data centers face scrutiny over
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- Moscow authorities said airlines are evacuating Russian tourists from Cuba this month.
- The island said earlier this week that it's run out of jet fuel for international airports.
- It's prompting Russia, Cuba's close ally, to send empty planes to
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- Elon Musk outlined xAI's new structure after the SpaceX merger.
- xAI is planning a Moon base for its data centers, echoing Google's space ambitions.
- XChat and XMoney apps are set for launch over the next few months, says Musk.
XAI just had its first all-hands meeting since its merger with SpaceX.
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Highguard, a new multiplayer shooter from developers who worked on games like Apex Legends and Call of Duty, launched just over two weeks ago, but developer Wildlight Entertainment is already cutting jobs at the company, according to posts from affected staffers on LinkedIn. Former Wildlight level designer Alex Graner says that "most of the team at Wildlight" was laid off today, which was
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- "Dawson's Creek" star James Van Der Beek died at the age of 48.
- He was diagnosed with colorectal cancer three years ago.
- A GoFundMe was launched to help pay his medical bills and support his wife and 6 children.
Actor James Van Der Beek's wife, Kimberly, appears to have backed a GoFundMe in the wake of the "Dawson's Creek" actor's