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• Ford and Carhartt entered into a three-pronged partnership in an effort to boost America's trade worker pipeline.
• Ford CEO Jim Farley has been highlighting America's shortage of blue-collar workers.
• Ford Philanthropy's president and Carhartt's CEO

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• For lots of people, NFL games are the main reason they still watch TV.
• Now the streamers have NFL games, too.
• More important: It's no big deal for most people to watch a game on streaming — as Amazon just proved.

On Saturday, the Chicago

President Donald Trump made an unconventional pick for his nomination to the Federal Trade Commission: WeatherTech founder and CEO David MacNeil.

MacNeil founded the company, which makes weather-resistant car floor mats, in 1989, according to its website, and he owns 100 percent of the company. WeatherTech has made it a mission to keep its manufacturing and workforce in the US. FTC Chair

Several of Meta's VR studios have been affected by the company's metaverse-focused layoffs. The company has shuttered three of its VR studios, including Armature, Sanzaru and Twisted Pixel. VR fitness app Supernatural will no longer be updated with fresh content.

Employees at Twisted Pixel, which released Marvel's Deadpool VR in November, and Sanzaru, known for Asgard's Wrath, posted on social

Roblox's age-verification system was designed as a response to allegations it has a child predator problem. Less than a week in, how's it going? Well, Wired reported on Tuesday that, in some cases, it's classifying children as adults and adults as children. So, not so great!

Last week, Roblox made age verification mandatory for anyone using the platform's chat feature. That process involves either

Last month, Instagram began rolling out a new set of controls that allowed users to personalize the topics recommended to them by the Reels algorithm. Now, Meta is making that feature available to all English users of the app globally, along with the ability to highlight their top topics for the coming year. 

The feature begins with a selection of topics Meta's AI thinks you're interested in based

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Ask any professional basketball fan, and they likely will tell you their favorite all-star players across the sport. These players are often part of an annual event featuring a series of All-Star games, where 24 of the top players compete over the course of a long weekend