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Free 'T-Mobile Starlink' for Six Months Announced During Super Bowl. Also Available to Verizon and AT&T Customers
Today T-Mobile announced what they're calling "the next big thing in wireless" — T-Mobile Starlink. But the real surprise is "The beta is now open for absolutely everyone — yes, even Verizon and AT&T customers — to register for free access until July."
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Job-Search Sites Try Shaming Companies That 'Ghost' Job-Seekers
An anonymous reader shared this report from Fortune:
More than 14 million job seekers' applications went completely ignored in a single quarter last year, according to one hiring platform. Now, sites like Greenhouse and LinkedIn are experimenting with new ways to hold companies accountable for maki...
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Bill Gates Remembers LSD Trips, Smoking Pot, and How the Smartphone OS Market 'Was Ours for the Taking'
Fortune remembers that in 2011 Steve Jobs had told author Walter Isaacson that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates would "be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger."
But The Indendepent notes that in his new memoir Gates does write about two acid trip e...
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America's IT Unemployment Rises To 5.7%. Is AI Hitting Tech Jobs?
The unemployment rate in America's information technology sector "rose from 3.9% in December to 5.7% in January," reports the Wall Street Journal. (Alternate URL here.) Meanwhile last month's overall jobless rate was just 4%, they point out, calling it "the latest sign of how automation and the incr...
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Skydiver Hooks Plane in Mid-Air, Gets Towed Up For Another Skydive
"Can you skydive continuously without landing...?" asks Red Bull. Imagine jumping out of a helicopter, "only to latch onto a speeding plane in mid-air and soar back up into the sky."
Harnessing the plane's momentum, [skydiver Max Manow] soared out of the canyon, embarking on what he calls his "end...
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