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Nearly a year after Bruce Willis’ family announced he was retiring from acting after being diagnosed with aphasia, his family say his “condition is advanced.” In a statement released Thursday, the 67-year-old actor’s family said Willis has a more specific diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia. “While this is painful, it is a relief to finally have a clear diagnosis,” the statement…

President Joe Biden said Thursday the US is developing “tighter rules” to track, monitor and possibly shoot down unknown airborne objects after three weeks of high-stakes drama sparked by the discovery of a suspected Chinese spy balloon , which traversed much of the country. The President has ordered National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to lead a “cross-agency team” to review…

US Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh was named executive director of the NHL Players’ Association on Thursday, bringing a veteran union leader and former mayor of Boston in charge at a time of growing hockey revenues and with collective bargaining a few years away. The NHLPA said its board of directors, which includes representatives from all 32 clubs, unanimously approved…

Susan Wojcicki, a longtime Google executive who played a key role in founding the company, is stepping down as YouTube CEO after the past nine years at the helm of the video site that transformed entertainment, culture and politics. In an email to YouTube employees shared publicly on Thursday, Wojcicki, 54, said she is leaving to “start a new chapter…

Billionaire investor George Soros has said he fears for the future of humanity unless more radical action is taken to combat climate change. In a speech to the Munich Security Conference, Soros supported the idea of ​​using experimental geosolar technologies to protect the Arctic from melting and an overhaul of international finance to address the challenge ahead. The melting of…

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Credit card debt skyrocketed in the last three months of 2022 as Americans shop through the holidays and potentially run into financial troubles. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s quarterly household debt report, Americans’ collective credit card balances totaled $986 billion at the end of last year, up $61 billion from the previous quarter. Overall, US household…

Google is lost and could be brought down by a lack of urgency, argued a former employee who sold his company to the tech giant. Praveen Seshadri, whose company AppSheet was acquired by Google in early 2020, joined the tech giant just before the pandemic hit. The purchase price wasn’t publicly disclosed, but TechCrunch reported at the time that AppSheet…

Activision Blizzard, the developers behind video games like call of Duty And world of warcraft, will require workers to return to the office, at least part of the time, and join other tech companies in imposing in-person work mandates. Activision Publishing staff is expected to return by April 10, while Blizzard Entertainment developers are expected to return by July 10.…

Something went wrong: a client abandons a project, a colleague abandons you, you make a mistake on a report, you spill coffee all over your desk. do you say a swear word Science says swearing can be good for you, and now research has shown that it’s generally accepted that swearing in the office is commonplace. A new LinkedIn survey…