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The rise of Cookies, America's most popular weed brand - Business Insider

Rapper and millionaire entrepreneur Berner built America’s first legal $1 billion weed empire, and he has no intentions of cashing out.
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The first legal marijuana farmers in New York are growing for openi...

The first legal weed sales in New York City are scheduled to open later this year, but there still aren’t any retail shops to sell it.
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I visited a newly licensed marijuana farm in New York, and was shoc...

An idyllic upstate New York farm owned by a Rockefeller is one of the first few dozen to be granted a recreational-marijuana cultivation permit.
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One man in Japan accidentally received over $350,000 in COVID relie...

After the Japanese government accidentally gave a 24-year-old man his entire town’s COVID relief funds, the man says he gambled it away online.
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A wave of layoffs is sweeping the US. Here are firms that have anno...

Peloton cut nearly 3,000 employees in February, Better.com cut 4,000, and even Facebook parent company Meta has enacted a hiring freeze.
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Instagram is adding NFT support ‘for creators and people’ as the on...

Instagram is getting NFT support starting this week, Adam Mosseri, head of the social-media site, announced Monday morning.
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Elon Musk says Twitter under his leadership will be ‘super focused’...

Billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk has big plans for changes at the influential social media company, from information security to design.

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After a 2-year absence, the wildly popular game ‘Fortnite’ is back ...

You still can’t get “Fortnite” in the App Store, but there’s an easy and fast way to play the game on your iPhone — and it was Microsoft that did it.
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Twitter is reportedly tracking how many workers turn down job offer...

Billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk is buying Twitter for $44 billion
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Scrub Daddy CEO only sleeps ‘like 3 hours per night’ because he’s r...

The CEO in charge of sponge company Scrub Daddy said he sleeps “like three hours a night” and reads every social media response.
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Scrub Daddy CEO only sleeps ‘like 3 hours per night’ because he’s r...

Scrub Daddy CEO Aaron Krause only sleeps like three hours a night, he told the Philadelphia Inquirer
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As Elon Musk’s attempted takeover of Twitter continues, both sides ...

It’s not just billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk who’s weaving weed jokes into his plans to buy Twitter. It’s also Twitter.
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Apple calls out Meta for ‘hypocrisy’ for taking nearly 50% cut of v...

Apple and Facebook parent company Meta are once again in a war of words, with Apple accusing Meta of “hypocrisy.′
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CNN’s new streaming service is reportedly off to a rough start, wit...

CNN has a new paid streaming service, but it’s reportedly struggling to attract daily users after just two weeks.
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Watch Snoop Dogg go all-in on crypto and the ‘metaverse’ in his new...

Snoop Dogg is building his own metaverse, and his latest music video offers an early glimpse at what to expect.
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Ukraine is using facial recognition tech to identify dead Russian s...

The Ukrainian government is using facial recognition software from the controversial startup Clearview AI to identify dead Russian soldiers.
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I went to the 85-year-old restaurant that taught Taco Bell’s creato...

Mitla Cafe in San Bernardino, California is the Mexican restaurant that both inspired and taught Taco Bell founder Glen Bell how to make tacos.
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A viral YouTube takedown of NFTs has already clocked over 5 million...

NFTs and cryptocurrency are a “bigger fool scam,” according to a rigorous new takedown video from Canadian YouTuber Dan Olson.
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Kanye West’s new album won’t come to streaming services like Spotif...

Ye’s “Donda 2,” will be exclusive to his $200 music player. “I turned down a hundred million dollar Apple deal,” he said on Thursday.
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No one is ‘winning’ the console war: Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft ...

The best-selling console each month is whichever has the largest supply available for sale — and it’s been that way for over a year, NPD Group says.
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Peter Thiel is resigning from Meta’s board to focus on electing pro...

In November’s midterms, Thiel, an early Facebook investor, will help Republican candidates who support the agenda of President Trump, reports say.