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> Taylor Swift's "Tortured Poets Department" sells 700,000 vinyl records, breaking the record for most vinyl sales in a week after just three days (More)

> WNBA No. 1 draft pick Caitlin Clark to sign eight-year, $28M contract with Nike, which includes a signature shoe and is the highest-ever sponsorship deal for a women's basketball player (More)

> Grammy-winning artist Megan Thee Stallion accused in lawsuit of sexual harassment by her former cameraman (More) | Multiple crewmembers injured during accident on set of Amazon MGM Studio's upcoming film "The Pickup" (More)


Science & Technology
> Microsoft releases Phi-3, framed as a "small" language model with almost 4 billion parameters; says it performs as well as OpenAI's GPT-3.5 in answering complex questions (More) | Meta adds multimodal AI to its Ray-Ban smart glasses, allowing users to query AI based on items in the field of vision (More)

> Scientists create artificial cells that change shape and respond to their surroundings like living cells; breakthrough has applications in regenerative medicine, drug delivery, and more (More)

> Underground Antarctic experiment reportedly detects seven potential neutrino events; the particles are the most abundant in the universe but weigh nothing and rarely interact with matter (More) | More on the "ghost" particle (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +1.2%, Dow +0.7%, Nasdaq +1.6%) as investors sift through strong batch of earnings reports (More) | Tesla reports 9% drop in Q1 revenue, the biggest year-over-year decline since 2012; announces new models ahead of timeline, with shares rising over 13% in after-hours trading (More)

> The Federal Trade Commission votes 3-2 in approving final rule banning most employers from using noncompete clauses nationwide, effective in 120 days; FTC estimates about 30 million workers are currently prevented from joining competitors (More)

> Modern-day convenience store Foxtrot abruptly closes all 33 stores across Chicago, Austin, Dallas, and Washington, DC; comes five months after its merger with Chicago boutique grocer Dom's Kitchen and Market (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> Campus pro-Palestinian protests continue at a number of universities across the country; some call for the resignation of Columbia University President Minouche Shafik following student arrests (More) | See updates on the war (More)

> UK lawmakers pass bill allowing officials to send certain migrants seeking asylum to Rwanda; officials say the policy is meant to deter the smugglers trafficking migrants to the country (More)

> Argentina President Javier Milei announces country's first quarterly budget surplus in 16 years; the Libertarian Milei was elected in November on a platform of cutting spending and slowing runaway inflation, which had reached 100% year-over-year (More)

SOURCE: 1440 News