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Inflation continued to cool in January
Javier Ghersi/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Consumer prices rose 6.4% last month compared to a year ago, continuing a months-long slowdown of price increases despite blockbuster job growth that revealed a...
Max Zahn, ABC News Feb 14, 2023

Is AI coming for your job? ChatGPT renews fears
Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Robots holding platters of plantains and shrimp zoom between tables at Sergio's, a Cuban restaurant in Miami, where the waist-high machines u...
Max Zahn, ABC News Feb 14, 2023

How your old cellphones and laptops can power new electric vehicles
Redwood Materials(NEW YORK) -- That old laptop, cellphone and TV remote may have a newfound purpose: powering the next generation of electric vehicles. Luxury brand Audi recently partnered with Redwoo...
Morgan Korn, ABC News Feb 13, 2023

New consumer warning on strollers due to entrapment risk, one death reported
CPSC(NEW YORK) -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is warning consumers about possible entrapment hazards in Baby Trend Sit N' Stand Double and Ultra strollers after one death was re...
GMA Team, ABC News Feb 10, 2023

Dunkin' airs first ever Super Bowl ad, starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez
LordRunar/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Outside his packed resume of movie and television credits, Ben Affleck has become famous in meme form with his hands full of Dunkin' iced coffee, doughnuts and more...
Kelly McCarthy, ABC News Feb 10, 2023

Texas AG launches probe of Home Title Lock ads tied to Rudy Giuliani, other right-wing personalities
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Authorities in Texas have launched an investigation into the marketing claims of the anti-fraud service Home Title Lock, looking to determine whether the California-based company...
Mike Levine, ABC News Feb 10, 2023

Homebuyers need more than falling mortgage rates to jump back into the market
Grace Cary/Getty Images, FILE(NEW YORK) -- A recent decline in mortgage rates has convinced some homebuyers to come off the sidelines. But other factors may keep buyers out of the market. Mortgage app...
Alexis Christoforous, ABC News Feb 10, 2023

Yahoo to lay off 20% of its workforce by the end of the year
maybefalse/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Yahoo will lay off 20% of its workforce by the end of the year, including 1,000 employees this week, the company announced Thursday. The cuts are focused on the co...
Meredith Deliso, ABC News Feb 09, 2023

Twitter suffers major outage, prompting emergency fix and apology
Karl Tapales/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Twitter suffered a user outage on Wednesday that lasted for hours and required an emergency fix, prompting an apology from the company and marking one of the fir...
Max Zahn, ABC News Feb 09, 2023

"It's a mess': Messages to Southwest pilots show meltdown unfolding
martin-dm/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Southwest Airlines Chief Operating Officer Andrew Watterson faced lawmakers Thursday in a highly-anticipated Senate Commerce Committee hearing to answer for the air...
Amanda Maile, ABC News Feb 09, 2023
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