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A shopper goes through shirts in the kids section at Old Navy in Denver, Colorado.Brent Lewis | Denver Post | Getty ImagesBy striking down student debt forgiveness Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court not only added a hefty expense back into millions of Americans' budgets. It also created the latest challenge for retailers already struggling to predict how consumers may spend in the coming months.The court's decision squashed President Joe Biden's plan to forgive up to $20,000 per borrower in federal student loan debt. Student…

The fate of what could be the priciest merger in tech industry history will soon be in the hands of a federal judge who must decide whether to stop Microsoft from closing its deal to buy video game company Activision Blizzard.Federal antitrust enforcers have sued to block the $69 billion acquisition that they say will harm competition between Microsoft and gaming industry competitors such as Sony and Nintendo.But Microsoft has largely had the upper hand in the 5-day San Francisco federal court hearing that's scheduled to…

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down affirmative action in college admissions is certain to ripple across higher education for years. Debate in the lead-up to the court’s decision has ignited passions about accessibility, fairness and merit in the complex admissions process — and stirred up some misconceptions about affirmative action.Educators worry about how they will continue to bring in a racially diverse student body — and how to pay for the costly measures to do so — now that it is illegal to consider race…

Anti-abortion protesters outside the Supreme Court 21 January 2022. Credit: Shawn Thew, licensed under CC BY-ND 4.0 As the one-year anniversary passes on the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade—and with it the constitutional right to an abortion—University of Michigan public policy professor Paula Lantz offers insights on the ramifications of that ruling and where things might be headed in the months ahead.…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain It's been a year since the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, and the predictions by several experts that the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade would lead individual states to ban abortions have come true. Also true has been…

Despite multiple cancellations leading to widespread speculation that the E3 games conference may be gone for good, the Entertainment Software Association, which has traditionally organized the event, begs to differ. According to the association behind the event, nothing is set in stone, and there may be hope for E3's future. Notes from a recent Los Angeles City Tourism Board tell a different story, listing convention cancellations for both E3 2024 and 2025--though it doesn't outright say the entire expo…

Director James Cameron a(Photo by Jerritt Clark/WireImage) James Cameron and his friends greatly anticipated seeing the original Star Wars film and, after finally seeing it, Cameron had a reaction that was both verbal and immediate, and ultimately life changing. In the third episode of the 2022 Disney Plus docuseries Light & Magic — a docuseries that also revealed that George Lucas’ mother told him he wouldn’t amount to anything — James Cameron appears briefly in the beginning to quickly explain his response…

In this article, learn about how decision intelligence and artificial intelligence differ An advanced strategy for improving decision-making processes that incorporate human judgment, data analysis, and artificial intelligence algorithms is known as decision intelligence. It uses the power of technology to offer suggestions and insights that can be implemented to help people make good decisions in complicated business situations. Decision intelligence entails obtaining pertinent data from various sources, including…

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Gmail Usage Policy: What Happens to Unused Accounts Every self-respecting internet user has an email account. It is the most basic element to interact with each and every one of the services on the internet. However, due to its limitations, users may end up having more than one account. Google understands this and believes that if an account is no longer in use, it is time to delete it. This is where Gmail, one of the largest networks, comes in. It is the basic tool for sending and receiving emails and also…