🚀 Paramount Global's stock soared 13% on Friday, following reports that Sony was considering joining Apollo's bid to purchase the historic film and TV studio. Today, Paramount is a sprawling collection of assets — although TV media is its main moneymaker by some margin.

this Jack Raines story is absolutely fascinating sherwood.news/business/starb…

Wouldn't it be nice to celebrate Earth Day with the 1st ever global treaty to curb the world’s plastic pollution problem?

Global leaders will convene in Canada later this week to lay plans for what could be the most significant environmental deal since 2015's Paris Agreement.

Hell yeah he is. Join him:

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Plane is diverted due to heavy fog and the guy next to me is on his phone reading an article called “Uncrustables: A Deep Dive”

this is wild?? sherwood.news/business/uncru…

Huge Uncrustables exposé though I'm hearing rumors that people are.... removing the non-crust-crust from these as well??? what have we become sherwood.news/business/uncru…

Not all billion-dollar ideas have to be complicated...

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Battle of the bots: Getting hired is hard work in the age of AI
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Wind power? Big fan sherwood.news/world/wind-ene…

The cold hard data doesn’t lie: Taylor Swift is the biggest popstar on the planet. That’s before you account for today's release of double album The Tortured Poets Department — meaning 2x as many songs to rack up mind-boggling numbers and break streaming records over the world.

How does AI compare to humans on technical tasks? For a while, AI has been able to tell what’s in a picture, even as websites ask us endlessly to prove we’re not a robot by clicking images of traffic lights. But now, AI is doing visual reasoning and math... seriously hard math.

⛈️ Heavy thunderstorms sent the typically arid United Arab Emirates into chaos yesterday, with Dubai recording more than 5.59 inches (142 mm) of rain in just 24 hours since Monday night — the most in 75 years and equivalent to 1.5x the total seen in a typical year.

How Dude Perfect turned trick shots into a media empire.

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As Americans collectively exhale having filed their taxes, they may recall Benjamin Franklin’s immortal sentiment: nothing can be said to be certain, except death and Tax Day. But if you woke up feeling like lower taxes would give you a new lease of life, where should you move?

📱Samsung has reclaimed its position as the world's largest smartphone seller, dethroning Apple in Q1 of 2024. Preliminary data from research firm International Data Corporation revealed that Samsung shipped 60 million units, some 20% more than Apple during the same period.

Facebook Marketplace traffic is going up while Facebook traffic is going down. Collab with chartr 📊’s Tom Jones sherwood.news/tech/marketpla…

Marketplace is a bright spot for Facebook

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Great chart by chartr 📊 using Similarweb data showing that traffic to Facebook's Marketplace went up in February, traffic to the platform itself declined 👇

🚪 Inflation is that one unwanted guest that just won’t leave: headline inflation (CPI) in March rose to 3.5% annually, up from 3.2% the month before. So what’s still going up in price?