Kyle Nowak

🔥 It’s Thursday, April 25th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🪳 Trillions of periodical cicadas have begun to emerge in the Southeast and Midwest US, marking a rare synchronized event that last occurred in 1803.

✍️📵 President Biden signed into law a bill forcing Chinese tech giant ByteDance to sell TikTok within the next 9-12 months or face a US ban, kicking off what’s sure to be a protracted legal fight.

🖱📰 Click to see a list of bite-sized stories you should know for today.

“When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself.”

–Earl Nightingale (1921-1989)

🌐🤖 If you’ve recently had to solve an Einstein-level physics problem to log into social media, it’s not just you – Captchas, the tech created to stop bots from disrupting websites, are getting harder.

🌍 The European Space Agency welcomed five new astronauts; Apple recorded its worst quarter for iPhone sales in China since 2020; and more.

⚖️⛺ SCOTUS heard arguments in a case that will decide whether cities can prevent homeless individuals from sleeping outside on public property, even when shelter space is lacking.

💼 The FTC voted 3-2 for a nationwide ban against noncompete agreements, which prevent workers from taking positions with competitors for a period of time after they leave a job.

🔥 It’s Wednesday, April 24th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🚅 Construction officially began yesterday on Brightline West, a new $12 billion high-speed passenger line connecting Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area.

Here are five stats from this past week that made our team go “whoa.” Hopefully you will, too.

“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”

–Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

🔍 For years, Amazon has been gathering intel on its competitors via an internal project codenamed “Project Curiosity,” according to a new report.

🌏 Chinese swimmers competed in the 2021 Olympics despite testing positive for doping; Mexico is experiencing an unusually violent election season; and more.

❓ Our question to you: Do you support the package of four bills that passed the House this weekend?

🧠 A far greater number of animals have the capacity for consciousness than humans previously thought, per a new declaration signed by over three dozen leading researchers.

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🔥 It’s Tuesday, April 23rd – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🌱 Know your roots... Guess the definitions of the following Greek/Latin root words:

1. Ambi
2. Bio
3. Ciner
4. Dexter
5. Idi