Peter Nowak

✈️ The global airline industry currently spends ~$500 million per year on movies, TV shows, live TV, podcasts, and music, per a new report – and that number is only expected to go up.

🔥 It’s Thursday, December 14th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

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Countries at COP28 agreed to the first global pact to move away from fossil fuels; Israel reportedly began pumping seawater into Hamas’ complex of tunnels underneath Gaza; & more.

🚘⏪ Tesla is recalling more than 2 million vehicles – nearly all of its cars on US roads – following a federal investigation of crashes involving its self-driving Autopilot feature.

⚖️💊 The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case challenging the FDA’s expanded access to the abortion pill mifepristone, marking its first abortion case since overturning Roe v. Wade.

⚡🤖 Microsoft is betting on nuclear power, aka the holy grail of energy production, to meet the company’s rapidly growing energy needs as it expands further into AI and supercomputing.

⚖️ Epic Games was handed a victory royale over Google on Monday, when a federal jury ruled the tech giant’s Android operating system runs its app store as an illegal monopoly – a decision that could upend how businesses make money on in-app purchases.

📺👀 Yesterday, Netflix released its first “What We Watched” report, which provides a look into something the public has never seen before – viewership stats on nearly all of its shows and movies.

🌏 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with US lawmakers in DC; China has overtaken the US as the world’s largest coffee shop market; & more.

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🔥 It’s Wednesday, December 13th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

⛳ Last week, golf’s governing bodies announced the current balls being used by pro and amateur golfers will be phased out and replaced by a ball that doesn’t travel as far. Here’s what this means for you/the golfers in your life.

😬 US traffic deaths have been rising since around 2010, reversing a decades-long downward trend, according to a new analysis published yesterday by the NY Times. And, like many things these days, it appears to be a uniquely American problem.

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Hong Kong held its first council elections since the height of anti-China protests in 2019; Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has reportedly been missing for nearly a week; and more.

🔥 It’s Tuesday, December 12th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🧬👍 The FDA gave its first approval to a treatment that uses the novel CRISPR gene-editing system, which has the potential to cure genetic diseases, create drought-resistant crops, and more.

🤔 For years, inflation – the ugly beast that it is – has been at the forefront of any economic-focused conversation. But a new term is now being thrown around by economists.

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