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Singapore's three neobanks, GXS Bank, MariBank, and Trust Bank, together posted $278.1M in losses in 2024 as legacy rivals digitalized, intensifying competition (Dylan Loh/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/asean…

Profits, and customers, prove elusive for Singapore's digital banks
Lenders backed by Grab, Sea, StanChart hang on as legacy rivals DBS, UOB, OCBC boom

Want stronger bones? Jumping exercises might help.
To maintain or even strengthen your bones, it helps to load the skeleton with enough force, researchers say.
And, jumping around appears to provide this force.

“A little bit of jumping two or three times a week could go a long way in benefiting your bone health throughout your lifespan,”
said Pam Bruzina, a professor of nutrition and exercise physiology at the University of Missouri

Want stronger bones? Jumping exercises might help.
To maintain or even strengthen your bones, you need to load the skeleton with enough force.

NFL Week 2 bold predictions: Daniel Jones balls out again for Colts; Caleb Williams, Ben Johnson bounce back

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee

Been to the hospital. They are pleased with the progress of the bone healing but I guess not so pleased they will take off the cast and let me drive.
They have replaced it with a cleaner smaller sleeker much bluer one but expect this one to stay on for four more weeks.
😦
There goes the rest of the summer's plans.

Genocide expert:
“The argument that the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] is conducting a war in Gaza is simply cynical, there is no war in Gaza. What the IDF is doing in Gaza is demolishing it. Hundreds of buildings are being bulldozed every week. This is not a secret, but mainstream media coverage has been insufficient.”
Seeking bulldozer drivers to demolish Gaza: how a genocide is being outsourced | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian

Neanderthals May Have Been Running a Sophisticated ‘Fat Factory’ in Germany 125,000 Years Ago
New research suggests that they smashed animal bones into tiny pieces before boiling them to extract the high-calorie grease inside
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Sources: Perplexity talked with The Browser Co. and Brave about buying them, offering ~$1B for Brave; OpenAI also discussed an acquisition with The Browser Co. (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/wild-chrome-bid-perplexity-hunting-bro…

Before Wild Chrome Bid, Perplexity Had Been Hunting for Browsers
Perplexity made headlines this week when the artificial intelligence startup said it had offered to buy Google’s Chrome, the world’s largest internet browser, for a price amounting to nearly double its valuation. While that acquisition seems unlikely to transpire, the company has been on the ...

NFL Week 2 bold predictions: Daniel Jones balls out again for Colts; Caleb Williams, Ben Johnson bounce back

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee

U.S. democracy has always been fragile, and we are now witnessing its dismantlement.
The rising tide of political violence poses one threat to democracy in this country,
but another quieter threat is also hard at work via the erosion of free speech and critical thinking,
both of which are necessary for a flourishing democracy.
Trump’s book bans and attacks on opposing political ideas,
the blocking of independent journalism,
the intimidation of news organizat…

Trump’s Education Plan Seeks to Make Cruel Domination Into “Common Sense”
Trump isn’t even trying to hide his authoritarianism within social acceptability.

U.S. democracy has always been fragile, and we are now witnessing its dismantlement.
The rising tide of political violence poses one threat to democracy in this country,
but another quieter threat is also hard at work via the erosion of free speech and critical thinking,
both of which are necessary for a flourishing democracy.
Trump’s book bans and attacks on opposing political ideas,
the blocking of independent journalism,
the intimidation of news organizat…

Trump’s Education Plan Seeks to Make Cruel Domination Into “Common Sense”
Trump isn’t even trying to hide his authoritarianism within social acceptability.