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These 3 Canadian banks offer the most in-demand emerging mobile feature

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This is a preview of Insider Intelligence’s 2021 Canada Mobile Banking Emerging Features Benchmark, available exclusively to subscribers. In addition ...

Dispensaries selling illegal magic mushrooms in Vancouver could lead to the legalization of the substance, like they did with cannabis, shop keeper says

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Research suggests magic mushrooms could help treat symptoms of depression. Joe Amon/Getty Images It’s not legal to sell psilocybin or ...

Former UK ambassador to Russia says Russians are shocked to learn their country has an ‘inept’ military

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Sir Andrew Wood speaking on Sky News. Twitter/Sky News Russians are shocked to see their military be so “inept,” the ...

The US blocks Russia from making a $600 million bond payment as it ramps up the pressure on Moscow

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Russia was blocked from making its dollar bond payment through JPMorgan on Monday. Gavriil GrigorovTASS via Getty Images The US ...

No, Airbnb isn’t banning people from Belarus and Russia from using its service

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Airbnb suspended its operation in Russia and Belarus a month ago. Thiago Prudencio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Airbnb said it ...

TikTok’s parent ByteDance reportedly took Instagram and Snapchat content without consent to train its personalization algorithm and to pursue growth at any cost: report

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BuzzFeed News reported Monday that TikTok’s owner ByteDance had scraped content from Instagram and Snapchat in 2017 to create fake ...

Germany is under pressure to ban Russian natural gas, but Deutsche Bank’s CEO says cutting supply would send the country into a ‘virtually unavoidable’ recession

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Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sewing warns of a steep recession in Germany if Russian oil and gas is cut off. ...

Fox News host says Madison Cawthorn needs to name those involved in orgies and drugs, or admit to making up stories about DC’s elite

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Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn has been rebuked by various conservative figures over his controversial claims. Saul Loeb – Pool/Getty Images ...

Germany has seized control of a local unit of Russian natural-gas giant Gazprom, saying it will do ‘what is necessary’ to maintain energy supply in the country

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Gazprom’s unit in Germany runs gas storage facilities, gas transportation, and energy trading in the country. Olga Maltseva/AFP/Getty Images Berlin ...

New York Times’ analysis of satellite images pokes holes in Russia’s denials about civilian bodies found in Bucha

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Satellite imagery of a section of Yablonska Street in Bucha where dead bodies were found. Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies. ...

Donald Trump’s supporters are asking Elon Musk to reinstate the former president’s Twitter account

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Elon Musk has become Twitter’s largest shareholder after buying a 9.2% stake in the company. Patrick Pleul/AP Conservatives have asked ...

Ukrainian authorities discovered a ‘torture chamber’ in Bucha where Russian soldiers killed civilians

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Photos posted to the Facebook page of the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine show the bodies of five ...

Donald Trump’s PAC is releasing an ‘Official Trump Gold Card’ 8 months after selling a slate of regular red Trump Cards

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Supporters of former President Donald Trump have been asked to choose from four different “Official Trump Gold Card” designs. Screengrab/Save ...

Over $2 billion worth of yachts belonging to Russian oligarchs have been seized in Europe so far

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Alisher Usmanov’s super-yacht, “Dilbar.” Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images. At least 13 luxury boats have been seized in Europe since Putin launched ...

Excellent CX requires proper organizational structure and team setup

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Sometimes companies can get in their own way of delivering great customer experience (CX). Many companies organized in a product- ...

The world can turn around the climate crisis this decade, UN report confirms, but governments need to step up

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An employee works among solar panels at Bemol Solar plant outside Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, on August 23, 2021. Bruno ...

All Senate Democrats and 3 Republicans advance Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination, teeing up her final Supreme Court confirmation vote

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U.S. Supreme Court Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images All 50 Democrats and 3 Republican senators advanced Ketanji Brown ...

Digital Trust Benchmark Report 2021 Preview

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In our Digital Trust Benchmark Report, we analyze the data from our fifth annual “US Digital Trust Survey” to evaluate ...

GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski will vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court

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Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Sen. Lisa Murkowski said on Monday that she will back Ketanji ...

If UNC wins National Championship, Triangle stores have special hours for merch, T-shirts

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If UNC defeats the Kansas Jayhawks, several area stores will reopen with commemorative merchandise, and for some, that means immediately ...

Ordering food around Chapel Hill tonight? Do it now. The UNC game changes everything.

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You may have to beat the buzzer with your orders to get pizza, wings or a burrito while you watch ...

If UNC wins National Championship, Triangle stores have special hours for merch, T-shirts

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If UNC defeats the Kansas Jayhawks, several area stores will reopen with commemorative merchandise, and for some, that means immediately ...

Ordering food around Chapel Hill tonight? Do it now. The UNC game changes everything.

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You may have to beat the buzzer with your orders to get pizza, wings or a burrito while you watch ...

Innovation Strategies at Small and Midsize FIs: How US Banks with Assets Below $100 Billion Are Punching Outside Their Weight Class on Digital User Experience

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Smaller FIs are aware of the need to develop value-added digital customer experiences, but they have to do so with ...

Student-loan payment plans that are based on income have failed borrowers — a new report revealed they’re ‘worse than we expected,’ a top Democrat says

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Getty Images An NPR investigation found income-driven repayment plans are more flawed than previously known. Three student-loan companies didn’t track ...

The bear-market rally in stocks is over and investors need to stay defensive as US manufacturing activity slows, Morgan Stanley says

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A worker cuts steel at a factory. AFP via Getty Images The bear market rally in US stocks is done ...

Trump lets it slip that he ‘didn’t win the election’ during an interview with historians in which he also falsely claimed ‘the election was rigged’

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Former President Donald Trump makes dancing motions at a rally in Commerce, Georgia, on March, 26, 2022. Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency ...

Germany says it will expel 40 Russian diplomats after Bucha atrocities

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People look at the gutted remains of Russian military vehicles on a road in Bucha, Ukraine, March 1, 2022. Serhii ...

Jamie Dimon laid out 3 reasons the economy is so hard to explain right now

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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon Brian Snyder/Reuters The US economy is healing, but the path forward remains uncertain, JPMorgan CEO Jamie ...

Raleigh house that drew ‘absolutely insane’ crowd sells for well above asking price

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A video that went viral showed dozens of cars and a swarm of potential buyers. Here’s how much it ultimately ...