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A large number of Apple services stopped working properly on Thursday evening, according to Apple's Services Support page.

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The vast majority of NBA experts are predicting the Golden State Warriors to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals.

We surveyed 47 experts and only 10 are predicting a Cleveland victory. The other 37 all like Golden State, and the majority of that majority like them in six games. Here's how a few sports media outlet see the series playing out:

• ESPN — 22 of 27 picking the Warriors.
• Sports Illustrated — 6 of 8 picking the Warriors
• Bleacher Report ... Читать дальше...

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On Saturday, all three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst exams will be administered worldwide. 

The CFA curriculum is considered to be the hardest on Wall Street. To put the exams' difficulty into perspective, fewer than 20% of candidates pass all three on the first attempt.

Candidates on average spend 250-300 hours preparing for each level of the exam over the course of six to eight months.

Of course, every test-taker hopes things go smoothly and according to plan on exam day. Читать дальше...

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There's been a number of negative reports about Google's subsidiary Nest recently, based on leaks from anonymous sources within the company.

Google's not happy about it. 

And to stop those leaks, Google has set up an internal website for employees to report whistleblowers, according to The Information.

The website, which has been in place for a while, uses the internal URL, go/stopleaks, according to The Information.

The report says Google's global-investigations team manager... Читать дальше...

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Less than a year after the Chinese stock market crash and its economy slumped, searches of U.S. properties from the Chinese mainland are on the rise – and the prices of properties they’re searching for are up too.

In Trulia’s semi-regular look at home searches by international house hunters, we’ve found that Canada still leads in the raw volume of search activity for for-sale homes in the U.S. from abroad, but the United Kingdom has closed the gap considerably. Meanwhile... Читать дальше...

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The oil price is making a fool of everyone.

That's according to Steve Schwarzman, cofounder of private-equity giant Blackstone.

The billionaire investor was speaking at the Bernstein Thirty-Second Annual Strategic Decisions Conference 2016 on Thursday, and talked about the volatile oil price.

He said:

Let's just take energy first because it's in the news a lot. And talk about a crazy business where there's almost not one person who knows what they're doing, right? Читать дальше...

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In 2009, scientists confirmed there was water on the moon, but had no idea how it got there.

A new study concludes that asteroids probably carried water to the moon about 4.5 billion years ago, according to research published in the journal Nature Communications.

Back when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked the moon, we didn't even know the water existed.

It's only present in small quantities below the surface, and our instruments at the time weren't sensitive enough to detect it. Читать дальше...

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A US Blue Angels jet has crashed in Smyrna, Tennessee.

At least one person has been killed in the crash, local station WSMV reports, citing the Rutherford County Emergency Medical Service.

But the status of the pilot and the cause of the crash are not currently known. WKRN reports that helicopters from Vanderbilt University Medical Center were called to the scene.

According to local ABC affiliate WKRN, citing the fire chief of the neighboring town of La Vergne... Читать дальше...

The New York Yankees have arguably the most iconic uniform in sports, one that has gone practically unchanged over the last 90 years. Any modification is significant and the Yankees made one recently that came with almost no fanfare.

Sirin Labs recently debuted its Solarin phones. Made with costly materials and designed for people who value privacy, the high-end model of the phone can cost almost $20,000.

Around the world,  the "maker mindset" has become a watchword for entrepreneurs, innovators and educators alike. From kids using high-tech fabrication labs to revive shop class to multi-hundred-thousand-dollar Kickstarter campaigns, makers are making waves for all the right reasons.

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Stocks finished Thursday slightly higher but ultimately little-changed as markets braced for Friday's big May jobs report.

Thursday's close marked the highest closing level for the S&P 500 since November, which is now just about 30 points away from a record high. 

First, the scoreboard:

• Dow: 17,838.6, +48.9, (+0.3%)
• S&P 500: 2,105.3, +5.9, (+0.3%)
• Nasdaq: 4,971.4, +19.1, (+0.4%)
• WTI crude oil: $49, +0.02%
• 10-year Treasury... Читать дальше...

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In some US cities, million-dollar homes are becoming the norm.

Take San Francisco, where 57% of homes have a value of $1 million or more — or San Jose, where 46% are seven-figure homes.

That's according to real-estate site Trulia, which looked at the share of million-dollar homes in the 100 largest US metro areas and how it's grown over the past four years. It defined a million-dollar home as any home — regardless of whether it's listed for sale — with a value of $1 million or more. Читать дальше...

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Square is offering a new payment plan for its merchant customers that it hopes will remove barriers associated with accessing new payments technology.

The new payment option allows merchants to pay for the firm’s new, EMV- and NFC-enabled mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) reader at a rate of $1 per week for 60 weeks. It's worth noting that the plan is $11... Читать дальше...

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It's no longer a surprise that big-box retailers are getting crushed by Amazon on all fronts, as implied by their stock-price performance over the past 12 months.

One big reason for Amazon's rapid growth has to do with its dominance in mobile.

As more and more consumers have shifted to mobile shopping, Amazon quickly adapted and made sure its mobile-shopping experience stayed up to par.

As noted by a Cantor Fitzgerald note on Thursday, Amazon blows away all... Читать дальше...

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Walmart is up against two heavy hitters, Alibaba and JD.com, in China's e-commerce market. And thus far, it's lagging far behind.

The retail giant took complete ownership of China-based e-commerce site Yihaodian last July after it bought all remaining shares from China-based financial services group Ping An. But Walmart has yet to have a significant effect in China just yet... Читать дальше...

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An engineering professor was identified as a victim of the shooting that shut down the University of California at Los Angeles on Wednesday.

William S. Klug, 39, was an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering.

The Los Angeles Police Department ruled his death a murder-suicide, according to Reuters.

The news shocked friends and colleagues, who described Klug as kind and brilliant.

"I am absolutely devastated," Alan Garfinkel, another professor at UCLA, told The Los Angeles Times. Читать дальше...

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In the cartooning world, Peanuts is the gold standard – the bar of humor and longevity every comic strip hopes to achieve. But even a great like Peanuts creator Charles M. Schultz has his heroes. Schultz went into the Army during WWII, and although his service wasn’t glamorous, he slogged through the mud like every other GI.

Schultz wasn’t a wartime correspondent, but his hero, Bill Mauldin, was. Because many WWII-era troops in Europe experienced hardships similar to Schultz’ ... Читать дальше...

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An Air Force Thunderbird jet has crashed after performing a flyover over a commencement ceremony attended by President Barack Obama. 

The Associated Press reported that the jet crashed after the flyover at an Air Force Academy commencement in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Thunderbird jet crashed south of Colorado Springs minutes after completing the flyover ceremony.

The Colorado Springs Gazette, citing Air Force Academy officials, notes that the plane suffered engine failure before the crash. Читать дальше...

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Hot startup ClassPass wants to be more than just a way for people to book fancy exercise classes on the cheap.

Vanity Fair's Maya Kosoff reports that the publication received leaked documents from a company called "Save Our Studios LLC" (though Vanity Fair could not confirm the existence of the corporation's building).

However, the documents contained information about ClassPass's financials and, perhaps more significantly, its aspirations beyond the impressive... Читать дальше...

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Andrew Left of Citron Research has a new target in his sights, and the company's stock is tumbling.

This time around, Left is going after The Chemours Co., a spin-off of DuPont.

Left thinks that a class-action lawsuit could bankrupt Chemours, which he says has too much debt and not enough on hand to fund its defense.

Chemours fell by almost 10% when the report dropped before it began to climb back. As of 3:34 EST, the stock is down just 2.1% at $8.61 a share. Читать дальше...

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Billionaire Steve Schwarzman can't stop hammering the Dodd-Frank Act.

At the Bernstein Thirty-Second Annual Strategic Decisions Conference 2016, the Blackstone Group chairman and CEO discussed issues ranging from Brazil's economic growth to distressed energy companies in the US.

Among his biggest concerns was the impact of financial regulation.

Here's Schwarzman (emphasis ours):

What's happening during that period is the junk bond market just went on sabbatical when illiquid. Читать дальше...

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Hillary Clinton pulled no punches in a major foreign-policy speech on Thursday, coming out swinging against her likely general-election rival, Donald Trump.

In the speech, Clinton lobbed Trump-esque insults at the presumptive Republican presidential nominee in an apparent effort to match his headline-grabbing style.

"Donald Trump's ideas aren't just different, they're dangerously incoherent," Clinton said at the beginning of her speech, calling his policy declarations "a series of bizarre rants... Читать дальше...