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Ein Paar aus Großbritannien reist mit einem ehemaligen Brot-Lieferwagen, das sie in ein Tiny House verwandelt haben, durch Europa. Iona Stewart und Martin Hill lernten sich kennen, als sie während der Wintersaison in den französischen Alpen gearbeitet haben. Sie entschieden sich schließlich, zusammen ein Haus zu kaufen.

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• Smart speakers comprise one of the fastest-growing device segments in the consumer technology market today.
• This growth has been driven by rapid hardware iteration in the market since Amazon’s introduction of the Echo smart speaker and the Alexa voice assistant in 2014.
• Despite their growing popularity, nearly half of respondents to Business Insider Intelligence’s Smart Speaker Survey still don't own a device — which presents a long runway for adoption.

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Piers Constable

• A Deutsche Bank executive says he does eight triathlons a year — even while traveling 10 days a month for work.
• Piers Constable, a managing director based in New York City, says that he's found exercising and traveling to be a "magic combination."
• Constable said that he wakes up at 5 a.m. every day to work out, no matter where he is.

Piers Constable, a managing director at Deutsche Bank based in New York City, says he competes in seven or eight triathlons a year ... Читать дальше...

Osmo

• Pramod Sharma worked at Google in Sunnyvale, California and noticed when he dropped off his daughter at the company's daycare facility, there were no tech products allowed. 
• Sharma and his co-founder Jerome Scholler created Osmo in 2013 to create a positive and educational screen time experience for kids. 
• Osmo's magic lies in its proprietary hardware piece that snaps onto a tablet, using mirrors to connect the movements a child makes on a physical game board with animations on the screen. Читать дальше...

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• Home Depot and Lowe's may be facing a decline in the home-improvement boom that has boosted sales over the last several years.  
• Remodeling expenditures in the United States are set to rise over the course of 2019 — but the rate of growth is expected to decline between quarters.
• A Lowe's spokesperson told Business Insider that the company was heartened by "rising residential investment and home prices."

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• I recently spent time with both new iPhones that Apple announced this year: the new iPhone XS, and iPhone XR.
• I'm not sure if I can recommend the iPhone XR over the iPhone XS, despite the many similarities and the XR's price advantage — the iPhone XR starts at $749, versus the $999 iPhone XS. 
• The colors that the iPhone XR comes i aren't very impressive in person, and the display looks downright sunken compared to the brilliant iPhone XS display. Читать дальше...

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• The Russian media has published more than 30 articles in the past few days suggesting that America could devolve into a civil war due to the 2020 election.
• Stories that seek to undermine faith in Western democracy among Russian audiences are a staple of the Russian media, much of which is state-controlled.
• The source for these articles was an opinion piece published by conservative commentator Niall Ferguson, who references a "cultural... Читать дальше...

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• President Donald Trump has said tariffs on another $257 billion worth of imports from China are ready to go.
• That round will be more easily felt by the average American household, analysts say.
• At the same time, lower oil prices and planned general tariff cuts in China may help mitigate inflationary pressures there.

After months of trade escalations between Washington and Beijing, headlines about incoming tariffs on Chinese products may seem almost routine. Читать дальше...

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Apple's MacOS might seem simple — but it's an absolute powerhouse if you know how to use it.

Some of the easiest ways to get the most of out of Apple's desktop operating system are hidden in plain sight: Keyboard shortcuts.

Flick between applications and tabs. Take screenshots. Fine-tune settings. Knowing the right keyboard shortcuts will save a second here and there —  and over the course of a week, or a month, or a year, it adds up dramatically. 

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Digital Trends

Consumers having been “cutting the cord,” or canceling their pay-TV subscriptions in favor of internet-delivered alternatives, for years now, but the trend reached new heights in 2017. 

There’s little reason to believe that this phenomenon will slow down any time soon either, so pay-tv providers will have to find new ways to generate revenue as their primary source continues to erode. 

One of the most prominent ways media companies are recuperating cord-cutting... Читать дальше...

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• Saving up to buy your first home can be daunting, but it's not impossible.
• We calculated how much money aspiring homeowners need to save monthly to buy a home by the time they're 35, depending on what age they begin saving.
• We ran these calculations for eight housing price points at two down-payment rates, 10% and 20%.
• We assumed the money is put in a high-yield savings account with a 1.6% annual interest rate.

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Wer seinen Chef um eine Gehaltserhöhung oder Beförderung bitten oder auch nur nachhaltig beeindrucken will, der sollte sich nicht nur auf seine Wortgewandtheit und sein Geschick verlassen. Wichtig ist auch eine gute Vorbereitung. Oft reicht es nämlich nicht aus, euch erst kurz vorher Gedanken darüber zu machen, wie ihr eurem Ziel näher kommt.