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“The beauty of New Balance Numeric compared to other skate shoe-making brands on the market is undoubtedly its originality” (High Snobiety / New Balance)

🔼 Digital cameras. Sales grew in 2023 for the first time in 13 years »»

🔽 American stocks. The S&P 500 posted its biggest monthly loss since September. Investors have begun looking elsewhere »»

💬 “At Domino’s, we know there’s a lot of pressure to tip these days.” The American pizza chain thinks it has an answer »»

🛫 The 20 best places to visit in the South of France »» And: The 17 best hotels »»

👗 New Balance is making the world’s greatest skate shoes these days »»

🤖 GPT-4 beat human psychologists in understanding complex emotions »» Also: Google’s Med-Gemini model achieved 91.1% accuracy in medical diagnostics »»

💎 Here’s a US$90,000 Seiko »»

One of the places to try the viral 15-step Korean scalp treatment is the Eco Jardin by Park Jun salon, nestled beside Gongdeok station in Seoul (Lucie Birant / Wallpaper) 

Apple banned this app for years. It’s now America’s No. 1 iPhone app »»

Claude’s going pro »» And: The ChatGPT competitor now has a native iPhone app (nice UI) »»

How the 15-step Korean scalp treatment rejuvenates hair like nothing else »»

Mindtrip is a new “conversational AI platform” designed to help inspire, plan, share, and book your travel itineraries »»

A new app called Haggle is here to let B2B SaaS website visitors anonymously request more info, instead of giving their details up for a sales call »»

F1′s fanbase is shifting — and the ‘Netflix effect’ is only part of that »»

And: It’s the end of an era: LeBron James, Steph Curry and Kevin Durant won't play in NBA Playoffs' 2nd round for the first time in 20 years »»

Here’s why we always board planes on the left »»

Musk’s ‘absolutely hardcore’ Tesla layoffs could hurt EVs everywhere »»

Meanwhile: Used EVs are about to get even cheaper »»

Turns out the Rabbit R1 was just an Android app all along »» More: “I can't believe this bunny took my money” »»

Calendly redesigned its browser extension to improve its schedule management features and make scheduling faster »»

Now trending in nightlife: Bingo raves »»

London’s best Airbnbs »»

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