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Jan 4, 2024

This isn’t the old normal

It’s the new normal — more remote work, more self-employment, more activism. Plus, car bloat has societal impacts.

Microsoft is adding a dedicated AI key to its keyboards
by Matt Levin
Courtesy Microsoft
The key will launch Copilot, Microsoft’s AI assistant program. But whether users will take to it is an open question.
The hefty costs of heavier cars
by Kai Ryssdal, Andie Corban and Sofia Terenzio
Josh Lefkowitz/Getty Images
The trend of bigger, weightier vehicles — known as car bloat — has contributed to road fatalities and environmental contamination.
Is layoff season shifting away from the holidays?
by Henry Epp
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Employees who lose their jobs at the end of they year may vent on social media. That can hurt a company’s reputation, experts say.
More people shopped by phone than by computer over the holidays
by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Tero Vesalainen/Getty Images
Consumers are more comfortable making impulse buys on smartphones — and retailers know it.
A Detroit frame shop balances shoppers and custom orders over the holidays
by Sean McHenry
“We had to kind of balance the time that we would do consultations, and then people are just, you know, regular shopping,” said Eric Vaughn, owner of Eric’s I’ve Been Framed in Detroit. “I had to kind of cut it off at a certain point because we had to have time to do the work.”