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• 2021 was a massive year for electric cars. 2022 will be even bigger.

  25-12-2021 16:26 via businessinsider.com
  
  The 2023 Cadillac Lyriq is one of many new electric options hitting dealerships in 2022.Cadillac
  2021 was a hugely important year for electric vehicles and the revolution will keep rolling in 2022. 
  Next year, consumers will be able to choose from more electric options than ever before. 
  EV market share is projected to grow to 5%, up from less than 3% in 2021. 
  This time in 2021, Ford hadn't unveiled a battery-powered pickup truck, the White House was more interested in cutting fu
  
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• Wall Street is pumped about the metaverse. But critics say it's massively overhyped and will be a regulatory minefield.

  25-12-2021 15:00 via markets.businessinsider.com
  
  Women have already reported feeling unsafe in various metaverse virtual worlds.Tyrone Siu/Reuters
  Wall Street is hugely excited about the metaverse, calling it the next big theme in investing that could change the world.
  But critics say the idea is hugely overhyped, and question whether virtual worlds will really take off.
  Others say the whole idea is one big regulatory minefield, where platforms will have to closely monitor harassment and hate speech.
  The metaverse is the talk of Wall Street, w
  
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• Warren Buffett 'walked in like Santa Claus' to a friend's dinner party, carrying huge teddy bears for her children

  25-12-2021 14:48 via markets.businessinsider.com
  
  Warren BuffettYouTube / University of Nebraska–LincolnWarren Buffett embraced the Christmas spirit when he turned up to his friend's dinner party carrying toys for her children, and feasted on cookies for dessert."He arrived with almost FAO Schwarz-sized teddy bears in both arms," Trey Lockerbie, a value investor and podcast host, said on "The Good Life" podcast. "He walked in very much like Santa Claus."The billionaire investor and Berkshire Hathaway CEO declined to break his fast-food di
  
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• A 28-year-old on Asia's top metaverse platform makes six figures as a virtual fashion influencer

  25-12-2021 14:30 via markets.businessinsider.com
  
  Zepeto.Ralph Lauren x Zepeto
  A 28-year old Canadian woman is earning a "six-figure salary" selling digital clothes on the metaverse, the BBC reported Thursday. 
  Monica Louise, who designs and sells apparel for avatars, makes her money on Zepeto, Asia's biggest metaverse platform. 
  More than 1.6 billion virtual fashion items have been sold on Zepeto, the BBC said.
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  While luxury fashion names like Gucci and Ralph La
  
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• The American middle class used to signify economic security. That's now quickly becoming a luxury only the wealthiest can afford.

  25-12-2021 14:00 via businessinsider.com
  
  A majority of Americans believe their children and grandchildren will be worse off financially than they are now.Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images
  Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures and the cohost of the "Pitchfork Economics" podcast.
  While a majority of Americans consider themselves middle class, he says far fewer actually are.
  The wealthiest 10% are working to ensure their stability at the expense of everyone else, he argues.
  Last year, the RAND corporation, a nonpartisan think tank,
  
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• The Queen will honor Prince Philip with a treasured photograph and a special brooch in an unusually personal Christmas message

  25-12-2021 13:59 via businessinsider.com
  
  The Queen with a framed photo of herself and the late Duke of Edinburgh looking at each other fondly at their diamond wedding anniversary in 2007.Victoria Jones/Pool via AP
  The Queen will mark her first Christmas without Prince Philip with a special tribute.
  She will devote a "particularly personal" annual Christmas message to her late husband.
  The Queen will wear the same brooch she wore for a honeymoon photoshoot with Prince Philip in 1947.
  The UK's Queen Elizabeth II is expected to deliver an
  
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• NASA launches its long-awaited $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, kicking off a cosmic revolution

  25-12-2021 13:29 via businessinsider.com
  
  An Ariane 5 rocket, carrying the James Webb Space Telescope, lifts off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on December 25, 2021.NASA TV
  NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope on Saturday, after years of delays and budget hikes.
  Webb is 100 times more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope and expected to revolutionize astronomy.
  The telescope must first unfold itself in space, travel 1 million miles, and calibrate its instruments.
  NASA sent $10 billion worth of delicate hardware scr
  
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• A man has been arrested after 100 iPads meant as gifts for sick kids were stolen from a children's hospital

  25-12-2021 12:31 via businessinsider.com
  
  A Google Street View image of Alder Hey Children's hospital in Liverpool, UK.Screenshot/Google Street View
  Police in Liverpool, UK arrested a man after 100 iPads meant as gifts for sick children were stolen.
  The iPads, worth over $90,000, were stolen at night from outside a children's hospital, reports say.
  Police arrested the man after finding footage of 40 iPads being sold to a tech store in the city.
  A 54-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of theft after 100 iPads worth about $93,000
  
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• The UK has now boosted 45% of people against COVID-19, trailing only Chile, as it launches a Christmas Day vaccination drive

  25-12-2021 11:10 via businessinsider.com
  
  The UK is leading an aggressive booster programme to fight the fast-spreading Omicron variant.Pyrosky/Getty
  The UK has become the country with the second highest rate of COVID boosters, reports say.
  45% of people in the UK are now triple-jabbed, reports say. Still, it lags behind Chile's 52.7%.
  Prime minister Boris Johnson is pushing an aggressive campaign to get people boosted.
  The UK surpassed Israel to become the world's second-most boosted nation against COVID-19, with 45% of its population
  
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• 3 former SpaceX engineers have launched a robot restaurant that makes a pizza every 45 seconds. Take a look inside.

  25-12-2021 10:30 via businessinsider.com
  
  Stellar Pizza has more than 23 employees who used to work at Elon Musk's company.Patrick Pleul/Pool via Reuters/Stellar Pizza
  Three former SpaceX engineers have made a pizza-making robot machine.
  The machine, which can produce a pizza every 45 seconds, will be in operation next year.
  Stellar Pizza has more than 23 employees who used to work at Elon Musk's company.
  Stellar Pizza, a robotic restaurant that can churn out a pizza every 45 seconds, is opening in spring next year in Los Angeles.Stella
  
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• Judge rules The New York Times must destroy documents and not publish reporting on conservative group

  25-12-2021 04:44 via businessinsider.com
  
  A New York state court ruled that the New York Times had to return legal memos written by an attorney for Project Veritas.Mike Coppola/Getty Images.
  A New York state judge ruled on Friday that The New York Times should return documents it obtained about the conservative group Project Veritas.
  The court ruled that the documents, written by a lawyer for the group, are privileged.
  The New York Times said it would appeal the decision, with publisher A.G. Sulzberger saying it should "raise alarms" fo
  
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• Microsoft joins Google, GM in not attending CES tech conference in person over Omicron surge

  25-12-2021 04:16 via businessinsider.com
  
  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
  Google, Facebook, and Intel have all canceled their plans to attend the CES tech conference in Las Vegas next month, citing a surge in COVID-19 cases.
  Microsoft said on Friday that it would also not attend the conference in-person, The Verge first reported.
  Many of these companies will maintain a digital presence at CES.
  Microsoft is the latest tech company to drop its attendance at the CES tech conference as COVID-19 cases continue to sur
  
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• Trump spokesman turned over 1,700 pages of documents and testified for 4 hours for Jan. 6 committee, per new court docs

  25-12-2021 03:31 via businessinsider.com
  
  Former President Donald Trump.Sean Rayford/Getty Images
  Trump spokesperson Taylor Budowich said that he's turned over 1,700 documents to the Jan. 6 committee.
  Budowich added that he has testified for "roughly four hours."
  Budowich is suing the committee to prevent them from accessing his financial records from JP Morgan.
  Former President Donald Trump's spokesperson Taylor Budowich revealed in a new court filing that he provided the House select committee investigating the events of January 6, 20
  
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• Biden administration turned down public health expert plan in late October that called for manufacturing and sending over 700 million rapid COVID-19 tests to Americans ahead of holidays, per Vanity Fair report

  25-12-2021 01:21 via businessinsider.com
  
  President Joe Biden speaks to reporters as he walks to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House December 15, 2021.Drew Angerer/Getty Images
  The Biden administration turned down a COVID-19 mass testing plan in late October, per Vanity Fair.
  Experts in the meeting called for 732 million rapid at-home tests to be produced and distributed per month.
  They expected a holiday surge, but WH officials said that test manufacturers did not have capacity.
  President Joe Biden's administration turned d
  
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• Third Florida-based cruise ship has a COVID-19 outbreak as state cases hit a new record

  25-12-2021 00:52 via businessinsider.com
  
  A different Carnival Cruise ship earlier this year. An undisclosed number of passengers and crew aboard the Carnival Freedom cruise caught the virus so the ship was denied entry to Bonaire and Aruba, Carnival said in a statement.RHONA WISE/AFP/Getty Images
  A COVID-19 outbreak took place on a South Florida-based cruise ship for the third time this week.
  An undisclosed number of passengers and crew aboard the Carnival Freedom cruise caught the virus.
  The number of coronavirus cases in Florida hit
  
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• An 81-year-old Army veteran — one of the oldest Capitol riot defendants — was sentenced to 3 years of probation

  25-12-2021 00:42 via businessinsider.com
  
  Gary Wickersham captured on security camera footage during the January 6 Capitol riot.The Department of Justice
  An 81-year-old Capitol rioter was sentenced to 3 years of probation and 90 days of home confinement.
  Gary Wickersham expressed remorse at the Tuesday hearing, where a judge commended him for his regret. 
  Wickersham initially told investigators he thought the riot was staged to make Trump supporters look bad. 
  One of the oldest known defendants charged in the January 6 Capitol
  
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