The real estate industry could soon be upended, says star broker Jason Oppenheim. Oppenheim – who leads a team of glamorous agents on Netflix (NFLX) reality series “Selling Sunset” – recently sat down with Yahoo Finance to talk about the current state of the U.S. real estate market. During the far-ranging conversation, he warned that the industry’s commission structure could soon change forever. “To be specific about real estate agents, we’ve got federal regulators and a couple of lawsuits… Source link

If retirees could talk to their younger selves, they would tell them to save more for their golden years. “We think about the regrets that most of our survey respondents had, it was that they did not start saving early enough,” Nate Miles, Allspring’s head of retirement, told Yahoo Finance Live about the company’s recent global investment survey of 2,758 adults near and in retirement. As a result, many of Allspring’s respondents are considering semi-retirement. “About 25% of them have… Source link

The so-called “Yellowstone effect” — a cultural phenomenon stemming from the popularity of the television drama “Yellowstone” — has trickled into fashion, making Western wear like cowboy hats and boots increasingly popular across the U.S. According to one executive, that trend will last for at least the next few years. Western wear is “going to briefly take over the world,” J Rogers Kniffen World Wide Enterprises CEO Jan Rogers Kniffen told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “Why is it… Source link

Dave’s Hot Chicken Co-Founder Arman Oganesyan said his pop-up tent turned national food chain is focused entirely on its food and its customers, allowing it to stand out among its mega competitors. “You always have your big chicken competitors like the Chick-fil-A’s and the Raising Cane’s, but [again] we like to focus on our food. We like to focus on our customer,” he said to Yahoo Finance Live. Its menu includes 4 combo meals that feature chicken tenders or chicken sandwiches, and include… Source link

In a strange way, the best thing that could have happened to Google (now masquerading as Alphabet, its parent company) was Facebook. Why? Because although Google invented surveillance capitalism, arguably the most toxic business model since the opium trade, it was Facebook that got into the most trouble for its abuses of it. The result was that Google enjoyed an easier ride. Naturally, it had the odd bit of unpleasantness with the EU, with annoying fines and long drawn out legal wrangles…. Source link

Rumor has it that Apple is going to debut its own search engine “sooner rather than later.” This is good news for consumers as competition between Apple and Google means more resources would be spent to do search even better, but oddly enough it’s also good news for Google on one front — the battle with regulators. Apple is definitely refining some search products and we know it is because of the companies it has acquired since 2013. Technology from Topsy Labs already powers specific… Source link

People hold signs at a protest in Times Square after footage showing Tyre Nichols’s fatal beating at the hands of Memphis, Tenn., police officers was released on Friday night. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) Protests unfolded across the U.S. on Friday night after body camera footage and surveillance video showing Memphis, Tenn., police officers brutally beating Tyre Nichols were released. Nichols’s family, the Memphis police chief and President Biden called on protesters to remain peaceful in… Source link

A Google executive claims he was booted by the tech giant for rejecting a high-ranking female boss’ grabby advances at a posh company dinner. Ryan Olohan, 48, accuses Google and one of its top executives, Tiffany Miller, of firing him after Miller groped him at a Chelsea restaurant in December 2019 and told him she knew he liked Asian women — which Miller is, according to a blockbuster federal lawsuit filed Nov. 30 in Manhattan. Miller, director of… Source link

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Google researchers have made an AI that can generate minutes-long musical pieces from text prompts, and can even transform a whistled or hummed melody into other instruments, similar to how systems like DALL-E generate images from written prompts (via TechCrunch). The model is called MusicLM, and while you can’t play around with it for yourself, the company has uploaded a bunch of samples that it produced using the model. The examples are impressive. There are 30-second snippets of what… Source link