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Sep 2023
19m 41s

💍 “The Ring Price Plummet” — Diamonds’ ...

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Diamond prices have plummeted by 40% this year — Because there’s a 30% chance your engagement ring was grown in a lab.

YouTube is going through an existential crisis right now as YouTube Shorts surges — Gen Z YouTube is killing Millennial YouTube.

And Polestar, the electric car co, is launching a phone — Because the smartphone is the Holy Grail of Tech, but it’s littered with failures.

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