Investing in bitcoin has already yielded US electric car producer Tesla its first gains of around $1 billion. The figure leaves the company's profits from selling its electric vehicles (EV)...
Posted by | February 22, 2021 | Business
Posted by | February 22, 2021 | Politics
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is due to deliver his twice-a-year assessment of the American economy to the U.S. Congress next week. This semi-annual exercise will the first for the...
Posted by | February 22, 2021 | Business
The volume of trade between Russia and Germany declined by 22.2 percent in 2020, year-on-year, to €44.9 billion ($54.4 billion), according to data from the German Committee on Eastern European...
Posted by | February 22, 2021 | Business
Boeing has urged global carriers to temporarily halt flights of its planes with engines similar to that which suffered a catastrophic failure and exploded mid-flight over the US city of...
Posted by | February 21, 2021 | Politics
With all its talk of black-on-white war, YouTube's “hate speech”-filtering AI can't tell the difference between chess players and violent racists. Perhaps leaving robots in charge of the English language...
Posted by | February 21, 2021 | Business
Russia's United Aviation Corporation and Mubadala, the investment fund of the United Arab Emirates, will create a joint venture for developing and manufacturing a supersonic business-passenger jet. The conceptual design...
Posted by | February 21, 2021 | Foreign Affairs
About 30,081 pounds of pork pâté was recalled because it was made at what the USDA calls an “ineligible establishment” in France and distributed around the United States without USDA...
Posted by | February 21, 2021 | Politics
The Great Reset is on everyone's mind – or should be. It can be blamed for woke madness, cancel culture, Covid lockdowns, Antifa/BLM riots, Big Tech censorship, and the endless...
Posted by | February 21, 2021 | Business
Both EV stocks and oil stocks are rising in an increasingly irrational market, but while the electric vehicle industry is quickly developing, the oil industry is maturing quickly. Although the...
Posted by | February 21, 2021 | Business
The British finance minister, Rishi Sunak, is reportedly planning to raise the tax on business to defray the costs of expanding the nation's Covid-19 support package. The government is expected...
Posted by | February 21, 2021 | Business
The Covid-19 pandemic has added $24 trillion to the global debt mountain over the last year, the Institute of International Finance (IIF) said. Government spending has accounted for about half...
Posted by | February 21, 2021 | Politics
French authorities lament that “woke culture” driven by the left in US universities is threatening French social cohesion. But it's a homegrown problem of France's own making and elites only...
Posted by | February 20, 2021 | Politics
Harvard scientists claim that slavery reparations could have saved black Americans from dying disproportionately from Covid-19. But their argument harms the very people they set out to protect. Some of...
Posted by | February 20, 2021 | Science & Tech
Whether you're new to Amazon's Alexa voice assistant or a new fan, here are seven fun things to try if you own an Echo speaker.
Posted by | February 20, 2021 | Politics
The US wants Russia and China to rein in their respective strategic nuclear arsenals while it modernizes its own nuclear defenses at the same time. When it comes to strategic...
Posted by | February 20, 2021 | Science & Tech
Maybe you want to liven up your own Zoom meeting by transforming yourself into a potato, or a cat, or even a banana. Here's how.
Posted by | February 20, 2021 | Science & Tech
The future of the smartwatch and other wearables looks promising, as researchers make new findings on detecting COVID and how to keep them charged.
Posted by | February 20, 2021 | Business
The price of the world's most valued digital asset has surged past $57,000, breaking the previously set record in less than 12 hours. Bitcoin has demonstrated a nearly nine-percent day-by-day...
Posted by | February 20, 2021 | Business
The Russian government commission that examines foreign investments has approved a deal reached between VR-Technologies (VRT), a subsidiary of Russian Helicopters, and the Abu Dhabi-based Tawazun Strategic Development Fund. According...
Posted by | February 20, 2021 | Politics
Women for America First, a pro-Trump group seeking to decorate 5th Ave with a (tastefully neutral) mural, styled like the ‘Black Lives Matter' outside Trump Tower, was told to get...
Posted by | February 20, 2021 | Business
Iran's petchems sector now accounts for over 30 percent of all its non-oil exports and Tehran is planning to boost this further through the build-out of a number of dedicated...
Posted by | February 20, 2021 | Business
Over 100 million workers across the world's top economies will have to change occupations by 2030, disruption due to Covid-19 pandemic having accelerated current shifts in labor markets, consultant firm...
Posted by | February 20, 2021 | Politics
Catalonia is a powder keg, the latest protests being sparked by the arrest of rapper Pablo Hasél, but the roots of its problems lie far deeper in the culture and...
Posted by | February 20, 2021 | Business
The yellow metal has lost its shine for investors this week, with gold prices plunging on Friday to levels unseen since early July, 2020. Gold futures for April touched $1,759...
Posted by | February 19, 2021 | Politics
The price of a Miami house hit a record in January for the fifth month in a row while Broward prices remained stable. In Miami-Dade, the median sales price for...
Posted by | February 19, 2021 | Science & Tech
iRobot is usually known for their Roomba robot vacuums, but they make coding toys for kids too
Posted by | February 19, 2021 | Business
The world got its first close-up look at a Mars landing on Friday, as NASA released a stunning picture of its newest rover being lowered onto the dusty red surface....
Posted by | February 19, 2021 | Politics
It's too early to know where the NFL salary cap will end up in the range of $180 million to $198 million coming off a pandemic-dominated season that was completed...
Posted by | February 19, 2021 | Business
Benchmark U.S. crude oil for March delivery fell $1.28 to $59.24 a barrel Friday. Brent crude oil for April delivery fell $1.02 to $62.91 a barrel. Wholesale gasoline for March...
Posted by | February 19, 2021 | Science & Tech
Evidence is growing Apple Watch and other smartwatches and wearable devices could identify potential coronavirus patients days prior to infection.
Posted by | February 19, 2021 | Politics
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social...
Posted by | February 19, 2021 | Politics
Prior to his inauguration, President Joe Biden had proclaimed that he wished to end the “forever wars” the US is fighting, just as former president Trump had claimed he would....
Posted by | February 19, 2021 | Science & Tech
Evidence is growing Apple Watch and other smartwatches and wearable devices could identify potential coronavirus patients days prior to infection.
Posted by | February 19, 2021 | Science & Tech
Growing evidence suggests that smartwatches and wearable tech might be able to help warn of a potential COVID-19 infection prior to positive test results.
Posted by | February 19, 2021 | Business
The House on Friday approved $175 million in emergency rental assistance as people struggle to pay rent during the coronavirus pandemic. Lawmakers voted 59-8 to approve the money that also...
Posted by | February 19, 2021 | Business
A group of Black firefighters in North Carolina has filed a lawsuit against their city and their fire chief, alleging that he has not made an effort to prevent racial...
Posted by | February 19, 2021 | Politics
Chancellor Rishi Sunak's soft-soap interview with multi-millionaire chef Gordon Ramsay is a tone-deaf affront to those who have lost jobs in Britain's hospitality sector during lockdown, offering no useful advice...
Posted by | February 19, 2021 | Politics
World leaders welcomed the United States' official return to the Paris climate accord Friday, but politically trickier steps lie just ahead for President Joe Biden, including setting a tough national...
Posted by | February 19, 2021 | Politics
In the first television interviews of his post-presidency, Donald Trump repeated his false claims that the election was stolen from him 10 times — each instance unprompted and unchallenged. Trump...
Posted by | February 19, 2021 | Politics
Dungeons and Dragons is fantasy, but a small band of social justice sorcerers want to cleanse its world of racism and bigotry. Orc lives, they argue, matter. Picture the scene:...
