To the Races In a very ticked-off LinkedIn post, a newly-retired Google strategist went off on his ex-employer for forcing AI down its workers’ throats as it attempts to cash in on the latest tech trend. “The ‘AI Projects’ I was working on were poorly motivated,” wrote Scott Jenson, a former Google UX strategist, in […]
By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) – Oil prices fell in early Asian trade on Tuesday, with investors anticipating higher-for-longer U.S. inflation and interest rates will depress consumer and industrial demand. Brent crude futures declined 12 cents, or 0.1%, to $83.34 a barrel by 0041 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude (WTI) eased 8 cents, or […]
One Friday last month, Jamie Raskin, a Democratic member of Congress from Maryland, spent a chunk of his day in court securing a protective order. It was not his first. Raskin, who played a leading role in Donald Trump’s second impeachment hearing, said he received about 50 menacing calls, emails and letters every month that […]
Scottie Scheffler has spoken of his shock, confusion and fear after being arrested on his way to the US PGA Championship on a surreal and tragic Friday morning. Scheffler was detained by Louisville Metro Police after trying to drive into the golf club in heavy traffic caused by an earlier unrelated accident in which a […]
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks are at fresh records, bitcoin is soaring and investors are spurning insurance against portfolio declines as evidence that the economy is headed for a so-called soft landing whets market participants’ appetite for risk. Call it the Goldilocks trade – a bet that the Federal Reserve […]
Like anyone who doesn’t make a living by preparing for the worst, Chelsea Sawyer has checked out early prognostications for the upcoming hurricane season. But as an official tasked with protecting Chatham County residents from the fickle forces of nature, she considers this year’s forecasts to be particularly sobering. “In one of the reports I […]
A Florida woman was sentenced to more than five years in prison on Friday after she was caught on camera abusing a Husky. Elizabeth Jaimes admitted to beating the dog with a rubber mallet. She was recorded on a hidden camera beating Kimberly Johns’ husky, named Maya. Prosecutors said Jaimes moved into a home in […]
Former members of the Miss USA Organization blasted its leadership this week, claiming president and CEO Laylah Rose created a toxic work environment that is responsible for the high-profile exodus at the organization behind one of the country’s longest-running pageants. Noelia Voigt, who resigned as Miss USA on Monday, wrote in a scathing, eight-page resignation […]
RAFAH, Gaza Strip/ARISH, Egypt (Reuters) – Truck drivers stuck at Egypt’s border with Gaza say the food they are taking to the Palestinian enclave could spoil as they wait, exacerbating a hunger crisis among Gazans as war rages on. Israeli forces seized control of the Rafah border crossing this week and are preparing for a […]
Days after announcing she is stepping away from the Miss USA 2023 crown, Noelia Voigt‘s official resignation letter has surfaced. In it, she accuses the organization of creating a toxic and unbearable work culture. In the letter, obtained by NBC News on May 9, Voigt accused the pageant’s CEO of failing to take an incident […]
Brandon Hurst has built a loyal social media following and a growing business selling plants on TikTok, where a mysterious algorithm combined with the right content can let users amass thousands of followers. Hurst sold 20,000 plants in three years while running his business on Instagram. After expanding the business he launched in 2020 to […]
(Bloomberg) — Two years after Wall Street’s love affair with fast-twitch stock options began, Bloomberg’s latest Markets Live Pulse survey suggests the unprecedented boom still has room to run — even as almost half of respondents fear an eventual blowup. Most Read from Bloomberg With the notional value of zero-days-to-expiration contracts tied to the S&P […]