A man looks at signs of a closed store due to COVID-19 in Niles, Ill., on May 21, 2020. Nam Y. Huh/AP Photo The odds of a recession hitting the economy within the next year surged to 60% over the summer, UBS says.Odds of a recession previously sat at 40% prior to July macro data…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Aerial View of Golden Gate Bridge. Getty Images California’s housing market is one of the most expensive in the country. In the city of Milpitas, many teachers cannot afford to live in the area. The city’s school district has a plan — ask students’ families to house educators. As home prices and rents soar in…
Three and a half years after Chinese tech conglomerate NetEase snapped up a minority stake in Quantic Dream (of Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human fame), it is gobbling up the rest of the developer. NetEase didn’t reveal how much it’s spending to buy out the studio, which will be its first in Europe. After…
When Bang & Olufsen unveils a new product it doesn’t do things by half. On the face of it, the Beosound Theatre is a soundbar. It is designed to accompany a TV and provide a multi-channel ystem from the one unit. However, it is also so much more besides. We got to demo one on…
Image credit: @WestHam on Twitter How to watch West Ham vs Spurs: The midweek Premier League action continues with five games on Wednesday. But is West Ham vs Tottenham live on UK TV? It’s one of those rare ‘matchdays’ where all ten Premier League fixtures are live on UK television. After four exciting games on…
Unexpected Appearance Her husband’s long-lost relative had served a twelve-year sentence because of fraud. He had been released a couple of days ago only to show up at their shop. Her husband didn’t want his wife to meet him, considering he knew this man’s past. And now wasn’t the best time, so he began to…
Asus teased the Zenbook 17 Fold OLED (UX9702) at CES at the beginning of this year, but now at IFA it made it official. So what is the Zenbook 17 Fold OLED? It’s a hybrid device based around a folding 17.3-inch 2560x1920px OLED display of 4:3 aspect (when fully opened) and 500 nits of brigthness….
Apple’s paid podcast subscription service has been seeing notable growth, increasing more than 300 percent since June 2021. The metric was shared today by an Apple spokesperson who spoke to Digiday about a new Dateline subscription podcast offering. More than 25 percent of the top 100 shows from the “Top Shows” chart offer a subscription…
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When you think of a doorbell, a particular sound probably comes to mind — for me, it’s the classic “ding dong.” When we launched Nest Doorbell (wired) in 2018, formerly known as Nest Hello, we introduced a new take on the quintessential doorbell sound with a single chime. And it got us thinking — what…