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Monthly Archives: August 2022
Having your Google Meet calls interrupted by overzealous smart assistants should soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new update. The company has revealed a new Google Workspace update that tweaks how its smart assistant reacts when users are in a video conference, including how it responds to possible alerts and triggers…
U.S. President Joe Biden answers questions after delivering remarks about Russia’s “unprovoked and unjustified” military invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Biden is expected to announce broad student-loan forgiveness on Wednesday, per Washington Post and Bloomberg. It would come exactly a week before payments are set to resume. Biden is reportedly…
Ilya S. Savenok/Getty; Shayanne Gal/Business Insider Julian Robertson, the father of hedge funds and founder of Tiger Management, died at 90. He founded Tiger Global in 1980, which at its peak had $21 billion in assets under management. Robertson is also known for his ‘Tiger Cub’ proteges, which include Chase Coleman’s Tiger Global. Julian Robertson,…
Aha! livery Aha! Air-hotel-adventure, or Aha! for short, has filed bankruptcy and ceased operations less than a year after launching. The airline was run by former regional carrier ExpressJet Airlines that collapsed during the pandemic. CEO Subodh Karnik blamed high fuel prices and aircraft availability, among other reasons, for Aha!’s demise. Air-hotel-adventure, or more simply,…
JPMorgan’s Marko Kolanovic. Hollis Johnson/Insider Inflation is going to work itself out as distortions from the pandemic fade, according to JPMorgan’s Marko Kolanovic.The bank said that as inflation recedes it should help drive the stock market higher.“The Fed has over-reacted with 75bps hike. We will likely see a Fed pivot,” Kolanovic said. Inflation is going…
Westend61/Getty Images I faced bullying and mistreatment in the Navy and decided to leave service and go to Yale. Before leaving, I discovered the FIRE movement and started building my savings and investments. When my plan was derailed and I was suddenly unemployed, I had my savings to fall back on. In August 2019, I…
Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images After an Amazon employee died in a warehouse last month, the company has reportedly added a new AC system. Workers said they believed overheating in the warehouse contributed to the employee’s death. Amazon said its investigation found the employee’s death was not related to working conditions….
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde speaks with Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell during the International Monetary and Financial Committee meeting, at the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings in Washington, Saturday, April 13, 2019. Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo The US isn’t alone. The world’s largest economies are all dealing with sky-high inflation. While…
Farmer spreading chicken manure on crop field as fertilizer on the eastern shore of Maryland, USA. Edwin Remsberg/Getty Images California farms have left more than a half-million acres unplanted this year. Drought and resulting water-supply regulations are largely to blame. The decline in planting coincides with heightened inflation in food-at-home prices. Extreme drought in California’s…