Happy Friday eve, readers. Phil Rosen here, reporting from New York City. The idea of a Fed pivot has been gaining steam this summer, gathering even more momentum in light of the latest CPI reading. But although prices may have inched lower compared to the previous month, inflation has still climbed 8.5% from the same…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Elon Musk. Yasin Ozturk/Getty Images Elon Musk gave his thoughts on how he thinks the Republican Party could improve at a GOP donor retreat. Musk said the party should show more compassion to immigrants and stay “out of people’s bedrooms.” Musk is recent convert to voting Republican, having previously been a lifelong Democrat. Elon Musk…
A bartender makes a cocktail in a Tokyo bar. PHILIP FONG / Contributor / Getty Images Japan has launched a national competition to get its young people to drink more alcohol. The “Sake Viva!” competition seeks ideas about how to boost domestic alcohol sales. The initiative was launched by Japan’s National Tax Agency to combat…
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Former President Donald Trump. Scott Olson/Getty Images Trump’s team tried to hire more lawyers after the Mar-a-Lago raid but kept being declined, WashPost reported. Trump denied he was scrambling to find new lawyers, saying he already has “excellent” ones. Sources told The Post that Trump’s team is worried that their lawyers don’t have the right…
Airbnb, which announced a permanent ban on parties at host properties back in June, is testing anti-party technology in the US and Canada. Not that these tools are real-world party crashing gadgets. The tools focus on when the customer books a property, looking at several factors to detect “potentially high-risk reservations.” They consider elements such…
Embracer, the mega game publisher that’s been snapping up new properties left and right, has made a deal to acquire the intellectual property catalogue and worldwide rights to various JRR Tolkien-related media and merch. To be precise, it will own the rights to “motion pictures, video games, board games, merchandising, theme parks and stage productions”…
Cortana is Microsoft’s answer to Google Assistant, Apple’s Siri and Amazon Alexa. A digital voice assistant that’s built directly into Windows meaning you can simply say “Hey, Cortana” to get help when you need it. For some though, the idea of having yet another device listening to your every word might be off-putting. Not to…
Toys for Bob, the Activision-owned development studio behind its Skylanders series, is teasing a new project. In recent years, Toys for Bob has found fresh fame developing the Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy and Spyro Reignited Trilogy, before tackling the well-received Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time. Since then – like virtually every other Activision studio…
A mod which replaced the Pride flags with USA flags in Spider-Man Remastered has been removed from mod websites. The modding community for Spider-Man Remastered has been pretty active since the game’s release on PC last week, creating mods to change the pigeons into rats and all sorts of other fun character switches. However, one…