Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy) political party in Italy. Fabrizio Villa/Getty Images Hedge funds have amassed big bets against Italian debt, according to S&P Market Intelligence data. The value of Italian bonds borrowed by investors hit €37.20 billion ($37.30 billion) in late August, and bets had climbed to the highest…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Twitter Circles are now widely available. Reuters All Twitter users can now make a Twitter Circle with a curated list of users and send tweets that only that group can see. When you send a tweet, you can choose to send it publicly or target it just to your Twitter Circle. You can add up…
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell Win McNamee/Getty Images US stocks fell on Tuesday, marking a three-day decline, as fresh employment data backed views for a hawkish Fed.Job openings unexpectedly increased to 11.2 million in July, indicating the labor market remains tight.The decline comes just days ahead of the Fed’s planned acceleration of its balance sheet…
Healthcare has finally begun to embrace digital transformation after years as a stubborn holdout.The coronavirus pandemic has only accelerated adoption of technologies such as telehealth and remote patient monitoring.Insider Intelligence covers these topics and more each morning in our Digital Health Briefing email newsletter. Healthcare has been through quite the journey in the last few…
The high cost of Bitcoin mining makes it impractical for many individuals. Jasmin Merdan/Getty Bitcoin mining involves confirming transactions and adding them to the blockchain. As a reward for this work, miners receive newly issued bitcoins. The cost of the hardware and energy involved can make profiting from Bitcoin mining difficult. Bitcoin mining is a crucial part…
The Starlink satellite internet service from Elon Musk’s SpaceX has more than 400,000 global subscribers. Getty Images Royal Caribbean is launching Starlink satellite internet across its fleet. The company said installation of the service will be complete by April 2023. SpaceX just received FCC approval to use its service on moving vehicles in June. Royal…
The Surrey police force in the UK has found itself at the center of a controversy after one of its official Twitter accounts shared how some officers use Waze to encourage drivers to slow down. In a series of tweets spotted by The Guardian, the department’s Roads Policing unit revealed it uses the crowdsourced navigation…
Tom Hanks has leaned into one of his passions by creating a trivia game with the help of developer BlueLine Studios. Not only is it Hanks’ first game, it’ll be the only trivia title on Apple Arcade to date. Hanx101 Trivia will feature questions in several categories, including history, math, geography and food. You can…
Cleaning up your Instagram feed can seem like a never-ending task, even if you are constantly flagging images or videos as “not interested.” All it takes is one wrong tap or curious peek and everything is a mess again. Today, Instagram announced two new ways they plan to help you better manage unwanted content. For…
Spade-wielding platform hero Shovel Knight will be embarking on a brand-new adventure on 23rd September, when Shovel Knight Dig launches for Steam, Switch, and Apple Arcade. Shovel Knight Dig, a collaboration between Yacht Club Games and UK studio Nitrome, feels like it’s been a long time coming, having first been revealed all the way back…