Russian troops guard an entrance of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Station on the Dnieper River in Kherson region, southern Ukraine, on May 20, 2022. AP Photo Russia appears to be offering ‘lucrative cash bonuses’ to soldiers who deploy to Ukraine, UK intel suggested on Wednesday. The incentives come as enthusiasm for volunteering in Putin’s war drops….
Monthly Archives: August 2022
A bellman waits for residents at the Plaza Residences on Central Park South on April 02, 2020 in New York City. Bruce Bennett/Getty Images Leisure and hospitality workers are the only sector to have wages outpace inflation in the past year. The sector’s real wages are up 0.2% since July 2021, according to government data….
Panelists for Insider’s “Equipping Generations to Make a Sustainable Future Possible” event Insider The transition to a greener economy could create millions of new jobs and demands new skills. IBM, Citi and Schneider Electric are training employees to carry out climate and social goals. The conversation was part of Insider’s virtual event “Equipping Generations to…
A drop of water falls off an iceberg melting in the Nuup Kangerlua Fjord in southwestern Greenland, August 1, 2017. David Goldman/AP Photo Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates are among a group of billionaires backing a mineral exploration startup. KoBold Metals wants to mine minerals in Greenland that can be used to power electric car…
Consumers’ growing time spent with mobile and their overwhelming choice of products and providers are driving demand for rebundling in financial services. Super apps are emerging as the solution to meet this demand and improve the digital customer experience. In “An Introduction to Super Apps in Banking,” we detail the building blocks of a financial…
SEC Chairman Gary Gensler. Evelyn Hockstein-Pool/Getty Images Regulators want hedge funds to disclose their cryptocurrency exposure via confidential filings. Form PF was designed in response to the 2008 financial crisis to better identify potential risks to market stability. The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are expected to issue a proposal…
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/Getty Images Investors on Wednesday were betting the Fed will dial back on rate hikes next month after July’s CPI reading. The CME FedWatch tool showed a 41.5% probability of a September rate increase of 75 basis points, coming down from 68% on Tuesday. The US Dollar Index was…
LeoPatrizi/Getty Images The error message “Can’t connect to this network” is not an uncommon result when Windows can’t connect to the internet. You can forget the WiFi network, toggle airplane mode, and restart your PC to try to fix the problem. Here are seven of the most common and reliable ways to fix your WiFi…
Meta is making its Portal smart displays more useful to remote workers. Starting today, you can use the Portal Go and second-generation Portal Plus as a second screen for your Mac or Windows PC. The new functionality comes courtesy of Duet Display, the app that inspired Apple’s Sidecar feature in macOS Catalina. Normally, you would…
Pew Research has published a new report that examines social media usage trends among US teens. The organization found that a whopping 95 percent of them use YouTube, while 19 percent are on the platform “almost constantly.” Perhaps unsurprisingly, two-thirds (67 percent) said they used TikTok, with 16 percent claiming they are on the app…