Thanks to a barrage of new leaks, DJI’s incoming Avata drone has now been almost completely revealed. Yet aside from a few small details, one big question remains unanswered – who exactly is DJI’s mini FPV (first person view) drone going to be for? The Avata is, it’s now pretty clear, a small ‘cinewhoop’ version of…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Investors are mulling Friday’s jobs report, which showed the US labor market is still booming. Mark Lennihan/Getty Images Global stocks and US futures rose Monday after Friday’s jobs report eased recession fears. Investors will focus on the inflation report Wednesday for clues to Federal Reserve rate hikes. Oil prices slipped but still traded just above…
Mortgage rates have been volatile in recent weeks as the push and pull of inflation and a possible recession continues. This week, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics will release July’s consumer price index data. This is a closely watched gauge of inflation, and will likely have an impact on where mortgage rates will go…
Southwest Airlines cancelled and delayed the most flights out of any US airline on Sunday, per FlightAware. Jonathan Weiss/Shutterstock There were almost 950 US flight cancellations and more than 7,700 on Sunday, per a flight tracker. Southwest cancelled and delayed the most flights out of any US airline on Sunday, per FlightAware. This was an…
Ukrainian soldiers man a howitzer during artillery drills in northeastern Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, June 14, 2021. Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images CBS said it was updating a documentary that said most weapons sent to Ukraine don’t reach the front. It admitted that a figure it cited claiming only 30% of military aid arrives…
JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes joins fellow airline executives, union heads and politicians for a news conference to call on Congress to pass an extension of the Payroll Support Program to save thousands of travel jobs, September 2022 Chip Somodevilla / Staff / Getty JetBlue’s CEO said he’s having to “over-hire” airline workers following an exodus…
Russian oil has been increasingly involved in “dark activity” since the country invaded Ukraine. Photo by ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP via Getty Images Russian oil is being transported via a mysterious Egyptian port as Western sanctions loom. The port makes it possible to blend Russian and Egyptian crude, obscuring its origin. Dark activity over Russian oil has…
Friends keep asking me about Friday’s jobs data. Phil Rosen here, reporting from Los Angeles. This is what those conversations looked like: Friend: “The jobs report almost doubled expectations! This is a great sign for the economy!” Me: “Well, not entirely.” Friend: “How so?” Me: “The big reading will force the Fed’s hand in a…
Anglo-American EV startup Arrival is putting its groundbreaking bus and car projects on ice as it struggles to manage its cash reserves. The Financial Times reports that the company, which said it would lay off a third of its staff last month, would now focus on completing its delivery van. Arrival said that it had…
Google Nest cameras offer a couple of different video quality options, allowing you to choose how much of your internet connection is used by them to stream video. As you might expect, higher quality settings use more bandwidth, while the lower quality settings use less. Whatever option you pick, your Nest camera and the Nest…