A United Airlines Boeing 777-200 aircraft landing at London Heathrow International Airport in August 2019. Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images A United Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Newark, New Jersey on Thursday. The Boeing 777-200, set to fly to Brazil, circled over the Atlantic beforehand to burn off fuel. The…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Hi. Aaron Weinman here. Performance reviews are back. Hiring has slowed. And Wall Street’s most influential chief executives from Goldman Sachs’ David Solomon to JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon are ready to cull under-performing staff. It’s a shift from this time last year, when junior bankers scored significant pay bumps, dealmaking reached record-breaking highs, and investment bankers…
A Qatar Airways A350-900 aircraft taking off. The airline got top honors at the annual Skytrax awards. Qatar Airways Airline-ranking company Skytrax has revealed its Top 20 best carriers in the world for 2022. For the seventh time, Qatar Airways has taken the top spot, beating out Singapore Airlines and Emirates. No US carrier made…
Bill Ackman. Mike Blake/ Reuters Bill Ackman proposed more immigration as a partial solution to stubborn US inflation. The Pershing Square chief suggested targeting Russians, hurting Vladimir Putin’s war efforts. Ackman said immigration could help the Fed to avoid tanking the job market and the economy. Boosting immigration could be part of the solution to…
Business Insider Intelligence This is an update to our May and July PPP Small Business Loans reports. You can purchase all three reports now for the price of one. This report outlines the final numbers after the second tranche’s summer expiry, and will be available for free to those who have purchased any of the two preceding…
Russia will slash its energy export by 40% over the next three years, according to documents seen by Bloomberg. Christian Charisius/Reuters Russia plans to cut its natural gas exports by 40% over the next three years, according to documents seen by Bloomberg. Senior European officials have accused Moscow of trying to stoke the continent’s energy…
Vladimir Solovyov on his show “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin” in May 2022 Телеканал / Moscow. Kremlin. Putin / YouTube Russian state media workers have been exempted from Putin’s latest military draft. Russia tightly controls what can be said about the war, aided by a largely pliant media. It means the TV stars pushing a distorted image…
Surprise! The iPhone 14 is pretty repairable, it turns out. This week, Cherlynn and Devindra chat with Engadget’s Sam Rutherford about this move towards greater repairability and what it means for future iPhones. Also, they dive into NVIDIA’s powerful (and expensive!) new RTX 4080 and 4090 GPUs. Sure, they’re faster than before, but does anyone…
Fifty years in the hi-fi biz deserves something of a celebration, and Monitor Audio is marking it with a brand new flagship speaker range that goes all-in on sound quality and all-out on price. The Platinum Series 3G is a culmination of five decades of expertise, and is an unashamed celebration of what can be…
Pack your toolkit with a powerful gadget: the HOTO multifunctional rotary tool kit. In fact, this 35-in-1 device has a super long battery life of up to 50 minutes. That’s a result of the 2,000 mAh high-capacity lithium battery. Moreover, it offers 5 speed adjustments from 5,000 to 25,000 rpm. So you can use it…