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Monthly Archives: October 2022
Associated Press The Meta CEO’s private plane made 28 trips in less than two months, flight data shows. Those flights produced around 253 tonnes of carbon emissions, one analysis shows. The average American produces 16 tonnes of carbon a year, according to The Nature Conservancy. In just two months, Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg’s private jet…
Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov. Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images Russia accused the West on Monday of stealing from its currency and gold reserves. Western sanctions have frozen $640 billion worth of Russian assets. The European Council is considering transferring those assets to Ukraine. Russia accused the West of stealing from Moscow’s currency and gold reserves…
Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images US stocks climbed Monday, ahead of a batch of earnings from big tech firms. Companies reporting this week include Apple, Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft. The dollar was higher, regaining ground from Friday’s close. US stocks opened higher on Monday, as investors awaited a slate of earnings from some of techs…
Steve Jobs at a keynote speech in 2008. David Paul Morris/Getty Images Steve Jobs never locked the front door of his modest Palo Alto house, Bono wrote in his memoir. The U2 frontman described the house as “low-key” and said Jobs grew food in his cottage garden. Jobs bought the 5,768-square-foot, seven-bedroom house in the…
Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks October 23 in Beijing. Lintao Zhang/Getty Images Alibaba shares fell to a six-year low Monday as part of a selloff in US-listed Chinese stocks. Stocks tanked after President Xi Jinping secured his third term and packed his core team with loyalists. Investors are “running for the exits” after Xi’s predecessor…
Apple CEO Tim Cook. Stephen Lam/Reuters Apple CEO Tim Cook told U2 there was “something not right” about giving their art away for free. Cook also questioned whether the album would only go out to U2 fans, Bono said in a new memoir. U2’s “Songs of Innocence” album was given away for free to 500…
Traders look on after trading was halted on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., March 18, 2020 Lucas Jackson/Reuters The US stock market could fall into a decades-long bear market similar to Japan in 1989, according to hedge fund manager Boaz Weinstein.Weinstein told the Financial Times the Fed’s…
Evaluating the new iPad Pro is a simpler task than the basic iPad that Apple announced alongside it last week. That iPad has been completely redesigned. But the 2022 iPad Pro is a minor iteration of the model released in early 2021, which was powered by the M1 chip. Now, with M2 Macs out in…
In 2017, Apple released a $329 iPad, and ever since the company has said that this basic tablet is its most popular. It’s easy to see why: When I reviewed last year’s model last fall, I found that this relatively modest device could do almost everything I normally do with my pricier 11-inch iPad Pro….