Large ships passing through the Puget Sound will be asked to slow down during the two month trial. George Rose / Contributor Ships passing through the Puget Sound near Seattle are being asked to slow down to protect endangered orcas. A two-month trial aims to reduce the impact of underwater noise on local Southern Resident…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
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Good morning. This is Michelle Abrego with today’s edition of 10 Things on Wall Street. Lots of leadership shakeups on Wall Street happening! We also have the latest tactic hedge fund billionaires are using to avoid taxes, “desk-bombing,” and advice on dealing with a new boss. First up, we’ll be delving into a major leadership…
President Joe Biden speaks about student loan debt forgiveness at the White House on August 24, 2022. AP Photo/Evan Vucci The Biden administration is set to release more oil from the US emergency reserve, Reuters reported. It is expected to announce the sale of 14 million barrels this week, the last of the massive SPR…
Jenn Moreno/VIEWpress Unionized workers in South Carolina have sued Starbucks for accusing them of assault and kidnapping. A store manager reported staff to police after they asked for a pay raise, the lawsuit says. The lawsuit accuses Starbucks of defamation and abuse of process. A group of unionized workers in South Carolina have sued Starbucks…
A townscape located in Canada. Getty Images Canada’s formerly hot housing market has rapidly cooled, especially in Toronto. That’s because, similarly to the US, soaring home prices and mortgage rates have slowed demand. Canada’s bubbly real estate markets is a cautionary tale for what could happen in the US. Canada’s rapidly cooling housing ecosystem may…
This diagram provides a snapshot of where to go in a radiation emergency. FEMA Nuclear war remains unlikely but Russia’s recent threats have raised attention to nuclear safety. You can learn a few safety measures to increase your chance of survival in case of an impact. Here are 13 tips on what to do and…
Google has made Family Link’s most used tools easier to find and use in the new interface it designed for the parental controls application. The new experience’s Controls tab contains the tools parents can use to set screen time for each device and app, set content restrictions and to manage app data permissions. Google has…
We don’t know how much Kanye West (aka Ye) is paying, but he’s decided to buy the controversial “free speech” social media app Parler. The deal appears to be happening quickly, with the company behind Parler, Parlement Technologies, expecting to close the transaction by the end of 2022. West was locked out of his Twitter…
The early Geekbench 5 numbers for the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S23 are promising, but not exceptional – especially beside Apple’s iPhone 14 Pro. The new benchmarks appear to show the unannounced Samsung phone having been put through its paces on 17 October, 2022. It features the codename Kalama which suggests this is the model that…