British FV103 Spartan APC Airwolfhound/WikieCommons/Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 60 British FV103 Spartan armored personnel carriers were purchased in 36 hours through crowdfunding. $6.5 million was raised for the hardly-used equipment by Ukraine’s Serhiy Prytula charity foundation. The APCs will help the Ukrainian troops in the difficult conditions expected over the winter months. A fundraising…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Linda Sims places her ballot into a drop box at the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk in Norwalk, CA. Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The S&P 500 is likely to extend a historic run of positive returns after midterm elections, market strategists say. The S&P 500 in has posted positive returns…
Li Qiang was appointed the second position in China’s 7-man top brass, under only President Xi Jinping. Lintao Zhang/Getty Images Li Qiang became deeply unpopular in Shanghai for imposing the city’s two-month lockdown. Last month, he was named China’s new premier, making him the second-most powerful man in China. They key to his success is…
Elon Musk has axed thousands of jobs at Twitter. Susan Walsh/AP Twitter has laid off half its workforce including some responsible for content moderation. Some fear this may allow more disinformation on the platform ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections. Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of safety and integrity, has downplayed these concerns. Twitter’s head of safety…
Hannah Towey/Insider I worked for a day from The Malin, a new luxury co-working space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It struck the perfect balance between WFH comfort and the productivity of an office environment. See inside the high-end office — from its sunlit library and green velvet booths to a granite kitchen. The Malin, a boutique…
Home prices have dropped, even in some of the most popular areas. Justin Sullivan/ Staff/ Getty Images The housing market is likely in for more pain as the Fed continues to raise interest rates. But the central bank’s influence over the sector is direct and indirect, experts said. “Inflation is much more of a barometer…
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Peopleimages/Getty Images The Federal Reserve has to do the “dirty work” of bringing labor demand down to match supply, Bank of America analysts said. As a result, the US will face a deeper recession than Europe, where the labor market is already much weaker. BofA sees the Fed hiking the benchmark rate to 5.25%, while…
The 2022 autumn internationals, or Autumn Nations Series, is now underway. The competition sees Argentina, Australia, England, Fiji, France, Georgia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Samoa, Scotland, South Africa, and Wales battle it out over four rounds. There’s no actual tournament structure per se, but the main test theme is northern vs southern hemisphere –…
OPINION: The 12-inch MacBook was one of my favourite Apple laptops. It was the first to introduce USB-C, it ditched the fan and focussed on portability. It was far from perfect – the keyboard was notoriously terrible, with very little key travel – but it was a dinky machine that felt like the ideal choice…