It’s the 2022 Best of What’s New awards. On a cloudy Christmas morning last year, a rocket carrying the most powerful space telescope ever built blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana. After reaching its destination in space about a month later, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began sending back sparkling presents to…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Making those Avatar movies, it turns out, isn’t exactly a walk in the park. Appearing on The Tonight Show, actor Sam Worthington described part of the filming process for the upcoming sequel, The Way of Water, to host Jimmy Fallon — including scenes casually shot 30 feet underwater for hours at a time. “When you’re…
Fans of action RPGs might have another reason to celebrate this holiday season as, according to a recent leak, PlayStation Plus’s free games lineup for December includes the acclaimed Mass Effect trilogy. The leak comes via French netizen billbil-kun, of business tips forum Dealabs, who has previously accurately leaked PlayStation Plus Essential free games on…
A New York City TX activist lets down the tires on an SUV with the license plate “LUX SUV.” Tyre Extinguishers Climate activists are deflating the tires of SUVs in US cities to make them “impossible” to own. Tyre Extinguishers deflated almost 900 SUVs this week and hit 52 in Brooklyn, NY. The group has…
A suddenly surging economy may force the Federal Reserve to speed back up its interest rate hikes which will cause more pain for the stock market and the US economy. Tyler Le/Insider The Federal Reserve has spent the past year trying to break the US economy. In the face of scorching inflation, the Fed rapidly…
Elon Musk has reportedly delayed the rollout of Twitter Blue again. Getty Images Elon Musk has once again postponed the launch of Twitter Blue, Platformer reported. Twitter wasn’t planning to offer Blue as an in-app purchase on Apple’s iOS, per the report. It comes after Musk slammed Apple, accusing it of censorship and monopolistic practices….
Happy hump day, Opening Bell crew. I’m Phil Rosen. Right now I’m thinking about how one of the most historically-reliable recession indicators is flashing its loudest warning in decades. Any guesses? You’d be right if your mind turned to the bond market. Treasury yields a few days back saw their most extreme inversion since 1981….
Sam Bankman-Fried gave FTX staff lavish perks for food and Amazon delivery. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; REUTERS/Carlo Allegri; Stephen Brashear/Getty Images Ex-FTX employees spoke to the Financial Times about the lavish perks given to staff at the firm. The US office’s 75 employees could spend $200 a day on DoorDash food delivery…
Happy Wednesday, readers! Jordan Parker Erb here, reporting to you from New York. Today, we’ve got a look at what happens when influencers promote a business that eventually comes crashing down around them. In the case of finance influencers who hyped up FTX and BlockFi to their subscribers, the result is a lot of unhappy,…
Jack Burkman (L) and Jacob Wohl (R) at a news conference in Arlington, Virginia, November 1, 2018. Joshua Roberts/Reuters Two right-wing operatives pleaded guilty to running a robocall scheme before the 2020 election. On Tuesday, Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman were sentenced to work 500 hours at a voter registration drive. The men set up…