Larry Summers Hyungwon Kang/Reuters Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said it’s too early for the Federal Reserve to talk about easing up on rate hikes. He told Bloomberg that policymakers should stay the course on “doing what’s necessary.” “I do not think that the dovish pivot in some of the rhetoric coming out of the…
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Black Friday is the biggest sale event of the year, when many products are heavily discounted. Since its widespread popularity, differing theories have spread about the origin of the name “Black Friday.” The name was coined back in the late 1860s when a major stock market crashed. Black Friday is the one day shoppers can…
Evangelina Aquino Luis is a chef in Oaxaca, Mexico, who makes special mole for families in mourning. She grinds chiles, spices, and other ingredients with a traditional stone called a metate. These ancient tools have become less popular in the household with the rise of modern-day blenders. Indigenous women in Mexico still make mole sauce…
That tiny webcam on your laptop has probably gotten more use in the last few years than it ever has before. Even if you’re back to taking some of your meetings in the office, chances are that back-to-back Zoom calls are now a permanent part of your professional life. Once an afterthought, your computer’s webcam…
Recent rumours have suggested that the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max (or Ultra, as it may be called) will come with an improved “8P” rear camera. However, prominent industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo now claims that this won’t be happening. An 8P camera uses eight plastic elements in a single rear camera lens, designed (generally)…
Black Friday is coming and that means it’s time to prepare yourself for the biggest sales that the internet has to offer. Unlike a few years ago when you’d have to rush to the high street to grab a bargain, now you can do it all from the comfort of home – shopping across a…
Google made a note last week via the official Android Developers blog that the Pixel 7 (review) and Pixel 7 Pro (review) are actually the first 64-bit-only Android phones. We’re nearly a month into launch, so if you didn’t already know that information, it’s possible you’d have gone the rest of your life being perfectly…
I must admit, there was an element of selfishness involved in this podcast. I’m currently doing a creative writing course in my spare time (rather than in my news stories, ho ho) and one of the things I’m struggling with, weird as it is to admit, is the idea that I can write anything. I…
The new DF Direct Weekly arrives, with myself, John Linneman and Alex Battaglia diving straight into a packed week of news… though we kick off with our own God of War Ragnarök impressions a whole week after the preview embargo lifted. Unfortunately, media outlets were prohibited from showing their own captured footage which essentially precluded…