Paul Volcker, former Fed Chair 1979 to 1987. Bettmann / Getty Images The 10-year US Treasury yield fell 0.78 percentage point below the two-year yield last week. That’s the largest inversion since 1981, which marked the early stages of a deep recession that saw the unemployment rate reach 10.8%. Comparatively, during the Great Financial Crisis,…
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Erik Pauze. Tishman Speyer Erik Pauze is the head gardener at Rockefeller Center, and he chooses the Christmas tree each year. He cares for the gardens daily and always has his eyes peeled for the perfect tree while traveling. Once it’s chosen, he takes care of it until it’s time to transport it to New…
Sony has launched an interesting product called Mocopi, consisting of six motion-tracking bands worn on your hands, feet, back and head, with a price of 49,500 yen (about $358). The aim is to let you track your body to create videos or operate avatars in real time with metaverse apps like VRChat. It even offers…
Logitech’s Litra Glow has been a big success since it launched early this year, giving streamers an easy way to create soft and flattering illumination for their faces. It’s already quite affordable at $60, but now it has dropped back to an all-time low price of $50 on Amazon. Buy Logitech Litra Glow at Amazon…
Tools like DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, which generate images based on a few lines of text, briefly set social media ablaze this year. But Amazon’s entry into the AI art world is a bit different. Create with Alexa lets children guide the creation of animated stories using a few kid-friendly prompts. Since Create…
Twitter’s long-running effort to fight COVID-19 misinformation is at an end, at least for now. As Twitter users and CNNnoticed, the social media firm has quietly updated its transparency site to reveal that it stopped enforcing its COVID misinformation policy on November 23rd. It’s not clear if the company will restore any accounts banned for…
Your Pixel phone should be able to control your Nest Hub’s timers sooner rather than later, with Google testing an updated At a Glance widget. Controlling Nest Hub timers hasn’t always been as easy as it should be, but some people are beginning to see an updated At a Glance widget on their Pixel phones,…
Nvidia has revealed Portal with RTX, which is a reimagining of Valve’s iconic video game with improved graphics that naturally includes full ray tracing and more. Portal with RTX is set to be free to anyone who already owns the original game and will be available to download as DLC for that game. It has…
Motorola has confirmed that its Moto X40 phone will arrive in December while also letting the cat out of the bag on two important specifications. Writing on Chinese social network Weibo, Lenovo executive Chen Jin confirmed that Motorola will announce the X40 in December. For context, Motorola is now owned by PC maker Lenovo but…
It’s Christmas time, there’s no need to be afraid… of an ugly sweater or Christmas jumper. In fact, it’s time to embrace the madness of a garish garment covered in snowflakes, and other, usually, unacceptable patterns – especially if you’re a geek, like us. There are some amazing geek-tastic ugly sweaters and Christmas jumpers out…