President Joe Biden leaving Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport for Jerusalem on July 13, 2022. Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool via Reuters The Secret Service said one of its agents was detained in Israel after a “physical encounter.” The unnamed agent was in Jerusalem, Israel, ahead of President Joe Biden’s Middle East trip. He assaulted a woman at a…
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Thee BA passengers got an email mid-air saying their connecting flight to Edinburgh was canceled. Nicolas Economou/Getty Images British Airways passengers got an email mid-air saying their connecting flight was canceled. Staff couldn’t locate their luggage at Heathrow and they had to travel to Edinburgh without bags. Heathrow has been asking airlines to cancel flights…
Unclaimed luggage piles up at London Heathrow Airport on July 8, 2022. PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images. Three travellers heading to Scotland for The Open got there empty-handed with no clothes, medication, or cameras. The American passengers bags were lost after their connecting flight to Edinburgh was canceled. “We are wearing the same clothes until…
Now that shoppers’ budgets have shifted to travel and service spending, stores are saying they need to get rid of their excess inventory. John Minchillo/ASSOCIATED PRESS Major retailers like Target, as well as luxury outlets, are having big sales. That’s because they have a backlog of pandemic-era products they need to offload. Now that shoppers…
Sizzling inflation, frazzled Americans, and an aggressive Fed walk into a bar — and everyone and their uncles seem to have an opinion on what happens next. (Hint: Most of the punchlines aren’t very funny.) I’m Phil Rosen, and today I’m breaking down why one top Wall Street firm adjusted their economic forecast after yesterday’s…
Celsius Network co-founder and CEO Alex Mashinsky. Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty Images Major cryptocurrency lending firm Celsius Network filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Wednesday. Celsius froze all withdrawals last month as digital assets plummeted. “This is the right decision for our community and company,” CEO Alex Mashinsky said. Celsius Network initiated…
Warren Buffett. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway invested another $250 million in Occidental Petroleum this week. Buffett’s company now commands a 19.2% stake, valued at north of $10 billion. If Berkshire clears 20%, it can include a share of Occidental’s profits in its own earnings. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway plowed another $250 million into Occidental…
Joshua Schulte, the former CIA engineer arrested for what’s being called the biggest theft of classified information in the agency’s history, has been convicted by a federal jury. Schulte was arrested in relation to the large cache of documents that Wikileaks had published throughout 2017. That string of CIA leaks known as “Vault 7” contained…
Text-to-image generation is the hot algorithmic process right now, with OpenAI’s Craiyon (formerly DALL-E mini) and Google’s Imagen AIs unleashing tidal waves of wonderfully weird procedurally generated art synthesized from human and computer imaginations. On Tuesday, Meta revealed that it too has developed an AI image generation engine, one that it hopes will help to…
Dash cams are a great upgrade to your car setup. They add peace of mind while you’re on the road, with an extra pair of (digital) eyes working as a witness should you ever be in an accident. They’re also useful for other things. Some car insurance companies offer discounts on your premium if you…