Apple Thriving Despite Economy Woes
Published on 08/01/2022Apple’s profit slipped during the past quarter, but the world’s largest technology company is holding up better than many of its peers as the economy teeters on the edge of a recession.
Arbitrage Life: Cats are Invasive?
Published on 07/30/2022A respected Polish scientific institute has classified domestic cats as an “invasive alien species,” citing the damage they cause to birds and other wildlife.
RIP Choco Taco: 1983-2022
Published on 07/29/2022A tech millionaire offered to buy it. A U.S. senator suggested that the government should force manufacturers to make it. But so far, Klondike isn’t budging from its plan to discontinue the Choco Taco.
ICYMI: Meta Blocked from VR Company
Published on 07/28/2022Federal regulators on Wednesday took legal action to block Facebook parent Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg from acquiring virtual reality company Within Unlimited and its fitness app Supernatural, asserting the deal would hurt competition and violate antitrust laws.
Skittles, Taste the Cancer (allegedly)
Published on 07/26/2022Sometimes you want to taste the rainbow, but to what consequence? A man in California believes that Skittles should no longer be consumed because they contain titanium dioxide.
Talking to the New Robot Overlords is Getting Easier, or Not?
Published on 07/20/2022The tech industry’s latest artificial intelligence constructs can be pretty convincing if you ask them what it feels like to be a sentient computer, or maybe just a dinosaur or squirrel. But they’re not so good — and sometimes dangerously bad — at handling other seemingly straightforward tasks.
ICYMI: Europe is Burning
Published on 07/19/2022Britain shattered its record for highest temperature ever registered Tuesday amid a heat wave that has seared swaths of Europe, as the U.K.’s national weather forecaster said such highs are now a fact of life in a country ill-prepared for such extremes.
ICYMI: War Is Heck
Published on 07/18/2022Across Europe, signs of distress are multiplying as Russia’s war in Ukraine drags on.
Arbitrage Life : Underwater Basket-Weaving it Ain't
Published on 07/15/2022They weren’t in a “Yellow Submarine,” but hundreds of people spent time below the waves Saturday for a music festival off the Florida Keys.
Workplace Stress and the Four-Day Workweek
Published on 07/14/2022It’s Monday morning soon. Didn’t we have a holiday a few weeks ago? Cue workplace stress. Workers around the world are more stressed than ever, according to a new Gallup report.
Push Ups, Sit Ups, and Maybe No Juice
Published on 07/14/2022We are 7 months in to #newyearnewme and if you aren’t quite seeing the results you want, there are a number of things that could be contributing to that including but not limited to diet. Maybe that diet drink is the cause, or maybe it is not doing anything at all. Or maybe you just need to drink more water, exercise, and sleep more.
Elon/Twitter Breakup: What's Next?
Published on 07/13/2022Shares of Twitter slid more than 9% in the first day of trading after billionaire Elon Musk said that he was abandoning his $44 billion bid for the company and the social media platform vowed to challenge Musk in court to uphold the agreement.