Trump Blames Biden For Strong Dollar—As US Currency Reaches New High Against Japanese Yen Former President Trump called the U.S. dollar’s new 34-year high against the yen a “disaster” on Tuesday, claiming it would harm U.S. manufacturers and force them to relocate plants overseas—echoing ... 04/25/2024 - 6:39 am | View Link
U.S. trade deficit in goods widens in March to highest level in almost a year The U.S. trade deficit in goods widened 1.7% to $91.8 billion in March, according to the Commerce Department’s advanced estimate released Thursday. 04/25/2024 - 2:08 am | View Link
Disappointing Meta forecast pulls down tech peers in extended trade Disappointing forecasts from Facebook parent Meta Platforms has proven contagious, sparking a sell-off in tech and tech-related stocks in after-hours trading. 04/24/2024 - 9:54 am | View Link
New U.S. Solar Panel Tariff Intensifies Sino-American Green Tech War The Sino-American trade war may be old news, but now a new battlefield is front and center: green tech. During her controversial visit to China, Secretary Janet Yellen made waves by criticizing ... 04/23/2024 - 2:00 am | View Link
Is a Full-Blown Trade War Between the U.S. and China Looming? By John Liu, Zhu Lin and Abhishek Vishnoi, Bloomberg Markets Live reporters and strategists China’s most promising industries are facing a ... 04/21/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
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The federal regulator responsible for road safety has opened yet another probe into the safety of a hands-free driver assistance system, we learned this morning. And no, it's not a system from Tesla.
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Brussels is set to open a probe into Meta’s Facebook and Instagram as soon as Monday over concerns the social media giant is failing to do enough to counter disinformation from Russia and other countries.
Regulators suspect that Meta’s moderation does not go far enough to stop the widespread dissemination of political advertising that risks undermining the electoral process, the European Commission is expected to say on Monday, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
EU officials are particularly worried about the way Meta’s platforms are handling Russia’s efforts to undermine upcoming European elections.
These steps can help you build genuine professional relationships that last.
Cultivating meaningful professional relationships can open doors to all kinds of exciting new career opportunities. However, it takes a certain set of skills to be able to build, and keep, these relationships. These skills are vital if you hope to grow your network and progress in your career.
A 1971 plan for a global carbon dioxide monitoring network never came to fruition.
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People have been leaving public messages since the first artists painted hunting scenes on cave walls. But it was the invention of electricity that forever changed the way we talked to each other. In 1844, the first message was sent via telegraph. Samuel Morse, who created the binary Morse Code decades before electronic computers were even possible, tapped out, “What hath God wrought?” It was a prophetic first post.
World War II accelerated the invention of digital computers, but they were primarily single-use machines, designed to calculate artillery firing tables or solve scientific problems.
Kindness is also contagious—and science backs that up. This entrepreneur rediscovered that phenomenon when her community pulled together after a wintry blast knocked out power.
When a windy arctic blast raged through the Northeast U. S. this past winter, more than 600,000 people lost power for days. I was one of them.