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Retailers report modest gains for April Americans spent briskly during the early spring months in the latest sign that they’re encouraged by the economic recovery. Falling gas prices, a rallying stock market and gains in the job market all fueled Americans’ shopping habits even as cold weather tempered their desire to buy spring fashions. More
Expect marble-sized hail with thunderstorms to hit North Texas Saturday Lightning strikes the United States about 25 million times a year. Most of the strikes occur in the summer, killing 20 people each year, according to the NWS. Chance of lightning increases as a ... 04/19/2024 - 11:42 pm | View Link
Expect penny-sized hail with thunderstorms to hit North Texas Saturday Expect strong thunderstorms in Newport around 4:35 a.m. The NWS adds, "If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm. 04/19/2024 - 10:25 pm | View Link
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Expect no rate hikes in November, MarketWatch's Mark DeCambre warns MarketWatch Editor-in-Chief Mark DeCambre joins ‘The Big Money Show’ to break down the market’s latest economic data and its potential impact on the 2024 election. 04/19/2024 - 7:05 am | View Link
AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Pennsylvania’s presidential and state primaries President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will go before voters next week in Pennsylvania’s presidential primaries. 04/19/2024 - 6:13 am | View Link
EXPECT | English meaning to think or believe something will happen, or someone will arrive: We are expecting a lot of applicants for the job. [ + (that) ] I expect (that) you'll find it somewhere in your bedroom. I expect (that) he'd have left anyway. [ + to infinitive ] He didn't expect to see me. 04/18/2024 - 5:58 am | View Website
Expect Definition & Meaning 1. a. : to consider probable or certain. expect to be forgiven. expect that things will improve. b. : to consider reasonable, due, or necessary. expected hard work from the students. c. : to consider bound in duty or obligated. they expect you to pay your bills. 2. : to anticipate or look forward to the coming or occurrence of. 04/17/2024 - 8:26 pm | View Website
Expect If you expect something, you think it’s going to happen. If you got up at 4 in the morning, you can expect to fall asleep earlier than usual tonight. If you expect (or anticipate) something, you are fairly sure that it is coming, though you might not be totally certain. 04/17/2024 - 7:14 pm | View Website
EXPECT definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary 1. to regard as probable or likely; anticipate. she expects to win. 2. to look forward to or be waiting for. we expect good news today. 3. to decide that (something) is requisite or necessary; require. the boss expects us to work late today. 04/17/2024 - 11:07 am | View Website
EXPECT | meaning verb. uk / ɪkˈspekt / us. expect verb (SITUATION) Add to word list. B1. to think that something will happen: [ + to do sth ] He didn't expect to see me. [ + (that) ] I expect that she'll be very angry about this. Fewer examples. He's the last person you'd expect to see at an aerobics class. The sales figures were better than expected. 04/17/2024 - 10:03 am | View Website
Business leaders across a range of industries agreed in a Wednesday discussion that the acceleration with which AI can transform society is practically unprecedented—and that, with proper regulation, that should be a good thing.
“This thing is so transformational,” said Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel, speaking at the TIME100 Summit.
CEOs of start-ups and big tech companies spoke at the TIME100 Summit on Wednesday about innovating with artificial intelligence in an ethical way, just moments before a spirited debate on the future of the technology.
“Regulation and innovation are two sides of the same coin,” said Rosanne Kincaid-Smith, Group Chief Operating Officer of Northern Data Group, which is a signature partner of the TIME100 Summit.
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Reddit has made it clear that it’s an ad-first business. Today, it expanded on that practice with a new ad format that looks to sell things to Reddit users. Simultaneously, Reddit has marketers who are interested in pushing products to users through seemingly legitimate accounts.
In a blog post today, Reddit announced that its Dynamic Product Ads are entering public beta globally.
The Polestar Phone. Someday it will unlock your Polestar car. [credit:
Polestar ]
Polestar, the Volvo offshoot EV company, has made a smartphone. It's called, predictably, the Polestar Phone, and it's only available in China. There have been a lot of car-brand smartphones out there (it's often Lamborghini), but usually, these are licensing deals that the car company ignores.
Enlarge / M82, the site of what's likely to be a giant flare from a magnetar. (credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team)
Gamma rays are a broad category of high-energy photons, including everything with more energy than an X-ray. While they are often created by processes like radioactive decay, few astronomical events produce them in sufficient quantities that they can be detected when the radiation originates in another galaxy.
That said, the list is larger than one, which means detecting gamma rays doesn't mean we know what event produced them.