“Delta is reducing consumer demand and threatening to reopen,” said Glassdoor senior economist Daniel Zhao. “Ultimately, it’s just a hard reminder that the pandemic is our fate,” he told CNN Business. In normal times the August report would have been a cause for celebration, but today it is a big slowdown from the buoyant job … Read more
When Facebook released its first quarterly report this week of the most viewed posts in the United States, Guy Rosen, its vice president for integrity, said the social network had taken “a long journey” to be “by far the most transparent platform in the world” on the Internet “The list showed that the posts with … Read more
The planet was at least one degree cooler when our ancestors created these pictograms near the Green River in Colorado about 700 to 2,000 years ago. (Brent Roraback photo) While the world’s leading coalition of climate scientists says the planet is warming faster than ever, with dire human consequences, it also stresses that quick, aggressive … Read more
Daily Business Briefing July 2, 2021Updated July 2, 2021, 8:35 a.m. ET July 2, 2021, 8:35 a.m. ETThe leisure and hospitality sectors suffered the biggest job losses from the pandemic.Credit…Karsten Moran for The New York Times Hiring leapt back up in June as employers added 850,000 workers, the government reported Friday, a fresh sign that … Read more
Apple CEO Tim Cook recently said in the latest Epic study that the App Store would be a “toxic mess” without the company’s rigorous review process. However, its approval process apparently still allowed a significant number of bad apps through. Of the 1,000 top-selling apps in the store, nearly two percent were some form of … Read more
He and other officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak publicly about the secret results of the report. Russia has invested heavily in hypersonic, believing the technology gives it an opportunity to evade American missile defense technology. China has also developed hypersonic weapons and included them in military parades. … Read more
MacKenzie Scott. (Elena Seibert photo) MacKenzie Scott caused a stir in 2020 by donating more than $ 5 billion of her massive fortune to a variety of organizations. In a new report this weekend, the New York Times describes how scammers have followed in Scott’s footsteps and approached the vulnerable with promises of more financial … Read more
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres alarmed about a “terrifying report” on the climate, which shows that 2020 was one of the three hottest years in existence, marked by forest fires, droughts, floods, melting glaciers and rising sea levels. (April 19th)
Stopping misinformation about vaccines may not be as complicated as social media companies suggest it is. That’s because 12 of the best-known anti-vaccine activists are responsible for a disproportionate amount of vaccine misinformation on social media, a new report said. The report, a joint effort by the Center to Combat Digital Hate (CCDH) and Anti-Vax … Read more