It would be so satisfying if corporations and brands more often called out racism and other ills in their comments sections on social media.In the responses to a recent Xbox post on Facebook, it appeared at first glance that the console-maker had done exactly that.And while it’s not quite what […]
Month: February 2022
Inside Google’s Plan to Salvage Its Stadia Gaming Service
A year ago, Google announced it would close its internal Stadia game studios.It has since worked to land white-label deals with partners such as Bungie and Peloton.Increased consolidation of the gaming market poses challenges to Google’s plan.When Google announced last year that it was shutting down its internal gaming studios, […]
Coming up: U.S. jobs report for January
The numbers: The U.S.added a robust 467,000 jobs in January and hiring was much stronger at the end of 2021 than originally reported, pointing to the resilience of a rapidly recovering economy despite successive waves of the coronavirus. The unemployment rate rose to 4% from 3.9%, the government said Friday […]
Arctic outbreak in Texas to be significant, but short-lived
Mother Nature is putting Texas’s heavily scrutinized electrical grid to the test this week as a winter storm with snow and ice leaves thousands without power and a wave of Arctic air sends temperatures plunging well below normal across the southern Plains.But, while Arctic air will pack a punch, temperatures […]
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Nicole Hemmer is an associate research scholar at Columbia University with the Obama Presidency Oral History Project and the author of ” Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics .” She cohosts the history podcasts ” Past Present ” and ” This Day in Esoteric […]
Payrolls surged by 467,000 in January, confounding economists – CBS News
Job growth around the U.S.was robust in January with employers adding 467,000 new hires, surprising economists who had forecast that the COVID-19 wave caused by the Omicron variant would dampen payrolls. The leisure and hospitality sector led the increase, adding 151,000 jobs in January, the U.S.Department of Labor said Friday.Professional […]
Major storm dumping ice and snow on much of Northeast
A major winter storm that already cut electricity to about 350,000 homes and businesses from Texas to the Ohio Valley and caused thousands of flight cancelations nationwide will leave wide swaths of Pennsylvania and New England glazed in ice and smothered in snow Friday, forecasters said. The storm disrupted flights […]
Man Uses Wife’s Aadhaar Card To Check-in Girlfriend At A Hotel, Gets Caught Red-handed
Infidelity is hard to hide, especially if you end up screwing up like this man did.According to a PTI report, a 41-year-old man and his girlfriend were charged with an offence after the former allegedly used his wife’s Aadhaar card for identification to check into a hotel in Pune, Maharashtra.The […]
Willie Nelson’s Farm Aid wants you to know your “Made in USA” beef may have been raised in Brazil – CBS News
The all-American hamburger often is not.U.S.cattle ranchers may not have had a hand in producing the cattle for burgers billed as American, and Willie Nelson’s Farm Aid wants to change that. “Have you ever noticed ‘Product of the USA’ on the label of beef in the grocery store? Would it […]
Biden trumpets strong jobs report: ‘America is back to work’ – Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — President Biden on Friday hailed new jobs numbers that showed a burst of hiring in January despite a surge in COVID-19 infections caused by the Omicron variant that killed thousands and forced businesses and schools to shutter . “Our country is taking everything [the pandemic] has thrown at […]