Jeff Zucker stunned the media world with his abrupt resignation as CNN Worldwide President on Wednesday, ending a nine-year reign at the liberal news network.”As part of the investigation into Chris Cuomo’s tenure at CNN, I was asked about a consensual relationship with my closest colleague, someone I have worked […]
Month: February 2022
From slavery to socialism, proposed laws would restrict what teachers can say : NPR
Enlarge this image A third-grade teacher conducts class in Rye, N.Y.Researcher Jeffrey Sachs says that since January 2021, 35 states have introduced legislation limiting topics that schools can teach.Mary Altaffer/AP Mary Altaffer/AP A third-grade teacher conducts class in Rye, N.Y.Researcher Jeffrey Sachs says that since January 2021, 35 states have […]
The best Netflix original series right now (February 2022)
Netflix revolutionized prestige TV with House of Cards , its original series that showed binge watching wasn’t just for established shows.The streaming giant has since become a leader in original content.With a massive lineup of award-winning comedies, dramas, docuseries, and more, there’s an original series for absolutely everyone on Netflix.But […]
Stocks tumble amid Facebook’s record $220 billion rout
The stock market tumbled on Thursday after Facebook-parent Meta reported disappointing quarterly results and said it lost users for the first time in its history.The social media giant’s value plunged by about $237 billion — the biggest one-day loss for a publicly traded company in stock market history. The Dow […]
Facebook loses users for the first time in its history
Facebook parent Meta’s quarterly earnings report on Wednesday revealed a startling statistic: For the first time ever, the company’s growth is stagnating around the world.Facebook lost daily users for the first time in its 18-year history — falling by about half a million users in the last three months of […]
A road in Detroit will charge an electric car while driving
An Israeli startup plans to build about one mile of pavement in Michigan that will wirelessly charge electric vehicles as drivers roll past, marking a first-of-its-kind infrastructure project in the U.S. Electreon, based in Beit Yanai, won a contract with the state to build the charging road system near downtown […]
Environmental Protection Agency objects to United States Postal service mail truck contract – The Washington Post
The Biden administration launched a last-minute push Wednesday to derail the U.S.Postal Service’s plan to spend billions of dollars on a new fleet of gasoline-powered delivery trucks, citing the damage the polluting vehicles could inflict on the climate and Americans’ health.Get the full experience.Choose your plan ArrowRight The dispute over […]
Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘metaverse’ business lost more than $10 billion last year, and the losses keep growing
Building the metaverse isn’t cheap. Meta , Facebook’s parent company, revealed, for the first time, the financials of its Reality Labs division in its fourth-quarter 2021 earnings report Wednesday. That’s the segment of the company tasked with building CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for the metaverse.It also includes revenue from hardware, […]
Meta Reality Labs reports $10 billion loss
Building the metaverse isn’t cheap.Meta , Facebook’s parent company, revealed, for the first time, the financials of its Reality Labs division in its fourth-quarter 2021 earnings report Wednesday.That’s the segment of the company tasked with building CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for the metaverse.It also includes revenue from hardware, such as […]
Biden turns his focus to gun violence prevention for New York trip
(CNN) President Joe Biden visited New York City on Thursday after a spate of headline-grabbing violent crimes, hoping to turn the politically fraught issue of crime into a new focus on combating gun violence. As Democrats grapple with how to tackle a problem that has been used against them by […]