The war in Ukraine , a major grain producer, and drought conditions in the U.S.have pushed wheat and corn prices up significantly, driving up the price of eggs 56%. Last year, the national average of a dozen large white eggs was $1.60, according to the Department of Agriculture.Now, it’s $2.50. […]
Month: April 2022
California considers a 32-hour workweek for larger companies
A shortened workweek may become the reality for many employees in California.Legislation is now working its way through the state legislature that would make the standard workweek 32 hours for companies with more than 500 workers.There would be no cut in pay, and those who work more would be compensated […]
US raps India on human rights
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at a news conference during the fourth US-India 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue at the State Department in Washington.WASHINGTON: In an otherwise congenial diplomatic engagement between top US and Indian officials, the Biden administration on Monday struck a mildly disapproving and discordant note by unilaterally […]
Witnesses of Brooklyn subway shooting recall “smoke and blood and people screaming” – CBS News
Witnesses recalled the frantic moments after a gunman shot multiple people Tuesday on a New York City subway train, leaving wounded commuters bleeding on a Brooklyn platform as others ran screaming. “My subway door opened into calamity.It was smoke and blood and people screaming,” eyewitness Sam Carcamo told radio station […]
After two years of Covid hiatus, ancient festival of Bolan returns to Bengal
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Pfizer’s offers $100m to buy Brisbane company behind app that diagnoses COVID
Pfizer offers $100m to buy Brisbane company behind smartphone app that diagnoses COVID-19 [Louisa Rebgetz] Pfizer has offered $100 million to buy a Brisbane-based company that has invented a smartphone app it says can diagnose COVID-19 by listening to someone cough. Key points: – The company says the app has […]
Solar energy can now be stored for up to 18 years , say scientists | Euronews
Solar-powered electronics are one step closer to becoming an everyday part of our lives thanks to a “radical” new scientific breakthrough. In 2017, scientists at a Swedish university created an energy system that makes it possible to capture and store solar energy for up to 18 years, releasing it as […]
Mark Zuckerberg Claims His Foundation Won’t Meddle in Next Election After Backlash
The Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL), which Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan notoriously poured hundreds of millions of “Zuckerbucks” into for the purpose of getting out the vote in Democrat-leaning areas in the 2020 election, claims it won’t repeat the process for the 2022 midterms. However, while […]
Turns Out the Megacomet Is More Than 80 Miles Wide—and It’s Headed Our Way
© Provided by The Daily Beast NASA, ESA, Man-To Hui (Macau University of Science and Technology), David Jewitt (UCLA); Image processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) Last year, the monstrous Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet (also known as C/2014 UN271) was discovered by the eponymous University of Pennsylvania astronomers Gary Bernstein and Pedro Bernardinelli.The pair […]
Topgolf opens first-of-its-kind experience in El Segundo with venue and newly renovated lakes at El Segundo Golf Course
Topgolf Entertainment Group, a modern day, technology-enabled golf entertainment company, is set to open a first-of-its-kind experience in El Segundo on Friday, April 15.The location features traditional and non-traditional ways to play golf through the company’s signature three-level venue experience as well as an adjacent 10-hole, lighted, par-3 golf course. […]