More than half of U.S.states are raising minimum wages next year, but employers are moving even faster on pay increases.Salary budget increases set by employers for 2022 are higher than they have been in at least a decade , with 99% of employers planning raises and many planning increases of […]
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Notable deaths of 2021 : NPR
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Sony’s PlayStation 5 is sold out at Amazon, again – The Verge
Update December 30th, 11:48AM ET: And it appears that due to an astounding lack of defenses against bots, Amazon is already sold out, again. Sony’s latest gaming console, the PlayStation 5, is one of many gaming gadgets that are hard to find in stock right now due to mostly online-only […]
Samsung will reveal Exynos chip with AMD graphics in January
Samsung started working closely with AMD back in 2019 , with the goal of improving the graphics capabilities of Samsung’s Exynos System-on-a-Chip (SoC) designs.Samsung confirmed at the time that the improved GPU capabilites would arrive roughly within two years, and a new tweet from the company confirms it might be […]
The pandemic boom in videogames is expected to disappear in 2022 – MarketWatch
While the videogame industry continued to enjoy a pandemic boost in 2021, investors and analysts expect less in 2022, as continued semiconductor shortages and game delays combine with expectations that many will turn off the PlayStation and leave the house. Chip shortages have especially been a pain for makers of […]
Best AV receiver for 2022 – CNET
Are you looking for the best AV receiver for the money? You’ve come to the right place.I’ve tested most of the popular options from the major brands in the $500 to $800 range, and the connectivity, performance levels and feature sets are impressively high.From 8K video to Dolby Atmos to […]
Here are 8 other bowl games that should dump weird stuff on the coach
There’s no denying that there are an unwieldy number of bowl games these days.It seems like every year, in an attempt to stand out from the pack, bowls are coming up with weirder and weirder things to pour over the heads of the victorious coach.The Gatorade shower is a relatively […]
Melania Trump steps back into the public eye
(CNN) After months of relative public silence, former first lady Melania Trump before Christmas emerged from private life to announce a new project: A piece of artwork, a watercolor closeup of her eyes , in the form of a non-fungible token (NFT) was now available for purchase. It was an […]
Covid: Nightingale surge hubs to be set up in eight hospitals, NHS England says – BBC News
Covid: Nightingale surge hubs to be set up in eight hospitals, NHS England says By Sophie Gallagher & Adam Durbin BBC News Published 21 hours ago Related Topics Coronavirus pandemic Image source, PA Media Coronavirus “surge hubs” are to be set up at hospitals across England in preparation for a […]
The ‘Caspian Sea Monster,’ a Lun-class Ekranoplan, rises from the grave
Beached for over a year on the western shores of the Caspian Sea, it looks like a colossal aquatic beast — something bizarre perhaps more at home beneath the water than in the air.It certainly doesn’t look like something that could ever fly.But fly it did — albeit a long […]