The U.S.economy added 467,000 jobs in January even as the omicron variant spiked to record heights, showing that the resilient labor market had enough momentum to power through one of the pandemic’s biggest surges. The unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 4 percent, from 3.9 percent the month before, because […]
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U.S. tests “robot dogs” to patrol southern border – CBS News
A robot modeled after man’s best friend may one day help patrol the U.S.southern border. “Don’t be surprised if in the future we see robot ‘Fido’ out in the field, walking side by side with [Custom Border Patrol] personnel,” the U.S.Department of Homeland Security said in a blog post this […]
Facebook’s $232 billion fall sets record for largest one-day value drop in stock market history
[post] ] Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, October 23, 2019. Erin Scott | Reuters Facebook parent Meta lost more than $232 billion in value Thursday.That’s the biggest one-day drop in value in the history of the U.S.stock market. Meta’s […]
Amazon’s ‘The Wheel of Time’ was the biggest new series in the US last year
Fares Fares as “Ishamael.”Jan Thijs / Wheel of Time “The Wheel of Time” was the most in-demand new series in the US that debuted last year.In its first 30 days of release, it was bigger than other new shows like “The Book of Boba Fett.” The show’s success is a […]
Democrats, teachers unions fight to keep parents from learning what their kids are taught
Democrats and teachers unions are working to block bills proposed in at least a dozen states that would require curriculum transparency in schools across the country, arguing that parents’ access to their children’s learning materials online could lead to undue censorship and backlash against educators.Parents are entitled under federal law […]
Shackleton’s Endurance: The impossible search for the greatest shipwreck – BBC News
Shackleton’s Endurance: The impossible search for the greatest shipwreck By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent Published 1 day Image caption, Endurance set sail from Grytviken, South Georgia, on 5 December 1914 (Oil painting by George Cummings) It is one of the most unreachable shipwrecks in the world. We know with […]
The impossible search for the greatest shipwreck
It is one of the most unreachable shipwrecks in the world.We know with good accuracy where Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance vessel ended up after sinking more than 100 years ago.So far, however, all attempts to sight its wooden carcass on the Antarctic seafloor have been defeated.Although it’s deep, some 3,000m […]
Call Of Duty’s “New Generation” Teased As Coming Soon By Infinity Ward
Call Of Duty’s “New Generation” Teased As Coming Soon By Infinity Ward The game is rumored to be a Modern Warfare sequel focused on drug cartels. Call of Duty: Vanguard has only been out a few months, but Infinity Ward is wasting no time teasing its own game expected to […]
First launched in 2017, the Nintendo Switch has now sold mor
First launched in 2017, the Nintendo Switch has now sold more units than the Kyoto-based game company’s previous top home console, the Wii. “Sales [of the Switch] rose to the second-highest level ever, despite scarcity due to delays in production and distribution (especially in North America) since Black Friday,” stated […]
Sony shares plunge as chip crunch hits PlayStation 5
Sony has faced a challenging start to the year with the Japanese giant cutting its sales forecasts for its flagship PlayStation 5 console and facing a bigger challenge from rival Microsoft .Shares of the company are down about 13% since the beginning of the year with about $25.71 billion of […]