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www.nytimes.com
9 months ago
Wellness

Testosterone Therapy Does Not Raise Heart Risk in a Group of Men

The largest study ever done to evaluate the safety of hormone replacement for men has reassuring news for a limited group of patients whose bodies don't produce enough testosterone, finding that the hormone does not increase heart attacks, strokes and cardiac deaths.The new results, which come from a large clinical trial of the kind considered the gold standard in medicine, do not put all concerns to rest.
www.france24.com
1 year ago
Environment

Plastic pollution in oceans has reached 'unprecedented' levels in 15 years

A plastic bag floats in the waters of the Indian ocean near the town of Ahangama in Galle, Sri Lanka, on December 31, 2021.Olivier Morin, AFP Plastic pollution in the world's oceans has reached "unprecedented levels" over the past 15 years, a new study has found, calling for a legally binding international treaty to stop the harmful waste.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Exercise

Will Exercising With a Cold Make You Sicker?

Q: Is it safe to exercise when you are sick with a cold?And if so, what exercises are best?Whether you're a die-hard exercise devotee or just beginning to get into a workout groove, you may worry that coming down with a cold could derail your training routine.Does your runny nose mean you need to skip your exercise session, or could a workout actually do you some good?
Medium
1 year ago
UX design

How have the layoffs impacted UX roles?

2022 has been a wild year for the tech industry.Giants, like Meta and Amazon, have seen their public stock values plummet by billions of dollars - and have chosen to cut costs by laying off thousands of employees.One tracker counts 836 companies, including Stripe, Lyft, and Cisco, that have had layoffs this year.
Medium
1 year ago
UX design

How have the layoffs impacted UX roles?

2022 has been a wild year for the tech industry.Giants, like Meta and Amazon, have seen their public stock values plummet by billions of dollars - and have chosen to cut costs by laying off thousands of employees.One tracker counts 836 companies, including Stripe, Lyft, and Cisco, that have had layoffs this year.
www.fatherly.com
1 year ago
Fathers

Paid Parental Leave Saves Babies' Lives, Study Shows

The U.S. is the only industrialized country in the world that doesn't mandate paid parental leave.If you've been following the news, you know it's a contentious subject.Paid parental leave was struck from Biden's Build Back Better plan  the country's best chance at making paid leave federal policy  because of Republican opposition and pushback from Democratic Senator Joe Manchin.
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UK news
www.independent.co.uk
9 months ago
UK news

How is the King connected to the farm schools where children suffered abuse?

The King's connection to the Fairbridge farm schools where British children suffered physical and sexual abuse is in the spotlight again after administrators for his charity informed survivors they would receive a tiny portion of the compensation pay-out they were promised.Here, the PA news agency looks at the connection of Charles and his charity, the Prince's Trust, to the organisation which sent hundreds of thousands of British children to its colonies where they experienced physical and sexual abuse: What is the King's connection to Fairbridge?
www.independent.co.uk
10 months ago
UK news

Some children in care missing from school and becoming invisible'

Some young people in care are being failed and allowed to become invisible to the services which should be supporting them, the Children's Commissioner has said.More than 1,000 school-age children in England who had been in care for at least four weeks as of March last year were missing from school, research shows.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Paul Mescal recalls fury' after being groped by a fan

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Paul Mescal has said he was left feeling fury after a fan groped him while posing for a photo.The Irish actor was approached by the person outside the Almeida Theatre in London, where he is currently performing A Streetcar Named Desire.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Ministers must take the risk of homelessness to Ukrainian families seriously'

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Ministers need to take the risk of homelessness to Ukrainian families seriously and act quickly, a Labour MP has warned.Olivia Blake raised concerns over the shameful prospect of homelessness for some Ukrainian families and the restrictions they face as they transition into private sector rented housing.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Hundreds of thousands of people impacted by passport delays this year watchdog

Hundreds of thousands of people were affected by delays in processing passport applications and many had travel plans disrupted as a result, Whitehall's spending watchdog has found.HM Passport Office (HMPO) processed a record number of applications amid unprecedented demand as coronavirus pandemic travel restrictions were lifted but struggled to keep up with higher-than-average demand from customers, the National Audit Office (NAO) said.
moreUK news
www.cbc.ca
9 months ago
Canada news

Meta starts blocking news content for up to 5% of Canadian Facebook, Instagram users | CBC News

Meta has begun to block some Canadian users of Facebook and Instagram from accessing or posting news content until the end of the month.The move, which the social media giant announced in a blog post on Thursday, comes in reaction to the looming passage into law of Bill C-18, the Online News Act.Facebook has said it will be forced to block news content from its platforms in Canada if the bill becomes law, something that could happen as soon as this month as the bill is currently being considered in the Senate.
GSMArena.com
10 months ago
Mobile UX

OnePlus 11 and older devices get OxygenOS 13.1 update

OnePlus has announced the rollout of Android 13-based OxygenOS 13.1 for the OnePlus 11.It expands Omoji's functionality and library and has a new TalkBack feature and Zen Space app.OxygenOS 13.1 also adds the Championship Mode and music playback control to the Game Assistant.The update is seeding with firmware version CPH2447_13.1.0.501(EX01) in India to a small percentage of users, and a broader rollout will commence in a few days.
GSMArena.com
1 year ago
Mobile UX

OnePlus Nord CE 2 Lite 5G gets Android 13 update

The latest smartphone to be graced with an update to Android 13 is OnePlus' entry-level Nord CE 2 Lite, which launched back in May.The handset is now seemingly receiving the stable update to OxygenOS 13, based on Android 13, in India.The update arrives over-the-air as a 4.5GB download, so it might be best to grab it from a reliable (and uncapped) data connection.
Chicago Tribune
10 months ago
Chicago

New census numbers show Aurora losing more people

Aurora lost another 1.47% of its population between 2020 and 2022, according to new U.S. Census Bureau figures released recently.The numbers from the bureau's Population Estimates Program now show the city with a population of 177,866 as of July 2022.That is 2,660 people down from the 180,197 people the Census Bureau put Aurora at after the decennial census in 2020.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Charles J. Murray: Electric vehicle adoption faces a great middle-class challenge

With the recent Chicago Auto Show, talk of electric cars has kicked into high gear.It's hard to turn on a radio or television and not hear joyful coverage of our grand transition to electric.But forgotten amid all the happy hype is the fact that electric vehicles are still a small percentage of the whole.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Stuart Handler: Blame the economy, not landlords, for higher rents

With all the talk about higher rents, inflation, rent control, evictions and the like, people need to better understand how rents are actually determined in the real real estate world.Rents are determined by decisions made every day by hundreds of thousands of landlords, big and small, who try to fill their apartments.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Rivian issues voluntary recall for nearly all of its electric vehicles over potential steering issue

Startup EV truck manufacturer Rivian issued a voluntary recall Friday for nearly all of its vehicles over a potential steering issue related to an insufficiently tightened fastener.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Editorial: Did legalizing weed sanction raise demand? Either way, that's the Midwest reality.

Take a drive along Interstate 94, beginning in Port Huron, Michigan, and headed toward Detroit and points west.
www.cbc.ca
10 months ago
Canada news

Why owning the Ottawa Senators is a hot ticket for celebrities | CBC News

Ryan Reynolds, Snoop Dogg and reportedly The Weeknd have created a star-powered bidding war in a quest to own the Ottawa Senators.First, Canadian-born Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds made his interest widely known.In the past week the music industry has jumped in with two recent Super Bowl performers: legendary rapper Snoop Dogg has joined one bid and Canadian recording artist The Weeknd reportedly joining another based on a report from Postmedia on Saturday.
Slate Magazine
1 year ago
Social media marketing

Paying Twitter for a Checkmark Is a Joke. Paying Meta for One Won't Be.

This article is from Big Technology, a newsletter by Alex Kantrowitz.The take machine went into high gear last week after Meta said it would charge $11.99 per month for verification and added customer service on Facebook and Instagram.This was the end of free social media, some said.It was Facebook's unimaginative copy of Elon Musk's Twitter.
TheWrap
1 year ago
Social media marketing

Social Media Is Changing - and Paid Accounts Are the Response | PRO Insight

Monthly fees for Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat are not for ordinary users - they're for the professionals who've taken over the feeds
The take machine went into high gear last week after Meta said it would charge $11.99 per month for verification and added customer service.This was the end of free social media, some said.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
France news

Player awarded back pay from Lyon over maternity leave

Midfielder Sara Bjork Gunnarsdottir has been awarded more than $88,000 in back pay that was withheld by her French club team, Lyon, in violation of FIFA's rules protecting maternity rights.Gunnarsdottir, who now plays for Juventus in Italy, wrote her account of the salary dispute for The Players' Tribune website and the details of the ruling by FIFA's Football Tribunal were made public this week.
Social Media Today
1 year ago
Online Community Development

YouTube Adds Quizzes as a Community Post Option, Expands Visual Editing Tools

YouTube's launched two new tests for its Community Posts feature, which will provide more ways for creators to engage and interact with their audience in the app.Community Posts are feed-based updates that are viewable within the 'Community' tab, which can be accessed on YouTube channels with over 500 subscribers.
Fox News
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Biden shares video after testing positive for COVID-19 again: 'I'm feeling fine'

President Biden posted a video to social media on Saturday afternoon after testing positive for COVID-19 in a "rebound" case.
"Hey folks, Joe Biden here.Tested positive this morning.
www.cnn.com
11 months ago
US politics

Fact check: Trump's own campaign can't find proof for his mental institutions' immigration story

On at least three occasions over the last two months, former President Donald Trump has claimed that the leaders of unnamed South American countries are deliberately emptying their insane asylums and mental institutions to send the patients to the United States as migrants.In each version of the dramatic story, Trump has claimed he recently read about a doctor at a South American mental institution who said he used to be busy but now has no work to do because all of his patients have been released into the US.
www.mercurynews.com
1 year ago
Cars

Opinion: Electric vehicle adoption faces middle-class challenge

With the recent Chicago Auto Show, talk of electric cars has kicked into high gear.It's hard to turn on a radio or television and not hear joyful coverage of our grand transition to electric.But forgotten amid all the happy hype is the fact that electric vehicles are still a small percentage of the whole.
www.dw.com
1 year ago
Public health

Everything you need to know about polio DW 10/24/2022

Polio is a very contagious viral disease caused by the poliovirus.It can cause permanent disability and even death, especially in children under the age of five.There are two types of polio present in the world today: Wild poliovirus and vaccine-derived poliovirus.The latter originates from an oral polio vaccine, known as the Sabin vaccine, or OPV.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
Public health

Fauci urges US to resume long Covid research funding efforts

Dr Anthony Fauci, America's top infectious disease expert, has warned against prematurely declaring victory over the pandemic, not only due to short-term needs but because long Covid represents an insidious public health emergency for millions of people.
Brooklyn Eagle
1 year ago
Public health

Polio fears rise in New York amid possible community spread

New York state health officials issued a more urgent call Thursday for unvaccinated children and adults to get inoculated against polio, citing new evidence of possible "community spread" of the dangerous virus.
Modern Retail
11 months ago
Marketing

Instacart partners with Roku to better measure streaming TV ads

At a time when advertisers are searching for additional data to evaluate the return on their ad investments, Instacart has partnered with Roku to help CPG brands measure whether their ads drive sales on the grocery delivery platform.This is the first cross-platform partnership between Instacart and Roku to enable measurement of purchases on Roku's platform, which has widely been considered a walled garden.
Digiday
1 year ago
Marketing

Digiday+ Research deep dive: Brands' confidence in Instagram grows, while agencies' confidence wavers

Interested in sharing your perspectives on the media and marketing industries?Join the Digiday research panel.Please enjoy this special free edition!Last week, we covered that confidence in Facebook's ability to drive marketing success is trending downward among agencies and brands.This week, we tell a much different story about its Meta sibling Instagram, based on a Digiday+ Research survey of 138 agency and brand professionals.
KQED
11 months ago
Science

This Winter's Floods May Be 'Only a Taste' of the Megafloods to Come, Climate Scientists Warn | KQED

"This winter, we've gotten lucky, believe it or not, because things could have been significantly worse than they were," he said."It is possible to have years where there are multiple atmospheric rivers in a row that are much stronger than what we saw at any point this year."Swain said the recent storms dropped only about half the precipitation and less than a quarter of the runoff than in the "plausible worst-case scenario" he describes in his study.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Science

U.S. declares disaster for tribal salmon fisheries on the West Coast

For generations upon generations, the Yurok tribe has relied on Chinook salmon from the Klamath River in Northern California for ceremonies, subsistence and commercial gain.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
UK politics

After a marking boycott, the university threatened to withhold our pay. That only made us angrier | Tanzil Chowdhury

On 29 June 2022, all the staff at Queen Mary University of London, where I work, received an email from management.To our horror, they were threatening to withhold 100% of our pay for 21 days of both July and August, because we were participating in a marking boycott over pensions, pay, labour precarity, inequality and working conditions.
AdExchanger
1 year ago
Marketing tech

The Android Privacy Sandbox Is Now In Beta | AdExchanger

Third-party cookie deprecation in Chrome has been delayed so many times it's become a punchline.But progress in the Android Privacy Sandbox is proceeding apace.On Tuesday, Google announced the first beta release of Android Privacy Sandbox, which will roll out to a small percentage of Android 13 devices to start, then expand to more devices over time.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Illinois reveals rejected custom license plates for 2022

Don't let those Midwestern manners fool you: Some Illinoisans have a dirty mind, the vanity plates rejected by the secretary of state's office over the last year show.Nearly 400 customized license plates were rejected in 2022, Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias's office said in a Monday news release.
What's New in Publishing | Digital Publishing News
1 year ago
Media industry

Publisher: Is your site clean? | What's New in Publishing | Digital Publishing News

To address the challenges around publisher-seller transparency, the team at video discovery platform Primis has created  Sellers.guide, a free tool for publishers.The intention?To make it easier for publishers to manage and communicate publisher-seller transparency to their advertiser and agency partners.
Medium
1 year ago
Vue

Advanced Data Structures & Algorithms: Implementing a Bloom Filter in JavaScript

Have you ever tried to sign-up for a website and the website keeps telling you that your chosen username is already taken?You then start using your personal data, like your name, and then add your last name to the mix, and the site keeps telling you: "username already taken" and you're like.... "Did I actually sign up here before?"
www.mercurynews.com
1 year ago
East Bay (California)

Buyers want to know what to do with investors scooping up rentals

Q: We are homebuyers who lost out to cash-paying investors.The winning buyers turned the houses into rentals.It's beyond frustrating.We have relatives who had bought foreclosures.You have written that after the 2007-2008 housing meltdown, investors scooped up hundreds of thousands of California foreclosures.
Washingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.
1 year ago
Washington DC

A New DC Escape Room Called Beat the Bomb Has a Messy Twist - Washingtonian

If you ever secretly wished to be slimed on Nickelodeon as a kid, Beat the Bomb -an immersive team game that opens today in Ivy City-might be right up your alley.Here's how Beat the Bomb's hourlong missions work: A team of four to six players dresses up in protective suits and passes through four rooms-each featuring a different game.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Shortage of in-home nurses leaves kids waiting in hospital beds. 'The entire system is feeling the pressure.'

Ricardo Ruiz could have left the hospital two months ago.Instead, the toddler waited while his family searched for a nurse who could help care for him at home.Ricky, as his parents call him, was born prematurely at 27 weeks with underdeveloped lungs.The 15-month-old has a tracheostomy tube in his neck connected to a ventilator that helps him breathe.
The Verge
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Ford is creating a new division to lead its partial autonomy and hands-free driving tech

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Latitude AI will focus on automated driving technology, including a Level 3 unsupervised system.Ford rehired over 500 employees of the shuttered Argo AI to staff the new subsidiary.Ford announced the creation of a new wholly owned subsidiary called Latitude AI to lead its efforts to develop a hands-free, eye-off, unsupervised driving system.
AdExchanger
1 year ago
Marketing tech

Is Sustainability The New Ad Tech Tax?; TV Faces An Advertising Comeuppance | AdExchanger

Here's today's AdExchanger.comnews round-up... Want it by email?Sign up Going 'Green' Costs Green here.Digital advertising contributes to carbon emissions.Every programmatic ping, bid and load consumes electricity, and the overcrowded programmatic supply chain just makes the problem worse.One way to foot the bill, according to Jounce Media Founder Chris Kane, could be to transparently raise ad auction prices to fund carbon offsets.
Nytimes
1 year ago
OMG science

A New Approach to Spotting Tumors: Look for Their Microbes

New research is revealing that cancer is rife with bacteria and fungi - a rich ecosystem that scientists call the tumor microbiome.
Wine Enthusiast
1 year ago
Wine

Amidst Wildfires, White Pinot Noir Emerges as a Savior in Oregon and British Columbia

In 2020, Oregon experienced one of the most destructive seasons in its history.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Analysis | Biden's Quiet Progress on Guns

By almost any measure, the US remains in the grip of a gun-violence epidemic.Since the beginning of 2022, more than 30,000 Americans have died from firearms and another 27,000 have been wounded.
Theregister
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

Google lets a few Android devices into its Privacy Sandbox

Google on Tuesday began rolling out a beta test of its Privacy Sandbox software for a small portion of Android 13 devices to learn how its purportedly privacy-protecting ad tech actually performs.Google began working on its Privacy Sandbox in 2019 and its Android iteration surfaced a year ago.The ad tech do-over represents an attempt to maintain current modes of online advertising, like targeting and remarketing, once invasive third-party cookies - used for cross-site tracking and profiling - get phased out.
Engadget
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

Google's privacy-focused ad tracking solution hits Android in beta | Engadget

Google is rolling out a beta of Privacy Sandbox for Android starting today.The program is the company's attempt to blend user privacy with targeted advertising, something the search giant has worked on for years in its planned shift away from cookie-based web tracking.One of Privacy Sandbox's pillars is the Topics API, which pulls a list of your top interests based on usage.
Ars Technica
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

Android launches yet another way to spy on users with "Privacy Sandbox" beta

Apple blew up the advertising market in 2020 when it gave tracking an opt-in feature on iOS.Since then, Google-the world's biggest advertiser-has been slow to roll out its solution for Android and Chrome.The idea that Google has come up with is called the "Privacy Sandbox," which sounds like a good thing, but it's a new tracking system for Android and Chrome.
The Verge
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

The FTC isn't happy about Chegg's data breaches

The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint on Monday against education technology provider Chegg, which has experienced four data breaches since 2017 ( via The New York Times).In one 2018 incident, a former Chegg contractor gained access to one of its third-party cloud databases, exposing personal information such as names, email addresses, and passwords in addition to students' religion, sexual orientation, disabilities, and parents' income.
The Verge
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

Signal alerts 1,900 messaging users to a security threat from Twilio hackers

A data breach earlier this month affecting Twilio, a gateway that helps web platforms communicate over SMS or voice, may have had repercussions for users of Signal, the encrypted messaging platform.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles Rams

Atonio Mafi NFL draft diary: 'Picking an agent was more stressful than I expected'

As offensive lineman Atonio Mafi transitions from UCLA to the NFL, he is sharing his journey with Times staff writer Ben Bolch through a weekly diary leading up to the draft April 27.This week, Mafi discusses picking an agent.Signing with an agent was a surreal experience.(Courtesy of Priority Sports)

For one thing, I did it on a bus.
Independent
1 year ago
Media industry

Google tests blocking news content for some Canadians

Google is blocking some Canadian users from viewing news content in what the company said is a test run of a potential response to the Canadian government's online news Bill.ill C-18, the Online News Act, would require digital giants such as Google and Meta, which owns Facebook, to negotiate deals that would compensate Canadian media companies for republishing their content on their platforms.
The Verge
1 year ago
Media industry

Google blocks news content for some Canadians in response to proposed rules

Google is running tests that block access to news for some Canadian users in response to a new bill that could force it and other large platforms like Meta's Facebook to negotiate deals with news publishers to pay them for content, Reuters reports.The tests will reportedly impact less than four percent of Canadian users, run for around five weeks, and will "limit the visibility of Canadian and international news to varying degrees."
therealdeal.com
1 year ago
LA real estate

LA Ordinance Adds Tenant Relocation Fee

A progressive bloc in the Los Angeles City Council is claiming a win with the 15-set body set to make landlords who want to hike rents by more than 10 percent pay relocation fees, but a look at the numbers raises the question of how big of a win for tenants.The council's proposal is expected to take effect next month with a signature by Mayor Karen Bass.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US news

DirecTV blasts Newsmax for pushing inaccurate and misleading' attacks after the right-wing network was dropped

All niceties have been thrown out the window as DirecTV finds itself ensnared in an ugly carriage dispute with Newsmax.The satellite carrier, which refuses to buckle to pressure and pay millions of dollars to broadcast the network's low-rated programming, unleashed on the right-wing talk channel on Tuesday.
The Mercury News
1 year ago
Silicon Valley food

Why there aren't enough eggs in California: Poultry expert Richard Blatchford

The cost of a dozen large eggs in California has soared, averaging about $4.50, up from $2.35 at this time last year.And the prices for any food that uses eggs as an ingredient, such as mayonnaise and baked goods, are also climbing.What's going on?This is a time of radical challenges in the chicken business.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Wellness

A Statin Alternative Joins Drugs That Can Reduce Heart Attack Risk

Millions of Americans who are at high risk for heart attacks and whose LDL cholesterol levels are disturbingly high have been told over and over again by their doctors to take a statin.These cheap generic drugs have been shown repeatedly to slash cholesterol levels and prevent heart attacks, strokes and deaths.
time.com
1 year ago
Wellness

What to Know About the New XBB.1.5 Variant

A new variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 is spreading in the U.S., raising concerns about a potential wave of infections and reinfections to start the new year.The variant, called XBB.1.5, is a descendent of Omicron and a close relative of the XBB variant, which spread widely in Singapore and India this past fall.
time.com
1 year ago
Wellness

What to Know About Bariatric Surgery for Type 2 Diabetes

The term bariatric is derived from the Greek words for weight and to treat.Originally, as its name denotes, this form of surgery was aimed at helping people manage obesity.But as medical science's understanding of bariatric surgery improved, experts recognized that these procedures could also help people with obesity-related health conditions, including Type 2 diabetes.
TechRadar
1 year ago
Online marketing

YouTube is finally getting rid of this annoying feature and that's great for us

(Image credit: Alexey Boldin / Shutterstock.com)YouTube is finally getting rid of a "legacy" feature that has most likely been annoying users for quite some time now.According to the official YouTube forum post and reported on by Ars Technica, YouTube will finally be retiring the overlay ad starting on April 6, 2023.
Hubspot
1 year ago
Online marketing

10 Creator Economy Startups Marketers Should Know

As the creator economy continues to expand, so do the needs of content creators.Whether it's crowdfunding, financial guidance, or new ways to connect - there are many moving parts content creators must consider to be successful.Fortunately, new creator economy startups are providing the tools, resources, and platforms needed to make the business side of content creation easier for digital creatives.
Social Media Explorer
1 year ago
Online marketing

Shlomo Rechnitz: Importance of Charity - Social Media Explorer

Donating to Charity and Why it's important by Shlomo Rechnitz.There are many ways to participate in the work of the charity.
www.aljazeera.com
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Biden to propose 25 percent minimum tax on US billionaires

US president's reported budget plan would also nearly double capital gains tax on investments.United States President Joe Biden will call on Congress to impose a 25 percent minimum tax on billionaires as part of a series of proposed tax hikes on wealthy individuals and corporations, according to a US media report.
amNewYork
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Biden tests positive for COVID-19, returns to isolation | amNewYork

President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 again Saturday, slightly more than three days after he was cleared to exit coronavirus isolation, the White House said, in a rare case of "rebound" following treatment with an anti-viral drug.
New York Daily News
1 year ago
New York Knicks

James Dolan's Madison Square Garden facial recognition attorney ban challenged by NY Attorney General

The state attorney general is going one-on-one with Madison Square Garden boss James Dolan.Letitia James, responding to a controversial MSG ban blocking lawyers involved in litigation against MSG from attending events at the "World's Most Famous Arena" and other Dolan properties, asked for "justifications for the company's policies" in a letter sent this week to Garden officials.
Digiday
1 year ago
Marketing tech

WTF is cookie stuffing?

| By Ricardo Bilton


Originally published on Mar. 24, 2015, this article has been updated to include an explainer video that covers a cookie-stuffing scheme exposed by cybersecurity firm Confiant in January 2023.If there's money changing hands online fraudsters are going to try to find a way to skim a percentage from the transaction.
AdExchanger
1 year ago
Marketing tech

GDN, The Gol-Darn Network; Back To School With Team Daya | AdExchanger

Google says it polices for violence, pornography, IP fraud and misinformation.But reporters bringing issues to Google comms is the primary way to get publishers ejected.And even then, accounts resurface with new URLs.Google has said more than 90% of GDN spend goes to the small percentage of sites that are publicly listed in its sellers.json
AdExchanger
1 year ago
Marketing tech

Linear And CTV Each Have Their Own Measurement Problems - And The Solution Is A Fusion | AdExchanger

Streaming is attracting more and more of TV ad spend.
Over the past couple of years, major TV networks, including NBCUniversal, Paramount and Warner Bros.
Pinstripe Alley
1 year ago
New York Yankees

The 25 Most Surprising Seasons in Yankees History

Every year, hundreds of potential MLB players report to spring training across the country hoping to hit the big time.For a small percentage of them, success is simply expected; for the majority of the rest they will either never find it or only experience some level of mediocrity.(This is not to disparage them - championship teams need plenty of average contributors, too.)
ESPN.com
1 year ago
Paris Saint-Germain

Ex-Lyon player wins landmark maternity pay case

FIFPRO, the global football players' union, on Tuesday issued a reminder to all football clubs about women's rights after helping former Olympique Lyonnais player Sara Bjork Gunnarsdottir win a landmark maternity pay case against the club."[The] ruling against former club Olympique Lyonnais sends a clear message to clubs and footballers worldwide: The strict application of maternity rights is enforceable," FIFPRO said.
Dezeen
1 year ago
Design

Heatherwick Studio set to create "motorcycle amphitheatre" for Harley-Davidson

UK studio Heatherwick Studio is designing a park alongside Harley-Davidson's headquarters in Milwaukee, which will contain an amphitheatre for up to 700 motorcycles during rallies.Envisioned as the first step in plans to revamp Harley-Davidson's headquarters to mark its 120th anniversary this year, the park will be built on a "dull parking space" next to its current office.
Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 year ago
Design

Sustainable tissue and box utilizes rice straw material - Yanko Design

When I hear rice straw, I immediately think of those pasta-looking alternatives to plastic straws that some eco-conscious restaurants are now using.
Cointelegraph
1 year ago
Cryptocurrency

Redeeming physical NFTs: Easier said than done?

Despite the crypto winter, nonfungible tokens (NFTs) continue to draw interest.This has become apparent as many brands and retailers have started to offer digital NFTs attached to physical products.Known as "phygitals," these offerings allow real-world products to be tied to digital NFTs.For example, RTFKT - a digital fashion and collectible company - recently launched a project called Cryptokicks iRL.
Theregister
1 year ago
Cryptocurrency

Merge takes Ethereum to full proof-of-stake and price slumps

The Merge, the moment Ethereum cryptocurrency abandons proof-of-work for proof-of-stake validation, has concluded.
Dodgers Nation
1 year ago
LA Dodgers

Dodgers Hire Previously Suspended Former Red Sox Front Office Member

Over the last few years, we've seen frequent accusations of hypocrisy supported by braindead false equivalencies, including sometimes by people with talented brothers."The Dodgers and their fans are so upset by what the Astros did in 2017," the intellectually dishonest cries go, "but they have no problem having Mookie Betts and David Price and Joe Kelly, whose Red Sox did the same thing in 2018."
Alleywatch
1 year ago
Startup companies

Oyster Raises $3.6M For its Modernized Personal Insurance Platform

Most standard homeowners and renters insurance policies provide coverage for personal belongings.However, this coverage only covers a small percentage of the value of the items with low caps, leaving the insured vulnerable.In order to have the full value of items covered, one needs to purchase additional floaters or personal property endorsements.
Happiful Magazine
1 year ago
Mental health

The 7 greatest nutrition myths debunked

When it comes to eating healthily, we all know the general rule of having our five a day and drinking plenty of water.But when trying to keep up to date with the latest nutritional advice, it can seem as though superfoods are changing all the time, and a week won't go by without a new trend hitting the headlines.
FlowingData
1 year ago
Business intelligence

Inevitably super rich

Sometimes it feels like a foregone conclusion that most of the money ends up with a small percentage of people.Alvin Chang, for The Pudding, describes the Yard-sale model, which shows how such a skew in distribution inevitably happens even when an individual's chances seems fair.This is a fun one.It's got illustrations, simulations, and interaction to show you how the (simplified) model works and applies to your life.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
New York City

N.Y.U. Director Embezzled Funds for Home Renovation, Prosecutors Say

A director of finance and research at New York University diverted millions in funds intended for minority- and woman-owned businesses, putting them in shell companies and using some of the money to renovate her Connecticut home and build a swimming pool, the Manhattan district attorney's office said Monday.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
Berlin

With vote ahead, Polish leader turns up anti-German rhetoric

Poland's ruling party leader claims Germany seeks to dominate Europe.He warns that Poles could end up under the German heel."He snubs a German offer of anti-missile systems before Poland eventually accepts them  but gets in an anti-German dig along the way.Ahead of elections next year, Jaroslaw Kaczynski and the nationalist conservative ruling party that he leads have been lashing out against Germany while seeking to cast their main competitor as loyal to Berlin.
www.winemag.com
1 year ago
Wine

Tuscan Dreams: The 10 Best Chianti Wines for Pretending You're in Italy

Images Courtesy of Vivino Known as one of the best Italian wines, Chiantis are a palate-pleasing, easy-drinking addition to your wine collection.But this familiar option is more than just a simple sip.A bottle of Chianti can elevate a weeknight dinner, or even act as a celebratory drink during the holidays or a party.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles

The La Brea Tar Pits are full of mysteries. Here are three of the most puzzling

Last year, we began inviting readers to send us their pressing questions about Los Angeles and California.Every few weeks, we put the questions to a vote, asking readers to decide which question they would like to see answered in story form.This question, posed by Ricky Fulton, was included in one of our latest reader polls: What are the La Brea Tar Pits?
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Arts

Noisy adults on the youth soccer sidelines need to 'dial it down'

Coaches and parents berate the refs and yell at their kids and each other.Physical assaults have broken out.Adults' sideline behavior at youth sports events has gotten so bad, there's a national referee shortage, not to mention it's taken the fun out of the game.Brian Barlow is a longtime collegiate soccer referee.
www.thisislocallondon.co.uk
1 year ago
Education

Families Fret Over Secondary Form by Liam Gawn, Wallington County Grammar School

Secondary School Field (Image: WCGS) Selecting a secondary school can be a worrying time for parents.There are many factors to consider: whether you want your child to go to a grammar or a comprehensive school; whether a mixed or a single sex school is more appropriate.Different schools work best for different people so make sure that you and your child go to the open evenings and learn as much as you can about what each school has to offer.
Austin Monitor
1 year ago
Austin

Broken buses slow Capital Metro schedules - Austin Monitor

Photo by Karina Lujan/KUT.A bus parts shortage plaguing transit agencies nationwide is forcing more Cap Metro vehicles off the roads this week, prompting a reconfiguration of schedules that leaves people waiting longer for buses to show up.Wednesday, November 2, 2022 by Nathan Bernier, KUT
Capital Metro bus commuters, already coping with reduced schedules put in place last year, are this week facing further frustrations as they try to catch a bus.
OkDork.com
1 year ago
Growth hacking

MrBeast Net Worth: How He Makes So Much Money

Due to MrBeast's massive growth, he has become one of the most popular YouTube personalities in the world.Today, MrBeast's net worth is estimated at $56 million dollars.But how did he do it?He went from a broke college student with no YouTube subscribers to where he is now in just a few years.Let's dive into how he did it-plus how he makes and gives away so much of his money.
Eater NY
1 year ago
NYC food

A Three-Story Starbucks Reserve Is Opening at the Empire State Building

A three-story Starbucks Reserve is opening at the Empire State Building on November 16, Crain's New York Business reports.The 23,000-square-foot space, used for roasting coffee and selling merch, will make New York City the only city in the world with more than one Starbucks Reserve.(There are seven worldwide.)
Ars Technica
1 year ago
OMG science

Children's hospitals fill up amid early surge in respiratory infections

Doctors around the country are reporting early and dramatic surges in respiratory illnesses, with many children's hospitals saying they're running low on beds.Nearly three-quarters of pediatric hospital beds are full, according to national data compiled by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Interesting read.
The Verge
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Stability AI, proponent of hands-off AI image generation, gets a $1 billion valuation

The upstart start-up has differentiated itself from incumbents like Google and OpenAI by letting anyone use and build on its its model with little oversight. Investors say this open-source approach is a winner.

Stability AI, the company behind popular text-to-image AI program Stable Diffusion, has raised new funding that values the company at around $1 billion (according to a report from Bloomberg citing a "person familiar with the matter").
The Verge
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Stability AI, proponent of hands-off AI image generation, gets a $1 billion valuation

The upstart start-up has differentiated itself from incumbents like Google and OpenAI by letting anyone use and build on its its model with little oversight. Investors say this open-source approach is a winner.

Stability AI, the company behind popular text-to-image AI program Stable Diffusion, has raised new funding that values the company at around $1 billion (according to a report from Bloomberg citing a "person familiar with the matter").
iRunFar
1 year ago
Running

Saucony Endorphin Edge Review

Saucony's Endorphin line of running shoes have been wildly popular with road runners for the last several years since their release.
Streetsblog California
1 year ago
San Francisco

California Plan to Ensure Transportation Dollars are Invested in Climate-Friendly Ways: First Annual Report

In first year of putting plan into place, a "lot of progress."Also, a lot more work to be done
TechRadar
1 year ago
Remote teams

Amazon pushes remote working once again as call centers look set to close

(Image credit: Shutterstock.com / Atstock Productions)
Amazon is reportedly encouraging some of its call center employees to work from home as rumors swirl around possible closures.
Eater LA
1 year ago
LA food

An Inglewood Fish Fry Is Dedicated to Uplifting Formerly Incarcerated Community Members

2nd Chance Soul Food Fish Fry opened for business earlier this summer near the intersection of Centinela and Inglewood avenues, a stone's throw from the Serving Spoon in Inglewood.
Boston.com
1 year ago
Boston

'I can't wait to move': Here's why readers are leaving Boston to retire

"Save money, your freedom, and your sanity, and move out."
When retirement comes calling, most Boston.com readers say they'll be packing their bags and heading out of the city.
kvue.com
1 year ago
Coronavirus

Biden tests negative for COVID after rare rebound case, will isolate until 2nd test confirms

When he was first infected with COVID-19, the president took Paxlovid, an antiviral that in some cases causes a person to test positive again later.
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