Car Thing becoming nothing — Unacceptable: Spotify bricking Car Thing devices in Dec. without refunds Spotify stopped making Car Things in July 2022 but kept selling them. Scharon Harding – May 23, 2024 8:32 pm UTC EnlargeSpotify reader comments 157 Owners of Spotify’s soon-to-be-bricked Car Thing device are begging the company to open-source the gadgets
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DISORDER IN THE COURT — Crooks plant backdoor in software used by courtrooms around the world It’s unclear how the malicious version of JAVS Viewer came to be. Dan Goodin – May 23, 2024 10:46 pm UTC EnlargeJAVS reader comments 15 A software maker serving more than 10,000 courtrooms throughout the world hosted an application
Co-planar — US officials: A Russian rocket launch last week likely deployed a space weapon “Naming space as a warfighting domain was kind of forbidden, but that’s changed.” Stephen Clark – May 23, 2024 11:08 pm UTC Enlarge / A Russian Soyuz rocket climbs away from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on May 16. reader comments 100
The U.S. Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority’s financial situation is the worst in more than 30 years, one board director said Thursday. Board Director Hubert Turnbull made the remark at the board’s monthly meeting as a prelude to asking CEO Andrew Smith to explain the authority’s financial situation. WAPA had to turn to the
Municipals sold off Thursday with more cuts across the curve as a correction has ensued for the asset class just ahead of the summer reinvestment season. U.S. Treasuries saw losses and equities were also in the red. Municipal bond mutual funds saw the second week of outflows as investors pulled $217.6 million from the funds
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In this article AZN-GB BMY LLY NVS NOV.N-CH Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Skynesher | E+ | Getty Images Big pharma is betting billions on an up-and-coming class of cancer treatments that some on Wall Street are calling a “massive opportunity.” It’s called targeted radiopharmaceuticals. The therapy essentially delivers radiation directly into tumors by
A pile of lumber at a home under construction at the Cold Spring Barbera Homes subdivision in Loudonville, New York, US, on Wednesday Nov. 8, 2023. Angus Mordant | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sales of newly built homes dropped 4.7% in April compared with March, and dropped a larger 7.7% from the prior year, the
The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has retired nine separate pieces of interpretive guidance related to Rule G-12(c) on inter-dealer confirmations following the board’s request for comment on the rule. The move follows recent comments submitted by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association that urged the board to knock out the provision altogether, and the
The South has been the driving force for United States population growth in recent years – in 2023 for example, the region accounted for 87% of the nation’s population growth, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That population growth has helped spur economic growth in that region. But the changing climate may turn that equation
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Yale School of Management Scott Mlyn | CNBC As this year’s proxy season draws to a close, defeat after defeat for activist investors in proxy fights this year – most prominently at Disney and Norfolk Southern – raises the question: Are activist investors increasingly getting de-activated, losing their credibility and power? These self-styled
Loading… Loading… In the latest market close, Upwork UPWK reached $11.37, with a +1.25% movement compared to the previous day. The stock exceeded the S&P 500, which registered a gain of 1.2% for the day. Meanwhile, the Dow gained 0.69%, and the Nasdaq, a tech-heavy index, added 1.59%. Shares of the online freelance marketplace operator
The Financial Transaction Services industry is likely to be aided by the widespread adoption of digital means. To capitalize on the trend, the industry players remain equipped with efficient digital solutions suite built on collaborations and technology investments. Consumer spending habits remain favorable, which may boost transaction volumes. An uptick in cross-border volumes results from
A set of new tariffs proposed by former President Donald Trump would cost the average American family an estimated $1,700 annuallyand lower-income households would be hit relatively harder, a new analysis warns. Trump has called for a 10 percent across-the-board tariff on all imports combined with higher tariffs (potentially as high as 60 percent, he’s
For half a century, critics have argued that marijuana does not belong in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, a category that is supposedly reserved for drugs with a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical applications that cannot be used safely even under a doctor’s supervision. Last week, the U.S. Department of
The last time filmmaker George Miller dipped into the Mad Max universe, in 2015, he gave us Fury Road , a roaring, rumbling, rowdy epic of vehicular mayhem that wasn’t just the best action movie of the 2010s but the best movie of that decade, period. Yes, there are other contenders, but no other picture
Loading… Loading… Coinbase Global COIN is set to report first-quarter 2024 earnings on May 2, after market close. The company delivered an earnings surprise in each of the last four reported quarters. Let's discuss the factors that are likely to be reflected in the upcoming quarterly results. Trading volumes in the first quarter are likely
The Witcher Season 4 — Netflix releases first look at new Witcher after Henry Cavill left for Warhammer 40K It’s a brief glimpse, but Liam Hemsworth at least looks the part. Samuel Axon – May 22, 2024 8:14 pm UTC reader comments 79 The Witcher season four teaser. It has been a tumultuous run for
The views of Nikki Haley Republicanspro-Ukraine, pro-Israel, pro-marketreflect all those things that Republicans used to think in that bygone era when Reagans and Bushes and Romneys roamed the earth. But few feel any emotional bond to Haley. If she gives a Ted Kennedy style dream shall never die speech at the Republican convention in Milwaukee
T-Mobile price hike — T-Mobile imposes $5 monthly price hike on customers using older plans T-Mobile raises rates $2 or $5 per line on “some of our oldest rate plans.” Jon Brodkin – May 22, 2024 9:47 pm UTC Enlarge / A T-Mobile logo at a store in New York on April 30, 2018.Getty Images