China is by far the world’s largest COVID powder keg – and it may be about to explode. Not since the earliest days of the… Read More »How China’s Rising COVID Figures Are Putting the Rest of the World at Risk
Plus: Web3’s tricky promise; Ben Franklin on Daylight Saving Time and Ukraine’s Effect on Antitrust Arguments.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has shaken the global nickel market just as the metal is gaining importance as an ingredient in electric car batteries,… Read More »How the war in Ukraine could slow electric car sales
She and nearly a dozen other black and Muslim workers who worked in the area also received copies of an anonymous letter sent through the… Read More »Where State Farm sees ‘a lot of fraud’, black customers see discrimination
The Speeder is powered by four small jet engines Around age 12, David Mayman tried to build a helicopter from fence posts and an old… Read More »How a jetpack design helped create a flying motorcycle
AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X3D promises to be one of the company’s fastest gaming CPUs, and it’s one of the last high-end chips to grace the… Read More »Fast new 5800X3D is AMD’s first non-overclockable Ryzen processor
In the early morning Wednesday morning, employees of three Amazon warehouses walked out of their jobs. More than 60 employees at two delivery stations in… Read More »The Amazon Warehouse Walkout Is Just the Latest Push
When Adam Potash started riding for Lyft six months ago to make ends meet, he was happy with the pay. The business was far from… Read More »Uber, Lyft drivers struggle with high gas prices
From the logging roads of the Pacific Northwest to the farmland of the Great Plains and beyond, it’s not uncommon for rural people to learn… Read More »Driver in Texas crash was 13; is that legal?
Federal regulators have fined the USAA Federal Savings Bank, a century-old institution that primarily conducts business with members and veterans of the US military, for… Read More »USAA fined $140 million for money laundering checks
Prepare the spit bowl. This story will no doubt make you grind your chompers and leave a bad taste in your mouth. A Wisconsin dentist… Read More »Dentist broke his patients’ teeth to make millions by installing crowns, jury finds
Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) and Senator Chris Murphy (D., Conn.) engaged in a furious discussion on the floor of the House of Representatives on… Read More »Ben Sasse and Chris Murphy clash in heated Senate debate over Ukrainian aid, political greatness
A Russian “suicide” drone” that offers the ability to identify targets using artificial intelligence has been seen in images of the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.… Read More »Russian assassin drone in Ukraine sparks fear over AI in warfare
The National Labor Relations Board sued Amazon in federal court on Thursday, asking a judge to compel the company to quickly rectify what it called… Read More »NLRB sues Amazon over employment practices at a Staten Island facility
WASHINGTON — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech on Wednesday bore the marks of unabashed authoritarianism, Russian experts and observers said. “We’ll be fine after 1934,”… Read More »Putin repeats Stalin in ‘very, very scary’ speech
