Jan 10, 2024 - Economy Matt Phillips, author of Axios Markets Data: Federal Reserve; Chart: Axios Visuals About 93% of U.S. households' stock market wealth is held by the top 10%. Why it matters: This

A new report claims “resounding evidence” shows that high corporate profits are a main driver of ongoing inflation, and companies continue to keep prices high even as their inflationary costs drop. Th

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Jan 10, 2024 - Economy Matt Phillips, author of Axios Markets Data: Federal Reserve; Chart: Axios Visuals About 93% of U.S. households' stock market wealth is held by the top 10%. Why it matters: This

The limos have been booked. Hotels have loaded up with champagne. Shops have been converted into pop-up offices for the tech giants. The annual Davos talkfest is about to begin. The collective mood of

Most humans learn the skill of deceiving other humans. So can AI models learn the same? Yes, the answer seems — and terrifyingly, they’re exceptionally good at it. A recent study co-authored by resear

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With COVID-19 cases on the rise once again, everyone seems to either be getting infected or know someone who is. Without the robust data tracking that was available during the public health emergency,

Long-time readers might recall that I have a soft spot for Sokoban: an ancient but timeless computer puzzle game that involves tidying up warehouses by moving heavy crates into their designated spots.

A McDonald’s customer receives his order at a drive-through in Houston, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Over the holidays, extremely online progressives debated the most important theoretical questio

2024 Jan; 12(1): E11–E22. Published online 2024 Jan 5. doi: 10.1055/a-2180-9872 PMCID: PMC10769582 PMID: 38188925 Incidence of persistent SARS-CoV-2 gut infection in patients with a history of COVID-1

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The popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT had a diagnostic error rate of more than 80 percent in a new study looking at the use of artificial intelligence in pediatric case diagnosis. F

A mere 700 IT jobs were added in the US last year compared to 267,000 the year prior, it's claimed. It'd be easy to blame layoffs, but that's not all there is to it, says tech consultancy Janco Associ

NEWS 30 August 2023 Rigorous evidence shows that significant contact with a person with SARS-CoV-2 is more likely to lead to transmission than a short encounter. Anil Oza View author publications You

Researchers from Amsterdam UMC and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) have discovered that the persistent fatigue in patients with long-COVID has a biological cause, namely mitochondria in muscle cells

A polar bear has been killed by bird flu as the highly contagious H5N1 virus spreads into the most remote parts of the planet. The death was confirmed in December by the Alaska Department of Environme

The COVID-19 pandemic is still ongoing, according to one of the World Health Organization’s leading infectious disease experts. Marian Van Kerkhove, M.D., who led the organization’s response to the vi

I have a dead-simple diagnostic tool for 2024. Ask yourself how you feel about Mondays. Too many of us dread them. The meetings. The meetings about meetings. The planning that rarely turns into realit

Doctorow just wrote an uncharacteristically shortsighted essay asking whether there would be anything left over after AI’s bubble bursts. Here’s an excerpt: I’ve had to make rule for my events: The fi

A slowdown — but no recession. That's the broad consensus for the economy among experts as we head into 2024. After a post-pandemic period that saw growth surpass most forecasts — but also spurred bre

Advertisement 28th December 2023, 08:06 EST BBC News Getty Images Maine's top election official has ruled that Donald Trump cannot run for president next year in the state, citing a constitutional ins

20 years ago, I got in a (friendly) public spat with Chris Anderson, who was then the editor in chief of Wired . I’d publicly noted my disappointment with glowing Wired reviews of DRM-encumbered digit

Two Republican officials in Arizona got charged for delaying approval of 2022 election results – and GOP state lawmakers vowed to retaliate against the Democratic attorney general who filed the charge

When the mule deer buck died in October, it perished in a place most humans would consider the middle of nowhere, miles from the nearest road. But its last breaths were not taken in an isolated corner

Artificial rain has been used in an attempt to lower pollution levels in Lahore, Pakistan. The capital city of the eastern province of Punjab, near the Indian border, has some of the worst air quality

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Flowers are “giving up on” pollinators and evolving to be less attractive to them as insect numbers decline, researchers have said. A study has found the flowers of field pansies growing near Paris ar

Lisa Williams is a minimalist. After her husband passed away in 2014, she was content to move into a studio apartment in Las Vegas. But when her rent increased by 25% from 2020 to 2022, she had to dow

Commercial real estate property values will fall another 10% next year, after falling 11% this year, Capital Economics’ deputy chief property economist, Kiran Raichura, wrote in a recently released ou

Click for full size version I’ve been wanting to capture this for a while now. I’ve made multiple versions of this over the years, but I’m pretty happy with how this one turned out. The goal of the sy

Cybersecurity programs are infamous as gatekeepers, power tripping in their virtual CAT machines to dump roadblocks and jackhammer potholes on software delivery. This draws ire from nearly every other

Stephanie Soucheray, MA November 22, 2023 COVID-19 Nur Ceren Demir/iStock A new study comparing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images of patients with long COVID, fully recovered COVID-19 survivors,

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Has the American labor market ever been better? Not in my lifetime, and probably not in yours, either. The jobless rate is just 3.8 percent. Employers added a blockbuster 336,000 jobs in September. Wa

Tax cuts for the wealthy have long drawn support from conservative lawmakers and economists who argue that such measures will "trickle down" and eventually boost jobs and incomes for everyone else. Bu

The richest 10 percent of U.S. households are responsible for 40 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study released Thursday in PLOS Climate. The study, which looked at h

Record-breaking heat is becoming the new normal in Texas, an analysis of temperature data by The Texas Tribune shows, as climate change steadily warms the planet and shifts the range of typical temper