How Much More You Spend to Work From an Office
If your work situation has shifted, and you now have to put in regular in-person appearances in an office, then you might’ve noticed that you’re spending a bit more than…
Chipotle Launches a Robot to Make Its Burrito Bowls
Chipotle’s social media accounts can be on the nose sometimes, with memes about sweater- and spooky- seasons, respectively; with rhetorical graphics about how a burrito would wear its pants; and…
A Ketchup Shortage Is Affecting Restaurants Across the Country | PEOPLE.com
Individual ketchup packets are in high demand — and suppliers can’t seem to keep up with it. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the price for individual ketchup packets…
‘Rent-a-person who does nothing’ in Tokyo receives endless requests, gratitude – The Mainichi
Beats a second career of working as a Walmart greeter, right? -Jeff TOKYO — A 37-year-old Tokyo man who says he rents himself out to other people “to do nothing”…
Gavin Newsom’s New Stay-at-Home Order a ‘Deathblow’ to California’s Small Businesses – Reason.com
Most of California will be going back into March-style lockdowns following the issuance of a new public health order from Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) that closes large swaths of the…
DeepMind AI cracks 50-year-old problem of protein folding | DeepMind | The Guardian
Having risen to fame on its superhuman performance at playing games, the artificial intelligence group DeepMind has cracked a serious scientific problem that has stumped researchers for half a century.…
Americans Are Starting a Staggering Number of Businesses During the COVID-19 Pandemic – Reason.com
In a year that will be remembered for a deadly pandemic that shut down parts of the economy and cost millions of people their jobs, here’s one silver lining. Read…
New Kim: Racing pigeon from Belgium sold for record €1.6m – BBC News
A racing pigeon from Belgium has set a new record after being sold for €1.6m ($1.9m, £1.4m). New Kim, a two-year-old female, was initially put up for auction for just…
Virgin Hyperloop hits an important milestone: the first human passenger test – The Verge
Virgin Hyperloop announced that for the first time it has conducted a test of its ultra-fast transportation system with human passengers. The test took place on Sunday afternoon at the…
The maps that show life is getting better | World news | The Guardian
Maps are not just informative, they are empowering. They can help provide a new perspective to age-old problems. But maps are not necessarily fixed – they often need renewing. As…
Air Travel High: TSA Screens 1 Million For 1st Time Since March : Coronavirus Live Updates : NPR
How’s this for an October surprise? Despite a significant rise in COVID-19 cases in many parts of the country, it appears that more people are flying on commercial jetliners than…
Morning Brew | Zombie nation
U.S. business applications went through the roof last quarter, according to a new report from the Census Bureau. Covidpreneurs filed more than 1.5 million applications for Employer Identification Numbers (EINs)…
New York Landlords Press Goldman, BlackRock to Speed Up Return-to-Work and Save City – Articles – Advisor Perspectives
The skyscrapers are mostly empty, the tourists are home and talk of New York’s decay is back. For the city’s real-estate barons, it’s time to put an end to it.…
Is the U.S. Recession Over? | Iris
Last month, the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research—the “scorekeepers” of economic recessions and expansions in the U.S.—marked the peak month of the previous expansion…
5 Rules on How to Win Any Argument
Let me start out by saying, Lord above I hope I am wrong. I hope everything I lay out here is ridiculous, never comes to fruition and that all the…
As Delayed Tax Day Approaches, Consider What You Get for Your Money – Reason.com
Flattening the curve on COVID-19 has meant flattening the curve on tax season, too, pushing everything down the line a bit so that the final day to hand over the…
Interstate Travel Restrictions Are Just Political Posturing – Reason.com
We’ve come a long way from the March day when New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo threatened to sue Rhode Island over restrictions on travelers from his pandemic-hotspot state. Now, questions…
Reasons To Believe That Stocks And The Economy Have Better Days Ahead
It’s reasonable to ask whether you should continue to be bullish on the U.S. economy and equities when the media continue to emphasize a plethora of troubling issues including a…
Real Reason Brokers Oppose a Fiduciary Standard | Financial Planning
Real Reason Brokers Oppose a Fiduciary Standard PAULA DWYER FEB 27, 2015 (Bloomberg) — Wall Street is wasting no time revving up its lobbying machine now that President Barack Obama…