JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon blasted working from home and Zoom as “management by Hollywood Squares,” using the dated TV show reference on a call with the bank’s wealthy clients last week to reiterate his long-held preference that workers return to the office, Yahoo Finance reports. Dimon argued on the Tuesday call that remote work … Read more
Put simply, Kahoot is a creation tool for designing your games. What makes Kahoot stand out from the crowd is its focus on generating educational games. There’s a vast array of educational games available online, but Kahoot is a free-to-use powerful creation tool giving you the ability to create your games. If you feel like there’s an area of … Read more
A few weeks ago, Serhiy was a business analyst at an IT company. Zakhar was a civil engineer. Now they are soldiers, training to liberate Ukraine from Russia’s invasion — but doing it more than 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) away in Britain. They are among several hundred Ukrainian recruits pounding through an intense form of … Read more
Furious fans accused Cincinnati Open organisers of a ticket stitch-up after Emma Raducanu and Serena Williams’ blockbuster meeting was postponed until Tuesday. The defending US Open champion and 23-time major singles winner were due to face off in the first round of the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati on Monday, but the hotly anticipated … Read more
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U.S. stocks clawed back from a downbeat start to the trading week Monday as Wall Street looked to extend a summer rally that saw equity markets log their longest winning streak in 10 months in Friday’s session. The S&P 500 rose 0.4% after the benchmark index marked its fourth straight week of gains, officially recouping … Read more
Hail … Indiana? “Stranger Things” star Millie Bobby Brown is a student at Purdue University. The actor, who plays psychokinetic and telepathic teen Eleven in the series, says she’s taking online classes affiliated with the West Lafayette, Ind., institution that has been referenced in the Netflix mega-hit more than once. The 18-year-old Brit told Allure … Read more
originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea While the 49ers continue to play the Jimmy Garoppolo waiting game, the veteran quarterback finds himself in an awkward position at training camp. “When the other 89 men on the San Francisco roster are practicing outside, Garoppolo is usually inside, or on his way home,” Peter King of NBC … Read more
Furious fans accused Cincinnati Open organisers of a ticket stitch-up after Emma Raducanu and Serena Williams’ blockbuster meeting was postponed until Tuesday. The defending US Open champion and 23-time major singles winner were due to face off in the first round of the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati on Monday, but the hotly anticipated … Read more
Much of the UK has been experiencing another day of high temperatures – but the spell of extreme hot weather is coming to an end with thunderstorms. Scotland and Northern Ireland had rain and lower temperatures on Sunday, which will spread into parts of England and Wales on Monday. A Met Office amber warning for … Read more
A health official in New York State has told the BBC there could be hundreds or even thousands of undiagnosed cases of polio there. It follows an announcement last month that an unvaccinated man had been paralysed by the virus in Rockland County, New York. His case has been linked genetically to traces of polio … Read more
Saudi oil giant Aramco has broken its own record with a $48.4bn (£39.8bn) profit for the second quarter of 2022. It is a 90% year-on-year increase and marks the biggest earnings for the world’s largest energy exporter since its public listing three years ago. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has seen oil and gas prices skyrocket. … Read more
The US Senate has approved a sweeping $700bn (£577bn) economic package that includes major legislation on healthcare, tax and climate change. The bill seeks to lower the cost of some medicines, increase corporate taxes and reduce carbon emissions. The passing of the bill – a flagship part of President Joe Biden’s agenda – is a … Read more
The FBI seized top secret files in a search of former US President Donald Trump’s estate in Florida this week, documents show. Agents removed 11 sets of documents, including some marked “TS/SCI”, a designation for material that could cause “exceptionally grave” damage to US national security. Mr Trump denied any wrongdoing and said the items … Read more
Researchers from the University of Reading are “chasing” Arctic cyclones over the sea ice, north of Norway. The team of scientists – together with a specialist pilot – are trying to fly their small research aircraft through summer cyclones at very low levels. Their measurements will build a picture of how storms interact with sea … Read more
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) will stop making and selling its talc-based baby powder around the world from next year. The announcement comes more than two years after the healthcare giant ended sales of the product in the US. J&J faces tens of thousands of lawsuits from women who allege its talcum powder contained asbestos and … Read more
The prosecution of six protesters who attended a vigil for Sarah Everard has been dropped. Hundreds attended the event at Clapham Common in March 2021 after Ms Everard was kidnapped, raped and murdered by Met Police officer Wayne Couzens. The Met accused six people of breaking Covid-19 lockdown rules at the vigil. A spokesperson for … Read more
Scientists and politicians say we are facing a planetary crisis because of climate change. But what’s the evidence for global warming and how do we know it’s being caused by humans? How do we know the world is getting warmer?Our planet has been warming rapidly since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. The average temperature … Read more
The UK economy shrank between April and June as experts forecast a gloomy outlook with recession on the horizon. The economy contracted by 0.1% in the second quarter of the year, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. This was partly due to Covid schemes like Test and Trace ending, retail sales falling and the … Read more
Disney will launch a new ad-supported streaming service in the US in December, as it overtakes Netflix in the race for subscribers. The firm said it had 221.1 million subscriptions across its three streaming platforms as of 2 July. That contrasts with rival Netflix which has been losing customers. But Disney warned that its loss … Read more