Washington Post

Why the pandemic's work-from-home tech darlings are falling back to earth

The early months of the pandemic brought soaring fortunes for a handful uniquely-positioned tech companies who b...

Washington Post

23.01.22

The documentary 'Flee' is mesmerizing - and told almost entirely in animation

Early in the extraordinary documentary "Flee," its subject - known by the pseudonym Amin Nawabi - is asked to define the word "home." Lying back on a tapestry-covered day bed, his eyes...

Washington Post

23.01.22

Britney Spears sends sister Jamie Lynn a cease-and-desist letter over 'outrageous claims' in new book

A lawyer for Britney Spears sent the pop singer's sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, a cease-and-desist letter this week over "misleading or outrageous claims" made in her new memoir and on it...

Bloomberg

23.01.22

Tale of Two U.K. Homes Holds Secret to Cutting High Energy Bills

Hardly a week goes by without British newspapers featuring a story about energy companies going bankrupt or household heating and electricity bills going through the roof. The latest o...

Bloomberg

22.01.22

PlayStation creator Kutaragi snubs metaverse and VR headsets

PlayStation inventor Ken Kutaragi shrugged off the metaverse as the tech industry's next big undertaking and head-mounted displays as the portal to that destination, describing them as...

Washington Post

22.01.22

The best music festival in 1969? Hint: It wasn't Woodstock

The notes shimmer as B.B. King, resplendent in a blue sport jacket, slides his fingers across his red Gibson. The crowd in Harlem's Mount Morris Park sways, claps and smiles as he deli...

Washington Post

22.01.22

I never thought I'd miss 'How I Met Your Mother.' Then I saw 'How I Met Your Father.'

If you'd asked me eight years ago, when "How I Met Your Mother" went off the air, when I'd be nostalgic for the long-running CBS sitcom about an all-White group of friends drinking and...

Washington Post

22.01.22

More enslaved Africans came to the Americas through this port than anywhere else. Why have so few heard of it?

RIO DE JANEIRO - When tour guide Pedro Andres arrived at the site historians call the most important physical evidence of the arrival of enslaved Africans to the Americas, the scene he...

Washington Post

21.01.22

FAA says some planes will be 'too susceptible' to 5G interference to be safe

The Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday it had cleared more than three-quarters of the nation's commercial fleet to land at airports where interference from 5G signals could ...

Bloomberg

21.01.22

Bank of Russia seeks to outlaw mining and trading of crypto

Cryptocurrencies bear the hallmarks of a pyramid scheme and undermine the sovereignty of monetary policy, posing a threat to the Russian financial system, the central bank said in a re...

Bloomberg

21.01.22

EU faces major rebuttal over plan to call gas, nuclear 'green'

A key body created to help the European Union ensure it can reach net-zero carbon emissions by mid-century intends to slam the bloc's proposal, according to documents seen by Bloomberg...

Bloomberg

20.01.22

Early omicron breakthroughs show mRNA vaccines' weakness

Seven German visitors to Cape Town experienced symptomatic Covid-19 infections between late November and early December despite being boosted, the researchers, whose investigation was ...

Bloomberg

20.01.22

Europe is looking beyond omicron despite wall of infections

With curbs looking porous, or even futile, in the face of the highly transmissible strain, European governments are calling for fresh approaches to Covid-19. Some want to treat the vir...

Washington Post

20.01.22

Puerto Rico exits bankruptcy after U.S. judge approves multibillion-dollar restructuring plan

The plan, put forth by a bipartisan oversight board established as part of the 2016 Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act - "Promesa," or "promise" in Spanish - ...

Bloomberg

19.01.22

Covid-related depression is driving labor shortages in U.K.

Official figures published Tuesday revealed that 411,000 people dropped out of the workforce between February 2020, the month before lockdown, and November last year. Of those, 209,000...

Bloomberg

19.01.22

How safe assets became investors' biggest risk

Sri Lanka is facing a debt crisis, and yet its stock market is up more than 60% in the last year. The Federal Reserve is getting ready to hike rates to combat inflation, and the higher...

Washington Post

19.01.22

Microsoft bought Activision because gaming is the new social media

On Tuesday, Microsoft said it plans to buy the gaming giant Activision Blizzard - maker of the Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Candy Crush franchises, to name a few - for some $69...

Washington Post

18.01.22

U.K. government's reported plan to freeze BBC funding source stirs controversy

The Mail on Sunday newspaper reported that the controversial proposal to freeze the yearly household tax that funds the BBC's work could cost the broadcaster as much as £2 billion ($2....

Washington Post

18.01.22

Who shot the mystery film of the Rolling Stones at Altamont?

Was it the man in the blue shirt with the mustache and sideburns holding up the small, three-lens movie camera? Was it the guy with curly brown hair and a tan shirt aiming a black came...

Washington Post

18.01.22

Nuclear power: Could it be a clean energy solution?

At the heart of any nuclear power plant, there are tiny pieces of uranium called atoms. Carefully, and under control, technicians break apart these atoms using a reaction called nuclea...

Bloomberg

18.01.22

U.S., EU drop idea of removing Russia from international payments system, report says

The U.S. and the European Union are no longer considering the option of unplugging Russia from the Swift international payments system if it attacks Ukraine, Handelsblatt reported, cit...