At least five more restaurants in Seattle are closing their doors just days after the city council’s new minimum wage law mandating an hourly pay of $20.76 an hour went into effect — with the local hospitality industry predicting that more small businesses will go under in 2025. The owner of the Bel Gatto bakery
Share Tweet By Billy Hallowell Editor January 8, 2025 Social media giant Meta shocked the tech industry Tuesday by announcing the company will be taking steps to “restore free expression” on its social media platforms, including Facebook. “After Trump first got elected in 2016, the legacy media wrote nonstop about how misinformation was a threat
CES, the yearly confab for tech heads in Las Vegas, has always been a must-attend for gadget geeks — and 2025 is no exception. There are robo-vacuums and robo-lawn mowers. There are superfast phone chargers that look like toasters. And of course, there are robot dogs — some of them furry and cuddly, and some
US longshoremen reached a contract agreement with ports and shippers Wednesday, averting a potential strike that could have damaged the American economy. The International Longshoremens Association union and the US Maritime Alliance of ports and shipping companies said they had reached a tentative agreement for a six-year contract, a week ahead of a Jan. 15
Share Tweet By Tr Goins-Phillips Editor January 5, 2025 A new advisory from the U.S. surgeon general categorizes alcohol consumption as the “third leading preventable cause of cancer” in the country. Dr. Vivek Murthy issued the guidance Friday, stating new findings link alcohol to the chances of contracting at least seven different kinds of cancer:
US fintech firm Ripple and blockchain oracle provider Chainlink have partnered to accelerate the adoption of the cross-border payments firms stablecoin, Ripple USD. Ripple has adopted the Chainlink standard to access highly secure and reliable pricing data around the recently launched Ripple USD (RLUSD) stablecoin, stated Chainlink on Jan. 7. Ripple describes its new stablecoin
Elon Musks father says his billionaire son has expressed interest in buying English soccer club Liverpool. The Premier League club is privately owned by Fenway Sports Group, which has not indicated it wants to sell but has accepted external investment in the past. Errol Musk, in an interview with Times Radio, acknowledged that the Tesla CEO has an
US online spending rose nearly 9% during the 2024 holiday season, with shoppers increasingly buying products such as TVs and LEGO sets on their smartphones, data from Adobe Analytics showed on Tuesday. Holiday spending from Nov. 1 through Dec. 31 rose 8.7% to about $241.4 billion online, higher than Adobe’s initial forecast of $240.8 billion made in September. In 2023, online spending during the same period
Mark Zuckerberg may be a digital pioneer, but on Tuesday he flashed a taste for analog bling. The Meta CEO appeared to wear a rare Swiss watch which sells for nearly $1 million as he announced the decision to scrap third-party fact-checking by his popular Facebook and Instagram apps. On Tuesday, as he argued that
The success of President-Elect Donald Trumps legislative agenda will depend on whether Republicans can close ranks in Congress. They nearly failed on their very first vote. Mike Johnson won reelection as House speaker by the narrowest of margins this afternoon, and only after two Republican holdouts changed their votes at the last minute. Johnson won
LAS VEGAS X CEO Linda Yaccarino took center stage at Tuesdays opening day of CES 2025 where throngs of tech geeks swarmed to see the latest AI-powered robots, software, drones and more. Yaccarino boasted that the Elon Musk-owned social media platform was heading into 2025 at a breakneck speed during her featured keynote address at
A family is demanding justice after an Ohio police officer searched their 5-year-old childs pocket when his dad was pulled over during a routine traffic stop. Brandon Wilson said he was driving his Volkswagen SUV across the street to his mothers home when Parma Police officers pulled him over at around 9:20 p.m. on Dec.
Two people were found dead inside the landing gear of a JetBlue plane that flew from New York City to Florida, the airline said Tuesday. The bodies were discovered inside the landing gear compartment during a routine post-flight maintenance inspection at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, a JetBlue spokesperson told The Post. The aircraft had most
LAS VEGAS Artificial intelligence was the undisputed theme at CES 2025 on Monday as Samsung and other tech heavyweights touted a bevy of gadgets and gizmos that included driverless tractors, a magic skincare mirror, instant hormone tests and more robots than ever before. The multi-day event, organized by the Consumer Technology Association, welcomed more than
Meta Platforms said Monday it had elected three new directors to its board, including Dana White, CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and close friend of President-elect Donald Trump. The Facebook-parent also elected Charlie Songhurst, an investor and former Microsoft executive, as well as John Elkann, CEO of Exor, a holding company controlled by Italy’s Agnelli family with interests in European businesses such
NEW YORK — In the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing in 2020, investor Mellody Hobson recalls frequent calls from directors at Fortune 500 companies for references to diverse candidates for boards. Now, she says, it’s “very sporadic.” “During the George Floyd days there were dozens and dozens of them,” said Hobson, the co-CEO of Ariel
LAS VEGAS (AP) An ex-gang leader is seeking to have all the charges against him dismissed in the 1990s killing of rap music icon Tupac Shakur. Attorney Carl Arnold filed the motion on Monday in the District Court of Nevada to dismiss charges against Duane Davis in the 1996 shooting of Shakur. The motion alleges
06:19 Dangerous winter storm begins assault on Washington, Baltimore as heavy snow and ice fall across mid-Atlantic Millions of people from the Midwest to the mid-Atlantic are under winter weather alerts as a powerful and dangerous winter storm sweeps to the east, impacting cities like Washington, Baltimore, Richmond in Virginia and Philadelphia. The first major
University of California – San Francisco Jan 6 2025 An up-close look at how patients respond to the drug at different times and doses adds nuance to a recent finding that Paxlovid does not work for long Covid. An extended course of Paxlovid appears to help some patients with long Covid, according to a case
PayPal has been sued by an Asian American businesswoman who accused the digital payments company of racial bias for restricting part of a $535 million investment program to black and Hispanic applicants, costing her millions of dollars. Thursday’s complaint by Nisha Desai and her New York-based venture capital firm Andav Capital is part of a growing push among some conservatives to curtail diversity,
Many of the world’s largest hedge funds raked in comfortable double-digit returns in 2024 — benefiting from chaotic markets, central bank policy changes and a tight presidential election race. The big winners included Dan Loeb’s New York-based Third Point, which posted a 28.7% return, Mets owner Steve Cohen’s Point72, which reported a 19% return, and
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