Elliot Schrage, the high-profile exec who heads Facebook’s public policy and communications efforts, is leaving the company after a decade at the social media giant, according to a company spokesperson. Schrage, who joined Facebook from Google where he held a similar position running global communications and public affairs, will stay on at the social networking […]
Leaving dirty laundry in the car. Popping pimples. Incessantly snubbing underwear for the full effect of summer free-balling. All are considered bad habits in anyone’s language, but today we’re looking at a different kind of bad habit – the ones that are often practiced after a solid weights or cardio session at the local gym. […]
The Mars rover Opportunity has pushed its limits for more than a decade but NASA fears the worst as the exploration vehicle tries to survive an intense dust storm. “[The rover] has fallen asleep and is waiting out the storm,” John Callas, Opportunity’s project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told reporters Wednesday. “It’s completely […]
The Trump administration, deepening its global trade offensive, is preparing to levy tariffs on tens of billions of dollars of Chinese goods in the coming week, perhaps as early as Friday — a move that is likely to spark heavy retaliation from Beijing. Senior trade officials in the White House, the Commerce and Treasury departments […]
With the Federal Reserve’s latest quarter-point interest rate increase, the seventh such hike in two years, some consumers may need a life jacket. “Over time, that cumulative effect is growing,” said Greg McBride, the chief financial analyst at Bankrate.com. For the average American, recent signs of rising inflation, which pushed the central bank into hiking […]
In our never-ending quest to lose the belly fat, many of us will come across the old adage that running is the Holy Grail we’ve been looking for. So instead of doing 300 crunches every night, should you be running around the block instead? Is running good for reducing inches around the waist? We went […]
Elon Musk says he is on track to send people to Mars by 2024 through his aerospace company SpaceX. He even gave a tongue-in-cheek example of what running around the Big Falcon Rocket spaceship could look like by sharing a GIF from the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey.” And, though Musk admits he tends to […]
Tesla is cutting nine percent of its workforce, CEO Elon Musk announced today in a memo to staff. “We are a small company in one of the toughest and most competitive industries on Earth,” Musk wrote. He argued that cost cutting was necessary to turn Tesla into a sustainably profitable company. The layoffs are “almost […]
This week completely scrambled the video landscape, and its implications are going to take months to fully understand. First is the district court’s decision to approve the merger of AT&T and Time Warner announced just moments ago. That will create one of the largest content creation and distribution companies in the world when it closes. […]
Last week was a bad week for depression. We lost two cultural icons. Kate Spade’s name is ubiquitous in the fashion world. A few days later, waking up at 5 am to discover that Anthony Bourdain took his own life made me do a double, then triple take at my screen. The grief remains palpable […]
Humans will “absolutely” be on Mars in the future, NASA chief scientist Jim Green told USA TODAY. And the first person to go is likely living today, he said. After the “building blocks of life” were discovered on the Red Planet, life on Mars and living on Mars seems to be less like a scene […]
President Donald Trump repeated earlier this month his frequent complaint that the “the U.S. has been ripped off by other countries for years on trade,” but he omitted to mention that the “ripping off” process continues — on his watch. Here is what’s happening to U.S. trade accounts under Trump’s stewardship: Last year, America’s deficit […]
