Penn Station commuters faced another transit nightmare Monday. New Jersey Transit service in and out of midtown Manhattan was temporarily suspended during Monday night’s rush hour — the fourth time in less than a week commuters have been saddled with delays and cancellations. The latest headache was blamed by NJ Transit on “Amtrak overhead wire … Read more
Higher environmental temperatures can cause mutations in fungi that lead to increased infectivity, more aggressive growth, or resistance to multiple anti-fungal medications. Microbiologist examining cultures of mold and fungi in Petri dishes. getty Public health officials have long been concerned that rising temperatures on Earth could cause fungi to become more harmful to humans. Oh, … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — Another slide for a Wall Street heavyweight Nvidia kept US indexes mixed on Monday, even as most stocks rose. The S&P 500 fell 0.3% to retreat further from the record set last week. The decline for Nvidia and other winners of Wall Street’s artificial intelligence boom dragged the Nasdaq composite down … Read more
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Yahoo Finance that she “doesn’t see the basis” for a US recession and that she expects the Federal Reserve to reach its 2% inflation target next year – a faster pace than as predicted by central bank policy makers. “I expect inflation to come down and going into next year … Read more
Building compact behavioral programs. (A) Top: The space of strategies for solving a task can be large, with many strategies achieving reasonably good performance. Bottom line: Studying relationships between strategies can provide insight into behavioral variability across animals and tasks. (B) General task configuration: An animal makes inferences about hidden properties of the environment to … Read more
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., June 24, 2024. Brendan McDermid | Reuters This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. … Read more
The bathroom is a quiet place – it’s where we go to wash away the day and, hopefully, relax. And with the help of some leafy and aromatic plants that make a home smell good, we can transform our bathroom into a more relaxing space. One we want to stay longer. Tropical plants will do … Read more
For the past two weeks, I’ve been editing in the newest version of Final Cut Pro for iPad. For many professionals, the original release of this app last year missed the mark. Its tools have simply been too limited to use on a daily basis. The new version doesn’t necessarily change that – but despite … Read more
Three AI acquirers recently announced stock splits. But which one is better to buy today? With the AI revolution in full swing, stock prices of favored semiconductor stocks have been on the rise. In late May, I identified five AI stocks that needed to be split. Lo and behold, three have already announced splits since … Read more
Boeing and NASA are once again “fixing” the return home of two astronauts from the International Space Station with the Starliner spacecraft. Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were scheduled to stay on the ISS for just one week after docking there on June 6. They are now not expected to make the trip back to … Read more