Thanks to owners with deep pockets and ever-growing broadcasting revenues, the Premier League set yet another transfer spending record this winter. At a time when most non-English clubs were forced to take a more frugal approach in the wake of the Covi…
Receiving a Michelin star is still the highest honor for a restaurant and more than 200 in the United States currently hold the distinction. Michelin-star restaurants cluster around the country’s biggest cities and most can be found in New York City. D…
The meteoric rise of ChatGPT has been a watershed moment for artificial intelligence as it enabled millions of users, regular people, to experiment with AI and witness its astonishing capabilities first-hand. While there are still limitations, ChatGPT …
The rise of the podcast hasn’t just revolutionized the way in which people engage with prominent figures and how our media consumption is split up – as new data from Statista Advertising & Media Markets Insights reveals, ad-supported podcasting has lon…
Three days before the latest CPI reading, which showed tentative signs that inflation may be cooling, a monthly report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York showed rising optimism among Americans about the short-term inflation outlook. According to…
Amazon sent out its first drone deliveries in California and Texas in December 2022, as part of its trials for the hotly anticipated ‘Amazon Prime Air’ service. The company promises to deliver packages within one hour from clicking pay. While orders vi…
According to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2022 was the sixth warmest year on record (since 1880), as planet Earth continued its worrying warming trend. Earth’s average land and ocean surface temperature …
How do you feel about religion? Depending on which country you are in, this question is more or less likely to be met with a shrug or even an objection to religious belief. In China, the highest percentage of people among the 56 countries and territori…
According to popular belief, more accidents and misfortunes happen on Friday the 13th. While it is not entirely clear where the superstition comes from, both the number 13 and Friday have long been regarded as symbols of bad luck.As our chart shows, th…
With the December release of the Consumer Price Index by the Bureau of Labor Statistics today, the final tally for 2022’s monster inflation is in. Inflation cooled towards the end of the year, with last month’s year-over-year price increases standing a…
