Robocalls are having a resurgence in the U.S. after declining during the peak months of COVID-19. According to voicemail software company Youmail, robocalls reached a height of nearly 5 billion calls for the month of February before falling to less tha…
U.S. household debt decreased by $34 billion to $14.27 trillion in the second quarter of 2020, marking the first decline since the second quarter of 2014. While many may have expected debt levels to rise amid the pandemic, the drop-off in consumer spen…
After Goodyear banned its workers from wearing “Make America Great Again” baseball caps, President Trump took to Twitter to urge his supporters to boycott the tire manufacturer. He tweeted “Don’t buy GOODYEAR TIRES – They announced a BAN ON MAGA HATS. …
Apple became the first U.S. company to hit a market capitalization of $2 trillion on Wednesday, after its share price briefly climbed beyond the $467.77 mark needed to reach said milestone. Apple is only the second company in the world ever to reach a …
Despite postmaster general Louis DeJoy confirming he is suspending controversial cost-cutting changes to the United States Postal Services until after the presidential election, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House will still meet on Saturday to vote on…
A surge in new home constructions is prompting a healthy dose of optimism for home builders across the U.S. New data from a confidence index shows home builders and buyers are feeling the highest rate of confidence in the housing market since 1998. Acc…
Following a surge in new housing starts to end 2019, the global COVID-19 pandemic reached the private housing construction industry in the U.S. and caused a record-low number of new projects in the country. After three straight months of growth, howeve…
A large share of countries around the world are now using Chinese AI surveillance technology, including facial recognition technology, in full or in part. This is according to a report by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Many countries are c…
Western European countries, which had successfully flattened the curve of COVID-19 infections, are now experiencing a surge of new cases. According to numbers by Johns Hopkins University, cases are growing quite rapidly again in Spain and France, where…
As the public feud between Apple and mobile games developer Epic Games heats up, some might wonder why it’s such a big deal. After all, how big of a difference can a couple of percentage points in commissions/app store fees make in the grand scheme of …