Covid-19, the war in Ukraine, mass shootings, inflation and so on and so forth. It sometimes feels like there’s no end to bad news, and, especially in the age of doom scrolling, that can take a toll on people’s mental wellbeing. As a consequence, more …
As podcasts have grown more and more popular over the past few years, it was only a matter of time before advertisers took note of the trend and jumped aboard the hype train. Offering a highly attractive target audience – young, educated, high-income –…
Over the past few years, podcasts have emerged as a new form of distributing audio content to a broad, international audience. Particularly popular among younger audiences and digital natives, podcasts are especially well-suited for long-form audio con…
Microsoft is shutting off one of the least-beloved titans of the early internet era today – at least for their most recent operating system. Windows 10 users that try to connect to the Internet Explorer desktop app will from now on be redirected to the…
The Buffalo supermarket shooting, the massacre of elementary school children in Uvalde, Texas, the attack on a doctor and bystanders in Tulsa, Okla., and the workplace shooting at a Maryland concrete plant – mass shootings have dominated headlines in t…
In 2019, an estimated seven million or five percent of U.S. households were unbanked, choosing to not open or simply not qualifying for a checking account at traditional banks. While this percentage might seem low on a country-wide scale, it is nonethe…
In response to Friday’s worse-than-expected inflation reading, which makes another drastic rate hike a foregone conclusion ahead of this week’s Fed meeting, stocks were getting hammered on Friday and Monday. The S&P 500 dropped 2.9 percent and 3.9 perc…
Despite the Fed’s most aggressive interest rate hike since 2000, consumer prices continued to surge in May, adding to fears that inflation may be out of control. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Consumer Price Index for All Urban C…
What if the bustle of New York City streets would turn from bumper-to-bumper traffic into back-to-back parks and playgrounds? A new proposal dubbed NYC 25×25, whose supporters include the city’s new major, Eric Adams, suggests taking 25 percent of New …
The effects of the war in Ukraine are felt in many ways – the one that is probably most pervasive in the daily lives of people around the world is rising prices. Russia and Ukraine have a significant influence on the world economy due to their role as …