If there has been one consistent theme in Jerome Powell’s statements throughout the inflation crisis, it’s been this: we’re not done yet. Whenever he was asked about future rate hikes, he repeated the same mantra of doing whatever is necessary to rein …
There is a huge disparity in labor force participation among over 65-year-olds across different OECD countries. According to data from the organization, Japan and Korea are the places where those aged 65 and over are making up the biggest share of the …
Protests and strikes that have disrupted France for weeks are expected to grow more intense as the government yesterday decided to force through a controversial reform raising the minimum standard retirement age from 62 to 64. The change has been in th…
This Friday, March 17, is World Sleep Day, an annual celebration that aims to raise awareness of the importance of getting a good night’s sleep. This year’s campaign tagline is “Sleep is essential for health.” According to a study by the American Colle…
Following this week’s release of GPT-4, OpenAI’s new multimodal model accepting image and text inputs rather than ChatGPT’s text-only prompts, people on social media have been marveling about the new engine’s results in performing a variety of tasks, s…
English football commentator Gary Lineker will be returning to the BBC’s landmark Match of the Day programme, after a weekend-long dispute with the news organization. Lineker was asked to step back from his role on Friday after he tweeted on his privat…
After a string of fires caused by batteries of electric scooters and bicycles, lithium-ion batteries have come under scrutiny once again. The batteries, which power many everyday products such as laptops, phones and cameras, are generally considered sa…
Tomorrow marks the third anniversary since the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic. Three years on and much has changed, including opinions on how the virus started, with one origin theory having taken particular hold in the United S…
As stock markets flailed and the age of zero interest was only slowly beginning to end, 2022 was not kind to investors. The year was also Wall Street’s worst since the Great Recession, causing most shareholders leaving markets owning less than what the…
After seeing its bookings cut by more than 40 percent due to the Covid 19 pandemic in 2020, Airbnb bounced back remarkably well in 2021 and 2022. Fueled by the strong uptick in international travel in 2022, Airbnb saw bookings more than double compared…
