While so-called “shopping holidays” like Cyber Monday and Black Friday have become synonymous with sales at big online retailers like Amazon and are mostly focused on consumer electronics, a majority of these products don’t even make the top 8 when it …
Aside from the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States is also dealing with another national health crisis, one that has been going on for years and is only getting worse. The opioid crisis.On Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rele…
While more and more consumers enjoy the convenience of having a robot vacuum their home or take care of the lawn, it is in industrial applications that robotics have made the biggest impact. State-of-the-art manufacturing processes are unthinkable with…
UK inflation (CPI) hit 4.2 percent in October – the highest since October 2011 (5.0). The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics also put the inflation measure including owner occupiers’ housing costs (CPIH) at a similarly high level – …
87 percent of 24 dating apps reviewed by the Mozilla Foundation have severe issues when it comes to protecting their users’ privacy, with only Lex, eHarmony and Happn passing the test. This is the result of a yearly study by the non-profit founded in 2…
While General Motors was preparing for President Biden’s visit to its retooled Factory ZERO in Detroit, another American car maker made headlines on Tuesday. Electric vehicle start-up Lucid blew past Ford’s market capitalization on Tuesday to become th…
Lack of sleep has been tied to a myriad of health problems from increased risk of diabetes, heart disease and obesity to decreased immunity and fertility. This is in addition to the cognitive and emotional damage lack of sleep can do.Still, many Americ…
In the wake of the unprecedented jobs crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, a new trend has emerged in the U.S. labor market, as more and more Americans are quitting their jobs. According to the latest JOLTS report, a record number of 4.4 mill…
According to a survey of 1,200 people carried out in Australia and New Zealand by Here.com, members of Gen Z commuting by car feel more drawn to it since the onset of the pandemic, while especially older Millennials were adamant about not returning to …
The profitability of coronavirus vaccines has come under scrutiny in connection with vaccine patents, but the temporary lifting of patents that were supposed to make the production of the life-saving inoculations more financially feasible for poorer co…