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From Wall Street Journal. In the shadows of the Israel-Gaza and Ukraine-Russia conflicts, another war is raging in the Red Sea and the West is on the front line. Houthi rebels have turned one of the world’s most critical trade routes into a shooting gallery. Thousands of miles away, distress calls from targeted vessels are…
From Wall Street Journal. Following Bashar al-Assad’s downfall, WSJ travels to an abandoned prison in Damascus while families across Syria desperately search for missing relatives, and in the process makes a grim discovery. Chapters: 0:00 Searching a prison cell in Damascus 3:00 HTS securing the prisons 5:15 Messages in prison cells #Syria #Assad #WSJ
From Wall Street Journal. Meta’s current Ray-Bans and its Orion prototype offer a glimpse of the sleek, high-tech glasses we’ve dreamed of, while Apple’s Vision Pro delivers a lot more function but too much bulk. Tech companies are making progress on augmented-reality glasses that bring digital objects into our real world, but do we even…
From Wall Street Journal. How much influence could President-elect Donald Trump have over the Federal Reserve during his second presidency? Trump has publicly disapproved of Fed Chair Jay Powell’s performance, and at one point in 2019, likened him to Chinese President Xi Jinping. But it remains unclear whether Trump has the legal authority to fire…
From Wall Street Journal. After the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City, physicians offer a sober look at frustrations with the healthcare system in the U.S. WSJ’s Anna Wilde Mathews walks through the findings of a Journal investigation exposing how private insurance companies collected billions in payments through Medicare Advantage programs.…
From Wall Street Journal. Unidentified aircraft flying only hundreds of feet from the ground have appeared in the skies over New Jersey in recent weeks. Experts who have seen the reported “drone” footage of these aircrafts categorize it into two buckets: quadcopter and fixed-winged aircraft. The unidentified aircrafts have flown over WSJ tech columnist’s Joanna…
From Wall Street Journal. Video and data gathered by the Wall Street Journal from over 200 Tesla Autopilot crashes shows that longstanding concerns about Tesla’s camera-based technology, which differs from the rest of the industry, are showing up on the roads and putting the public at risk. Chapters: 0:00 Tesla autopilot crashes 2:00 The Journal’s…
From Wall Street Journal. Liquid Death, a brand that markets water in beer cans, has achieved a $1.4 billion valuation in 2024. With over 10 million social media followers, it ranks as one of the most followed beverage brands worldwide, trailing Red Bull and Monster. Despite its rapid rise, Liquid Death has managed to build…
From Wall Street Journal. It took just over a week for the 54-year Assad regime to fall in Syria. Now, President Bashar al-Assad has fled to Russia, and the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham are in control of Damascus. Why did Assad have Russian and Iranian support? Who were the rebel forces fighting in Syria to overthrow…
From Wall Street Journal. From trains and traffic to concerts and sporting events, many cities around the world are dangerously loud. Noise pollution can have a huge impact on health and quality of life – causing stress and increasing risk for heart disease and other issues. So what are some of the tools that engineers…
From Wall Street Journal. North Korea has launched thousands of trash balloons across the DMZ into South Korea. A campaign of psychological warfare has begun on the Korean Peninsula as the demilitarized zone has now become a frontline for a dangerous and bizarre tit for tat. WSJ’s Timothy Martin travelled up to the world’s most…
From Wall Street Journal. Japan is home to vast nuclear plants made dormant after the Fukushima meltdown. The area around the power plant remains a ghost town almost 14 years after the reactor shut down, showing the dangers of nuclear power gone awry. But power companies are clamoring to restart dormant reactors across Japan, as…
From Wall Street Journal. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to dismantle the Department of Education and reverse Biden-era policies on transgender students and racial disparities. Trump has also signaled support for religions in schools, including prayer in the classroom. But why do Trump and other Republicans want to abolish the Department of Education and what…
From Wall Street Journal. Modi’s India is building a new base for nuclear-armed submarines in the Bay of Bengal called INS Varsha in a bid to curb China’s naval footprint growing in India’s backyard. The Bay of Bengal is a critical shipping lane and some China experts believe the waterway could play a key role…
From Wall Street Journal. Modi’s India is building a new base for nuclear-armed submarines in the Bay of Bengal called INS Varsha in a bid to curb China’s naval footprint growing in India’s backyard. The Bay of Bengal is a critical shipping lane and some China experts believe the waterway could play a key role…
From Wall Street Journal. President-elect Donald Trump vowed on the campaign trail to lower inflation. About half of Trump voters said higher prices were the largest factor in their decision, according to AP VoteCast. But the Federal Reserve is independent and uses interest rates to encourage or discourage borrowing money, which leads to more or…
From Wall Street Journal. President-elect Donald Trump has a long list of policy objectives that he wants to implement quickly including border policy for immigration, closing the Department of Education, implementing tariffs and more. For most of Trump’s objectives for his second term, there are limitations including checks and balances within the process or limitations…
From Wall Street Journal. American Airlines created the first major airline loyalty program in 1981 as a way to compete for customers post-deregulation. But today these programs are the industry norm, having transformed into billions of dollar businesses with legs outside the aviation industry. The AAdvantage loyalty program has even become a business in its…
From Wall Street Journal. TGI Fridays, widely considered the first singles bar in the U.S., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November, citing a problematic capital structure and fallout from the pandemic. The fast-casual restaurant chain has closed over 200 locations across the U.S. since 2019 and have even been kicked out of its headquarters…
From Wall Street Journal. Ukraine fired long-range U.S. missiles inside Russia for the first time despite Moscow’s threats of retaliation. The attack hit an ammunition storage facility near the Russian city of Karachev and is the first such assault to use long-range, NATO-made arms. WSJ’s Alistair MacDonald explains why the Kremlin sees this as a…
From Wall Street Journal. The Nairobi National Museum in Kenya is home to million-year-old fossils, an unparalleled collection of insects, tens of thousands of bones and a fossilized skeleton crucial to our understanding of humanity. Despite its significance, the museum’s roughly 10 millions specimens are at risk as years of limited resources, mismanagement and corruption…
From Wall Street Journal. Red Lobster exited bankruptcy in September after decades of declining sales and a disastrous all-you-can-eat shrimp promotion. Now, they’ve hired 35-year-old Damola Adamolekun as its new CEO to see the brand through bankruptcy and out the other side. Adamolekun revitalized P.F. Chang’s during Covid and hopes to do the same for…
From Wall Street Journal. The next test flight for SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket is scheduled for Nov. 18. CEO Elon Musk wants Starship to revolutionize spaceflight and on Oct. 13, SpaceX made history in aerospace engineering when Starship’s booster was caught by two mechanical arms as it descended to the launch pad. From China and…
From Wall Street Journal. American Airlines created the first major airline loyalty program in 1981 as a way to compete for customers post-deregulation. But today these programs are the industry norm, having transformed into billions of dollar businesses with legs outside the aviation industry. The AAdvantage loyalty program has even become a business in its…
From Wall Street Journal. Commuter trains are renowned for potentially being cramped and crowded, but they don’t have to be that way. Tiny adjustments to a commuter train’s design – from the width of the doors to the position of the handholds – can have huge impacts on the speed that passengers can get on…
From Wall Street Journal. Meta AI, Google Gemini, OpenAI ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot now have eerily human voices. WSJ’s Joanna Stern strapped the AI bots to a tripod and took them to a cabin in the woods to test their skills as helpers—and as friends. Chapters: 0:00 Human-sounding AI 1:10 The voice setup 2:02 Testing…
From Wall Street Journal. Captchas, the online tests designed to tell if you’re robot or human, have been getting harder. What began as a simple text to prove you’re not a robot has rapidly evolved into a battle between humans and AI as more and more data has made these systems better at solving tasks.…