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☆ Six planets found in synchronized orbit may help solve cosmic puzzle
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Will Dunham | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

This illustration shows the orbital motion of six planets discovered orbiting star HD110067 located around 100 light-years from Earth. The planets all are a type called 'sub-Neptunes,' which have diameters between 2 and 3 times that of Earth. Earth, the largest of our solar system's four rocky planets, has a diameter of about 7,900 miles (12,750 km). The planets orbit the star between 6% and 20% of the distance between Earth and the sun. "None of them are in the nominal habitable zone for terrestrial planets.

Persons: Hugh Osborn, Handout, Osborn, Rafael Luque, Luque, James Webb, Will Dunham, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: REUTERS Acquire, Rights, University of Bern, University of Chicago, James Webb Space, Thomson Locations: Switzerland, JWST

☆ A Star With Six Planets That Orbit Perfectly in Sync
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Katrina Miller | More About Katrina Miller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Astronomers have discovered six planets orbiting a bright star in perfect resonance. The star system, 100 light-years from Earth, was described on Wednesday in a paper published in the journal Nature. “It’s like looking at a fossil,” said Rafael Luque, an astronomer at the University of Chicago who led the study. “The orbits of the planets today are the same as they were a billion years ago.”Researchers think that when planets first form, their orbits around a star are in sync. That is, the time it takes for one planet to waltz around its host star might be the same amount of time it takes for a second planet to circle exactly twice, or exactly three times.

Persons: ”, Rafael Luque Organizations: University of Chicago

☆ Six exoplanets spotted in a cosmic waltz around nearby star
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

And the planets, labeled b through g, revolve around the star in a celestial dance known as orbital resonance. For every six orbits completed by planet b, the closest planet to the star, the outermost planet g completes one. As planet c makes three revolutions around the star, planet d does two, and when planet e completes four orbits, planet f does three. Detecting a mysteryResearchers first took notice of the star system in 2020 when NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, detected dips in the brightness of HD110067. “It shows us the pristine configuration of a planetary system that has survived untouched.”The discovery is the second time Cheops has helped reveal a planetary system with orbital resonance.

Persons: TESS, Rafael Luque, Cheops, ”, Luque, “ Cheops, ” Luque, Maximilian Günther, they’re, James Webb, Webb, Jo Ann Egger Organizations: CNN —, ESA, University of Chicago’s, “, James Webb Space, Telescope, University of Bern Locations: Switzerland

☆ Companies wanted to make Instagram-worthy offices. Instagram commenters roasted them.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The New York Times reported on the latest trend: an Instagrammable office. A recent article in The New York Times highlighted bosses who want to woo workers back to the office with spaces designed to be Instagram-worthy. The company wanted an office design that would entice young workers to come in — as in to the actual office. Companies now want their office design to be visible not just to employees, but also to everyone on social media…And apparently, it worked. (Apparently unrelated to the office design, which she said friends commented was "so sick" when she posted it to Instagram.)

Persons: —, they're Organizations: New York Times, Service, Times, Employers, Companies Locations: New York City, —

People who claimed the power to control nature and the energy resources around them saw the environment as a tool to be used for progress, historians say. Over hundreds of years, that impulse has remade the planet's climate, too — and brought its inhabitants to the brink of catastrophe. Tapping nature for its resources drove progress and productivity for some, but it's also been a major driver of emissions and environmental degradation. By the mid-19th century, steam power was adopted in manufacturing, cotton mills, steam ships and locomotives around the world, turning coal into a global trade. Centuries later, the United Kingdom has nearly weaned itself off coal, with weeks or months at a stretch where the national grid gets no coal power.

Persons: ”, Luis Zambrano, it's, Anya Zilberstein, ” Zilberstein, Vera S, Candiani, Jan Golinski, “, ” Golinski, Deborah Coen, Andreas Malm, Barak, it’s, J.R, McNeill, ” McNeill, Victor Seow, Elizabeth Chatterjee, “ Indira Gandhi, Chatterjee, Joshua Howe, Howe, Yale's Coen, —, ” Howe, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Jonsson Organizations: National University Autónoma, Concordia University, Mexico City —, America, Princeton, University of New, Yale, Lund University, Tel Aviv University, Laboratory, Global, Project, Energy, Georgetown University, Communist, University of Chicago, Reed College, . Environmental Protection Agency, U.S, AP Locations: Nations, Mexico, Lake Texcoco, Montreal, Spanish, University of New Hampshire, Maui, Britain, Sweden, ”, India, Egypt, Nigeria, Ottoman Empire, United Kingdom, Cumbria, England, Wales, Scotland, China, Japan, U.S, Europe, United States, British, Portland , Oregon

Most hybrid workers (55%) say paying employees more for their in-office work would provide “a lot” of encouragement for them to work in-person more often. Additional pay topped the list across respondents whether they were working in-person, remotely (44%) or in hybrid (50%) roles. Regardless, many U.S. employees have returned to in-person work, or had never left. Most paid employees report that they work in person per NORC's survey, and three-quarters of those in-person employees say they are required by their employer to do so. The number of people working remotely has fallen significantly since the peak of COVID-19 — but is still far higher than pre-pandemic levels.

Persons: — Justin Ryan Horton, he's, Horton, “ I'm, ” Horton, NORC, ” Marjorie Connelly, Megan Homis, Homis, ” Homis, Bill Castellano, ” Castellano, Connelly, I’m, ”, “ Organizations: Workers, University of Chicago, NORC’s Public Affairs & Media Research, Associated Press, Rutgers School of Management, Labor Relations, “, Pew Research Center, U.S . Bureau of Labor Statistics Locations: Colorado Springs, Southern California

☆ To Shrink Learning Gap, This District Offers Classes Separated by Race
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Sara Randazzo | Douglas Belkin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

EVANSTON, Ill.— School leaders in this college town just north of Chicago have been battling a sizable academic achievement gap between Black, Latino and white students for decades. So a few years ago, the school district decided to try something new at the high school: classrooms voluntarily separated by race. Nearly 200 Black and Latino students at Evanston Township High School signed up this year for math classes and a writing seminar intended for students of the same race, taught by a teacher of color. These optional so-called affinity classes are designed to address the achievement gap by making students feel more comfortable in class, district leaders have said, particularly in Advanced Placement courses that historically have enrolled few Black and Latino students.

Organizations: —, High School Locations: EVANSTON, Ill, Chicago, Evanston

☆ Houston Shows How to Tackle Homelessness - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Nicholas Kristof | Rahim Fortune | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Dallas and Houston are two Democratic bubbles in Texas that have long faced the familiar urban ache of homeless people slumped on sidewalks and camping in parks. In Dallas, homelessness worsened for years, and that city now has the most unhoused people in Texas. Meanwhile, the Houston region has slashed homelessness by more than 60 percent since 2011. Delegations from around the country now troop to Houston to seek lessons, with the mayors of Chicago, Los Angeles and Denver traipsing through this summer. Houston achieved its results on the cheap, spending very little of its own money even as West Coast cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland, Ore., have each poured hundreds of millions of dollars into efforts to address homelessness without much to show for them.

Organizations: Dallas, Houston Locations: Houston, Texas, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, Denver, West Coast, San Francisco, Portland

☆ How Nobel economists spend their $1 million winnings
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Every year, researchers in economics are awarded the Nobel Prize, alongside a hefty sum in winnings. All you have to do is bag a Nobel Prize. Franco Modigliani, an MIT professor who nabbed the Nobel in economics in 1985 , got about $225,000 in winnings. But, ultimately, he wanted to spend his winnings according to his own research on people's saving and spending habits. So when he was asked how he'd spend what was, in 2017 dollars, around $1.1 million in winnings, Thaler told reporters : "I will try to spend it as irrationally as possible."

Persons: —, Alfred Nobel, Claudia Goldin, it's, Goldin, Lars Heikenstein, Franco Modigliani, Modigliani, I'm, Modigliani isn't, Elinor Ostrom, Oliver E, Williamson, Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee, Michael Kremer, Sir Angus Deaton, Richard Thaler, he'd, Thaler Organizations: Service, Sveriges, Economic Sciences, Guardian, Nobel Foundation, MIT, Washington Post, Indiana University, National Academy of Sciences, Fund for Research, Development, Harvard University, Boston Globe, University of Chicago Locations: Stockholm, United States of America

☆ A Harvard professor claimed balls found in the ocean were alien tech. They may have just been industrial waste.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

AdvertisementA Harvard professor's claims that metallic balls discovered under the ocean may have been made by aliens have been called into question yet again. Spheres from industrial wasteUniversity of Chicago research fellow Patricio Gallardo analyzed the chemical composition of coal ash, a waste product left behind by the combustion of coal in power plants and steam engines. He also said that the spherules have more iron than coal ash. We are bewildered that the association of our spherules with coal ash was even suggested," he told BI. Advertisement"It is surprising that anyone would state decisively that the spherules are coal ash without having access to the materials," he told BI.

Persons: —, Avi Loeb, Loeb, Patricio Gallardo, Gallardo, Caleb Sharf, Dr Jim Lem, BeLaU, Stein Jacobsen, Roald Tagle Organizations: Service, Harvard, University of Chicago, NASA's Ames Center, Department of Mining Engineering, University of Technology, The New York Times, US Space Command, Times, CBS News, Business, Harvard University, Bruker Corporation Locations: Papua New Guinea, Germany

“Any time we’ve had a serious cut to the inflation rate, it’s come with a major recession," Goolsbee said in an interview with The Associated Press. “And so the golden path is a ... bigger soft landing than conventional wisdom believes has ever been possible. Last week, the government reported that inflation cooled in October, with core prices — which exclude volatile food and energy prices — rising just 0.2% from September. The year-over-year increase in core prices — 4% — was the smallest in two years. The Fed tracks core prices because they are considered a better gauge of inflation's future path.

Persons: Goolsbee, we’ve, ” Goolsbee, “, Susan Collins, ” Collins, hasn't Organizations: WASHINGTON, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Associated Press, Wall, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

☆ Flight attendants don't get to choose their 'base' cities — inside the intense process and what happens if you work somewhere you don't live
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Monica Humphries | Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

While training, flight attendants rank their preferred "base cities" where they'll fly from. Videos of flight attendants revealing the cities they want vs the cities they get go viral. During training, flight attendants learn safety protocols, practice emergency drills, and get familiar with airplane equipment. Flight attendants rank where they want to workTwo flight attendants said their base reveal happened within the first three weeks of training. This means the airport had appealing flights and flight times, and therefore senior flight attendants sought that location.

Persons: —, she's, @dogarmnose, @rainclements, David Becker, Lea McIntyre, @flightattendantbaelee, McIntyre, they'll, you've, Alajah Parker, didn't, Parker, what's, London, Boston —, aren't, it's, wasn't, David Zalubowski, they'd Organizations: Service, LaGuardia Airport, Business, American Airlines, New, London, JetBlue, LA, JFK, Boston Locations: Dallas, Forth Worth, New York, Chicago, New York City, London, Los Angeles , California, LA, Fort Lauderdale , Florida, Boston , Massachusetts, Orlando , Florida, Boston, McIntyre, Dayton , Ohio, Dayton, Miami, Houston, Austin

The cities say they buy tickets only for migrants who want to travel and they do not coerce people to leave. The vast majority were bus tickets, but Denver also purchased about 340 tickets for flights and 200 for train rides. Ewing gave a similar message regarding El Paso’s busing of migrants to Denver, saying the two cities have been in communication. New York City and Chicago also are limiting migrants' shelter stays. “We have other Democratic cities, Denver, California, L.A., sending their people to Chicago, New York.

Persons: Mario Russell, ” Russell, Staff Mary Krinock, we’re, ” Jon Ewing, ”, Yoli Casas, “ There’s, We’re, Russell, Jared Polis, Lori Lightfoot, Eric Adams, Polis, “, Joe Biden, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Ewing, El, ” Ewing, ” El, Greg Abbott, Abbott, Andrew Mahaleris, Ron DeSantis, Maura Healey, ’ ” Alderman Anthony Beale, Sophia Tareen, ___ Organizations: DENVER, Democratic, Center for Migration Studies of New, Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of, Staff, Denver Human Service, Vive Wellness, Denver, Center for Migration Studies, Colorado Democratic Gov, Chicago, New York City, Washington , D.C, Chicago Mayor, Democrat, Texas Gov, Democratic Gov, Chicago City, Associated Press, America Statehouse News Initiative, America Locations: Denver, U.S, Mexico, El Paso , Texas, New York, Illinois, Texas, Florida, Center for Migration Studies of New York, Chicago, Venezuela, Archdiocese of Chicago, . Texas, New, Cities, Denver , New York, Houston, Los Angeles, Washington ,, ” El Paso's, Philadelphia, San Antonio, Massachusetts, New York City, Denver , California, L.A, Chicago , New York

☆ Landing your dream job by getting an MBA isn't as easy anymore
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

One second-year student told Business Insider he had to pivot to a job in consulting. His job win comes as the field of consulting isn't as red-hot as it was in 2021 and 2022, experts told Business Insider. But now a range of companies are being more deliberate about how quickly they're hiring MBAs, administrators told BI. However, it's actually close to a normal market for MBA grads, industry and career experts told BI. Still, that's leaving some MBA students uneasy.

Persons: —, he'd, Jeff McNish, MBAs, it's, that's, It's, he's, McNish, Stephanie O'Connor, aren't, we've, O'Connor, I've, I'm Organizations: Service, Ivy League, Business, University of Virginia Darden School, Darden, Center, BI, grads, Bain & Company, — McKinsey, Bain, Boston Consulting Group, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

☆ To Become a World-Class Chipmaker, America Might Need Help - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Peter Coy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I’m going to decline a $2.25 order in almost every instance. L.A. SchwartzUnion, Ky.You quoted the great economist Frank Knight. Here is a story about Frank Knight and George Stigler you might find interesting. In 1962 I was a research assistant to George Stigler at the University of Chicago. I now have a copy of ‘The Wealth of Nations’ that I can prove was read by Frank Knight.”

Persons: Adam Ozimek, ”, I’m, L.A, Frank Knight, George Stigler, Adam Smith’s “, ” Knight, Stigler, Knight, George, “ Organizations: Economic Innovation, Schwartz Union, University of Chicago, Nations Locations: United States, Ky

☆ Amtrak Train Derails in Michigan After Striking Vehicle on Tracks
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Mike Ives | More About Mike Ives | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

An Amtrak passenger train carrying more than 200 passengers derailed in Michigan on Thursday night after striking a vehicle on the tracks; there were no immediate reports of injuries, the national railroad company said. Amtrak said the accident happened about 10 p.m. near New Buffalo, Mich., a township near Lake Michigan, about an hour east of Chicago. The train, with six crew members and an estimated 218 passengers aboard, had been traveling west to Chicago from Pontiac, Mich., and remained upright after the derailment, the company said. A police dispatcher for Berrien County, where New Buffalo is located, declined to comment. Experts say derailments usually happen when a train takes a turn too fast — one reason that automatic-braking technology has been installed on many passenger railroads across the United States in recent years.

Organizations: Amtrak Locations: Michigan, New Buffalo, Mich, Lake Michigan, Chicago, Pontiac, Berrien County, United States

[1/2] Lawyer David Boies gestures as he walks out of the Southern District of New York court, New York, U.S., July 15, 2019. Boies' tenure as chairman of Boies Schiller Flexner ends December 2024, a firm spokesperson said on Friday. Boies Schiller has lost nearly half of its lawyers over the last three years. Another who briefly held the role, Natasha Harrison, left Boies Schiller last year to found her own firm. Boies Schiller is now managed by a trio of managing partners, who praised Boies' leadership in a statement on Friday.

Persons: David Boies, Andrew Kelly, Harvey Weinstein, Boies, Boies Schiller Flexner, Boies Schiller, Nicholas Gravante, Cadwalader, Taft, Natasha Harrison, David, Matthew Schwartz, Sigrid McCawley, Alan Vickery, Al Gore, George W, Bush, Weinstein, David Thomas, David Bario, Marguerita Choy Organizations: Southern, of, REUTERS, Microsoft, U.S, Supreme, Thomson Locations: of New York, New York, U.S, Hollywood, Wickersham

☆ New Delhi air pollution: Why can’t India’s capital clean up its toxic air like Beijing?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Rhea Mogul | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

“It’s an invisible killer,” said Jyoti Pande Lavakare, author of “Breathing Here is Injurious to Your Health: The Human Cost of Air Pollution” and co-founder of clean air non-profit Care for Air. China’s capital has since cleaned up its act, which begs the question: if Beijing can clean up its toxic air, why can’t India too? A key moment in China’s fightback came in 2013, when the government started to invest billions of dollars into a national air pollution action plan. Hundreds of thousands of lives savedChina’s raft of clean air policies have been so successful, they have saved hundreds of thousands of lives, research has shown. They say Kejriwal’s team has done little in terms of implementing effective policies to clean New Delhi’s air.

Persons: “, ”, Jyoti Pande Lavakare, Arun Sankar, China’s, –, Wang Zhao, China’s fightback, Frank Christian Hammes, IQAir, Sunil Dahiya, Dahiya, Stringer, Arvind Kejriwal, Kejriwal, Virendra Sachdeva, Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sudhanshu Dhulia, Raj K Raj, “ You’re Organizations: CNN, Health, Pollution, Air, Getty, United, Global, Energy, Institute, University of Chicago, Centre for Research, Clean, Bloomberg, Beijing, Care for Air, Aam Aadmi Party, Bharatiya Janata Party, AAP, Ministry of Environment, Hindustan Times Locations: Delhi, Beijing, India, ”, AFP, United States, China, Swiss, New Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, New, Indonesia, Malaysia, Care, CREA, IQAir

☆ Maria Tallchief, America’s first prima ballerina, continues to inspire new generations of Native American dancers
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Kaitlyn Schwanemann | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —The Osage Ballet overlooks a creek in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, on the Osage Indian reservation. The Osage Ballet hopes to continue to inspire a new generations of dancers in her honor. But Tallchief refused and insisted on dancing as Maria Tallchief, keeping her Osage name, according to a biography of the ballerina by the School of American Ballet. Ballerina Maria Tallchief WATFORD/Mirrorpix/Getty ImagesElise Paschen, Tallchief’s daughter and a poet, told CNN her mother took great pride in her heritage. Smith said she hopes the Osage Ballet will continue Tallchief’s pioneering legacy of dance and Native American representation in ballet.

Persons: Elizabeth Marie Tallchief, Randy Tinker Smith, she’s, “ I’ve, ” Smith, America’s, Tallchief, Maria Tallchief, Ballerina Maria Tallchief, Elise Paschen, ” Paschen, ” Kate Mattingly, ” Mattingly, Mattingly, Tallcheif, George Balanchine, Balanchine, John Martin, “, “ Balanchine, Paschen, ”, ” Tallchief, Princess Wa, Smith, ballerinas, Maria Organizations: CNN, Osage Ballet, Osage, New, School of American Ballet, Ballerina Maria Tallchief WATFORD, Old Dominion University, New York City Ballet, Firebird, The New York Times, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Ballet Locations: Pawhuska , Oklahoma, Fairfax , Oklahoma, Osage, Beverly Hills, Carlo, Oklahoma, United States, Europe, Swan Lake, An

☆ A Life of Milton Friedman Seeks the Nuance in His Free-Market Gospel
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Jennifer Szalai | More About Jennifer Szalai | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

MILTON FRIEDMAN: The Last Conservative, by Jennifer BurnsIn writing her new biography of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, known throughout his long life for his cheerful endorsement of deregulation and free markets, Jennifer Burns certainly had her work cut out for her. “As he increasingly came to symbolize a political movement,” she writes, “the nuance and complexity of his ideas was lost.”But even Burns has to admit that this attention to “nuance and complexity” was something that Friedman did a lot to discourage. The principles underlying such intricate cooperation were “really very simple,” he said. At the University of Chicago, where Friedman spent most of his teaching life, he edged out the leftist scholars clustered in the Cowles Commission for Economic Research, shrewdly getting the Rockefeller Foundation to pull its funding from the commission and finance Friedman’s workshop instead. Charismatic in the classroom, Friedman didn’t just teach students; he created converts.

Persons: MILTON FRIEDMAN, Jennifer Burns, Milton Friedman, Friedman, ”, Burns, fashioning, baldheaded Friedman, Burns —, Ayn Rand —, shrewdly, Friedman didn’t, “, ” Friedman Organizations: Conservative, Newsweek, Productivity, Stanford, University of Chicago, Commission, Economic Research, Rockefeller Foundation

☆ Google antitrust trial crystallizes Apple’s risk
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Robert Cyran | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Acquire Licensing RightsNEW YORK, Nov 15 (Reuters Breakingviews) - The antitrust case against Google is spelling out some serious problems. The U.S. Department of Justice claims that Alphabet maintains its market dominance by striking deals to make Google the default search engine on other companies’ devices and browsers. One expert witness for Google said Apple receives 36% of the ad revenue Google makes from searches on Apple’s Safari browser. Kevin Murphy, an economics professor at the University of Chicago, and an expert witness for Google, made the remark, Bloomberg reported. The two companies have had a partnership since 2002, where Google shares advertising revenue generated from users of Apple devices, and Google is the default search engine for these devices.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Tim Cook, Bernstein, Kevin Murphy, Alphabet’s Google, Lauren Silva Laughlin, Sharon Lam Organizations: Apple, REUTERS, Reuters, Google, U.S . Department of Justice, Microsoft, U.S . Department, University of Chicago, Bloomberg, Alphabet’s, Thomson

CHICAGO (AP) — Iconic music producer Quincy Jones and entertainers Jennifer Hudson and Chance the Rapper are now co-owners of the historic Ramova Theatre on Chicago's South Side. Developer and co-owner Tyler Nevius bought the property and an adjacent lot from the city in 2017 for $1, the newspaper reported. Jones, Hudson and Chance the Rapper, whose real name is Chancelor Bennett, are Chicago natives. Political Cartoons View All 1250 ImagesBennett says “Chicago will always be part" of who he is. When it reopens, the renovated theater will feature a 1,500-seat live music venue and beer garden and grill.

Persons: Quincy Jones, Jennifer Hudson, Chance, Tyler Nevius, Jones, Chancelor Bennett, “, ” Hudson, Bennett Organizations: CHICAGO, Chicago Sun, Times, Chicago, National Register of Historic Places Locations: Hudson, Chicago, York

☆ New Breed of Supercomputer Aims for the Two Quintillion Mark
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Scott Patterson | Photographs Danielle Scruggs The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

LEMONT, Ill.—Inside a vast data center on the outskirts of Chicago, the most powerful supercomputer in the world is coming to life. The machine will be able to analyze connections inside the brain and help design batteries that charge faster and last longer. Called Aurora, the supercomputer’s high-performance capabilities will be matched with the latest advances in artificial intelligence. Together they will be used by scientists researching cancer, nuclear fusion, vaccines, climate change, encryption, cosmology and other complex sciences and technologies.

Locations: Chicago

☆ Apple gets 36% of Google search revenue from Safari, Alphabet witness says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Rohan Goswami | In Rohangoswamicnbc | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Google pays Apple more than a third of its search advertising revenue from Safari under the terms of the two companies' search default agreement, an Alphabet witness said in open court Monday amid a protracted antitrust battle between Google and the Department of Justice. The 36% figure, which was not previously known to the public, is one of the clearest indications of how lucrative Google's search deal has been for both Apple and the search engine company. The search default agreement is a major focus of the proceedings. Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi has estimated in a note to clients that Apple would see $19 billion in 2023 revenue as a result of the search engine default deal with Google. "Everybody talks about the open web, but there really is the Google web," he said on the stand.

Persons: Kevin Murphy, Department's, John Schmidtlein, Murphy, Amit Mehta, Bernstein, Toni Sacconaghi, Apple, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Nadella, Microsoft's Bing Organizations: Google, Apple, Safari, Department of Justice, University of Chicago, Williams, Connolly, Bloomberg News, Microsoft

(Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai on Tuesday confirmed that Google pays Apple 36% of Safari search revenue, under the terms of a default search agreement that is core to the Justice Department's antitrust claims. Pichai was testifying in a separate lawsuit filed against Google by Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite. The Epic attorney then alleged that Google pays Samsung, Android's largest hardware partner, less than half of what it pays to Apple. Google's TAC costs include all of Google's payments to companies like Apple and Samsung to place its search engine in front of users. Apple, Google and Samsung did not immediately respond to CNBC's request for comment on Pichai's testimony.

Persons: Sundar Pichai, Mandel NGAN, MANDEL NGAN, Pichai, Google's, Kevin Murphy, Murphy, Connolly, John Schmidtlein, Leswing Organizations: Artificial Intelligence, Getty, Google, Apple, Epic Games, Washington , D.C, Samsung, Google's TAC, University of Chicago, Williams, Department, D.C Locations: Washington ,, AFP, Virginia, Washington

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