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☆ Illinois Dust Storm Kills Six, Injures Dozens in Highway Pileup
  + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Why This Rolex Is Worth More Used Than NewWhy are some consumers willing to spend more for a used watch than for a new version of the same model? WSJ’s Jacob Gallagher explains why the secondary market for watches has exploded in recent years and how Rolex is trying to get in on the action. Photo illustration: Xingpei Shen
☆ Extending the Conversation on Menopause Beyond Women
  + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Why This Rolex Is Worth More Used Than NewWhy are some consumers willing to spend more for a used watch than for a new version of the same model? WSJ’s Jacob Gallagher explains why the secondary market for watches has exploded in recent years and how Rolex is trying to get in on the action. Photo illustration: Xingpei Shen
☆ Search for Two Missing Oklahoma Teens Uncovers Seven Bodies
  + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Why This Rolex Is Worth More Used Than NewWhy are some consumers willing to spend more for a used watch than for a new version of the same model? WSJ’s Jacob Gallagher explains why the secondary market for watches has exploded in recent years and how Rolex is trying to get in on the action. Photo illustration: Xingpei Shen
☆ WSJ Opinion: Rewriting the History of Covid-19 School Closures
  + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Why This Rolex Is Worth More Used Than NewWhy are some consumers willing to spend more for a used watch than for a new version of the same model? WSJ’s Jacob Gallagher explains why the secondary market for watches has exploded in recent years and how Rolex is trying to get in on the action. Photo illustration: Xingpei Shen
☆ FBI Raises Reward for Texas Shooting Suspect: ‘We Have Zero Leads’
  + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Why This Rolex Is Worth More Used Than NewWhy are some consumers willing to spend more for a used watch than for a new version of the same model? WSJ’s Jacob Gallagher explains why the secondary market for watches has exploded in recent years and how Rolex is trying to get in on the action. Photo illustration: Xingpei Shen
☆ Chatbots Are Digesting the Internet. The Internet Wants to Get Paid.
  + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Illustration: Evangeline GallagherIf you’ve ever published a blog, or posted something to Reddit, or shared content anywhere else on the open web, it’s very likely you have played a part in creating the latest generation of artificial intelligence. Google’s Bard chatbot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft ’s OpenAI-powered version of Bing, and similar tools from the many startups now incorporating these and other AI language models—none of these clever automated writers could exist without the enormous body of text freely available on the web.
☆ The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2024
  + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Simone Pathe | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +19 min
The GOP needs a net gain of one or two seats to flip the chamber, depending on which party wins the White House in 2024, and it’s Democrats who are defending the tougher seats. Jim Justice announcing his Senate bid in West Virginia – the seat most likely to flip party control in 2024. In a presidential year, the national environment is likely to loom large, especially with battleground states hosting key Senate races. Two businessmen with the ability to tap into or raise significant resources could be in the mix – Eric Hovde, who lost the GOP Senate nomination in 2012, and Scott Mayer. Still, unseating Cruz in a state Trump won by nearly 6 points in 2020 will be a tall order.
☆ The Latest AI Tech Wouldn’t Be Possible Without a Key Contributor: You
  + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( Christopher Mims | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Illustration: Evangeline GallagherIf you’ve ever published a blog, or posted something to Reddit, or shared content anywhere else on the open web, it’s very likely you have played a part in creating the latest generation of artificial intelligence. Google’s Bard chatbot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft ’s OpenAI-powered version of Bing, and similar tools from the many startups now incorporating these and other AI language models—none of these clever automated writers could exist without the enormous body of text freely available on the web.
☆ Intel Faces a Long Climb Back from the Bottom
  + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Dan Gallagher | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Intel has ruled the market for central processing units since the 1980s. But rival AMD overtook Intel in market value last year, thanks in part to an expensive bet on chip design. Intel hitting rock bottom isn’t a pretty sight, but it is still a welcome one. The chip maker’s first-quarter results late Thursday took the “better than feared” concept to a new level. In another first, Intel actually lost money in its data-center segment—a business that generated operating margins of 50% in the same quarter just three years prior.
☆ Amazon’s Cloud Casts a Shadow
  + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Dan Gallagher | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Amazon reported strong quarterly results, but its cloud business rained a bit on the party. Photo: Cfoto/Zuma PressAmazon .com sells an awful lot of goods and services to generate half a trillion dollars in annual revenue. Amazon’s first-quarter results late Thursday were strong in many respects. Revenue rose 9% year over year to $127.4 billion, beating Wall Street’s projections for 7% growth. That was driven by better-than-expected sales across most of the company’s business lines, particularly advertising, subscription services and third-party seller services.
☆ Dylan Mulvaney Speaks Out Following Bud Light Ad Controversy
  + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Why This Rolex Is Worth More Used Than NewWhy are some consumers willing to spend more for a used watch than for a new version of the same model? WSJ’s Jacob Gallagher explains why the secondary market for watches has exploded in recent years and how Rolex is trying to get in on the action. Photo illustration: Xingpei Shen
☆ Meta Is Mostly Back in the Facebook Business
  + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Dan Gallagher | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Facebook owner Meta Platforms has dubbed 2023 to be a ‘Year of Efficiency.’ Photo: john g mabanglo/ShutterstockMark Zuckerberg has been really into efficiency lately. One only hopes it isn’t a passing fad. The chief executive of Facebook-parent Meta Platforms announced the “Year of Efficiency” as his major theme for the company in its last earnings report three months ago. He has leaned in even more since, announcing plans last month to lay off 10,000 employees on top of the 11,000 job cuts announced late last year. The net result will reduce Meta’s head count by nearly a quarter—a far more aggressive reduction than those announced by other big tech companies that overhired during the pandemic.
☆ Carolyn Bryant Donham, whose accusation led to the lynching of Emmett Till, has died at 88, coroner says
  + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Dianne Gallagher Sara Smart | Dianne Gallagher | Sara Smart | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +1 min
Donham, 88, died Tuesday in Westlake, according to a fact of death letter from the Calcasieu Parish Coroner. In August 1955, 14-year-old Till was beaten and shot to death after he allegedly whistled at Bryant – now Donham – in Money, Mississippi. Emmett Louis Till, 14, with his mother, Mamie Bradley, at home in Chicago. They were both acquitted of murder following a trial in which Carolyn Bryant testified that Emmett grabbed and verbally threatened her. In 2007, a Mississippi grand jury declined to indict Donham on any charges.
☆ Pope to allow women to vote at global bishops meeting
  + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Delia Gallagher Lianne Kolirin | Delia Gallagher | Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
Rome CNN —Pope Francis will allow women to participate and vote for the first time at an upcoming meeting of Catholic bishops in October. The meeting, known as a synod, normally only allows bishops to vote. Pope Francis on Wednesday approved guidelines that will expand participation and voting to include lay people and women. The changes allow for the participation of 70 non-bishop members, of whom 50% should be women, according to the Vatican’s synod office. A synod is a gathering of bishops which takes place at the request of the pope to discuss a particular topic.
☆ Microsoft Has Game With or Without Activision
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Dan Gallagher | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Microsoft’s $75 billion deal to buy Activision was rejected by the U.K.’s antitrust watchdog. Photo: pau barrena/Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesMicrosoft will be just fine without Activision Blizzard , though its cloud gaming ambitions might not be. The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority rejected Microsoft’s $75 billion deal to buy Activision on Wednesday morning. The agency, which is the country’s main antitrust watchdog, ruled that the deal would ultimately harm the nascent market for cloud-based videogame services by giving the owner of the Xbox platform control over Activision’s popular game franchises such as “Call of Duty.” In its statement, the CMA said Microsoft “would find it commercially beneficial to make Activision’s games exclusive to its own cloud gaming service,” thus stifling future competition.
☆ Google Is All About Cost Control Now
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Dan Gallagher | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Google parent Alphabet expects capital expenditures to be modestly higher than last year. Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesGoogle is working hard to do more with less. How it does with a lot less remains to be seen. But the company’s total advertising revenue was still flat year over year. And while Google doesn’t give formal projections, it said on its conference call to discuss its quarterly results that “the outlook remains uncertain.”
☆ ‘Fatal Attraction’ Review: Here’s Why She Did It
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Mike Hale | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
So Alexandra Cunningham (“Dirty John,” “Desperate Housewives”) and Kevin J. Hynes (“Perry Mason”), working with the film’s writer, James Dearden, have reimagined “Fatal Attraction” in myriad ways, none of which are erotic and few of which are thrilling. Dan is up for parole because in this new universe, he has served 15 years for the murder of his stalker, Alex Forrest (Lizzy Caplan). The temporal shifts also serve to educate both Dan and the audience about the noxious privilege and entitlement that precipitated his downfall. But apparently converting “Fatal Attraction” into a reasonably diverting crime drama wasn’t enough to remove the stain of the original. Ellen’s research leads her to reassess the behavior of her father’s murdered nemesis, and the greatest labor this “Fatal Attraction” takes on is its effort to turn Alex into an understandable, even sympathetic, character.
☆ Medicare is prohibited from covering weight-loss drugs — Ozempic could change that
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Medicare is prohibited from covering new weight-loss medications. Medicare, the federal program that covers healthcare for people 65 and older, is prohibited by law from covering any weight-loss medications. That includes looking at programs that test out Medicare coverage and proposed limits to coverage, The Journal reports. The future of the $100 billion weight-loss drugs marketExpanding Medicare coverage to new weight-loss medications could drastically change how Americans access the drugs. Meanwhile, other Americans will continue to go to Canada, Mexico, and unregulated online pharmacies to get the weight-loss medications for cheap.
☆ Premiership Cup to include Championship teams from next season
  + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
April 24 (Reuters) - England's Premiership Cup will include Championship sides from next season in a new and expanded format, the country's rugby union (RFU), the Premiership and second-tier clubs said on Monday. The move comes after criticism of the RFU's lack of support for championship clubs and when no championship club will be promoted. Premiership clubs traditionally use the competition as an opportunity to field teams mixed from young squad members and established players returning from injury. "It is many years since the Premiership and Championship clubs clashed in a Cup competition," Premiership Rugby's director Phil Winstanley said in a statement. "The Championship performs a crucial role within the English game and we're looking forward to renewing some rivalries of old.
☆ Big Tech Depends on AI Shining Through Cloud Haze
  + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( Dan Gallagher | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discusses the company earlier this year at the Redmond, Wash., offices. Photo: Chona Kasinger/Bloomberg NewsHow hot is the latest artificial intelligence technology? Hot enough, it seems, to distract investors from what really drives the business for some of the largest tech companies these days. Amazon , Microsoft and Google-parent Alphabet Inc. will all be reporting March-quarter results this week. Those results are expected to roundly show another notable slowdown in growth for their respective cloud-computing services following a weak December quarter as large companies continue to scrutinize their spending on technology—even for areas like cloud and security that are considered crucial in the modern age.
☆ Why Netflix Hit Eject on DVDs
  + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Dan Gallagher | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
If Netflix’s DVD business kept declining at the most recent pace, it would have fewer than 1.4 million subscribers now. Photo: Michael Tercha/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service/Getty ImagesMany are apparently upset over Netflix ’s plan to finally get out of the DVD business. Netflix’s domestic DVD rental-by-mail business generated $145.7 million in revenue last year, according to the company’s most recent 10-K filing, and may have still had more than a million loyal customers. The DVD business had already shrunk so much that the company stopped disclosing other pertinent financial information about it in 2019. For that year, domestic DVDs generated $297.2 million in revenue—about 1.5% of the company’s total—and had 2.15 million subscribers.
☆ Apple Pay’s Long Road to Paying Off Is Getting Shorter
  + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Telis Demos | Dan Gallagher | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Apple Inc. hasn’t replaced your wallet yet, but it hasn’t given up trying. Its latest moves could put it much closer to success. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook once proclaimed that his company would “forever change the way all of us buy things.” His boast was made in 2014, alongside the company’s biggest product launch in years—the iPhone 6. More than eight years later, most of us are still fishing plastic cards out of our wallets or typing numbers into a form when we shop.
☆ US war game on Taiwan shows need for 'decisive action' to boost arms
  + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Michael Martina | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
"We are well within the window of maximum danger for a Chinese Communist Party invasion of Taiwan, and yesterday's war game stressed the need to take action to deter CCP aggression and arm Taiwan to the teeth before any crisis begins," Gallagher said in a statement. The U.S. must clear a $19 billion weapons backlog to Taiwan, conduct enhanced joint military training and reinforce the U.S. military in the region, he said. Anxiety about a possible conflict over Taiwan, the self-ruled island that China claims as its own, has become a rare bipartisan issue in Washington. The U.S. is Taiwan's most important arms supplier but the island has complained of delayed weapons deliveries. Taiwan's de facto embassy in Washington did not respond immediately to a request for comment on the war game.
☆ Netflix Freeloaders Really Have to Kick In Now
  + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Dan Gallagher | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A Netflix series spotlighted Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Much now rides on the streaming giant’s ability to get something from your kid’s roommate’s brother. First-quarter results from Netflix on Tuesday were a decidedly mixed bag. But Netflix added only 1.75 million new paid subscribers during the quarter, which was 20% below what analysts had expected. It said subscriber growth in the second quarter would be roughly similar to what it just reported—less than half the 4.1 million net new subscribers analysts were expecting for the period.
☆ DeSantis keeps losing home-state endorsements to Trump, and the Florida governor's recent visit to DC didn't produce any converts.
  + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Ron DeSantis bled support from the Florida congressional delegation this week. 3 more Florida GOP lawmakers are lining up behind Trump amid DeSantis' trip to DC. Ron DeSantis' personal appeal to congressional Republicans in DC on Tuesday night appears to have spectacularly backfired, as Florida lawmakers continue throwing their support behind Trump in the 2024 presidential race. And freshman Rep. Brian Mast told CNN that not only does he plan to endorse Trump, he'll also spearhead a "Veterans for Trump" group. Even if DeSantis had tried that, Crenshaw noted that he has no plans to endorse anyone in the GOP presidential primary, so that was off the table.
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