Government officials and health experts are leaning on the private sector to lead the U.S. out of a COVID-19 surge caused by the highly infectious Delta variant. The reason lies largely in the fact that the federal government won’t issue a blanket mandate, and some states are actively fighting mitigation measures. “We don’t have the ability to function as a country,” said Dr. Eric Topol, founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute. We are facing a “formidable version of… Source link

The need for workers is weighing on the trucking industry, where freight operators are struggling to raise wages fast enough to find drivers. Eric Fuller, the CEO of U.S. Xpress (USX), said that his company has doled out 30% to 35% in total pay increases over the last 12 months — but suggested more may be needed. “The driver situation is about as bad as I’ve ever seen in my career,” Fuller told Yahoo Finance on Monday. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that in the depths… Source link

WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (Reuters) – A U.S. judicial panel on Tuesday said that Texas’ antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) would be moved to the Southern District of New York, where other similar cases would also be heard. Google had asked that the case, which was filed against it by Texas and other states, be combined with similar cases in U.S. District Court for Northern California. Texas opposed the move, and the request prompted federal legislation aimed at allowing state… Source link

Outgoing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo seems to feel like he was railroaded out of his job. During an August 10 news conference where he announced his plan to resign in two weeks, Cuomo acknowledged behaving boorishly but insisted he didn’t sexually harass any of the 11 women who have accused him of that. “I never crossed the line with anyone,” Cuomo said, “but I didn’t realize the extent to which the line has been redrawn.” Given that he’s finally resigning, maybe it doesn’t… Source link

The current national bout of low inventory represents an “unprecedented non-recessionary inventory collapse” for the last 20 years, a new report by JPMorgan found. “While non-manufacturing activity is now tracking a strong and steady recovery, the goods-producing sector has been buffeted by supply constraints alongside continued boomy gains in final demand,” the report noted. “The result has been a slump in inventories that, over the past two decades at least, looks to be unprecedented… Source link

Surges of confirmed coronavirus cases and hospitalizations in several U.S. states are causing health professionals to sound alarms about the continued spread of the highly contagious Delta variant, the transmission of which is being primarily driven by unvaccinated individuals. “Unfortunately, a lot of hospitals nationally are seeing more and more cases getting hospitalized,” Dr. Payal Patel, an infectious diseases physician at the University of Michigan, said on Yahoo Finance Live (video… Source link

Major corporations, including Facebook and Airbnb, are increasingly turning to racial equity audits, which empower an outside expert steeped in debates around technology and racial inequalities to investigate thorny issues including hate speech online, personnel hiring, and processes used to vet products for bias. Critics say these audits can spot and solve problems companies aren’t remedying themselves. Source link

Google is expanding the VPN service that it provides as part of its Google One subscription to seven new countries: Mexico, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy, as spotted by 9to5Google. The company started offering VPN access to 2TB Google One cloud storage subscribers in the US late last year, as a free addition to the existing $9.99 / month plan. But today’s announcement sees a marked expansion of the service. There are a few limitations that separate… Source link

TCL has long been the flag bearer of Roku TVs. The company’s 6-series is one of the best-performing sets you can buy for under $1,000. It features a fantastic picture with the help of Mini LED backlighting — TCL beat Samsung and LG to implementing that technology — and quantum dot HDR color. The 5-series and 4-series Roku TVs are no slouches either in their respective pricing tiers. But now TCL is taking a step that could dramatically shake up the US TV market: it’s expanding… Source link

Weeks after Instagram rolled out increased protections for minors using its app, Google is now doing the same for its suite of services, including Google search, YouTube, YouTube Kids, Google Assistant, and others. The company this morning announced a series of product and policy changes that will allow younger people to stay more private and protected online and others that will limit ad targeting. The changes in Google’s case are even more expansive than those Instagram announced,… Source link