As Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen return to George Lucas’s far, far away galaxy in Obi-Wan Kenobi, their co-star Moses Ingram is bravely shining a spotlight on a dark side of Star Wars fandom. The Queen’s Gambit star posted an Instagram story sharing some of the racist comments she has received since the Disney+ series premiered on May 27 — comments that called her a “loser” and a “diversity hire” among other hateful rhetoric. “Long story short, there are hundreds of those,” Ingram… Source link

Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is now to copy and paste files within Google Drive. Image: Goodpics/Adobe Stock I’m a Google Drive and Google Docs power user. I depend on the service daily to be productive, and given that my modus operandi has been to work as efficiently as possible over the years, not having the standard keyboard shortcuts available in Drive has been a frustration. Fortunately, Google has finally brought to us those standard keyboard shortcuts we… Source link

Motley Fool Why Lithium Americas Stock Crashed Today Despite being not yet operational, and having no revenue to its name (much less profits), Lithium Americas stock has had a terrific run as investors bid up lithium assets in anticipation of booming demand for the metal, which is used to make the batteries that power electric vehicles. With lithium currently priced at $60,000 a ton, Goldman sees that slipping 10% to $54,000 later this year — a pothole that precedes a bigger fall off a… Source link

Leading U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase is “tremendously overvalued” at current levels, warned short-selling legend Jim Chanos, predicting a collapse in fee income that will send the stock plunging. He told the Crypto Critics Corner podcast that Coinbase still gorges itself on overly favorable retail trading commissions, and his short position is based on an end to the “feasting” it enjoys relative to mature brokers like Charles Schwab. “Coinbase was not a call on crypto prices,”… Source link

Should I buy this big dip? Warren Buffett has spent a third of his cash hoard — so it might be a sharp idea to start nibbling Warren Buffett is back in his element. After sitting on a growing cash pile for years, Buffett is finally opening up his wallet. The Oracle of Omaha deployed $51 billion in the first three months of this year. That’s roughly one-third of the cash pile his company, Berkshire Hathaway, had at the end of 2021. Here are all the stocks he added to the portfolio in the… Source link

An Android phone without Google. No Google apps, no Google Play Services, no peppy Google Assistant. No Google surveillance and data snooping, no incessant ad targeting, no feeling like privacy is a pointless exercise. Some companies, like Huawei, have been forced to figure out how to build this kind of device. A few others have tried for the sake of maintaining your privacy and as a way to fight back against the tyranny of Big Tech. None of it has ever really worked. The team at Murena… Source link

A scene from Netflix’s “Stranger Things” season three.Netflix Netflix says it will charge users who let people outside their households use their account. It has been trialing this new policy in Costa Rica, Chile, and Peru. Peruvian Netflix users told Rest of World they haven’t seen any enforcement, and the policy has been confusing. Netflix has been trialing its upcoming crackdown on password-sharing in three Latin American countries — but with limited success so far, Rest of World reports. Source link

The owner of an ice cream shop in Mashpee told The Wall Street Journal that he’s struggling to hire employees.Jens Kalaene/picture alliance via Getty Images Customers in a 45-minute line for a Massachusetts ice cream parlor, the owner told the WSJ. He told WSJ he expected the shop to be busy, but didn’t think there’d be no job applicants. The owner added that it was a “scary” position to be in ahead of peak summer season in June. The owner of an ice cream shop in Massachusetts said that… Source link

Rongtong Fund Management, which was once part of Xiao Jianhua‘s Tomorrow Group, has unveiled a management reshuffle, marking its official exit from the missing Chinese magnate’s embattled financial empire. Zhang Wei was named Rongtong’s chairman on Friday, taking over from Gao Feng who resigned citing personal reasons after seven years in the position, according to a statement issued by the asset management firm. Zhang is also the chairman of New Times Securities, which owns Rongtung, and was… Source link

Attorney General Dave Yost hailed a Delaware County judge’s decision last week in his case against Google. But the preliminary decision on the search giant’s motion to dismiss was only a partial victory for the state — an invitation to make its case that Google should be regulated as a common carrier. Common carriers have traditionally been thought of as entities that transport people or goods and are generally open to the public — think shipping… Source link