Rising mortgage rates have sidelined many would-be homebuyers, but for institutional investors, it has become an opportunity as home builders try to unload properties. “What we’re seeing is builders have to make their quota. They have to make the end-of-the-year numbers,” Kinloch Partners Cofounder and CEO and President Bruce McNeilage told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “So they’re reaching out to folks like us, the institutional owners of houses, and we’re buying in bulk using those as… Source link

U.S. stock futures were higher Wednesday but pared some earlier gains as investors weighed producer price data that came in slightly higher than expected. S&P 500 futures (^GSPC) rose 0.2% while futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) ticked up 0.15%. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) rose by 0.2%. Wall Street has been keeping a close eye on monetary action overseas, as Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey announced the bank would end its emergency bond-buying program… Source link

The automatic translation in Yandex Browser is now available. Now the user may choose what translations he will listen to now. There are five voices available, six male and six female. The speaker, with the help of a neural network, is recognized and voiced by different voices. According to the developers, this approach is a bit wacky to listen to when listening to several speaker. The interactive video translation method was introduced in the September 2021 release. The… Source link

Students at college campuses across the U.S. will be able to get digital food orders delivered via robot. Online and mobile food-ordering and delivery platform Grubhub is partnering with autonomous delivery robot provider Starship Technologies to enable robotic deliveries at multiple colleges. Currently, Grubhub delivery is available via Starship robot at the University of Kentucky, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), Wayne State University, Southern Methodist… Source link

Is mobile that important in search? Does it matter whether your site is mobile-friendly? Mobile devices account for 60% of internet usage worldwide, which was once inconceivable in the desktop era. At one time, it made no difference to Google whether a site was compatible with mobile devices. Mobile-friendliness was considered a nice-to-have feature but not a necessity. Mobile search grew as smartphones and tablets became more ubiquitous, causing Google to reconsider its evaluation of… Source link

ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP Chiba, JapanAccordia Golf Narashino Country Club – Par 70 – 7,079 yardsField – 78 entrantsPurse – $11M The Preview The PGA Tour makes the overseas trek from Las Vegas to Japan this week as Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club plays host to the ZOZO Championship for the third time since the event’s inception in 2019. The par-70 layout measures less than 7,100 yards, but tree-lined fairways and a handful of doglegs make the course play a bit longer than it looks on paper,… Source link

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) downgraded its outlook for the global economy next year based on the effects of the war in Ukraine, global inflation that requires interest rate hikes and a slowdown in China. “In short, the worst is yet to come, and for many people 2023 will feel like a recession,” IMF Chief Economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas stated. The IMF, which is the primary financial institution of the United Nations, now forecasts global growth will slow next year by 2.7% —… Source link

Some seven years after selling his previous company to Google, Jacob Bank is preparing to launch his next project, this time with a focus on automating mundane, repetitive tasks. Bank was previously cofounder and CEO at Timeful, a smart scheduling app that helped users make better use of their time through automatically prioritizing their various commitments. After selling up to Google in 2015, Bank joined Google’s ranks and set about integrating core Timeful technology into Gmail and… Source link

With both American League Division Series having the day off Wednesday, the National League will take center stage. First up will be Zack Wheeler and the Phillies playing Game 2 of their series with the Braves, who will start Kyle Wright. A pitcher’s duel could loom for Game 2 of the series between the Padres and Dodgers with Yu Darvish starting against Clayton Kershaw. Only two games doesn’t leave us with many options on Yahoo, but with money to be won, let’s highlight some appealing… Source link

The Yandex development team announced the next improvements in the technology for off-screen translation of video and the inclusion of support for simultaneous translation using 12 voices six female and six male voices. Yandex:? The voiceover system is integrated into Yandex.Browser and is based on neural network technologies. The second analyzes the voice and marks the fragments that each person speaks on the soundtrack, and gives to each other the ability to discern the… Source link