U.S. stock futures were mixed ahead of the open Thursday, with tech stocks leading the way up following the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate hike. Futures tied to the S&P 500 (^GSPC) added 0.4%, while futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) lagged, dipping 0.4%. Contracts on the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) rose by 1.2%. The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note ticked up to 3.415% Thursday morning. The dollar index was flat. The major U.S. stock… Source link

Rob, a member of the Mozart group, leads a military training of Ukrainian soldiers in rural Donbas, in eastern Ukraine, on July 23, 2022. (Laura Boushnak/The New York Times) KYIV, Ukraine — Andrew Milburn, a former American Marine colonel and leader of the Mozart Group, stood in a chilly meeting room on the second floor of an apartment building in Kyiv about to deliver some bad news. In front of him sat half a dozen men who had traveled to Ukraine on their own dime to work for him. “Guys,… Source link

Samsung, Google and Qualcomm are joining hands to make a mixed-reality platform. Executives from the companies, namely Samsung’s TM Roh, Qualcomm’s Cristiano Amon, and Google’s Hiroshi Lockheimer came on stage at the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event to make this announcement. These companies only announced the partnership — they had no future device or hardware product to show. “We are working to create a new era of highly immersive digital experiences that… Source link

Tom Brady is done with the NFL “for good” and Jimmy Fallon thinks he knows what’s next for the superstar quarterback. On Wednesday’s episode of “The Tonight Show,” Fallon joked the “deserted landscape behind” Brady in his video announcing his retirement meant he’s landed a role on HBO’s “The Last Of Us.” Failing scoring a part in the post-apocalyptic drama, Fallon later aired a promo for what could be Brady’s next gig — in “The Bachelor.” Watch the video here:

In this market, the last thing investors have been rewarding this earnings season is a bottom-line miss vs. expectations of any magnitude. Except if you are Meta (META). Shares of the social media giant exploded nearly 20% in pre-market trading on Thursday following a whopper of an earnings shortfall. The company had the most visited ticker page on Yahoo Finance. Here is how Meta performed compared to Wall Street estimates — at first blush it was far from rosy and deserving of a major push… Source link

A Yahoo/Maru Public Opinion poll found that 35 per cent of Canadian homeowners say they can handle the Bank of Canada’s current benchmark interest rate of 4.5 per cent for an average of less than 10 months before they would be forced to sell or vacate their homes. (THE CANADIAN PRESS Jonathan Hayward) As Canadian homeowners grapple with the Bank of Canada’s flurry of interest rate hikes, one in three say they won’t be able to handle higher rates for long before they are forced to sell their… Source link

Google is testing custom lock screen shortcuts in Android 13, though it’s not guaranteed to make it to the final build. Custom lock screen shortcuts are something that a lot of other device OEMs have figured out by now, but for Google Pixel owners, it’s not a feature that’s available. That may be changing though, as with Android 13 QPR2 Beta 3, the next Pixel feature drop update, it seems that Google is finally toying with the idea of introducing custom lock… Source link

WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) – TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, should be removed from app stores run by Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google because the short video social media app poses a risk to national security, Senator Michael Bennet, a Democrat on the intelligence committee, said in a letter dated Thursday. The app, which Congress has already banned from federal government devices, has come under increasing criticism because of concern that China’s government could use… Source link

The “extended reality” product could debut later this year Samsung’s February 2023 Unpacked event was dominated by the Galaxy S23 and, to a lesser extent, the Galaxy Book 3 series. These products are primarily iterative upgrades over their predecessor and don’t bring any breakthrough new technology to the table. The company is working on a more exciting device, though: an “extended reality” headset. Samsung is usually the first to market with products in… Source link

Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images The move signals growing bipartisan concern about the world’s most popular app. Colorado Senator Michael Bennet (D) has called on Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores, citing concerns that the app could share private American user data with China or be manipulated by the Chinese government to subtly influence U.S. public discourse. In a letter sent to the companies on… Source link