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On the internet, warped humour and word salads are commonplace, but the material posted to Yahoo Answers regularly achieved new heights of bizarre. The perhaps best-known question posted to the social “knowledge sharing” platform is representative of the particular talents of its user base: “how is babby formed? how girl get pragnent?” Anyone with a Yahoo account was free to answer it. The question, misspelling and all, has been a celebrated meme in the decade since it first appeared… Source link

‘The legacy Yahoo Answers left was one of chaos and confusion, but I lived for the incredibly specific kind of help that can be difficult to find elsewhere’ Photo by Kyra Saley | The State Press “The often… Source link

TipRanks Goldman Sachs: These 2 Stocks Are Poised to Double (or More) The new week kicked off on a negative note, as all 3 major indexes pulled back from record highs. After applauding recent strong economic data, the worsening global coronavirus situation appeared to have soured investor sentiment. But according to Goldman Sachs chief US equity strategist David Kostin, investors shouldn’t get too worked up. The overall trend remains upward, and Kostin points out that volatility – the… Source link

Bloomberg Central Banks to Pour Money Into Economy Despite Sharp Rebound (Bloomberg) — The aggressive rebound in global economic growth still isn’t enough for most of the world’s central banks to pull back on their emergency stimulus.In Bloomberg’s quarterly review of monetary policy covering 90% of the world economy, the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Bank of Japan are among the 16 institutions set to hold interest rates this year.The outlook suggests officials still want… Source link

A jury on Tuesday found ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of two counts of murder for the killing George Floyd, an unarmed Black man whose death sparked nationwide Black Lives Matters protests. The jury, after 10 hours of deliberation, found Chauvin guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and manslaughter for the killing of Floyd on May 25, 2020. Business owners around Minneapolis, where the trial was held, have been on edge over the last year, with heightened… Source link

TipRanks Goldman Sachs: These 2 Stocks Are Poised to Double (or More) The new week kicked off on a negative note, as all 3 major indexes pulled back from record highs. After applauding recent strong economic data, the worsening global coronavirus situation appeared to have soured investor sentiment. But according to Goldman Sachs chief US equity strategist David Kostin, investors shouldn’t get too worked up. The overall trend remains upward, and Kostin points out that volatility – the… Source link

Apple (AAPL) has finally revealed its long-anticipated AirTag tracking devices. The gadgets, which wirelessly connect to your iPhone, are meant to be physically attached to items like keys, purses, or wallets so you can easily find them if you lose them. The AirTags, which will be available for $29 on April 30, communicate with your iPhone via its built-in U1 ultra-wideband chip and the FindMy network to let you know where they are in the real world via your phone’s FindMy app. The app will… Source link

National Review Private School Head Admits ‘Anti-racist’ Curriculum Is ‘Demonizing White People for Being Born’ The head of a New York City private school that has been accused of indoctrinating students with progressive politics and “anti-racist” orthodoxy privately acknowledged that the school is guilty of “demonizing white people for being born,” according to audio from a conversation he had with a whistleblower teacher. George Davison, the head of Grace Church School in… Source link

While Tesla is laser focused on selling Chinese consumers more Model 3s, one of its chief rivals in the country Xpeng (XPEV) is already planning for a future of electric flying cars. And not only planning for it, putting its money where its mind is at. This week at the Shanghai Auto Show, Xpeng showed off its electric Heitech flying vehicle. It looks one part snowmobile, one part futuristic helicopter. The vehicle seats one person.  Xpeng Vice Chairman and President Brian Gu tells Yahoo… Source link

undefined The Dogecoin faithful have declared April 20 “Doge Day,” but on Wall Street, having your own day is no guarantee of legitimacy or longevity. Still, the cryptocurrency token that started out as a joke deserves some props. Created in 2013 by software engineers as a “fun” alternative to bitcoin (BTC-USD), the dogecoin (DOGE-USD) is based on a “Doge” meme featuring a Shiba Inu dog alongside nonsensical phrases in multicolored, Comic Sans-font text. Dogecoin is now a top 10… Source link