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Supply chain issues may be keeping many Americans up — literally — due to backlogs experienced by the world’s largest bedding provider. “We’re seeing it a little bit in trucking, obviously the shipping, a little bit in the component issues, primarily chemicals, … it’s getting better, but it continues to be a challenge,” Scott Thompson, chairman, president, and CEO of Tempur Sealy, told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “And we think we’ll be working through supply issues probably here… Source link

The argument that natural immunity against COVID-19 is an alternative to vaccination is emerging as a potential legal challenge to federally mandated vaccination policies. Vaccination is already required for certain workers and some college students. The federal government, despite steeper legal hurdles to imposing vaccination, has also invoked the U.S. Department of Labor to mandate inoculation for health care workers and is expected to roll out a larger policy effectively mandating… Source link

Through a collaboration with Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and as part of the NeurIPS conference on machine learning (ML), Yandex is to launch the global ‘Shifts Challenge’. The three-pronged competition is designed to tackle the problem of distributional shift in ML and features the largest autonomous vehicle (AV) data set in the industry to date. Containing 600,000 scenes, equivalent to over 1,600 hours of driving, the data set was collected through self-driving… Source link

Phil Mickelson is still enjoying his win at the PGA Championship. (Andrew Dieb/Icon Sportswire/Getty Images) Phil Mickelson struggled Thursday in his opening round at the Charles Schwab Challenge. He posted a 3-over 73 at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, and entered Friday both a full 10 shots outside the leaders and outside the projected cut line. Lefty, though, was completely unbothered by his performance. He’s still basking in the glow of last week’s historic finish in South… Source link

The App is Back! Don’t forget to download the NBC Sports EDGE app to receive real-time player news, mobile alerts and track your favorite players. Plus, now you can check out articles and player cards. Get it here! They don’t make em’ like they use to when it comes to golf course design. This week the PGA TOUR heads to a classical design, Colonial Country Club, in Fort Worth, Texas. The course was built in the 1930s and it still holds up today with modern equipment. Known for tight,… Source link

Is this a glimpse of the Google Pixel Watch? @rendersbyian Google’s Pixel Watch has been rumored for years, but it looks like it’s really happening this time, if the latest leak is real. MORE FROM FORBESiPad Pro 2021: Images Leak Showing Pro & iPad Mini In Spectacular DetailBy David Phelan Tipster Jon Prosser, in a special edition of his Front Page Tech YouTube show (this time FPT stands for Front Pixel Tech), says that he was handed a lot of different images of the… Source link

TipRanks Analysts Say ‘Buy the Dip’ in These 3 Stocks Smart stock investing shouldn’t be emotional, but investors are only human, after all, making it difficult to follow a rational trading strategy. Investors should remember the advice of Warren Buffett: “We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.” What Buffett is advocating is the oldest of market advice: buy low and sell high. Taking this into consideration, we set out on… Source link

Here’s how you can make your first steps towards buying your first property. (Source: Getty) The Australian real estate market is worth a whopping $6.5 trillion. It makes sense then that economists label property investment as the best and also one of the simplest ways to make money. Have you ever thought of investing in Australian real estate, but aren’t sure where to start? It might seem daunting but there are some simple steps you can take right now which will get you on your way – and… Source link

Traders who gobbled up GameStop (GME) stock in the Reddit-user-fueled push to squeeze short sellers could end up on the defending side of enforcement action if officials can find out who they are and show they tried to manipulate or deceive the markets. Indeed, Fox Business Network’s Charlie Gasparino tweeted on Thursday that regulatory sources were telling him they would be looking at a market manipulation case related to GameStop trading. However, a successful case against those who caused… Source link

Alphabet Inc. GOOG 0.94% Chief Executive Sundar Pichai has bet big on artificial intelligence as central to the company’s future, investing billions of dollars to embed the technology in the conglomerate’s disparate divisions. Now, it is one of his trickiest management challenges. Over the past 18 months, Google’s parent has waded through one controversy after another involving its top researchers and… Source link