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[unable to retrieve full-text content]‘We don’t want our children to be waiters — waiting for us to die …  Yahoo Finance Source link

Just imagine the Google app icon growing teeth, then crawling over to the Hangouts icon while it opens its jaws wide.Photo: BigTunaOnline (Shutterstock) Google is just about ready to let Hangouts die its famously long death, and the company is asking users to not look back as they mosey on over to Google Chat. It’s the end of an era, of sorts, namely the wasted time the tech giant spent trying to make an all-in-one dedicated call and messaging app work within its vast suite of native apps.

The virtual reality (VR) job postings at Meta have shockingly died down, as its Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg places a $10 billion bet on building his metaverse dream, a new report has shown. The VR job postings have also slowed down at other Big Tech companies like Apple and Google amid the hiring frezz and layoff season owing to the global economic meltdown,… Source link

In his 1988 action film classic Die Hard, Bruce Willis as Detective John McClane made a vow. “I promise I will never even think about going up in a tall building again.” Well, so much for that cinematic vow. Thanks to his wife, Emma Heming Willis, the 67-year-old actor was captured on Instagram in his return to Nakatomi Plaza in Century City, Calif., aka the Fox Plaza building in real life. The film, which has been endlessly replayed on TV over the years, shows McClane’s efforts to take… Source link

In an exclusive interview Wednesday with Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer, legendary investor Charlie Munger weighed in on the high stakes of soaring inflation in the United States. Citing examples from the Roman Republic to Adolf Hitler to Latin America, Munger said, “Inflation is a very serious subject, you could argue it is the way democracies die.” He notes that it was after of years of inflation when “eventually the whole damn Roman Empire collapsed, so [the current… Source link

We’ve grown up alongside them, marveled at their skill, their will and their brilliance. We’ve cheered their immeasurable accomplishments, from jointly setting up children’s charities, to each winning the heavyweight title multiple times, to both earning doctorate degrees to one becoming the mayor of Ukraine’s biggest city. Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko can’t be true. They have to be the product of an author’s fertile mind and vivid imagination. You don’t meet guys who are as… Source link

A reader going by “Greg B” wrote in recently to protest the “topline” spending number for the Democrats’ now-moribund Build Back Better legislation. Democrats claim the bill would cost $1.7 trillion over a decade, assuming some provisions—such as an expanded child tax credit—expire after just one year. But the real goal is to keep those programs going with new legislation in the future, which means $1.7 trillion might be more like a down payment, with the real cost being a lot… Source link

From first dates to family outings, a night at the movies used to be a huge pre-pandemic draw. However, one of society’s biggest rituals is struggling to recover, even as COVID-19 capacity limits are lifted. Like many other sectors, the longer-term survival of movie theaters is a huge open question, especially among small and independent operators. Many theaters across the country were shuttered for over a year as Hollywood drastically curtailed the number of new releases, or narrowed the… Source link

Hail, freezing rain and gale-force winds during a high-altitude mountain ultramarathon led to the deaths of 21 experienced runners in northwestern China on Saturday, state media and the Associated Press reported. The 62-mile Huanghe Shilin Mountain Marathon race began in sunny conditions that morning. By 1 p.m. the weather turned to freezing rain, hail stones and gale winds, the state-run Global Times reported. Rescuers confirmed that 151 of the 172 total runners were safe, via AP, and eight… Source link

National Review Anthony Fauci Has Worn Out His Welcome More than a year ago, Americans welcomed Anthony Fauci into their homes as a sober scientist who was helping them make sense of a deadly new virus. But he has worn out that welcome. It’s true that Fauci has enjoyed an illustrious career, advising every president since Ronald Reagan and winning the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2008. There’s much to admire in his overall leadership since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, as… Source link