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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Even in the age of Google Earth, people still buy globes. Here’s why they remain so alluring  The Associated Press Source link

This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023 Apple’s upcoming earnings could be a bellwether for the rest of the industry Apple (AAPL) will report its first quarter earnings after the bell on Thursday. The announcement follows a string of stinging reports from tech companies including Intel (INTC), Snap (SNAP), and… Source link

Base metals rallied on Thursday, but their downward trend over the last several weeks has been flashing recessionary signals. Copper (HG=F) futures touched a 19-month low this week amid concerns of a recession. The metal used in everything from jewelry to motors and electrical wiring is down about 19% year to date. “Doctor” Copper is often used to gauge the overall health of the economy. “Weak commodity prices help ease inflation fears,” Fiona Cincotta, senior financial markets analyst at City… Source link

After hovering near the $5 mark for a while, the average price of gas could fall to $4 per gallon by mid-August, analysts predict. Gas prices have been retreating from their highs last month for a couple of weeks now. AAA reports the average price per gallon currently stands at $4.75 nationwide, a 16-cent drop from a month ago. Wednesday’s drop of 2.8 cents per gallon was the second largest single-day drop in the last decade. The decline comes on the heels of a Twitter feud between Jeff… Source link

Way back in 1977, the final year in which NFL teams played a 14-game schedule, seven different running backs handled at least 300 touches. Lydell Mitchell of the Baltimore Colts led the league with 372, averaging 26.6 per game. In 2021, the first year in which teams played a 17-game regular season, only four running backs reached 300 touches, led by Najee Harris at 381 (22.4 per week). During the intervening years, we collectively witnessed — and eventually developed fantasy strategies in… Source link

A new dataset from Google shows the features on the surface of the Earth in near real time, the company announced Thursday. The tool, called Dynamic World, uses deep learning and satellite imagery to develop a high-resolution land cover map that shows which bits of land have features like trees, crops, or water. Land cover maps usually take a long time to produce, and there are big gaps between the time images are taken and when the data is published. They also often don’t have a… Source link

This Earth Day, Google is dedicating its Doodle to how badly we’re messing up our beloved planet. It’s actually kind of a cool Doodle. Four different GIFs show time lapses of dramatic changes driven by climate change. From Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, you’ll see footage of bright corals losing their color under the stress of warmer waters. Corals are living creatures that get their color from algae in their tissues with which they have a symbiotic relationship. Under stress,… Source link

The Biden administration’s push to reduce U.S. reliance on Chinese imports has renewed domestic efforts to produce rare earths minerals, critical to the production of electric vehicles and electronics. A new bipartisan Senate bill is aiming to accelerate that timeline, by banning defense contractors from sourcing those materials in the first place. In an interview with Yahoo Finance Live, the bill’s co-sponsor Sen. Mark Kelly (D, AZ) called Chinese rare earth minerals “a national security… Source link

In an effort to enable greater impact from the NICFI Satellite Data Program, Planet has teamed up with Google to make high-resolution, tropical forest Basemaps available within the Earth Engine platform. This brings the power of Google’s cloud to the entire NICFI community to run analysis at regional and global levels to study the effects and solutions of tropical forest loss at scales not possible through traditional means. “From its inception 10 years ago, Google Earth… Source link

LONDON — Millions of years before the Cotswolds, in western England, became a popular vacation destination, romanticized for its ancient woodlands, honey-colored stone villages and medieval abbeys, it was a shallow, warm sea, home to a Jurassic marine ecosystem. Over 167 million years later, two amateur paleontologists, Neville and Sally Hollingworth, uncovered fossils in a limestone quarry there, the largest find of Jurassic starfish and their relatives ever to be made in Britain. More than… Source link