Lincoln College says it will close this week in the wake of a attack that took months to resolve. While the impact of severely impacted activities such as recruitment and fundraising, the cyberattack seems to have been the tipping point for the Illinois institution. The college has informed the Illinois Department of Higher Education and Higher Learning Commission that it will permanently close as of May 13th. As notes, it’s the first US college or university to shut down in part because… Source link
Read More »It’s a good time to be a WR
It’s a good time to be a receiver. There is a land rush to get receivers, which became very clear over the first two days of the NFL draft. Star receivers are being given enormous second contracts, causing some teams to make trades they don’t want to make. To get ahead of paying a receiver $25 million per year, plenty of teams are hoping to hit one in the draft. Or teams looked at the 2021 Cincinnati Bengals, who drafted Ja’Marr Chase fifth overall when they already had two good receivers, and… Source link
Read More »Kyrie Irving’s toxic feud with Celtics is good
Kyrie Irving is an easy and most times, deserved punching bag — for the media, for the NBA and for anyone with a pair of red gloves. He was rightfully fined $50,000 by the NBA for his one-fingered salutes to Celtics fans and probably a phrase caught on social media as he walked to the locker room, fighting back against abuse from the scorned lovers. And you know what? Good for him. The league did what it had to do — players can be seen giving obscene gestures multiple times on national TV… Source link
Read More »Intel is coming for Nvidia and AMD, and that’s good news for you
Chip giant Intel (INTC) is bringing the heat to rivals Nvidia (NVDA) and AMD (AMD) with the launch of the company’s Arc graphics chips. And it could turn the graphics chip industry upside down, not to mention help consumers like you and me. Intel has been teasing its Arc graphics since 2021 as an alternative to Nvidia’s and AMD’s offerings for customers who are looking for solid graphics capabilities for both gaming and content creation. The company will eventually release a slate of… Source link
Read More »Rising interest rates may be a good thing for home prices: Morning Brief
This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Tuesday, March 22, 2022 Home prices are soaring and later this morning we will find out by how much, when the latest S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home price index is released. On top of exorbitant home prices, mortgage rates are on the rise — the 30-year fixed mortgage (most common among homebuyers) topped 4% earlier this month for the… Source link
Read More »For stocks, ‘good news’ is a relative term: Morning Brief
This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Tuesday, March 22, 2022 Today’s newsletter is by Emily McCormick, a reporter for Yahoo Finance. Follow her on Twitter When it comes to sparking a move higher in stocks, news doesn’t necessarily have to go from bad to good, or from good to great. “Very bad” to “slightly less bad” can be enough. And that reasoning offers one explanation for… Source link
Read More »Apple’s M1 Ultra chip is good for you, but a problem for Intel, AMD, and Nvidia
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, March 16, 2022 Apple’s M1 Ultra chip could upend the computer industry Apple’s (AAPL) new M1 Ultra processor hits the market Friday. The chip, which you can get in the new $3,999 Mac Studio, is expected to be an absolute powerhouse that can take on the best of what Intel (INTC), AMD ( Source link
Read More »As women’s hoops grow, so does Dawn Staley’s good rep
You really do find out so much more about people in their low moments than in their high ones. That goes for everything, though for our purposes we’re looking at it through the lens of sports. Last Sunday, South Carolina lost to Kentucky in the women’s SEC championship on a top-of-the-key three-pointer from Dre’una Edwards with 4.2 seconds to play. The inclination was to call it an upset, but the Wildcats have been on a heck of a run since their last meeting with South Carolina a month ago,… Source link
Read More »It’s time to corral Putin for good
Half measures are for the half-hearted. If President Biden and other democratic leaders around the world are really going to punish Russian President Vladimir Putin for his brutal invasion of Ukraine, then it’s time to apply the muscle needed to clip his power permanently and smash his ability to wreak destruction wherever he chooses. The way to corral Putin is with robust energy sanctions that will raise prices even more and cause genuine hardship for millions outside of Russia—but pay… Source link
Read More »Good news nobody cares about
One thing is going right for President Biden. The job market remains hot, with businesses hiring just about anybody they can find. Employers added 678,000 jobs in February, far more than economists expected. The February report was uniformly solid, with gains in nearly every sector. Upward revisions to job growth in the two prior months show that the surge of the Omicron COVID variant had little to no effect on hiring. This may not benefit Biden at all, politically. Americans are now… Source link
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