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If you haven’t noticed yet, your grocery bill is likely much higher than it was just a few months ago. Prices are skyrocketing on a number of consumer staples — everything from coffee to milk to soap — as companies try to offset surging costs due to supply constraints and production challenges. And relief may not be coming anytime soon. In fact, industry experts are warning that consumers will need to dig even deeper into their wallets as we look ahead to next year. “I can tell you… Source link

This police camera video provided by The Moab Police Department shows Brian Laundrie talking to a police officer after police pulled over the van he was traveling in with his girlfriend, Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito, near the entrance to Arches National Park on Aug. 12, 2021. The Moab Police Department via AP Brian Laundrie, the sole person of interest in the murder of Gabby Petito, has been missing since mid-September. North Port Police spokesperson Josh Taylor said there was a lot of “oddness”… Source link

On Wednesday, Google said it’s adding a new wildfire layer to Google Maps, which users will be able to turn on to see the latest details about multiple fires at once. This can be essential during fire season when many fires may burn simultaneously. The new layer will show “most major fires that cause significant evacuations,” according to Google, as well as many smaller fires in the United States. Users will be able to tap a fire on the map for links to details such as emergency websites and… Source link

Google is negotiating to build two more data centers in The Dalles, seeking access to a lot more water and a new package of tax breaks in exchange for spending hundreds of millions of dollars to expand its facilities on the site of a former aluminum smelter. Neither Google nor the city will say how big the new data centers would be, but they figure to be huge. Google spent $1.8 billion on its server farms along the Columbia River through 2017. Google has expanded steadily in The Dalles since… Source link

Markets sold off on Monday amid worries about Chinese property giant Evergrande’s massive debt load, and one expert warns that there is more agony coming for anyone connected to Evergrande. “There’s going to be a lot of pain — almost everybody involved with this is going to get a chunk taken out of them, if not worse,” Leland Miller, CEO of China Beige Book, told Yahoo Finance (video above). Evergrande currently has over $305 billion in liabilities, and some worry about the potential risks… Source link

Children are accounting for a larger number of COVID-19 cases as the highly transmissible Delta variant spreads rapidly. And as millions of students return to school nationwide, health officials are warning that infection numbers could get worse, potentially forcing schools to return to remote learning. “We’re going to start seeing a lot of our school systems, especially those that did not mandate masks, starting to close down,” University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Dr. Michael Saag… Source link

Square (SQ) is acquiring Australian buy now, pay later (BNPL) company Afterpay for $29 billion in stock, signaling that the digital payments company is entering the installment payment market. “This deal makes a lot of sense for Square, especially insofar as it enabled the company to expand significantly, both in terms of product line and globally by using its stock as an acquisition currency,” BTIG Managing Director Mark Palmer said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). Square is a brainchild… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Someday, the post-pandemic equities rally is going to end. When it does it will take a lot of newly christened stock bulls with it. Their refusal to bend has been the signature fact of the stock market for at least 12 months, putting a floor under four other selloffs in 2021 alone that look just like the one that has sheared almost 3% off the S&P 500 Index since Thursday. Whether the devotion of retail investors is enough to turn the tide again is the biggest question in… Source link

As the commercialization and industrialization of space becomes more of an inevitability with every successful launch by companies like SpaceX and Virgin Galactic (SPCE), space debris, or space junk, is becoming a growing concern of both corporate and government aerospace entities alike. The European Space Agency (ESA) estimated that there are 29,000 objects larger than 10 centimeters, 670,000 objects larger than one centimeter, and more than 170 million objects larger than one millimeter… Source link

Samsung has taken the wraps off it and Google’s new unified smartwatch platform at MWC 2021 — sort of. The company isn’t announcing a new Galaxy Watch today, or even what the new platform will be called (it’s unofficially referred to as Wear); those announcements will come later this summer at a proper Galaxy Unpacked event. But what Samsung did show off was a first look at what its new One UI Watch software will look like, and it elaborated on just what the new Google / Samsung… Source link