Tag Archives: Speak

[unable to retrieve full-text content]4 words that speak volumes about Google’s future Pixel plans  Computerworld Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Un-retiring: Yahoo Finance’s readers speak. (And we answer.)  Yahoo Finance Source link

‘Bear down’ and ‘be as frugal as you can’: Baby-boomer financial experts speak from experience on ways to ride out a recession It was a time of big hair, shoulder pads and the Cold War. But something often less thought of when feeling nostalgic about the ‘80s, was the interest rates that were high enough to make you dizzy. “The interest rates started the decade around 20%,” says Brad Lyons, a certified financial planner and an investment manager at Wiser Wealth Management based… Source link

Russia is speaking out against the United States in the Brittney Griner case, just one day after the Phoenix Mercury star was front and center at the ESPYs. Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that the United States classifying Griner as “wrongfully detained” shows blatant disrespect for Russian law. Even though marijuana is legal in various states, Zakharova said, it doesn’t matter one bit in Russia. “If a U.S. citizen was taken in connection with… Source link

After three weeks of holding up traffic on the D.C. Beltway, the so-called “truckers’ convoy” is moving on from Washington D.C., for now. One person who will clearly not miss them is Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who oversees the trucking industry and is currently in the middle of an effort to recruit more drivers to the field. He says the rhetoric from right-wing protest group, which originally formed to protest coronavirus mandates, is not representative of truckers overall. Asked… Source link

Western regulators and the crypto industry have had a sometimes-adversarial relationship, with Senator Elizabeth Warren this week calling on Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to impose new rules for the sector.  That perspective could risk the U.S. and other nations falling behind China, which has taken a more “holistic” approach, says Mohamed El-Erian, president of Queens’ College at Cambridge University and Allianz Chief Economic Adviser. “China is not waiting,” El-Erian told Yahoo Finance… Source link

The Bachelor has a Chris Harrison problem. Well, the franchise actually has a lot of problems, but Harrison, who is essentially the face of Bachelor Nation, is one that is about to implode. As calls for Harrison’s firing grow louder, Matt James, the show’s first Black Bachelor in 25 seasons, broke his silence surrounding the controversy ahead of Monday’s new episode. James specifically called out Harrison’s “troubling and painful” words excusing historical racism. Harrison apologized and… Source link

The Conversation The ‘gateway drug to corruption and overspending’ is returning to Congress – but are earmarks really that bad? Congressional earmarks – otherwise known as “pork barrel spending” – may be coming back. For decades, earmarks paid for pet projects back in lawmakers’ districts, with the tacit aim to earn those lawmakers votes. In turn, the awards encouraged legislators to vote for large spending bills. They have long been seen by many members of the public as well as… Source link

A new experimental application on Android aims to make communication easier for people with speech and motor impairments, Google announced today. The Look to Speak app lets users choose preselected phrases on their phone screen with their eyes. It’s available to everyone and is compatible with Android 9.0 and above, including Android One. Richard Cave, a highly specialist speech and language therapist at Google, works with people who have speech and motor impairments, especially people… Source link