Tag Archives: Worse

(Bloomberg) — As China’s markets gyrate following Covid outbreaks and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, one of the nation’s best-performing macro hedge funds is bracing for more pain. Most Read from Bloomberg Shanghai Banxia Investment Management Center, which topped local rankings in 2020, has cut its stock exposure to zero in anticipation of a worsening economy and further declines in equities, founder Li Bei said. The fund, which manages more than 5 billion yuan ($785 million), has also… Source link

China’s strict COVID-19 lockdowns will exacerbate global supply chain woes and add to inflation in the coming months, experts say. President Xi Jinping’s zero-COVID policy is being tested as the country struggles to tame its worst virus outbreak yet. Frustration is rising over food shortages, people being locked down in their homes for weeks, and a policy of killing pet dogs suspected of being infected with COVID. While China’s tech hub Shenzhen has emerged from its nearly month-long… Source link

A member of Reddit asked if Google search was becoming worse and thousands of others responded overwhelmingly that Google search was not showing what they were looking for. The SEO community on Twitter picked up the discussion and largely agreed. Google Search Quality Has Declined, According to Users? While a few members of Reddit (referred to as Redditors) said that Google search used to be worse and asserted that Google was better now, those that defended Google Search were in the… Source link

The world must dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 to avert the worst effects of climate change, according to an urgent report from the United Nations released this week. Among its recommendations, the report calls for improvements in agriculture and land use that would “help us adapt to climate change, and secure livelihoods, food and water.” The mention of water preservation acknowledges the dual threat that climate change poses for worldwide clean water access: it worsens the… Source link

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell last week celebrated Tom Brady’s retirement by hailing him as “an incredible competitor and leader” and noting “his stellar career is remarkable for its longevity” and “sustained excellence.” Just seven years ago, Goodell and the NFL were using media allies to brand Brady as a cheater, wrongly suspending him after a federal court battle, and eventually ending and hiding the results of an experiment that would have all but cleared him of… Source link

Dak Prescott should be ashamed of himself – and not because of the errors in judgment that squandered the final seconds off the clock in the wild-card playoff loss that ended the season for the NFL’s biggest tease, the Dallas Cowboys. No, the Cowboys quarterback ought to check himself for suggesting that frustrated fans at Jerry World were in the right for dangerously hurling trash at the officials who called it like they saw it. “Credit to them,” Prescott said during his postgame news… Source link

Last week, the International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled that Google infringed on five patents held by Sonos, related to creating and controlling speaker groups. The ITC entered an order that would have restricted the importation and sale of a variety of the company’s Nest smart speakers.  Sonos, as one might expect, declared it a total victory because its patents were affirmed as valid, and the ITC agreed that Google had stolen its technology for use in its own products. The company was… Source link

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shows off his vision for the metaverse during Facebook’s Oculus Connect conference on October 28, 2021.Facebook/Handout via REUTERS The so-called metaverse could give us our own virtual echo chambers and tailored realities. Advertisers and third parties could inject someone’s virtual world with ads and overlays unique to them. Experts told Insider the result could be a fractured reality where we all exist in different worlds. In the metaverse of the future, two… Source link

The overdose crisis in the U.S. is continuing to worsen as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.  Drug overdose deaths increased by 30.8% for the 12-month period ending March 2021, according to the latest provisional data from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, with reported numbers reaching a record high of 96,779. The CDC noted that the number is likely an undercount given incomplete data. “By the end of 2020, we knew that the number of overdoses for 2020 were going to be… Source link

Hospitals in the U.S. South have quickly become overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients as cases continue climbing amid the surge of the Delta variant of coronavirus. And while there are indications that Delta transmission tends to subside after around 50 days, some health professionals see things getting worse before getting better. “We’ve seen it pick up with children, young adults, young women, pregnant women, unfortunately,” Dr. Ellen Eaton, assistant professor at the University of… Source link