Summary List Placement Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. China’s economy will erase all its 2020 losses next year and still record positive growth for this year, ex-Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill told CNBC. He said: “China is well on the way to recovery. It is the country that really matters globally within the […]
Ask Amy: My wife made a plan I didn’t like, so I took the car and left. Was I wrong?
Dear Amy: Recently my daughter-in-law asked my wife to drive her and her two little kids to the airport (100 miles away) using our car. Columnist Amy Dickinson (Bill Hogan/Chicago Tribune) Mind you, the daughter-in-law has a brand-new $50,000 SUV, but wanted my wife to drive our car to the airport. This would leave me […]
Kindred Capital backed VR design startup Gravity Sketch in a $3.7 million funding round after seeing this pitch deck
Summary List Placement Gravity Sketch, the London-based startup working to transform product design through virtual reality, just raised $3.7 million in a funding round backed by Kindred Capital. Founded in 2014 by Oluwaseyi Sosanya, Daniela Paredes and Daniel Thomas, Gravity Sketch is disrupting the product design market – valued at around $7 billion by Grand […]
European stocks recover after biggest daily loss in three months, but ‘COVID-19 noise’ spreads across the region
Summary List Placement European stocks recovered with a fairly mild rebound following Monday’s carnage, but renewed fears of virus-related lockdowns in the region crept into global stock markets. However, shares in Deutsche Bank fell 0.5%, while HSBC fell 0.8%, extending the declines from the previous day that contributed to Monday’s losses in major indexes. The […]
Harriette Cole: It was creepy how she watched my husband and me
DEAR HARRIETTE: I have a “friend” who watches everything that’s going on. I noticed how she was checking me and my husband out all summer. Harriette Cole When we would have an argument, she was there, generally being supportive of us, but it was a little weird. She began to anticipate what our issues were […]
TikTok removed nearly 105 million videos for nudity and other policy violations in the first half of 2020
Summary List Placement TikTok removed nearly 105 million videos for violating its rules in the first half of 2020, the company’s latest transparency report reveals. The number is double what the app removed in the final six months of 2019, but still accounts for less than one percent of the videos posted on the app […]
Boris Johnson’s government tells people to work from home just weeks after warning home-workers they risk the sack
Summary List Placement Boris Johnson will today urge people to work from home if they can in order to stop a spike in coronavirus infections, just weeks after launching a back to work drive. The UK prime minister will address the House of Commons on Tuesday where he will confirm that the government has scrapped […]
Miss Manners: Yes, the day after the funeral is too soon to ask
DEAR MISS MANNERS: The day after my father’s funeral, a friend who had been in attendance called me on the telephone. She proceeded to ask, “So, do you think your mother will start dating?” I was appalled, and replied, “I really don’t want to think about that.” She then scolded me with, “You can’t be […]
Dear Abby: How do I leave this ‘perfect man’ without being the villain?
DEAR ABBY: I have been married for 14 years to a man a lot of people in our town think has no flaws. He helps a lot of people, and he is also a pastor, but he ignores me and takes me for granted, personally, emotionally and sexually. He’d rather watch TV until he falls […]
Isolation and closed borders: Here’s how ten Pacific Island nations are COVID-19-free, and the costs that come with it
Summary List Placement Along with paradisical warm waters and golden sand, 10 Pacific Island nations are still completely COVID-19 free due to closed border and geographical isolation, but it has come at a cost. Samoa, Tonga, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Vanuatu, Micronesia, and the Solomon Islands, are all COVID-19 free, according to […]
10 things in tech you need to know today
Summary List Placement Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Tuesday. Sign up here to get this email in your inbox every morning. Oracle has thrown fresh doubt on its deal to buy part of TikTok after saying that owner ByteDance will have no ownership stake in the new TikTok […]
LAPD officers reportedly used facial recognition 30,000 times in the past decade, contradicting the department’s previous denials
Summary List Placement The Los Angeles Police Department has on numerous occasions over the years downplayed its use of facial recognition technology, publicly claimed that the department doesn’t use it at all, and denied the existence of related documents that, if they exist, the public is legally entitled to see. But new records obtained […]