Photo by Bennett Raglin/WireImage Darla Shine, the wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Bill Shine, pushed anti-vaxx beliefs on Twitter on Wednesday. Her Twitter rant against vaccinations came after the release of a CNN report on a major measles outbreak. People were quick to criticize Shine’s beliefs, with some calling her […]
UBS is trying to create ‘super human’ employees by bringing on hundreds of robots
REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann UBS is looking to add 500 robots and reduce manual processes by 10% in 2019, Chris Gelvin, the firm’s head of group operations, said at a media roundtable on Tuesday. Since 2016, the bank has gone from 50 robots to 1,000. UBS is doubling-down on its bet robotics can help empower its back-office […]
Kroger, the largest grocery chain in America, just revealed another tool in its quest to change grocery shopping as we know it (KR)
Kroger Kroger is introducing Kroger Pay, which allows customers to pay for groceries and earn rewards points on their smartphone. Tech is increasingly crucial to Kroger, with digital sales reaching $5 billion in 2018, a figure that the grocer is predicting could nearly double in 2019. In January, the company began rolling out digital shelves that […]
NASA’s longest-running Mars mission is over with the presumed death of its Opportunity rover
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ. NASA’s Opportunity rover hasn’t phoned home in the months after a global dust storm tore across Mars. Officials at NASA are expected to announce the Martian robot’s presumed death on Wednesday. Now that both Opportunity and its identical-twin rover, Spirit, are silent, the longest-running Mars mission is history is over. Opportunity […]
A former Apple executive was just accused of insider trading by the SEC
Getty Gene Levoff, who worked as Apple’s Senior Director of Corporate Law and Corporate Secretary until September 2018, has been accused of insider trading by the SEC. The SEC’s lawsuit suit, filed Wednesday morning, says Levoff exploited his positions to unlawfully trade Apple securities ahead of Apple’s quarterly earnings announcements. Levoff profited and avoided losses […]
GOLDMAN SACHS: There’s striking proof that a stock-market slowdown is near, and surviving it will require the use of one time-tested strategy
Drew Angerer/Getty Images The stock market’s strong rebound to start this year is likely to be short-lived, according to equity strategists at Goldman Sachs. In a note to clients, they laid out the historical precedent and fundamental reasons why returns are set to be moderate going forward. They also provided specific recommendations for where investors […]