Open Editor's Digest for freeRula Khalaf, editor of the Financial Times, picks her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter.The runaway train that is the US stock market is still moving so fast that some investors wonder if they can jump on without breaking a limb.It's a difficult maneuver. As major markets wait for a long weekend, the S&P 500 index of major US stocks closed the first quarter of this year with a gain of 10 percent, on top of an 11 percent rise in the fourth quarter of 2019. Last year.A few European indices, such as Germany's DAX and…
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Google will shut down its Podcasts app in the US within days. The company has begun warning app users that they will need to migrate their subscriptions to YouTube Music by April 2 to follow and stream their favorite shows from now on. Users who don't make this step right away will still have additional time to migrate, but will no longer be able to stream from the Podcasts app directly after that date. The Google Podcasts app, which has been installed more than 500 million times on Android devices globally for more than half a decade, offers a simple,…
Welcome to Startups Weekly – your weekly digest of everything you can't miss in the startup world. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Not much news from me this week, but I've been doing a lot of preparations for TechCrunch Early Stage taking place in Boston on April 25th. It's going to be a great show, and you still have time to get tickets at early bird prices, if you're quick. The most interesting startup stories of the week Stability AI is bidding farewell to its founder and CEO, Imad Mostaq, who has decided to…
Holy Wanderer: Just in time for Easter, the holiest day in the Christian calendar, Donald Trump has begun selling Bibles — the same month he posted bail after recently being found guilty of sexual assault and defamation of writer E.B. Jean Carroll and before that his next trial, on charges of paying hush money before the elections to porn star Stormy Daniels. Nothing could better illustrate Trump's impudence, and in Americans' reaction to his recent actions, the range of views about him: from the point of view of the conman (my own, of course) to the anointed of God (his…
Georgia lawmakers have rejected a bill that would limit the amount the state can spend on tax incentives for film and television production, reaffirming the increasingly popular production center's status as one of California's biggest rivals. The legislation died this week in the Senate after easily passing through the House in February, according to the Associated Press.But by the time the bill failed, efforts to limit Georgia's spending on production tax credits had already failed.The original version of the bill was supposed to cap Georgia's annual spending on production incentives at 2.5% of the state budget — or about $900…
Open Editor's Digest for freeRula Khalaf, editor of the Financial Times, picks her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter.Donald Trump endorsed the Bible this week. You may have thought God's presence was enough for the faithful on Easter, but the former US president has licensed his name, likeness and image for the God Bless the USA Bible book, which retails for $59.99. “All Americans need a Bible in their homes and I have a lot of it. It's my favorite book,” he says charmingly in a video on his Truth Social website.The Bible pales in comparison to Truth Social itself…
The US Environmental Protection Agency issued tough new emissions standards on Friday for heavy trucks and buses, aiming to cut air pollution, tackle climate change and boost economic growth.The new federal rules will reduce 1 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions each year and provide $13 billion annually in financial benefits “related to public health, climate, and savings for truck owners and operators.” Big excavators, delivery trucks, cement mixers, garbage trucks, transport buses and school buses are included.The California government enacted similar rules last year. The state's rules are stricter than the Biden administration's and are expected to remain so.…
MSC, the world's largest shipping company, has joined the list of shipping companies that have ended the delivery of out-of-port containers to shipping customers as a result of the container ship accident near the Port of Baltimore that led to the tragic bridge collapse. With the Port of Baltimore closed indefinitely, the decision places the burden of picking up cargo at a diverted port and transporting it to its final destination on the shipping company.In an email to customers obtained by CNBC on Thursday, MSC explained that for customer containers already on the water bound for the Port of Baltimore,…
A day after researchers revealed Otherwise, all NSFW content will soon be filtered across X Communities by default. Communities are smaller groups affiliated with X and have their own feeds outside of the main timeline. The changes appear to confirm previous tests of NSFW communities spotted by several researchers and reverse engineers, and point to a social network that will now directly embrace the adult content that has always been present on the platform. NSFW (Not Safe for Work) content plays a major role on X, which has been a major venue for advertising for sex workers as well as…
Moscow launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure on Friday, with a massive barrage of 99 drones and missiles hitting areas across the country, Ukraine's armed forces said.Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said that warnings of air raids were echoed throughout the country, with 10 Ukrainian regions under fire.Russia has escalated its attacks on Ukraine in recent days, firing several missiles at the capital, Kiev, and striking energy infrastructure across the country in apparent retaliation for recent Ukrainian air attacks on the Russian border region of Belgorod. But such sporadic attacks were common throughout the war.Widespread power outages have…