Shares of Chipotle Mexican Grill skyrocketed as much as 12 percent after the bell on Tuesday after the burrito company said it was tapping Taco Bell CEO Brian Niccol as its new chief executive. “Brian is a proven world-class executive, who will bring fresh energy and leadership to drive excellence across every aspect of our […]
Rupert Murdoch’s Sky (SKYB.L) will pay 3.58 billion pounds to show 128 Premier League matches for three seasons from 2019/20 in a deal that brings to an end rampant inflation in the value of the domestic rights for English top-flight soccer. Rival BT (BT.L) will show 32 games a season, after its 885 million pound […]
“People with schizophrenia can be trained by playing a video game to control the part of the brain linked to verbal hallucinations,” BBC News reports. Verbal or auditory hallucinations, which typically take the form of “hearing voices”, can be one of the most distressing aspects of schizophrenia. The voices are often abusive, rude or critical, and […]
Global sea level rise is not cruising along at a steady 3 mm per year, it’s accelerating a little every year, like a driver merging onto a highway, according to a powerful new assessment led by CIRES Fellow Steve Nerem. He and his colleagues harnessed 25 years of satellite data to calculate that the rate […]
Amazon is laying off employees in the “low hundreds” an in effort to shift head count allocation to businesses that are growing, CNBC has learned. The Seattle Times first reported that Amazon was laying off “hundreds” of employees and “managing out” others as the company consolidates its retail operations. A person familiar with the matter […]
Tropical Cyclone Gita struck Tonga as a Category 4 hurricane on Tuesday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Twitter. The Pacific island nation had declared a state of emergency in anticipation of the hurricane. Before the storm hit, some residents nailed pieces of wood over their windows while others evacuated the island. […]
Can you actually suffer from a broken heart? Researchers at the University of Washington say yes. According to UW Medicine cardiologist Dr. Zachary Goldberger, broken heart syndrome is real. In fact, he sees around a patient a week who may have this syndrome. Symptoms of broken heart syndrome are similar to those of a heart […]
Scientists believe the sun is about to go through a major cooling event that could have a big impact on global temperatures. Scientists say that we could be in for a very big event with regards to the sun, with a “grand minimum” approaching around the 2050 time frame. That would mean that the sun […]
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) took down its website after a warning that hackers were taking control of visitors’ computers to mine cryptocurrency. Security researcher Scott Helme said more than 4,000 websites, including many government ones, were affected. He said the affected code had now been disabled and visitors were no longer at risk. The […]
Despite the recent skepticism, Ripple has received a big-time boost by signing a massive deal with major foreign exchange UAE Exchange. THE PROOF IS IN THE PARTNERSHIP Ripple has come under criticism as of late, with a massive sell-off of XRP followed by skepticism as to the number of financial institutions even interested in using […]
Wells Fargo WFC 1.32% & Co. is having trouble doing right by the customers it has wronged. The big bank acknowledged that it recently sent out 38,000 erroneous communications to customers that it forced to buy unneeded auto insurance. In some cases, according to two people briefed on the matter, Wells Fargo has also sent […]
The credit rating agency said it didn’t originally announce “potential” data points, like tax identification numbers, that “may have been accessed” by hackers. Hackers stole more data from Equifax in a breach last year than initially thought. In September, the Atlanta, GA-based credit giant revealed a huge data breach, including names, social security numbers, birth […]
