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Through years of weak economic growth, up-and-down stock markets and miserable returns on cash savings, the housing market has delivered for Canadians by making them wealthier. House prices used to more or less track the inflation rate, which was a feeble 1.5 per cent between 2008 and 2015 because of stunted economic growth. But in cities…
It was January 1975, and the Watergate Babies had arrived in Washington looking for blood. The Watergate Babies—as the recently elected Democratic congressmen were known—were young, idealistic liberals who had been swept into office on a promise to clean up government, end the war in Vietnam, and rid the nation’s capital of the kind of…
Silicon Valley’s push into the physical world “is going to be a much longer, slower process, especially in the next couple of chapters,” said Andrew McAfee, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who studies technology’s impact on society. That timeline isn’t typical for Google. Larry Page and Sergey Brin launched the search engine—then called BackRub—in…
Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking Google is the latest tech company to drop the longstanding wall between anonymous online ad tracking and user’s names. by Julia AngwinProPublica, Oct. 21, 2016, 7 a.m. Print Print Rt_Sdbr_Non-Mobile-Only300x250 Sidebar_Donate search Follow ProPublica Twitter Twitter Facebook Facebook volumelow Podcast RSS RSS Email Updates by…
With viewership for Snapchat’s Live Stories stagnating, the feature is not a priority for media buyers. In addition to Discover, Live Stories is one of two media-driven features inside the Snapchat app. Available alongside Discover on the Stories and Discover pages, Live Stories provides content curated around different events and topics — everything from a…
TODO: defaulting to 2099 until we get the expiry date from toolbelt Cristina Pedrazzini | Science Photo Library | Getty Images Shares of United Health Services fell 11.88 percent Wednesday after an investigative report about the country’s largest psychiatric hospital chain. Buzzfeed News interviewed dozens of current and former UHS staff members, many of whom…
On a cool October evening in 2012, Samantha Trimble walked into the lobby of Millwood Hospital, a low-slung brick building on the side of a road in Arlington, Texas, seeking a free mental health assessment. A few weeks earlier in the AP world history class Trimble taught, after a kid started acting childish, she put a…
The CEO of Carl’s Jr. Doesn’t Care If You’re Offended by the Chain’s Sexy Ads Samantha Hoopes stars in the patriotic new ad for the Most American Thickburger Image credit: Fab Fernandez and CKE Restaurants Kate Taylor Entrepreneur Staff Reporter May 20, 2015 The CEO of Carl’s Jr. doesn’t care if you find the burger…
File photo of an Airbus A350X WB passenger plane(Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images) Remember your last flight when you told yourself that at least flying couldn’t get any worse? Well, it’s about to get worse. United Airlines will soon start charging some customers for the privilege to use the overhead bins. United has announced a…
Image: Gizmodo Pebble, one of the best-known smartwatch brands, is dead. Rumors about the company’s demise have been swirling since The Information reported a potential Fitbit buyout last week. Today in a post on Kickstarter, Pebble confirmed that Fitbit was acquiring “key Pebble assets” and that Pebble would “no longer be operating as in independent…