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After a whipsaw end to the month, the stock market's decline was highlighted by the worst month for chip stocks in 24 years.
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The trio of dissenters at the Federal Reserve who backed an increase in interest rates this week contend high inflation could get entrenched in the economy unless the central bank acts decisively to get prices under control.
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Tony Romo Placed on Indefinite Leave from CBS Sports, JJ Watt Announced as Replacement Bleacher ReportPolice: Tony Romo had open bottle of alcohol in car when arrested ESPNTony Romo placed on leave from CBS Sports after OWI arrest in Wisconsin The GuardianHouston Texans legend steps into CBS' top NFL booth after Romo's Wisconsin arrest KHOU
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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day' Sets Box Office Record With $72 Million in Previews, Beating ‘Avengers: Endgame' Variety‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day' Besting ‘No Way Home's $50M U.S. Previews - Thursday PM Box Office DeadlineCan the Gritty ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day' Save the Superhero Movie? The New York Times‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day' Review: Tom Holland's Bleak Peter Parker WSJ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day' Ma
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Nasdaq futures rise as tech stocks lead sharp Wall Street rebound: Live updates CNBCChip Rebound Gives Stocks a Reprieve After Heady Month Bloomberg.comStock market today: Nasdaq, Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq set for more gains as Big Tech's AI spending shows no sign of letting up Yahoo FinanceStocks climb as Amazon, Microsoft results reignite AI trade, yen swings Reuters
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Why corporate bosses are worried about new Kevin Warsh's stance on interest rates nypost.comSpooked investors demand clarity on Fed's anti-inflation strategy The Washington PostThe Problem With Warsh's Deference to Markets WSJAnalysis: Fed Chairman Warsh's credibility in question after leaving interest rates unchanged CNBC
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When Andon Labs had Claude Opus 5 run a simulated vending machine, it was deceitful, exploitative—and highly successful.
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Topic: FuturismInventionsPeople love and hate Daylight Savings Time. Or more to the point, they hate the transition to and from it, particularly the spring one where you get 1 hour less sleep. It's even been tracked that traffic accidents go up after this shift.
There's a virtue to DST, though. We've become a night culture, and many of us get up well after sunrise and stay up well into dark, wasting hours of daylight every day. DST reduces that, though if you start the day too soon, you are rising and commuting in darkness. In the "energy crisis" they made year-round DST and many complained their kids were going to school in the dark. Of course, you can just resolve to get up earlier, or later, as you like, and control your own day, but many people must work on dictated schedules, and everybody wants to be in sync with those around them.
In the era before clocks, people tended to wake around sunrise each day. Indeed, the dawn twilight is what woke them up. Then they stayed up for 16 hours. In summer, it was 16 hours of day. In winter, they would get what daylight there was, then stay up into the night. Each day, they got up with the sun, arising at a different time, a few minutes earlier than before from December to June, a few minutes later the other half of the year. This is the natural clock that we evolved to, and is probably best for us.
Japan
Before contact with the west, Japan used a very different system. The day was divided into 12 "hours" or
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