U.S. wholesale prices eased back 0.1 percent in February after adding 0.3 percent in January, the labor department reported.
Category: 21 March 2023
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TOP TREND, DRAGFLATION: U.S. ECONOMY SLOWS IN FEBRUARY
After growing 3.2 percent in January, consumer spending online, in restaurants, and stores slipped 0.4 percent in February, the U.S. labor department reported.
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THE BIGGEST COVID QUESTION: WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN 10 YEARS?
So far, children have been largely unfazed by COVID-19 because their interferon pathway works really well. Interferon is an immune molecule that protects cells against invading pathogens.
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SEND IN THE CLOWNS
Sometimes I think that the script being used by the Biden Administration to manage its foreign and national security policies has been written by George Orwell, though I am not sure if it is based on 1984 or Animal Farm.
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
Next-level content creation censorship is now being rolled out to Microsoft 365 SaaS word processing, email, and other apps via a new ChatGPT feature called “Copilot.”
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FALSE EQUIVALENCE: CHATGPT DOESN’T LEARN CONTENT LIKE HUMANS, AND CRIES OUT FOR NEW IP LAWS
In trying to assess the enormous negative consequences and IP theft that generative AI systems like ChatGPT represent, some are making the argument that such systems should be held to existing standards that apply to humans.
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), ranking member of the the House Committee on Financial Services, told Yahoo Finance that legislation regulating stablecoins could be passed in a matter of days, when Congress reconvenes this month.
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MICROSOFT TESTING NATIVE CRYPTO WALLET FOR EDGE BROWSER
Microsoft may be seeking a new crypto “edge” for its web browser.
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WILL FEDNOW INSTANT PAYMENTS EASE FINANCIAL SYSTEM OR SPEED ITS CRASH?
The Federal Reserve announced that their beta FedNow instant payments system will go fully public in July.
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MAKE YOUR OLD CAR BATTERY PART OF THE ELECTRIC GRID
Your old battery might not have enough oomph to start your car but it probably has enough power left to still be of service, this time as part of the electric grid.