Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, Americans have much more free time, and they spend that time at home. © Getty Images The pandemic has many people thinking about fixing their homes. But not all home improvement projects get decent performance. At the beginning of the health crisis, economists predicted that …
Read More »Washington NFL team to use “Washington Football Team” for now, sources say
Effective immediately, Washington will call itself the “Washington Football Team” pending the adoption of a new name, league sources told ESPN. This is not a name change and final brand change for the team; This is the name you want to use until a new name is adopted at some …
Read More »More than 1.4 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week
Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on the content of the upcoming coronavirus stimulus round, pushing for people to return to work and reopening the economy. The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose for the first time in 16 weeks, as new spikes in coronavirus cases undermined …
Read More »Russia conducts space test for anti-satellite weapons
Russia conducted an anti-satellite test from space last week, the United States Space Command said in a statement Tuesday. Earlier this year, a bafflingly captured Russian satellite hiding a US spy satellite launched a kind of projectile into space in a move that mimics a suspected anti-satellite weapon test in …
Read More »NVIDIA wants to buy Arm, SoftBank’s semiconductor subsidiary
Graphic chip designer NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) is considering a purchase offer for processor architecture designer Arm, currently owned by Japanese telecommunications Softbank (OTC: SFTB.Y). Anonymous sources who spoke to Bloomberg and CNBC said NVIDIA has approached SoftBank with a proposal, although other buyers still have a chance to outperform NVIDIA. …
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