Stephen Maturen / Getty Images Who can win the job of starting quarterback for the Chicago Bears, Mitchell Trubisky or Nick Foles? The truth is that it hardly matters. In the long run, both will lose. In the long run, the immediate winner of a quarterback battle that is sure …
Read More »Siya Kakkar, teen TikTok star with 1.9 million followers, dies at 16
Siya Kakkar, who has nearly 2 million followers on the TikTok video streaming platform, reportedly died. The Indian viral sensation was 16 years old. The cause of death is not yet confirmed, but India Today reports that Kakkar died of suicide on June 25 in New Delhi. The e-mail request …
Read More »TikTok says it will stop accessing clipboard content on iOS devices
TikTok says it will stop accessing users’ clipboard content on iOS devices, after a new privacy transparency feature in iOS 14 revealed that the video-sharing platform was continuing the practice it promised to suspend last year, the Telegraph reported. Every time a third-party app accesses the clipboard of an iOS …
Read More »Americans’ paychecks are shrinking, but their spending is skyrocketing. Hey?
The United States savings rate stood at 23.2% in May, compared to 32.2% in April. So far so good. Many economic indicators recorded sharp falls in April, the height of the blockade, and recovered in May, which made the data very choppy. It seems that consumer spending also fits that …
Read More »Don’t assume the United States still aspires to be a world leader, warns Merkel | World News
The rest of the world can no longer assume that the United States still aspires to be a world leader and needs to readjust its priorities accordingly, Angela Merkel warned. “We grew up knowing that the United States wanted to be a world power,” the German chancellor said in an …
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