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Dave Limp, senior vice president of devices and services for Amazon.com Inc., speaks at an unveiling event at the company’s headquarters in Seattle, Washington, on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019.Chloe Collyer | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSince Amazon released its Alexa voice assistant in 2014, the company has worked hard to embed the technology into as many devices as possible, from microwaves and thermostats to ear buds and wall plugs.Now, Amazon is making TVs a bigger focus of its push to put Alexa everywhere, as it eyes its presence in the smart home market. At a hardware event in 2021, the company…

Microsoft is now letting anyone preview Microsoft Loop, a collaborative hub that offers a new way of working with Office apps and managing tasks and projects. Similar to the Notion, Microsoft Loop including workspaces and pages where you can import and organize tasks, projects, and documents. But what sets the two apart is the shareable Loop components that let you turn any page into a real-time block of content that can be pasted into Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Word on the web, and Whiteboard.Parts of the loop are constantly updated and edited for anyone they share. Imagine a table where you…

Four people have reportedly had to have their eyeballs surgically removed.March 22, 2023, 9:49 AM ET• 4 min readingThe number of deaths in an outbreak is related to contaminated recalled eye drops increased and more people lost their sight.According to a update released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday, the death toll rose from one to three.Furthermore, at least eight people were blinded and four people were surgically removed.The CDC did not provide any information in its update about the affected patients including names, ages, genders or where they live.More than 10 different brands of artificial…

Perhaps Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Fed chief Jerome Powell have done enough – for now – to cool consumer concerns about the state of the US banking system.Google Trends search data crunched by Goldman Sachs shows that the large initial increase in public focus on banks perceived to be under stress has cooled over the past week (chart below). Search trends related to bank withdrawals also initially spiked amid busts this month of Silicon Valley Bank (SIVB), Signature Bank (SBNY), and Credit Suisse (CS) but have since normalized. this.Goldman added that broader economic confidence amid the rolling bank crisis…

New York (CNN) Senator Elizabeth Warren is increasing pressure on the Federal Reserve following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. In a new letter shared exclusively with CNN, Warren, Sen. Bernie Sanders and ten other senators are calling for the Fed to crack down on large regional banks with assets between $100 billion and $250 billion. both Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank meeting that asset threshold when they failed earlier this month. The bipartisan 2018 rollback of Dodd-Frank freed the region’s large banks on a range of assets from the strictest supervision. “The collapse of both SVB and Signature,…

By David MorganWASHINGTON (Reuters) – A conservative Republican and a progressive Democrat in the U.S. Senate are introducing legislation on Wednesday to replace the Federal Reserve’s internal watchdog with one appointed by the president, aimed at tightening bank oversight following Silicon Valley failures Bank and Signature Bank.Republican Rick Scott and Democrat Elizabeth Warren blamed the collapse of the two banks on regulatory failures at the US central bank, which until now operated with an internal inspector general reporting to the Fed board.”Our law fixes that by establishing a presidentially-appointed, Senate-confirmed inspector general at the Fed, like every other major government…

Enlarge / The Terran 1 rocket seen on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.Relativity Space/Trevor Mahlmann Relativity Space, the ambitious company that aims to make most of its rockets additively, will try again to make the debut launch of its Terran 1 vehicle on Wednesday night from Florida. The California-based company has a three-hour launch window that opens at 10 pm local time at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (02:00 UTC on Thursday). The current forecast for the launch attempt is very good, with a 95 percent chance of acceptable conditions, according to US Space Force officials who operate…

DirecTV says it has reached a deal with Newsmax to bring back the right wing cable TV channel.The satellite TV provider and Newsmax are in a month-long dispute. DirecTV said it stemmed from financial differences between the two.DirecTV said Wednesday it has reached a deal with Newsmax Media to bring the right wing network back to its satellite-TV and streaming packages.DirecTV has not carried Newsmax on its services since late January, when carriage negotiations between the two companies broke down. Newsmax has it said to be earlier at the heart of the dispute is “political discrimination,” which some politicians have…

March 22 (Reuters) – Meme stock GameStop Corp ( GME.N ) jumped nearly 50% in early trading on Wednesday as the video game retailer’s first profitable quarter in two years squeezed bearish investors and sparked a rise in other stocks popular with retail traders.AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc ( AMC.N ) gained 5.3%, while Bed Bath & Beyond ( BBBY.O ) rose 7.5%. Both shares, along with GameStop, were at the heart of a meme stocks frenzy in 2021 fueled by small investors interacting on social media.Among other stocks popular with retail investors, Koss Corp (KOSS.O) climbed 9.5%, while the Roundhill…

A general view of Cosmic Girl, a repurposed Boeing 747 aircraft carrying a LauncherOne rocket under its left wing, as final preparations are made at Cornwall Airport Newquay on January 9, 2023 in Newquay, United Kingdom. Matthew Horwood | Getty ImagesVirgin Orbit is in final talks to raise funds from Texas-based investor Matthew Brown, two people familiar with the deal told CNBC, worth an injection of $200 million.Virgin Orbit and Brown began deal talks last week, one of the people said, around the same time the company announced it was halting operations and laying off most employees in search of…