• UK to reveal social media ban plans for under-16s within weeks

    Downing Street is reportedly set to reveal the proposals for stricter age restrictions on social media apps within weeks.

  • Stocks retreat for third straight week, Netflix shares fall on plans to stop reporting subscriber numbers | Wall Street Week

    US stocks endured a difficult week with technology stocks and small caps particularly in the firing line amid disappointing news from the chip sector, escalating tensions in the Middle East and th

  • UPMC laying off approximately 1,000 people

    (WHTM) -- The Pennsylvania healthcare giant UPMC has announced a 1% layoff of staff members in the company's 100,000+ person workforce. The layoff will impact about 1,000 staff members of UPMC's 100,000+ person workforce systemwide, according to Paul Wood, Vice President and Chief Communications Officer at UPMC. In a statement about the action, Wood attributed []

  • What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Chemtrails (Sigh)

    In this column I try not to cover things that any normal person knows are fake—like chemtrails. But just this week, Tennessee legislators passed a state law that bans “the intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals substances, or apparatus with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight. In other words: chemtrails.

  • Here's Where to Find Verizon and AT&T Broadband Facts For Plans

    By April 10, the FCC asked all broadband providers in the US to list broadband facts or labels on their sites that provide easy-to-digest information about their wired and wireless plans. These labels would be used like the nutrition labels on food are, in a way that lets you know the straight-forward details without having … Continued Read the original post: Here’s Where to Find Verizon and AT&T Broadband Facts

  • More A30 closures this week as drivers are warned to plan ahead

    The work on £330m scheme continues

  • Trump media group plans TV streaming platform

    Donald Trump's media group said Tuesday it will launch a streaming television platform, but its shares continued to tumble on Wall Street.The announcement came as 77-year-old former US president Trump sat through a second day of jury selection in his historic criminal trial.No other ex-president in US history has been hauled before a criminal court and the trial in a Manhattan courthouse comes as scandal-plagued Trump is fighting to make a shock return to the White House in November.Trump is...

  • What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Donald Trump Trial Myths

    For the first time in American history, a former president is the defendant in a felony trial, and the misinformation, rumors, and fake news are coming in hot from the Trump trial. Below are some quick fact-checks of some of the many dubious claims coming out of the trial.

  • Media Note: Mitch Wertlieb Named Host of 'Vermont This Week'

    Mitch Wertlieb, host and producer of Vermont Public’s daily news podcast “The Frequency,” has been named permanent host of “Vermont This Week.” The show is the flagship televised news program for Vermont Public, the entity created nearly three years ago when Vermont Public Radio and Vermont PBS merged. "I’m really grateful for this opportunity,” Wertlieb told Seven Days on Wednesday. “I’ve gotten to know some of the folks on the PBS crew and am blown away by what they do.” Wertlieb’s...

  • Action plan: CIAR BYRNE's essential jobs for your garden this week

    Even if you don't have a garden, you can grow pots of basil, coriander, and mint on a kitchen windowsill to add to salads and drinks, snipping off leaves as you need them.

  • Sikorsky plans to lay off employees after cancellation of US Army program

    Sikorsky plans on laying off workers due to the U.S. Army’s recent decision to cancel the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft program, a spokesperson said. The layoffs will impact workers in the Sikorsky business segment. A spokesperson told NBC Connecticut that amounts to less than 1% of parent company Lockheed Martin’s workforce. “We intend to retain as many roles as possible

  • Tesla Plans To Lay Off 10% Of Workforce After Dismal Quarterly Sales

    After reporting dismal first-quarter sales, Tesla is planning to lay off about a tenth of its workforce as it tries to cut costs, multiple media outlets reported Monday. CEO Elon Musk detailed the plans in a memo sent to employees. The layoffs could affect about 14,000 of the 140,473 workers employed by the Austin, Texas, […]