The good news: The forecasted date at which the Social Security and Medicare trust fund can’t pay full benefits for everyone was pushed back a few years in a report issued Monday. Bad news: That day is still coming, unless Congress acts. Also: aging in place or stuck in place? The challenges of homeownership later in life. Later in the episode: Reddit’s revenue and union organizing efforts in the South.
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In Romania, social media has 13.3 million users out of a total of 18.06 million internet users at the beginning of 2024, when the internet penetration rate was 91.6%, shows an analysis by DataReportal, which quotes Kepios. The data shows a decrease in the number of Internet users in Romania by 298,000 (-1.6%) between January […]
The prime minister admits he’s worried about frayed social cohesion following rising tensions at university campuses amid protests over the Middle Eastern conflict. Pro-Palestinian encampments have been set up at several Australian universities, following wider protests in the US, calling for the tertiary institutions to divest funds from Israel and for a ceasefire in Gaza. […]
Shares of Sprout Social fell Friday after reporting first-quarter financial results Thursday and sharing Q2 guidance. Cloud software company Sprout Social (NASDAQ:SPT) saw shared fell 40% Friday after reporting first-quarter financial results Thursday. Latest Ratings for SPT DateFirmActionFromTo Feb 2022StifelMaintainsBuy Feb 2022Morgan StanleyMaintainsEqual-Weight Feb 2022NeedhamMaintainsBuy View More Analyst Ratings for SPT View the Latest Analyst Ratings read more
A mostly forgotten footnote in the development of modern transportation is that early railroad passengers were often locked into their carriages. In retrospect, it seems obvious that bolting people into combustible and accident-prone vehicles was a bad idea, but the railroad is a useful reminder that humans are not always good at anticipating the effects […]
Popular Iraqi social media influencer Ghufran Mahdi Sawadi was shot to death outside of her Baghdad home on Friday evening. Security camera footage of the crime scene showed the assailant, who arrived on a motorcycle, discharge a handgun four times while the victim was sitting in her car. Iraq’s interior ministry has stated that they
While the right to freedom of expression is guaranteed, not all speech is constitutionally protected. When speech is wielded in a weaponized way, it cannot be protected.
You'll want to hit the like button over this update on The Social Network. Aaron Sorkin—who wrote the screenplay for the 2010 film—shared that he's working on a sequel, revealing that he's trying
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Meta’s move into the open social web, also known as the fediverse, is puzzling. Does the Facebook owner see open protocols as the future? Will it embrace the fediverse only to shut it down, shifting people back to its proprietary platforms and decimating startups building in the space? Will it bring its advertising empire to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Some economists argue that tax-advantaged retirement plans are not as beneficial as they seem.