General Motors aims to turbocharge its non-vehicle revenue by introducing dozens of new fee-based digital features by 2026, including one enabling a car to predict when it will need maintenance, a top executive said on Thursday. “We have 50-some value-added products and services that we’ll be rolling out over the next 36 to 48 months,”…
General Sir Patrick Sanders Named as New Head of British Army
General Sir Patrick Sanders has been appointed the new head of the British Army. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, who described him as “an exceptional military leader”, confirmed that the Queen has approved his new appointment as the Chief of the General Staff. Sir Patrick, 55, said he is “deeply honoured” by the appointment – which…
New Dutch H5N1 Bird Flu Outbreak Will See 190,000 Chickens Culled
AMSTERDAM—Around 190,000 chickens on two neighbouring farms in the east of the Netherlands will be culled after the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus was detected on one of the farms, Dutch health authorities said on Tuesday night. It is the second bird flu outbreak reported in the Netherlands this week, after a similar discovery…
LIVE: Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration
December 31, 2021
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This year’s Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration will be held on Dec. 31, 2021, amid COVID-19 restrictions. The event marks 115 years of the ball lowering, a now universal symbol of welcoming the New Year. An annual tradition since Dec. 31, 1907, the event was curtailed last year, with only so-called essential workers and…
Futures Dip in Quiet Trading as New Year Beckons
U.S. stock index futures slipped on Friday, even as Wall Street’s main indexes looked to finish the year with handsome gains for the third time in a row, supported by massive stimulus, and strong retail participation. Futures tracking the S&P 500 and the Dow slipped 0.2 percent on the last day of 2021, a day…
Stocks to See in New Year Near Record Highs After Banner 2021
LONDON—Stock markets dipped on Friday in thin trading but were set to see in the New Year with double-digit gains for 2021 while oil prices hovered near $80 a barrel following their biggest annual rise since 2009. The U.S. dollar, which has had its best year since 2015 with a 6.7 percent rise, was steady…
Programming Alert: Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration
This year’s Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration will be held on Dec. 31, 2021, amid COVID-19 restrictions. The event marks 118 years of celebrations that have been watched worldwide with enthusiasm and become not only a national but also a universal tradition to greet the New Year with dazzling lights and the bustling energy…
PayPal Claims BNPL Volumes Surge 400 Percent on Black Friday
PayPal Holdings Inc. volumes on the “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) platform skyrocketed five times higher this Black Friday compared with a year earlier as the payments giant started to gain traction, Reuters reports. Black Friday is the unofficial shopping holiday in late November on the day after the Thanksgiving holiday. PayPal launched its “Buy…
Tiny Meat-Eating Dinosaur Discovered
This carnivorous dinosaur fossil, originally discovered at Pant-y-ffynnon in southern Wales, was mistaken for another species for many years. Finally, after 40 years, during which it has been lost, found, and renamed, paleontologists say it represents an entirely new species which they have named as Pendraig milnerae. It is the oldest meat-eating dinosaur found in…
Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder of Apple, Announces His Own Aerospace Company With Enigmatic Video
By Entrepreneur en Español Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has just announced his new project: the creation of his own aerospace company called Privateer Space. Although he did not clearly spell out his goals, there is speculation it could compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic. Related: Virgin Galactic Shares…
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