Posts by Amelia Frost
What to Know About Trump’s Latest Changes to Taxes on Small Packages From China
Earlier this month, President Trump closed a longstanding loophole that had allowed a flood of inexpensive Chinese goods to be mailed to the United States without any tariffs. Starting on May 2, those packages faced a tariff of 120 percent or a $100 flat fee. After the United States and China agreed this week to…
Read MoreA.I. Was Coming for Radiologists’ Jobs. So Far, They’re Just More Efficient.
Nine years ago, one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence scientists singled out an endangered occupational species. “People should stop training radiologists now,” Geoffrey Hinton said, adding that it was “just completely obvious” that within five years A.I. would outperform humans in that field. Today, radiologists — the physician specialists in medical imaging who look…
Read More‘Children Are Innocent’: Myanmar Families In Grief After School Air Strike
Ko Min said he found his son and daughter’s bodies in the ruins of a schoolhouse in central Myanmar, moments after a deadly air strike that witnesses said came as a military jet circled the village. “One had no face and one’s body was cut. They were cuddling their books,” the 43-year-old told AFP, speaking…
Read MoreS. Korea Starbucks In A Froth Over Presidential Candidates Names
Starbucks in South Korea has banned customers from using the names of the country’s presidential candidates — or the disgraced ex-president — for their orders, the coffee giant told AFP on Wednesday. South Korea is holding snap presidential elections on June 3, to decide who will replace impeached former president Yoon Suk Yeol, ousted last…
Read MoreThe World Is Wooing U.S. Researchers Shunned by Trump
Help Wanted. Looking for American researchers. As President Trump cuts billions of federal dollars from science institutes and universities, restricts what can be studied and pushes out immigrants, rival nations are hoping to pick up talent that has been cast aside or become disenchanted. For decades, trying to compete with American institutions and companies has…
Read MoreSony Logs 18% Annual Net Profit Jump, Forecast Cautious
Japanese entertainment and electronics giant Sony on Wednesday reported an 18 percent jump in annual net profit but issued a cautious forecast for the current financial year. The firm logged a net profit of 1.14 trillion yen ($7.7 billion) for the 2024-25 financial year, but said it expects that to fall 13 percent to 930…
Read MoreJudgment Day In EU Chief’s Covid Vaccine Texts Case
A top court is to rule Wednesday on whether the EU failed the transparency test by declining to release text messages sent by Ursula von der Leyen to the head of Pfizer as the bloc tried to secure Covid vaccines. The case before the Court of Justice of the European Union (EUCJ) is seen as…
Read More‘Humiliated’: Combs’s Ex Cassie Gives Searing Testimony Of Abuse
Casandra Ventura says she was coerced into sex with male escorts while Sean Combs watched and masturbated. If she ignored his calls, his associates found her. If she didn’t comply with his demands, he beat her viciously. And on Tuesday, when she saw the pop singer known as “Diddy” in court, lawyers say it was…
Read MoreHow Pandora Is Surviving Trump’s Trade War
Pandora, the world’s largest jewelry company, is based in Denmark and has nearly 500 stores in the United States, more than in any of its other key markets. But in some ways, its real home is Thailand, where the company has been making its products for nearly four decades. Like many global corporations, Pandora has…
Read MoreTiny Company With China Ties Announces Big Purchase of Trump Cryptocurrency
A struggling technology company that has ties to China and relies on TikTok made an unusual announcement this week. It had secured funding to buy as much as $300 million of $TRUMP, the so-called memecoin marketed by President Trump. GD Culture Group, a publicly traded firm with a Chinese subsidiary, has only eight employees, its…
Read MoreIs Slate Auto’s Electric Truck the Answer to Expensive Cars?
When Slate Auto, a start-up, unveiled a roughly $25,000 electric pickup truck last month, social media lit up with comments. Many people saw the no-frills vehicle, with an easy-to-repair body and nostalgic hand crank windows, as a refreshing antidote to today’s overstuffed and increasingly unaffordable cars. How unaffordable? Average monthly payments on new cars have…
Read MoreMcDonald’s on Wheels Welcomed Trump to Saudi Arabia Sparking Wave of Jokes: ‘Rolled Out the Golden Arches’
Saudi Arabia “rolled out the Golden Arches” for President Trump’s visit Tuesday. President Donald Trump began his four-day Middle East tour on Tuesday, receiving a warm welcome from Saudi Arabian officials during his first stop that quickly went viral. Trump landed in the nation’s capital, Riyadh, on Tuesday accompanied by fighter jets provided by the…
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