BUSINESS
Through Purchase of iRobot Amazon Can Now Map Your Home
Amazon just purchased a vacuum bot that not only sucks up your dust, but also your personal data by mapping your house and sharing the information with its mother base. Amazon announced the $1.7 billion...
This Year’s Droughts Are Crushing the US Cotton Industry
The massive and unprecedented droughts impacting not only the United States, but much of Europe, Asia, and China, are now severely impacting the U.S. cotton industry, driving prices up more than 20 percent in a...
Toyota’s Chinese Factory Shutters Because of Drought-induced Electricity Shortage
The world’s top automaker shuttered one of its factories in mainland China at the Communist Party’s bequest because of a critical electricity shortage rooted in the same problem facing much of the world this summer:...
Chipmakers Facing Dark Days as Middle Class Suffers
The chipmaking industry has finished its boom and is heading towards a potential bust as the middle class, which serves as the engine for much of the sector’s demand, suffers the consequences of inflation. One...
Last Year’s Heatwave Brought a Potato Shortage to This Year’s Idaho
The consequences of massive ecosphere disaster, such as prolonged droughts and high temperatures caused by curious heat domes, on the food supply are finally rearing their heads at U.S. grocers. Idaho, of all places, is...
US Auto Industry Drops 100,000 Vehicles From Production in a Single Week Due to Chip Shortages
The U.S. automotive industry has been forced to cut 100,000 vehicles from its production line in a single week because of chip shortages, an industry outlet reports. Automotive industry analyst AutoForecast Solutions (AFS) made the...
Atlanta Stadium Trials Biometric Facial Recognition Systems
Biometric facial recognition systems, a crucial component of Chinese Communist Party-style social credit and digital identification systems, have already made landfall in mainstream America over the last several months. One such venue is the Mercedes-Benz...
New IRS Revenue Will Come From Businesses Earning Less Than $200K: Tax Experts
According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, a nonpartisan tax watchdog, a key provision in the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act, which earmarks $80 billion in new funding for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) —...
Bulk of Funding Slated for ‘Small Businesses’ Actually Went to Big Corporations and Other Countries: Watchdog Report
According to a July report by government watchdog Open The Books, over 75 percent of funding from the U.S. Export-Import Bank (EX-IM) meant for small businesses were actually sent to larger corporations and organizations with...
