One evening after the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff concluded with four blowout games staged on campus, ESPN host Scott Van Pelt and football analyst Tim Hasselbeck held a conversation that mirrored many like it taking place on social media and in barrooms.The host teams won by an average of 19.3 points, and the closest outcome was Notre Dame’s 10-point victory against Indiana. Two games — Penn State over SMU (28 points) and Ohio State over Tennessee (25) — were non-competitive. Texas’ 14-point win against ACC champion Clemson was decisive as well.“Are these the games you want?” Van Pelt asked…
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Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital with drones and ballistic missiles before dawn on Saturday, officials said, killing at least three people in central Kyiv as part of a broader assault that targeted towns and cities across the country.Air-raid alarms sounded as emergency crews raced to search for the dead and wounded — a grimly familiar routine in a nation that has been battered by relentless Russian bombardments for nearly three years. Moscow called the attack retaliation for Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory, which in recent weeks appear to have intensified.The Ukrainian Air Force said that four ballistic missiles and 39 attack…
Analysts at Bank of America say there’s a slew of buy-rated stocks well positioned heading into earnings season. CNBC Pro combed through the firm’s research to find companies the firm likes as quarterly reports begin. They include: Warner Bros Discovery, Birkenstock , Spotify and United Airlines. United Following on the heels of Delta’s robust earnings report last week, analyst Andrew Didora is feeling bullish on shares of United. “We expect UAL to report strong 4Q24 results and guide 1Q25 ahead of consensus when the company reports earnings after the close on January 21,” he wrote. The firm raised its price…
Sometimes, you need to let kids figure out how to solve problems, or suffer the consequences of their decisions, all on their own.That’s according to psychiatrist and bestselling author Daniel Amen. Parents too often make the mistake of “overdoing” for their kids, resulting in “mentally weak children,” Amen told the “Built Different” podcast, in an episode that aired on Tuesday.Such behaviors — like doing your kid’s class project yourself to help them get a better grade, or giving them what they want solely to halt an oncoming tantrum — limit children’s mental resilience and sense of independence, said Amen. And…
Two decades ago, Google co-founder Larry Page had an idea that would forever change the way we navigate the world.”Larry drove down some of these streets with a video camera and handed it to someone and said, ‘Hey, what can you do with this?'” said Maria Biggs, technical program manager at Google Street View, a prominent feature in Google Maps.In a car equipped with the latest Street View camera, Biggs took CNBC on a ride near Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters. First introduced in 2022, it’s the first camera model that can be added onto any car, rather than being built…
MELBOURNE, Australia — A seriously cold December afternoon in midtown Manhattan, in the lobby of a hotel off Central Park.A 23-year-old woman looks up from a club chair near an elevator. She’s wearing a baseball cap, diddling around a bit on her phone.“Hey,” she says.Take another look. Oh, right, that’s Emma Navarro: U.S. Open semifinalist and a top-10 women’s player after just one full season of top-tier tournaments. She’s chilling ahead of a packed evening of photo ops, press gaggles, and an appearance at the New York Knicks NBA basketball game with a few other tennis players you might have…
In challenging economic and geopolitical times, investors bet on gold for its ability to store value. Gold prices hit record highs last year, with some analysts forecasting the precious metal could reach $3,000 an ounce by the end of 2025. But the boom has also been linked to a surge in illegal gold mining.”What we have found during the study that we published is that more than 435 metric tons of gold was smuggled out of Africa in 2022,” said Marc Ummel, head of unit raw materials at Swissaid. “At the current price of gold this corresponds to a value of…
The advent of so-called physical artificial intelligence is believed by many to be the next frontier of the AI investing cycle, opening up opportunities to get behind robotics makers, auto suppliers and specialty semiconductor companies. Investors are looking for another way to play AI after huge runs in Nvidia and the other stocks powering and producing digital bots like ChatGPT. Search bots were the start and the technology has now moved into “agentic AI” like customer service representatives and research assistants. Now the focus for investors analyzing the leading edge of this technology is becoming interaction in the physical world…
When Mark Cuban started the company that made him a millionaire, he was nearly at rock bottom — and he doesn’t think that was a coincidence.”If you’ve got nothing, it’s the perfect time to start a business,” Cuban told the “Lex Fridman Podcast,” in an episode that aired last year.He cited himself as proof: He’d recently been fired from his job at a computer software store and was sleeping on the floor of a three-bedroom apartment with six roommates when he launched his first startup, a tech company called MicroSolutions, in 1983.”I couldn’t go any lower,” said Cuban, now 66.…
Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., at the Institute of International Finance (IIF) during the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024. Kent Nishimura | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSan Francisco, famed for its abundance of hoodie-clad tech workers, was overrun by thousands of executives in suits this week for JPMorgan’s annual health-care conference.Leaders from major health systems, venture capital firms and companies around the globe clustered in hotel lobbies to talk business and strategy for 2025. The sunny skies were a welcome reprieve from the downpours of…
