·June 1, 2018, 3:27 PM UTC is doing away with its trending news summaries at the top of your home page.The company has announced it will after a four-year trial. Facebook says the news feature wasn’t popular with users.“We introduced Trending in 2014 as a way to help people discover news topics that were popular across the Facebook community,” Facebook said in a blog post. However, it was only available in five countries and accounted for less than 1.5% of clicks to news publishers on average.”The demise of “” doesn’t mean Facebook is getting out of the news business, though. The social...…·June 1, 2018, 3:27 PM UTC is doing away with its trending news summaries at the top of your home page.The company has announced it will after a four-year trial. Facebook says the news feature wasn’t popular with users.“We introduced Trending in 2014 as a way to help people discover news topics that were popular across the Facebook community,” Facebook said in a blog post. However, it was only available in five countries and accounted for less than 1.5% of clicks to news publishers on average.”The demise of “” doesn’t mean Facebook is getting out of the news business, though. The social...WW…

A delighted baker has won a Best Cake in Britain prize.Debbie Lock of Little Barn Cakes picked up the title for Best Occasion Cake category of Britain’s Best Cake 2024 awards.Debbie has been making cakes professionally since 2007.Little Barn Cakes has grown year on year, and in 2018 moved to a purpose-built cake studio in Calves Lane, Stoke by Nayland.Debbie said on Facebook: “Thank you so much to everyone that has taken the time to congratulate me on my win. “I travelled up to the NEC at 5.00am for the Food & Drink Expo where British Baker held their competition for Britain’s Best Cake...…A delighted baker has won a Best Cake in Britain prize.Debbie Lock of Little Barn Cakes picked up the title for Best Occasion Cake category of Britain’s Best Cake 2024 awards.Debbie has been making cakes professionally since 2007.Little Barn Cakes has grown year on year, and in 2018 moved to a purpose-built cake studio in Calves Lane, Stoke by Nayland.Debbie said on Facebook: “Thank you so much to everyone that has taken the time to congratulate me on my win. “I travelled up to the NEC at 5.00am for the Food & Drink Expo where British Baker held their competition for Britain’s Best Cake...WW…

When you talk to intensive care doctors across the UK, exhausted after weeks of dealing with the ravages of Covid-19, one phrase emerges time after time: "We've never seen anything like this before."They knew a new disease was coming, and they were expecting resources to be stretched by an unknown respiratory infection which had first appeared in China at the end of last year.And as the number of cases increased, doctors up and down the UK were reading first-hand accounts from colleagues in China, and then in Italy - in scientific journals and on social media - about the intensity of...…When you talk to intensive care doctors across the UK, exhausted after weeks of dealing with the ravages of Covid-19, one phrase emerges time after time: "We've never seen anything like this before."They knew a new disease was coming, and they were expecting resources to be stretched by an unknown respiratory infection which had first appeared in China at the end of last year.And as the number of cases increased, doctors up and down the UK were reading first-hand accounts from colleagues in China, and then in Italy - in scientific journals and on social media - about the intensity of...WW…

·March 22, 2021, 4:01 AM UTCKrispy Kreme is upping the incentives for people to get their .The chain says it will offer a free original glazed doughnut to anyone who shows their vaccination card for the rest of 2021, starting today. And the offer is not a one-time deal.Customers can come in any day, at any time, to claim the free treat. No additional purchase is necessary. Krispy Kreme says it also plans to randomly deliver doughnuts to health care workers and volunteers at vaccination centers in the coming weeks.The chain is also offering employees up to four hours of paid time off to get...…·March 22, 2021, 4:01 AM UTCKrispy Kreme is upping the incentives for people to get their .The chain says it will offer a free original glazed doughnut to anyone who shows their vaccination card for the rest of 2021, starting today. And the offer is not a one-time deal.Customers can come in any day, at any time, to claim the free treat. No additional purchase is necessary. Krispy Kreme says it also plans to randomly deliver doughnuts to health care workers and volunteers at vaccination centers in the coming weeks.The chain is also offering employees up to four hours of paid time off to get...WW…

Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, has said that if Covid vaccine supplies in Europe do not improve, the EU "will reflect whether exports to countries who have higher vaccination rates than us are still proportionate".Post-Brexit disagreements between the EU and the UK have been heightened by the diplomatic row over the export of the vaccines.The European Council president, Charles Michel, that the UK had imposed an "outright ban" on the export of vaccines and their components - there is no ban though, and his claim was dismissed by the government as "completely...…Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, has said that if Covid vaccine supplies in Europe do not improve, the EU "will reflect whether exports to countries who have higher vaccination rates than us are still proportionate".Post-Brexit disagreements between the EU and the UK have been heightened by the diplomatic row over the export of the vaccines.The European Council president, Charles Michel, that the UK had imposed an "outright ban" on the export of vaccines and their components - there is no ban though, and his claim was dismissed by the government as "completely...WW…

·March 1, 2021, 6:10 PM UTCPetaluma, Calif., has become the nation’s first city to prohibit the building of new gas stations, an edict that underlines the movement toward electric vehicles.City officials last week unanimously that would continue an existing two-year moratorium indefinitely. A final reading is scheduled for Monday. The bill does not impact the operation of the city’s 16 existing gas stations or the one that was approved but has not yet been built. Those stations will not be allowed to add more pumps, however.“Based on this inventory, there are multiple stations located...…·March 1, 2021, 6:10 PM UTCPetaluma, Calif., has become the nation’s first city to prohibit the building of new gas stations, an edict that underlines the movement toward electric vehicles.City officials last week unanimously that would continue an existing two-year moratorium indefinitely. A final reading is scheduled for Monday. The bill does not impact the operation of the city’s 16 existing gas stations or the one that was approved but has not yet been built. Those stations will not be allowed to add more pumps, however.“Based on this inventory, there are multiple stations located...WW…

·February 25, 2021, 5:28 PM UTCAs shares , the Reddit community that has been is getting more protective of the company.An increasing number of posts on the r/wallstreetbets forum, admittedly scattered amid the and diamond emojis and calls to hold, have been showing an increased level of frustration toward CNBC, with host and former hedge fund manager Jim Cramer getting special attention.“Jim Cramer is a man who doesn’t want you to do better than he does because his job right now is to tell people what value and growth stocks to invest in,” wrote one especially exasperated Redditor in a ....…·February 25, 2021, 5:28 PM UTCAs shares , the Reddit community that has been is getting more protective of the company.An increasing number of posts on the r/wallstreetbets forum, admittedly scattered amid the and diamond emojis and calls to hold, have been showing an increased level of frustration toward CNBC, with host and former hedge fund manager Jim Cramer getting special attention.“Jim Cramer is a man who doesn’t want you to do better than he does because his job right now is to tell people what value and growth stocks to invest in,” wrote one especially exasperated Redditor in a ....WW…

Vocalist , who co-founded as a 15-year-old in a Detroit housing project and stayed with the fabled, hitmaking Motown Records trio until its dissolution in 1977, died on Monday night at her home in Las Vegas. She was 76.Wilson’s longtime publicist, Jay Schwartz, reported that she died suddenly. The circumstances of her death were not immediately revealed. Funeral services will be private because of COVID, he said, but there will be a public memorial later this year.“I was extremely shocked and saddened to hear of the passing of a major member of the Motown family, Mary Wilson of the...…Vocalist , who co-founded as a 15-year-old in a Detroit housing project and stayed with the fabled, hitmaking Motown Records trio until its dissolution in 1977, died on Monday night at her home in Las Vegas. She was 76.Wilson’s longtime publicist, Jay Schwartz, reported that she died suddenly. The circumstances of her death were not immediately revealed. Funeral services will be private because of COVID, he said, but there will be a public memorial later this year.“I was extremely shocked and saddened to hear of the passing of a major member of the Motown family, Mary Wilson of the...WW…

If the pandemic has taught us one thing, it’s that figuring out what to do with on a regular basis is a challenge. Breaking them down is a pain and recycling containers fill up fast — assuming your municipality recycles.The Box, from a startup called , has an idea to change that. The bigger question is: Will anybody listen?At its heart, The Box is a shipping container. But like most things at , it’s a smart one. Loaded with sensors and built following four years of research and development, the packaging is a reusable container that can allegedly survive 1,000 trips before being replaced.It...…If the pandemic has taught us one thing, it’s that figuring out what to do with on a regular basis is a challenge. Breaking them down is a pain and recycling containers fill up fast — assuming your municipality recycles.The Box, from a startup called , has an idea to change that. The bigger question is: Will anybody listen?At its heart, The Box is a shipping container. But like most things at , it’s a smart one. Loaded with sensors and built following four years of research and development, the packaging is a reusable container that can allegedly survive 1,000 trips before being replaced.It...WW…

·January 17, 2021, 2:00 PM UTCFactory-worker jobs could be further at risk as the pandemic accelerates automation plans. Getty ImagesAutomation is hardly a new threat to workers. Long before the arrival of COVID-19 disrupted businesses, many manufacturing executives were already changing how their companies assembled products, and other industries were considering following suit.But as the global crisis has dragged on, the pandemic could be accelerating that shift.“Every time there’s a disruption it forces people to make decisions,” says Tom Smith, an associate professor of finance at Emory...…·January 17, 2021, 2:00 PM UTCFactory-worker jobs could be further at risk as the pandemic accelerates automation plans. Getty ImagesAutomation is hardly a new threat to workers. Long before the arrival of COVID-19 disrupted businesses, many manufacturing executives were already changing how their companies assembled products, and other industries were considering following suit.But as the global crisis has dragged on, the pandemic could be accelerating that shift.“Every time there’s a disruption it forces people to make decisions,” says Tom Smith, an associate professor of finance at Emory...WW…