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Blue Origin — after spending more than six years developing its space tourism rocket, New Shepard — has finally set a date for its first commercial passenger mission, July 20, and announced that one of the first passengers will be the winner of an online auction. Anyone can place a bid on the company’s website,

Peloton recalled its Tread+ and Tread treadmills Wednesday, and the company admitted it was wrong to fight the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s request that it do so. About 125,000 treadmills are included in the recall. The CPSC said that there has been one child death and 70 other injuries tied to the treadmills. But when

With stocks enjoying a strong start to 2021, investors are continuing to plow more money into exchange-traded funds — especially ones that are tied to the top broader market indexes. In other words, many investors are still happy to place their bets on the top techs that dominate the S&P 500 — even though an

The world won’t be able to tackle the climate crisis unless there is a sharp increase in the supply of metals required to produce electric cars, solar panels, wind turbines and other clean energy technologies, according to the International Energy Agency. As countries switch to green energy, demand for copper, lithium, nickel, cobalt and rare

When Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks, investors listen. And on Tuesday, they didn’t like what they heard. The details: At an event hosted by The Atlantic, Yellen, an economist who previously led the Federal Reserve, indicated that the central bank may need to hike interest rates to prevent prices from rising too quickly. “It may

A Philadelphia restaurant is trying to make customers feel more comfortable by making clear its employees are vaccinated. Most of the staff members at El Merkury sport a blue silicone bracelet with a QR code linking to proof of Covid-19 vaccination, according to CNN affiliate WPVI. The owner of El Merkury, Sofia Deleon, told WPVI

Big banks and accounting firms do most of their business in New York, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo. But they wouldn’t be able to function without their back offices, many of which are located in Covid-stricken India. Financial services firms have outsourced a huge number of information technology and operations jobs to India in recent

Editor’s note: This story and headline have been corrected. An earlier version overstated the number of gun sales that have been recorded in Illinois. Concerns about looming gun control legislation and rising crime continued to fuel gun sales in America throughout the month of April, according to industry observers. The FBI conducted more than 3.5

Krispy Kreme is preparing to go public. The doughnut company said on Tuesday that it has confidentially filed paperwork related to a public offering of its stock with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The number of shares that will be offered and their price range has not been determined, the company said, adding that the

Epic Games and Apple kicked off their high-profile trial on Monday, beginning a legal battle that is expected to run for at least two weeks and has the potential to change not only the iPhone maker’s app ecosystem, but also the broader app economy worth hundreds of billions of dollars. At the center of the

An era in late night television is coming to an end next month. “Conan,” Conan O’Brien’s show on TBS, will end its run on June 24, TBS announced Monday. The conclusion of the show will end the host’s nearly 30-year run in late night. TBS said that the final weeks of the show will have

Hunter S. Thompson once wrote, “There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.” He was referring to the intoxicating drug, not the cryptocurrency. But ethereum investors may have reasons for fear and loathing, too. The world’s second-most valuable cryptocurrency has soared

You probably haven’t seen PimEyes, a mysterious facial-recognition search engine, but it may have spotted you. If you upload a picture of your face to PimEyes’ website, it will immediately show you any pictures of yourself that the company has found around the internet. You might recognize all of them, or be surprised (or, perhaps,

Demand for goods is skyrocketing as the US economy reopens from the pandemic. But there’s a big problem: American factories can’t find enough people to do the work. Even though US manufacturing activity surged to a 37-year high in March, the industry has more than half a million job openings. Factories are struggling to find

You can’t make this stuff up. Two of the attorneys on opposite sides of the Bill and Melinda Gates divorce case also represented the opposing sides in the 2019 divorce of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott. Ted Billbe, one of the lead lawyers for Bill Gates in this case, represented Scott

The question of whether former President Donald Trump should be allowed back on Facebook is the biggest, most contentious and most controversial single content moderation decision the company has ever made. So who’s going to make that call? Well, surprisingly, not company founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The decision will instead be made by the

Amazon and Google owner Alphabet are two of the most valuable companies on the planet. They dominate their industries, generate tons of cash and are obscenely profitable. Yet neither of the companies are in the prestigious Dow Jones Industrial Average — and for a good reason. Both Amazon and Alphabet have stock prices in the