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Shortly after the opening bell, we will be buying 100 shares of Abbott Laboratories at roughly $108.26. Following the trade, Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust will own 800 shares of ABT, increasing its weighting to roughly 2.8% from 2.45%. Abbott Laboratories on Wednesday reported better-than-expected first-quarter earnings, but its stock is trading lower in the premarket, opening the door for us to add to our position for the third time in recent weeks. In the three months ended March 31, Abbott’s worldwide sales increased 2.2% year over year to roughly $10 billion, edging Wall Street estimates of about $9.88 billion, according…
SAN FRANCISCO — Google on Wednesday said it is providing artificial intelligence tools to help the National Guard analyze images of disaster areas so it can respond to them faster and more effectively.Bellwether, a new group inside “X,” the innovation lab that is part of Google’s parent company Alphabet, has developed tech that can ingest photos taken at an angle by airplanes, compare them with satellite imagery and maps, and automatically identify locations, roads, buildings and other important infrastructure. Bellwether has been testing the tech with the National Guard, which will deploy it in time for the summer wildfire season,…
Two South Dakota State University teams are finalists for major NASA competitions this summer, SDSU announced this week.The competitions are on the same dates, June 10-12, in different states, which means the faculty adviser for both teams, Todd Letcher, an associate professor in mechanical engineering, will only be able to attend one competition. He’s already committed to following the Break the Ice team to the competition in Alabama.Break the IceSDSU’s Space Trajectory team is a finalist in NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar Challenge, which is part of NASA’s mission to develop new technology that could support a sustained human presence…
Etsy side hustles are low-cost and very easy to maintain, with many options for passive … [+] income generationgetty If you’re looking for ways to bump up your salary while employed in a demanding role, then working smarter, not harder, is going to be your best option. The whole idea of passive income is that you are able to make more money, but almost without thinking about it. As opposed to getting a promotion at work, or side hustles such as consulting or coaching, in which you need to be physically present each time to deliver the service to your client…
With the resurgence in the manufacturing sector and success of government initiatives such as Make in India, PM Gati Shakti, and Aatmanirbhar Bharat, the manufacturing based mutual funds have offered an average return of 54.60% (including active and passive funds) in the last one year. There were around five schemes in the manufacturing category that have completed one year of existence.ICICI Prudential Manufacturing Fund, the topper in the category, gave 64.76% return in the last one year. Launched in October 2018, the scheme is the oldest scheme in the category.Mirae Asset Nifty India Manufacturing ETF gave 54.10% return, followed by…
College marketers love photos: students in class, students out on the grass—maybe throwing a frisbee, reading a book, or laughing with friends. For a Christian school, any image of someone singing or praying is good. They are always looking for compelling pictures that say to prospective students, This could be you. And the Asbury revival—the “outpouring” in February 2023, where students in Wilmore, Kentucky, felt moved by the Holy Spirit to stay in chapel and sing, pray, confess, testify, and sing some more for about two weeks—produced lots and lots of compelling photos. But Jennifer McChord didn’t think she could…
New research conducted by invoicing software company Bookipi has ranked the countries with the least expensive freelancers, and Romania is in the top 10. Colombia has the least expensive freelancers, while Australia is at the other end of the ranking. The study used the freelancing platform Upwork to find how much freelancers in 40 different countries charge on average per job. They looked at several popular services, including logo design, video editing, and data entry. For each service in each country, the starting and end prices were collected, and an average price overall was calculated. Romania was ranked 10th in…
The thesis is that Saudi Arabia might try influencing the U.S election by raising Oil prices in order to ensure President Biden loses to Donald Trump. Historically, no U.S President has won an election when the price Oil has traded near the $100 a barrel mark. Gold’s Unstoppable Climb in the Commodity Market Elsewhere in the Commodity markets, one of the real star performers is Gold. Gold’s meteoric rise to glistening new heights has continued to go from strength to strength this year, significantly bolstering its iconic status as the ‘must-have’ asset class in every portfolio. On Friday, Gold prices…
Tomorrow’s AI PCs may not only have a Copilot key on their keyboards — Logitech is introducing its own way to summon ChatGPT, too. It’s called the Logi AI Prompt Builder, and it’ll use a dedicated button on your mouse or keyboard.The Logi AI Prompt Builder doesn’t just present you with a chatbot, it gives you preset “recipes” to help you prompt it too. After I assigned an AI button to a Logitech mouse, I could ask it to “Rephrase” paragraphs of text, turn them into bullet points, make them shorter and more concise, or fit a specific word count.…