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If you manually pay the bills that pour into your email inbox, you know it can get tiring: you typically have to launch your browser or an app and wade through any number of screens to send your money. Microsoft might have a better way. It’s developing a framework that uses Microsoft Pay to handle […]
THE bond market used to be the prime exhibit for those predicting low long-term economic growth. In the summer of 2016 the ten-year Treasury yield briefly dipped below 1.5%, as expectations for growth and inflation sagged. Things have changed. Earlier this year the ten-year yield briefly went higher than 2.9%. Even after recent share-price gyrations, […]
The US government is spending more than earns, a trend that looks set to continue. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) sees US public sector debt-to-GDP rising to 96% within 10 years, up from 77% at present. Westpac Bank describes this as a “troubling fiscal outlook”. The US government is spending more than it earns, a […]
The pound is currently trading against the euro at £1.1355 having managed to maintain its recent gain over the weekend. Last week saw the pound managed to secure its position against the euro during tension between Russian leaders and the UK over the chemical weapon attack in Salisbury. The Spring debt announcements made last week, […]
This is Cortana. (credit: Cortana) Cortana is coming to the Outlook email and calendar app for iOS and Android, according to The Verge. The publication cites sources “familiar with Microsoft’s Outlook plans.” Microsoft is reportedly testing a feature internally that would allow users to verbally ask the virtual assistant Cortana to read their emails to […]
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Quantum computers should soon be able to beat classical computers at certain basic tasks. But before they’re truly powerful, researchers have to overcome a number of fundamental roadblocks. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a73957ff86a5a1869b02571/master/pass/QC_2880x1620-2880×1620.jpg
Enlarge / The flow of glaciers into the sea has accelerated in this vulnerable area of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet along the Amundsen Sea. (credit: NASA Earth Observatory) Sea-level rise is one of the more challenging effects of climate change to project. It’s not that the direction of the change is unclear—sea level will […]
Encrypted email service ProtonMail has come a long way since its global launch 18 months ago, having expanding into VPNs, started targeting small businesses, grown into multiple languages, and — most recently — launched an encrypted contacts manager. Now, the Swiss company is making its core service available in desktop email clients that support IMAP and SMTP, including Microsoft Outlook, […]
Goldman Sachs has cut its third-quarter GDP forecast following a pair of catastrophic hurricanes. The firm now sees GDP expanding by 2% during the period, down 0.8 percentage points from its previous forecast. Goldman currently estimates that Hurricane Irma will result in $ 30 billion in total losses, adding to the $ 85 billion of […]
