China Factory Activity Falters, Markets Take Fright

Testimony from 11 current and former employees accused Djerf of bullying. Swedish influencer Matilda Djerf has been embroiled in a string of recent controversies.

Commercial quantum computers are years away, but investors may be banking on the idea that they are the future. Here’s what to know. This year has been pretty good for tech stocks, including well-known tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon. However, 2024 has also been a good year for many companies that operate in the artificial intelligence sector, such as Nvidia and Broadcom.

A new study found that 35 buildings along the coast sank as much as 8 centimeters from 2016 to 2023. High rises are heavy, and that can cause the ground below them to slowly sink and settle, especially right after they’re constructed. But in Miami, dozens of buildings along the coast are sinking at “unexpected” rates, and long after they were initially built.

The MTA is swapping out its beloved retro models with orange and yellow bucket seats for sterile new cars. Not everyone is happy. This week, the MTA announced plans to order 435 more of the high-tech R211 trains—the ones with security cameras, brighter lights, more standing room, and those station-responsive digital maps over the extra-wide doors—that hit the tracks earlier this year.

On a gray, blustery November afternoon in Detroit, John Kish watches vigilantly as his four-year-old grandson, also named John, frolics on a towering play slide. If the day was sunny, there might be a line to use it, but given the weather, they have it to themselves. “It’s a long climb, but it gives them something to do,” Kish says, laughing, as the youngster carefully crosses a bridge within the structure.