Companies around the world paid a record $606.1 billion in dividends to their shareholders during the second quarter — 8.2% more than the prior-year period. Nearly 90% of dividend-paying companies have either held their payments steady or raised them over the past year. This data suggests that right now is …
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Earlier Investigation of Georgia Shooting Suspect Ended Too Soon, Experts Say
The teen suspect was questioned last year about online threats, though nothing conclusive emerged. Many local police departments lack the resources to take deeper looks at suspicious actors. Source link
Read More »Bote Lowrider Aero Paddleboard Review: This SUP Knows What’s Up
The first thing I noticed when taking the Lowrider out of the storage bag (which is much nicer than Bote’s older bags, more on that below) was the massive rear fin. It’s much longer than the detachable fin on the Breeze Aero, and by far the deepest fin I’ve seen …
Read More »iPhone 16 Cases Are Being Made by Beats in Four Different Colors
Apple’s new iPhone 16 series, announced at the company’s live event on Monday, means buyers will soon be looking for protective cases for their fancy new phones. Beats, Apple’s music-focused subsidiary known for its headphones and earbuds, is now getting into the business of dressing up iPhones. The stone-colored Beat …
Read More »Three Medical Practices That Older Patients Should Question
Some treatments and procedures become routine despite lacking strong evidence to show that they’re beneficial. Recent studies have called a few into question. Source link
Read More »Buried for Years in an Archive, a Novel by a Master of Horror Is Out
“Pay the Piper,” a manuscript by George A. Romero, the director of classics like “Night of the Living Dead,” was incomplete. Daniel Kraus, who studied Romero’s oeuvre, gave it a fitting finish. Source link
Read More »2 Cheap Tech Stocks to Buy Right Now
You can define a “cheap stock” in many ways, but there’s nothing quite as classic as a growth stock changing hands at a low valuation ratio. With that in mind, I highly recommend taking a closer look at freelance services platform Fiverr (NYSE: FVRR) and memory-chip giant Micron Technology (NASDAQ: …
Read More »Sweeping Iraq Raid Killed 4 ISIS Leaders
The U.S. military said those killed in a joint assault by U.S. and Iraqi forces last month included the group’s top commander in Iraq and its leading bomb maker. Source link
Read More »Amazon’s Audiobook Narrators Can Now Make Their Own AI Voice Clones
Synthetic voices have been proliferating for years, and the generative AI boom of the new ’20s has sped that process right along. AI voices are everywhere—in podcasts, in political campaigns, and in chatbots where they maybe-not-so-subtly replicate celebrity voices. Soon, they’ll be all up in your audiobooks too. Audible, the …
Read More »The iPhone 16 Will Have 30% More Gaming Power, Apple Says
The new iPhone 16 will power better video gaming experiences, Apple says, with 30% higher sustained performance than last year’s model and access to more AAA titles. AAA videogames are major releases from top publishers, which often have big budgets and incorporate the latest graphics technology. During its Monday “Glowtime” …
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