To get an idea of how modern technological advances are a leading cause in the decline of certain professions, consider the insurance underwriter, a professional who evaluates risk and establishes the price to insure people or assets. While insurance remains in high demand, many of the tasks involved in these risk and price determinations have been automated, using algorithmic evaluations […]

Netflix has laid off an additional 300 employees. It comes after Deadline revealed in May that redundancies were underway with an initial 150 positions eliminated as a result of the slowdown in the company’s revenue growth. The streamer has a global workforce of around 11,000 and the layoffs come after Netflix lost 200,000 subscribers during its first quarter. It started […]

Scott Sternberg Productions today announced the launch of a new documentary division and the acquisition of Strong Island Films. The first project under SSP’s new division, Mötley Crüe’s Vince Neil: My Story, will premiere this Sunday on REELZ. Sternberg directed the documentary in which the lead singer of the legendary heavy metal band, in his own words, “details what led […]

Biopharmaceutical company CNS Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (CNSP) announced Thursday that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its ongoing potentially pivotal global study evaluating the efficacy and safety of Berubicin compared with Lomustine (Gleostine) administered after first line therapy for the treatment of recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), one of the most aggressive types of brain […]

As oil marketing companies (OMCs) stare at huge under-recoveries, India is facing fuel shortage across the country with states like Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka Uttarakhand, Gujarat and Haryana being the worst hit. The under-recoveries suffered by OMCs are around Rs 20-25 a litre for diesel and Rs 14-18 a litre for petrol, said sources. Government and state-run companies denied reports […]

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(CNN)A Black former contract worker at Tesla’s Fremont, California, factory turned down ​a judge’s offer for a reduced payout of $15 million in damages, thus setting the stage for a possible re-trial of his case. Tesla had requested a new trial after the man was originally awarded nearly $137 million in a racial harassment suit. In October last year, a […]

State regulators voted Wednesday to allow Xcel Energy-Colorado to recover hundreds of millions of dollars from customers for costs from a 2021 winter storm, but knocked $8 million from the $508 million sought after criticizing the utility’s actions before and during the frigid weather. Xcel Energy customers will eventually see a temporary rider on their monthly electric and natural gas […]

Steve Fickinger, a Tony Award-winning producer of Broadway’s Dear Evan Hansen who, as a longtime creative executive with Disney Theatrical Group helped spearhead the development of such stage shows as Newsies and Aladdin, died suddenly at his home in Laguna Beach, California, on June 17. He was 62. His death was announced by his niece, Jessica Roy. A cause of […]