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The 45-minute Calm story,  "It's a Wonderful Sleep Story," has Jimmy Stewart narrating a tale about a downtrodden technology entrepreneur, Stanley J. Montgomery -- not unlike George Bailey, the small-town banker, Stewart portrays in the 1946 Christmas classic, "It's a Wonderful Life." The synthetic Stewart recites the tale in rhyme and verse to the backdrop of calming, sleepy, floating music. Calm posted this preview to Instagram below. It's hypnotizing and, dare I say, spookily effective. I don't remember listening to…

Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Microsoft Corp., whose quarterly earnings each got a boost from their established search and cloud-computing businesses, used their time with investors to emphasize what's next: artificial intelligence.In their respective earnings calls on Tuesday, the tech giants, which are becoming rivals in the competition for the future of search, offered up starkly different assessments of just how much disruption is in store for the market. Google executives encouraged investors to trust in the company's…

Much of Ukraine’s sunflower-seed oil exports remain curtailed by the war, but farmers are sending out the raw seeds instead, stabilizing the global market for cooking oil.In January, Ukraine exported 347,000 tons of sunflower-seed oil, down sharply from the 612,000 tons exported in January 2022 before the war, according to data from Black Sea agricultural consulting firm SovEcon. A drop in exports from Ukraine, the world’s second-largest producer after Russia, sent prices for sunflower-seed oil and other cooking oils…

Bitcoin (BTC) and Quant (QNT) may have had their share of price retracements this year, but analysts say investors should anticipate for more. Worried about the recent warning, investors sought safety in the real estate crypto project The Hideaways (HDWY) which is tagged as one of the most stable tokens to enter in 2022. Crypto Winter Drags Bitcoin (BTC) Down Bitcoin (BTC), being the cryptocurrency with the biggest market capitalization, is highly sensitive to the smallest developments in the broader crypto…

Our immune system is the first line of defense against disease, but unfortunately it can go rogue and attack healthy tissues. Scientists at Johns Hopkins University have now engineered a protein that may help prevent these autoimmune diseases by boosting the number of regulatory T cells (Tregs).The immune system keeps a vigilant watch over our bodies at all times, tagging and destroying foreign pathogens or problematic cells to prevent illness. However, sometimes it can get a little overzealous and start attacking the…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that his electric vehicle company Tesla would pull down the prices of its car if the inflation calmed down. On the microblogging site Twitter, the tech honcho mentioned the car prices on being asked by a user if the company plans to down the cost of cars after the pandemic or supply chain matters. “If inflation calms down, we can lower prices for cars,” the tech billionaire wrote on Twitter. Last month, Musk-owned Tesla once again increased the prices of its electric cars across its entire lineup,…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet Friday that the electric car company could lower prices if inflation "calms down."The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a higher-than-expected inflation rate this week with the consumer price index rising 9.1% from a year ago. Tesa increased the prices of all of its car models in the U.S. and China in March. Tesla again hiked prices across its models as recently as June when it increase the cost of its Model Y long-range from $62,990 to $65,990.Musk tweeted in March that Tesla and his…

Stephanie Grisham, Donald Trump’s ex-press secretary, has said this week that her boss’s temper was so furious at times during his presidency that his staff would summon an aide dubbed the Music Man, who would play songs to soothe him. The repertoire reportedly consisted of the president’s favourite show tunes, including Memory from the musical Cats.With this in mind, we would like to hear from readers about their most calming musical choices. What are the tunes you turn to in times of great stress?Share your…