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FedEx Corp. FDX -1.03% is combining its Express and Ground delivery units into a single business, abandoning an operating structure championed by founder Fred Smith and criticized by investors and analysts.The changes are designed to simplify interactions with customers and accelerate cost-cutting efforts, FedEx Chief Executive Raj Subramaniam said. It helps the parcel-delivery giant adjust to a business…

Extra Space Storage Inc. EXR -4.82% has struck a $12.7 billion deal to combine with smaller rival Life Storage Inc., LSI 3.92% which earlier rejected a bid from industry behemoth Public Storage, executives from the companies said.  Life Storage stockholders are set to receive 0.8950 of an Extra Space share for each share they own, or $145.82, the companies announced Monday. That is…

World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. WWE -4.70% and Endeavor EDR -8.04% Group Holdings Inc. agreed to form a new parent company that combines professional wrestling with the mixed martial arts league Ultimate Fighting Championship under one roof. The two companies said Monday that Endeavor will hold a 51% controlling interest in their newly formed, publicly traded entity, with WWE…

Cleaning robot maker Ecovacs is launching three new Deebot vacuum / mop models. The company says the Deebot N10 Plus, T9+ and T10 Omni “have 3x the suction power of most robotic vac mops” while bringing some premium features from the $1,549 X1 Omni to (somewhat) lower price points. The three cleaning machines are available in the US starting today. The Deebot T10 Omni is the most expensive of the three new models at $1,300. However, it tries to justify its price with a four-stage cleaning system that has 5,000Pa suction…

Tesla has decided to open direct Powerwall orders again after previously only making the popular home battery pack available with a solar power system. Home battery packs have greatly gained in popularity in recent years. People have been looking for more energy security to counter power outages and to make better use of renewable energy, like rooftop solar. Home battery packs provide that. Tesla Powerwall is by far the most popular home battery pack system and its popularity has led to a…

<!----> Google geospatial data is being made available immediately to MBUX customers Mercedes-Benz plans to build its own branded navigation using new in-car geospatial data and navigation capabilities from Google Maps Platform. It’s part of a new strategic tie-up between…

Images via Marvel Studios The main thing Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has going for it (and many people would say that’s not much) is that it finally sets the stage for Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, the long-awaited fifth team-up crossover event for Earth’s Mightiest Heroes that will see them take on Jonathan Majors’ titular temporal tyrant. Other than featuring the rise of Kang, it’s currently unclear exactly what the plot will be. The most obvious suggestion is that it will take pointers from the comic…

TypeScript is a popular programming language that is a strict syntactical superset of JavaScript, adding optional static typing and class-based object-oriented programming to the language. When working on large projects, it is common to split your code into multiple .ts files to make it easier to manage and maintain. However, when it comes time to deploy your application, you may want to combine these .ts files into a single .js file for better performance and easier deployment. In this tutorial, we will learn how to…

In this photo illustration, Paramount+ (Paramount Plus) logo is seen on a smartphone against its website in the background.Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty ImagesParamount Global is further joining its streaming and cable TV business by combining its Showtime TV network and streaming service, Paramount+.The company said Monday it plans to integrate Showtime's streaming service fully into Paramount+, its marquee standalone streaming platform and response to the streaming wars.But the union doesn't stop…

Using dynamic forecasting ensembles to cope with changes in the time seriesPhoto by Chris Lawton on UnsplashIn a previous article, we explored the main steps for building ensembles.In this post:we dive deeper into forecasting ensembles;we discuss how ensembles combine many forecasts;we explore dynamic weighted averages for forecast combination;we apply a dynamic ensemble to a case study using PythonCombining the predictions of many models improves forecasting performance. These approaches can be further improved with…