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Chobani Inc. finance chief Jody Macedonio will exit the company next month, the latest executive departure after the yogurt maker put plans for its initial public offering on hold. Ms. Macedonio joined the New Berlin, N.Y.-based company in 2020 to help prepare the company for its public debut. A search for a new CFO is under way, according to an internal memo from Chief Operating Officer Kevin Burns to staff that was reviewed…

WASHINGTON — Inflation slowed in April after seven months of relentless gains, a tentative sign that price increases may be peaking while still imposing a financial strain on American households. Consumer prices jumped 8.3% last month from 12 months earlier, the Labor Department said Wednesday. That was below the 8.5% year-over-year surge in March, which was the highest rate since 1981. On a month-to-month basis, prices rose 0.3% from March to April, a still-elevated rate but the smallest increase in eight months.…

Facebook recently began informing users that it will retire a few underused location-based features. Nearby Friends, weather alerts, location history, and background location are each “going away soon,” the company said. Meta told The Verge in an email that it is removing all of these old features due to low usage. Facebook will stop collecting information associated with these features on May 31st and will delete stored data after August 1st. Facebook retires location-based features It’s hard to imagine…

Faulty and overwhelmed verification systems operated by telecom companies and the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) have kept millions of phone lines barred, weeks after their owners submitted national identification details for reactivation. The glitch means millions of users have been unable to make calls since April 4 and many businesses have been hit. Customers say short codes, apps or web services provided by MTN, Airtel and Glo, for NIN verification, have been largely…

A Chinese cargo vessel docked with the country's under-construction space station Tuesday ahead of a new three-person crew expected to arrive next month.The Tianzhou-4 spacecraft was slung into space atop a Long March-7 Y5 rocket at 1:56am (11:26pm) from the Wenchang Launch Base in the southern island province of Hainan. State media said it docked with the station about seven hours later.The cargo vessel is carrying supplies for the next crew's six-month stay, along with research equipment and spare parts for maintaining…

The year 2019 has welcomed a few firsts in the LGBTQ community. It has been the year of the first same-sex marriage law in Asia and India had its first queer album with singer Pragya Pallavi's 'Queerism'. It is also the year that sees June celebrating the fiftieth Pride Month. Incidentally, the month of June was chosen for LGBT Pride Month to commemorate the Stonewall riots, which occurred at the end of June 1969. Even Google Doodle celebrated 50 years of Pride with a vibrant and animated doodle that commemorated the…

While the video game industry has a long history in Asian countries like China, Japan, and Korea, it’s important to note that Asian Americans have also played a major role in the development community since the industry’s conception. Asian American creators have helped craft some of the most unique, innovative, and influential games of the past decade, especially when it comes to groundbreaking indies. In honor of AAPI Heritage Month, we wanted to highlight some of the best indie games from Asian…

Traditionally, LGBTQ Pride Month celebrations in June - marked to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots - include pride parades, parties, workshops, symposia and concerts, but since this year is all about social distancing, here are suggestions to mark the occasion with books. Less by Andrew Sean Greer (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2018) Arthur Less is a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the post: it is from an ex-boyfriend of nine years who is engaged to someone else.…

Tesla (TSLA) is adding shifts at Gigafactory Shanghai in the hope to return to full production this month after being shut down for 22 days. Like many other companies, Tesla had to shut down production at its Shanghai factory last month after local authorities imposed serious lockdowns on the population in an attempt to limit the spread of COVID-19 after a surge in cases during the first quarter. The automaker was finally able to restart production on April 19 after 22 days of being shut down. Tesla brought back…

Dish Network launched its 5G service to consumers in Las Vegas on Wednesday after several months of delays as the telecom firm tries to build out a nationwide network and reduce its reliance on T-Mobile.The service — dubbed "Project Genesis" — was initially supposed to launch in the city in September and help cut dependence on the T-Mobile network that powers Dish's Boost prepaid wireless service.Dish acquired Boost as part of the T-Mobile and Sprint merger, which won antitrust approval in 2020 after the companies agreed…