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Tampa, Fla., residents face some of the hottest inflation in the country, but when excluding sizzling housing costs, price increases are nearly as cool as in Minneapolis. The disparity shows regional inflation is heavily influenced by home prices and rent costs. The Tampa area has one of the highest inflation rates in the nation, 7.7% in March, according to the Labor Department. But when shelter costs are removed from the index, the Florida metro’s rate was 3.8%—putting it in line with the Minneapolis…

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Many lower-income Americans who left the workforce when the pandemic began three years ago are staying on the sidelines because of a lack of child care, a factor contributing to worker shortages and historically low unemployment.An estimated 380,000 Americans in their prime working years, aged 25 to 54, held jobs before the pandemic but no longer did late last year, according to estimates from Bank of America. Bank economists said the lack of affordable and quality child care is a…

Tickets for Drake and 21 Savage’s upcoming It’s All a Blur Tour are going to cost you.Fans have been up in arms about prices since the pre-sale opened on Wednesday, where Cash App card holders were given early access. It looks like the tickets will cost anywhere from $200 to upwards of $500.Image via Cash AppWhile some fans lamented that there were no tickets for less than $100, others joked about selling their parents’ homes to pay for the concert.Drake and 21 announced their tour on Monday via a nostalgia-laden trailer.…

When Microsoft Corp. invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019, it agreed to build a massive, cutting-edge supercomputer for the artificial intelligence research startup. The only problem: Microsoft didn't have anything like what OpenAI needed and wasn't totally sure it could build something that big in its Azure cloud service without it breaking.OpenAI was trying to train an increasingly large set of artificial intelligence programs called models, which were ingesting greater volumes of data and learning more and more…

Samsung is expected to unveil the Galaxy A34 5G and the Galaxy A54 5G within the next few days. Yesterday, their European pricing was leaked. Now, the Indian pricing for the two smartphones has leaked, and we think they could be too pricey for the mid-range smartphone segment in India. According to tipster Yogesh Brar, the Galaxy A34 5G will be priced around the INR 30,000 (around $366) mark in India. The Galaxy A54 5G, on the other hand, could be priced as high as INR 40,000 (around $488). That’s a 15% price hike for…

Spring break travel demand is picking up, driving up airfare and hotel rates.Travel app Hopper said in a report last week that domestic airfare is averaging $264 a round trip for March and April, up 20% from a year ago and 5% above pre-pandemic levels.Airlines, grappling with pilot shortages and aircraft delivery delays, have already limited capacity growth, which is keeping airfare up from last year.Now travelers are going back to booking patterns common before the pandemic, flying on peak days to traditional…

Heaven (the items) or Hell (your wallet) Trendy Japanese label SuperGroupies has teamed up with publisher Arc System Works to release a new line of apparel based on slick ‘n’ sexy fighter Guilty Gear Strive. The Guilty Gear gear is available to pre-order now ahead of its eventual release in the summer and fall seasons. Regarding apparel, SuperGroupies has unveiled a slick model jacket, based on GG Strive poster boy Sol Badguy. The slim-fitting jacket (available in sizes M – XXL) is outfitted in black and red and is…

The original came out way back in 2015, so it's a wonder why took so long to release its own take on a premium gamepad. But now that the is more widely available (kind of), the company is finally ready to show the world what it can do. While the $200 DualSense Edge costs a bit more than its rival, it offers a few nifty features you don't get on Microsoft's controller, combined with one potentially major shortcoming. Design For the Edge, Sony didn't stray much from its default template. From the top, the Edge looks…

The iPhone didn’t immediately kill off the iPod, the MP3 player was cheaper, so it hung around for a few years. Now that Apple is preparing to enter a new product category, foldables, rumors are swirling that it will kill off a product from an old one – The Elec reported that Cupertino is planning to discontinue the iPad mini after its foldable tablet hits the market. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo disagrees with that assessment and the reasoning is simple – the foldable iPad will have a “markedly higher price” than the mini.…