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The First Street Foundation study points out that insurers could offer discounts to homeowners who take steps to fortify their homes, which would help make disasters less damaging. Moore said Florida once was a leader when it came to measures like building codes, although that has changed in recent years. The state also had lacked a disclosure policy requiring property owners to share a property’s flood history with buyers and renters.Another bill would compel landlords to inform tenants that they live in a flood zone,…

Money managers are scrambling to cash in on the stock market's interest in artificial intelligence, as a stunning rally by Nvidia sparks a search for other companies that are capitalising on the technology.Shares of Nvidia - whose chips are the gold standard in the AI industry - are up about 60% this year after tripling in 2023. The run has pushed its market value to roughly $2 trillion, making it the third-largest U.S. company by market cap after Microsoft and Apple.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill…

Some people will go to extraordinary lengths to harvest metal. For his 2017 book on the subject, Metal Scrappers and Thieves: Scavenging for Survival and Profit, Stickle interviewed one man who used to hunt down abandoned buildings on Google, then find pictures or videos from urban explorers who had visited these locations for kicks, just to see if he could spot any copper in their footage. If he did, he’d drive over and start plundering. “He might spend a week stealing the metal out of it,” says Stickle.With the…

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The craze for artificial intelligence stocks sent options traders piling into bets on Arm Holdings on Monday, with many positioning for more gains in the shares after they almost doubled in price in less than a week. Arm Holdings' shares are up 80% since Wednesday, after the company forecast better-than-expected quarterly results powered by demand for its technology to design chips for artificial intelligence features. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIM LucknowIIML…

Meta, for the first time in its history, is giving money back to its investors.The company, on Thursday, said it would give a 50-cent-per-share dividend to shareholders and also announced plans for a $50 billion share buyback. That came on the heels of a solid earnings beat across the board.The company’s stock was up more than 14% in after-hours trading.Meta reported earnings per share of $5.33 in the fourth quarter of 2023, well above the $4.96 that analysts were expecting. (For historical perspective, the company…

Signage is displayed on a Humana Inc. office building in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019. Humana is scheduled to release earnings figures on February 6. Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesShares of Humana plummeted on Thursday after the health insurer issued dismal full-year earnings guidance, citing soaring medical costs that are dogging the broader insurance industry.Those expenses have spiked as an increasing number of older adults return to…

BEV trucks and buses at ACT Expo in Long Beach; image by the author. Despite all the doom, gloom, and wishful thinking from the anti-EV crowd, the numbers paint a narrative of swift expansion in the commercial EV and ZEV (Zero-Emission Vehicle) markets. CALSTART’s latest figures reveal a remarkable 250% growth in the zero-emission heavy truck market. While the challenge of long-haul trucking remains for BEV semi trucks, several commercial fleets have effectively implemented…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Aussie employers' demand for workers with strong interpersonal skills has surged following the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research by CSIRO, Australia's national science agency. Researchers analyzed more than 12 million online job ads captured by Adzuna Australia between 2015 and 2022, reporting the pandemic…

It’s time to look back at spaceflight in 2023, a real “two steps forward, one step back” kind of year, filled with highs, lows, and everything in between.China's Plan to Land Astronauts on the MoonThe New Space Race is in full swing, and with both public and private entities pushing the limits of what’s possible, failures are an inevitability, as is progress. 2023 was no exception, with some notable achievements like historic deep space missions and advancements in satellite and rocket technology, alongside setbacks such…