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Westend61 | Westend61 | Getty ImagesA version of this article first appeared in CNBC's Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.The number of family offices in the world has tripled since 2019, setting off a new race among private equity firms, hedge funds and venture capital firms to attract their investments.According to a new report from Preqin, the number of family offices — the private investing…

The Voyager app on Vision Pro lets you see airports in 3D in real time. Apple Apple just announced a surge in Vision Pro apps, nearly tripling the best estimates from late January. Apple states that the Vision Pro will have at least 600 native apps on February 2, an impressive beginning for a VR headset. That’s particularly good news for early adopters who will start receiving the Vision Pro tomorrow. Among the new apps, Apple highlighted Box, an immersive content browser app for enterprise and education. Product…

In the earnings report for Q4 2023, Netflix revealed that engagement with games on the platform tripled last year. The company says that, despite the growth, games are still small on the platform compared to movies and series, but it is still happy with the achievement. According to Netflix, the Grand Theft Auto trilogy, which it released on the platform in November 2023, is the most successful launch in terms of installs and engagements, and some people have signed up on Netflix just to play the three titles. “While…

Huawei is expected to introduce the P70, P70 Pro, and P70 Pro Art flagships in 2024, reveals Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst at TF International Securities. According to him, the launch will be in the first half of the year, and the demand for these phones will be so high Huawei is likely to sell three times more units than the P60 lineup managed. Huawei P60 Pro The analyst claimed Huawei should see a robust yearly growth of about 230%, up to 15 million units of the P70 flagship series, compared with the 4-5 million Huawei…

Amazon (AMZN) announced today it now has over 3,000 Rivian (RIVN) electric delivery vans (EDVs) deployed, triple its previously reported number in November. The e-commerce giant has now delivered 75 million packages emission-free using Rivians electric vans. Amazon was, at one time, the most valuable public company and the fastest-growing US retail business, with gross merchandise volume (GMV) growing significantly faster than its peers. After growing to become the world’s largest…

As the U.S. health care system weathered blow after blow of the COVID pandemic, diseases of all kinds, from HIV to congenital syphilis, surged across the country. Last week a national survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that outbreaks of emerging drug-resistant fungi also grew at an “alarming” rate in hospitals from 2019 to 2020. Annual cases of the opportunistic, hard-to-treat yeast Candida auris nearly tripled from 476 in 2019 to 1,471 in 2021, according to the CDC’s recent report, which was…

Summary of the MP weathering status and size variability in the sedimentary record A. Boxplot of the carbonyl index in the sediment profile classified as polyethylene (dark blue) and polypropylene (light blue). (B) Boxplot of the size variability (y-axis logarithmic scale) in the sediment core. C. Increase of the oxidation status of the polymers, measured as carbonyl index, as the particle size decreases (y-axis logarithmic scale). Credit: Environmental…

Apple plans to increase its production of iPhones in India by three times, suggests a new report. Apple is planning to triple its iPhone production in India by three times. Based on a new report, it is said that Apple has plans to diversify its iPhone production out of China to other countries, and India will play a major role in this. Over the next three years, Apple has plans to increase the production of iPhones in India by three times of what it manufactures right now. Apple is yet to confirm anything officially on…

Deaths from drug and alcohol use are rising among America's seniors.Drug overdose deaths more than tripled among people age 65 and older during the past two decades while deaths from alcohol abuse increased more than 18% from 2019 to 2020, according to data published Wednesday by the National Center for Health Statistics.More than 800,000 seniors suffered from drug addiction and 2.7 million suffered from alcohol addiction in 2020, according to separate data from the Health and Human Services Department.In total, more than…

Image via Twitter/Netflix It seems that Russell T. Davies isn’t just returning to Doctor Who, but aiming to redefine the entire show with his newfound acclaim as a television producer. Not that he wasn’t already one of the biggest creative minds in British show business, but the 10-year break and what he’s done between has certainly helped those prospects skyrocket. Meanwhile, Netflix has just announced that the long-anticipated Gears of War movie, practically more than a decade in the making, is still alive at…