Six months into the war, nobody can agree on how many ships are getting through the Strait of Hormuz. Washington says traffic is climbing and the lanes are clear. Tehran says the strait is shut to…
The Federal Reserve raised the federal funds target range by 25 basis points to 3.75%-4.00% on Wednesday, its first increase since July 2023, and the bond market answered by buying duration. The…
I’ll admit I’ve half-believed this one. Google’s models can look at a photo and tell you it shows a Corinthian column, a few tourists, late afternoon light, and a gelato sign in Italian. Gemini will…
Canon announced the EOS R8 Mark II on September 15, about three and a half years after the original R8 went on sale in early 2023. The sensor is the same 24.2MP full-frame chip. The autofocus is the…
Put a Helios 44-2 on a Fuji body and it stops being a 58mm lens, at least as far as framing goes. It frames like an 87mm. On an Olympus Micro Four Thirds body it frames like a 116mm. Same glass, same…
Three agencies rate most of the world’s traded debt: S&P Global Ratings, Moody’s and Fitch. They use the same underlying ladder, written two different ways. S&P and Fitch use letters with plus and…
VALLEJO, CA — Congressman John Garamendi convened a maritime summit last week, pulling together military officers, labor leaders, educators, and elected officials from the local level up through…
I took this photo in the Terminal 3 duty-free hall on Friday, September 29, 2023, a little after one in the afternoon. Sukkot was starting that evening and half the country seemed to be flying…
Traffic across the network slipped this week. The 66 sites (one more than last week) logged 15.54k visits and 16.73k page views between September 6 and 12, down 17.69% and 16.14%. Median page load…
The biggest number came from Omdia, which says global semiconductor revenue passed $425 billion in the second quarter, up 31.4% on the first. That’s a sequential record for the second quarter running…