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Activision Blizzard, the developers behind video games like call of Duty And world of warcraft, will require workers to return to the office, at least part of the time, and join other tech companies in imposing in-person work mandates. Activision Publishing staff is expected to return by April 10, while Blizzard Entertainment developers are expected to return by July 10.…

Something went wrong: a client abandons a project, a colleague abandons you, you make a mistake on a report, you spill coffee all over your desk. do you say a swear word Science says swearing can be good for you, and now research has shown that it’s generally accepted that swearing in the office is commonplace. A new LinkedIn survey…

Elon Musk has long been considered cannabis-friendly for his many 420 jokes (the number is slang for marijuana) and for being caught on video during a podcast while smoking a mixture of marijuana and tobacco known as a spliff is. Now, just months after buying Twitter for $44 billion, it’s made its biggest move yet in support of the cannabis…

Cases of “tripledemic” viruses like the flu, RSV and COVID appear to be staying stable or falling in many parts of the US, but rates of another miserable — and potentially dangerous — virus are rising. RSV and flu started “early and swiftly” this winter season, says Dr. William Schaffner, professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in…

Charlie Munger really doesn’t like crypto. In fact, he’s been speaking out about it publicly for some time. He says he wishes it had never been invented. He says Bitcoin is “stupid and evil” and useful for “hijackers and extortionists”. He compares crypto to “rat poison” and a “venereal disease”. And he says it’s “almost insane to buy or trade…

Last year, Dr. Arturo Bonilla in San Antonio, Texas, carefully an outer ear to a 20-year-old woman who was born without one. The ear on the woman’s right side was engineered to be the size and shape of her left. For Bonilla, a pediatric microtia surgeon (a doctor who treats birth defects of the ear) for more than 25 years…

Austin’s city manager was fired Wednesday after outrage over a slow and fumbling response to a winter storm power outage that left thousands of people in the Texas capital without power for a week or more. The Austin City Council’s 10-1 vote to sack Spencer Cronk, the city’s top manager, followed growing calls for accountability after an ice storm this…

Stocks ticked higher on Wall Street on Wednesday as hopes of a resilient economy met worries over inflation after US retail sales came in much stronger than expected. The S&P 500 rose 0.3% after pivoting from early losses to gains during the day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 38 points, or 0.1%, while the Nasdaq Composite was up 0.9%.…

On busy mornings, we often rush out the door without making time for breakfast—almost 25% of Americans skip that meal. And that could have negative long-term consequences. Eating on the go and saving the largest meal for later in the day has become commonplace. But science has found that eating breakfast like a king, lunching like a prince and dinner…

1. Do teachers really need a raise? In many school districts, the answer is yes. According to a 2022 study by the Economic Policy Institute — a nonprofit, impartial think-tank focused on the needs of low- and middle-income workers — the “wage penalty” for teachers — how much less teachers earn than comparable workers — is grown from 6.1% in…