The Federal Reserve anticipates only one rate cut this year

WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal Reserve officials said Wednesday that inflation has fallen further toward their target level in recent months, but signaled that they expect to cut their key interest rate only once this year. Policymakers’ forecast for one rate cut was down from an earlier forecast of three because inflation, despite cooling in the … Read more

Observations explore Centaurus A’s halo

Archival optical image (at 468 nm wavelength) of NGC 5128 taken with the UK Schmidt telescope superimposed on the location of the two fields studied. The red cross indicates the center of NGC 5128. The red circles represent the locations of LPVs selected from the ISAAC Ks-band data. Credit: Aghdam et al., 2024. Using the … Read more

Shin Megami Tensei V: Revenge Review (Switch)

Subscribe to Nintendo Life to YouTube768 thousandLook to YouTube It’s been nearly three years since the original Shin Megami Tensei V launched, and as is tradition at Atlus, the obligatory enhanced re-release (complete with a new story centered around a new girl) has now arrived in everything modern platformer in the form of Shin Megami … Read more

Hiltzik: How the Fast Food Industry Uses Fraudulent Employment Numbers

The fast food industry has been wringing its hands over the devastating impact on its business from California’s new minimum wage law on its workers. Their raw numbers certainly bear this out. A full-page ad recently placed in USA Today by the California Business and Industry Alliance claimed that about 10,000 fast food jobs had … Read more

How the brain maps memories without movement

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Summary: Mental maps in the brain are activated when we think about sequences of experiences, even without physical movement. In an animal study, they found that the entorhinal cortex contains a cognitive map of experiences, which is activated during mental simulation. This is the first study to show the cellular basis of mental simulation in … Read more

The new theory links quantum geometry to electron-phonon coupling

An illustration of electron-phonon coupling between valence and conduction states in real-time and real-space. Credit: Cmelni/Wikimedia Commons. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Electron_Phonon_Coupling_Between_Valence_and_Conduction_States.png. A new study published in Nature Physics presents a theory of electron-phonon coupling that is influenced by the quantum geometry of electronic wave functions. The movement of electrons in a lattice and their interactions with lattice vibrations … Read more

Fallout 76’s Skyline Valley update strikes right at the heart of what you love about single-player Fallout

Fallout 76’s Skyline Valley update certainly isn’t short on sights and sounds to tempt you from the comfort of its six-year-old map of Appalachia. Located on the southern edges of the Savage Divide that runs through the center of the map, the newly added Shenandoah region has a giant ominous vortex swirling in the sky … Read more

Does the video game company have ‘enough runway to appease its cult-like shareholders’?

GameStop Analyst Lowers Price Target After 'Rambling Presentation By Roaring Kitty': Does Video Game Company Have 'Enough Runway To Appease Its Cult-Like Shareholders'?

GameStop Analyst Cuts Price Target After ‘Rambling By Roaring Kitty Presentation’: Does the video game company have ‘enough runway to appease its cult-like shareholders’? Video game retailer shares GameStop Corporation (NYSE:GME) have traded higher in recent weeks on optimism from the return of Noisy kitten (does it have Keith Gill) and some stock offerings that … Read more