Innholdsfortegnelse for February 17, 2023 i Newsweek International

PeriscopeNEWS, OPINION + ANALYSISECONOMY “Automakers have embraced digital technology.” ▸ P.16 FROM THE GREAT RESIGNATION OF 2021 TO the “quiet quitting” trend that redefined the workplace in 2022, the American labor market has had a couple of tumultuous years. But in 2023, on the verge of a potential recession that could have a profound impact on the country’s economy, American workers want to stay put—and hold on tight to their jobs. A broad majority of Americans—64 percent—are not looking to change jobs this year, according to a recent survey carried out by Redfield & Wilton Strategies on behalf of Newsweek, reversing a steady trend that has characterized the U.S. labor market for the past couple of years. While these workers—including employed and self-employed individuals—mentioned their current work-life balance as the…

OST PEOPLE ASSOCIATE BAD habits with the kind of activities that wind up on a list of New Year’s resolutions—eating and drinking too much, spending too much time on the smartphone and avoiding the gym. But bad habits are often behind more than just our personal peccadilloes. The neural machinery of habit formation is also the root cause of many of the worst collective behaviors: Texting while driving, gossiping about co-workers, littering, mansplaining, farting silently in public, making racist or unfair assumptions about strangers and even spreading the kind of misinformation online that some experts warn is threatening to undermine our democracy. Many people who are aware of bad habits and recognize them to be potentially harmful blame themselves for being weak and lacking the willpower needed to resist them.…

Rev. Al Sharpton delivers the eulogy during the funeral service for Tyre Nichols at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church on February 1. On January 7, police pulled over the 29-year-old motorist for alleged reckless driving. They proceeded to brutally beat Nichols for three minutes. Three days later, he died in the hospital. Nichols was a father, an avid skateboarder and a nature photographer. Vigils and mostly peaceful protests against police brutality were held in cities across the U.S. Five Black Memphis Police officers were fired and charged with second-degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct and official oppression.…

FOR YEARS U.S. AUTOMAKERS have been putting lots of money into developing digital technology, ranging from drivetrains and batteries for electric vehicles to a broad range of hardware and software connecting cars to the internet and to make them self-driving. Increasingly that money is being invested close to U.S. automaking’s ancestral home. Ford Motor Company, General Motors (GM) and Stellantis, the multinational whose 14 brands include Chrysler and Jeep, have all funded mobility and software engineering projects in Michigan lately. Silicon Valley has noticed. Christian D. Malesic, president/CEO of the Silicon Valley Central Chamber of Commerce, says “We’re still number one in angel investors.... But I can also see the tech industry of Michigan expanding, especially as the car and computer start to blend even more.” Previously, a lot of…

OMELESS, SCHIZOPHRENIC AND WITH AN IQ below 55, Larry Eugene Price Jr., walked into a northwest Arkansas police station on August 19, 2020. Police in the town, Fort Smith, were used to seeing Price, 6-foot-2 and close to 200 pounds, coming in, hanging around for a bit, then leaving. On that day, though, Price, then 50 and also diagnosed as bipolar with post traumatic stress disorder, pointed his finger like a gun around the station, threatening and cursing. Officers arrested him on a state felony, terroristic threatening in the first degree. There was no settling him down, police say, so he was handcuffed, taken to the Sebastian County Detention Center, locked up and sent before a judge who set bond at $1,000. If he could come up with $100 for…

Love and Light Eiffel Tower PARIS (See #05 on following spread) Superpowers With a Sting How Evangeline Lilly hit the “jackpot” with Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp. ▸ P.56 01 Natural Beauty Haleakalā National Park MAUI, HAWAII Visitors are invited to explore the park’s volcanos, rain forest and backcountry while seeing species found nowhere else on Earth. Sitting at an altitude of over 10,000 feet, the site is beautiful at sunrise and sunset. Watch the sun set as it rolls into the clouds, as shadows and colors swirl below, serving up the perfect ending to a day together. 02 Layered Wonder Grand Canyon ARIZONA When the sun sets on this natural wonder, the sky’s tones highlight the colors of the layers of schist, limestone…

FOR MOST LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy fans, hobbits are the portly folk of Middle-earth who live in homes carved out of hillsides in “the Shire’’ and spend their lives smoking pipe-weed, singing songs and drinking ale. But some influential real-life people see hobbit life in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth—free from government intervention and overreach—as close to societal perfection. Paypal co-founder and early Trump ally Peter Thiel, for instance, spent his teenage years reading and rereading The Lord of the Rings. Palantir Technologies, the multibillion dollar data mining and surveillance firm he cofounded, gets its name from“palantiri,” indestructible “seeing stones” in Tolkien’s books; its Palo Alto offices are known informally as “the Shire.” Other Thiel companies have Tolkien-inspired names like Valar Ventures and Rivendell One LLC. Andy Ellis, an information security…