
The kitchen is the heart of the home, making it the perfect place for the focus of a meaningful holiday gift for new or aspiring homeowners. Smart tools that combine style, functionality and cutting-edge technology take kitchen duties to a whole new level. Here are some standout smart kitchen tools that any homeowner or homeowner-to-be would love, as reviewed by PC Magazine. Bring smart tech to meal prep If you’re seeking culinary inspiration or enhancing your skills with a cooking show, consider the third-generation Echo Show 8 smart display. Its high-definition screen and immersive audio make it perfect for watching cooking shows, streaming music, or following recipes hands-free. Simply ask Alexa — the cloud-based voice assistant — to set timers, convert measurements, or add items to your shopping list. The Echo Show 8 also allows you to pair and control other smart devices in your home that are compatible with Zigbee, Matter and Thread. To brighten your cooking space and warm up your kitchen, consider GE’s Cync Reveal under-cabinet and under-counter smart lights . These puck lights offer bright adjustable lighting with app control and are compatible with Matter for hands-free voice or remote control. While plug-in installation is straightforward, direct wiring provides the sleekest-looking install. If you have concerns about handling wiring, hire an electrician to install the lights. Self-cleaning robots for kitchen cleanup No cooking event is complete without the final cleanup, and the more help you can get the better. Enter a good robot vacuum to the rescue. The Shark IQ Robot Self-Empty XL RV1001AE features a large dustbin in its base station that only needs emptying about once a month. The vacuum rarely gets stuck and can be controlled from your phone or voice, allowing you to set cleaning schedules, target specific rooms, or establish no-go zones. It has a self-cleaning brush roll for pet guardians and is powerful enough to remove pet fur from carpeting. Another option for pet guardians is the iRobot Roomba j9+ , with its Pet Owner Official Promise (POOP) guarantee — if the vacuum fails to avoid solid pet waste in its first year, the company will replace it for free. There’s also a self-emptying robot vacuum, like the Ecovacs Deebot X2 Omni , which has a self-emptying dustbin, a mop that cleans and dries itself, and a built-in voice assistant. If you’re shopping on a budget, PC Magazine suggests the Roomba Combo Essential , which has seamless app setup, mopping and navigation abilities. But why stop there? You can also get a robot mop. The Bissell SpinWave Wet and Dry robot mop features two spinning microfiber pads for a spotless finish, while the iRobot Braava Jet m6 is another excellent option. Furbo smart cameras for pet lovers In keeping with gifts tied to the heart, here’s an option to treat pet owners and their furry friends. This device doubles as a pet sitter and indoor home security camera, with barking alerts, the ability to hear and talk to your pooch, and to toss treats from your phone. The Furbo 360 Dog Camera offers a livestream video to watch your pooch morning, afternoon, or night. Cat lovers aren’t left out, either. The Furbo 360 Cat Camera offers similar features tailored to feline families, with sound effects and notifications designed to entertain cats. Smart gadgets exist for every area of the home, so you’re sure to find one to suit the homeowners or renters on your holiday list. Explore the complete list of smart devices reviewed by PC Magazine at www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-smart-home-devices . Tom Kalinski is the broker/owner of RE/MAX of Boulder, the local residential real estate company he established in 1977. He was inducted into Boulder County’s Business Hall of Fame in 2016 and has a 40-year background in commercial and residential real estate. For questions, e-mail Tom at tomkalinski33@gmail.com , call 303.441.5620 or visit boulderco.com . Stay up to date with area Real Estate and Home & Garden news information with the latest e-edition version of atHome Colorado online This article is brought to you by atHome Colorado , your weekly insight into real estate, design, and community trends, published weekly by the advertising and marketing department in the Boulder Daily Camera, Loveland Reporter-Herald, Greeley Tribune, and Longmont Times-CallSceptic Skip, the self-styled Cromer seer, is back to pass on the only authentic home-grown crop of prognostications untainted by prejudice or pressures dressed up as promises. Norfolk’s answer to Cassandra, Nostradamus and Mother Shipton presents his exclusive predictions for the county in 2025, banking again on the old adage that people don’t always believe everything they read – but repeat it to be just on the safe side. With no grants from the Arts Council, Brussels or the Poppyland Soothsayers’ Association, he admits it has been tougher than usual to find scope and inspiration for confident forecasting “ in these breathtakingly ominous times”. January – Television viewers in Norfolk and north Suffolk ask for the old signal to be turned back on because they claim programmes have deteriorated so much since switch to digital transmission. Spokesperson Anna Log says one critic suggested television was called a medium “because so little of it is rare or well done.” Norfolk “parish harmony” programme launched as Egmere is twinned with Baconsthorpe. February -More BBC cuts begin to bite at local level. Radio Norfolk introduces new service for Norwich City’s away fixtures whereby match referees are wired up to provide unbiased running commentaries. Listeners complain about reception affected by strange whistling noises. . Appleton twinned with Syderstone as part of “joint core strategy.” March - Signs of improvement on the Norwich-London railway service following celebrity endorsement by Alan Partridge and Michael Portillo’ ‘ All train drivers now assured of a seat each way. Manningtree halt closed and declared a World Heritage Site. Bale twined with Wheatacre. April – Alarming indications of more serious erosion along the north Norfolk coast. Aylsham inshore lifeboat launched twice. North Walsham lighthouse goes digital. Reepham coastguards seek new recruits. Sidestrand offered a bypass in return for permission to build 500 clifftop retirement homes and an elastic stocking factory. Herringby twinned with Cranworth. May - Housing market picking up. First-time buyers spotted in Burnham Deepdale and North Creake. Survey by Chelsea (Cheaper Homes Encouraged by Local Society of Estate Agents) hints that rural deprivation in some parts of Norfolk means being unable to buy William Morris wallpaper at the village shop. Rushall twinned with Sloley – eventually. June – “Been there. Done that. Can’t remember.” – slogan spotted on senior citizen’s T-shirt in Cromer. Bumper tourist season forecast. Elephant Experience theme park at West Runton voted the area’s best new attraction, complete with trumpeting bays billed as “alternative hunting where you form your own tusk force.” Swannington twinned with Cobholm. July – Singing Postman Academy opened in Burnham Market in honour of cultural local icon and to encourage closer ties between well-heeled visitors and settlers with village natives still claiming to “tork proper”. Four giant solar farms shut down in Norfolk due to lack of sunshine. Dickleburgh refuses to twin with Whittington as it’s too far away. August- Mini-Olympics for Norfolk parish councillors off to a lively start. Briston, Hickling and Knapton disqualified from tug-of-war for pushing and also experience problems in handing over batons in relay races. Even so, they all win their 4x400m heats in one hour and 26 minutes of the last emergency meeting. Wood Rising lift tossing-the-caber crown. Foxley twinned with Wolferton. September – Pedlar of Swaffham surprise winner of the East Anglian leg of Tour of Britain Cycle Race after taking advantage of new park-and-ride service at Little Cressingham. Temperatures dip to record lows at end of the month. Man falls out of bed in Great Snoring and cracks his pyjamas’ Babingley twinned with Brooke. October More BBC cuts and Radio Norfolk forced to repeat old favourites first aired on the national network and now given a more homely flavour. Programmes include Round the Horning, Much Binding in the Marsham, Dick Barton Turf, Have a Hoe, Brooke at Bedtime and Brain of Fritton. Burston twinned with Riddlesworth. November - Confusion reigns on Norfolk County Council. Six Labour members, five Liberal Democrats and a dozen Conservatives defect to the Greens while 23 others resign altogether because there’s nowhere else left for them to go. Norfolk Independence Party takes caretaker control under the banner; “Why not dew diffrunt and stay the same?” Upwell twinned with Downham. December - Christmas lights cut back radically in most Norfolk towns to reflect an increasingly bleak economic picture. King’s Lynn a shining exception. Glow and heat from a new installation nearby brings comfort and joy to a grand outdoor carol concert on the Tuesday Market Place. Bodham twinned with Gomorrah.
Artists Speak Out About Abusive Behavior at Bayreuth BaroqueSAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 3, 2024-- Affirm Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, today announced that Rob O’Hare, CFO of Affirm, will participate in a shareholder fireside chat on December 13, 2024. The event will be moderated by Bryan Keane from Deutsche Bank and will begin at 11:00 AM Eastern Time. The event will be webcast live on the Company’s investor relations website at https://investors.affirm.com , and management will address a selection of the top questions from retail and institutional shareholders relating to Affirm’s strategy, products, business model, and financial results. Affirm will be using Say Technologies to enable verified shareholders to submit and upvote questions. All Affirm shareholders can submit questions by visiting: https://app.saytechnologies.com/affirm-cfo-fireside-chat-dec-2024 . The Q&A platform opens at 4:00 PM Eastern Time on December 3, 2024, and will close on December 12, 2024, at 8:00 AM Eastern Time. About Affirm Affirm’s mission is to deliver honest financial products that improve lives. By building a new kind of payment network – one based on trust, transparency and putting people first – we empower millions of consumers to spend and save responsibly, and give thousands of businesses the tools to fuel growth. Unlike most credit cards and other pay-over-time options, we show consumers exactly what they will pay up front and never charge any late or hidden fees. Follow Affirm on social media: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | X . AFRM-F View source version on businesswire.com : https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241203379798/en/ CONTACT: Investor Relations ir@affirm.com Media press@affirm.com KEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA CALIFORNIA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: PROFESSIONAL SERVICES PAYMENTS COMMUNICATIONS OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICES TECHNOLOGY FINANCE PUBLIC RELATIONS/INVESTOR RELATIONS SOURCE: Affirm Holdings, Inc. Copyright Business Wire 2024. PUB: 12/03/2024 04:00 PM/DISC: 12/03/2024 03:58 PM http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241203379798/enDETROIT (AP) — For a second time, a Delaware judge has nullified a pay package that Tesla had awarded its CEO, Elon Musk, that once was valued at $56 billion. On Monday, Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick turned aside a request from Musk's lawyers to reverse a ruling she announced in January that had thrown out the compensation plan. The judge ruled then that Musk effectively controlled Tesla's board and had engineered the outsize pay package during sham negotiations . Lawyers for a Tesla shareholder who sued to block the pay package contended that shareholders who had voted for the 10-year plan in 2018 had been given misleading and incomplete information. In their defense, Tesla's board members asserted that the shareholders who ratified the pay plan a second time in June had done so after receiving full disclosures, thereby curing all the problems the judge had cited in her January ruling. As a result, they argued, Musk deserved the pay package for having raised Tesla's market value by billions of dollars. McCormick rejected that argument. In her 103-page opinion, she ruled that under Delaware law, Tesla's lawyers had no grounds to reverse her January ruling “based on evidence they created after trial.” On Monday night, Tesla posted on X, the social media platform owned by Musk, that the company will appeal. The appeal would be filed with the Delaware Supreme Court, the only state appellate court Tesla can pursue. Experts say a ruling would likely come in less than a year. “The ruling, if not overturned, means that judges and plaintiffs' lawyers run Delaware companies rather than their rightful owners — the shareholders,” Tesla argued. Later, on X, Musk unleashed a blistering attack on the judge, asserting that McCormick is “a radical far left activist cosplaying as a judge.” Legal authorities generally suggest that McCormick’s ruling was sound and followed the law. Charles Elson, founding director of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware, said that in his view, McCormick was right to rule that after Tesla lost its case in the original trial, it created improper new evidence by asking shareholders to ratify the pay package a second time. Had she allowed such a claim, he said, it would cause a major shift in Delaware’s laws against conflicts of interest given the unusually close relationship between Musk and Tesla’s board. “Delaware protects investors — that’s what she did,” said Elson, who has followed the court for more than three decades. “Just because you’re a ‘superstar CEO’ doesn’t put you in a separate category.” Elson said he thinks investors would be reluctant to put money into Delaware companies if there were exceptions to the law for “special people.” Elson said that in his opinion, the court is likely to uphold McCormick's ruling. Experts say no. Rulings on state laws are normally left to state courts. Brian Dunn, program director for the Institute of Compensation Studies at Cornell University, said it's been his experience that Tesla has no choice but to stay in the Delaware courts for this compensation package. The company could try to reconstitute the pay package and seek approval in Texas, where it may expect more friendlier judges. But Dunn, who has spent 40 years as an executive compensation consultant, said it's likely that some other shareholder would challenge the award in Texas because it's excessive compared with other CEOs' pay plans. “If they just want to turn around and deliver him $56 billion, I can't believe somebody wouldn't want to litigate it,” Dunn said. “It's an unconscionable amount of money.” Almost certainly. Tesla stock is trading at 15 times the exercise price of stock options in the current package in Delaware, Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas wrote in a note to investors. Tesla's share price has doubled in the past six months, Jonas wrote. At Monday’s closing stock price, the Musk package is now worth $101.4 billion, according to Equilar, an executive data firm. And Musk has asked for a subsequent pay package that would give him 25% of Tesla's voting shares. Musk has said he is uncomfortable moving further into artificial intelligence with the company if he doesn't have 25% control. He currently holds about 13% of Tesla's outstanding shares. Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Nvidia ( NVDA -2.09% ) and Palantir ( PLTR -3.72% ) have been two of the best-performing stocks on the market this year, and artificial intelligence is the major reason. Nvidia needs little introduction at this point. The chip stock has come to dominate the market for data center GPUs (graphics processing units) in the AI boom, which has driven its stock price up roughly 10 times since the start of 2024. Palantir, meanwhile, has emerged as the biggest winner in software from AI as its experience with deep data mining, known as data fusion, has paid off, especially since the launch of its artificial intelligence platform (AIP) last year. As the chart below shows, both stocks have soared this year. PLTR data by YCharts So, which is the better buy today? Let's get into the details on what each stock has to offer. Business model: Nvidia vs. Palantir? Nvidia has established itself as the leading chip design company, thanks to its prowess in AI and its investments in areas like its CUDA software library, which give it a competitive advantage. As a result of its wide lead in AI-focused components like the new Blackwell platform, Nvidia currently generates massive profit margins with a generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP ) operating margin of 62% in the third quarter. The company has built an all-star culture focused on innovation, and it seems likely to remain ahead of the competition on AI chips. It depends on foundries like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company for manufacturing and is vulnerable to cyclicality and broader concerns about a bubble in AI. The semiconductor industry is notoriously cyclical and prices and inventory levels can change quickly. Therefore, Nvidia's greatest risk is likely a change in industry dynamics that would threaten its growth rather than a competitive threat. Palantir got its start serving U.S. intelligence agencies after 9/11, helping them connect data points to find threats they otherwise would have missed. Palantir has since expanded its product suite to specialize in a wide range of business needs, including cryptocurrency, data protection, and the prevention of money laundering. Its principal software platforms include Gotham, Foundry, Apollo, and Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP). Gotham and Foundry are focused on taking massive amounts of information and making it into a useful dataset. Apollo is a layer for commercial customers that allows them to run their software in nearly any environment, and AIP works with Gotham and Foundry to use machine learning to accelerate insights. Palantir has a relatively small number of high-paying customers, meaning it deals in large contracts. The size and complexity of its contracts mean the company faces relatively little competition from other software companies. Instead, it sees the internal software development efforts of its customers as its biggest competitor. Like Nvidia, Palantir is also at risk of a sectorwide pullback, though its competitive position seems resilient, given the specialized nature of its business. Financials: Nvidia vs. Palantir? Both Nvidia and Palantir have delivered impressive results, but one company is clearly growing faster than the other. Nvidia reported 94% revenue growth in the third quarter to $35.1 billion, with $19.3 billion in net income, up 109% from the year before. Palantir, on the other hand, reported 30% revenue growth to $726 million with strong results in the U.S. and its commercial segment. Net income jumped 103% to $149.3 million as its margins rapidly scaled up. Valuation: Nvidia vs. Palantir? Palantir's explosive growth this year has come largely from multiple expansions. As a result, the stock is trading at a sky-high valuation. Palantir now trades at a price-to-sales ratio of 75 and a price-to-earnings ratio of 411 based on GAAP earnings. Nvidia stock looks more reasonable. It currently trades at a price-to-sales ratio of 31 and a price-to-earnings ratio of 55. Which is the better buy? Both of these companies have a lot to offer investors, especially if demand for AI continues to grow, but looking at both stocks holistically, Nvidia is the better buy. Palantir's business is certainly intriguing. It's demonstrated its value to customers and seems to have a meaningful competitive advantage. However, its valuation presents a significant risk as the stock could easily plunge if it misses expectations. Nvidia, on the other hand, also looks poised for similar growth but with less downside risk.
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