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Microsoft is cutting jobs in its commercial business and its Xbox gaming group, where revenue has been shrinking.

Two Tennessee National Guard members fatally shot a man in Memphis who turned toward them with a gun during a downtown pursuit, authorities said.

Prosecutors in Charlie Kirk's murder case will aim to convince a judge they have enough evidence to try the man accused of killing him and seek the death penalty. A five-day preliminary hearing that begins Monday will mark the most significant presentation of…

The nation is already nearing last year’s record case total, and experts say the virus is forcing doctors to relearn a disease many thought had been consigned to history.

Researchers recently performed the first scientific test of sea ice thickening in the field, but there remains a big question mark over how scalable this method is.

A new study of people 80 and older with exceptional gaits finds fast walkers have about a 50% lower risk of cognitive decline, showing the connection between physical health and brain health.

China on Monday conducted a rare test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile in the Pacific Ocean, sparking criticism from New Zealand and Australia for actions that they said threatened peace and stability in the region.

Mourners dressed in black have flooded into Iran’s capital for a procession as part of the funeral of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Helicopter images aired on Iranian state television showed a massive crowd stretching from Tehran’s Azadi, or…

Taylor Swift's wedding bouquet was caught by Chiefs star Trey Smith's sister Ashley, who shared the special moment after the Madison Square Garden ceremony.

The outbreak is centered around several Upper East Side ZIP codes, with health officials warning residents and recent visitors to seek care quickly if they develop flu-like symptoms.

According to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple is likely to have very limited supply for iPhone Ultra at its...

Strategy raised $216 milliion with the sale of 3,588 bitcoin last week.

SK Hynix filed to offer ADRs in the US as it seeks to raise roughly $28 billion amid the AI boom.

Despite rigorously monitoring his health, Bryan Johnson recently revealed that he had been living with an incurable condition for over a decade.

American tech firms say rivals are forcing their chatbots to act as tutors to make Chinese AI smarter.

The acquisition — which will combine the U.K.'s biggest free-to-air commercial networks with its biggest pay-TV network — will see another British public service broadcaster come under U.S.

Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Felss Masino said six months ago that she thought she was “fired by America” following a bungled revamp. Today, she could be on the path to forgiveness.

Our shopping experts have 'flagged' the very best bargains — get summer staples and everyday musts for less.

Airlines are extending flight schedules to maximize on lucrative international travel.

Even Realities, an ex-Apple team building camera-free smart glasses, raised $150M from Meituan and Tencent at a $1B valuation.

EasyJet shares surged in early dealmaking Monday after it agreed in principle to takeover bid from Castlelake.

While other humanoid startups chase sky-high valuations, Agility Robotics is betting its future on execution — and a SPAC.

New Chinese regulatory certification filings appear to confirm the battery capacities of Apple's upcoming iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max...

Apple's Mac mini and Mac Studio have become the machines of choice for running AI agents, according to Doug Brooks, Apple's senior product...

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced publisher Ubisoft has confirmed the game's global release and preload times.

Palworld’s hotly anticipated 1.0 update launches this week, on July 10, and now developer Pocketpair has narrowed the release timing down, while issuing existing players an official recommendation on whether they should wipe their data for it.

Hermès gives its emblematic Cape Cod a contemporary makeover with a lightweight titanium case and colourful rubber straps.

Valve has rolled out a small update to SteamOS, including to owners of a Steam Deck.

Cyberpunk 2077 surpassed 40 million sales, marking a truly remarkable turnaround after its rocky 2020 launch.

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Microsoft admits a Windows 11 bug is silently eating up to 500GB of your storage, fix coming July 14, 2026.

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, Echoes of Aincrad: Sword Art Online, and Granblue Fantasy: Relink – Endless Ragnarok are the highlights of this week’s Japanese video game re…

An Xbox exclusive game from the Xbox 360 era has been delisted, which means it is now gone forever with zero purchasing options.

Plus, healthier alternatives to try.

Healthy eating may help protect the brain, even after early biological changes linked to Alzheimer’s disease have begun, a study suggests.

From walking everywhere to eating seasonal foods and sharing community meals, experts say these forgotten American health habits are worth reviving.

While more people are being diagnosed with cancer today compared with 50 years ago, the good news is that fewer people are dying from it.

Our son is fully aware of what happened.

One dad shares his story as Alder Hey celebrates more than 75 years of children's heart surgery.

Foreign aid cuts have "demonstrably worsened" the Ebola crisis, a virologist told CNBC.

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Wondering if fruit as a nighttime snack is a good choice for blood sugar? Dietitians share how fruit impacts blood sugar and how to reduce its impact.

Researchers have identified a previously overlooked mechanism of brain cell death that appears to play a major role in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia. The finding could lead to new treatments aimed at slowing neuron loss by interrupting …

"Obesity will become a disease of poverty."

Emma Selvidge, 19, told Newsweek that the complications of this terrifying ordeal have been “some of the hardest to live with.“

New research has found the reproductive system goes through a surprising change that’s detrimental to women’s health in the long run.

But the health secretary has allies among some patient advocates and makers of tests that detect disease.

Vitamin D deficiency can manifest in a number of ways on the skin and legs - here are six potential warning signs to look out for, including difficulty standing up from a chair

Many people are taking magnesium to improve energy, but some report feeling tired after taking it.

True to his biohacking ways, the 48-year-old wrote that he would “try and solve [the condition],” which he says only 2 to 5% of people have.

A comprehensive review found that mRNA vaccines are a resoundingly safe and effective feat of modern medicine.

Almost everyone has experienced that moment of walking into a room and suddenly forgetting why they went there. Names slip from memory. Glasses disappear only to be found on top of the head.

A study based on 47 million galaxies found that the cosmic web retains patterns on enormous scales, which could force a reevaluation of a pillar of cosmology.

Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, 24 December 2024 — while most of the American public was busy with Christmas Eve preparations, and while the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory mission operations team in Laurel, Maryland was out of radio c…

Astronaut Don Pettit called them 'luminous dancing fairies' — the streaks of light that cross astronauts' vision on the ISS. They are cosmic rays punching through the hull and through the eye, the same phenomenon every Apollo crew reported from 1969 onward.

Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, 14 July 2015, the piano-sized robotic spacecraft New Horizons flew past the dwarf planet Pluto at roughly 32,000 miles per hour, at a closest approach distance of 7,800 miles above the surface.

Mars once had a global magnetic field, generated deep inside the planet, strong enough to deflect the solar wind much as Earth’s does today. When that field faded, Mars lost its thick atmosphere and its surface water, and over time it changed from a world tha…

Three videos, all since June 2026, with lots of news and explanations, and a weather page. VIDEO ONE: AN ANALYSIS OF THREE STUDIES Here’s a very recent overview of research on what’s going on with…

Dark matter is thought to make up roughly 85 per cent of all the matter in the universe. It appears to outweigh every star, planet, gas cloud and living thing combined by a factor of more than five. And yet, after nearly four decades of increasingly sensitive…

A recent study is shedding light on how we handle geomagnetic storms, offering a way to reduce their severity. Solar storms occur when the sun creates an entangled mess of magnetic fields, similar to a messy head of hair after a long night of sleep.

Rubin Observatory will shoot hundreds of images daily from its perch in Chile

In a sprint, it is no contest. A horse would leave a human far behind before either had gone a hundred metres. But over a long, punishing distance in summer heat, the Harvard physiologist Daniel Lieberman argues, the advantage can flip.

Unlike almost every other kind of microscope, atomic-force microscopes (AFMs) don’t use any kind of optical beam to image their subjects. Instead, they physically detect the subject’s surface with …

Quantum mechanics has journeyed from a strange and controversial idea to the foundation of some of humanity’s most advanced technologies. Now researchers are pushing its boundaries even further, with potential breakthroughs in energy, medicine, computing, and…

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the U.S. is "very much in a space race right now" against China, as the two countries vie to land astronauts on the mo...

The University of Georgia released the findings of a new research study showing that a good source of plant-based protein might be as easy to get as a growing pot in your backyard.

The James Webb Space Telescope has found evidence for thick water-ice clouds high in the atmosphere of Epsilon Indi Ab, one of the closest Jupiter-like worlds we can study directly. The result did not overturn every model of giant-planet atmospheres.