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World & Politics
As President Trump again voiced optimism that Iran will "make a deal" to end the war, Tehran declared itself the regulator of Strait of Hormuz shipping.
Nintendo is increasing the price of Switch 2 worldwide, the company has announced. and Canada, the system is going up by $50. Europe will essentially see the console rise by €30.
Dozens of councils and mayor's offices are up for grabs in England - while counting in Wales and Scotland's national elections begins on Friday.
The flare-up further endangers the US-Iran ceasefire, which Trump extended indefinitely on 21 April.
Tennessee Republicans are moving ahead with a congressional map that will likely give nine of the state’s U.S House seats to the GOP.
Khamzat Chimaev kicked Sean Strickland in the shin during a promotional stare-down ahead of their UFC 328 fight this weekend in Newark, New Jersey.
“If we shut the lights out tomorrow, we will be able to say it served its purpose,” the GOP governor said.
forces intercepted unprovoked Iranian attacks and responded with self-defense strikes as U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers transited the Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman, May
The United States Postal Service is considering a rule change that would allow anyone to send handguns through the mail for the first time in nearly 100 years. A 1927 law prohibits the shipment of handguns through USPS unless they are from licensed retailers.…
The White House is looking for “partnership” with companies rather than pursuing “government regulation,” a senior White House official said.
Airbus lands AirAsia order for 150 planes. Boeing Air Force One contract receives update. BA rises on China order expectations.
One Del Monte canning facility processed 30% of the state’s cling peaches, and its closure left growers with a glut of crops with no one to process them.
The outcry could signal aggressive FCC oversight if Democrats take the Senate in November.
Economy & General
Economists polled by Dow Jones are expecting job gains of just 55,000 last month and for the U.S. unemployment rate to remain at 4.3%.
Court of International Trade dealt a blow to the 10 percent global import tax that President Donald Trump imposed after losing on tariffs at the Supreme Court.
As Stephen Colbert enters the final weeks of 'The Late Show', his late-night peers are coming together to give him a proper send-off.
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(AP) — Anunciata Schwebel could only watch in horror on FaceTime while her friend and tenant slunk into a bathtub to take cover from one of several tornadoes that slammed into M…
The Los Angeles Lakers (0-1) and Oklahoma City Thunder (1-0) meet in Game 2 of the NBA Western Conference Semifinals this Thursday. Tipoff is set for 9:30 p.m.
Houston, we have a stage five clinger.
The rotor blades that will carry NASA’s next-generation helicopters to new Martian heights broke the sound barrier during March tests at NASA’s Jet Propulsion
stock futures were higher early Friday as traders watched developments between the U.S. Investors were also looking ahead to the April jobs report. Futures on the Nasdaq 100
San Francisco tech company Cloudflare says it will cut more than 1,100 jobs globally as it reorganizes around AI.
Bitcoin miner IREN continues its shift to AI infrastructure with a new strategic partnership with Nvidia.
HawkEye provides space-based intelligence to the U.S. It priced its IPO on Wednesday. The stock, which trades under the symbol HAWK, is soaring in its first day of trading.
Investing.com -- The Trade Desk (NASDAQ:TTD) reported first quarter results that missed earnings expectations and issued disappointing guidance, sending...
Just days after announcing deep job cuts and an artificial-intelligence push, Coinbase Global Inc. showed how tightly its fortunes remain tied to crypto markets.
CEO Ryan Cohen listed his "stuff" on eBay in a publicity stunt tied to GameStop's efforts to acquire the company. Then, his account got flagged.
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Datadog, the software company, reports better-than-expected earnings and revenue for the first quarter.
The total picture is one of a labor market that, while undoubtedly cooling, is generally stable and resilient despite a number of challenges.
In a blog post, Rockstar Games teased that an "exciting" new GTA Online update will be released this summer, sparking speculation about what it could involve given GTA 6 is set to launch in November.
We now have the full English set list for Chaos Rising starring Mega Greninja ex! As posted before, it will release on May 22nd as our fourth English Mega
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A look at how Xbox’s steady progress gets overshadowed by constant negativity.
The Director of User Experience and Game Designer share their insights and favorite new features on accessibility in this fresh experience.
Publisher Daybreak Game Company and developer Cold Iron Studios have announced cooperative third-person shooter sequel Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC (Steam, Epic G…
Get the full list of winners for the 2026 World Video Game Hall of Fame.
Following more than a year of small and mid-sized updates, plus free content drops, Civilization 7 is getting the game-shaking 'Test of Time' update this month.
Across the country, emergency department visits for tick bites are up more than 25% from last year, according to federal data. Maryland and other northeastern states are looking like ground zero.
A violent impact might have ejected material from deep within the moon's mantle — and future Artemis astronauts might be able to sample it.
A rare dinosaur fossil, the most complete found in Scotland, could shift our understanding of Jurassic life, offering new clues about the evolution of herbivorous species.
NASA's STORIE mission will launch as soon as this month on a SpaceX resupply mission to the ISS.
The aurora borealis has a chance to be visible from some northern states on Thursday, according to NOAA.
A researcher says he found a possible shortcut to Mars that would halve the time it takes to travel to the planet and back to less than a year.
Through NASA, a university-designed small spacecraft is paving the way to studying particles, known as neutrinos, that move through the universe at near-light
The myriapoda group of arthropods includes the many-legged centipedes and millipedes that most people are familiar with. Although myriapods are all terrestrial creatures, researchers are unclear about when and how they evolved their many legs.
Ok, this is incredible: this person on Reddit discovered that if you take a bunch of the sequential photos of the Earth captured by the Artemis II crew and animate them, you can see that some of w
The four crew members of NASA’s Mars simulation recently marked 200 days into their 378-day Red Planet mission on May 7. Currently, the crew is in a simulated
Scientists can even use the footage to study how sand accumulates and shifts across the rover, offering subtle clues about seasonal patterns in the planet's thin atmosphere.
"The key question now is, are these black holes telling us that our models of stellar evolution are wrong, or are they being made in another way?"
Theories of quantum mechanics predict that some particles can exist in superpositions, which essentially means that they can be in more than one state at once. When a particle's state is measured, however, this superposition appears to "collapse" into a singl…
Tech, Health & Opinion
A key company behind Thailand’s national AI effort is suspected of helping to smuggle billions of dollars worth of Super Micro Computer Inc. servers containing advanced Nvidia Corp. chips to China, with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
Three women have been refused bail when they appeared in courts charged with slavery and terrorism offenses after they arrived home from Syria with another 10 Australians who police say are linked to the Islamic State group. The four women and nine children h…
The MV Hondius is en route to the Canary Islands, where it will be allowed to dock for the first time since a hantavirus outbreak was confirmed on board.
The NCAA will expand its March Madness tournaments by eight teams each next season. It will add more early-round games in the first week without altering the overall format. The new 76-team brackets for men and women will feature 12 games involving 24 teams.
Plus, he reflects on Buck and Eddie's road trip and shares his hopes for Season 10.
Harvard students lost access to Canvas on Thursday afternoon after the cybercriminal group ShinyHunters listed the University among thousands of schools allegedly affected by a breach of Instructure, Canvas’ parent company.
Blake Lively is still pursuing attorney fees for having to defend against Justin Baldoni's defamation lawsuit.
Perplexity's Personal Computer brings AI agents to your Mac, and is now open to everyone.
Elon Musk's legal effort to dismantle OpenAI may hinge on how its for-profit subsidiary enhances or detracts from the frontier lab's founding mission of ensuring that humanity benefits from artificial general intelligence.
Golden Globes explain its AI rules, saying that AI won't automatically disqualify a movie or show as long as humans are involved in production.
has reached the late stages of development for new AirPods with built-in cameras, a significant milestone for what will likely be its first wearable device designed for the artificial intelligence era.
Pesky pests can wreak havoc on plants by chewing leaves, boring into stems, and sucking sap from trees. Beyond the direct damage, they also spread harmful bacteria, viruses, and fungi that can infect and ultimately kill the crops. Every year, these destructiv…
Sound Transit officials on Thursday outlined how they plan to address a projected $34.5 billion funding shortfall over the next two decades.The funding gap coul
Ford has a new Carhartt-branded Super Duty pickup that includes unique visual upgrades like wheels, graphics, and grille. Here are all the details.
CoreWeave Inc raised the lower end of its annual capital expenditure forecast on Thursday, citing a rise in the prices of components, sending the cloud...
“He who controls the data center, really does control the application of artificial intelligence right now.”
Shivon Zilis was an under-the-radar executive at Elon Musk’s companies and an OpenAI board member back in 2022. But she was hiding a major secret – Musk was the father of her twins born the year before.
Alaska Airlines is doubling down on California Wine Country with three new routes to Santa Rosa, while returning to Long Beach after a decade absence.
The automaker's latest three-row heralds impressive refinement while also unlocking a visceral soundtrack (sort of).
Prediction market startup Kalshi has raised a $1 billion Series F round led by Coatue.
Despite Spirit's demise, there will always be travelers looking for the most affordable flights possible.
Fund says preparations needed for ‘inevitable’ AI-enabled breaches of financial institutions’ cyber defences
The much-discussed mini-game for Resident Evil Requiem has just been made available as part of a new update for the game, which is revealed to be Leon Must Die Forever. Nintendo Switch 2 players can access it now. The mode can be unlocked after finishing the …
Anthropic has launched “dreaming” for AI agents, giving Claude new self-improving tools designed to boost enterprise automation, reliability, and scale.
One week after the Copy Fail vulnerability, a new Linux local privilege escalation bug has been made public
After its introduction on the web, AI Inbox is coming to Gmail for Android and iOS. In the navigation drawer, “AI Inbox” appears below...
It's nearly the end of the early access road for Path of Exile 2. We ask the director about launching this year and which features will, and won't, make it.
Bunta Sugawara, whose likeness is used in the upcoming prequel game Stranger than Heaven, died in 2014
Chrome users were caught off guard by a 4-GB Google AI model baked into Chrome, sparking privacy concerns. The good news: You can easily uninstall it. You might not want to.
Microsoft, this is a welcome surprise.
Apple Notes is one of my most-used apps, and iOS 27 is rumored to add a powerful capability that I know will quickly become a go-to feature.
The developer of Firefox says it has "completely bought in" on AI-assisted bug discovery.
Valve’s Steam Controller sold out quickly when it went on sale on Monday, and the company is going to open a “reservations queue” on Friday at 1PM ET for anyone who missed that initial run.
Dearest Gentle Gamer: Netflix and EA are pleased to announce the release of the first-ever "Bridgerton"-"The Sims 4" collaboration.
OpenAI's chatbot has some weird linguistic tics in Chinese that are driving users crazy.
Forget robovacs — Yarbo’s bladed robots are an even bigger security nightmare.
iOS 26.5 is launching next week as Apple’s next iPhone software update, here are five new features coming with it.
Apple is making more MacBook Neos, but the RAM shortage could push it to remove the most affordable version of the Neo.
Meet four Swift Student Challenge winners who are creating innovative apps that leverage AI and focus on accessibility.
Google using AI to understand your fitness and health data, and then offer guidance? Who could have predicted that?!
The new-old Tyranid nightmare, as painted by the wider Warhammer community.
A new study reveals that simple body movements may help clean the brain.
Scientists have dropped recorders into an Amazon stream and captured predator behavior in a way never seen before.
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted something that shouldn’t exist—at least not so early in the universe. A massive galaxy, formed less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang, appears to have no rotation at all, a trait usually seen…
Vitamin B12 may shape metabolism and aging more than previously understood.
This one telescope is enabling us to deduce not just the chemical and mineral compositions of distant worlds, but their terrain and features as well.
A full-scale mock-up of a crew cabin for a future industry lunar lander for NASA’s Artemis program now is operational for training and testing.
A 10-year effort to measure gravity, a fundamental force in the universe, has failed to come up with a conclusive answer.
A rare metal, nearly nonexistent in Earth's oceans at the time, turned out to be a key player in the survival of early life.
A missing submarine, unexplained findings, and a mystery beneath the ice. What did it reveal before it disappeared?
NASA's Pandora mission has delivered its first engineering images, signaling a promising future for exoplanet science and low-cost space missions.
Space debris is piling up, but two companies have found a way to turn the tide.
The existence of near-unkillable fungi makes future Mars rover missions more fraught.
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