For two weeks, as India promised a forceful response to a terrorist massacre that it linked to Pakistan, the only real question seemed to be just how hard it would strike. The answer came in the wee hours of Wednesday, as India sent jets soaring through the air to hit several sites in Pakistan, and […]
Amazon says that it has developed a new warehouse robot, Vulcan, that can “feel” some of the items it touches. The two-armed Vulcan, which can maneuver goods inside the storage compartments Amazon has in its warehouses, uses force sensors to help it know when it makes contact with an object. One arm rearranges items in a […]
Airstrikes pounded the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing dozens of people, health officials said, as Israel reaffirmed its plans to capture more land in the enclave and force all two million Gaza residents to live in the south. The single deadliest bombing hit near a popular cafe in Gaza City where young people gathered to […]
Investing in gold can give you a hedge against inflation since the precious metal maintains value during corrections and crashes. Gold can rally even when stocks and real estate fall, but just like any other asset, it comes with risks. While many investors own stocks simply because they’re easy to purchase, gold investments have a […]
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Instagram head Adam Mosseri, and other Meta execs thought that TikTok was beating Meta at its own game. That’s according to a new filing in the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against the tech giant, published on Monday. The document, dated February 2022, includes conversations among a number of Meta […]
Humans have visually documented about 1,470 square miles, or a mere 0.001 percent, of the deep seafloor, according to a new study. That’s a little larger than the size of Rhode Island. The report, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, arrives as nations debate whether to pursue industrial mining of the seabed for critical […]
Apple is looking at adding AI search engines from OpenAI, Perplexity, and Anthropic into Safari, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. Eddy Cue, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Services, made the statement during his testimony in the U.S. Justice Department’s lawsuit against Alphabet. Cue’s disclosure was part of his testimony regarding Apple and Google’s estimated $20 billion-a-year […]
Getting extra cash has never been easy, but it can be particularly hard in retirement. There is one area, though, where many retirees have a big advantage over their younger peers: access to a big, golden nest egg in the form of their home. Even better, recent economic shifts (including rising home prices) have boosted […]
As companies navigate a tariff tsunami and reshoring renaissance, they are finding new tools and strategies—some AI-powered—to manage the challenge. The drive to globalize that began in the years after World War II has reached an inflection point. President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff plans have triggered a chain reaction that will have enduring repercussions for […]
Trump’s pause of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act has left companies confused and cast doubt on US leadership of anti-corruption efforts. When President Donald Trump rolled back the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) just three weeks after his inauguration, decades of anti-bribery enforcement seemingly came to a halt. However, it quickly became apparent that government […]