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Bitcoin BTC$65,755.04 is down sharply as trading in the new week begins, down 5% over the past 24 hours to $64,700. U.S. stock index futures are down as well, led by the Nasdaq 100’s 0.9% decline. Precious metals are sharply higher, with gold ahead 2% and silver 5.6%. STORY CONTINUES BELOW The move in bitcoin…

Samsung has confirmed that the upcoming Galaxy S26 series will support a new Perplexity hotword – “Hey Plex” – as part of an “open and inclusive integrated AI ecosystem” that also includes Google and Bixby, which have their own hotwords. “Hey Google” has been around on Android devices for years now, but it lives right…

A ruff moment in this poor pup’s life has turned into a paws-itive now that the officer who found the 2-year-old goldendoodle left behind at a Las Vegas airport has made him one of the family. The dog, who was given the nickname “Jet Blue,” was found tied to a ticketing counter at Harry Reid…

United Airlines may be about to start losing a ton of money at Chicago O’Hare, doing ‘strategic flying’ that doesn’t make sense based on what passengers are looking to fly (and pay for). They want to grow their market share in Chicago, which will help them keep their massive portfolio of gates and avoid letting…

“When it IS something I would buy, it hardly ever takes it below what store brand costs anyway. And store brand stuff never gets coupons. Sales, yes. Coupons, no. You can’t combine anything, nothing stacks, and it never ends up being more savings than like $10. Maybe this is regional, but it’s just something I’ve…

For nearly three decades, Bill Gurley has been one of the most influential voices in Silicon Valley — a general partner at Benchmark whose early bets on companies like Uber, Zillow, and Stitch Fix helped define what modern venture capital looks like. Now, having moved to Austin and stepped back from active investing, the native…

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In this article MAT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The original six American Girl historical characters — Kirsten Larson, Samantha Parkington, Molly McIntire, Felicity Merriman, Addy Walker and Josefina Montoya — are displayed at the brand’s flagship store, Luke Fountain The flagship American Girl Place at Rockefeller Center in New York City feels frozen…

While Elon Musk’s Neuralink likes to say it’s “pioneering” brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), China’s BCI industry is already quietly moving from research to scale. A new wave of startups is racing to commercialize both implantable and noninvasive BCIs, backed by stronger policy support, expanding clinical trials, and growing investor interest. So says Phoenix Peng, who has…

Bitcoin slid back toward $67,000 in Sunday trading as trade uncertainty resurfaced, with investors weighing fresh tariff escalation against a shifting legal backdrop in the U.S. BTC was trading around $67,526, down about 1.4% over the past 24 hours and roughly 2.1% on the week. The move follows President Donald Trump’s decision to raise the…

Ted Sarandos has flown into London with a message for Paramount as both studios chase the prize of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). Speaking to Deadline on the red carpet of the BAFTA Film Awards, the Netflix co-CEO said: “We have a signed deal with Warner Bros., they’re trying to circumvent it. “The one thing I…

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) — A beloved Chapel Hill restaurant, Kipos Greek Taverna, is finally reopening after being devastated by Tropical Storm Chantal last summer. Located on East Franklin Street, the restaurant — along with other businesses in Eastgate Shopping Center — was flooded in July. The road to recovery has been long and challenging….

TL;DR Samsung has announced that it’s bringing deep Perplexity integration to the Galaxy S26 series. Galaxy S26 users will be able to invoke Perplexity using a dedicated “Hey Plex” wake phrase. Perplexity can be used in core Samsung apps like Notes, Calendar, Gallery, Clock, and Reminders, as well as in select third-party apps. The company…

New York  —  With the Trump administration effectively dismantling automotive emissions regulations, cars on dealership lots could see some changes. Your next car could be bigger, with fewer fully electric options – but it also might be a hybrid. The repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 endangerment finding effectively terminates the greenhouse gas standards…

Myrmidon Destructor Host Need to add a little extra punch to your Mechanicum army? The logical choice is the Myrmidon Destructor Host. Each of these single-minded walking weapons platforms can be armed with either an infantry-melting irradiation engine or an armour-bursting darkfire cannon, alongside their shock charger, which they use to crush enemies in close…

Copper, often treated as an economic workhorse, may need luxury-level pricing to keep the world’s lights on and cars running. A University of Michigan-led team says the metal’s cost must at least double from roughly $13,000 a ton in order to trigger the development of new mines—which we’ll need to meet our growing demand for…

Samsung Electronics today announced the continued expansion of Galaxy AI, reinforcing its vision for a rich, open and integrated multi-agent ecosystem. Built around Samsung’s vision of AI that reduces effort and steps across everyday tasks, Galaxy AI is designed to help users get things done more naturally with greater choice, flexibility and control. Recent insights…

When Tesla unveiled the new $59,990 Dual Motor AWD Cybertruck for the U.S. market earlier this week, it felt like a long-awaited reset moment for the struggling vehicle program. The pricing finally aligned with what many believed should have been the sweet spot all along, and in mayn ways exceeded the original 2019 package. Then…

The sharp moves are making many traders wary after a lengthy bull run in stocks © Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images A bumper earnings season and concerns about the fallout from the AI boom are driving “extreme” moves in individual US stocks this year, even as the broad market index treads water. So far this year, more…

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Interested in starting a business, learning about artificial intelligence or exploring a new hobby? There’s a class for that. Millions of U.S. adults enroll in credit and non-credit college courses to earn professional certificates, learn new skills or to pursue academic degrees. Some older students are seeking career advancement, higher pay…

Last week, Anthropic launched Claude Code Security, and public cyber stocks sold off hard. CrowdStrike and Cloudflare fell around 8%. Okta and SailPoint both dropped by about 10%. Israel’s JFrog dropped roughly 25% in a day. Even the cybersecurity ETF slid about 5%. The easy narrative wrote itself: “AI just killed cyber”. In my opinion,…

Before heading on a trip to Tahoe last weekend, GM offered me the use of the company’s 9,000-pound monument to excess – the new 2026 electric Escalade IQL (starting at $130,405) – for a week to test-drive. Before you continue, note that I’m not a professional car reviewer. TechCrunch has excellent transportation writers; I am…

If the nation’s central bank loses credibility, it’s Wall Street and investors that pay the price. From a purely data-based standpoint, the stock market has been practically unstoppable with Donald Trump in the White House. Although there have been periods of historic volatility, such as the five-week COVID-19 crash in February-March 2020, the ageless Dow…

The Trump Administration’s mission to severely curb unauthorized immigration was both highly successful and politically popular. Yet a new research paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco found that the huge influx of foreigners under President Biden’s open border policy had the beneficial role of increasing the labor force, especially in fields where…

New York  —  Big Tech may be on the verge of its Big Tobacco moment. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, one of the leading architects of the modern online world, testified for the first time before a jury this week over claims that social media harms young people. His testimony comes more than four years after…

Arda Kucukkaya / Anadolu via Getty Images Are AI tools reliable enough to be used at in commercial settings? If so, should they be given “autonomy” to make decisions? These are the questions being raised after at least two internet outages at Amazon’s cloud division were allegedly caused by blundering AI agents, according to new…

OpenAIBhawika Chhabra/Reuters Fears of AI disruption have tanked everything from software to trucking stocks. Wedbush’s Dan Ives says the narrative could be dispelled by a few positive headlines. Here’s what he thinks it’ll take to get investors excited again. Investor sentiment about is a powerful but fickle force in markets, illustrated most recently by the…

JPMorgan Chase acknowledged for the first time that it closed the bank accounts of President Donald Trump and several of his businesses in the political and legal aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021 attacks on the U.S. Capitol, the latest development in a legal saga between the president and the nation’s biggest bank over the issue known as “debanking.”…

This seems like an exceedingly poorly handled situation, especially when you consider that this happened at a hub (thanks to tv for flagging this)… In this post: Lufthansa cancels flight, but won’t let passengers off plane This incident happened on Thursday, February 19, 2026, and involves Lufthansa flight LH2446, with scheduled service from Munich (MUC)…

The Image Party/Shutterstock We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The modern home cook doesn’t always have time to craft a batch of homemade broth. That’s where Better Than Bouillon comes in. Here at Tasting Table, we’re longtime fans of the concentrated broth base paste, which comes in a variety of different…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed concerns about AI’s environmental impact this week while speaking at an event hosted by The Indian Express. For one thing, Altman — who was in India for a major AI summit — said concerns about AI’s water usage are “totally fake,” though he acknowledged it was a real issue when…

Alphabet and Nvidia are competing in processing units. Nvidia (NVDA +0.94%) and Alphabet (GOOG +3.74%) (GOOGL +4.00%) are two giants competing in the artificial intelligence build-out. For the most part, these two don’t compete against each other, and Alphabet is primarily a client of Nvidia’s. However, Alphabet has also built a graphics processing unit (GPU)…