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PGA Tour play-off shake-up a 'big swing' - McIlroy - Published Back-to-back Masters champion Rory McIlroy believes the PGA Tour are giving fans what they want by introducing matchplay to their end-of-season play-offs. PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp confirmed on Thursday that from 2028

There's an old Wall Street adage: Stocks float on a sea of bonds. Options traders are betting the tide is going out. Options traders in the iShares 20+Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT), the ETF that tracks long duration bonds, have been buying bullish calls almost all summer, and the

Man dies in crash after police pursuit - Published A man has died and two women have been injured in a crash after a police pursuit near Stratford-upon-Avon. Officers tried to stop a black Audi on Birmingham Road shortly before 17:30 BST on Monday but the driver failed to pull ov

The order, classified as 'major' under L&T's internal order classification, involves developing three four-hour BESS projects for a Middle Eastern client. The scope also includes grid interconnections, pooling substations and underground cables. Under L&T's order classification,

Instagram is making one of the most tedious parts of creating Reels easier. The company announced Tuesday in a Threads post that it’s rolling out “First Draft,” a new editing feature that automatically trims selected video clips and removes pauses, pulling together the best momen

Liquid Cooling Options: RDHx, Direct-to-Chip, Immersion AI workloads push data center rack densities beyond the limits of air cooling. Three liquid cooling approaches offer different trade-offs and benefits. August 25, 2026 As AI and high-performance computing (HPC) drive up serv

NVIDIA is presenting the Spectrum-X Ethernet Multiplane Network Architecture here at Hot Chips 2026. This talk explains how NVIDIA plans to scale AI factory networking from thousands of GPUs toward half a million. This article is being written live from the presentation, so pleas

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s surprise plan to tamp down US borrowing costs by expanding bond buybacks may have sparked fierce debate about its ultimate effectiveness, but key market metrics and positioning show that it’s having an impact. Since Bessent’s announcement last w

Spanish government says sorry to people of Ceuta for migrant crisis - Published The Spanish government has apologised to the people of Ceuta for the migrant crisis that has affected the city for weeks and it has unveiled plans to overhaul the country's immigration laws. "I want t

* Iran sanctions expansion puts dollar access in focus * Bitcoin briefly tops $80,000 as debasement trade continues * Canada imposes retaliatory tariffs on about $20 billion of annual US imports (Updates to afternoon trading) By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK, Aug 25 (Reuters) - The

Stability AI, the startup behind AI image generation model Stable Diffusion, has raised $76 million in Series B funding. The new haul brings the company’s fundraising total to $232 million. The company announced the round Tuesday, saying the new capital comes partly from a number

The overall economy continued to show resilience, backed by improved domestic demand, while the global economic outlook continues to be weighed by renewed escalation of West Asia conflicts and fresh tariffs imposed by the US. The country's monetary policymakers have particularly

Oil prices fell more than 3% on Tuesday as the U.S. pivots to economic sanctions rather than military strikes to pressure Iran. Brent futures, the international benchmark, dropped 3.9% to close at $88.58 per barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude lost 3.1% to settle at $82.36

A few weeks ago, when my fiance discovered that he had a custodial stock account he didn't know about, I let myself indulge in a familiar daydream. "What if there's money out there for me, too? What if, actually, I'm, like, rich and don't even know it?" Look, we've all thought ab

Fashionistas of a certain age no doubt remember the late designer Stephen Sprouse, who gave Blondie’s Debbie Harry her distinctive Bowery punk style. Sprouse’s first collections in the mid-1980s made a major splash, melding graffiti prints, a playful ’60s aesthetic, and bright Da

NVIDIA is on stage at Hot Chips 2026, walking through its BlueField-4 Processor, the fourth generation of its data center processing unit. I think we are getting more of the Grace with ConnectX-9 version, not the bigger Vera version, so that is neat. This is being done live, so p

Dolly Parton: A life in pictures - Published Dolly Parton, the country music superstar from the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most beloved entertainers in the world. Over a career spanning more than 60 years, she sold more than 100

Littler's Players Championship hopes dented - Published Luke Littler's hopes of qualifying for the Players Championship finals in November took a hit as he was defeated by Jermaine Wattimena in the quarter-finals of PC27 in Leicester. Littler, playing in his first Pro Tour event

Some people are cursed with motion sickness, which can make it impossible to read or use a phone in a moving vehicle without suffering waves of nausea. There’s a surprisingly simple trick that can make smartphones usable in such situations. Apple deployed it on the iPhone a coupl

Hot Chips 2026: Samsung makes LPDDR5X smart with logic unit in memory — LPDDR5X-PIM is 3.01x faster than LPDDR5X in AI inference with 8x the bandwidth Samsung has been working on PIM for years. Earlier this month, Samsung introduced the industry's first LPDDR5X-PIM memory, adding

President Donald Trump on Tuesday will test his endorsement power as South Carolina GOP Sen. Darline Graham squares off against Rep. Ralph Norman in a special Republican primary runoff election in her bid to replace her late brother Lindsey Graham for a full six-year Senate term.

Dolly Parton: The life of an iconic country singer Iconic country musician Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80, her family announced on her social media. "Sadness lies with us, not with Dolly," Parton's nephew Brian Seaver said in a video announcement. In a seven-decade career

SpaceX has announced it will build a second spaceport for future launches of its Starship mega-rocket at a former Exxon property in Louisiana, ending what the company says was a seven-year search for a suitable location. The new launch site will sit along the Gulf Coast in Vermil

Each year, we get a huge influx of applicants to speak at TechCrunch’s events, and this year’s Founder Summit in Boston on November 4 will be no different! We want to thank everyone who applied to take part in our programming and to help share their expertise with the startup com

Broadcom is now on stage at Hot Chips 2026 with the Thor Ultra Ethernet NIC, an 800GbE adapter aimed squarely at AI and HPC fabrics. This Thor Ultra family launched earlier this year, and this session goes deeper on the design behind it. This one we are doing live, so please excu

Credit-card spending rose 7.4% year-on-year and 3.4% month-on-month to ₹2.08 lakh crore. Issuers added 11 million cards over the past year, lifting the outstanding base 9.9% to 122.9 million. Sequential additions accelerated from 1.13 million cards in June. Transaction volumes in

Dolly Parton: Life of the music legend whose songs touched millions - Published Dolly Parton, the country singer from the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, will be remembered for her songs that told beautiful stories so honestly, such as Coat of Many Colors, Jolene and I Will Always

Forest agree £50m deal for Chelsea striker Delap - Published Nottingham Forest have agreed a club-record fee worth around £50m to sign Chelsea striker Liam Delap. The 23-year-old is expected to undergo a medical and sign a long-term contract at the City Ground this week. Delap's

OpenAI’s 700W Jalapeño ASIC outpaces 1,400W Nvidia flagship GPU — claims up to 1.9x throughput per kilowatt and 3.6x lower latency, co-developed with Broadcom Nvidia's Vera Rubin wasn't in the comparison. Just over one week after Nvidia agreed to backstop up to $105 billion in fi

Canada on Tuesday announced retaliatory tariffs of up to 50% percent on around $20 billion worth of US products, in an expanding trade war between the erstwhile allies. US President Donald Trump yesterday threatened 50% tariffs on Canada’s auto and steel sectors, demanding Ottawa

Brent crude fell 4.2% to $88.34 a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate crude dropped 3.9% to $81.67. Both benchmarks touched their lowest levels since August 17. The selloff came a day after US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced expanded sanctions against Iran. But th

We heard the feedback, and we’ve extended the window for the lowest prices for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 a bit further, with the current prices now ending at 11:59 pm PT Tuesday, August 25. Once that window closes, your chance to save up to $300 on your pass, or get an even larger

A change to Claude’s memory system will eliminate one of the most annoying things about using agents — the constant need to rebrief the AI on things it already knows. On Tuesday, Anthropic announced it’s merging the memory system used by chat and Claude Cowork, which means that C

Two unvaccinated people have died from measles in Pennsylvania, state health officials confirmed Tuesday. They are the first measles deaths reported in Pennsylvania in 35 years and the first deaths reported in the US in 2026. Last year, the US saw three measles deaths: two in oth