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DJI scores a win in fight against US ban, appeals court orders fresh review of firm's 'Chinese military company' designation — drone maker will stay on Pentagon list while a judge examines classified evidence for the first time The designation now hinges on classified evidence Th

Walmart added new in-store perks to its Walmart+ paid membership program. The mass retailer is letting members get 25 free 4x6 photo prints every month at the photo centers in Walmart stores, according to a company post on Friday. The benefit can be used for up to a maximum of 30

Here’s one for all the kids who were exposed to lurid slasher movies when they were way too young and it kinda messed them up… but they’re finally ready to laugh about it. Jane Schoenbrun’s latest movie, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, is shocking, emotional, provocative, n

Start your 3D printing journey with Bambu Labs' awesome P1S printer and AMS color-printing module bundle for the all-time low price of $499 in Best Buy's 60th Anniversary Sale Fast 4-color 3D printing at your fingertips. Thanks to the 60th Anniversary Sale event taking place at r

Peacock is the latest streaming service to raise prices, with its cheapest ad-supported “Select” plan increasing from $7.99 to $8.99 per month. The ad-supported “Premium” tier now costs $12.99 per month, up from $10.99, while the ad-free “Premium Plus” plan is increasing from $16

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Social media giant Meta has reportedly begun taking steps to address concerns raised by the Central government over child sexual abuse material (CSAM), deepfakes, unlabelled AI-generated content, among others, hosted on its platform following several rounds of discussions with of

Primary election season continues Tuesday as voters in Alaska, Florida and Wyoming head to the polls to choose their party's candidates for November's midterm elections, which are less than three months away. The November midterms will determine control of Congress for the remain

At Swiggy’s 13th Annual General Meeting (AGM), the foodtech giant’s shareholders voted to cap its aggregate foreign ownership at 49.5% and to tweak the company’s Articles of association (AoA) accordingly. The board of directors had already approved the proposal last month as it w

Narwhals are toothed whales, renowned for their distinctive straight, spiraling tusks, which many people in medieval times believed were the horns of unicorns and thus held magical healing properties. That belief was debunked long ago, but the tusks remain popular souvenirs in Ca

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Data Center Hardware Highlights: August 2026 The latest in data center infrastructure – from power and minerals to networking, CPUs, and rack-scale AI systems – shows the stack shifting toward energy, interconnects, and end-to-end efficiency. August 18, 2026 Data Center Knowledge

IPO-bound education-focused SaaS company NoPaperForms, which got SEBI’s nod for its IPO in March this year, saw its profit after tax jump 6.3X to ₹11.9 Cr in the financial year ended March 2026 (FY26) from ₹1.9 Cr in the previous fiscal year. Operating revenue rose 25% to ₹115.7

XRG is making its first move in Venezuela as the international investment arm of ADNOC looks to create a global gas platform. The stake in the concession adds to its portfolio of projects in Argentina, Azerbaijan, Mozambique, Turkmenistan, and the US. XRG aims to become a top-fiv

The value of the Public Investment Fund’s assets under management shrank $10 billion last year to around $900 billion, according to its 2025 annual report. While little more than a rounding error in the big-spending world of sovereign wealth, it marked the first such drop this de

Water levels at the largest reservoirs in the US fell to their lowest in decades, underscoring the crisis countries across the northern hemisphere face as summer temperatures reach record highs. Lakes Mead and Powell, which provide water to around 40 million people, have seen lev

Hindustan Copper’s shares have been recovering steadily of late, surging 20% in 15 trading sessions, reaching ₹566 apiece, supported by a sustained rise in international copper prices. Higher copper prices could provide further support to the company’s margins and revenue outlook

PUBLIC CLOUD Commvault Cloud Rewind now wraps round even more Azure Commvault has expanded its Cloud Rewind cyber recovery tool to treble the amount of Azure resources it supports. The New Jersey-based company says the move will speed up customers’ ability to both cloud applicati

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 18, 2026 — Each year, the SC Technical Papers program recognizes outstanding research through its Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards. To make this process more transparent, the following is an overview of how these papers are nominated, eval

Hims & Hers CEO Andrew Dudum defended the telehealth company amid a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit over its data sharing practices. In a wide-ranging exclusive interview aired Tuesday, Dudum contended the allegations stemmed from a misunderstanding of how the company is alterin

Intel's next-gen Nova Lake chips may skip game-boosting X3D cache rival for mobile SKUs and debut on Razor Lake-HX instead, leaker claims — new rumor says Razor Lake family reportedly uses TSMC's N2X node bLLC might remain exclusive to desktop for Nova Lake family. Update 18 Aug

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Rippling Tested 15 AI Models on Real Payroll Data. The Cheapest One Tied the Most Expensive One. Rippling’s President and CPO Matt MacInnis published something most B2B companies have and almost none share: a real test of AI models doing real work inside a real production system.

Building operational resilience with agentic AI in financial services Pankaj Ojha Director & Lead Architect – Agentic Resilience Platform, Deutsche Bank Florian Graf Staff Solutions Consultant, Google Cloud Consulting For financial institutions, operational resilience has long be

Companies are still grappling with exactly how software development should work in the AI area, but one early answer is the so-called software factory. Essentially an agent loop that’s built around the traditional stages of software development, the software factory approach has

Anthro Energy broke ground on Tuesday on a factory in Louisville, Kentucky, that can make enough battery materials for more than 300,000 electric vehicles. But the facility’s headline output, 25 gigawatt-hours’ worth of electrolytes, is just part of the story. Anthro’s factory co

Staying Ahead of Adversarial AI Through Agentic Source Code Review Google Threat Intelligence Group Google Threat Intelligence Visibility and context on the threats that matter most. Contact Us & Get a Demo Introduction Adversarial misuse of AI has increased the risk of data thef

AMD claims its 2026 rack-scale AI solution is 4X more energy efficient than its 2024 AI platform — company says it's pacing ahead of 20X efficiency by 2030 But these are just estimates, not actual benchmark results. In addition to its normal product and technology roadmaps, AMD h

Dive Brief: - Crocs is bringing its brand name to life with a new reptilian mascot named Niles that will play a role in social content, experiences and other marketing activities, according to a Thursday press release. The move arrives ahead of Crocs’ 25th anniversary next year.

A Russian court sentenced a leader of the anti-war Yabloko party to more than 11 years in a penal colony for “discrediting” the country’s armed forces, the latest sign of the Kremlin’s rising domestic repression. The decision comes a week after Moscow banned the party from contes

After numerous lawsuits over AI chatbots’ lack of safety measures, leading to teens’ suicides and other mental health concerns, OpenAI on Monday announced the launch of ChatGPT for Teens. The new product promises to include additional safety measures, as well as address the educa

Government bond yields rose to multiyear highs and stock markets fell on growing concern that tensions between the US and Iran are unlikely to resolve in the near future. Benchmark oil prices also topped $90 a barrel as investors fretted that efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormu

Perplexity spent the past year running one of the biggest AI growth experiments, giving its premium service away to customers of Indian telecom giant Airtel. Now, as the earliest of those free subscriptions expire, the results are starting to emerge, offering an early test of whe

Home Depot on Tuesday reported fiscal second-quarter results that beat Wall Street expectations on the top and bottom lines and reaffirmed its full fiscal-year guidance. "We continue to operate in what I call 'frozen housing market conditions,' but we also know that we're taking

Months after receiving a regulatory nod for its NBFC licence, MobiKwik has now completed the transfer of its digital lending operations and associated team to its wholly owned subsidiary, MobiKwik Distribution Services Private Limited (MDSPL). Beyond the restructuring, the fintec

Google reportedly plans to move its smartphone supply chain outside of China by next year, the latest sign of a deepening tech decoupling as tensions mount between Washington and Beijing. The Silicon Valley giant has told suppliers it will shift manufacturing largely to India and

US allies voiced worry over Washington’s strategy in Asia after President Donald Trump said he would scale back participation in key military drills. Trump’s announcement that he would reduce the size of the joint exercises with South Korea — in part because of Seoul’s lack of su

Buss trying to block siblings' sale of LA Lakers - Published Los Angeles Lakers governor Jeanie Buss is trying to block her siblings' sale of her family's remaining stake in the NBA franchise. Josh Kushner, the brother of US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared, and former D

Dive Brief: - Mattel announced the launch of the digital game organization Mattel Game Studios, the toy company said in a Thursday press release. - Mattel Game Studios is part of Mattel Digital Studios, the company’s overarching digital game organization that oversees self-publis

Apple seems to be preparing launch materials for its upcoming AirPods with a camera, a leaked video in the latest macOS update spotted by MacRumors suggests. The video, found in macOS 26.7 RC, shows a man holding up a book and talking with Siri about it using visual information.

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When it comes to the fate of the all-important semiconductor sector, traders in the options market are faced with a classic investing dilemma: go with the crowd, or the big-money contrarian? According to options flows, the crowd is leaning the most heavily bullish since April. Th

US stock futures indicate a negative start to Tuesday’s trade, as technology stocks retreat from recent highs amid surging bond yields and higher oil prices, reinforcing inflation concerns. The S&P 500 was headed for a third straight day of losses as index futures retreated 0.4%,

FLASH Hard reality of surging SSD costs force tech pros to consider software defined storage Storage teams are bearing the brunt of AI fuelled price hikes for SSDs and memory, forcing them consolidate storage layers and confront the fact that much of their data is beyond their co