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New monkey species with orange lips found 'hiding' in DR Congo forest - Published A monkey that has striking pinkish-orange lips and a black face - and lives in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo - has been confirmed as a new species to science. The black-furred prim

Families of 43 victims await verdict in Genoa bridge disaster - Published On the morning of 14 August 2018, Claudia Possetti, 47, was in the car with her new husband Andrea, and her two children, aged 12 and 16. The couple had just married and were driving to the Italian Riviera

General-purpose robots and autonomous machines are moving from research labs to real-world mass-market deployment, creating demand for compact, power-efficient AI supercomputers capable of running foundation models at the edge. To meet that need, NVIDIA today introduced the T3000

A Chinese chip giant is poised to go public in Asia’s largest market debut of the year, as it benefits from intense demand for memory. CXMT, which nearly doubled the fundraising target for its Shanghai offering, is increasingly central to Beijing’s efforts to achieve technologica

AWS Compute Blog New: Enhanced AssetState dimension for AWS Outposts capacity metrics on Amazon CloudWatch Today, we are releasing an expanded format of our Amazon CloudWatch dimensions for AWS Outposts capacity metrics. The existing CloudWatch metrics, AvailableInstanceType_Coun

CNBC's Jim Cramer said Wednesday that it's time for companies to prove artificial intelligence is paying off. "I need cold hard return facts," the "Mad Money" host said. "Or, I, too, will grow more skeptical than I am now." The AI boom has fueled massive spending by technology co

CNBC's Jim Cramer said Wednesday that it's time for companies to prove artificial intelligence is paying off. "I need cold hard return facts," the "Mad Money" host said. "Or, I, too, will grow more skeptical than I am now." The AI boom has fueled massive spending by technology co

The ascendance of Chinese open-source AI poses an economic threat to the US, Palantir’s chief technology officer said, joining a chorus of American executives sounding the alarm on Beijing’s growing AI clout. Chinese AI companies have been accused of ripping off the top American

Argentina face action over Falklands banner - Published Argentina face the prospect of disciplinary action from Fifa after their players celebrated the World Cup semi-final win against England with a banner in support of their country's claims to the Falkland Islands. The defendi

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh on Wednesday declined to say in a Senate banking committee hearing whether he has spoken with President Donald Trump since becoming chairman, but confirmed he is in regular communication with the Trump administration. That doesn't affect his i

CNBC's Jim Cramer said Wednesday that Wall Street's rally in Big Tech looked more like a burst of optimism than a reflection of much-improved fundamentals. "I will tell you that I think today's impressionist judgment may not hold up under close scrutiny," the "Mad Money" host sai

Europe remains reliant on China and the US for critical military components even as it projects confidence in shouldering its own defense. Brussels is allowing Ukraine to spend EU funds on Chinese drone parts, the Financial Times reported, underscoring “the gaps that remain in th

'No regrets' - Tuchel on England's defeat by Argentina This content is not available in your location. There was an error England manager Thomas Tuchel believes his team "got too passive" after scoring first in the World Cup semi-final against Argentina, which they lost 2-1 at At

ROCKVILLE, Maryland—Hundreds of Bethesda Game Studios and Zenimax Online Studios employees and their supporters braved nearly 100°F temperatures to protest sweeping layoffs across Xbox during a lunchtime rally in front of parent company Zenimax’s headquarters today. The rally was

The Moneyist My husband and I are retired. Our financial adviser, who is in his 30s, called us ‘you guyses.’ Is that unprofessional? ‘I’m wondering whether I should ask to work with someone closer to our generation’ Dear Moneyist, I’m a 67-year-old married woman. I had planned to

Ukraine’s escalating attacks in the Sea of Azov have zeroed in on a new Russian pain point: Crimea. Kyiv’s barrage of drone strikes targeting Crimea — which Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014 — have dried up the water and fuel imports it relies on Moscow for, causing a

The renewed fighting between the US and Iran again jeopardizes global oil supplies, after stockpiles were drained earlier in the conflict. “We’ve burned through all of the buffers we had. Everything,” one trader told the Financial Times. Energy markets had some slack to absorb th

Off the Wire Press Releases July 15, 2026 — As the Director of the Scientific Networking Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Executive Director of the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), Inder Monga is an expert in keeping the flow of scientific data

A dried-out felt-tip marker and a snapped-off piece of molded black plastic sold for $857,600 at a Sotheby’s auction on Wednesday. What otherwise might have been worthless bits of trash commanded the highest bids due to where the two items were 57 years ago—lifting off aboard NAS

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh testified Wednesday before the Senate banking committee, facing questions over the economy and how various factors might impact interest rates. As part of congressionally mandated Capitol Hill appearances for the central bank leader, Warsh spo

Off the Wire Press Releases Partnership with Flywheel Data makes solutions available now, focusing initially on the needs of military and intelligence agencies. CARLSBAD, Calif., July 15, 2026 — GigaIO, a pioneer in delivering datacenter-class computing at the edge, has had its e

'I must get out into the free world', dissident who fled China on boat tells BBC - Published As the rubber boat he was on rocked through choppy waves, fear washed over Chinese dissident Dong Guangping, who had gone without sleep for two days. The 68-year-old knew he was taking a

While the FIFA World Cup provided a tourism boost to host cities, its positive impact was mitigated by economic weakness seen elsewhere, according to a Federal Reserve report released Wednesday. The soccer tournament, which the U.S. co-hosted, has fetched median admissions prices

Sheetz, a US convenience store chain, is moving its 838 locations off VMware. Sheetz has used VMware virtualization across two Dell R440/R450-series servers at each of its locations since 2019. Now it’s migrating 12 to 14 virtual machines (VMs) in each of its stores from VMware v

The Elon Musk-owned xAI is suing a South Carolina man who allegedly used the company’s Grok AI chatbot to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In a lawsuit reported earlier by Reuters, xAI claims Terry Wayne Harwood “knowingly and intentionally used Grok to circumvent saf

This week, the Coalition for Independent Technology Research (CITR) won a key battle in its fight to reverse a visa-restriction policy that the Trump administration had used to attempt to revoke green cards and deport non-US citizens who work on misinformation, disinformation, fa

Odds that gas prices will go above $4 per gallon by the end of this month have jumped to 90% from 56% on Kalshi in the last two days. Kalshi traders now see a 93% chance that gas prices will go above $4 per gallon and 63% that it will go over $4.10. The contract, which asks what

Jurassic Park, while beloved as a film, has been the subject of snarky memes for the infamous line in which one of the characters declares, “This is a Unix system, I know this!” while using a computer with an unusual 3D file manager interface. Despite the memes, the film’s produc