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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

Waymo said Tuesday it plans to launch a robotaxi service in Munich, months after the Alphabet-owned autonomous vehicle company set up an entity in Germany. The company still must weave its way through mapping and testing, as well as clear regulatory hurdles before it can launch c

The government's disinvestment drive is likely to remain active in the coming months, following a series of stake sales in state-owned companies, including the recent offer for sale (OFS) in Hindustan Copper. The Centre has set a disinvestment target of ₹80,000 crore for FY27 and

Father's house rammed before son died in A66 crash - Published A house rammed by a car before the fatal A66 crash in Middlesbrough belonged to the father of a teenager who died in the incident. Cole Worthy, 17, was one of five young men who died when a Volkswagen Passat travellin

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said Tuesday that SpaceX will commit $100 billion to develop Starship factories and launch pads in the state’s coastal areas. In doing so, the company seeks to replicate the Starbase facility it has built over the last decade in southern Texas on a larg

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XCENA is presenting its MX1 CXL computational memory device at Hot Chips 2026 in a joint session with Samsung that pairs the device with a rack-scale CXL memory plan. The XCENA MX1 is a Type 3 CXL part that fuses three ideas in one package: CXL memory expansion, SSD-backed storag

Off the Wire Press Releases AMD will offer the first Versal adaptive SoCs supporting Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express connectivity, enabling direct communication with co-packaged chiplets built for specialized workloads. Aug. 25, 2026 — AMD will offer the first Versal adapt

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's bond market interventions have generated a modest decline in yields along with a growing chorus of derision from those who think they won't work over the long haul and could have dangerous repercussions. Wall Street has been generally skeptical

Off the Wire Press Releases WASHINGTON, Aug. 25, 2026 — The U.S. Department of the Treasury has announced the launch of the Quantum-Readiness Task Force, following Executive Order 14412 establishing guidelines to strengthen cryptographic protections for America’s sensitive data,

Off the Wire Press Releases The NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes will take on some of the hardest scientific hurdles in the global race to create powerful quantum-based technologies Aug. 25, 2026 — Understanding and wielding the quantum properties of nature is the ambitious

TAM is the annual revenue opportunity available if a product or service achieved 100% market share in its relevant market. Here are a few details: To quantify its TAM, Anthropic is looking at the full scope of work that could be completed with AI models, WSJ said. Anthropic did n

The Department of Health and Human Services is planning to create two new deputy commissioner roles at the Food and Drug Administration, one of which would focus on technology and the intersection of health and artificial intelligence, CNBC has learned. The other new position is

Hands-on with Hyte’s Y50 RGB case: Premium looks at an affordable price Hyte’s new case includes four RGB fans for much less than its other panoramic cases. PC case makers are often chasing trends. One moment, it’s all about RGB, then multiple glass side panels, then wood. Today,

(VIDEO) 5 New Things to Know About Apple's New Mac Studio With M5 Max and M5 Ultra Chips Starting at $2,499 Discover the groundbreaking features of Apple's redesigned Mac Studio, powered by the new M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips. Apple announced a redesigned Mac Studio on Monday, call

Off the Wire Press Releases Community-driven initiative at ORNL brings together researchers, technology developers and computing experts to build interoperable software for a new era of scientific discovery Aug. 25, 2026 — Researchers collaborated at the second annual Open Quantu

Pernia Pop Up Shop’s parent Purple Style Labs’ (PSL) consolidated net loss for the year ending March 31, 2026 (FY26) widened by 51.5% to ₹285.4 Cr compared to a loss of ₹188.4 Cr incurred in the previous year. Operating revenue for the fiscal increased by about 14% to ₹557.8 Cr f

Japanese bond exchange-traded funds have attracted $1.5 billion in net inflows so far this year, according to Morningstar data released on Tuesday. That is nearly three times the $550 million collected during the whole of 2025. For live updates on US Markets, click here The inter

Ventiva says away with fans for thin and light laptops Startup Ventiva has invented a way of cooling semiconductor chips in edge systems that can’t support fans. Its technology can cool processor designs up to 40W thermal design power (TDP) while maintaining effective silence, wh

Off the Wire Press Releases VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 25, 2026 — Photonic Inc.’s paper on SHYPS quantum error correction codes, “Computing Efficiently in QLDPC Codes,” has been published in the journal Nature Communications. Quantum Low Density Parity Check (QLDPC) codes

Apple has introduced the M6 and M5 Ultra, two new chips powering the latest Mac mini and Mac Studio. M6 is Apple's first chip manufactured using a 2-nanometer process, while M5 Ultra is the company's first M-series chip built with a quad-die architecture. M6 features a 12-core CP

Apple has unveiled its new desktop processors with the M6 and the M5 Ultra. We’ve compared the processors below, noting the differences between the two and which chip you should go for, depending on your needs. Read on to learn more about M6 and M5 Ultra, where you can find both

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Arcitecta offers Microsoft 365 Education storage cost reduction tool Arcitecta has developed Mediaflux Connect 365 to enable universities to bypass extra costs coming from Microsoft’s move away from an unlimited cloud storage model. Microsoft is transitioning Microsoft 365 Educat

As the residential real estate market continues to lose steam, competition is weakening, and cash is no longer necessary to win a deal. The share of cash sales during the first four months of this year was 31.4%, down from 32.3% during the same period a year ago, according to Rea

Indian stock market investors will be back in action on Wednesday, August 26, as the BSE and NSE will remain open for regular trading despite the observance of Eid Milad-un-Nabi, also known as Eid-e-Milad. Eid Milad-un-Nabi is observed to commemorate the birth anniversary of Prop

Family location-sharing and safety app Life360 is expanding its pet-tracking capabilities on Tuesday with the launch of a new product line of $7.99 scannable pet tags and other pet-care features that tap into its tracking network technology. Life360 expanded into pet tech last ye

The company informed the bourses that it has allocated 25,243,901 equity shares at Rs 82 apiece to anchor investors. Some of the marquee institutions that participated in the anchor book include Citigroup Global Markets Mauritius Private Limited, SBI General Insurance Company Lim

Mamaearth parent Honasa Consumer has called off its proposed acquisition of a 58% stake in nutraceuticals company Fluence Pharma due to the non-fulfilment of closing conditions under the share purchase agreement. The company informed the stock exchanges on August 25 that it had t