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Dive Brief: - Despite drastically lowering their full-year outlook for the Foot Locker business, acquired a year ago, Dick’s Sporting Goods executives defended the mall chain on Tuesday. - A dearth of sneaker launches, changing taste in athletic footwear and the market conditions

Off the Wire Press Releases Aug. 25, 2026 — The U.S. National Science Foundation announced today that Princeton University will lead one of eight major initiatives to accelerate the development of quantum computing. The Princeton-led Quantum Leap Challenge Institute will devise t

Antibodies play a central role in your body’s immune defense. But they’re also nearly ubiquitous in biological research, being essential for several widely used lab techniques. While some researchers need to go through the process of producing their own antibodies, antibodies to

The CEO of Trump-linked World Liberty Financial said the company offers real utility and operates independently of political influence, refuting allegations of potential conflicts of interest. The crypto venture, launched in 2024 by President Donald Trump, his sons and associates

The CEO of Trump-linked World Liberty Financial said the company offers real utility and operates independently of political influence, refuting allegations of potential conflicts of interest. The crypto venture, launched in 2024 by President Donald Trump, his sons and associates

Sensex gained nearly 287 points to close at 77,656 while Nifty 50 gained 115 points to end the session at 24,334 on Tuesday. Broader markets remained mixed, with Nifty Smallcap 100 closing in the red and Nifty Midcap 100 in the green. Here's how analysts read the market pulse The

Remember the original Quest headset that Meta (then Oculus) trumpeted back in 2019? Meta seems to hope you don’t, since the company officially stopped supporting the wireless VR headset in 2023 to focus on the more popular Quests 2 and 3. However, tinkerers haven’t abandoned the

Man Utd's midfield spending is done - now for a left-back? - Published The signing of Carlos Baleba completes a £155m summer revamp of Manchester United's midfield. At the end of last season, midfield was targeted as a priority area as United looked to build on qualification for

Dive Brief: - Walmart has expanded its private label portfolio with the introduction of the “modern bohemian brand” Scenario, the company said in an email to Retail Dive. - Scenario will launch in all Walmart stores with 280 styles across five departments, including apparel, shoe

BEIJING — The U.S. is threatening to cut businesses that help Iran evade sanctions off from the American financial system. It puts China's banks in an uncomfortable position: Beijing can reject the demands, but its biggest lenders still have strong incentives to preserve access t

Bringing gVisor sandboxes to distributed Ray clusters Andrew Sy Kim Staff Software Engineer, Google Philipp Moritz Chief Technology Officer, Anyscale The reinforcement learning (RL) ecosystem is rapidly adopting Ray as the unified compute runtime for complex post-training workflo

Get 16GB of DDR5 RAM for $70 and start your AM5 gaming rig with this bundle — $568 for Ryzen 7 7700X3D, 16GB G.Skill DDR5 RAM, Asus TUF B650-E motherboard, and free AIO Get more frames for less We dug up another solid gaming combo from Newegg for the week; this one features an ex

India’s pet care ecosystem is undergoing a structural shift. What was once a fragmented market dominated by neighbourhood pet stores, a limited number of veterinary clinics, and imported pet-food brands is steadily becoming a broader consumer category. Today’s pet parents aren’t

Target removed a children’s Halloween costume from its assortment that sparked outrage online over the weekend. Criticism described the costume as evocative of racist stereotypes about Black people with imagery similar to that of historical minstrel shows. The mass retailer apolo

In the long wait for the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI, an open-world game about crime, some in the gaming community are being targeted by cybercriminals in the real world. Fans are still waiting for the game more than a decade after the release of GTA 5, which sold more

Hot Chips 2026: Intel details cutting-edge tech in entry-level Wildcat Lake — value-focused 18A chips necessitated UCIe integration Wildcat Lake is more advanced than it first appears. This Tom's Hardware Premium article is free to read with a Tom's Hardware account; no payment n

Episode details Available for over a year Today, we discuss China’s £14.7bn investment into AI and robotics in the hopes of overtaking the US as the world leader in innovation. China has two million robots already working in factories, and is investing heavily in the hopes that o

Consumer appliances brand Atomberg filed its draft IPO papers with market regulator SEBI, for a proposed public issue comprising a fresh issue of shares worth up to ₹450 Cr and an offer for sale (OFS) of up to 7.65 Cr equity shares. Institutional investors A91 Partners, Temasek H

Vodafone Idea on Tuesday clarified to the stock exchanges that the recent Delhi High Court directive ordering a ₹53.09 crore income tax refund pertains to a routine tax matter. The company stated that the amount involved does not cross the materiality threshold required for forma

NVIDIA is bringing the next wave of RTX gaming to the Gamescom conference running this week in Cologne, Germany, with support for new games, anti-cheat technologies and increased visual quality. Electronic Arts, Embark and Ubisoft are among the latest game publishers and develope

Pacific Fusion is one step closer to commercializing fusion power after breaking ground Tuesday on a facility in New Mexico designed to generate as much energy as it consumes. “It’s a huge step forward for commercial fusion power,” Carrie von Muench, co-founder and chief operatin

Swedish military seeks to take over Russian-owned estate near naval base - Published Sweden's armed forces have asked the government to expropriate a Russia-owned property near a naval base on security grounds. The military requested the seizure of the beach plot near Muskö base

The sale could be worth up to Rs 1,417.5 crore at the floor price of Rs 2,250 per share. The floor price is at a discount of about 4.1% to Welspun Corp’s last closing price of Rs 2,345.5 on the NSE on August 25, 2026. Welspun Investments and Commercials Ltd, part of the promoter

The debasement trade is gaining new traction on Wall Street as concern over the size and cost of the budget deficit mounts. The conventional wisdom behind the trade is that perceived hard assets, like cryptocurrencies and precious metals, gain as investors try to hedge against a

Best RAM deals 2026 — discounts on DDR5 and DDR4 to beat the memory price crunch We're keeping a close eye on deals that pop up, looking for any and all RAM bargains to be had and adding them to the constantly-updated list below. RAM is expensive right now, but the brutal fact is

Hot Chips 2026: Intel dives deep on Crescent Island AI accelerator — larger caches and deeper XMX engines target maximum AI FLOPS per watt Xe3P focuses on the most compute-intensive phases of AI inference. This Tom's Hardware Premium article is free to read with a Tom's Hardware

In 2016 Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel-winning “godfather of AI,” predicted that radiologists—the physicians who read X-rays, ultrasounds, and other images to help make medical diagnoses—would find themselves replaced by computers within five years. Today the field can retort by quot

Who does Iran trade with and what could Trump's 'economic D-Day' mean? - Published The US has said "the single greatest financial offensive ever" will help it and Israel end their ongoing war with Iran. However, Iran is no stranger to these tactics. The regime has faced near cont

For years, a Python developer who needed a GPU had two realistic choices: Learn NVIDIA CUDA C++ well enough to write an extension, set up a build toolchain, and maintain bindings back to Python, which most people never did; or move up the stack and let someone else’s library do i

Presentation startup Gamma has acquired Accel-backed design startup Lica in a bid to build out its own design research lab, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. Lica’s co-founders will lead the effort. Lica started off as an app that could turn screenshots and recordings into proj

Dive Brief: - Walmart on Monday started giving customers more ways to pay by tapping their phones, smartwatches or cards, including those in a digital wallet such as Apple Pay or Google Pay, the retailer said. - The company is accepting the tap-to-pay payments at some Walmart and

Nvidia has been the profit engine of the artificial intelligence boom, filling up data centers with its graphics processing units, which are also powering the biggest AI models. But if there's one persistent concern among investors regarding Nvidia's ability to build on its $5 tr

Nvidia has been the profit engine of the artificial intelligence boom, filling up data centers with its graphics processing units, which are also powering the biggest AI models. But if there's one persistent concern among investors regarding Nvidia's ability to build on its $5 tr

Apple has reneged on a planned change to its Hide My Email feature that users said would have made the privacy tool less effective. Hide My Email is a privacy feature for paying iCloud+ users that generates a unique and disposable email address to give websites instead of a perso

US judge rejects Ghislaine Maxwell's 'frivolous' appeal against conviction - Published Ghislaine Maxwell's latest bid to overturn her sex trafficking conviction has been rejected by a US judge, who dismissed her claims as "frivolous" and "meritless". The 64-year-old is serving a