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Watch: Is the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition worth the hype? Visitors flocked to the British Museum in London on Thursday as the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition opened its doors to the general public. The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidery almost 70m (230ft) in length and nearly 1,000 years

Father of A66 teen charged with funeral assault - Published The father of one of the five men who were killed in a wrong-way crash with a police car has been charged with assaulting someone at his son's funeral. Gye Worthy, 39, was arrested at Teesside Crematorium in Middlesbroug

The Centre has amended the ecommerce rules to curb dark patterns on online marketplaces and quick commerce platforms. Called Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) (Amendment) Rules, 2026, the norms will replace the existing Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020. The new regime

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Artificial Intelligence Amazon Quick is now generally available on desktop Your teams get an AI assistant that handles real work while your data stays in your environment and your conversations stay private Today, the Amazon Quick desktop application is generally available on mac

Between taking SpaceX public in the largest IPO on record and rolling out a fleet of driverless Tesla Cybercabs in Austin, Texas, Elon Musk has also been digging tunnels. His tunneling venture, The Boring Co. announced late Wednesday that it's now valued at $23 billion. Created i

Between taking SpaceX public in the largest IPO on record and rolling out a fleet of driverless Tesla Cybercabs in Austin, Texas, Elon Musk has also been digging tunnels. His tunneling venture, The Boring Co. announced late Wednesday that it's now valued at $23 billion. Created i

Yemen's Houthis reportedly seize strategic Red Sea port of Mokha - Published Yemen's Houthis have seized the strategic Red Sea port city of Mokha from Saudi-backed pro-government forces, military sources and witnesses say. Mokha's capture leaves the Iran-backed group only 75km (4

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Doug Kreuzkamp was shocked when news outlets reported that Google won an auction to buy a huge amount of operational data as part of Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy proceedings. Kreuzkamp founded a startup called Springshot in 2011, which created a widely used proprietary platform th

Amazon is going to make it easier to shop when you’re watching TV. The retail giant on Thursday announced a series of new features that will allow customers to discover products across thousands of Prime Video titles through integrations with its existing X-Ray experience, which

While gold and silver prices have been marked by sharp volatility for much of 2026, copper has staged a record-breaking run, fuelled by a surge in shipments to the US ahead of a potential decision on import tariffs and tightening supplies elsewhere. Copper prices on the London Me

The selloff in government bonds came as benchmark oil prices jumped more than 5% to their highest level since May, reviving concerns that higher energy costs could feed through into broader inflation. That prospect has made investors less confident that the Fed can afford to ease

Homebuyers continue to struggle amid higher mortgage rates and lofty home prices. Sales of previously owned homes fell 2% in August from July to 3.98 million units on a seasonally adjusted, annualized basis, according to the National Association of Realtors. The sales activity ma

AMD releases new Ryzen 5 5500F and Ryzen 5 7500 to save budget PC building — new budget Zen 3 and Zen 4 CPUs to soften the blow from high RAM prices AMD has officially launched the Ryzen 5 5500F and Ryzen 5 7500, two strong contenders for the best CPUs on the market if you're on

Anthropic’s latest report about agentic misbehavior offers plenty to be concerned about — its Mythos 5 model gained unauthorized access to the internet and uploaded a malicious software package to a public database — but it also offers some levity: AI agents hate CAPTCHA. In Apri

It turns out Jean-Luc Picard was an even better starship helmsman than the writers knew. A physicist has gone through the details of a warp-speed trick from the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation and found a subtlety the show missed. But instead of a plot hole, the de

Off the Wire Press Releases Funding will support the Asimov silicon tapeout and Titan system production ramp, following Positron’s 50-plus-rack Atlas deployment at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure RENO, Nev., Sept. 10, 2026 — Positron AI today announced an $875 million Series C financ

Brent crude futures were up $5.39, or 5.33%, at $106.60 a barrel by 11:49 a.m. ET (1549 GMT). U.S. oil topped $100 a barrel for the first time since May as West Texas Intermediate crude futures rose $5.16, or 5.37%, to $101.21. Brent prices have surged by more than 30% from lows

Pocket FM, an Indian audio storytelling platform, has doubled its annualized revenue run rate to $500 million over the past year as it increasingly turns to artificial intelligence to produce its content. AI now powers 93% of Pocket FM’s overall catalog and is used to produce 99%

Off the Wire Press Releases ESPOO, Finland, Sept. 10, 2026 — IQM Quantum Computers today announced its upgrade path for a logical-qubit-capable quantum computer. The deployment to the LUMI AI Factory, led by CSC – IT Center for Science, will support R&D efforts toward fault-toler

Off the Wire Press Releases PARIS, Sept. 10, 2026 — Bull, a leader in advanced computing and AI, announced a €31 million contract with the Spanish State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) to deliver a new supercomputing infrastructure that will support faster and more accurate weather

A key tech-stock volatility metric options traders have been watching all year is reversing, sending a sign to investors that the U.S. bond market may now be usurping AI optimism as the primary driver of the stock market. The spread between the volatility of big tech names and th

Off the Wire Press Releases Additional $150 million in capital supports product development, manufacturing ecosystem readiness, high-volume production, and new Bengaluru Design Center in India SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 10, 2026 — Ayar Labs today announced it has secured an addition

Oil, gas and borrowing costs surge as fears over Middle East escalate - Published The price of oil has jumped to $105 a barrel amid signs the conflict in the Middle East will not be resolved quickly, fuelling fears that inflation could accelerate. With the conflict between the US

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel said he will be interviewing a Democratic candidate for Senate tonight, but the interview will be on YouTube only and not broadcast on TV because of threats made by the Federal Communications Commission. Kimmel has been a prime target in the Trump FCC’s attacks

Hamilton and Leclerc 'squash' Monza controversy - Published Lewis Hamilton says he and Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc have "squashed" any controversy between them after a difficult Italian Grand Prix. Leclerc forced Hamilton into the gravel at the first chicane at Monza on Sun

Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey on Thursday said the regulator will retain the newly introduced closing auction session (CAS), even as it reworks the methodology for determining the settlement price of derivative contracts on expiry days

The European Central Bank raised interest rates. Will the Fed follow? A quarter-point increase in baseline borrowing costs across the bloc came as officials warned of “upside” inflation risks and oil prices shot above $100 a barrel. Fed-funds traders are putting 64% odds that the

'We never recovered him': Quest to identify remains from Ground Zero continues - Published For 25 years, the only physical trace Juliette Scauso has had from the last day of her father's life is his mangled firefighter helmet. Scauso's father, Dennis - part of a New York City Fir

Ex-Tory campaign chief pleads guilty over election bet - Published The Conservatives' former director of campaigning and his wife have pleaded guilty to cheating at gambling by placing bets on the date of the 2024 general election. Anthony Lee stood to win approximately £15,000 a

Off the Wire Press Releases Sept. 10, 2026 — Applications are now open for the 2027 BSSw Fellowship Program, which gives recognition and funding to leaders and advocates of high-quality scientific software. Addressing scientific software challenges magnified by rapidly changing c

Off the Wire Press Releases ZURICH, Sept. 10, 2026 — IBM and Lockheed Martin, through an offset agreement with armasuisse, Switzerland’s Federal Office for Defence Procurement, today established a hub for quantum innovation at ETH Zurich, a prominent public research university. T

Off the Wire Press Releases New capabilities give AI real-time insights into live systems while making fast-changing data easier to manage and analyze at scale. BELLEVUE, Wash., Sept. 10, 2026 — ScaleOut Software today introduced Version 7 of its ScaleOut Product Suite, advancing

Off the Wire Press Releases SimuScan uses realistic synthetic data to train AI to identify important nanoscale features and guide atomic force microscopes toward the most informative regions of a sample Sept. 10, 2026 — Researchers at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge Na

Use all powers necessary on anti-migrant protests, home secretary tells police - Published Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has told police chiefs that lessons must be learned from how they handled last weekend's anti-migrant protests in Dover and Portsmouth - saying she expects of

Deploying a large language model is only the first step toward production-ready serving. Production teams also need to serve as many concurrent users as possible on available GPU infrastructure while preserving the interactivity that keeps applications responsive. That tradeoff m

A swell of unfriendly factors for inflation likely will push the Federal Reserve to an interest rate hike next week and there's possibly another before the end of the year, judging by market pricing Thursday. Traders pushed chances for a rate increase to 70% in morning action, fo

Chinese-made drones are flying out the bodies of flood victims and delivering food to survivors in the aftermath of devastating flash floods on the border of Nepal and China’s Tibetan region. Nepal’s army has been using four DJI FlyCart 100 drones donated from China to make 10 to

Producer prices rose 5.4% in the 12 months through August. While the overall increase was in line with economists' expectations, details of the report suggested some of the recent progress on inflation may be reversing. For live updates on US Markets, click here Prices for transp

Oracle Corp. shares fell more than 3% on Thursday as investors awaited the software and cloud computing giant's quarterly earnings report, due after the US market closes. The company’s stock has faced pressure this year as investors remain concerned about the huge debt burden Ora

Two years into Starbucks' turnaround, CEO Brian Niccol is prioritizing makeovers for the coffee chain's cafes and improving the customer experience as sales rebound. "Starbucks is back," Niccol said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Thursday. Under Niccol's leadership, Starbucks has trie

Can Trump really pay $5,000 to every American adult? - Published US President Donald Trump has offered every adult American $5,000 (£3,700) if Republicans win November's midterm elections, but it is unclear how such a plan would be funded and whether it is legal. His remarks prom

England's push for two-day win halted by weather - Published Third Rothesay Test, Edgbaston (day two of five) Pakistan 133 (Shakeel 43; Tongue 4-42) & 52-2 (Robinson 2-10) England 453 (Brook 75, Smith 69, Lawrence 65, Gay 60, Robinson 50; Razaullah 4-148) Pakistan are 268 runs be

Insight and analysis on the data center space from industry thought leaders. Why AI Performance Starts Long Before GPUs AI outcomes depend on how predictably and securely data moves across data centers, clouds, and the edge. Designing for latency, resilience, and visibility is no

In his address at the Global Fintech Fest (GFF) 2026 in Mumbai today, RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra urged businesses in the fintech sector to double down on AI, tokenisation and quantum computing to enhance financial inclusion while building consumer trust. Malhotra said India’s d