Loading… Loading… PayPal Holdings, Inc. PYPL shares,consolidating under $100 since April 2022, gained volume momentum in mid-January, sparking discussions on social media platforms and chatrooms, fueling speculation about its emergence as a new meme stock. Stock Trajectory: PayPals stock, regarded as a COVID-19 play during the pandemic, reached an intra-day record of $310.16 on July
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To Bennu and back — After a decade and $1.2 billion, NASA reveals its booty from Bennu: 121 grams A long way, and a lot of money, for half a cup. Eric Berger – Feb 15, 2024 10:58 pm UTC Enlarge / A view of eight sample trays containing the final material from asteroid Bennu.NASA/Erika
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in a maximum-security prison in the country’s far north, Russia’s prison service has said. Navalny, 47 — President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent opponent and a fierce critic of
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Brussels should incentivise Europe’s defence industry to ramp up production and promote consolidation, the president of the European Commission has said, as she warned that the “world has got rougher”. Ursula von der Leyen said
Loading… Loading… PayPal Holdings, Inc. PYPL shares,consolidating under $100 since April 2022, gained volume momentum in mid-January, sparking discussions on social media platforms and chatrooms, fueling speculation about its emergence as a new meme stock. Stock Trajectory: PayPals stock, regarded as a COVID-19 play during the pandemic, reached an intra-day record of $310.16 on July
who needs metal? — Asahi Linux projects OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apples Newest driver supports the latest versions of OpenGL and OpenGL ES. Andrew Cunningham – Feb 14, 2024 10:00 pm UTC Enlarge / Slowly but surely, the Asahi Linux team is getting Linux up and running on Apple Silicon Macs.Apple/Asahi Linux
Loading… Loading… Artificial intelligence is increasingly used by asset managers to help assess risk and make portfolio choices. And theres at least one institutional investor who believes hes hit on a model that can routinely beat benchmark indices. Doug Clinton, managing partner at Deepwater Asset Management, is embracing what the late Charlie Munger called sit
The cleanup continues in the Northeast after a deadly noreaster blasted the region with more than a foot of snow on Tuesday, and it wont be long before another series of quick-hitting snow showers bring more winter weather to the region. The first storm system, an Alberta Clipper, brought snow to the Dakotas, Minnesota and Great Lakes on Wednesday and will continue to push
A dozen victims of Jeffrey Epstein filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing the FBI of covering up its failure to investigate the late financier, enabling his sex trafficking to continue for more than 20 years. The victims, using Jane Doe pseudonyms, said the FBI received credible tips as early as 1996 that Epstein trafficked young
Russian President Vladimir Putin has mercilessly trolled Tucker Carlson, making clear he was unimpressed with the interviewer’s softball questions during their recent sitdown in Moscow. “To be honest, I thought that he would behave aggressively and ask so-called sharp questions, Putin, 71, said in an interview in his homeland Wednesday when asked about Carlson. I
Not quite a glasshole — Why walking around in public with Vision Pro makes no sense Social mores aside, Vision Pro doesnt seem designed to be used on the go. Samuel Axon – Feb 14, 2024 6:51 pm UTC reader comments 209 A close-up look at the Vision Pro from the front. Samuel Axon The
Loading… Loading… The Biden Administration is calling on a long list of tech companies and banking firms to tackle the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI). Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, announced the creation of the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC). The effort unites a whos who of AI developers with academics, researchers and civil
Days after three American soldiers were murdered by Iran, the Biden Administration has finally retaliated by firing missiles into Iraq and Syria where they made scary exploding noises so loud the Iranians could almost hear them all the way in Iran and, boy oh boy, wouldnt they have been frightened then? State Department Spokesman John
doesn’t pass the sniff test — Can you sanitize the inside of your nose to prevent COVID? Nope, FDA says. There are a lot of COVID nasal sprays for sale, but little data to show they work. Beth Mole – Feb 14, 2024 11:37 pm UTC EnlargeNozin.com reader comments 60 More than four years after
Nothing melts our hearts like a health policy valentine. Readers made us swoon this season, writing poetic lines about prescription drug pricing, medical debt, primary care shortages, and more. Here are some of our favorites, starting with the grand prize winner and first runner-up, whose entries were each turned into a cartoon by staff illustrator
Recent events at the Texas border, with the Biden administration threatening to employ federal troops against Texas state officers, are the subject of impassioned conversations in the waiting rooms of our nations VA hospitals. As I sit in the waiting rooms and listen for my name to be called, I often strike up conversations with
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak’s pledge to “grow the economy” suffered a serious blow on Thursday as official figures showed Britain entered a technical recession at the end of 2023. Labour claimed the prime minister’s promises on the
They built a wall — Scientists found a Stone Age megastructure submerged in the Baltic Sea “Blinkerwall” may have been a “desert kite,” used to channel and hunt reindeer. Jennifer Ouellette – Feb 13, 2024 10:18 pm UTC Enlarge / Graphical reconstruction of a Stone Age wall as it may been used: as a hunting
freesphere — Broadcom-owned VMware kills the free version of ESXi virtualization software Software’s free version was a good fit for tinkerers and hobbyists. Andrew Cunningham – Feb 13, 2024 10:27 pm UTC EnlargeVMware reader comments 136 Since Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware closed in November 2023, Broadcom has been charging ahead with major changes
“I remember…the Alamo” — OpenAI experiments with giving ChatGPT a long-term conversation memory AI chatbot “memory” will recall facts from previous conversations when enabled. Benj Edwards – Feb 13, 2024 10:01 pm UTC Enlarge / When ChatGPT looks things up, a pair of green pixelated hands look through paper records, much like this. Just kidding.Benj