US secretary of state Antony Blinken said the US is “very concerned” China is considering supplying Russia with weapons and ammunition in Ukraine. Blinken said he told Wang Yi, China’s top foreign policy official, that such support would have “serious consequences” for the US relationship with Beijing during a meeting on the sidelines of the
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picards on the table — TNG reunion injects a little fun into Star Trek: Picards uneven final season Picard adds familiar faces while addressing few of the show’s other problems. Andrew Cunningham – Feb 18, 2023 12:37 pm UTC Enlarge / Jonathan Frakes is my dad.Paramount+ reader comments 2 with Share this story Share on
If youve been in markets for long enough, you may remember the February 2018 Volpocalypse episode that turned successful long-running trades on their head. Traders who were betting against major market movements saw their profits erode in days, and a group of about 10from Lausanne, Switzerland, were able to spare themselves of the horror. As
the big green machine — The US plan to become the worlds cleantech superpower Bidens revolution in industrial policy is a gamble with geopolitical ramifications. Derek Brower and Amanda Chu, Financial Times – Feb 18, 2023 12:21 pm UTC EnlargeDavid McNew/Getty Images reader comments 2 with Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter
Nearly $2.7 billion USD worth of crypto has been lost in 2022 to hacks of smart contracts or protocol infrastructure a 63% increase from last year. With flash loan attacks remaining detrimental to blockchain sustainability, Q2 2022 experienced over $870 million USD in losses. The attacks plaguing Web3, however, are no different than the tried
Ukraine’s president has ruled out trading territory for peace, as part of any negotiated settlement with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. President Volodymyr Zelensky made the remarks in an interview with the BBC .
During the Cold War, NATO had nightmares of hundreds of thousands of Moscows troops pouring across international borders and igniting a major ground war with a democracy in Europe. Western governments feared that such a move by the Kremlin would lead to escalationfirst to a world war and perhaps even to a nuclear conflict. That
The Russian army is suffering huge losses in Ukraine, shows no sign it has improved its “meat grinder” tactics and is struggling to sustain a stuttering offensive that is “advancing, if at all, in metres not kilometres”, Britain’s defence secretary Ben Wallace said on Friday. Despite fears that Russia is poised to launch a huge
Consumers may be going offline and back into stores to shop, but when they do, they want to go digital to pay. Smartphone payments and tap to pay options continue to gain acceptance, leading the transition away from cash and card swipes as merchants rapidly install modular point-of-sale (POS) systems. Macro pressures took some of
Playstation’s sequel to “virtual reality” — PSVR2 review: Plenty of improvements, but is it too little, too late? Six years later, the tech has improved, but so has the competition. Kyle Orland – Feb 16, 2023 1:00 pm UTC Enlarge / The overall color and design scheme means there’s no mistaking that this is a
Flashback to November 2021: Bitcoin is soaring at over $64,000 (more than three times its current price in 2023). The S&P 500, as well as popular tech stocks like Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN , Apple Inc AAPL and Tesla Inc TSLA , are all at historic highs. Meme stocks like GameStop Corp. GME and AMC Entertainment
a new benchmark for benchmarks — Geekbenchs creator on version 6 and why benchmarks matter in the real world “How hard can it be to write a benchmark? Maybe I should write my own.” Andrew Cunningham – Feb 17, 2023 1:00 pm UTC EnlargePrimate Labs reader comments 12 with Share this story Share on Facebook
One of China’s most high-profile bankers, billionaire investor Bao Fan, has gone missing — marking the latest disappearance of a top executive in the tightly-controlled country. China Renaissance Holdings said in a market update Thursday that it has been “unable to contact” its chairman and CEO in recent days. His disappearance is the latest in
Politics have been seeping into our daily lives and ruining pretty much everything, and that’s as true for business leaders as it is of those of us who buy from them. But debates over ideologically loaded environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns and “woke” capitalism show some companies embrace the danger by politicizing themselves. If
Rishi Sunak has launched a high-stakes gamble to seal a deal with Brussels over Northern Ireland, making a surprise visit to Belfast as Tory Eurosceptics warned he was going too far to accommodate the EU. The UK prime minister is seeking to win backing from Northern Irish parties for an outline deal with the EU
reach outside the box — Meta develops an AI language bot that can use external software tools With Toolformer, an LLM can improve its abilities by calling APIs to external programs. Benj Edwards – Feb 15, 2023 11:56 pm UTC Enlarge / An artist’s impression of a robot hand using a desktop calculator.Aurich Lawson |
Major Wall Street indices closed in the red on Wednesday as investors and traders turned their focus away from Federal Reserve commentary toward corporate earnings. The Nasdaq Composite and the S&P 500 closed over 1% lower while the Dow Jones fell 0.61%. Here are the five stocks that are drawing investors attention: 1. Tesla Inc
Apple Inc.AAPL co-founderSteve Wozniakhas describedBitcoinBTC/USD as the only cryptocurrency thats pure-gold mathematics. What Happened: Wozniak made the comments about Bitcoin in aninterviewwith Business Insider in March 2022, adding that many cryptocurrencies are untrustworthy and have a track record of being rip-offs. There are so many cryptocurrencies that come out now; everybody has a way to
Two for one — Grid of atoms is both a quantum computer and an optimization solver The optimization mode requires quantum effects, can solve a growing list of problems. John Timmer – Feb 16, 2023 12:30 pm UTC EnlargeQuEra reader comments 4 with Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit
BEIJING – China imposed fines and sanctions against two US defence companies in a further escalation of tensions between the worlds two biggest economies. Lockheed Martin Corporation and a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies Corp were added to a list of unreliable entities due to their participation in arms sales to Taiwan, Chinas Ministry of Commerce