The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) closed Thursday over 2.7% lower, the S&P 500 (^GSPC) not too far behind with a session loss of 1.86%. Tech sector worries seem to have been revived coming off Meta Platforms (META) and Microsoft’s (MSFT) latest earnings print and ahead of Amazon (AMZN) and Apple’s (AAPL) results due out after…
After weeks of headlines about Pyongyang’s decision to dispatch thousands of troops to fight alongside Russia in Ukraine, NATO and the Pentagon said this week that North Korean soldiers are in Kursk, the Russian region partly controlled by Ukrainian troops. Here’s why that’s important for China. Finding Perspective: The Pentagon said North Korea has sent…
A British businessman has been charged with murder in Hong Kong after an Indonesian housekeeper was found dead at the bottom of a waterfall. The 34-year-old, who has not been named, was arrested with his wife at a train station on Tuesday as they returned from mainland China. According to police, he went to Waterfall…
As public buildings across Spain lowered flags to half-mast to mark the first of three days of national mourning, Letícia Cardona Teruel set off with her husband and eight-year-old daughter – their rucksacks packed to the brim – to walk the seven kilometres to Valencia. About 36 hours earlier on Tuesday, they had watched as…
After launching in beta earlier this month, Mozilla has officially launched its long-awaited email app Thunderbird on Android. Thunderbird is an open-source email client developed by Mozilla The app has been available on Linux and other platforms for ages and been in development since the early 2000s, but has never made its way to Android……
WASHINGTON − The Philadelphia district attorney failed Thursday in his bid to block tech billionaire Elon Musk from continuing his controversial $1 million daily giveaways targeting pro-Trump registered voters in swing states before next Tuesday’s election. The legal showdown had the potential for fireworks as a judge ordered Musk to appear personally in a Philadelphia…
“MicroStrategy shareholders are a unique cohort. Typically, when shareholders get diluted, this is a bad thing,” said James Van Straten, senior analyst at CoinDesk. “However, as a MicroStrategy shareholder, I celebrate being diluted as I know MicroStrategy are going out and buying bitcoin, which increases the bitcoin per share as a company which is accretive…
Two People’s Liberation Army Navy aircraft carriers exercised together for the first time in the South China Sea, the People’s Liberation Army reported. According to photos released by the PLA, Carriers CNS Liaoning (16) and CNS Shandong (17) drilled together, leading the formation with 12 carrier-based J-15 fighters flying overhead and 11 PLAN surface ships….
Daniel Ross Hundreds of people were trapped in a large shopping mall in Valencia when floodwater engulfed the ground floor A group of British visitors caught up in the devastation in Spain have spoken of the moment the flash floods hit, killing scores of people. Matthias Bachler’s 12-year-old son Jacob was due to compete at…
Claude, the AI chatbot made by Anthropic, now has a desktop app. You can download the Mac and Windows versions of the app from Anthropic’s website for free. The desktop version of Claude isn’t all that much different than the web version, as you can still easily ask questions, access old chats, and view starred…