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In response to a report that Nothing is planning to “exit 12 markets as global shipments decline,” Nothing cofounder Akis Evangelidis said the company is “reorganizing” and laying off some of its staff, but that “the reported numbers are way overblown.” Evangelidis disputed a claim about underwhelming sales for Nothing’s Phone 4B, saying it “sold 29,537 units on Day 1 only, breaking records in its price segment.” Nothing confirms layoffs, but calls market exit rumors ‘fake news’ A Nothing cofounder said Phone 4B sales broke records in the price segment on day one. A Nothing cofounder said Phone 4B sales broke records in the price segment on day one.…

In today’s column, I examine the emerging clamor in the hallways of AI labs that the prevailing capabilities of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are inherently limited and that we need to pursue a new pathway to make marked advances, consisting specifically of devising and infusing artificial wisdom (AW) into AI. The idea is that conventional AI doesn’t have what it takes to exhibit or express wisdom. Therefore, artificial wisdom must be invented. A notable complication is that there is acrimonious debate about two extremely crucial underpinnings, namely what human wisdom consists of, and whether artificial wisdom would be the same or…

Midjourney, the artificial intelligence lab that was an early contender in the AI image generation race, has purchased the astrology app Co-Star. The company plans to offer a new astrology-focused image generator, according to Bloomberg, a first for Midjourney since users must currently belong to the company’s Discord server to use the product. Midjourney burst onto the scene in early 2022, shortly before the explosion of AI tools like ChatGPT. But it’s lagged behind larger competitors like OpenAI and Google, which have thrown billions of dollars at AI image generation. Google’s Nano Banana is considered head and shoulders above Midjourney in AI image…

Ahead of the Pixel 11 launch, the Made by Google hardware division detailed how it’s impacted by the “severe, supplier-driven RAM memory crisis.” 9to5Google spoke this week with Google’s Vice President of Devices and Services, Shakil Barkat, about the situation and how that will affect what’s coming next month. Barkat emphasized that, like all other consumer technology companies, Google is experiencing an unprecedented surge in costs, noting that “there’s never been an increase in memory prices like the world’s going through right now.” He pointed to Morgan Stanley data about a sixfold increase wherein 1 GB of RAM went from $2.80 in 2025 to $12 this…

Anthropic on Friday released Claude Opus 5, a new artificial intelligence model the company says approaches the performance of its most powerful system at half the price. The San Francisco-based startup, a chief rival to OpenAI, said the model tops industry benchmarks for coding and knowledge work while consuming fewer computing resources than earlier versions. The claim addressed the rising concerns of business customers who have baulked at the expense of running advanced AI systems. Claude competes with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, and customers pay based on the amount of work performed, measured in units called tokens. Opus 5 costs $5 per…

This week on Uncanny Valley, our hosts break down the White House’s accusation that Chinese-owned Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable 5 to build their much talked about Kimi K3 model. The team discusses whether this is a repeat of the DeepSeek moment and what it means for the AI race between the US and China. They also get into how the US Army—and plenty of Silicon Valley companies—are having to cut back AI usage after burning through their tokens. Plus, we discuss why you should check if you have an alarm that could make your car easier to hack, and how OpenAI briefly lost control of two AI models during a security test. Articles mentioned in…

Anthropic today introduced Claude Opus 5, an upgrade to Opus 4.8. Anthropic says Opus 5 was built for daily use, and it offers near Fable 5 performance at half the price. Fable 5 is Anthropic's most capable publicly available model. Opus 5 scores higher than Opus 4.8 on multiple benchmarked tasks, including agentic coding, novel problem solving, knowledge work, computer use, and multidisciplinary reasoning. It is a "meaningful improvement" over Opus 4.8 for scientific research, and it can produce better visual outputs. Anthropic says the new model "provides greatly improved performance for the same cost" as Opus 4.8. Opus 5 is better at verifying its…

Stripe wants a foothold in AI, and it is willing to pay dearly for it. The payments company is in talks to buy OpenRouter for about $10 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported. That is a staggering price for a startup valued at just $1.3 billion in May. The talks are preliminary, and could still fall apart or draw a rival bidder. OpenRouter is a marketplace for AI models. Founded in New York in 2023, it lets developers reach more than 400 large language models from around 70 providers through one interface. It routes each request to the cheapest or best option. Its co-founder Alex Atallah, who previously built the NFT marketplace OpenSea, calls it…

Anthropic has released a new Claude model, Opus 5, bringing it close to the capabilities of Claude Fable 5 at half the price. The new model produces the strongest work performance the company has released, with even more gains in its coding capabilities. In a fight for AI supremacy, Anthropic joins Google and OpenAI, which earlier this month released new AI models — all of which are more efficient and better at certain tasks. While Fable 5 remains Anthropic’s most “ambitious” work, the latest model excels in enterprise with its coding capabilities and more. Anthropic says Opus 5’s strengths lie in knowledge work, autonomy and biology. It’s capable of…

A coalition of technology companies led by Nvidia Corp. and Microsoft Corp. called on policymakers to promote the development of open-weight artificial intelligence models, positioning it as key to ensuring the US maintains technological leadership. In a letter Friday, tech firms including Palantir Technologies Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. argued that an open approach to AI software development was critical to continuing innovation in AI and other key areas of the economy. Open-weight models allow users to download and customize the technology, making it more versatile to developers and businesses. Open-weight models “are an important part of that…

After selling a barely disguised version of the hit DJI Osmo Pocket 3 in the United States last year, Xtra Technology seemed ready to sneak in its version of the new dual-lens Osmo Pocket 4 Pro, too. But today, Xtra has abruptly removed the new Xtra Muse 2 Pro from its website landing page, is pausing preorders indefinitely, and says it’ll refund all the $20 deposits that it’s already collected. DJI camera clone company Xtra is halting and refunding all preorders “We are unable to confirm a reliable launch timeline at this stage.” “We are unable to confirm a reliable launch timeline at this stage.” Just days after showing off the camera at a Los…

Samsung may finally let you set screen zoom levels on a per-app basis Jul 24, 2026 — 2:19 PM ET Android’s screen zoom settings currently impact all apps equally. New Samsung firmware reveals work towards separate zoom settings for each app. Android users already have a nice assortment of options for making it easier to see what their apps are doing. We can adjust text size, magnify specific areas of the screen, or just zoom everything at once. The problem is, not all apps are created equally, and some may look better at different levels of zoom than others. Thankfully, Samsung appears to be working on an easy solution. You’re reading an Authority…

Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, is making its next big move. The company behind the assistant, The Interaction Company of California, has been acquired by AI coding startup Cognition in a deal valuing the startup in the “low nine figures.” The deal will bring Poke’s interaction model and personality to Cognition’s coding assistant Devin. Meanwhile, Poke will take advantage of Cognition’s models and infrastructure to become faster and more reliable, Cognition said. What makes Poke interesting to consumers — and now, to its acquirer — is how it engages with users’ requests. Instead of functioning like a tool, Poke chats more familiarly…

Roku has increased prices across its streaming hardware, with the cheapest HD Streaming Stick now priced at $39.99 instead of $29.99, as first reported by The Desk. The price hike affects all of Roku’s other devices as well, with some increasing by as much as $50. Here’s a rundown of the changes: Roku raises streaming hardware prices by up to $50 The Roku Ultra now costs $149.99, up from $99.99. Streaming Stick- :$29.99 to $39.99 Streaming Stick Plus:$39.99 to $59.99 Streaming Stick 4K- :$49.99 to $79.99 Roku Ultra:$99.99 to $149.99 Roku Streambar SE- :$99.99 to $149.99 Roku is currently holding a sale that puts some devices at their original prices,…

OLED gaming monitors have become much easier to recommend over the last year, mostly because prices have started dropping below the $500 mark. LG’s 27GX704A-B UltraGear OLED is one of the better options in that category right now, with excellent motion handling, extremely low input lag, and the glossy WOLED panel that gives games a cleaner, more contrast-heavy look than many matte alternatives. It’s also down to $379 on Amazon, an over 50% discount from its launch price of $799 in 2025. At this price, the LG 27GX704A-B lands much closer to premium IPS gaming monitors while still offering the contrast and motion performance OLED panels are known for.…

Boox teases the incredibly tiny Picco ereader It features a 3.97-inch monochrome e-paper display. Boox is jumping on the "incredibly small ereader" train, as the company just announced something called the Picco. This teensy tiny device features a 3.97-inch e-paper display, so it can easily fit in a pocket. This is smaller than the Xteink X4 Pro, which we praised for its pocket-sized form factor. Despite the diminutive size, this looks like a fairly capable ereader. It has a front-lit screen, which is a must nowadays, and a microSD reader. Digital books are extremely small, so even an 8GB microSD should be able to store anywhere from 2,000 to 8,000…

Intel on Thursday published its financial results for the second quarter of 2026, posting revenue of $16.1 billion — a 25% rise year-over-year — amid high demand for client and data center products. The company also said that due to extraordinary demand for its own CPUs, it will initiate mass production using its 14A (1.4nm-class) fabrication technology in 2028, which is in line with TSMC's plans for its A14 process technology. "With encouraging external customer progress and increased demand for our internal products, we remain on track for 14A risk production for our internal products in the second half of 2027, and we made the decision in Q2 to…

Nothing rejects market exit rumors, insists global operations remain active Jul 24, 2026 — 1:46 PM ET Nothing’s co-founder denies a recent report that the company is leaving 12 markets. He states that the company is going through a reorganization to operate more efficiently. Akis Evangelidis also says that the Phone 4b sold 29,537 units on the first day alone. OnePlus recently confirmed it would be leaving North America and Europe. A new report claims that OnePlus won’t be the only phone company looking to reduce its footprint this year. The report alleges that London-based manufacturer Nothing is planning to exit 12 markets. Now the company’s…

The BOOX Picco could be the tiny e-reader of your dreams Jul 24, 2026 — 1:40 PM ET BOOX has teased it’s upcoming Picco e-reader. The Picco features a 3.97″ ePaper display and expandable storage. Pricing and availability have not been announced. The BOOX Palma 2 is a great Kindle alternative for readers who want something a little more pocketable. Today, though, BOOX is teasing an even more portable e-reader. The BOOX Picco comes with a truly tiny 3.97″ ePaper screen, and it’ll be offered at an “accessible price point.” We don’t know much about the Picco yet. It’ll come with a front-lit, sub-4″ monochrome screen, and it’ll offer expandable storage via…

Following a report earlier today, Nothing says that it is not exiting markets, but it is making some key changes behind the scenes. To quickly summarize, a report earlier today claimed that Nothing would be exiting around a dozen global markets on the back of declining sales, as Phone (4b) sales were apparently under 20,000 units to date, and that layoffs would also be happening. In response, Nothing’s Akis Evangelidis says that the report is inaccurate, specifically calling it “fake news.” Evangelidis directly says that Nothing is “not shutting down any markets” and that sales numbers on Phone (4b) were inaccurate. Apparently, the company’s latest…

Iran's military said on Friday that it carried out attacks targeting US military assets in Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait in retaliation for Washington's latest strikes on the Islamic republic. Iran's Revolutionary Guards, meanwhile, said they had targeted a data centre in Bahrain belonging to Amazon, according to state media, though neither the US tech giant nor Bahrain have commented on the claim. There was also no confirmation from the US of any targeting of its facilities or personnel. "This morning, the fuel tanks, large equipment warehouses and silos, and the barracks of the US terrorist army forces at the Isa Air Base in Bahrain were targeted by…

According to Ukrinform, Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, reported on the situation on Telegram as of 18:30, July 24. The Nikopol district was among the hardest hit. Russian troops targeted the city of Nikopol as well as the Chervonohryhorivka, Marhanets, and Pokrovske communities. The strikes damaged an apartment building, private homes, an administrative building, and several vehicles. "Two people were injured. A 65-year-old woman was hospitalized in serious condition," Hanzha said. The Hleiuvatka, Zelenodolsk, and Devladove communities in the Kryvyi Rih district also came under enemy fire, causing damage…

Trump's hunt for leverage over Saudi Arabia fuels nuclear proliferation concerns Riyadh's nuclear capabilities may hinge on diplomacy with Israel, officials say. U.S. officials say the historic nuclear energy deal between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, signed by both governments this week, presents the possibility that uranium enrichment could eventually happen on Saudi Arabian soil while omitting a requirement for expanded oversight. Opening the door to enrichment in Saudi Arabia without specific international safeguards in place has raised concern from nuclear proliferation experts. And as President Donald Trump hunts for ways to expand on a landmark…

John Esposito's warning against a clash of civilisations has never been more urgent John Esposito would occasionally joke that he owed his success to Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran. As one of a limited number of academic specialists on Islam at the time of the 1979 Iranian revolution, Esposito would be called upon time and again throughout his illustrious career to help explain the significance of events in a rapidly transforming region to a mystified American public. Even as the field proliferated with scores of scholars and analysts aiming to fill the void with expert knowledge and policy recommendations, he stood apart. He stood apart for his deeper…

According to Ukrinform, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced this in a statement. "Today, Acting Defense Minister Yevhenii Khmara introduced Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi, the new Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and Major General Ihor Skybiuk, the new Chief of the General Staff, to the leadership of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine," the statement said. Khmara thanked General Oleksandr Syrskyi and Lieutenant General Andrii Hnatov for their service as Commander-in-Chief and Chief of the General Staff, respectively, during a difficult period for Ukraine. Drapatyi stressed the great…

Israel raids hospital, shuts off Nablus following deadly settler attack Israel has arrested wounded Palestinians in a hospital as it shuts off Nablus following Friday’s deadly settler attack which killed four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers. The raids come after Israeli PM Netanyahu announced a series of ‘forceful’ measures in the occupied West Bank following the attack.

Russia struck various sites in Ukraine on Friday, including a defense event on the outskirts of Kyiv thought to be showcasing aerial defense technologies like drones. Sometimes fatal attacks elsewhere in the country disrupted power supplies in five separate regions. Meanwhile, Ukraine again struck facilities belonging to Russia's largest online retailer, Wildberries, this time in President Vladimir Putin's hometown of St. Petersburg. And in the skies over Romania, NATO jets downed a stray drone on Friday morning, with no immediate reports of casualties or damage. Across the Atlantic, the White House said President Donald Trump and President Volodymyr…

ICC member states remove Prosecutor Karim Khan by majority vote Member states of the International Criminal Court (ICC) voted on Friday by a majority to remove Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan over misconduct claims, during a special session at the United Nations headquarters in New York. According to diplomatic sources, 82 out of the court's 125 members voted by a secret ballot to dismiss the prosecutor, surpassing the absolute majority threshold needed for removal. Thirteen voted against removal, while 15 abstained. It is the first time in the ICC's 24-year history that member states have voted to remove a sitting chief prosecutor from office. Friday's…

NAIROBI, July 24. /TASS/. The United States has not responded to Sudan's repeated requests for experts to investigate allegations of chemical weapons use by the Sudanese army, the Sudanese News Agency quoted a Foreign Ministry statement as saying. "The Sudanese government has repeatedly invited US experts to Sudan to conduct on-site investigations and verify the allegations," the statement reads. "However, the United States has declined to respond to these invitations." According to the Foreign Ministry, during the consultations that lasted more than a year, the United States did not provide any physical or technical evidence of the use of chemical…

Member states of the International Criminal Court on Friday voted to dismiss Karim Khan as prosecutor following allegations of sexual misconduct, two diplomatic sources told Reuters. According to the sources, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter, 82 of the court's 125 member states voted in favour of the prosecutor's removal. Khan denies the allegations.

A police boat crashed into Westminster Bridge in central London on Friday, tossing officers into the River Thames and injuring five of the crew, the Metropolitan Police said. Paramedics treated the injured on a black inflatable boat as a police helicopter hovered overhead near the clock tower that houses the bell known as Big Ben. It wasn’t immediately clear what the boat was doing at the time or how it crashed, though the Met said it would be thoroughly reviewed. Mateo Bilis-Lusevic, a 12-year-old visiting from Chile, said he was on a tour boat with his mother when they saw the crash. Get daily National news “Two boats were riding extremely fast…

India will continue to share “high-flood data” with Pakistan on “humanitarian grounds”, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Friday (July 24, 2026). Speaking at a media briefing, MEA official spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said Pakistan media reports alleging India is deliberately creating a flood situation in Pakistan’s Punjab province by increasing water flow of the Chenab river is “baseless”. Officials further said that the non-operational status of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) has not impacted water-related cooperation between the two sides and India has shared flood-related data at least 23 times in 2025 itself. Will share data “Like…

A man has been rushed to hospital in critical condition after the Calgary Fire Department’s aquatic rescue team was called out to pull a paddleboarder from the Bow River. The paddleboarder collided with an abutment on the 85 Street bridge, just upstream from Bowness Park. It happened around 1:10 p.m. Thursday afternoon. CFD said that when the rescue boat crew arrived, they located the man face-down in the water and still attached to his paddleboard leash. They immediately began CPR before transferring the man to AHS paramedics who were waiting onshore to transport him to the Foothills Medical Centre. Get daily National news A second person, who was…

ARCACHON, France — Large forest fires burned out of control in southwestern France and central Spain on Friday, prompting authorities to evacuate an estimated 87,000 people from their homes. Some even fled by boat when flames swept through the touristic Cap Ferret peninsula on France’s Atlantic coast. Dozens of firefighters were injured, authorities said, but no deaths were reported in either country. Some 125 square kilometers (48 square miles) have been consumed by the blaze that has raged since Wednesday near Cap Ferret. Located just 60 kilometers (37 miles) from Bordeaux, the peninsula normally offers stunning landscapes and sandy beaches…

Floods hit parts of Davao City amid storm, some residents evacuated DAVAO CITY – Floods hit several villages in this city on Friday amid heavy rains triggered by Severe Tropical Storm Kiyapo and the southwest monsoon. In a video posted by MJ Bacalso on Facebook at past 9 p.m., flash floods swept through Bangkal in Barangay 19-B. Some residents were forced to seek shelter on the upper part of their houses while others asked to be rescued by authorities. Article continues after this advertisement As of 12:40 a.m. on Saturday, the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO) said emergency and disaster response teams “continue to conduct…

Huge crater after back-to-back Israeli strikes on Gaza refugee camp All that remains of a five-storey residential building in central Gaza is a huge crater, after back-to-back Israeli strikes flattened Palestinian homes. Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum shows the devastation caused in the Maghazi refugee camp during the US-brokered ‘ceasefire’.

After decades of neglect, shipyard executives and forward-thinking politicians are finally realizing that workforce housing is important. In shipbuilding and advanced manufacturing, worker retention is critical in improving productivity. Access to affordable and nearby housing is a big part of that effort, and, in most shipbuilding centers, shipbuilders and politicians are taking a variety of collaborative approaches to address this fundamental human requirement. Shipbuilders do better work if affordable, high-quality workforce housing is available in nearby, livable communities. If not, the work and the workforce will go elsewhere. New housing…

Fresh wildfires have broken out in western Canada and forests continued to burn in Ontario as the country battled what the prime minister, Mark Carney, called one of the most intense wildfire seasons on record. Nearly 34,000 lightning strikes over the past week led to a series of fires and evacuation orders in southern British Columbia. There were 25 evacuation orders and 90 active wildfires in the province as of Friday morning, and authorities said warming and drying conditions could cause them to grow. Hugh Murdoch, the incident commander of a cluster of fires near Kimberley, 320 miles (520km) from Vancouver, said: “The weather forecast is far from…

Published A day-tripper has told the BBC how he dived into the water to try to save a mother and daughter drowning off an Essex beach. Craig Bowe, 42, battled the incoming tide at West Mersea, near Colchester, three times after hearing screams on Wednesday evening. The kitchen fitter, who was on a day trip from Hertfordshire to celebrate his daughter's 10th birthday, managed to haul Shally and Samiha Rahman from the waves and also helped a seven-year-old boy onto a lifeboat. Despite his efforts, the pair - aged 41 and 15 - died in the desperate attempt to bring the boy to shore. The boy, who became stranded during a family day out from Barking, east…

Iryna Terekh: the trained architect behind Ukraine’s deep-strike drones Her company, Fire Point, is a driving force behind the long-range weapons that are taking the battle to Russia She tours major international defence shows, negotiates with arms manufacturers and takes part in discussions on Europe’s rearmament. At 34, Iryna Terekh, an architect by training, heads Fire Point, a company that has become one of the driving forces behind Ukraine’s long-range strike capabilities in the war with Russia. With her long hair tied back in a ponytail, a white top, beige jacket and wide-legged jeans, she stands out in an industry dominated by men in suits. She…

"The Silent Cartographer," one of the most iconic Halo missions of all time, has three skulls and one terminal to seek out in Halo Campaign Evolved. This is the mission where Master Chief is in search of the map for the entirety of the halo, after successfully rescuing Captain Keyes in "Truth and Reconciliation," but getting his hands on it is easier said than done. It's also one of the best looking levels in the remake, with an absolutely stunning beach encircling the island. Here are the locations of all three skulls and the terminal in "The Silent Cartographer" in Halo: Campaign Evolved. Skull 1: Bandana **Description:**Infinite ammo and grenades.…

Sanchi ginseng (Panax notoginseng) is a cornerstone of traditional Chinese medicine, prized for its saponins-bioactive compounds with anti-inflammatory, cardiovascular, and anticancer properties. Yet the molecular machinery controlling saponin production has remained largely unknown. Now, researchers have identified a master regulator, the transcription factor PnMYB38, that acts as a molecular switch linking plant hormone signals to saponin biosynthesis. This discovery opens the door to precision breeding and metabolic engineering strategies that could boost the medicinal quality of this valuable herb. For decades, scientists have known that methyl…

At the end of July in the year 711, the troops of General Táriq ibn Ziyad defeated those of King Don Rodrigo in the battle of Guadalete. Thus began the Islamic invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, ending the Visigothic Kingdom. But in the southeast of Hispania, there was a pocket of resistance. The region of Tudmir, which stretched across parts of the current provinces of Alicante and Murcia and was governed by a Visigoth nobleman named Teodomiro (or Theodomir), put up an effective fight. As the territory was too large for the invaders to assimilate, they reached an agreement with the Visigoths. In April 713, the Pact of Theodomir was signed, allowing…

Isabella Williams was one of hundreds of incoming college freshmen left disappointed after Howard University rescinded her admission just days before she was due to move onto campus. Williams, who was accepted into 42 colleges before accepting an offer to the historically Black private university located in Washington D.C., tearfully shared the disappointing news in a recent Instagram video. Describing the university as her “dream school,” Williams said: “Never in my life have I been so disappointed. Never in my life have I gotten so far and worked so hard for it to be stripped from me on a random Wednesday.” In the now-viral post’s caption, she…

The findings have direct implications for clinical practice and future research. For genetic screening, the study provides a clear priority: CHD7 for outflow‑tract defects, CHD4 for chamber‑patterning anomalies, and CHD8 for ventricular dysfunction. This prioritization can improve diagnostic efficiency. Therapeutically, while directly targeting remodelers is risky due to their broad expression, identifying their downstream pathways—such as those regulating cardiomyocyte proliferation or metabolism—may offer safer drug targets. Furthermore, future studies combining time‑resolved multi‑omics and combinatorial genetics could uncover how these proteins…

The "Truth and Reconciliation" mission in Halo: Campaign Evolved has three skulls and one terminal to find on your journey to rescue Captain Keyes, but they're not easy. This takes place after the "Halo" mission, where Master Chief rescued a load of marines who crash-landed on halo after the Pillar of Autumn went down. Here are the locations of all "Truth and Reconciliation" skulls and terminals in Halo: Campaign Evolved. Skull 1: Iron **Description:**Dying in co-op resets you to your last checkpoint, dying while solo restarts the level. **Objective:**Board the Covenant Battle Cruiser. For the first skull in "Truth and Reconciliation," you must play…

Who wrote the Odyssey? Homer, obviously: that is what we’ve been told since the late 6th century BCE, when ancient Greeks started crediting the Odyssey to a blind bard from the rocky isle of Chios. But this “Homer” appeared at least a century later than the poem itself. When the Odyssey first began to circulate in ancient Greece, no one knew its author. The song seems to have created the singer, not the other way around. How can you have a poem without a poet? Two American researchers, Milman Parry and Albert Lord, came across a possible answer. In the 1930s, Parry and Lord travelled to the Balkans to study still-living traditions of epic poetry. In…

Scientists have measured temperatures beneath the surface of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, offering the first-ever glimpse of the hidden heat driving the most volcanically active world in the solar system. During close flybys of Io in late 2023 and early 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft turned its Microwave Radiometer (MWR) instrument toward the moon, probing roughly six to 20 feet (two to six meters) beneath its surface. Originally designed to peer through Jupiter's thick clouds, the instrument instead revealed a powerful new way to study how heat moves through planetary crusts, according to a statement from the space agency. "The surprising discovery that…

READ MORE: What your tattoos say about you according to science See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source If you would love to get a tattoo but can't stand the thought of needles, a UK-based startup has just invented the perfect solution. CipherX has developed the world's first completely painless tattoo that delivers permanent ink with zero discomfort. Instead of using a traditional tattoo gun to inject pigment under the skin, this unusual technology is applied with a clever disposable plaster. Each patch is covered with hundreds of tiny spikes made of normal carbon-based tattoo ink combined with a specialised biopolymer. Once the…

The Kerala University found itself mired in controversy after identical questions were found repeated in different sections of the MA History fourth-semester examination paper on ‘History of Freedom Movement in India’. The issue came to light after a section of students pointed out that three questions appearing in Part A of the question paper were repeated in Part B. The duplication effectively reduced the number of unique questions available to students. University authorities initially defended the question paper by claiming that students had sufficient choices in both sections and therefore were not disadvantaged. According to the explanation,…

Wildfires in Europe, Russian missile strikes in Kyiv, the cockroach protests in New Delhi and the World Cup final – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalistsWarning: this gallery contains images some readers may find distressing Continue reading...

On July 3, one of NASA’s two Mars-destined ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft captured photos of Earth and the Moon in visible and thermal infrared light. At the time, the spacecraft was 363,250 miles (584,600 kilometers) from Earth and 115,600 miles (186,100 kilometers) from the Moon, making the Moon appear relatively large. Taken with the Sun only partly illuminating Earth and the Moon, the visible light image shows the two bodies as crescents, with only around 8% of each face sunlit. Yet in the thermal infrared image, the shadowed hemisphere of Earth is illuminated by its own heat from both the atmosphere…

A spell of exceptionally heavy rainfall over Gujarat, aided by a low-pressure system that tracked westward from the Bay of Bengal and its interaction with a western disturbance, has virtually wiped out India’s rainfall deficit for July – the most important monsoon month – even as large parts of the Northeast continue to remain rainfall-deficient. As of July 24, rainfall across the country for July stood at 215.5 mm against a normal of 215 mm — eliminating the monthly deficit after a dry start to the month. However, cumulative rainfall for the monsoon season from June 1 to July 24 remained 16.1% below normal nationwide, according to India…

A newly discovered celestial object seems to blur the line between planet and moon, leaving some astronomers puzzled over what to call it. Scientists have found thousands of exoplanets—those beyond our solar system—since the first two were discovered in 1992. But moons orbiting those distant planets have remained elusive, even though astronomers suspect that many exist. Now, they’ve found something that might be even stranger. Astronomers have spotted an object estimated to be roughly as massive as Jupiter. Oddly, it orbits a brown dwarf—a “failed star”—which in turn orbits a small star. This unusual three-tiered hierarchy was seen in a star system…

Union Minister of State for Communications and Rural Development Pemasani Chandra Sekhar on Friday said the Centre was implementing wide-ranging reforms to transform India Post into a world-class public service institution through technology, efficient leadership and a customer-centric approach. Addressing a gathering after inaugurating the modernised Kothapet and Chandramouli Nagar Sub Post Offices in Guntur, he said India Post, with its presence in every village and household, would play a key role in realising the vision of Viksit Bharat. Describing the reforms introduced over the past two years as unprecedented, Dr. Chandra Sekhar said they had…

Israeli settlers have uprooted more than 50 olive trees in the Aghziwa area of Masafer Yatta, a collection of hamlets in the southern West Bank, Al Jazeera reported, citing Palinfo. The olive harvest is a vital source of income for tens of thousands of Palestinian families across the West Bank, providing an economic lifeline for many communities.

From left, Expedition 74 flight engineers Anna Kikina and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, and Anil Menon of NASA pose for a July 18, 2026, photo while holding a cake celebrating their recent arrival aboard the International Space Station. The trio arrived at the space station on July 14, 2026, after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan earlier the same day. Kikina, Dubrov, and Menon are in the second week of their planned eight-and-a-half-month mission. They are using their new skills to conduct space research while still familiarizing themselves with living and working in space. Image credit: NASA/Chris Williams

The Universes Beyond initiative in Magic: The Gathering has brought the 30-year-old card game to some interesting places. Some are steeped in the high fantasy archetype that Magic is known for, like The Lord of the Rings and Final Fantasy, while others are attempting to expand those universes beyond the norm, like the recent Marvel Super Heroes and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles expansions. In November, Magic will travel to a universe set in the final frontier, in a place where no Universes Beyond set has gone before, with Star Trek. Mashing six decadesâ worth of television shows, films, and more into a single card game expansion seems Herculean, but…

NASA is working with industry to advance the next phase of cislunar infrastructure for the agency’s Artemis program and Moon Base, including orbital assets and demonstrations. Under a contract awarded to Advanced Space, the agency’s CAPSTONE 02 mission will demonstrate rendezvous and proximity operations, autonomous navigation, and cislunar communication capabilities while continuing to characterize the radiation environment at the Moon. The CAPSTONE 02 mission, targeted for launch in 2027, will use two small spacecraft in lunar orbit to facilitate these demonstrations to support future NASA lunar and deep space missions. NASA’s original CAPSTONE…

The second map ever featured on Strange Maps — back in 2006, when it was still a fledgling WordPress blog — was a literary take on Maine. It showed the real and imagined places that tether Stephen King’s horror stories to the rugged landscape of his home state. On the map, fictional towns like Derry, Castle Rock, and Lake Kashwakamak jostle for space with the real ones that inspired them, including Bangor, Skowhegan, and Portland. I was mesmerized by both that duality — the tension between actual and made-up locations — and another: the friction between literature as the projector and landscape as the screen upon which its narratives play out. That…

Researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi have discovered that the malaria parasite relies on a specific type of fat to survive and multiply within the human host, uncovering a previously unknown vulnerability that could help guide future treatments. Published in Genome Biology, the study analyzed blood samples from 396 children in Burkina Faso before and during malaria infection. The researchers found that, rather than using all available nutrients, the malaria parasite consistently selects blood fats containing linoleic acid, an essential fatty acid obtained through the diet, to support its growth during the blood stage of the disease. The discovery challenges…

A 6-year-old girl was given a first-of-its-kind gene therapy in a hospital in China for a nonlethal condition. Within a week, she was dead. Her death was never publicly disclosed by the scientists who developed and administered her experimental gene therapy. But now, more than a year after her death, her parents are telling her story in the hope that others will be spared the same fate. A new joint investigation from Science and Retraction Watch, published July 23, details the case of "Mei," a young girl given gene therapy in March 2025 at Xinhua Hospital, which is affiliated with the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. (Mei's parents…

Foot traffic to popular food and restaurant chains has declined as the , linked to lettuce from Mexico, grows in scope, and consumers take steps to avoid getting sick. Cases of illness connected to the cyclospora parasite , bringing the total number of affected states to nine, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services told CBS News on Friday. It's also been linked to at least one , the Food and Drug Administration said Thursday. Grocers and restaurant chains featuring lettuce-heavy menus have experienced a drop-off in visits in the wake of cyclosporiasis, which causes explosive diarrhea, spreading across the U.S. Data provided to CBS News from…

Whether you’ve just begun venturing into the world of robot vacuums or are looking to upgrade to a new model, the mid-range Eufy Omni C20 checks a lot of boxes. It's a vacuum/mop combo with some of the same high-end features offered by its more expensive competitors, and though it has smaller tanks and simpler sensors, that gives it a more compact silhouette—and a more affordable price tag. And right now, the self-sufficient Eufy Omni C20 robot vacuum and mop is down to an all-time low price of $339 (originally $549) on Amazon. At around 13 by 13 by 3.5 inches, the Omni C20 can clear low-profile furniture. It has a number of useful features, including…

Measles has reemerged as a persistent public health challenge in the U.S. over the past two years — and the spread isn't slowing down. According to a Johns Hopkins University tracker that compiles local and state health data, there were 2,295 confirmed measles cases in the U.S. as of July 22. This figure has officially surpassed the 2025 numbers, which totaled 2,286 measles cases nationwide. Cases have been reported across the country, but concentrated outbreaks have worsened in some areas of Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Utah, Texas and Arizona. In 2025, Texas had the largest outbreak, totaling 803 cases throughout the state. In…

Cyclospora outbreak linked to shredded lettuce expands to 9 states NewsNationOpinion | This Is Why Our Fresh Produce Keeps Making Us Sick The New York TimesMassive cyclosporiasis outbreak linked to four more states CNNCDC says massive cyclospora outbreak is now in nine states CNBCYour Guide to (Still) Eating Fresh Fruits and Vegetables This Summer WSJ

A major new study shows that individualized treatment for babies born with opioid withdrawal can speed recovery and reduce time spent in the hospital. The clinical trial led by Lori A. Devlin, professor in the University of Louisville School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics and neonatologist with Norton Children's, found a customized approach to treating babies with opioid withdrawal helps them recover faster than current standardized practices. The findings were recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), one of the nation's leading medical journals. More than 100 researchers across the country contributed to the…

A woman has shared why she turned to bee venom therapy as a last resort to treat her debilitating Lyme disease symptoms. Savannah Spoor, 23, began experiencing chronic symptoms from Lyme disease – an illness caused by borrelia bacteria carried by ticks – during her freshman year of college in 2021. Lyme disease is typically treated with antibiotics if the tick bite is acted upon quickly, but many patients have long-lasting symptoms. Spoor’s list of symptoms included dizziness, headaches, nausea, joint pain, numbness, difficulty recalling words and changes to her vision and hearing. They then worsened to the point that she could no longer walk…

U.S. measles cases have already broken last year's record With 5 months to go, country has already seen 2,318 cases, CDC says The number of measles cases in the U.S. this year has already surpassed the record-breaking tally for all of 2025. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention logged 2,318 cases of measles as of Thursday, according to an agency update on Friday. The U.S. had 2,289 cases in 2025, the worst year for measles in more than three decades. Now, with five months still to go, 2026 has easily become the country's worst year for measles since 1991 — as major outbreaks in South Carolina, Utah and Arizona have sickened hundreds and…

NYU Langone Health is continuing to expand its footprint in Brooklyn with the opening of NYU Langone Ambulatory Care—Fort Hamilton, a new multi-specialty practice offering top-quality care. Located at 437 88th Street in Fort Hamilton, the practice brings together physicians and advanced practice providers from several existing locations into one centralized destination, making it easier for patients to access a broad range of services closer to home. This new location reflects our ongoing commitment to expanding access to top-quality care throughout Brooklyn. By bringing together a variety of specialties in one convenient location, we're making it…

As the crowd continues to swell at Jantar Mantar, the Delhi Police have deployed powerful cameras and at least three mobile surveillance vans around the venue. The devices continuously capture live images and run them past a police database to identify and isolate people with criminal records. ** Also read: Jantar Mantar protest updates on July 24** On Thursday (July 23, 2026) night, additional CCTV cameras were installed around Jantar Mantar and the images were played on screens inside a mobile police control room. The protesters have expressed apprehension over the use of such technology. “It is quite scary as we have not informed our parents about…

The Supreme Court on Friday (July 24, 2026) indicated that it would closely monitor the Centre’s proposed overhaul of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET). The court was hearing a batch of petitions filed by the Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA), the United Doctors Front (UDF), and others seeking to replace the National Testing Agency (NTA) with an independent statutory body to conduct the exam. A Bench of Justices P.S. Narasimha and Alok Aradhe directed the Union government to file a detailed response outlining whether it plans to transition NEET-UG to a computer-based test (CBT) and what safeguards will be implemented…

The U.S. Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border authorities with a passcode that wiped the contents of his phone, according to an indictment and media reports. This is thought to be the first known case in the United States where federal prosecutors have charged someone for the alleged destruction of data using a so-called “duress” password built into a phone’s software. According to The Guardian, which covered the story earlier this week following the court’s first hearing on Monday, Atlanta resident Samuel Tunick is fighting the charges. Tunick’s attorneys said that it was unlawful for U.S. Customs and…

Hackers are changing the DNS settings on Wi-Fi devices at hotels and conference centers to redirect users to fake Microsoft 365 login pages. The campaign has been ongoing since at least June and impacts organizations in various sectors, including financial services, professional services, legal, health care, energy, and retail. Cybersecurity company ReliaQuest identified compromised Wi-Fi gateways in multiple U.S. cities as well as other regions of the world, such as India and Saudi Arabia. Since the devices serve corporate events, hijacking the Microsoft 365 accounts could give attackers access to sensitive business information, communications, and…

Prominent far-left figures, including livestream influencer Hasan Piker, are rallying around a pro-China media outlet within the sprawling network bankrolled by communist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham – casting recent congressional subpoenas as leading a "McCarthy-style" witch hunt against the left. As Fox News Digital first reported Wednesday, the House Ways and Means Committee sent subpoenas to three nonprofits, including media outlet BreakThrough News, as part of a wider investigation into alleged malign foreign influence by China in U.S. politics. The three groups have received about $39 million from Singham, who left the U.S. several years ago…

Delta State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has inaugurated a Critical National Assets and Infrastructure, CNAI, Monitoring and Surveillance Team to protect Federal Government infrastructure in the state. The State Commandant of the NSCDC, Commandant Chinedu Igbo Fabian, who briefed journalists on the inauguration, said the move was a decisive step to strengthen the protection of Critical National Assets and Infrastructure (CNAI) in the state. He said the CNAI Monitoring and Surveillance Team would combat the increasing cases of vandalism of Base Transceiver Stations (BTS) and other critical infrastructure across the…

See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source Thousands of gamers are reporting issues accessing the PlayStation Network, as Sony confirmed all its services are down. Schoolchildren hoping to kick off the summer holidays playing popular games such as Astro Bot and Marvel's Spider-Man 2 were among those left frustrated after the gaming giant announced the disruption on Friday afternoon. Tracking website Downdetector first started showing reported issues in the early afternoon, with thousands stating they were unable to connect to the network. PlayStation, which is operated by Sony, confirmed users are likely to experience problems…

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has released another batch of documents related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest records show that U.S. officials intercepted undeclared biological materials tied to a U.S.–China coronavirus research network as early as 2018, likely in an attempt to avoid international tensions and regulatory scrutiny, Paul said. The documents, which include a Department of Homeland Security intelligence report, primarily focus on a network centered around University of Minnesota virologist Fang Li. In the years leading up to the pandemic, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) intercepted undeclared biological materials tied to this…

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the de facto routing protocol of the Internet. It offers built-in mechanisms to allow entities, represented by Autonomous Systems (ASes), to express how they want to send and receive traffic on the Internet. One such mechanism is path attributes, which carry essential routing information and metadata for their associated route. The path selection algorithm processes some of these path attributes in a deterministic sequence to calculate the best path for this specific prefix. Using our unique position on the Internet, we took an investigative look at one of the well-known mandatory attributes in BGP, the ** ORIGIN**…

Inside the heightened security for the rescheduled White House Correspondents' Dinner The Secret Service says there has been a significant rise in threats ahead of the rescheduled White House Correspondents' Dinner. CBS News' Nicole Sganga has more details.

Is the PlayStation Network down for you? Here's what's going on Jul 24, 2026 — 2:05 PM ET PlayStation Network is currently down. Sony says that all of its services are experiencing issues. This includes account management, gaming and social, video content, the PS Store, and PS Direct. If you’re having problems with the PlayStation Network, know that there’s nothing wrong with your setup. Any issues you’re experiencing are on Sony’s side. The PlayStation Network is currently experiencing an outage. According to the PlayStation status page, every service is experiencing problems at the moment. This includes account management, gaming and social, video…

Sometimes, it’s easy to forget how diverse the original Xbox game library really was. Early in its life, a handful of major Japanese publishers released some absolute bangers. Sega was surprisingly prolific, Tecmo truly came into its own, and Microsoft itself worked with skilled partners to develop a variety of hidden gems. Other third parties from around the world made terrific contributions that ensured there was always something new and compelling to play. Soon, it could be easy to revisit this halcyon era — or at least parts of it. Microsoft made the surprise announcement this week that it is bringing original Xbox games to Windows PC. The program…

Merit seat vacancies after the first supplementary allotment and sanctioning of 120 additional temporary batches in Palakkad, Malappuram. Kozhikode, and Kasaragod will be published for school/combination transfer allotment on Saturday. Students who have taken admission to merit quota and sports quota under the single-window admission can apply for transfer from 10 a.m. on Saturday to 1 p.m. on Monday. For details, visit Vacancies and other details after school/combination transfer will be published for second supplementary allotment on August 1. Published - July 24, 2026 11:28 pm IST

The Puducherry government has made a comprehensive revision of sporting disciplines for inclusion in the authorised and valid list for the purpose of admissions to higher education institutions under the Meritorious Sports Persons Quota and for distribution of cash awards to medal winners in the Union Territory. The list of sports disciplines eligible for reservation in admission to higher education courses and for cash awards has been scaled down to 35 from the earlier 65. The revision of the list was made to encourage genuine sporting excellence among sportspersons and to promote sports disciplines which have established participation among…

Heated Rivalry thirst traps: The Canadian export that won't quit Steamy new Under Armour ad with François Arnaud walks line between advocacy and advertising First it was Hudson Williams for Peloton. Now it's François Arnaud for Under Armour. It seems U.S. fitness brands can't get enough of the Canadian actors who portray the beloved fictional hockey players in Heated Rivalry ... and the internet is eating it up. Both campaigns bear certain hallmarks that push them from equipment advertisement into clear thirst-trap territory: close-ups on chiselled abs, artistic beads of sweat and coquettish looks into the camera. Everyone involved understands two…

Tomb Raider: Catalyst was revealed back at last year’s Game Awards with a teaser that ended with a 2027 release date. The long-awaited 12th entry in the action-adventure series will no longer be making that date, an Amazon gaming executive recently confirmed. The fresh delay means the first new Tomb Raider game in years will also be the first ever to arrive on PlayStation without a disc version. “We’ve announced the two Tomb Raider titles,” Jeffrey Gattis, Amazon’s general manager of gaming, said on this week’s The Game Business Show. “Atlantis comes February 12th of next year and then we’ll follow on in 2028 with the next one. So we’re excited about…

PlayStation Network is experiencing a massive outage Players may be unable to log into their account, play online or purchase games from the PlayStation Store. PlayStation Network (PSN) is going through an outage that's affecting all of Sony's video game services, according to the PlayStation Service Status page. Players may be unable to access their PlayStation account or use the PlayStation Store, and the outage has had at least one real world impact by delaying the EA Sports FC 26 championship at the Esports World Cup. Sony's status page notes that "all services are experiencing issues," including account management features, game streaming, the…

Lara Croft's big comeback at the hands of Amazon has hit yet another hitch. After TV show setbacks and a delay for Tomb Raider 1 "reimagining" Legacy of Atlantis, Amazon's gaming boss has confirmed yet another delay: Lara's other adventure, Tomb Raider: Catalyst, now won't arrive until some time in 2028. Amazon head of gaming Jeffrey Gattis broke the news in a fairly offhand manner while chatting with The Game Business' Chris Dring. Discussing Amazon's games strategy, and its ambition to create a broad gaming portfolio following the recent relaunch of its Luna streaming platform, Gattis said, "We've obviously announced the two Tomb Raider titles:…

I've been vaguely looking forward to grotty dark fantasy RPG The Blood Of Dawnwalker, despite its genAI flirtations. To recap, it casts you as a medieval vampire fledgling whose family has been abducted by another, boss vampire. You've got 30 days and nights to save your loved ones while deciding just how much you're going to succumb to the gore-guzzling curse. Sounds stressful, but the game's modelling of time is quite forgiving: each day is broken into chrono-locked segments, with time only passing when you make certain choices. Also, you can "bend" time by offering murdered people's teeth to the Tooth Fairy. The fairies in question are called…

Shinier hours are coming to Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 3 this Saturday, July 25, with Batman, Pollo, Seven, and Air sprites and Gold, Gummy, Galaxy, and Holofoil variants being far more common. But that's not all that'll happen during the Shinier power hours. Everyone will have big heads, meaning it'll be easier to land headshots. To help you, you'll also start with a self-revive device. Additionally, you'll be twice as likely to find a sprite in a regular chest. Here's when the Shinier power hours will occur this weekend in Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 3. When are the Shinier power hours in Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 3? There will be two sets of Shinier…

If update notifications have stopped showing up on your Ubuntu 26.04 LTS install, that isn't some random glitch. OMG Ubuntu's Joey Sneddon has traced it back to a Launchpad bug report and a Discourse thread that both point to the same root cause. The issue is that update-notifier only sends a desktop notification when its tray icon is visible, and that icon was switched off in Ubuntu 26.04, with nothing in the Settings menu to switch it back on. Guillaume Michaud, who filed the bug on July 5, found 10 pending non-security updates sitting on his machine without a single prompt to install them. He tested it manually. With the tray icon forced on,…

PySINDy is a package for system identification, primarily revolving around the method of Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamical systems (SINDy) method introduced in Brunton et al. (2016a). It also includes other methods from related literature. System identification refers to the process of using measurement data to infer the governing dynamics. Once discovered, these equations can make predictions about future states, can inform control inputs, or can enable the theoretical study using analytical techniques. The resulting models are inherently interpretable and generalizable. The preferred way to install is with pip or conda e.g. pip install…

The web and Google once had a deal: Google collects data and indexes webpages and in exchange sends oceans of traffic to websites. The deal wasn’t perfect and certainly made Google more money than it made the websites, but it worked for a long time. Now, however, the deal seems to be dead. And the web is being forced to reckon with what happens when the Google traffic dries up. You can’t ignore Google Zero anymore On The Vergecast: Google vs. websites, OpenAI vs. Hugging Face, and Ford’s deal with Apple Maps. On The Vergecast: Google vs. websites, OpenAI vs. Hugging Face, and Ford’s deal with Apple Maps. On this episode of The Vergecast, David and…

Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outside its test environment and ended up connected to a real security breach at Hugging Face — a reminder that “China risk” isn’t the only kind of AI risk worth worrying about. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane dig into why Kimi K3 set off a fresh round of AI panic, the industry’s response to an OpenAI staffer’s “regulatory FUD” post, and what that OpenAI breach…

By John Gruber Please enjoy this article on its own webpage. Trust me. You know what a dickover is, even if you didn’t know what to call it (until now). If you use the Internet, you encounter them every day. They’re popovers, but dickheaded. The web is absolutely lousy with them, and mobile apps present them too, with increasing frequency. Dickovers are a veritable scourge. They’re so common they’re effectively part of the firmament. I started calling these things dickpanels in 2022, but when dickover popped into my head last week,1 I couldn’t shake the feeling that it’s a better term for these ubiquitous odious irritations. You can hardly go anywhere…

I built a SaaS in a few hours. It does its job better than tools people pay real money for. And I will never sell it. Every instinct trained into technical people over the past decade says that’s leaving value on the table. Landing page, Stripe, launch post, recurring revenue. That script is practically a religion in indie circles. I think that script is now obsolete. What I’m doing instead, I call Service with a Software: private tools that never get sold, built to make one service impossible to compete with. I’d bet it’s the strongest position left for independent builders. Here’s why, starting with the tool I’ll never sell. The instrument I’m a…

Two years ago, AI coding tools were a curiosity. Agencies let junior devs experiment with them on internal tools and side projects, the kind of work where nothing broke if the code was bad. Client work stayed handwritten. Nobody was betting a deadline on autocomplete. That era is over. The same tools now sit at the centre of how software gets built. Dev shops that once quoted six months for an MVP now quote six weeks, and clients have started asking why anyone would quote more. The tools changed fast. The workflow around them changed just as much: new review habits, new pricing models, and new roles for senior engineers who spend less time typing and…

Pachuca Hosts International Primal Energies Festival of Theatre and Butoh Cultural Investment & Frontier Living The second International Primal Energies Festival will bring nine stage works, Butoh, and body-research laboratories to Pachuca this July, signalling Hidalgo’s growing pull as a cultural-tourism destination for investors and expats watching Mexico’s decentralising arts economy. A Festival Built on Physical Research The second International Encounter “Energías de lo Primitivo: Investigación y Prácticas Escénicas” opens on 23 July at the Sala Ramón Noble inside Pachuca’s Centro Cultural del Ferrocarril. Organisers have programmed nine…

Declare behavior. Ship. Repeat. React, Vue, Svelte, and Solid solve rendering and leave the architecture to you. Foldkit gives you the architecture, so you can focus on your domain. Predictable state One immutable model holds your entire application state. Every change flows through a single update function. No hidden mutations, no stale closures, no surprises. Explicit effects Side effects are values you return from update, not imperative calls buried in handlers. Commands describe what should happen. The runtime handles when and how. Scales with grace Complexity grows linearly, not exponentially. A 50-file app follows the same patterns as a 5-file…

When developers transition from the relational world (MySQL, PostgreSQL) to Firestore, Firebase's NoSQL document database, they often bring their old habits with them. They try to replicate tables, foreign keys, and joins. The result? Complex queries, skyrocketing read costs, and a database structure that becomes a nightmare to maintain after just a few features. To understand how Firestore works, we first need to look at our point of comparison: the relational model. Once we map out how SQL does things, we can see exactly where Firestore diverges, and how to structure NoSQL data correctly. In this guide, we'll cover NoSQL design principles, embedding…

The race to build artificial intelligence infrastructure at a trillion-dollar annual clip is eroding the free cash flow and increasing balance-sheet risk at so-called hyperscalers, warned Moody's Ratings. In a research note released this week, Moody's said that the spending surge is forcing even the world's most cash-rich corporations like Alphabet and Microsoft to lean heavily on debt, stock sales and off-balance-sheet moves to fund their AI ambitions. "Previously, these companies relied on asset-light structures centered on software, intellectual property, and scalable cloud services that required modest capital investment," Moody's said in the…

MANILA, Philippines — Washington on Friday formally imposed a new 12.5-percent tariff on Philippine exports, joining dozens of other US trading partners that the Trump administration said had failed to adopt adequate prohibitions against the importation of goods made with forced labor. This means Philippine goods entering the United States will again face higher import […]...Keep on reading: US slaps PH exports with higher 12.5% tariff

Migration and financial services are linked through remittances, transaction accounts, foreign exchange, mobile wallets, cash-out networks, merchant payments, and the broader task of moving money safely, cheaply and lawfully across borders. To put it simply: people move; money moves; and â crucially â support for families and for businesses is created. It is of course well known that our continent receives about $100-billion a year in remittances from migrants back to their countries of origin. For context, this is more than twice the amount that Africa receives in a year as Foreign direct investment (FDI) and 1.6 times the amount we receive in…

Don’t believe the Trump administration’s rationale for its new volley of tariffs against everybody. The new levies, ostensibly to punish countries for failing to do enough to curb forced labor, switched on at 12.01am on Friday, to coincide with the expiration of a temporary 10% blanket duty that Donald Trump imposed in February, ostensibly to protect the United States from a balance-of-payments crisis. That duty was imposed right after the supreme court struck down tariffs the president unleashed on US trading partners last year on the also spurious grounds that the US faced a variety of national emergencies. The shifting justifications alone…

MANILA, Philippines — Philippine National Bank (PNB) posted a 17-percent increase in first-half net income, driven by higher lending activity, stronger fee-based income and improving asset quality despite a volatile market environment. On Friday, the Lucio Tan-led bank said net income reached P14.6 billion in the first six months of 2026, up from P12.5 billion […]...Keep on reading: PNB first-half profit jumped 17% to P14.6B

How Trump's new round of tariffs could impact businesses and consumers The markets showed a muted reaction as President Trump announced the latest round of tariffs on Thursday over "forced labor" concerns. Moneywatch correspondent Kelly O'Grady reports.

President Donald Trump on Friday said his administration will launch a trade probe into the European Union that will cancel hefty fines levied against U.S. tech giants and likely result in a "substantial" tariff on the 27-member bloc. Trump, in a lengthy Truth Social post, accused the EU of "'ROBBING' American Companies and, in turn, the American Taxpayer" as he raged over its recent $1 billion fine on Google for allegedly giving priority to its own services in its search engine. "The European Union is at it again and, as usual, taking direct aim at GREAT American Companies!" Trump wrote in the post, which also railed against prior European fines…

Sign in. It’s quick, free and it’s up to you. An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more. DONALD TRUMP HAS threatened to impose “substantial” tariffs on the European Union over fines that the bloc has placed on a number of US tech giants. The EU this week hit Google with fines totalling €890 million for illegally favouring its own services over rivals in search results, and from barring app developers from showing consumers offers, free of charge, outside the Google Play store. The penalties are the largest yet against a single company under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the EU’s signature tech competition law. In 2025,…

Here are some of the companies making headlines in midday trading. Data center infrastructure — Investors backed away from shares of companies involved in the data center infrastructure industry as concern continued around hyperscaler spending on artificial intelligence. Shares of specialty glass and fiber company Corning lost 3%, while shares of photonics plays Coherent and Lumentum dropped roughly 7% each. Shares of GE Vernova , Eaton and the Defiance AI & Power Infrastructure ETF (AIPO) were all down more than 1%. Tesla — Shares of Elon Musk's electric vehicle company slid for a third day, dropping more than 3% on Friday. Tesla's stock is heading…

MOSCOW, July 24. /TASS/. Russia’s stock market closed in the green on Friday as the ruble-denominated MOEX Index added 0.96% to 2,165.54 points, while the dollar-denominated RTS Index gained 1.44% to 874.26 points. The yuan exchange rate against the ruble lost 9 kopecks to 11.48 rubles. "The MOEX Index ended the week on a high note, edging closer to the 2,200-point mark. The stock market received an unexpected gift in the form of a 25-basis-point cut in the key interest rate, bringing it down to 14%. Consensus expectations had been virtually unanimous in anticipating a pause in monetary policy adjustments," said Andrey Smirnov, stock market analyst at…

Even as the CPI(M) scheduled a Statewide candle light protest on Sunday (July 26) against what it termed the Congress-led UDF government’s failure to ensure uninterrupted power supply, Electricity Minister Sunny Joseph has slammed the move, calling it ‘’politically motivated’’ and meant to hide its own past failures when in power. CPI(M) State secretary M.V. Govindan had said that the candle light protest will be held at 7 p.m. on Sunday, urging all households to be a part of it. Responding to the CPI(M) announcement, Mr. Joseph described it as mistimed and said that the people will reject it. Mr. Joseph went on to add that the State government and…

International Criminal Court (ICC) members voted on Friday to dismiss Karim Khan as prosecutor following allegations of sexual misconduct, according to reports in the AP, Reuters and AFP news agencies. A British barrister, Khan was accused of sexual misconduct with a female aide, allegations which he has repeatedly denied. He had been temporarily removed from his duties at the ICC in June, following a report by the executive committee of the court's oversight body that found he had committed "serious misconduct." In all, 82 of the court's 125 member states voted in favor of Khan's removal while 13 voted against and 15 countries abstained. Khan, 56,…

International Criminal Court members dismiss prosecutor Karim Khan, insiders say The UK barrister is accused of having a non-consensual sexual relationship with a junior ICC lawyer Member states of the International Criminal Court voted on Friday to dismiss Karim Khan as prosecutor following allegations of sexual misconduct, according to two diplomatic sources. Speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter, the sources said that 82 of the court’s 125 member states voted in favour of the prosecutor’s removal. Khan, 56, denies any wrongdoing and his lawyers have called the process that led to the vote unlawful, procedurally unfair and…

South Carolina is one step away from becoming the first-in-the-nation Democratic presidential primary state for 2028, after the Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee voted to recommend it at a meeting Friday. The proposed calendar will be voted on by the full DNC at its summer meeting next month in Austin, Texas. The other top contender was Nevada, and the panel grappled with whether the party should prioritize its most consistent voting bloc or the fastest-growing demographic group in the country.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has assured Nigerians that their votes will be counted in the upcoming elections. This reassurance comes as former Head of State and Chairman of the National Peace Committee, NPC, General Abdulsalam Abubakar (rtd), urged Nigerians to support the Commission in preparation for the 2027 General Election. The assurance was provided by the INEC Chairman, Prof. Joash Amupitan, SAN, during a courtesy visit to General Abubakar at his residence in Minna, Niger State, on Friday, July 24, 2026. He was accompanied by a delegation that included National Commissioners, the Secretary to the Commission, Directors,…

Elon Musk fired back at The Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes during a Thursday interview from Tesla's Gigafactory in Texas after she said people loathed him over his efforts to influence European politics. "I think a lot more people hate you and the media more than you realize," Musk told the journalist. Beddoes confronted the Tesla and SpaceX CEO after challenging his support for right-wing European political parties and arguing that his wealth, ownership of X and following on the platform gave him unusual power to shape politics abroad. "Why should you be able to shape European politics? You don’t even live there," Beddoes said. "But…

Violent clashes broke out in Kolkata’s Esplanade area on Friday (July 24, 2026), leaving several people injured as police used tear gas and baton-charged protesters during a march demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Held in solidarity with the protests in Delhi, thousands of supporters of the Cockroach Janta Party and various Left-affiliated student organisations took to the streets, demanding Mr. Pradhan’s resignation, justice for students injured during the police action at Jantar Mantar earlier this week, and the immediate dissolution of the National Testing Agency (NTA). The march began at Sealdah railway…

'Bernard Arnault's Empire' (6/6). The head of the luxury group deliberately raised his five children so that each one could potentially succeed him. While the family presents a united front, the struggle for succession continues behind the scenes.

Iran seeks reset with EU, expanding partnerships across Asia TEHRAN – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has called for rebuilding relations with Germany, expanding cooperation with Ireland and deepening strategic ties with Sri Lanka, as he received the credentials of the three countries' newly appointed ambassadors in Tehran in a series of separate meetings on Wednesday. The meetings underscored Tehran's broader diplomatic strategy of strengthening bilateral partnerships while reaffirming its commitment to dialogue, mutual respect and constructive international engagement. Receiving Germany's new ambassador, Axel Dittmann, President Pezeshkian…

Araghchi's mission to Kyrgyzstan puts Iran's regional strategy in focus TEHRAN — Against the backdrop of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's (SCO) 25th anniversary, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi traveled to Kyrgyzstan this week to participate in the Meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, where regional security, economic cooperation and the future direction of Eurasian diplomacy dominated the agenda. Hosted under Kyrgyzstan's rotating chairmanship, the ministerial gathering brought together foreign ministers from the SCO's member states in the lakeside resort city of Cholpon-Ata, designated the organization's Tourism and…

After four years off X, Nick Bosa is making up for lost time. The San Francisco 49ers star edge rusher had not posted on the social media platform since Nov. 12, 2022, aside from just three reposts. That was until Thursday. The three reposts Bosa had shared included Joe Rogan's 2024 podcast episode with Elon Musk, Michael Bublé promoting a charity, and George Kittle's post from the World Cup final asking for grass instead of turf for NFL stadiums. Ironically, that was the topic of Bosa's last post he wrote himself. But news that circulated this week was enough for Bosa to get his thumbs going, albeit for an extremely short period of time. Bosa quoted…

The Carolina Panthers defense suffered a crushing blow on the first day of training camp. Second-year outside linebacker Nic Scourton tore his ACL during team drills on Thursday, according to multiple reports. The 21-year-old had a strong rookie season and was expected to be a key contributor to the defense. "I'm just sick about it," Panthers general manager Dan Morgan said Thursday night. In 17 games last season, the 2025 second-round draft pick started eight. He recorded 47 tackles, 5.0 sacks and seven tackles for loss. The Panthers signed star edge rusher Jaelan Phillips in the offseason to a four-year, $120 million contract, with the hopes of…

Sign in. It’s quick, free and it’s up to you. An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more. LAST UPDATE | 5 mins ago JÜRGEN KLOPP HAS been confirmed as Germany’s new head coach on a four-year contract. The former Liverpool manager was the first man the DFB turned to when Julian Nagelsmann resigned after a disappointing World Cup ended with a penalty shoot-out exit to Paraguay in the last 32. Klopp’s release from his job as Red Bull’s head of global soccer was secured by the German Football Association making a one million euros donation to the company’s Wings for Life foundation and agreeing to play three internationals in…

VANCOUVER – Backup quarterback Chase Brice will lead the B.C. Lions into Saturday’s game against the Toronto Argonauts with starter Nathan Rourke injured. Rourke, the CFL’s reigning outstanding player, hurt his shoulder on the second play from scrimmage in last week’s 19-17 loss to the Edmonton Elks. Brice entered the game and completed 20-of-32 passes for 226 yards and a touchdown, but also threw four interceptions as the Lions fell to 1-4 on the season. The 28-year-old American is looking forward to another opportunity after a full week of practice reps as B.C.’s starter. “Interceptions are going to happen, sacks are going to happen, there’s going…

Brighton's pre-season plans have been altered after pitches they intended to use in France were rendered unusable by helicopter landings during last month's G7 summit. The club, initially set to train in Evian-les-Bains, near the Swiss border, from July 23 to August 1, has now relocated to Austria. The extensive damage to the playing surfaces occurred when helicopters, transporting various heads of state, including US President Donald Trump and former UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, landed during the high-profile G7 summit held last month. Club staff discovered the issue upon arrival on Wednesday, deeming the pitches a potential injury risk for…

DUBLIN — The All-Ireland Senior Football final, the Irish Super Bowl, takes place Sunday, July 26, at Dublin's historic Croke Park. This year’s game mismatches Kerry and Mayo, Gaelic football’s biggest winners against the most notorious losers in the ancient sport’s history. Kerry fans expected their team to be here. They always do. They’re the defending champs, and will be playing for their 40th title. No other county comes close. Legendary manager Paidi Ó Sé once called his team’s supporters "the roughest type of fucking animals you could ever deal with,” because of their Sam-Maguire-Cup-or-bust standard. The star-laden squad relies most on David…

See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source Adam Ramsay-Peaty's Commonwealth Games return was marred by a bizarre delay which held him back from the pool for 10 minutes. The swimmer, who has added his wife Holly's family surname to his own, made a splash in the 100m breaststroke heats. Ramsay-Peaty recorded the quickest time of anybody in the heats to qualify for the semi-finals this evening, with the final being tomorrow. But the 31-year-old, who is targeting a fifth Commonwealth gold medal, had to wait around due to a strange occurrence. While he was on the blocks, one of the lane dividers broke off, leading to some commotion as…

Should we have seen this coming all along? LeBron James knew that joining the Golden State Warriors would have been a losing gamble on the health of players five times closer to the ends of their careers than the beginnings. He knew the Cleveland Cavaliers, however strong their analytics, hopelessly lacked the unquantifiable greatness of a championship team. He knew the Giannis Antetokounmpo-led Miami Heat were too unproven to hitch his wagon to. Of course he knew. The Philadelphia 76ers aren’t necessarily the best team James could have chosen – I still think he could have soared the highest on the Minnesota Timberwolves (maybe that recruiting call…

Sophie Cunningham has quickly become arguably the second-most popular player in the WNBA, only behind Caitlin Clark, of course. She is a viral star on TikTok, one of the most efficient three-point shooters in the league, Clark’s defender when she’s bullied, a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model, and recently, an unapologetic defender of keeping women’s sports female. She’s the whole package, and many companies are taking advantage of her stardom, including Adidas. On July 10, Adidas announced a player-exclusive Sophie Cunningham shoe that would be available for purchase in 10 days. The Crazy Energy "Sophie Cunningham" PE, a pink gradient colorway,…

Published Defending champion Tadej Pogacar is on the verge of winning a record-equalling fifth Tour de France after taking a storming victory on stage 19 to Alpe d'Huez. The UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider pulled more than three minutes back on a breakaway group on the hors category final climb up to the famous ski resort, which was flanked by thousands of spectators from all around the world. Pogacar, 27, is aiming to become the joint-most successful rider in the Tour's history with five wins, alongside Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain. Pogacar has a dominant lead over Belgium's Remco Evenepoel of Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe…

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss astrology, Flock on the brain, The Odyssey, and more. JASON: This week I wrote pretty much exclusively about Flock, and I am working on a few more articles about automated license plate readers that will probably go in the next week or so. I am well aware that there are other topics in the world, but, basically, there is now so much interest in the company and its practices that I am getting inundated with tips, story ideas, and sources, and it feels like I have to chase many of the leads I’m…

A host of acclaimed entertainers, including Pedro Pascal, Lisa Kudrow, Idris Elba, Kate Hudson, and the band Linkin Park, are set to receive stars on the iconic Hollywood Walk of Fame as part of the prestigious Class of 2027. The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce officially unveiled the full list of honourees during a news conference on Thursday at Funko Hollywood. Actress Ming-Na Wen, celebrated for her roles in Disney's Mulan and The Mandalorian, announced the motion picture and television categories. Recording artist Sheila E. introduced the recording category, with Chamber President and CEO Ron Frierson revealing the remaining honourees. The Walk of…

The Lucasfilm Publishing panel at San Diego Comic-Con was, not too surprisingly, filled with announcements about upcoming Star Wars projects from Marvel. Unexpectedly, however, the panel also revealed that Indiana Jones would be getting his first Marvel Comics series in over three decades. Marvel Comics editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski revealed Indiana Jones and the Sword of Pandemonium during the July 24 panel. The comic will be a limited five-issue series from multi-Eisner-Award-winning writer Jason Aaron and artist Aaron Kuder. Aaron is best known for his seminal yearslong Thor saga that included the creation of Gorr the God Butcher and the…

__ Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldsman__ are the primary ringleaders behind " ", and they're about to unleash the next cluster of 10 Season 4 episodes for their spirited space show. Star Trek: Strange New WorldsWith an abundance of genre-crossing indulgences that are scary, surreal, and sometimes silly, the Paramount+ hit is operating at full warp speed in this penultimate outing, the __ debut episode__ of which just premiered on July 23, 2026. We hitched a ride with the acclaimed executive producers to learn all about their vision for "Strange New Worlds'" fourth season and why they believe it will prove to be the finest one yet, taking cues from…

After teasing the series with some first-look images yesterday, Amazon is finally properly unveiling its Blade Runner streaming series. Called Blade Runner 2099, the show hits Prime Video on November 25th with all eight episodes dropping at once. We also got the first trailer for the series, which is full of Blade Runner staples: a bleak futuristic LA, dramatic narration, and some really good coats. Blade Runner 2099’s moody dystopia streams on Amazon in November The series stars Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer, and you can watch the first trailer now. The series stars Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer, and you can watch the first trailer now. The…

“We already fought a war, we lost.” The first official trailer for Blade Runner 2099 starts with a bang, revealing how much has changed in the world first brought to life by director Ridley Scott since his trailblazing 1982 movie Blade Runner. That film, itself an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's seminal novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, imagined a neon-soaked noir dystopia of 2019 — and popularized the cyberpunk genre in cinema along the way. In 2017, director Denis Villeneuve moved that story forward with Blade Runner 2049, but his film still took place in a world where humanity controls the Earth despite the threat of bioengineered…

Second lady Usha Vance on Friday shared a picture of her newborn infant and two family photographs featuring the second couple and their four children. "Thank you for all the good wishes as we settle into life as a family of six," she wrote, adding a heart emoji in the social media posts. "Meet Alec — and enjoy these attempts at taking a decent family photo with four kids!" she added. It has been less than a week since the baby was born. "We are excited to announce that our baby boy, Alec Neel Vance, was born this morning. Usha and the baby are happy and healthy, and our kids are overjoyed to meet their little brother," the second couple first…

Prime Video has long been teasing its Blade Runner 2099 series, the latest addition to the franchise that began back in 1982 with Ridley Scott’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s 1968 sci-fi classic Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? And while its universe has expanded not just in Denis Villeneuve’s sequel film Blade Runner 2049Â but also in more novels, comics, video games, short films, and the animated series Blade Runner: Black Lotus, 2099 will mark its first live-action TV show. To go with any Blade Runner-adjacent excitement is the killer cast for this one, with the Oscar-winning Michelle Yeoh leading an ensemble that also includes Euphoria‘s…

Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.co.uk See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source Maya Jama has unveiled her new blonde hair as she showcased her bold transformation in a new Instagram snap on Friday. The Love Island presenter, 31, who has been rocking dark brunette locks so far on the show, has switched up her look for a lighter colour. Maya's long locks were styled in loose beachy waves and she was wearing a white racer vest top with a pair of snake print trousers. Suggesting she didn't recognise herself with her new look, Maya wrote: 'Who is sheee'. Maya showed off another stunning look earlier this week when channelled…

Published Tyson Fury stopped Mariusz Wach in a low-key bout in Thailand attended by no more than 1,500 fans - and which was not televised live anywhere in the world. The 37-year-old British heavyweight dominated for seven rounds at the Max Muay Thai Stadium in Pattaya, before the overmatched Wach, 46, retired on his stool at the start of the eighth. Friday's bout was not broadcast on any television or radio platform and will instead form part of the third series of the Netflix reality show 'At Home With The Furys'. The 36th victory of his career moves Fury closer to a potential blockbuster meeting with fellow Briton Anthony Joshua, who has his own…

Veteran Baluchi musician Shir Mohammad Espandar dies at 98 TEHRAN- Shir Mohammad Espandar, the legendary Baluchi donali player whose lifelong dedication helped preserve one of Iran's oldest regional musical traditions, passed away on Wednesday night. He was 98. A towering figure in Iranian folk music, Espandar spent decades introducing the music of Sistan and Baluchestan to audiences both at home and abroad, becoming widely recognized as the country's foremost master of the rare double-flute instrument known as the donali. Born in Bampur, southeastern Iran, he traveled to neighboring Pakistan as a teenager to study traditional music before returning…

Who knew a record player could be so … cute? Tiny Vinyl — the company known for making pocket-sized records — introduced this month a tabletop player designed to spin the collectible four-inch discs. Called the Tiny Vinyl Player, the turnable costs $49.99 and can be purchased exclusively via Target. “When we built the concept of Tiny Vinyl, we were like, ‘Let’s make sure this plays on as many existing record players as possible,’” said Jesse Mann, a music industry veteran and co-founder of Tiny Vinyl. "But we had so many inbound emails from fans asking us to make a player. Target asked us to make a player. So we were like, ‘You know what? Let’s see…

The Weeknd’s After Hours Til Dawn Tour is already one of the highest-grossing concert treks of all time. The venture has brought in just under three-quarters of a billion dollars, and by the time the remaining shows conclude this fall, it may become only the third tour to pass $1 billion, following historic runs by Taylor Swift and Coldplay. The fact that the trek began in 2022, has stretched across four years and supported multiple projects has helped it reach that enormous sum – but it would have been huge no matter what. The Weeknd has no trouble selling out some of the largest venues in the world, as he has done for more than a decade at this…

If you only have time for ONE place tonight, make it this legendary samba corner in Vila Madalena. It is the quintessential São Paulo Friday: live, sweaty, joyful samba de raiz played by incredible musicians crammed into a tiny, buzzing street-corner bar. The crowd is a beautiful mix of twenty-something Paulistanos, foreign residents, and old-school bohemians. Arrive by 9:30 pm to claim pavement space before it reaches blissful, shoulder-to-shoulder chaos. Tonight at a Glance —Bar Ó do Borogodó Authentic, sweaty street-samba in Vila Madalena; mixed crowd of locals and expats; best on Friday nights from 9:30 pm. —Tokyo Marine Hall (The Week) São…

Jon Bon Jovi unexpectedly cut his Madison Square Garden concert short Thursday night after appearing to have difficulty getting through the performance – forcing Train frontman Pat Monahan to step in and help carry the show across the finish line. A representative for Bon Jovi confirmed to Fox News Digital that the concert ended early, saying the singer told fans from the stage he had been battling a health setback. "Jon Bon Jovi spoke from stage and told fans he has been battling a sinus infection which led to the show's early ending," the representative said in a statement. "As part of the Bon Jovi residency at Madison Square Garden, Jon has said…

Adele Cardin·July 24, 2026 · 07:00 BRT·19 min read Rio de Janeiro · Nightlife If You Only Go to One Place Pedra do Sal If you only have one night in Rio, this is where you feel the city’s soul. A free, open-air samba roda at a historic Afro-Brazilian site in Saúde, packed with locals, musicians and a few savvy visitors. Go tonight, Friday, when the roda traditionally kicks off around 7 or 8 pm, grab a caipirinha from a street vendor, and stand inches from the drummers. It’s the real juice of Brasil, and it’s only truly alive on Mondays and Fridays. Tonight at a Glance —Pedra do Sal (Saúde) The essential Friday samba pilgrimage – free, open-air,…

Old songs are increasingly dominating Spotify charts, prompting country music star Chris Janson to weigh in on the trend. He discusses inspiration from classic artists like Tim McGraw and Keith Urban, contrasting with modern music's pace and AI. Janson also previews his upcoming PBR Space Cowboys concert, streaming live on Fox Nation June 20, 2026, from Colorado Springs. Morgan Wallen released his latest single for fans on Friday. The country music sensation is the unquestioned king of the genre at the moment, and he appears to show no signs of giving up the throne. Whether the awards shows want to give him the recognition he's earned or not, his…

Millions of people know “Opus No. 1” without knowing its name. For generations of callers trapped on hold, listening to its endlessly looping melody as time ticks by, it has become the soundtrack to life’s eternal questions: What is this? How did I get here? Or simply, Why? Understandably, then, Tim Carleton, its creator, has a complicated relationship with his creation. He first wrote the melody around age 10, then fleshed it out in 1989 on a Yamaha DX7 synthesizer he’d bought from Gordon’s Music & Sound in Fairfield, California, with money from his 16th birthday. A teenager’s take on New Age music, drawing inspiration from Yanni, Kitaro and Art of…

The world continues to wait for new music from Rihanna, just as it has for so many years. At this point, it seems entirely possible that she may never deliver another album. The singer made herself into one of the biggest hitmakers of all time, but these days, she appears more focused on her cosmetics empire, which helped make her a billionaire, as well as her children. When she does create music, it is almost always tied to film projects. Thankfully, Rihanna remains a constant winner on the Billboard charts thanks to several of her most popular and critically acclaimed albums, as well as a handful of songs that helped define a generation of music…

Rubén Blades Confirms Medellín Farewell Concert for November 2026 LIFE: Medellín The “poet of salsa,” Rubén Blades, has confirmed a Medellín concert on 21 November 2026 at the DAVIarena, bringing his Grammy-winning Fotografías Tour and the Roberto Delgado Big Band to Colombia as part of his farewell cycle. A Farewell Cycle Begins in Medellín Rubén Blades will return to Medellín for a headline show that local organisers are calling one of the city’s most important musical events of the year. The performance is part of the Fotografías Tour, a global run tied to his Latin Grammy-winning album of the same name. Colombian media have widely reported that…

After two long years, the world’s largest hot dog has made its triumphant return to New York City. Hot Dog: The Second Serving is now on display in Duffy Square, a plaza within Times Square, and aligns with the United States’ 250th anniversary. Conceptual artists Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw first unveiled the 65-foot-long wiener sculpture in 2024. It spent its brat summer parked in Times Square as part of its appropriately titled Hot Dog in the City exhibition. Multiple events in front of the giant frankfurter including themed wrestling matches, Q&A interviews with food historians and local food vendors, and daily confetti cannon firings from inside…

The story so far: The India-U.K. Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) came into force on July 15, 2026, cutting tariffs on 99% of Indian exports and loosening some mobility rules for professionals. But, as even Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal has said in the past, problematic issues have been left out of the deal, leaving the trade deal to include only those where there was agreement. There are three such key issues that remain unaddressed. Why is investment missing from the deal? Although the title CETA includes the word ‘economic’, it is missing a dedicated section on investments, which does appear in other deals that India has…

Some 44,000 people left the Cap Ferret peninsula, known for its millionaire residents, south of Bordeaux, whose only road out was threatened by flames. Both France and Spain have called in EU firefighting help.

As wildfires rage across North America and southern Europe, an unlikely firefighting force is helping prevent devastating blazes in Spain’s Catalan countryside: a herd of rescue donkeys. Tivissa Donkeys Firefighters, a Catalan charity, has taken fire management into its own hands by rescuing abandoned and neglected donkeys, offering veterinary care, and providing space for the animals to graze and roam freely as part of a herd. The organization’s “donkey brigade” also assists with sustainable forest management by grazing on flammable undergrowth, which helps prevent fires and aids in fire-extinguishing efforts. Spain has had about 114,796 hectares of…

In the 1980s, Scotland planted commercial trees across parts of a 9,000-year-old peatland; decades later, conservationists are removing them to protect wildlife and keep its stored carbon in the ground. The massive project centers on the Flow Country, a vast area of wet bog covering over 400,000 hectares across Caithness and Sutherland in northern Scotland. In July 2024, UNESCO named the area a World Heritage Site, placing it alongside natural treasures like the Great Barrier Reef and the Grand Canyon. It became the world's first peatland to get this special status. King Charles III marked the event by visiting the Royal Society for the Protection of…

Water company bosses’ total pay rose over the past year despite a government bonus ban and public outrage over pollution and bills, the Guardian can reveal. One chief executive, Mark Thurston of Anglian Water, received £1.9m – including a £500,000 “retention payment”, despite the bonus ban. The biggest package went to Louise Beardmore, chief executive of United Utilities, who received £2.5m – £1.1m more than the previous year. Overall reported pay packets rose by 1.5% to £25.3m for chief executives and chief financial officers in the year, thanks to salary rises and the use of pay loopholes, according to analysis of the 14 companies that serve most of…

U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to tariff Canada over the wildfire smoke that has "invaded" major cities like New York and Chicago, saying we aren't doing enough to manage the fires. The Globe’s Jesse Winter, who has covered wildfires for years, explains what Trump’s claims overlook. Alex Migdal/The Globe and Mail

The metropolis received the first spell of monsoon showers on Friday after multiple localities reported light to moderate rain. According to Dawn News, Azizabad, Gulistan-i-Jauhar, Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Sharea Faisal, Sohrab Goth, Gulshan-i-Maymar, Ancholi, Manghopir, Surjani Town, North Karachi, North Nazimabad, Super Highway, Ahsanabad and Nazimabad experienced rain. It added that Site Area, Rizvia, Golimar, Liaquatabad, Orangi Town, Benaras, Ibrahim Hyderi, Clifton, DHA, Korangi, Landhi, Malir, Shah Faisal Colony, Model Town and other neighbourhoods also received rain. The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has forecast cloudy weather with light…

Canada is on fire. Over 190 wildfires raging in Ontario in July have so far burned more than 735,000 hectares of boreal, or subarctic, forest. And the thick smoke from those blazes smothered the U.S. Midwest and East Coast for days with thick plumes of hazardous haze. A similar scenario happened in 2023, when smoke from a devastating, record-breaking fire year in Canada also turned some U.S. city skylines orange. Projections of future climate change suggest there will probably be many more such events. What’s behind the rise in extreme fires in North America? Here are three sometimes counterintuitive facts about boreal fires that might help pierce…

Europe battles fast-moving wildfires sweeping across Spain and France, in photos Bookmark Bookmark popover Removed from bookmarks Wildfires raced across forests in France and Spain, sending residents fleeing and filling the sky with smoke as firefighters from across Europe joined efforts to contain the blazes. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. Thank you for registering Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in

North West ANC-linked businessman Suliman Carrim was at a shop and an eatery in Cape Town recently â even though a doctor deemed him medically unfit to testify before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry. On Friday, 24 July 2026, the commission heard an application, brought by Carrim (whose first name is also recorded as Suleiman), to postpone his testimony before it. A ruling on his application will be made at a later stage. During Fridayâs proceedings, it emerged that earlier this month, Carrim had been at a mall in Durbanville, in Cape Townâs northern suburbs, where he went into a Woolworths store and a Kauai eatery. Previously, it was heard that…

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Friday directed the Director-General of Police to constitute within 48 hours a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by an officer not below the rank of Superintendent of Police from the CB-CID or another specialised unit unconnected with Sivaganga district, to probe the death of a pregnant woman reported in the district. The woman’s family has alleged dowry-related cruelty. Justice L. Victoria Gowri directed the Director of Medical Education and Research to constitute the neutral multidisciplinary medical board within 24 hours. The neutral board should take custody of the body and commence the…

An autopsy found no signs of violence in the death of modelling scout Daniel Siad, who had ties to the late convicted U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Siad, 69, was found dead at his home in Colombes, northwest of Paris, on July 20. "No trace of recent violence potentially linked to the death was found," Nanterre prosecutor's office said in a statement Friday, adding that the autopsy, conducted on July 23, had not established a direct cause of death. The examination did reveal impaired health and traces of a previous heart attack, the prosecutors added. Toxicology and pathology tests to establish the cause of death were still pending. Siad's name…

Jewish leaders in New York City are accusing Mayor Zohran Mamdani of " fanning the flames of hatred and division" as an investigation is continuing Friday into a pair of stabbings in Manhattan’s Upper West Side that are being looked at as potential hate crimes. New York Attorney General Letitia James said both victims in Thursday’s attack are currently in stable condition. The suspect, identified as Raul Morales, 51, is accused of yelling "Allahu Akbar" while stabbing two men on Thursday afternoon, according to officials. "When the mayor of New York repeatedly uses his platform to relentlessly single out and demonize Israel, the world's only Jewish…

Sign in. It’s quick, free and it’s up to you. An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more. SENTENCING OF A man who pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of a Cork mother of two has been adjourned until October arising out of difficulties caused by the solicitors’ strike. Joseph Butler (43) who is originally from Midleton, Co Cork previously pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Paula Canty (31) in Mallow, Co Cork on 3 January 2025. He had previously been charged with the murder contrary to common law of Canty at the Belfry, Bridewell Lane in Mallow. Ms Canty, a native of Kinsale, Co Cork died three days before her 32nd…

Israeli settlers have fired live ammunition at Palestinian residents in the village of Urif, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to local reports. Confrontations are continuing in the West Bank after a group of armed settlers killed four Palestinians in the village of Tel, near Nablus on Friday, while a Palestinian seized a weapon from one of the settlers and opened fire, killing two of them.

A Massachusetts judge has partially granted a grieving father’s request to shield some of the most graphic evidence expected to surface at the murder trial of his now-ex-wife, who is accused of strangling their three young children inside the family’s home. Plymouth Superior Court Judge William Sullivan ruled Friday that the media and public may not record, display, reproduce or distribute Patrick Clancy’s initial 911 call or autopsy photographs of 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan Clancy. The evidence may still be presented to jurors during Lindsay Clancy’s trial, which is set to begin Monday with opening statements. Reporters…

Eleven people were indicted this week for allegedly participating in a years-long human smuggling operation that left seven illegal migrants dead in May after they were trapped for hours inside an unventilated shipping container in Texas. Prosecutors say the migrants were loaded into the container near Del Rio before it was transported by train across the state. Six were later found dead inside it in Laredo and a seventh was discovered near railroad tracks at the San Antonio stop, according to authorities. The victims — four Mexican nationals and three Honduran nationals — had no chance of escape because the container could not be opened from the…

A former Missouri police officer compared himself to Jesus before being sentenced to 10 years in prison for leaving a shoplifting suspect beaten, bloodied and with a broken jaw. Former Northwoods Police Officer Samuel Davis, 28, was convicted in March of violating Charles Garmon’s civil rights after prosecutors said he drove Garmon from a Walgreens on July 4, 2023, to a Kinloch field several jurisdictions away instead of taking him to jail. Davis turned off his body camera, pepper-sprayed Garmon, beat him with a baton, broke his jaw and threatened to kill him if he returned to Northwoods, prosecutors claim. A passerby later interrupted the attack…

A US attorney announced a federal indictment on Friday against 11 people in the smuggling deaths of six migrants whose bodies were found in a rail cargo container in Texas in May. The six people were found dead in a rail yard shipping container in Laredo, on the US-Mexico border. They were from Honduras and Mexico and included a 14-year-old boy, all part of a human-smuggling effort on a freight train, authorities said. The oldest victim was 56. Laredo is home to a popular land port teeming with trade activity between Mexico and the US, which had led investigators to believe early on that the deaths were the result of smuggling. The bodies were…

Karnataka State Electronics Development Corporation Limited (KEONICS), a State-owned enterprise that promotes electronics and IT, on Friday announced that it was all set for the State-wide rollout and deployment of its recently designed and developed “KEO PC.” KEO is an open-source, low-cost, AI-ready, plug-and-play mass personal computing system built by KEONICs to make technology accessible and affordable to schools, students, households and small and micro enterprises across rural Karnataka. In about a week Sharath Bache Gowda, Chairman, KEONICS, told The Hindu, “We are all set for the State-wide rollout of KEO PCs, may be in a week’s time. Then we…

British sprinter and Olympian CJ Ujah has denied playing a part in an alleged cryptocurrency fraud. The athlete, who competed at the 2016 and 2021 Olympic Games, appeared among nine others before Chelmsford Crown Court on Friday. The group are accused of being part of an organised crime group linked to a scam. The scam was said to have involved phone calls to multiple victims from people purporting to be police officers and cryptocurrency companies. Victims are reported to have been tricked into sharing important security details before discovering funds stored in their crypto wallets had been stolen. One of the victims is alleged to have lost more…

MANILA, Philippines — The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has tapped banking veteran Dino Gasmen to lead its financial markets operations, placing him in charge of open market operations, foreign exchange, management of international reserves and related risk management activities. Gasmen will assume the post of assistant governor for financial markets on Jan. 18, 2027, […]...Keep on reading: It’s official: BSP names Gasmen new treasury chief

In brief The 3 leading U.S. digital asset trade groups — @crypto_council, @BlockchainAssn, and @DigitalChamber — express strong support for Senate floor consideration of the Clarity Act. The time is now for Clarity. pic.twitter.com/CCVNH6Yrqy — Crypto Council for Innovation (@crypto_council) July 24, 2026 I’ve had many conversations since this came out yesterday, and it doesn’t reflect the current state of play. There is a clear path to pass the Clarity Act before the recess on August 7 – and we must seize it. To the crypto community: This is our moment. We can get this done. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/kKlMJV8Xt7 — Kristin Smith (@KristinSmith) July 24, 2026

In brief Poolin Technology filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on July 22. The largest single debt, $163.7 million, is owed to about 11,700 users. Thor CALAP LLC has placed a $52 million stalking-horse bid for Poolin's two West Texas mining sites, setting the floor for a court-supervised auction. Poolin Technology Pte. Ltd., the Singapore-based company that once ran one of Bitcoin's largest mining pools, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on July 22—the U.S. legal process that lets a company operate under court supervision while it reorganizes or, in this case, sells off its remaining assets and shuts down. The filing, in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the…

2 cyclists crossing Canada for men's mental health have bikes stolen in downtown Winnipeg 'Those bikes were given to us by the community … so it's definitely hard': rider Val Duquenne Two men on a charity ride to raise awareness for men's mental health had their bikes stolen in downtown Winnipeg on Friday morning. Val Duquenne, 24, and Thomas Clark, 23, stopped in for an interview at CBC Manitoba's Portage Avenue studio. When they left, their bikes were gone. The U-lock securing the bikes to a rack on the back of their car, parked on Young Street just off Portage, had been cut off. "We were in there maybe 30, 40 minutes max," Clark said after…

In a move to crack down on exam malpractices, the Centre has taken a slew of actions, including strengthening the anti-paper leak law and terminating services of up to 47 officials in the National Testing Agency (NTA). Also read: Jantar Mantar protest updates on July 24, 2026 The Union Cabinet on Friday (July 24, 2026) cleared a proposal to introduce amendments to the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024, endowing the anti-paper leak law with tougher penalties and time-bound trial mechanisms. Sources in the Ministry of Education said that in a bid to bring about exam reforms, the NTA had terminated 47 officials from their…

TL;DR World Foundation raised $52M via locked token sale led by Pantera Capital to expand World ID proof-of-human tech across enterprise platforms World Foundation raised $52M via locked token sale led by Pantera Capital to expand World ID proof-of-human tech across enterprise platforms World Foundation has raised $52 million through a locked token sale to expand the reach of World ID, its iris-scan-based system for proving someone is a real human online. Pantera Capital led the initial close, joined by Bain Capital Crypto, Eightco Holdings, Selini Capital, and Susquehanna Crypto, with all WLD tokens sold subject to a 12-month lockup. The fundraise…

Anthropic says Opus 5 can nearly match its top-performing model for half the price It also has less restrictive safeguards than the Fable model. Just as it was starting to feel like Anthropic had begun to neglect its Opus model, the company has released a new version of its one-time flagship LLM. According to Anthropic, Opus 5 offers capabilities that come close to Fable 5, Anthropic's most powerful commercially available model, at half the price. More on pricing in a bit, but as for performance, Anthropic says Opus 5 is better at knowledge work than any of its past models. It's also substantially better at complex coding tasks than Opus 4.8.…

Crypto advocacy groups support CLARITY passage as ethics rules face pushback The window for US lawmakers to address a comprehensive crypto market structure bill before the 2026 elections is closing, and industry organizations are calling for action. The Crypto Council for Innovation, Digital Chamber and Blockchain Association wrote to US Senate leaders on Friday calling for the chamber to prioritize “floor consideration” of the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act. In a Friday letter to Senator Majority Leader John Thune and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the three cryptocurrency advocacy groups urged consideration of the CLARITY Act, which…

Ford Motor Co. has announced the recall of more than half a million Bronco vehicles due to a wiring harness defect that poses a significant fire risk. The recall affects 565,691 Ford Broncos and Bronco Raptors from model years 2021-2026. The issue stems from inadequate protection on the engine compartment's wiring harness, which can lead to exposed wires and subsequent short-circuiting. Drivers might observe smoke emanating from air vents or a warning message on their dashboard, potentially followed by flames from the passenger side of the engine compartment. Ford estimates that approximately one per cent of the affected vehicles exhibit this defect,…

If youâre planning to get your hands on Samsungâs latest, squattest foldable, just know that they may not last through as many hits at the charging station as your previous Samsung flagship phone. The Galaxy Z Fold 8 family of devices is Samsung’s first lineup with silicon carbide batteries. This type of battery material is more heat resistant and therefore more resilient and efficient. The battery type also normally holds more of a charge than the same-sized lithium ion battery. The problem is that, according to EU regulatory documents first reported by 9to5Google, Samsungâs new phones also wonât maintain their full charge after just 1,200 charging…

Most drivers attached to online taxi aggregator firms, barring a prominent online taxi-car platform, on Friday (July 24, 2026) evening decided to call off the indefinite ‘offline strike’ that the All Kerala Online Drivers Union Alliance (AKODUA) and other allied bodies had embarked on since July 21. The app-based mobility platforms, mainly Kerala Savari and Rapido, have decided to resume services after the three-day strike, said Sajin Jose, a representative of the online drivers’ alliance. “With Uber not heeding the demands that we have persistently raised over the past decade, including reducing the percentage of commission levied on fares, it has…

Topline Ford on Friday issued a recall involving more than half a million of its Bronco SUVs, citing a wiring defect that could start a fire in the engine, according to a regulatory filing—another large-scale recall for the legacy automaker in recent months following a record-setting number of notices last year. Key Facts Ford’s recall covers Bronco models manufactured between 2021 and 2026, including some of its Bronco Raptors, according to a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration filing on Friday. The vehicles may include a defect that may cause a short in the engine compartment’s wiring harness, potentially creating heat or a spark that…

I’m writing this from the 59th floor of a hotel in Las Vegas, on what our American friends would call ‘vacation’, having already been in San Francisco and LA. Don’t be alarmed, you’re not reading Annabel Grossman’s Travel Insider email newsletter (do subscribe if you haven’t already – it’s brilliant!), there is a car angle to all this – and it’s about the cars I haven’t been driving over the past week or so. My normal default setting is to hire a car when in the US – when in Rome, etc… However, I resisted the temptation in San Francisco, instead choosing to download the Waymo app. Okay, full disclosure, I used Uber for the 30 minute journey from the…

The WNBA’s rapid commercial growth has transformed WNBA All-Star Weekend into one of the most valuable stages in sports marketing and partnerships, where brands are competing for not only visibility, but for meaningful engagement with fans. As one of the league’s longest-standing corporate partners, AT&T is leaning into that opportunity with a strategy centered on long-term investment, fan-first experiences, and emerging technology. At this year's WNBA All-Star festivities in Chicago, the company is debuting new activations designed to deepen fan connections, while reinforcing its commitment to the league's continued growth. As the title partner of…

Ford Motor Co. is recalling more than half a million Bronco vehicles because a short circuit in the cars' engine compartments can create heat or spark, and pose a fire risk. Up to 565,691 Bronco and Bronco Raptor vehicles from the years 2021 to 2026 could be affected, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The cars' engine compartments have a wiring harness that can short-circuit if it's damaged, according to NHTSA. When a short circuit occurs, it can create smoke or start a fire, and potentially cause serious injury or death. Only about 1% of the vehicles under recall have the defect, according to the automaker. To…

I’ve been lucky enough to have a car that has Android Automotive for the better part of five years, and in that time, it made me realize just how much better Android Auto is for most people despite its problems, bugs, and foibles. After switching from an ICE vehicle to an EV around 2020, I was in love with the idea of Android Automotive as the core experience. It might now be “Google built-in,” but it’ll always be Automotive to me for what it’s worth. As much as it was a novel experience and does make your phone feel like an extension of your phone, it’s still limited by how many updates come from carmakers, the visuals, and the integrations, which…

Bath & Body Works is spritzing up its stores with new layouts and signage designed to help shoppers more easily discover its fragrances and personal care products. The retailer - which has become a staple in malls - is redesigning its U.S. and Canadian locations with a more streamlined shopping experience, organizing products around scent categories rather than traditional displays, the company told Retail Dive. Shoppers will now be able to browse fragrances by categories such as botanicals and blooms, fresh and clean, fruity and bright, treats and sweets, and warm and woodsy. Products will also be grouped by key categories, including body care, hand…

Thousands of property owners in Delhi's Lal Dora and Abadi villages are set to receive digitally verified smart property cards under the Centre's Svamitva scheme, with the government preparing to begin distribution after completing surveys across several villages. The move is aimed at addressing the long-standing absence of authenticated ownership records in these settlements by issuing property cards backed by digital records. The government expects the initiative to help reduce disputes and strengthen land record management. Chief minister Rekha Gupta said that surveys have been completed in 48 villages, while the final property cards have been…

The government on Friday increased the prices of petrol and high-speed diesel (HSD) by Rs3.66 and Rs4.80 per litre, respectively, passing on the impact of fluctuating global oil prices following renewed hostilities in the Persian Gulf. Following the changes, the price of petrol stands at Rs335.18 per litre, while that of HSD stands at Rs383.46 per litre. The government is charging a total of Rs110 per litre in taxes and duties on petrol and Rs96 on diesel. The Petroleum Division’s notification said the new prices would be applicable for the next three days. The diesel price has come down from a peak of Rs520.35 recorded on April 3. Its price had…

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, and the Rural Electrification Agency, REA, have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enhance collaboration between Nigeria’s telecommunications and energy sectors. The MoU was signed during a high-level stakeholder workshop titled ‘Unlocking the Energy–Telecoms Nexus for Scalable Digital Infrastructure in Nigeria,’ which took place in Abuja on Friday. This event convened senior government officials, telecommunications operators, tower companies, renewable energy developers, financiers, development partners, and investors to discuss practical strategies for expanding digital infrastructure…

Analysis-Yemen teeters towards renewed war in shadow of Iran conflict By Timour Azhari and Mohammed Ghobari RIYADH/ADEN, July 24 (Reuters) - Yemen is edging towards the resumption of a more than decade-old frozen conflict, Yemeni officials, Western diplomats and analysts say, as attacks on Saudi infrastructure and shipping by Iran-aligned Houthis test the patience of the kingdom and the Yemeni government forces it backs. Houthi and Yemeni government forces have in recent days built up along a front line spanning the Houthi-controlled northwest of Yemen, running from the Red Sea coast to the Saudi border, Yemeni military officials and analysts said.…

Plug-in solar panels that allow households to generate electricity through an ordinary mains socket will become legal in Great Britain from 27 August. The government has now approved changes to existing plug and electricity safety regulations, clearing one of the main barriers preventing plug-in solar kits from being sold by mainstream British retailers. The technology, which is already widely used in parts of Europe, typically consists of one or two small solar panels connected to a microinverter. This converts the electricity generated by the panels into a form that can be fed into a home through a standard three-pin socket. In March, the government…

Gaza City — Inside the tent Malak al-Zaanin has lived in since being displaced from her home in Gaza, the mother of four holds a tray of rice her family received that afternoon from a nearby community kitchen. She has already shared the meal with her husband and children, but her next worry is how to keep the valued leftovers from spoiling in the sweltering heat. Before the war, her refrigerator kept food fresh for days, but due to a lack of electricity caused by Israel’s siege on Gaza, it now sits unused inside the tent. She placed the remaining rice on metal shelves inside the tent, knowing what will inevitably happen amid Gaza’s endemic food…

Drastic climate action can feel overwhelmingly difficult and far away. But making changes to your home, whether you rent a room in a city centre or own a house in the countryside, is a tangible and effective way to shift the dial towards a more environmentally friendly society. This week, we’ve chosen our favourite sustainable solutions – steps you can take now to lower the carbon footprint of the place you live in, make it more nature-friendly and improve its resilience to extreme weather. 1. Do up your driveway Think about using gravel rather than hard surfaces to make a driveway as that can make a difference in terms of flood risks, but also look…

Peru’s FIL Lima 2026: the Fair Where Writers and Business Converge Cultural Economy FIL Lima 2026, Peru’s largest literary gathering, returns to the Jockey Exhibition Centre this July, offering a 16-day window into a cultural market that moves millions of dollars and shapes the country’s soft power abroad. What FIL Lima 2026 actually is The Lima International Book Fair — Feria Internacional del Libro de Lima, universally known as FIL Lima — is the largest publishing and cultural event in Peru. Organised by the Peruvian Chamber of Books, it has run annually for three decades, consistently drawing crowds north of half a million people. The 2026 edition…

MOSCOW, July 24. /TASS/. Rising fuel costs, according to high-frequency data, are beginning to spread to prices of a wide range of goods and services, Russian Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina told a press conference following the regulator’s board meeting. "According to high-frequency data, rising fuel prices are beginning to spread to prices of a wide range of goods and services," she said. This predictably impacted inflation expectations, which rose significantly in July, Nabiullina noted, adding that gasoline is a key benchmark commodity, accounting for a substantial share of household recurring purchases and corporate costs.

Gas prices are rising again following a sharp escalation of the war in Iran. And as Americans look for ways to save money at the pump, many are turning to Costco's gas stations for cheaper fuel. Demand for Costco's gasoline reached record levels during the quarter ended May 10, though the company didn't disclose sales figures in its fiscal third-quarter earnings call. Several warehouses needed multiple fuel deliveries each day to keep up with demand, and the final five weeks of the quarter were Costco's busiest fuel-volume weeks ever, CEO Ron Vachris said on the call. "We've seen really strong demand for Costco gas," says Mike Baker, managing director…

Mexico’s Chile en Nogada Festival Aims for 8-Ton Record LIFE: PUEBLA Two major Cholula cultural festivals converge on Sunday 26 July, as Coffee Fest Sonidero brings specialty coffee and music to the Museo Regional while the Festival “Puebla en Nogada” attempts an eight-ton record chile en nogada at Parque Soria. Coffee Fest Sonidero Brings Specialty Producers to the Pyramid’s Shadow Coffee Fest Sonidero will run from 10:00 to 21:00 on Sunday 26 July at the Museo Regional de Cholula, on Avenida 14 Poniente next to the Great Pyramid. Entry is free, with specialised workshops priced around 200 Mexican pesos (roughly US$10). Around 15 specialty coffee…