We still don’t fully understand the causes of dementia, but scientists are making progress.Most encouragingly, research suggests that almost half of dementia cases could be reduced, at least temporarily, thanks to modifiable risk factors that can help to prevent or postpone the disease from occurring.But a new study reveals we might have been overlooking a … Read more
Microsoft Outlook suffered a major outage around the world on Thursday, with tens of thousands of users struggling to access their email as the company said it was working “aggressively” to reduce the impact. The outage, which Microsoft attributed to a “high load” on its infrastructure, lasted through much of the workday in the United … Read more
Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland announced Thursday that he would challenge Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York for majority leader, prompting a clash among Democrats just as they celebrated their new majority and planned to take control of Congress in January. The move by Van Hollen, a progressive Democrat elected to the Senate in … Read more
After meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff said Thursday that European officials would join the next round of talks to end Moscow’s war in Ukraine, but there were signs of an imminent impasse in the negotiations.
Dow Jones futures rose slightly overnight, along with S&P 500 futures, while Nasdaq futures fell. Cisco Systems and Applied Materials reported late Thursday. The stock market plunged Thursday morning, but closed well below lows despite Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang leaving the company, neocloud Nebius (NBIS) selling off earnings, and Treasury yields rising. Advanced Micro … Read more
The Humble Bundle store for purchasing games and other software recently changed its appearance, but on the settings page it no longer offers a way to add or update two-factor verification methods, as reported by Kotaku. PC Gamer also notes that there are Humble Bundle support pages that discuss two-factor verification, and the author of … Read more
The Washington Commanders and New York Giants will open the Week 10 schedule with “Thursday Night Football” in their second of two meetings this season. Kickoff is scheduled for 8:15 p.m. ET from MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Their first meeting, in Week 5, ended with one of the most baffling (and regrettable) … Read more
NASA images show the exterior and interior scanning of samples taken from asteroid Bennu on a mission in 2020. New research published in the journal Icarus looks at 1998 KY26, a near-Earth asteroid orbiting the Sun, and what’s behind the space rock’s unusual movement. 1998 KY26 has been proposed as a dark comet, an object … Read more
Getting a solid seven to nine hours of sleep each night is crucial for your brain, heart, immune system, and your ability to deal with everything stressful and annoying that happens during your waking hours. But sleep can also be incredibly elusive—especially for midlife women. This is why so many of us turn to melatonin … Read more
Haitian security forces on Thursday regained control of the country’s main stadium that had been under gang control for two years, forcing the national soccer team to play elsewhere. The Haitian National Police said in a statement that it had taken “full control” of the venue with the Task Force, a private security group at … Read more