Dow Jones futures will open Sunday night, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. Iran-related news will be the focus over the weekend. The Federal Reserve meeting will take center stage next week, and markets are largely pricing in an interest rate hike on September 16. The stock market lost ground last week as … Read more
Blizzard’s worst kept secret of recent times has been revealed. This is the World of Warcraft version of “Classic+”. The current retail incarnation of World of Warcraft is fun, but it’s a strangely lonely experience. The game’s matchmaking systems introduced a few years ago have, at this point, really damaged the social fabric of the … Read more
Oklahoma State football survives Oregon in big NCAA upset | Replay, highlights OklahomanOklahoma State stuns No. 6 Oregon, ending 21-game FBS streak espn.com The one fight that shouldn’t be ignored after stunning Oregon loss si.com Oklahoma State fans storm field, throw goal post into Theta Pond after upset win over Oregon KOCOOklahoma State Cowboys make … Read more
Physicists have conducted a global search for dark matter. They literally turned the Earth itself into a giant detector. Even stranger is that the experiment picked up dozens of candidate signals that fit predictions for certain types of hypothetical particles that could form dark matter. Those signals still need verification, and there are plenty of … Read more
Dentist Riaz Yar, a specialist in prosthodontics, treats patients struggling with the effects of severe bruxism – worn, cracked and fractured teeth, and dental work that keeps failing. Many also arrive with chronic jaw or facial pain and report poor sleep, all of which need assessing in their own right, he says, rather than simply … Read more
Celine Dion cried tears of joy Saturday as she fulfilled her dream of returning to the stage after years battling a rare neurological disorder with a sold-out concert in Paris. The 58-year-old French-Canadian singer seemed visibly moved as she opened her first full concert in six years with her ’90s French-language ballad “On ne change … Read more
Trump backs Irish reunification, breaking with decades of US politics The Washington PostTrump says he would ‘love to see’ a united Ireland during his visit to Ireland Al JazeeraDonald Trump says he would ‘love’ to see Ireland united The GuardianTrump says Irish unification would be ‘fantastic’, breaking with precedent The New York TimesDonald Trump interrupts … Read more
ICYMI: UK economy grows despite damage from Iran war The British economy grew much more than expected, up 0.4% in July, extending the strong performance seen in the first half of the year despite headwinds from the US-Iran war, Office for National Statistics figures showed on Friday. Compared with a year earlier, output in July … Read more
While OpenAI has confidentially filed for an initial public offering, the company will not go public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman. Altman was recently interviewed by Fortune editor-in-chief Alyson Shontell; Amid the fallout from the OpenAI-HuggingFace hack, as well as broader discussions about AI security, Shontell asked if OpenAI still feels pressure to … Read more
As noted by Nicolas Lellouche, writing for French technology website Numerama, Apple has updated its technical specifications pages for the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max to clarify which models are equipped with its new C2 cellular modem and where. Apple now says that the iPhone 18 Pro has a C2 modem worldwide, … Read more