The Africa Cup of Nations is reaching a thrilling stage, with the semifinals kicking off this Wednesday as Morocco faces Nigeria and Senegal takes on seven-time champion Egypt in a rematch of their 20...
Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin has discussed his broken relationship with House of the Dragon showrunner Ryan Condal, which the author has candidly described as "worse than rocky" and "aby...
California Attorney General Rob Bonta said there was an "avalanche of reports detailing the non-consensual, sexually explicit material that xAI has produced." Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty I...
Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI In-house legal teams are moving faster with artificial intelligence. Teams now have access to tools that draft legal documents and compare terms across deals. The efficiency ...
White House economic advisor Kevin Hassett (left) and former Fed Gov. Kevin Warsh are leading prediction market odds for the likehood of becoming President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Federal Rese...
Geoeconomic confrontation — ranging from sanctions to tariffs — is the top threat, found the World Economic Forum (WEF)'s Global Risks Report on the eve of its annual meeting gathering the world's bus...
South Korean prosecutors called on Tuesday for the death penalty to be handed down to former president Yoon Suk Yeol for his December 2024 declaration of martial law, which plunged the country into ch...
Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams has come under fire after his new cryptocurrency token crashed just hours following its launch on Monday. As reported by CoinDesk , Adams' "NYC Token" hit a $580 million ma...
Around 10 percent of Meta's Reality Labs division, which develops its XR products and services, will be laid off beginning on Tuesday, as reported by Bloomberg . Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton confir...
Schools across parts of northern Nigeria started reopening on January 12, after months of closure triggered by the abduction of hundreds of students in November 2025. The move follows a circular fro...
Sony’s WH-1000XM6 are among the wireless headphones affected by the Fast Pair vulnerability. Several Bluetooth audio devices from companies like Sony, Anker, and Nothing are susceptible to a new flaw ...
Mercedes-Benz is pausing the roll-out of Drive Pilot, an "eyes off" conditionally automated driving feature that was available in Europe and the US . As first reported by German publication Handelsbla...
Working fewer days might help create buy-in among workers for adopting AI, authors of a book on the four-day workweek suggest. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Adopting a four-day workweek could boost employ...
Internal revolt and external pressure collide in Iran. Plus, Cory Doctorow on the AI hype machine....
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian homes are either entirely without heating, or with severely reduced heating. This, as temperatures rarely rise above minus 10. It’s the result of Russia’s campaign o...
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Some Verizon customers are experiencing service outages. Smith Collection/Gado/Gado via Getty Images A service outage on Monday hit tens of thousands of Verizon users. Verizon said the outage is affec...
US media reports say tariffs will be cut to 15 percent in exchange for TSMC investment....
Steve Zeringue, Mfonsio Andrew, and Campbell Morrison don't subscribe to the "get offline" mentality. Steve Zeringue; Mfonsio Andrew; Campbell Morrison. Forget dumbphones and digital detoxes; ...
Hungary’s president announced on Tuesday that the next parliamentary election will be held on April 12th. Although the official campaign begins in a month, the race is already shaping up to be the mos...