Sanae Takaichi has broken through one of Asia’s highest glass ceilings, becoming Japan’s first female prime minister after parliament handed the 64-year-old conservative leader a decisive victory on Monday. She pulled in 237 votes in the Lower House and 125…
Love is Blind Season 9 reaches its dramatic conclusion with Episode 12 dropping on Netflix this Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 3 a.m. ET/midnight PT, revealing which of the three remaining couples will actually exchange vows at the altar. The finale…
AWS outage disrupted major online services across the US on Monday, affecting millions of users trying to access Amazon, Snapchat, Venmo, Reddit, and dozens of other platforms. The Amazon Web Service outage started in the early hours of Monday morning,…
Fifty-five Chinese iPhone and iPad owners have taken their frustrations with Apple straight to China’s market regulator, filing a complaint this Monday that accuses the company of playing by different rules in different countries. Led by lawyer Wang Qiongfei, the…
China’s exports of rare earth magnets dropped 6.1% in September, reigniting fears that Beijing could once again use its dominance over this critical component as leverage in trade talks with Washington. The fall to 5,774 tons from a seven-month high…
A blood test that can spot more than 50 types of cancer has just delivered some really encouraging news from a big trial in North America. The Galleri test, made by American pharmaceutical firm Grail, managed to find cancers in…
Shohei Ohtani had himself a Friday night. The kind where you’re telling your grandkids about it someday. He crushed three home runs as the Los Angeles Dodgers swept the Milwaukee Brewers 5-1, and just like that, LA’s back in the…
Huntington Bancshares reported a significant rise in third-quarter profit on Friday, as the regional U.S. lender benefited from increased interest income and fees across all divisions. The Columbus, Ohio-based bank posted net income of $629 million, or 41 cents per…
The Dow fell 410 points on Thursday as Wall Street wrestled with mounting jitters about credit market turmoil and regional banks’ dangerous exposures to bad loans. The broader S&P 500 dropped 0.9% while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite moved 0.8% lower,…
TSMC, the world’s biggest producer of advanced chips, raised its full-year revenue forecast on Thursday, citing a bullish outlook for artificial intelligence spending after posting a record profit that blew past market estimates. The Taiwanese chipmaker now expects mid-30% growth…
Nestle announced Thursday it will cut 16,000 jobs globally as new CEO Philipp Navratil ignites a major restructuring to reverse the world’s largest packaged food company’s declining performance. The jobs being cut represent 5.8% of Nestle’s around 277,000 employees, part…
Prices stable and incentives available as the housing market enters what could be the calm before a buying surge. NewHomeSource parent company Zonda surveys homebuilders every month to figure out what’s actually happening out there, and the September responses tell…
An investor group led by BlackRock and Nvidia announced Wednesday a $40 billion deal to acquire Aligned Data Centers from Macquarie Asset Management (MQG.AX), marking one of the largest transactions in the intensifying race to expand AI infrastructure. The acquisition…
Meta announced Tuesday that Instagram will restrict teenagers to PG-13 content by default, requiring parental permission to change settings. The social media giant faces mounting criticism over harms to children as teen accounts will now filter posts showing sexual content,…
The Canadian dollar steadied on Tuesday after hitting a six-month low, bouncing back as Jerome Powell hinted at more Fed rate cuts ahead. The loonie sat nearly unchanged at 1.4034 per U.S. dollar—that’s 74.21 U.S. cents—after briefly touching 1.4079, its…
