Members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization are meeting in Kazakhstan Wednesday. It comes amid increasing tensions between two of the group’s most powerful members. Russia and China are competing over influence in Central Asia. The leaders of a club of countries touted by Russia and China as a counterweight to Western global power are meeting […]
Donald Trump wasn’t the only one to get a fundraising boost off his New York hush money conviction — so did Joe Biden. The president’s campaign had its single biggest day of online fundraising the day after Trump was convicted, according to a POLITICO analysis of federal campaign finance data. And as the money flowed […]
The Miami Beach City Commission signed off on increased towing fees Wednesday without any discussion, granting a request by tow companies that claim they need to bring in more cash to keep up with new state regulations and rising insurance costs. Beach Towing and Tremont Towing, the only tow companies allowed to operate in Miami […]
Elon Musk quietly had a third child with Neuralink’s Shivon Zilis, Bloomberg reported. Musk has at least 11 children, including five with his first wife and three with Grimes. Musk has faced scrutiny over his relationships with female employees at SpaceX. Elon Musk quietly had another child with an executive at one of his companies. Neuralink’s […]
By now you’ll be very familiar with most, if not all, of the artificial intelligence, sorry “Apple Intelligence,” features it announced at its WWDC 2024 – but during the reveal, the company went to great lengths to talk about the steps it was taking to safeguard user privacy. To back up Apple Intelligence, Apple introduced […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday quietly signed a controversial condominium bill into law that unit owners are already threatening to sue over if lawmakers don’t fix certain provisions next legislative session. The 154-page bill, HB 1021, is largely about creating more accountability for condominium homeowner associations and managers. But tacked on late in the process […]
Ethan Gaskill, a 29-year-old content creator, begins everyday the same way: “When I wake up in the morning—most people get on their phone and start checking Instagram—I check Facebook Marketplace.” With his Los Angeles home furnished almost exclusively with second-hand items and a TikTok with over 220,000 followers interested in his thrifty hauls, Gaskill trusts […]
A Harvard senior who went viral for her graduation speech, in which she criticized the school for its response to pro-Palestine protests, has shared new details about the lead-up to the moment, including how she planned the addendum the night before. In a dramatic moment at Harvard’s university wide commencement last week, student speaker Shruthi […]
Evan, a high school sophomore from Houston, was stuck on a calculus problem. He pulled up Answer AI on his iPhone, snapped a photo of the problem from his Advanced Placement math textbook, and ran it through the homework app. Within a few seconds, Answer AI had generated an answer alongside a step-by-step process of […]
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Myanmar’s military government appears to be considering reviving a massive China-backed hydroelectric dam project, work on which was suspended more than a decade ago after protests over its possible impact on the environment. A notice from the Information Ministry, published online in the latest issue of the government gazette on Tuesday, […]
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Myanmar’s military government appears to be considering reviving a massive China-backed hydroelectric dam project, work on which was suspended more than a decade ago after protests over its possible impact on the environment. A notice from the Information Ministry, published online in the latest issue of the government gazette on Tuesday, […]
Jeff Bezos Quietly Enters Residential Mortgage Business, Giving High Interest Rate Loans To Other Investors Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. Jeff Bezos may be best known as the founder of Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), but the billionaire has several lesser-known business interests across multiple […]