In Julian Huxley's 1927 short story "The Tissue-Culture King," a scientist becomes lost in the jungle and is captured by a tribe. He soon discovers that the tribal leader has developed a way to ...

Google has quietly updated its list of user-triggered fetchers with new documentation for Google NotebookLM. The importance of this seemingly minor change is that it’s clear that Google NotebookLM ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled the US central bank is on track to deliver another quarter-point interest-rate cut later this month, even as a government shutdown significantly reduces ...

The encryption protecting communications against criminal and nation-state snooping is under threat. As private industry and governments get closer to building useful quantum computers, the algorithms ...

Global stock markets and U.S. stock futures rose early on Wednesday following a mixed close on Wall Street in the prior session. A volatile session was marked by mixed rhetoric from the U.S. and China ...

Shell Plc said the performance of its oil and gas trading operation recovered, after struggling with geopolitical volatility in the second quarter. The division’s performance was “significantly higher ...

Pitch tipping and sign stealing seem to be the hot topics of the 2025 MLB postseason. But what one Mariners slugger did on Wednesday afternoon to seemingly relay signals to his teammates was a little ...

Tesla is now selling retrofit turn signal stalks for Model 3 vehicles in the US, after having deleted the stalks in its update of the Model 3. At first, they were only available in China for certain ...

Jerome H. Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, still sees labor market risks outweighing those posed by higher inflation tied to President Trump’s tariffs. By Colby Smith Colby Smith covers the ...

Earth has entered a grim new climate reality. The planet has officially passed its first climate tipping point. Relentlessly rising heat in the oceans has now pushed corals around the world past their ...

Recent market analysis shows investor confidence in U.S. equities riding at unusually high levels, hinting at a potential near-term pullback that could put an end to the S&P 500’s extended bull run.