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This supersonic stock is making headlines after a wild IPO. Here’s why
The stock price of Aerospace company Starfighters Space, which operates the world’s only commercial supersonic aircraft fleet out of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, was down by double digits Tuesday,...
Why Waymo went down in San Francisco
Last weekend, a gnarly power outage in San Francisco took out a number of traffic lights, which, in turn, sent a number of self-driving Waymo robotaxis into a sort...
Consuming news from AI shifts our opinions and reality. Here’s how
Meta’s decision to end its professional fact-checking program sparked a wave of criticism in the tech and media world. Critics warned that dropping expert oversight could erode trust and...
FCC bans new foreign-made drones over national security concerns
The Federal Communications Commission on Monday said it would ban new foreign-made drones, a move that will keep new Chinese-made drones such as those from DJI and Autel out...
Japan will restart the world’s largest nuclear plant after clearing this last major hurdle
The governor of Niigata on Tuesday formally gave local consent to put two reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in the north-central prefecture back online, clearing a last...
Researchers are getting organoids pregnant with human embryos
Only none of it is happening inside a body. These images were captured in a Beijing laboratory, inside a microfluidic chip, as scientists watched the scene unfold. This transparent...
U.S. economy shows strong growth in third quarter, Commerce Department says
The U.S. economy grew at a surprisingly strong 4.3% annual rate in the third quarter, the most rapid expansion in two years, as government and consumer spending, as well...
Quantum computing stocks soar, then fall, in holiday week trading. What’s up with D-Wave, Rigetti, and IonQ?
Santa keeps delivering for quantum computing investors this year. On Monday, shares of well-known quantum computing firms shot up by double digits, with D-Wave Quantum stock up almost 15%...
Silicon Valley says to skip college
Across the country, a growing sentiment suggests the university degree is an artifact of a bygone era, a depreciating asset in an economy obsessed with speed. A recent Gallup...
Wall Street is quiet ahead of holiday closures as markets await new U.S. economic data
Markets are flat early Tuesday in holiday-thinned trading before head of the release of new data on how the U.S. economy fared in the third quarter.Futures for the S&P...
