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Airlines are betting on fear-of-flying courses as anxiety grounds millions
With an estimated 10% of Brits affected and $2.5bn in annual lost revenue, airlines are turning nervous flyers into conv...
Desktop Linux Hits Record 10.65% Share in North America as Windows 11 Frustrations Mount
Linux desktop use has doubled past 10% in North America, with Windows 10's end of support and Windows 11's AI push drivi...
Ferrari Amalfi Spider: A Brilliant Convertible Missing Its V-8 Voice
Ferrari's entry-level drop-top impresses with rigidity, pace and braking — but European noise rules have muted its exhau...
US Army Seeks $150K Missiles to Counter Small Drones
The Army's Next Generation C-sUAS Missile program targets Group 2 and 3 drones, with a 5,000-missile buy priced under $1...
Pearson Taps International Student Leaders for New Advisory Board in Australia
Pearson is giving international students in Australia a standing voice in education and employability debates via a new ...
Inside Amazon’s BFI4: How 3,500 Workers and Robots Move 1 Million Packages a Day
A tour of Amazon’s Kent, Washington, warehouse shows how Hercules robots, semi-automated workstations and smart packagin...
Sensex, Nifty End Marginally Higher After Auction-Session Gains; Metals, Autos Lead
Indian benchmarks closed slightly higher after a late closing-auction rally, with metals and autos leading while bank he...
AI Strategy Can Destroy Startup Exit Value, M&A Adviser Warns
Strategic adviser Itay Sagie argues that rushed AI adoption can read as vendor dependency and integration risk to acquir...
Carboxymethyl Cellulose Market Seen Reaching USD 5.04 Billion by 2030 on Processed Food and Pharma Demand
The global carboxymethyl cellulose market is forecast to grow from USD 3.28 billion in 2025 to USD 5.04 billion by 2030,...
Shopify Says AI Search Tripled Store Traffic — Traditional Search Still Growing
Shopify credits its Q2 earnings beat partly to AI agents, which tripled AI-referred traffic and orders year over year — ...
SpaceX's AI Spending Spree Drags Its Shares While Nvidia Gains
SpaceX beat Q2 estimates but its $18.4B capex sent shares down 7%; Nvidia rose as Musk made it the exclusive AI chip par...
S&P 500 Q2 Earnings Track a 47% Growth Rate as AI Spending Extends the Rally
The S&P 500 is on pace for 47% year-on-year Q2 earnings growth, fueled by AI investment — though one-off gains at Alphab...
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Adds 'Real World AI' Stage for Physical-World AI
The fall conference expands its AI program with a new stage on autonomous hardware, edge AI and de-extinction, featuring...
China's State Council Lays Out IP Rules for AI and Open Source by 2030
China's new five-year IP plan targets algorithms, AI-generated works, data and open-source licensing, shifting policy fr...
Chinese Regions Pay Travel Agencies Cash to Attract More Inbound Tourists
Chongqing, Guizhou and other Chinese regions are paying travel agencies per inbound visitor — with higher rates for emer...
Texas Court Deals Another Blow to Shipper Liability as C.H. Robinson Fights $604M Verdict
A Texas appeals court rejected vicarious liability claims against shipper Atlas Aerospace — the second such setback this...
Amazon's Zoox to launch paid robotaxi service in Las Vegas on Aug. 10
Amazon-owned Zoox will start charging fares for driverless rides in Las Vegas on Aug. 10, its first commercial robotaxi ...
Quantum Experiment Confirms Photons' Negative Dwell Time in Atomic Cloud
Photons can emerge from a rubidium cloud so early they seem to spend negative time inside it — and weak measurements of ...
KIT Runs Compressor-Free Hydrogen Turbine for Record 303 Seconds, Targeting Clean Power and Aviation
Researchers at KIT have generated electricity with a hydrogen turbine powered by detonation waves, running for 303 secon...
Orexin Neurons Help Rats Keep Working Toward Harder Rewards, Nagoya Study Finds
Rats with blocked orexin neurons lost persistence as tasks got harder, while real-time monitoring linked the cells to re...
McDonald's Replaces US Chief After Weak Quarter Blamed on Chaotic Promotions
McDonald's ousted Joe Erlinger as US chief after same-store sales growth of 0.8% missed forecasts, blaming poor executio...
Enlyte Targets Bodily Injury Claims Leakage With Structured Demand Evaluation
An Enlyte webinar argues inconsistent demand evaluation is quietly inflating bodily injury settlements — and pitches str...
More German Retirees Work as Employers Warn on 'Rente mit 63'
Retiree employment in Germany inched up to 14% in 2025, the Mikrozensus shows, as a political fight over scrapping early...
Novo Nordisk's Wegovy Pill Heads to Germany as Shares Slip on Pipeline Setback
Oral Wegovy is coming to Germany, but a CagriSema trial setback and modest pill sales tempered Novo Nordisk's guidance r...
BMW's Spider-Man Ad on Car Displays Angers Drivers — and Breaks Its Own No-Ads Pledge
BMW is showing a Spider-Man film banner on infotainment screens in more than 70 countries. Drivers are calling it intrus...
Cougars Cut Deer-Vehicle Crashes by up to 76%, Study Finds
New research from the Olympic Peninsula shows deer avoid roadsides where cougars hunt, cutting collisions by more than t...
South Carolina Bars Keep $1M Liability Mandate as Budget Relief Fails
A plan to suspend South Carolina's $1 million liquor liability insurance requirement was stripped from the state budget,...
Anthem Pitches Hybrid Care to Colorado Employers as Benefit Costs Bite
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield is urging Colorado employers to adopt a hybrid model mixing virtual, digital and in-pe...
Oklahoma Judge Threatens Sanctions as State Farm Hail Claim Case Heads to Trial
A judge ordered State Farm to trial in December over a denied Oklahoma hail claim and threatened sanctions, sharpening s...
Eight Russian Parties Sign Election Observation Pact; Three Major Forces Hold Out
Russia's Public Chamber has signed election monitoring agreements with eight of eleven parties, while the Communist Part...