The LKAB facility in Kiruna, Sweden. The company said on Jan. 12 that it found Europe’s biggest known deposit of rare earth elements there. Jonas Ekstromer | Afp | Getty Images The ripple effects from Europe’s growing appetite for raw materials extend all the way to Sweden’s far north. Thousands of residents and buildings are…
This photo taken on February 2, 2024 shows Lu Yu, head of Product Management and Operations of Wantalk, an artificial intelligence chatbot created by Chinese tech company Baidu, showing a virtual girlfriend profile on her phone, at the Baidu headquarters in Beijing. Jade Gao | Afp | Getty Images BEIJING — China plans to restrict…
Highmark Stadium (Orchard Park, N.Y.) — There have been way too many moments where the Philadelphia Eagles’ offense has just completely disappeared this season, sometimes at the worst possible times. Way too often they’ve inexplicably shut down, leaving their defense to bail them out. Maybe that’s a sign of trouble for the defending champs with…
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Major payment and tech companies are racing to build the infrastructure for what they see as the next evolution of global commerce: artificial intelligence agents that can perform searches, compare prices, and make purchases on behalf of consumers. The trend is referred to as “agentic commerce,” and reflects consumers’ growing reliance on chatbots for everyday…
The San Francisco 49ers remain in the hunt for the No. 1 seed after one of the games of the season in the NFL. The Niners escaped Levi’s Stadium on Sunday night with a highly entertaining 42-38 victory over the visiting Chicago Bears. With the victory, the 49ers improved to 12-4 on the year and…
Each week, we offer up the very best of the NFL on a given Sunday, kind of like the fantasy football team you wished you had. All year, we’ve picked one quarterback, two running backs, two receivers and a tight end — OK, this sounds a lot like a super-hindsight fantasy football team. We’re also…
WEST PHILIPPINE SEA, PHILIPPINE – APRIL 27: A Chinese warship is seen sailing near several Philippine and United States Navy vessels partaking in a multilateral maritime exercise as part of the Balikatan drills, after Washington deployed advanced missile systems to the Philippines, in West Philippine Sea, Philippine, on April 27, 2025. (Photo by Daniel Ceng/Anadolu…
The New York Jets’ miserable 2025 season continued with a 42-10 blowout home loss to the New England Patriots in the penultimate week of the regular season, but the bad first year won’t cost head coach Aaron Glenn his job. Glenn won’t be fired by the Jets at the end of the season despite their…
Now that we’re all blissfully overfed and overserved from the holidays, wearing sweatpants around the house all weekend, let’s make some bets. What a life. There is a College Football Playoff wager I have my eye on for this week. Remember, this isn’t the place for “locks” or five-team parlays. These are the games I…
