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Iran threatened to target recreational and tourist sites worldwide and insisted it was still building missiles. Friday’s show of defiance came nearly three weeks into U.S.-Israeli strikes that have killed a slew of Tehran’s top leaders and hammered its weapons and...

Oil declined to $109 per barrel after Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu said his forces would no longer target Iran’s energy infrastructure. Netanyahu also said Iran’s ability to enrich uranium had been destroyed—a key war goal. “This war ending a...

Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace once promised to bring humanity closer together. They delivered something else entirely.The screen economy that emerged around these apps at extraordinary speed optimized for attention. Time spent and daily active users were the twin metrics...

Federal agents on Thursday arrested Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, a prominent Silicon Valley executive deep in the AI ecosystem who co-founded Supermicro in 1993 and is a close confidante of CEO and chairman Charles Liang. The stock tumbled roughly 12%...

Straight‑A report cards have never been more common for America’s teens—but the payoff is not what parents think. A new National Bureau of Economic Research study finds that when teachers hand out “easy A” grades, their students are more...

In a world of protein-maxxing and fiber-counting, it’s hard to remember a time when a baked good itself could be a fad.But a decade ago, people underwent a frenzy for cupcakes. Adults would line up around the block for...

Five people were arrested for allegedly dousing an influencer’s father in gasoline and forcing him into the trunk of a car in exchange for ransom payments in crypto. The attack, whose details first surfaced this week, occurred at the...

Social Security is six years from insolvency. That’s not a projection buried in an actuarial footnote—it’s the opening finding of a new report from the Penn Wharton Budget Model (PWBM), released Thursday, which puts the program’s Old-Age and Survivors...

If you’ve ever ordered food through DoorDash, Uber Eats or Instacart, you may have realized the person who delivers it isn’t a salaried employee. They’re gig workers – independent contractors who pick up delivery tasks...

Article contentDemo Day gives dental technology startups working in AI, software, and beyond the chance to demo their solution in front of expert judges and investors for a US$100,000 investment and a potential pilot within Dentalcorp’s 600-practice North American...