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A hot fire test of an Archimedes engine, which powers the company’s Neutron rocket.Rocket LabThis past week saw several pure-play space stocks rally, with leaders up as much as 20% or more, in part driven by what sector analysts said is a “Trump-Elon trade,” a nod to the relationship between President-elect Donald Trump and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.”I don’t think anyone can underplay the potential catalyst that I don’t think many people were talking about before: the most important human in the history of the space industry having the ear of the president-elect, who in his past term found space…

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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Thursday that strong U.S. economic growth will allow policymakers to take their time in deciding how far and how fast to lower interest rates.”The economy is not sending any signals that we need to be in a hurry to lower rates,” Powell said in remarks for a speech to business leaders in Dallas. “The strength we are currently seeing in the economy gives us the ability to approach our decisions carefully.”(Watch Powell’s remarkets live here.)In an upbeat assessment of current conditions, the central bank leader called domestic growth “by far the best of any…

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Two Jewish brothers plan futures full of achievement and maybe fame. But Warsaw in the summer of 1939 is no place for dreamers. Ian is thrown west to Paris. There, he unexpectedly falls in love with Alicia, a mysterious Frenchwoman, but then must leave her to race across France to safety in Casablanca. Daniel ends up in the Siberian Gulag, where he faces endless blizzards, starvation, and the often-lethal cruelties of guards and fellow prisoners. He too finds someone, an exiled poet named Nadhya, until he must choose: stay with her or cross all of Russia to return to the…

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Do you speak AI?Shutterstock/Ole.CNX Microsoft has created an artificial language that allows AI models to talk to each other faster and more efficiently than in English, with the hope that groups of models will be able to team up without having to resort to clumsy and sprawling human words. Many researchers believe that using several artificial intelligence models, each with different specialisms and abilities, to solve problems collectively holds promise for tackling thorny problems that individual ones can’t solve. Although large language models like ChatGPT have been shown to be capable of communicating at high speed, even reaching consensus… Read…

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Conan O’Brien will host the 2025 Oscar ceremony. Photo: Team Coco.Preview:Conan O’Brien will host next year’s Oscars ceremony.The announcement comes after a lengthy search.O’Brien has experience with shows such as ‘The Simpsons’ and his own late night output.Each year –– aside from when a previous host such as Jimmy Kimmel agrees to return –– there is the seemingly long slog for the team behind the Academy Awards in finding a suitable host for the televised ceremony of handing out trophies to some of the best movies and performances of the past year.Now we finally know who has the job: Conan…

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Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesOne of the top shareholders of President-elect Donald Trump’s media company has unloaded nearly his entire stake, a regulatory filing showed.The Thursday night disclosure to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission showed that financial firm ARC Global Investments II and its manager, Patrick Orlando, no longer own more than 5% of Trump Media stock.Orlando, the former CEO of the company that took Trump Media public in a special purpose acquisition company merger, and ARC, the sponsor of that merger, now hold just 30,147 DJT shares, or about 0.01% of the company’s common stock, according…

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Elon Musk listens as US President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. Allison Robbert | Getty ImagesElon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI is raising up to $6 billion at a $50 billion valuation, according to CNBC’s David Faber.Sources told Faber that the funding, which should close early next week, is a combination of $5 billion expected from sovereign funds in the Middle East and $1 billion from other investors, some of whom may want to re-up their investments.The money will be used to acquire 100,000…

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We independently evaluate all recommended products and sercives. Any products or services put forward appear in no particular order. if you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. This is the Iron Snail yearly down jacket Olympics! What’s up, Snailiens? It’s Michael! I’m back with my big fat sack. Today, we are going over six of the best winter coats in the entire world. Each one of these down jackets has some specific property that makes it special and different from all the others. The first favorite of this article is the most beautiful down jacket in existence.…

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SpaceX President and Chief Operation Officer Gwynne Shotwell speaks during the NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) astronaut visit at the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, U.S., on Monday, Aug. 13, 2018.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSpaceX’s second-in-command urged on rivals in comments Friday, describing competition as healthy for Elon Musk’s space company.”I hope others can catch up, right? Competition is good for industries. … It keeps us tight; it keeps us very focused,” SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell said, speaking at the 2024 Baron Investment Conference in New York.”It’s going to be hard to catch us, but I certainly…

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Samsung is expected to unveil its Galaxy S25 series in the first half of next year. Several reports have claimed that all models in the Galaxy S25 lineup will pack the new Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. A new Geekbench listing offers some proof that the leaks could be right. An alleged Korean variant of the vanilla Galaxy S25 has surfaced on the Geekbench benchmarking site with a Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset and 12GB RAM. Samsung could use the Snapdragon 8 Elite with overclocked GPU and CPU cores in the flagship Galaxy S series.First spotted by Jukanlosreve (@Jukanlosreve), a Samsung handset with model number SM-S931N…

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Is a romance cooking between Great British Baking Show contestants Dylan and Sumayah? That’s what some fans are speculating after the pair recently spent a cute weekend together. Dylan (20) and Sumayah (19) were the youngest contestants in this season of the popular baking competition. The pair bonded throughout their time on the show and have remained friends after filming, even if Dylan won Star Baker in the episode where Sumayah was eliminated. Dylan remains in the competition, making it to next week’s semi-final. The pair sparked romance rumors earlier this month when Dylan shared an Instagram video hanging out…

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Jure Susac, a Bosnian olive farmer from the western-Herzegovinian town of Ljubuski, delivers his pickings to an oil-mill in Capljina, during harvest season, on October 29, 2022.Elvis Barukcic | Afp | Getty ImagesSpain’s Deoleo, the world’s largest olive oil producer, says one of the most challenging moments in the industry’s history appears to be drawing to a close, with “liquid gold” prices expected to nearly halve from an all-time high over the coming months.A prolonged period of climate-fueled extreme weather and drought in southern Europe has severely impacted olive harvests in recent years, culminating in a dizzying price rally that…

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Pictured here is a Shanghai development under construction on Nov. 4, 2024.Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesBEIJING — China on Friday reported strong growth in retail sales and a decline in real estate investment in October, signaling that the country’s recent stimulus push has already worked to bolster certain sectors of its flagging economy.Retail sales grew by 4.8% year-on-year, the National Bureau of Statistics said Friday. That was above the 3.8% forecasted in a Reuters poll, and a pickup from 3.2% growth in September.Industrial production rose by 5.3% from a year ago, missing expectations of 5.6% growth. While fixed asset investment, reported…

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The line that we so often use to describe a talented performer is that we’d pay to listen to them read the phone book. Nobody, in 2024, knows what a phone book is. Landman The Bottom Line Taylor-made for Sheridan’s insatiable audience. Airdate: Sunday, Nov. 17 (Paramount+)Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Ali Larter, Jon Hamm, Demi Moore, Jacob Lofland, Kayla Wallace, Michelle Randolph, Paulina ChavezCreator: Taylor Sheridan Perhaps it is time for a rhetorical modification. We could salute performers as being so talented we’d pay to listen to them recite a rambling, pseudo-poetic treatise on the nobility of the oil industry.…

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Czechia’s Rock For People has announced its massive line-up for 2025, led by Linkin Park, Slipknot and more – see the current line-up below. Rock For People 2025 is scheduled to take place between June 11 and 14 next year at Park 360 in Hradec Králové, Czechia. So far, two headliners have been announced for the rock and metal festival: nu metal icons Linkin Park and Slipknot. Two more headliners are expected to be announced in the lead-up to the festival. Slipknot are due to headline on June 12, and Linkin Park on June 14. Mike Shinoda and Emily Armstrong…

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President-elect Donald Trump and Argentina’s President Javier Milei at Mar-a-Lago on November 14, 2024Courtesy presidential office of ArgentinaSelf-described anarcho-capitalist President Javier Milei of Argentina became the first foreign leader to visit President-elect Donald Trump since he won a second term, arriving in Florida Thursday to attend a gala dinner at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, where Milei was a VIP speaker.”The world is a much better place, and the winds of freedom are blowing much stronger,” now that Trump had been elected, said Milei. He called Trump’s Nov. 5 victory, “The greatest political comeback in all of history, defying the political establishment…

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