14+ hour, 37+ min ago   (292+ words) Beijing is banning the possession of drones within city limits in new rules announced Sunday that further tighten its regulations on drones, which already include a May ban on sales of the devices. The ban on possession will come into…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (327+ words) ‘We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models,’ says Dario Amodei Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called on artificial intelligence companies to moderate the rate at which they advance model capabilities, proposing a three-step…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (928+ words) Canada might seem an unlikely target for a U.S. trade war. No country on Earth buys as much from the United States as its northern neighbor. For American farmers, Canada is second only to Mexico as an export market. A North…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (367+ words) Asian shares declined Friday tracking Wall Street losses, while oil prices gained with Brent crude trading above $108 a barrel in its highest since May. Japan’s Nikkei 225 dropped 2.8% to 63,442.30. Shares of multinational investment holding firm SoftBank Group, an investor of OpenAI,…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1023+ words) Stock prices in London closed lower on Thursday, as oil prices surged above 105 dollars and hotter-than-expected US producer inflation fuelled concerns, while the European Central Bank raised interest rates as expected. The FTSE 100 index closed down 61.14 points, 0.6%, at 10,608.92. The FTSE…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (256+ words) El Niño is strengthening and there’s a greater than 90% chance of a very strong event during the Northern Hemisphere fall and winter 2026-27, the U.S. Climate Prediction Center said Thursday. El Niño naturally occurs when weakening trade winds build up…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (363+ words) A new study shows that little, wrinkly Mercury may be shrinking faster than expected, the cosmos’ version of a grape shriveling into a raisin under the sun. Scientists from the German Aerospace Center’s Institute of Space Research reported Thursday that…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (736+ words) The boss of supermarket chain Iceland has said he is “very proud to back British interests” as he announced the opening of a store in the Falkland Islands. Lord Richard Walker said his firm’s expansion plans into the British territory…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (135+ words) Forecasters say Tropical Storm Norbert has formed in the Pacific Ocean and isn't threatening land Tropical Storm Norbert formed Thursday in the Pacific Ocean and wasn't threatening land, forecasters said. The storm was about 685 miles (1,102 kilometers) southwest of the southern…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (241+ words) The European Central Bank raised interest rates Thursday to cool inflation that is being fed by high oil prices from the Iran war. The decision was supported by a stronger-than-expected economy that suggests businesses can weather the higher borrowing costs....