Apple is increasingly focusing on building its own devices and expanding its ecosystem by taking steps towards a more native experience for users and relying less on third-party accessories. While the Cupertino-based tech giant's HomePod and AppleTV have left quite the mark in the smart home category, it generally relies more on outsourcing cameras and other hardware for smart homes. Now, a new report suggests that the company intends to create a fully integrated experience by developing its own smart home accessories. Gurman hints about Apple working on making smart home products like security cameras for a more integrated experience […]
We’re continuing our Best of Black Friday posts today with a look at the best current deals on power stations and their respective bundle options. Folks across the country and beyond have been steadily investing more and more in the industry for a vari...
Blizzard has announced that two decades after its release, World of Warcraft is finally going to let players build a home and live in it. The feature has long been requested by WoW players and now it’s finally coming in the game’s next expansion.Read m...
Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds will receive the Godspawn update, adding a new 50-player boss battle, a new 10-player raid, and a legendary spear. Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds is getting the first major update "Godspawn" on November 19th, expanding the story with new story chapters The MMORPG Guild Wars 2 by ArenaNet is receiving its first major update for the Janthir Wilds expansion soon. It's the first of three major updates, and it'll land on November 19. The update will add new content to the game for the players. The Janthir Wilds expansion DLC was released in August this year, […]
After a historic global outage that disrupted the finance, media, transport, logistics, and other industries worldwide, Microsoft CEO Satya NAdella shared a few details about the accident. According to him, the mishap occurred after Microsoft's partner Crowdstrike rolled out a software update that rendered computers worldwide inoperable. He added that Microsoft is working with Crowdstrike to resolve the disruption, and according to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the event also shook up the automobile supply chain. True to form, Musk has spent most of the time since the outage on his social media platform X, and most of his posts have […]
Microsoft backed OpenAI continues to remain interested in designing and developing its own chips in order to reduce the supply constraints that the broader industry is facing right now, according to a fresh report from The Information. OpenAI's narrow AI products require thousands of GPUs to function, and the details of the report share that the firm has talked with chip designer Broadcom which makes application specific chips for AI use cases. The portion of report shared by a Taiwanese publication outlines that while initially, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman was interested in setting up his own chip manufacturing facility, his […]
SpaceX's brand new spacesuits developed for extra vehicular activity (EVA) for the first commercial spacewalk planned as part of the Polaris Program have completed acceptance testing. SpaceX, as part of its NASA missions, makes its own spacesuits for astronauts to cover their needs inside the Crew Dragon spacecraft. These are pressurized spacesuits that are designed to keep the crew safe in case their ship loses pressurization. On the other hand, the new suits, developed by SpaceX for its private astronaut mission, will allow astronauts to venture out of the Crew Dragon and conduct their spacewalk. SpaceX's Spacesuits Will Help Monitor […]
Officials from NASA and SpaceX have shared fresh details about their plan to de-orbit the International Space Station (ISS) at the end of its operational life in 2030. SpaceX was awarded an $843 million contract by NASA late last month to develop a ship that will dock to the ISS and push it towards the Earth. Details revealed in NASA's selection document for the award revealed that only SpaceX and Northrop Grumman were the final contestants for the award, with SpaceX edging out because of its existing strengths of the Dragon platform. NASA shared during a media conference earlier today […]
This was not supposed to happen. The ongoing rush for AI GPUs was supposed to keep investors focused on ASML's soaring order book for its cutting-edge chip manufacturing machines, and TSMC in the limelight as the largest contract chip manufacturer in the world. Yet, geopolitics has a uniquely disruptive way of upending even the most pristine of bullish cases. ASML, TSMC Earnings Overshadowed By Evolving Geopolitics $ASML Q2 Earnings Highlights: 🔹 GAAP EPS: €4.01 (Est. €3.54) 🟢🔹 Revenue: €6.24B (Est. €6.03B) 🟢🔸 Backlog: €38.9B, up 11% YoY🔸 Net Bookings: €5.6B, up 24% YoY 🔸 EUV Orders: €2.5B, up 281% YoY […]
With its hard-coded supply limits, disinflationary characteristics enforced by the periodic halving events, and growing financialization via futures and spot ETFs, Bitcoin is on the cusp of underpinning a new global hurdle rate, which is generally defined as the minimum rate of return required by investors. Concurrently, the US Treasury will need to issue a growing quantum of t-bills and bonds in the upcoming years to finance the burgeoning deficit of the world's largest economy. Now, one Bitcoin maximalist has posited that the US can leverage Bitcoin's unique characteristics to partially fund those deficits. Prinicpal-Protected Bitcoin Bonds If a gov, […]
On this day 55 years ago, NASA made history and became the first and only space agency to launch a successful lunar landing mission. Apollo 11 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 16th, 1969, at 9:32 a.m. local time. The mission lasted eight days, during which time the crew made history as the first humans to walk on the lunar surface. After Apollo 11, NASA would successfully fly five more missions to the lunar surface and face a close scare with Apollo 13 before the end of the Apollo program in 1972, which also ended crewed […]
Back in 2022, the star portfolio manager of ARK Invest, Cathie Wood, had ruffled feathers by boldly declaring that her flagship ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) will record a 50 percent CAGR over the next 5 years. Fast forward to 2024, and ARKK is down by around 5 percent so far this year, constituting a monumental deviation relative to Cathie Wood's tall claims. The reason behind this divergence: the absence of NVIDIA. The above snippet details the top holdings of ARK Innovation Fund ETF. The absence of NVIDIA in this portfolio has acted as a phenomenal drag on the ETF's recent […]
Trump Media and Technology Group (NASDAQ: DJT) shares are currently the center of attention in the financial sphere on the back of the shocking developments over the weekend and the stock's uncontested status as a proxy for all things Trump-related. It is hardly a surprise, therefore, that Trump Media shares are currently rocketing in Robinhood's 24-hour trading venue, prompting the popular brokerage platform to slap a warning related to the acceptance of DJT orders. $DJT most likely won’t resume regular trading on Robinhood until the premarket session begins. Robinhood has tagged the stock with the 20% warning label — orders […]
After an anomaly led to an engine RUD during its latest Falcon 9 launch, SpaceX has shared that it managed to successfully 'safe' the second stage. The Falcon 9 second stage's Merlin 1D engine experienced a RUD (Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly) or was destroyed in space after it failed to start a burn to raise the rocket's orbit. In a statement earlier today, SpaceX shared that a leak in the Falcon 9 second stage's liquid oxygen tank caused the accident and outlined that the second stage managed to "passivate" itself based on the parameters at the end of every mission. SpaceX […]
In a dramatic conclusion to its months-long investigation, the European Commission has now concluded that Elon Musk's X social media platform is in apparent violation of the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA). Back in December 2023, European Commissioner Thierry Breton commenced a broad-based investigation into X's potential breach of DSA rules. Specifically, the investigation honed in on X's efforts - or lack thereof - to counter hate speech and incitement of terrorism, which involved an evaluation of X's much-touted Community Notes feature that uses crowd-sourced fact-checks to combat misinformation. The investigation also evaluated X's user-facing tools to flag illegal and […]
In a rare development today, SpaceX's Falcon 9 second stage failed in space as part of its latest Starlink launch. Footage from SpaceX's live stream showed unusual ice buildup on the second stage, and after the end of the stream, the firm confirmed that the rocket had failed to perform according to the mission profile. SpaceX chief Elon Musk added that the engine had experienced a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly (RUD) in orbit, and while SpaceX was trying to reconfigure its Starlink satellites to allow them to follow the mission profile, it was unlikely that the spacecraft would reach their intended […]
After a historic global outage that disrupted the finance, media, transport, logistics, and other industries worldwide, Microsoft CEO Satya NAdella shared a few details about the accident. According to him, the mishap occurred after Microsoft's partner Crowdstrike rolled out a software update that rendered computers worldwide inoperable. He added that Microsoft is working with Crowdstrike to resolve the disruption, and according to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the event also shook up the automobile supply chain. True to form, Musk has spent most of the time since the outage on his social media platform X, and most of his posts have […]
Microsoft backed OpenAI continues to remain interested in designing and developing its own chips in order to reduce the supply constraints that the broader industry is facing right now, according to a fresh report from The Information. OpenAI's narrow AI products require thousands of GPUs to function, and the details of the report share that the firm has talked with chip designer Broadcom which makes application specific chips for AI use cases. The portion of report shared by a Taiwanese publication outlines that while initially, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman was interested in setting up his own chip manufacturing facility, his […]
SpaceX's brand new spacesuits developed for extra vehicular activity (EVA) for the first commercial spacewalk planned as part of the Polaris Program have completed acceptance testing. SpaceX, as part of its NASA missions, makes its own spacesuits for astronauts to cover their needs inside the Crew Dragon spacecraft. These are pressurized spacesuits that are designed to keep the crew safe in case their ship loses pressurization. On the other hand, the new suits, developed by SpaceX for its private astronaut mission, will allow astronauts to venture out of the Crew Dragon and conduct their spacewalk. SpaceX's Spacesuits Will Help Monitor […]
Officials from NASA and SpaceX have shared fresh details about their plan to de-orbit the International Space Station (ISS) at the end of its operational life in 2030. SpaceX was awarded an $843 million contract by NASA late last month to develop a ship that will dock to the ISS and push it towards the Earth. Details revealed in NASA's selection document for the award revealed that only SpaceX and Northrop Grumman were the final contestants for the award, with SpaceX edging out because of its existing strengths of the Dragon platform. NASA shared during a media conference earlier today […]
This was not supposed to happen. The ongoing rush for AI GPUs was supposed to keep investors focused on ASML's soaring order book for its cutting-edge chip manufacturing machines, and TSMC in the limelight as the largest contract chip manufacturer in the world. Yet, geopolitics has a uniquely disruptive way of upending even the most pristine of bullish cases. ASML, TSMC Earnings Overshadowed By Evolving Geopolitics $ASML Q2 Earnings Highlights: 🔹 GAAP EPS: €4.01 (Est. €3.54) 🟢🔹 Revenue: €6.24B (Est. €6.03B) 🟢🔸 Backlog: €38.9B, up 11% YoY🔸 Net Bookings: €5.6B, up 24% YoY 🔸 EUV Orders: €2.5B, up 281% YoY […]
With its hard-coded supply limits, disinflationary characteristics enforced by the periodic halving events, and growing financialization via futures and spot ETFs, Bitcoin is on the cusp of underpinning a new global hurdle rate, which is generally defined as the minimum rate of return required by investors. Concurrently, the US Treasury will need to issue a growing quantum of t-bills and bonds in the upcoming years to finance the burgeoning deficit of the world's largest economy. Now, one Bitcoin maximalist has posited that the US can leverage Bitcoin's unique characteristics to partially fund those deficits. Prinicpal-Protected Bitcoin Bonds If a gov, […]
On this day 55 years ago, NASA made history and became the first and only space agency to launch a successful lunar landing mission. Apollo 11 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 16th, 1969, at 9:32 a.m. local time. The mission lasted eight days, during which time the crew made history as the first humans to walk on the lunar surface. After Apollo 11, NASA would successfully fly five more missions to the lunar surface and face a close scare with Apollo 13 before the end of the Apollo program in 1972, which also ended crewed […]
Back in 2022, the star portfolio manager of ARK Invest, Cathie Wood, had ruffled feathers by boldly declaring that her flagship ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) will record a 50 percent CAGR over the next 5 years. Fast forward to 2024, and ARKK is down by around 5 percent so far this year, constituting a monumental deviation relative to Cathie Wood's tall claims. The reason behind this divergence: the absence of NVIDIA. The above snippet details the top holdings of ARK Innovation Fund ETF. The absence of NVIDIA in this portfolio has acted as a phenomenal drag on the ETF's recent […]
Trump Media and Technology Group (NASDAQ: DJT) shares are currently the center of attention in the financial sphere on the back of the shocking developments over the weekend and the stock's uncontested status as a proxy for all things Trump-related. It is hardly a surprise, therefore, that Trump Media shares are currently rocketing in Robinhood's 24-hour trading venue, prompting the popular brokerage platform to slap a warning related to the acceptance of DJT orders. $DJT most likely won’t resume regular trading on Robinhood until the premarket session begins. Robinhood has tagged the stock with the 20% warning label — orders […]
After an anomaly led to an engine RUD during its latest Falcon 9 launch, SpaceX has shared that it managed to successfully 'safe' the second stage. The Falcon 9 second stage's Merlin 1D engine experienced a RUD (Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly) or was destroyed in space after it failed to start a burn to raise the rocket's orbit. In a statement earlier today, SpaceX shared that a leak in the Falcon 9 second stage's liquid oxygen tank caused the accident and outlined that the second stage managed to "passivate" itself based on the parameters at the end of every mission. SpaceX […]
In a dramatic conclusion to its months-long investigation, the European Commission has now concluded that Elon Musk's X social media platform is in apparent violation of the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA). Back in December 2023, European Commissioner Thierry Breton commenced a broad-based investigation into X's potential breach of DSA rules. Specifically, the investigation honed in on X's efforts - or lack thereof - to counter hate speech and incitement of terrorism, which involved an evaluation of X's much-touted Community Notes feature that uses crowd-sourced fact-checks to combat misinformation. The investigation also evaluated X's user-facing tools to flag illegal and […]
In a rare development today, SpaceX's Falcon 9 second stage failed in space as part of its latest Starlink launch. Footage from SpaceX's live stream showed unusual ice buildup on the second stage, and after the end of the stream, the firm confirmed that the rocket had failed to perform according to the mission profile. SpaceX chief Elon Musk added that the engine had experienced a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly (RUD) in orbit, and while SpaceX was trying to reconfigure its Starlink satellites to allow them to follow the mission profile, it was unlikely that the spacecraft would reach their intended […]