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AI health advice proves no more helpful than traditional searches when patients interpret symptoms.
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AI health advice proves no more helpful than traditional searches when patients interpret symptoms.

Tax season doesn’t have to be stressful. Save up to 20% on federal tax filings, $40 off Expert Assist, and more exclusive TurboTax discount codes on WIRED.

London, UK: Reseller hosting becomes serious the moment hosting stops being invisible to your clients. Once websites, email delivery, or uptime issues are traced back to you, the platform underneath is no longer a technical detail. It becomes part of your reputation. In 2026, the best reseller hosting platforms are not defined by how many […]

The first of 1,000 all-electric and autonomous Toyota bZ4X compact crossovers with Pony AI tech has rolled off the assembly line at a joint venture between Toyota and Guangzhou Automobile Group.

New York, USA (PinionNewswire) — Global markets opened Monday to a sharp bifurcation as Asian indices surged on policy optimism while digital assets faced a severe liquidity crisis. Kester Kulp (Strategist at Meridianvale Finance Institute) identifies this decoupling as a critical signal for institutional risk management. While chip stocks like Nvidia rallied over 8% to […]

New York, USA (PinionNewswire) — Recent market data from major financial hubs indicates a significant contraction in risk assets, with the technology sector sliding 9% from its late October peak and the S&P 500 software and services index tumbling 15% in just over a week. Amidst this volatility, Mace Moad, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) […]
A court filing in a trademark lawsuit reveals OpenAI won’t use the name “io” for its AI hardware device, which isn’t expected to ship until 2027.

New York, USA (PinionNewswire) — Global financial markets entered uncharted territory this week as the Dow Jones Industrial Average surpassed the historic 50,000 milestone, a move driven exclusively by hardware sector momentum while software equities faced their most significant contraction in a decade. Amidst this structural market divergence, Osborne Adams, a distinguished Research...

San Francisco, California: Bluwhale, an AI-native platform for personalized financial AI services, today announced the launch of its AI Agent Store. The store features autonomous agents that manage financial services across digital and non-digital assets for you, including crypto, stablecoins, staking, and on-chain trading 24/7—handling the full financial workflow from discovery to execution....

Siyabulela “Siya” Xuza almost set his mom’s kitchen aflame while creating rocket fuel at the age of 16.

Vumatel’s million-subscriber milestone shows what competition can achieve — and what Telkom’s state monopoly never could.

The release of the latest batch of documents relating to the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has shed further light on his close relationship with the world of science. To find out why he cultivated scientists and where his interests lay, Ian Sample hears from Dan Vergano, a senior editor at Scientific American.
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Celestial spectacle will be at its most impressive on 28 February, when Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will align across the sky
Space enthusiasts are in for a treat at the end of this month as six planets will appear close together in the night sky.
The phenomenon, known as a planet parade or planetary alignment, occurs when at least four or five planets can be seen...

Codehesion, voted South Africa’s most trusted software development company, helps companies to modernise their mobile apps and give them a fresh look and feel.
An anonymous reader shares a report: It turns out that when fewer cars spew exhaust as they drive along, air quality improves. That’s the conclusion of a new study published in The Lancet Planetary Health that looked at the effect of increased numbers of both EVs and plug-in hybrids on air pollution in California. The Golden State has by far the largest number of plug-in vehicles in the United...
A new NBER working paper from researchers at the Federal Reserve, Northwestern’s Kellogg School and Johns Hopkins finds that Kalshi — the largest federally regulated prediction market in the U.S., overseen by the CFTC — produces macroeconomic forecasts that match or beat those of professional forecasters and traditional financial instruments like fed funds futures. The study compared...

Attorney General Raúl Torrez is accusing the tech giant of failing to protect minors on Facebook and Instagram.

I tried Boarderie’s new sweets-only board, which ships overnight, to see if it’s impressive enough for your valentine.

Being unhealthy weight raises risk of severe illness or death from most infectious diseases significantly, researchers find
People living with obesity are 70% more likely to be hospitalised by or die from an infection, with one in 10 infection-related deaths globally linked to the condition, research suggests.
Being an unhealthy weight significantly increases the risk of severe illness and...
An anonymous reader writes: Linus Torvalds has confirmed the next major kernel series as Linux 7.0, reports Linux news website 9to5Linux.com: “So there you have it, the Linux 6.x era has ended with today’s Linux 6.19 kernel release, and a new one will begin with Linux 7.0, which is expected in mid-April 2026. The merge window for Linux 7.0 will open tomorrow, February 9th, and the first Release...
Opening statements began in a trial claiming social media companies design addictive products that cause personal injury.