China’s July slowdown was broad: industrial output grew 4.5%, retail sales just 0.6%, and fixed asset investment fell 6.7% in the first seven months.
The immediate trigger was a broad July loss of momentum: factory output, consumer spending and investment all undershot expectations, following second quarter GDP growth of 4.3%, below the government’s 4.5%–...
As of August 2026, the main concern is that Meta’s AI glasses could scale ordinary recording into facial identification, behavior analysis, and automated video curation of bystanders without their consent.
Mortal Shell 2 opened at an 83 Metascore from 30 critic reviews, up from 76 for the original.
Tim Cook says he hopes to be remembered as “a good and decent man.” He steps down as Apple CEO on September 1, 2026, but the broader verdict on his tenure will depend on how the company balances extraordinar...
China curtailed an estimated 360 TWh of wind and solar power in January–June 2026, up 49% year on year—enough to cover the period’s entire increase in electricity demand.
A credible report claims Diablo IV: Age of Hatred Collection will launch on Nintendo Switch 2 on September 15, 2026, for $69.99/€69.99/£62.99, but Blizzard and Nintendo have not confirmed it.
BESIII presented its strongest case yet that X(2370), first observed in 2011, is dominated by the lightest pseudoscalar glueball.
BESIII presented a cumulative case—not a single definitive signature—that X(2370) is dominated by the lightest pseudoscalar glueball: a bound state of gluons with no intrinsic light quark flavour.
DeepSeek Harness is an MIT licensed developer preview agent runtime, not a new model.
Tencent bought back 673,000 shares for HK$300.7 million on August 17, bringing cumulative repurchases under the authorization to about 36.75 million shares, or 0.403% of issued shares.
Bitcoin’s squeeze risk is elevated because roughly $48 billion in futures positions sit against about $25 billion in 24 hour volume, leaving a crowded market vulnerable to forced buying or selling.