Crowding the gates of a major health care conference, protesters called for Palantir to be booted out of the UK’s National Health Service over privacy concerns and political grievances.
Crowding the gates of a major health care conference, protesters called for Palantir to be booted out of the UK’s National Health Service over privacy concerns and political grievances.
We were sitting on a train between neighborhoods in Osaka, Japan, when Chris Niccolls turned to me. "I'm thinking of buying a new camera," he said. I was shocked. Chris, who has a different camera in hand every week because of his job as a reviewer, actually wanted to own one. "I want something small."
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Global game content revenue increased 3.6% to $54.14 billion in Q1 2026, marking the seventh consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth, according to estimates reported by S&P Global Market Intelligence.
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This could definitely come in handy for the road warriors out there. AT&T on Wednesday launched a new cellular option entitled “Unlimited Day Pass” for iPad users. The plan, which is geared towards users who have more sporadic needs than might be justified by a full monthly subscription plan, retails for $3 for unlimited wireless […]
The Brewers Association is questioning whether Treasury’s excise revenue forecasts stack up against the most recent consumption data. Without any immediate intervention by the...
New research has found that Kiwis are drinking, while beer remains the nation's favourite despite Budget 2026 assertions. New government data confirms the long-term...
A campanha Junho Violeta reforça, ao longo deste mês, a importância da prevenção e do enfrentamento à violência contra a pessoa idosa. Por meio da Delegacia Especializada em Crimes Contra a Pessoa Idosa (DECCI), a Polícia Civil do Amazonas (PC-AM) intensifica as ações de conscientização, orienta a população sobre os canais de denúncia e destaca a importância da participação da sociedade na…
Bitcoin searches hit 12-month highs and analysts say retail is back. But on-chain data shows retail selling while whales buy. What the search data really means.
Residents of the United States drank 7.8 billion gallons of booze in 2023, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). That same year — the latest of NIAAA’s available data — considerable slides in wine and beer consumption predicated a nearly 15 million-gallon dip in total alcohol consumption in the United States. Spirits was the only category to record growth,…
Türkiye's mobile revenue rose 6% in 2025 to $347 million, its highest annual total to date. Over the past six years, Turkish developer revenue has grown by 450% to $2.7 billion.
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How Stanford students drink and drug.
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À l’occasion du sommet Choose France, le géant SoftBank a annoncé un investissement de 75 milliards d’euros dans les Hauts-de-France. Des montants bienvenus mais dont l’impact sur l’emploi semble encore limité
New Zealand’s retail sector is showing signs of resilience, with consumer spending back into the black following a challenging period of high fuel prices...
A data-inspired look into how students consume social media.
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Un graphique affiché en fin de set pendant la quinzaine a causé pas mal de nœuds au cerveau des téléspectateurs de Roland-Garros pendant la quinzaine. On a essayé de la déchiffrer
Twenty-one years of band names typed by hand leaves a fossil record of human inconsistency. Here's what it took to tidy up the Matinee Idle archive.
A Conmebol divulgou a tabela detalhada das oitavas de final da Copa Libertadores. A fase decisiva da competição terá a presença de sete clubes brasileiros e será aberta pelo Fluminense, que será o primeiro representante do país a entrar em campo no mata-mata. O Tricolor carioca enfrenta o Independiente Rivadavia, da Argentina, no dia 11 […]
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In his senior column, Jay Gupta ’26 reflects on missed experiences.
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_Claims and planned layoffs
Labor costs and productivity
The state of the economy is ………_So, he have a spike in initial unemployment claims, though continuing claims, which are actually from a week earlier, fell.
Planned layoffs remain low, though they are up a bit, and productivity rose slightly, but wages did not keep up with inflation.
Meanwhile, I get serious 2008 vibes from the fall in…
More and more frequently, I get asked about my stance on AI in the context of programming. This is my attempt to summarize my stance for those who wonder.
This is a blog post that I don’t want to write, but some recent developments have more or less forced my hand here. I would have preferred to keep pretending that I’m neutral in the issue, and just hoping that the problem goes away. But that…
The Asia and MENA regions generated $88.9 billion in gaming revenue in 2025, with revenue projected to reach $103.6 billion by 2028, Niko Partners reports.
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Wyoming set new AI data center rules as demand for power rises and Bitcoin miners expand into data center and HPC hosting markets.
UK | New data has suggested that food delivery orders are now looked at as a "special treat" for most consumers, especially due to...
In 2025, more than 212 million Americans ages 5 to 90 played video games, according to the latest Entertainment Software Association data.
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A few weeks ago, I was contacted by a reporter working on a story about the extent to which AI, as a topic of research and an area of specialization demanded by employers, was becoming dominant in philosophy. Here’s one thing I said to her: People should be cautious when inferring how much philosophy of AI work is actually happening from how much philosophy of AI work they’re hearing about. AI is…
Last week a Reddit user described a small, deeply unsettling moment. A stranger sat near her on a bus, the two exchanged a glance, and by that evening the stranger had followed her on Instagram. Not the main account she posts from, but the burner: no real name, no profile
A government committee says that the country’s growing dependence on the data analytics company is a serious liability.
European mobile games companies generated €7.53 billion in global revenue in 2025. Forecasts indicate this will exceed €8 billion by 2028.
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“Always-on” recording of what you look at, pick up, hear, react to, and ask about is now possible thanks to AI smart glasses. This ambient data collection is Big Tech’s newest obsession — and could mean advertising intercepts purchase intent, for better or for worse.
Activision's decision to drop support for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has reduced its potential marked by 4.3%, according to a new report from analysts S&P, which says that the corresponding launch on Switch 2 – the first time the franchise has been available on a Nintendo console since 2013 – will not make up for the loss of users on legacy consoles.
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