Retailers report modest gains for April Americans spent briskly during the early spring months in the latest sign that they’re encouraged by the economic recovery. Falling gas prices, a rallying stock market and gains in the job market all fueled Americans’ shopping habits even as cold weather tempered their desire to buy spring fashions. More
LinkedIn Shares Slide After Disappointing Outlook LinkedIn's surging share price cooled Friday as the social network projected slower revenue growth next quarter following a decision to lower the number of display ads that the website shows. More
Stocks surge to new highs after hiring climbs A big gain in the job market is lifting the stock market to new milestones. The Dow Jones industrial average crossed 15,000 for the first time early Friday, and the Standard and Poor's 500 index, a broader market measure, broke through 1,600 for the first time. More
Empire State Building IPO clears NY legal hurdle A legal challenge to an ambitious plan to let the public buy shares in one of New York City's most famous landmarks — the Empire State Building — was cast aside on Tuesday in a ruling by a Manhattan judge. More
Google searches predict market moves As the search volume on generic terms such as "debt", "portfolio" and "stocks" fell, the Dow Jones average tended to go up - and vice versa. An investment strategy based on these search volume data between 2004 and 2011 would have made a profit of 326%. More
Five-month-old Bonita Springs restaurant suddenly closes its doors: What we know Its closing was sudden and unexpected. “I found out about it at 3:30 (p.m. Thursday),” said Carl Smith, executive chef and co-owner of The Causeway. “We were partners with another group. I ... 05/24/2024 - 10:04 pm | View Link
Nasdaq Closes At Record Highs As Microsoft Nears Buy Point; Two Software Leaders Crater Stocks rose after a sharp sell-off on Thursday. Workday and Intuit triggered sell signals, while eBay broke out. Durable goods orders for April exceeded views. 05/24/2024 - 9:15 am | View Link
Journal Record Index: Dow closes above 40,000 for first time It was a buoyant week for Wall Street, with the iconic Dow industrials breaking the 40K barrier as our trading session ended May 17, 2024. 05/20/2024 - 1:52 am | View Link
Dow closes above 40K for first time The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Friday above the record 40,000 mark for the first time in its 139-year history. 05/17/2024 - 11:25 am | View Link
Dow closes above 40,000 for first time to cap Wall Street’s latest winning week The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished a day above the 40,000 level for the first time on Friday as U.S. stock indexes drifted around their records while closing out their latest winning week. 05/17/2024 - 11:09 am | View Link
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They wanted to make money by selling cheating tools to Destiny 2 players. They may have ended up setting US legal precedent.
After a trial in federal court in Seattle last week, a jury found cheat-seller AimJunkies, along with its parent company Phoenix Digital and four of its employees and contractors, liable for copyright infringement and assigned damages to each of them.
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Some of the most infamous so-called shadow libraries have increasingly faced legal pressure to either stop pirating books or risk being shut down or driven to the dark web. Among the biggest targets are Z-Library, which the US Department of Justice has charged with criminal copyright infringement, and Library Genesis (Libgen), which was sued by textbook publishers last fall for allegedly distributing digital copies of copyrighted works "on a massive scale in willful violation" of copyright laws.
But now these shadow libraries and others accused of spurning copyrights have seemingly found an unlikely defender in Nvidia, the AI chipmaker among those profiting most from the recent AI boom.
Nvidia seemed to defend the shadow libraries as a valid source of information online when responding to a lawsuit from book authors over the list of data repositories that were scraped to create the Books3 dataset used to train Nvidia's AI platform NeMo.
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IFixit and Samsung were once leading the charge in device repair, but iFixit says it's ending its repair partnership with Samsung because it feels Samsung just isn't participating in good faith. iFixit says the two companies "have not been able to deliver" on the promise of a viable repair ecosystem, so it would rather shut the project down than continue.
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Dinosaurs were once assumed to have been ectothermic, or cold-blooded, an idea that makes sense given that they were reptiles. While scientists had previously discovered evidence of dinosaur species that were warm-blooded, though what could have triggered this adaptation remained unknown.
A Southwest flight conducted an emergency landing at the Colorado Springs Airport on Monday after the crew smelled smoke in the cabin, according to a statement from Southwest.
Southwest Flight 1070 was flying from Denver to Tampa on Monday evening when flight attendants reported a possible smoke smell in the cabin.
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On Monday, OpenAI announced the formation of a new "Safety and Security Committee" to oversee risk management for its projects and operations. The announcement comes as the company says it has "recently begun" training its next frontier model, which it expects to bring the company closer to its goal of achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), though some critics say AGI is farther off than we might think.