Meloni government had claimed case showed why officers using weapons in self-defence needed more protection The arrest of an Italian police officer on suspicion of murder over the fatal shooting of a Moroccan man has prompted a row after the opposition accused Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government of exploiting the case for political ends. Abderrahim Mansouri, 28, was shot in the head by Carmelo C...
Meloni government had claimed case showed why officers using weapons in self-defence needed more protection The arrest of an Italian police officer on suspicion of murder over the fatal shooting of a Moroccan man has prompted a row after the opposition accused Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government of exploiting the case for political ends. Abderrahim Mansouri, 28, was shot in the head by Carmelo Cinturrino, assistant chief of Mecenate police station, during a police drugs patrol in the Rogoredo area of Milan in late January. Cinturrino originally said he had acted in self-defence after Mansouri pulled a gun on him. Continue reading...
ADT ( ADT ), Origin AI and Verisure (VSURE) on Tuesday announced a five-year renewable commercial agreement under which Verisure will continue to license Origin AI’s proprietary AI sensing technology. The agreement is valued at $30 million over five years for development services, in addition to a per-household activation fee in line with Verisure’s existing agreement with Origin AI. The agreement...
ADT ( ADT ), Origin AI and Verisure (VSURE) on Tuesday announced a five-year renewable commercial agreement under which Verisure will continue to license Origin AI’s proprietary AI sensing technology. The agreement is valued at $30 million over five years for development services, in addition to a per-household activation fee in line with Verisure’s existing agreement with Origin AI. The agreement follows ADT’s acquisition of Origin AI. Together, ADT and Verisure represent two of the world’s largest residential security providers. The agreement expands Verisure’s existing rights to commercialize the AI sensing platform across its Europe and Latin America customer base. Key terms of the agreement include long-term rights to certain AI sensing use cases, including for age-technology applications; provisions to enable Verisure to secure rights to these use cases beyond the term of the current agreement; defined exclusivity in professionally monitored security in Europe and Latin America; and ongoing development collaboration, including data collaboration to enhance AI model performance and support development. ADT -0.26% premarket to $7.73. Source: Press Release More on ADT ADT: Undervalued Cash Cow With Major Institutional Moves ADT: Mr. Market Continues To Underestimate This Amazing Business Bottom 10 mid-cap stocks with lowest dividend safety grade Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on ADT Historical earnings data for ADT
luismmolina/iStock via Getty Images Murphy Oil ( MUR ) -0.8% pre-market Tuesday after saying the Caracal-1X exploration well offshore Côte d'Ivoire will be plugged and abandoned as a dry hole . A month ago , Murphy ( MUR ) also came up dry at its Civette-1X exploration well, its fi rst in a multi-well exploration campaign in Côte d'Ivoire. Murphy ( MUR ) holds a 90% working interest in Block CI-50...
luismmolina/iStock via Getty Images Murphy Oil ( MUR ) -0.8% pre-market Tuesday after saying the Caracal-1X exploration well offshore Côte d'Ivoire will be plugged and abandoned as a dry hole . A month ago , Murphy ( MUR ) also came up dry at its Civette-1X exploration well, its fi rst in a multi-well exploration campaign in Côte d'Ivoire. Murphy ( MUR ) holds a 90% working interest in Block CI-502 offshore Côte d'Ivoire and serves as operator, and state-owned Petroci owns 10%; the partners said they remain committed to moving forward with the Bubale-1X well in Block CI-709. The company said the Bubale well will target a geological play independent from the two unsuccessful exploratory wells. More on Murphy Oil Murphy Oil: Building On The Successful Appraisal Well Murphy Oil: Appraisal Well Is A Solid Base Hit Murphy Oil Q4 2025 Earnings Call Presentation
Thurtell/E+ via Getty Images Shoals Technologies Group Inc. ( SHLS ) shares plunged 8.4% in premarket trading Tuesday after the maker of social electrical components posted a modest quarterly revenue beat but missed expectations for adjusted earnings and issued a first-quarter outlook that points to a meaningful deceleration. Fourth-quarter revenue was $148.3 million, up 39% from $107.0 million a ...
Thurtell/E+ via Getty Images Shoals Technologies Group Inc. ( SHLS ) shares plunged 8.4% in premarket trading Tuesday after the maker of social electrical components posted a modest quarterly revenue beat but missed expectations for adjusted earnings and issued a first-quarter outlook that points to a meaningful deceleration. Fourth-quarter revenue was $148.3 million, up 39% from $107.0 million a year earlier and narrowly above Wall Street’s consensus estimate of $144.3 million. Adjusted earnings per share were $0.10, missing the $0.14 estimate. Net income rose to $8.1 million, or $0.05 a share, from $7.8 million, or $0.05 a share. Tariffs and costs weigh on profitability Shoals ( SHLS ) said gross profit was $46.9 million, but gross margin fell to 31.6% from 37.6% a year earlier. The company pointed to higher material costs and $3.3 million in duties and tariffs that were not incurred in the prior-year quarter. It also cited $1.5 million of right-of-use asset amortization tied to a new operations facility lease. Operating profit increased to $17.4 million from $16.5 million. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization totaled $30.3 million, up from $26.4 million a year earlier. Shoals ( SHLS ) later reported ebitda of $99.5 million for full-year 2025, roughly flat with $99.1 million in 2024. General and administrative expenses rose to $27.3 million from $21.5 million, driven in part by higher professional services related to wire insulation shrinkback, intellectual property and securities litigation. “I’m pleased with our performance in the fourth quarter, delivering more than $148 million of revenue,” Brandon Moss, chief executive of Shoals ( SHLS ), said in a statement. Guidance highlights near-term headwinds Investors also appeared to focus on Shoals ( SHLS ) guidance for the first quarter, which calls for revenue of $125 million to $135 million and adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of $16 million to $21 m...
Increase of 6.4% comes as drugmaker reports strong profit growth, despite cancelling UK investment projects Business live – latest updates Pascal Soriot, the chief executive of Britain’s largest pharmaceutical company, received a 6.4% pay rise last year, taking his total remuneration to £17.7m. The AstraZeneca boss is in line for a further increase this year, potentially making him the UK’s highes...
Increase of 6.4% comes as drugmaker reports strong profit growth, despite cancelling UK investment projects Business live – latest updates Pascal Soriot, the chief executive of Britain’s largest pharmaceutical company, received a 6.4% pay rise last year, taking his total remuneration to £17.7m. The AstraZeneca boss is in line for a further increase this year, potentially making him the UK’s highest-paid chief executive once again. Continue reading...
In this article GOOGL XEL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Signage at the Google Midlothian Data Center in Midlothian, Texas, US, on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. Jonathan Johnson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alphabet 's Google will build its first data center in Minnesota and deploy a significant amount of new renewable energy in the state under an agreement with utility Xcel , the companie...
In this article GOOGL XEL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Signage at the Google Midlothian Data Center in Midlothian, Texas, US, on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. Jonathan Johnson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alphabet 's Google will build its first data center in Minnesota and deploy a significant amount of new renewable energy in the state under an agreement with utility Xcel , the companies announced Tuesday. The data center will be located on a 480-acre site at Pine Island , a town of about 4,000 people some 70 miles southeast of Minneapolis. Google had not publicly disclosed its role in the project previously. The facility will be used for artificial intelligence applications as well as Google's broader cloud business. The proposed data center at Pine Island has faced community opposition but is supported by the city council. It has not begun construction yet. Data centers are facing political blowback in communities across the U.S. more often as people blame them for rising electricity prices in some regions and worry about their environmental impact. Data centers also consume a significant amount of water for cooling. Google declined to disclose how much electricity the data center will consume. The tech company said it will pay for any electric grid infrastructure needed for the project. The Minnesota Public Utility Commission still must review the agreement between Google and Xcel. "What Google is doing is ensuring that when we show up, we aren't putting additional costs on other ratepayers," Amanda Peterson Corio, head of data center energy at Google, told CNBC in an interview. "We will pay 100% of our energy and electricity costs, and we will make sure that new additional capacity is put on to the grid to be able to serve our needs." Additional transmission infrastructure is needed for the Pine Island data center, said Bria Shea, president of Xcel for Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. Google will pay for any new transmission associated with t...
Klaus Vedfelt/DigitalVision via Getty Images As agentic AI reshapes the software as a service (SaaS) ecosystem, Morgan Stanley believes the adoption of this transformative technology will only benefit online travel agents (OTA), changing behaviors and diverting traffic to OTA apps and websites for purchase rather than direct in-agent checkout. “Early agentic travel products are developing differen...
Klaus Vedfelt/DigitalVision via Getty Images As agentic AI reshapes the software as a service (SaaS) ecosystem, Morgan Stanley believes the adoption of this transformative technology will only benefit online travel agents (OTA), changing behaviors and diverting traffic to OTA apps and websites for purchase rather than direct in-agent checkout. “Early agentic travel products are developing differently than expected in some ways,” says Morgan Stanley’s Brian Nowak, with Booking Holdings ( BKNG ) remaining a “key driver of travel” even as agentic tools evolve. “Booking will still own the customer, capture robust traveler data, and use those to drive high margin direct business,” Nowak adds, moving off the sidelines and rating the stock as Overweight with a new – albeit lower – price target of $5,500, as agentic disruption fears have driven BKNG’s multiple to a 10-year trough, creating “an investment opportunity.” Despite their assertive embrace of generative artificial intelligence, Google ( GOOG ) and Meta ( META ) have both remained hesitant to be the “merchant of record” in the travel business given the payment risk and necessary traveler customer service support, a dynamic Nowak believes is unlikely to change in an agentic world. “We see OTA’s ability to remain the merchant of record and still capture consumer browsing and purchasing data as being key to their long-term business…as in effect, we think the stage is setting up for BKNG and OTAs to remain just as critical to the long-term online travel landscape as they are now,” Nowak writes, adding that Booking ( BKNG ) has 20+ years of leading execution in this type of environment and expects more of the same going forward. Morgan Stanley’s upgrade and overall endorsement of the online travel industry amid AI adoption is giving a boost to Booking Holding ( BKNG ) shares in early trading, as well as peers Expedia ( EXPE ), Travelzoo ( TZOO ), and Tripadvisor ( TRIP ). More on Booking Holdings Booking Holdings: Hotel...
This 2003 romcom seemed destined to be a hit. But it was too camp, too synthetic, too satirical: the exact qualities that make it a cult favourite today Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email In May 2003, a romcom starring Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor seemed like a surefire recipe for success. Zellweger had just earned consecutive best actress Oscar nominations for Bridget Jones’ Diary a...
This 2003 romcom seemed destined to be a hit. But it was too camp, too synthetic, too satirical: the exact qualities that make it a cult favourite today Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email In May 2003, a romcom starring Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor seemed like a surefire recipe for success. Zellweger had just earned consecutive best actress Oscar nominations for Bridget Jones’ Diary and Chicago, and McGregor had leading roles in zeitgeist-defining hits including Moulin Rouge and Star Wars. But on release, Down with Love barely made a dent at the box office, and audiences and critics alike were baffled by its camp sensibility and embrace of artifice. In the film, Zellweger plays writer Barbara Novak, who arrives in New York City in 1962 to publish her feminist manifesto, Down with Love. Novak’s book encourages women to reject romance, embrace sex and refute the rigid gender roles of 50s America, and with the help of her publisher, Vikki (Sarah Paulson), Down with Love becomes a worldwide phenomenon – much to the chagrin of “man’s-man-ladies’-man-man about town” Catcher Block (Ewan McGregor). Continue reading...
Online influencers are soaking and spraying their fresh produce, but experts say the ‘number one rule’ of food hygiene has nothing to do with special sanitisers Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email You know the cost-of-living crisis is biting when videos of influencers unpacking their grocery “hauls” are viral on TikTok. Chewing through millions of views, fruit and vegetables are aesthetica...
Online influencers are soaking and spraying their fresh produce, but experts say the ‘number one rule’ of food hygiene has nothing to do with special sanitisers Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email You know the cost-of-living crisis is biting when videos of influencers unpacking their grocery “hauls” are viral on TikTok. Chewing through millions of views, fruit and vegetables are aesthetically plopped into a sink filled with water, piece by piece. “Sanitising” products are then added, ranging from the fizz of baking soda and vinegar to specialised vegetable soaps (“Amazon link in my bio!”). There are even expensive electronic purifiers , which shake, shimmy and bubble away in the basin, supposedly removing any nasties . Continue reading...
Scotch tape has been a household mainstay for nearly a century, but it still holds some scientific surprises. Researchers have discovered that the screeching sound emitted when one rapidly peels Scotch tape —akin to the screech of fingernails on a chalkboard—is the result of shock waves produced by micro-cracks propagating along the tape at supersonic speeds, according to a new paper published in ...
Scotch tape has been a household mainstay for nearly a century, but it still holds some scientific surprises. Researchers have discovered that the screeching sound emitted when one rapidly peels Scotch tape —akin to the screech of fingernails on a chalkboard—is the result of shock waves produced by micro-cracks propagating along the tape at supersonic speeds, according to a new paper published in the journal Physical Review E. It was a 3M engineer named Richard Drew who developed the first transparent sticky tape in 1930. The impetus came from car manufacturing, specifically two-color designs, where the adhesives used were so sticky they often removed the paint when peeled off; the paint then needed to be manually touched up. Drew found a sandpaper adhesive with just the right amount of stickiness and used it to coat a roll of cellophane tape. (Fun fact: Drew also co-invented the snail-style dispenser for the tape with his 3M colleague, John Borden.) The tape was hugely popular during the Great Depression; consumers used it to repair everyday items rather than replace them. That popularity has never waned. Scotch tape has also generated considerable interest among physicists. Back in 1939, scientists noticed that peeling tape could produce light—specifically, a glowing line where the tape end pulls away from the roll. The phenomenon was first recorded in the 17th century and is known as triboluminescence : the generation of light when a material is crushed, ripped, rubbed, or scratched. Diamonds, for instance, sometimes glow blue or red during the cutting process, while ceramics emit yellow-orange light when being cut by abrasive water jets. Read full article Comments