Hong Kong leader John Lee Ka-chiu has promised to allow more children from low-income families to enjoy after-school care on campus by further expanding a government scheme following positive feedback from participants. Social workers and educators welcomed the initiative on Saturday, proposing the government widen the scheme’s coverage to include more pupils and encourage more schools to join thr...
Hong Kong leader John Lee Ka-chiu has promised to allow more children from low-income families to enjoy after-school care on campus by further expanding a government scheme following positive feedback from participants. Social workers and educators welcomed the initiative on Saturday, proposing the government widen the scheme’s coverage to include more pupils and encourage more schools to join through subsidies. The scheme, launched as part of a government’s targeted measures to tackle poverty,...
Viral reviews of artisan cafes across the capital are sparking a debate over cost, culture – and who gets a slice of the city The video that started it all was innocuous enough: a woman in her 20s posted on TikTok about how she spends a perfect weekend in north London. On her list were the bakeries Jolene and Gail’s, and the De Beauvoir Deli. The reaction, however, was anything but. Many locals co...
Viral reviews of artisan cafes across the capital are sparking a debate over cost, culture – and who gets a slice of the city The video that started it all was innocuous enough: a woman in her 20s posted on TikTok about how she spends a perfect weekend in north London. On her list were the bakeries Jolene and Gail’s, and the De Beauvoir Deli. The reaction, however, was anything but. Many locals commented that they had never heard of the businesses she mentioned. One north Londoner, Moses Combe, 21, was equally incredulous. “If this is where all the north London girlies come in the morning, I’d be a bit surprised,” he said in a viral video. Continue reading...
Researchers warn the high-pressure conditions could disrupt marine life and ecosystems if it continues Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox For more than a century, shoreline stations operated by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have measured water temperatures along the California coast. This year, they are flashing a warning sign. Over the last thr...
Researchers warn the high-pressure conditions could disrupt marine life and ecosystems if it continues Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox For more than a century, shoreline stations operated by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have measured water temperatures along the California coast. This year, they are flashing a warning sign. Over the last three months, several stations have repeatedly posted record-breaking daily high temperatures – with the La Jolla station registering temperatures a full 10F above historical average at one point last month. Continue reading...
President has affixed his name to institutions and edifices, and his visage now glowers from several federal buildings The US has a history of naming things after its presidents. Washington DC has the Ronald Reagan airport, while John F Kennedy international airport is New York’s main air transport thoroughfare. The Hoover Dam straddles Nevada and Arizona; Theodore Roosevelt is one of several form...
President has affixed his name to institutions and edifices, and his visage now glowers from several federal buildings The US has a history of naming things after its presidents. Washington DC has the Ronald Reagan airport, while John F Kennedy international airport is New York’s main air transport thoroughfare. The Hoover Dam straddles Nevada and Arizona; Theodore Roosevelt is one of several former presidents to have a Washington DC building named after them; Franklin Delano Roosevelt has an island; Abraham Lincoln has the Lincoln Memorial; and George Washington has the nation’s capital and an entire state. Continue reading...
Sinking into a cup of cocoa softens many of life’s problems, but quality varies. Which are fudgy pleasures and which are simply powdered pap? • The best supermarket coffee, tasted and rated A hot cup of cocoa is one of life’s great pleasures, especially for the feeling of sheer comfort and nostalgia it conjures up. These days, there is drinking chocolate of exceptional quality out there, which jus...
Sinking into a cup of cocoa softens many of life’s problems, but quality varies. Which are fudgy pleasures and which are simply powdered pap? • The best supermarket coffee, tasted and rated A hot cup of cocoa is one of life’s great pleasures, especially for the feeling of sheer comfort and nostalgia it conjures up. These days, there is drinking chocolate of exceptional quality out there, which just didn’t exist in my childhood. It’s made with some of the finest chocolate in the world: bean-to-bar, single-origin or even single-estate, and often made from grated bean-to-bar chocolate and nothing else. Continue reading...
Nurul Shah Alam, a nearly blind Rohingya refugee, was left alone in a Buffalo parking lot. His death has been ruled a homicide – what now? On 19 February, the second day of Ramadan, Mohamad Faisal Nurul Amin and his family gathered to pray before sunrise in their apartment on the outskirts of Buffalo, New York. After nearly a year of waiting, they believed their family would be together again. Ami...
Nurul Shah Alam, a nearly blind Rohingya refugee, was left alone in a Buffalo parking lot. His death has been ruled a homicide – what now? On 19 February, the second day of Ramadan, Mohamad Faisal Nurul Amin and his family gathered to pray before sunrise in their apartment on the outskirts of Buffalo, New York. After nearly a year of waiting, they believed their family would be together again. Amin’s father, Nurul Shah Alam, 56, was coming home. “For the first time since we arrived in America, I felt happy,” said Fatima Abdul Roshid, Shah Alam’s wife, speaking through an interpreter. “I thought my husband would be with our two sons and me for Ramadan.” Continue reading...
alexsl OpenAI's ( OPENAI ) ChatGPT and DeepSeek ( DEEPSEEK ) continue to lose share in the chatbot mobile market in the U.S. as competition increases, according to data from Apptopia. ChatGPT has lost market share for four straight months now, falling below 40% in March. As recently as September 2025, it held more than 50% of the daily average user share. In contrast, Google's ( GOOG )( GOOGL ) Ge...
alexsl OpenAI's ( OPENAI ) ChatGPT and DeepSeek ( DEEPSEEK ) continue to lose share in the chatbot mobile market in the U.S. as competition increases, according to data from Apptopia. ChatGPT has lost market share for four straight months now, falling below 40% in March. As recently as September 2025, it held more than 50% of the daily average user share. In contrast, Google's ( GOOG )( GOOGL ) Gemini and Microsoft's ( MSFT ) Copilot held steady in March, while Anthropic's ( ANTHRO ) Claude made the most significant gains. Claude increased to 10% of DAU share during the month after it held less than 2% as recently as December 2025. "Claude's DAU tripling in a single month looks like a step function, not a trend line," said Tom Grant, VP of Research at Apptopia. "What makes the March data interesting is the engagement quality underneath it. Claude's power users are now spending 139 minutes per day in the app, up from 98 in February, and its power user churn dropped to 12%. That combination of rapid user acquisition and deepening engagement among heavy users is exactly what you'd want to see if you're underwriting Anthropic’s $61.5 billion valuation." Gemini accounted for 25% of DAU share in March, while xAI's ( X.AI ) Grok slipped to 13.5% from 15.3% month over month. Copilot has held steady at 10% of DAU market share for three straight months. Finally, Perplexity declined slightly to 2.1%, and DeepSeek slipped to about 1% as it has nearly vanished from the U.S. market, according to Apptopia data. "The Gen AI Chatbot market grew 5% from February to March and 22% from September," Apptopia noted. "That expansion is being driven almost entirely by challengers eating into ChatGPT's share rather than by ChatGPT's own growth. The market is still growing, but the distribution of value within it can shift fast." More on OpenAI, Microsoft and Google Wall Street Lunch: Anthropic Tries To Contain Claude Code Instruction Leak Microsoft's AI Reset Created A Rare Bargain Microsoft...
In this article AMZN MSFT Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT watch now VIDEO 15:44 15:44 Why Apple’s AI strategy matters more than ever TechCheck CUPERTINO, Calif. — Nasdaq brought its market open festivities to Apple's sprawling Silicon Valley headquarters on Tuesday, the eve of the company's 50th birthday. From a desk inside Apple Park, the ring-shaped campus that Steve Jobs spent h...
In this article AMZN MSFT Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT watch now VIDEO 15:44 15:44 Why Apple’s AI strategy matters more than ever TechCheck CUPERTINO, Calif. — Nasdaq brought its market open festivities to Apple's sprawling Silicon Valley headquarters on Tuesday, the eve of the company's 50th birthday. From a desk inside Apple Park, the ring-shaped campus that Steve Jobs spent his last years helping design, Tim Cook rang the opening bell and, in the process, ushered in the iPhone maker's second half-century. It was a celebratory occasion, but one arriving at a pivotal point for an iconic American company that faces major challenges today and in the years ahead as the technology industry gets swept up by artificial intelligence. Prior to the AI boom, which started with the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT in late 2022, Apple was able to win by dominating the consumer device market and adding its Siri voice assistant across its product portfolio. The pitch has always been simple: Pay a premium for a device, and trust that what happens on it stays yours, whether it's messages, photos or notes. Personal data isn't fuel for an advertising engine. Two of Apple's megacap tech peers took the opposite approach. Google and Meta are the giants of digital advertising, giving away their key services for free and making tens of billions of dollars a year in profit by targeting users with promotions. Apple's principle came from Jobs, its co-founder and longtime CEO. Cook, his successor, has been preaching it since becoming CEO in 2011, shortly before Jobs' death. For much of Apple's 50-year history, it's been gospel in Cupertino. That's why Apple's latest move feels so out of character. watch now VIDEO 2:18 02:18 Apple at 50 is trying to prove it can win the AI era Closing Bell: Overtime In January, Apple struck a multiyear deal to use Google's Gemini AI as part of a rebooted Siri. Google has already been paying in the range of $20 billion a year to be the default sea...
Posters of films are on display at a cinema in Shanghai, Aug. 31, 2025. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Hollywood has lost one of its most lucrative theatrical markets. It's unclear if it will ever win it back. The Chinese box office was once a coveted space for American-made movies, so much so that studios produced films that would appeal directly to this international audience. But in th...
Posters of films are on display at a cinema in Shanghai, Aug. 31, 2025. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Hollywood has lost one of its most lucrative theatrical markets. It's unclear if it will ever win it back. The Chinese box office was once a coveted space for American-made movies, so much so that studios produced films that would appeal directly to this international audience. But in the postpandemic cinema landscape, Hollywood hasn't generated the strong ticket sales it once saw for its biggest blockbusters — and a waning relationship with Chinese cinemas is at least partly to blame. The U.S.-China Film Agreement , struck in 2012 between the two governments, guaranteed 34 U.S. films would be released in China each year. That pact ended in 2017 and was never renewed or renegotiated. At the same time, China began expanding its local film production and instituting blackout dates to promote viewership of its homegrown titles. Add in strict censorship policies from the China Film Administration and recent political strains between the U.S. and China, and Hollywood films have faced several hurdles just to get distribution in the country post-Covid. "I think that the kind of euphoria about the world's largest market and thinking about China as a place that always creates a larger market for U.S. [intellectual property] is not accurate," said Aynne Kokas, a professor at the University of Virginia and the author of "Hollywood Made in China." "[There are] constraints on the market in a couple of ways, first related to content control and not just content control in terms of censorship, but also in terms of control of distribution channels by the party," Kokas said. She said the film bureau will "turn on and off the levers of distribution based on the needs of the market." If local Chinese films are doing well, the country will limit distribution access for foreign films. If there are gaps in film releases or releases aren't selling as many tickets, it will open u...
Kathrin Ziegler/DigitalVision via Getty Images Co-authored by Kody's Dividends Are you more of a dog or a cat person? It's not an uncommon question within the United States, and most people have an immediate answer. According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, Americans favor dogs over cats . The same source reports that over 87 million dogs and 76 million cats are owned by Americans....
Kathrin Ziegler/DigitalVision via Getty Images Co-authored by Kody's Dividends Are you more of a dog or a cat person? It's not an uncommon question within the United States, and most people have an immediate answer. According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, Americans favor dogs over cats . The same source reports that over 87 million dogs and 76 million cats are owned by Americans. This equates to 42.6% of households owning a dog and 32.6% owning a cat. Ironically, cat owners usually own more cats per home than dog owners do. With well over 150 million cats and dogs owned within the United States, demand for their food, toys, and medical care remains a consistent market for companies to address effectively. As a dividend investor focused on maximizing total returns and buying growing dividends, I am always on the lookout for attractively priced companies in the market that meet every type of persistent consumer need. Today, I want to look at a company meeting pet owners where they have a consistent need: the medical needs of their pets. Let's dive in! Potential Blockbuster Candidates Can Drive Continued Growth Zoetis 10-K Filing Our investment thesis in Zoetis ( ZTS ) remains similar to when we last highlighted it in January : the company has hundreds of product lines in seven major product categories, which provides it with broad diversification. Unsurprisingly, the company is diversified in more than just its product lines: geographically, almost 55% of its $9.47 billion in 2025 revenue was derived in the U.S., with the remaining 45% being generated in international markets (page 3 of 110 of ZTS's 10-K Filing ). In Q4 2025 , the company proved its resilience. ZTS's revenue edged 3% higher year-over-year to $2.39 billion in the quarter. This came in about $25 million ahead of Seeking Alpha's analyst consensus during the quarter. While the U.S. market experienced softness (organic revenue was flat), international markets thrived, posting 7% organic g...
Just_Super/iStock via Getty Images Penguin Solutions ( PENG ) describes itself as the "AI factory platform company". It designs and deploys high-performance computing platforms, creating infrastructure to allow clients to scale up their data center and AI computing capacity. In addition to helping clients deploy thousands of GPUs at scale, Penguin has significant operations in memory components an...
Just_Super/iStock via Getty Images Penguin Solutions ( PENG ) describes itself as the "AI factory platform company". It designs and deploys high-performance computing platforms, creating infrastructure to allow clients to scale up their data center and AI computing capacity. In addition to helping clients deploy thousands of GPUs at scale, Penguin has significant operations in memory components and LED lighting. Penguin is classified as a semiconductor company, and it's tempting to throw it in the same grouping as the other AI-related chip companies. However, investors have treated Penguin more like a software company. Over the past five years, the VanEck Semiconductor ETF ( SMH ) has rallied more than 200%, and the overall Nasdaq 100 is up 86%. However, the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF ( IGV ) is up just 15%, and Penguin Solutions shares have outright fallen in value over that same period: Data by YCharts That tendency has accelerated in recent months. PENG stock has fallen by about 25% over the past six months, which coincides with the recent steep sell-off that we've seen in software stocks. I previously covered Penguin Solutions in September 2025. At the time, I wrote that I wasn't convinced that the AI thesis would play out. And, the stock has underperformed since then. But, with the firm's fiscal year 2026 Q2 results and subsequent rebound in PENG's share price, is it time to upgrade Penguin Solutions stock? Q2 Results And Guidance Penguin Solutions reported its fiscal '26 Q2 results on April 1st. The company's non-GAAP earnings of 52 cents topped expectations by 10 cents but were unchanged compared to the same period of 2025. Meanwhile, revenues of $343 million fell 6% year-over-year but slightly exceeded the analyst consensus. I would rate this quarter as not especially strong on its own. That said, you can argue that the drop in revenues isn't too bad when considered with broader context. The company wound down its Penguin Edge operation, which...
alexsl/iStock via Getty Images Purpose I look at the high frequency weekly indicators because while they can be very noisy, they provide a good nowcast of the economy, and will telegraph the maintenance or change in the economy well before monthly or quarterly data is available. They are also an excellent way to "mark your beliefs to market." In general, I go in order of long leading indicators, t...
alexsl/iStock via Getty Images Purpose I look at the high frequency weekly indicators because while they can be very noisy, they provide a good nowcast of the economy, and will telegraph the maintenance or change in the economy well before monthly or quarterly data is available. They are also an excellent way to "mark your beliefs to market." In general, I go in order of long leading indicators, then short leading indicators, then coincident indicators. A Note on Methodology Data is presented in a "just the facts, ma'am" format with a minimum of commentary so that bias is minimized. Where relevant, I include 12-month highs and lows in the data in parentheses to the right. All data taken from St. Louis FRED unless otherwise linked. A few items (e.g., Financial Conditions indexes, regional Fed indexes, stock prices, the yield curve) have their own metrics based on long-term studies of their behavior. Where data is seasonally adjusted, generally it is scored positively if it is within the top 1/3 of that range, negative in the bottom 1/3, and neutral in between. Where it is not seasonally adjusted, and there are seasonal issues, waiting for the YoY change to change sign will lag the turning point. Thus I make use of a convention: data is scored neutral if it is less than 1/2 as positive/negative as at its 12-month extreme. With long leading indicators, which by definition turn at least 12 months before a turning point in the economy as a whole, there is an additional rule: data is automatically negative if, during an expansion, it has not made a new peak in the past year, with the sole exception that it is scored neutral if it is moving in the right direction and is close to making a new high. For all series where a graph is available, I have provided a link to where the relevant graph can be found. Recap of Monthly Reports March data started out with a positive jobs report including lower unemployment and most leading indicators therein positive as well, although wage...
The original Super Meat Boy is one of the best-known indie games of all time. Released in 2010, it's a brutally difficult 2D platformer, but so fun to play: The short levels almost feel like speedrunning puzzles, and even though they're filled with traps and buzzsaws, dying isn't so bad because you revive nearly instantly. Super Meat Boy 3D has much of the same spirit; it's just as infuriating, an...
The original Super Meat Boy is one of the best-known indie games of all time. Released in 2010, it's a brutally difficult 2D platformer, but so fun to play: The short levels almost feel like speedrunning puzzles, and even though they're filled with traps and buzzsaws, dying isn't so bad because you revive nearly instantly. Super Meat Boy 3D has much of the same spirit; it's just as infuriating, and just as satisfying. Moving around as Meat Boy in 3D feels very similar to 2D, particularly his really floaty jump. Wherever you run (and where you die) you leave blood splatters, which are helpful visual reminders of where to go (or where you die … Read the full story at The Verge.
In 2019, 19-year-old Zac Brettler leapt towards the River Thames from a fifth-floor luxury apartment in central London. Patrick Radden Keefe investigates the story of the teen's double life in a new book.
In 2019, 19-year-old Zac Brettler leapt towards the River Thames from a fifth-floor luxury apartment in central London. Patrick Radden Keefe investigates the story of the teen's double life in a new book.