A link to the highway that cuts travel times from hours to just minutes, and a symbol of a flow of investment that has provided unprecedented access to high-speed internet in this remote region. (Image credit: Ng Han Guan)
A link to the highway that cuts travel times from hours to just minutes, and a symbol of a flow of investment that has provided unprecedented access to high-speed internet in this remote region. (Image credit: Ng Han Guan)
Electric toothbrushes promise healthier teeth and gums and can transform your oral hygiene. We put 29 models to the test • How to make your toothbrush last longer If you grew up using a conventional toothbrush – essentially a stick with bristles on the end – you may be surprised to learn just how long the electric toothbrush has been around. The first was designed in the late 1930s, but that model...
Electric toothbrushes promise healthier teeth and gums and can transform your oral hygiene. We put 29 models to the test • How to make your toothbrush last longer If you grew up using a conventional toothbrush – essentially a stick with bristles on the end – you may be surprised to learn just how long the electric toothbrush has been around. The first was designed in the late 1930s, but that model was a long way from the sleek, feature-packed and Bluetooth-enabled beasts you can buy today. There are now dozens of ultra-advanced versions on the market, but which ones are worth your cash? To help answer that question, my teeth have become figurative guinea pigs. Over the past 18 months, I’ve put 29 electric toothbrushes from the likes of Oral-B, Philips, Suri, Ordo, Silk’n and Foreo through their paces to separate the best from the rest. Here are my conclusions. Best electric toothbrush overall: Laifen Wave Pro Best budget electric toothbrush: Odonta PowerPlus Continue reading...
Any US military attack on Cuba would most likely take place this summer, according to a Chinese defence technology company closely tracking US military movements around the island. The assessment by Jingan Technology, a civilian start-up founded in 2021 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, said that if the US were to use force against Cuba, it would most likely take the form of a rapid “decapitation an...
Any US military attack on Cuba would most likely take place this summer, according to a Chinese defence technology company closely tracking US military movements around the island. The assessment by Jingan Technology, a civilian start-up founded in 2021 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, said that if the US were to use force against Cuba, it would most likely take the form of a rapid “decapitation and paralysis” operation aimed at regime change, rather than a large-scale invasion. The company uses...
China is ramping up its bets on space-based artificial intelligence computing with the launch of a state-backed research institute in Beijing, accelerating a frontier tech race with the US just as Elon Musk’s SpaceX eyes a record-shattering US$75 billion market debut to fund its own orbital AI ambitions. The establishment of the Beijing Space Intelligent Computing Research Institute marks a major ...
China is ramping up its bets on space-based artificial intelligence computing with the launch of a state-backed research institute in Beijing, accelerating a frontier tech race with the US just as Elon Musk’s SpaceX eyes a record-shattering US$75 billion market debut to fund its own orbital AI ambitions. The establishment of the Beijing Space Intelligent Computing Research Institute marks a major step in the superpowers’ AI rivalry, which is increasingly extending beyond Earth as terrestrial AI...
The decision not to test all men and only screen the most at risk, including black men, is fact-based. Yet it’s been called ‘two-tier’ – and labelled as misandry If the country seems to be slipping away from reason and trust in science, blame usually falls on modern phenomena such as social media and its fantastical influencers. Or on the US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s bizarre anti-vacc...
The decision not to test all men and only screen the most at risk, including black men, is fact-based. Yet it’s been called ‘two-tier’ – and labelled as misandry If the country seems to be slipping away from reason and trust in science, blame usually falls on modern phenomena such as social media and its fantastical influencers. Or on the US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s bizarre anti-vaccine, anti-fluoride, anti-evidence lunacy. But campaigns against the UK national screening committee’s decision to limit prostate cancer testing have been run by British bastions of the sort laying claim to “common sense”. They include two Tory ex-prime ministers, David Cameron and Rishi Sunak (who see themselves as sensibles, unlike Boris Johnson and Liz Truss), joined by their Tory/ Reform media, especially the Mail and the Telegraph, plus a host of distinguished campaigners such as Stephen Fry, fount of QI knowledge. The national screening committee (NSC) has for a long time resisted a call for universal testing of all men for prostate cancer, though it kills 12,000 men a year in the UK. I was on the committee in the 1990s, and it was besieged by demands for screening for prostate cancer and numerous other conditions. These were often refused for unreasonable cost, but this decision is about harm to men, not about money. Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
Allan Leighton on government help, talk of a reheated merger with Sainsbury’s – and the vital role of bananas “It’s not bloody inevitable,” that Asda will be overtaken by Aldi as the UK’s third biggest supermarket, Allan Leighton roars as the veteran retail boss insists his turnaround of the ailing business is on track. Leighton, the chair of Asda, who returned to lead the business after 20 years ...
Allan Leighton on government help, talk of a reheated merger with Sainsbury’s – and the vital role of bananas “It’s not bloody inevitable,” that Asda will be overtaken by Aldi as the UK’s third biggest supermarket, Allan Leighton roars as the veteran retail boss insists his turnaround of the ailing business is on track. Leighton, the chair of Asda, who returned to lead the business after 20 years in November 2024, is attempting to defy the critics and revive Asda for the second time in his career. Continue reading...
To get Industrial Strength delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . There are plenty of reasons why the oft-speculated US manufacturing renaissance remains at best a work-in-progress. But it might all boil down to a core truth: “If you want people to work in manufacturing, if you want investors to back manufacturing, if you want the government to invest in it, it needs to be cool,” said Ja...
To get Industrial Strength delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . There are plenty of reasons why the oft-speculated US manufacturing renaissance remains at best a work-in-progress. But it might all boil down to a core truth: “If you want people to work in manufacturing, if you want investors to back manufacturing, if you want the government to invest in it, it needs to be cool,” said Jan Sramek, founder and chief executive officer of California Forever. Personally, I find few subjects more exciting than the US industrial base and that’s why I moderated a panel on revitalizing American manufacturing at the Reagan National Economic Forum last week, featuring Sramek and other company leaders. But for much of the past few decades in the US, manufacturing has largely been regarded as a boring economic exercise in which profit margins were the ultimate prize. Read More: GM Pivot Shows Why Reshoring Is So Hard Before the pandemic laid bare the challenges of far-flung supply chains, investors weren’t particularly concerned with where a company made its goods as long as it could do so cheaply. The factories that remained here saw dwindling investments and are now largely behind the times, with the US significantly lagging robot installations in China. Even with robust profits, the high valuations went to technology giants instead. It got to the point where some analysts openly pondered if industrial stocks were still relevant. Manufacturers themselves internalized this sentiment, contorting themselves into software companies with limited success. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of factory jobs went unfilled as Americans shunned them in favor of four-year degrees and desk jobs. “It’s all cultural because we went turbo-elite,” Chris Power, CEO and founder of defense manufacturing startup Hadrian, said during the panel. “We offshored all heavy industry and we told everyone that unless you sit at a desk, you’re kind of not an American anymore.” There are some signs o...
Thousands have protested in the capital, Tirana, this week against a planned luxury resort backed by Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and his son-in-law Jared Kushner. Groundwork has begun on the $1.6bn complex in an area long seen as one of the Mediterranean’s most environmentally sensitive, containing 200 species of birds including flamingos and Dalmatian pelicans. After builders began erecting a ...
Thousands have protested in the capital, Tirana, this week against a planned luxury resort backed by Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and his son-in-law Jared Kushner. Groundwork has begun on the $1.6bn complex in an area long seen as one of the Mediterranean’s most environmentally sensitive, containing 200 species of birds including flamingos and Dalmatian pelicans. After builders began erecting a concrete-based, barbed wire-topped fence around the site, alarm turned to public outrage at the environmental damage and lack of political transparency around the deal. Lucy Hough speaks to US live news editor Chris Michael – watch on YouTube Continue reading...
This is Optimizer , a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here . A few days ago, I walked into the basement of a midtown gym. Smoothies and healthy snacks were passed out. Fresh from a group workout, sweaty fitness influencers (and some less sweat...
This is Optimizer , a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here . A few days ago, I walked into the basement of a midtown gym. Smoothies and healthy snacks were passed out. Fresh from a group workout, sweaty fitness influencers (and some less sweaty tech reporters) sat in a semicircle on some patchy leather couches and recliners. We were all there to get our hands on a smart scale. But not just any smart scale. We were there for the Withings BodyFit , a smart scale marketed as "built for GLP-1 … Read the full story at The Verge.
hh5800/iStock via Getty Images Investment Thesis I believe investors got Broadcom's ( AVGO ) latest earnings all wrong. They fixated on the $16 billion AI revenue call for the coming quarter and, in doing so, overlooked some rather significant details: the company has put in place a way to forecast revenues as far out as 2028, logged more than $30 billion in AI bookings in one quarter alone, and i...
hh5800/iStock via Getty Images Investment Thesis I believe investors got Broadcom's ( AVGO ) latest earnings all wrong. They fixated on the $16 billion AI revenue call for the coming quarter and, in doing so, overlooked some rather significant details: the company has put in place a way to forecast revenues as far out as 2028, logged more than $30 billion in AI bookings in one quarter alone, and is looking at $100 billion in AI chip sales by 2027. Since my last coverage , AVGO is up 31%, and I bought the post-earnings dip as there is a clear route to more than $100 billion in AI revenue by 2027 that supports the bullish outlook. Data by YCharts The $30 Billion Signal Wall Street Missed With $10.8 billion in AI semiconductors shipped and over $30 billion in fresh orders to its name this quarter, Broadcom has shown the demand is running ahead of what it can supply. The company has even extended its demand visibility into 2028. Yet investors were not pleased; the stock was down after Hock Tan, the CEO, chose not to revise his projections for 2027 to reflect $100 billion in AI chip sales. You have Google ( GOOG ) ( GOOGL ) with its long-term arrangement for TPUs and networking, or Meta ( META ) rolling out custom accelerators as time goes on. OpenAI and Anthropic are locking in compute at the gigawatt level. These aren’t your everyday customer transactions but proper strategic partnerships. I’m not so sure you can still call Broadcom an ASIC company; the label doesn’t do them justice anymore. Their real moat is in the networking side of things. It accounts for close to 40% of AI revenue in the second quarter, and the execs are right to make a point of their edge in SerDes, routers, and switches. They have a 100-terabit Tomahawk switch in the field and will be shipping a 200-terabit version by the end of the quarter. Q2 Earnings It is important in an era where scaling AI clusters is no easy task. Nvidia ( NVDA ) may get all the attention for the computing side, but Broad...
You work hard and save what you can, but when it comes to retirement planning, you aren't alone if you feel like you're barely making progress toward your goals. Living costs keep increasing, and you may not have access to a 401(k) through your job. The federal government is launching a new initiative next year to try to help savers struggling with the latter issue, and President Trump recently ma...
You work hard and save what you can, but when it comes to retirement planning, you aren't alone if you feel like you're barely making progress toward your goals. Living costs keep increasing, and you may not have access to a 401(k) through your job. The federal government is launching a new initiative next year to try to help savers struggling with the latter issue, and President Trump recently made a pretty bold claim that it could make low-income savers "rich." But the reality is a bit more complicated. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
Rubio: 'Most Of The World Assesses' That Israel Has Nuclear Weapons Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday was asked whether Israel has nuclear weapons and acknowledged that "most of the world assesses that they do," but also reaffirmed the US policy of not acknowledging the existence of Israel’s nuclear stockpile and secret weapons program. Rubio m...
Rubio: 'Most Of The World Assesses' That Israel Has Nuclear Weapons Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday was asked whether Israel has nuclear weapons and acknowledged that "most of the world assesses that they do," but also reaffirmed the US policy of not acknowledging the existence of Israel’s nuclear stockpile and secret weapons program. Rubio made the comments when being questioned by Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX), who recently led a letter to the State Department asking for answers about Israel's nuclear weapons program. Rubio’s State Department responded by referring the group of Democratic lawmakers to the government of Israel. The stakes are too high to stay in the dark on Israel’s nuclear capabilities. Today, I asked Secretary Rubio if Israel has a nuclear program. He said "most of the world assesses that they do" and committed to providing more information. pic.twitter.com/TOPiCmq7h5 — Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) June 3, 2026 “I have to say, Mr. Secretary, that’s a very bizarre response,” Castro told Rubio at a congressional hearing. Castro then asked Rubio if he could tell the American people whether or not Israel has nukes. “You know that that’s a question we don’t, they’ve never acknowledged to have a nuclear program, people can have, as you know, an open source and other reporting suspicions about what they possess. If we're speaking frankly, I think most of the world asseses that they do,” Rubio said. “But they’ve never acknowledged that publicly, and as a feature of our foreign policy, for a variety of reasons, we don’t discuss it that way either,” he added. Castro expressed concern over what Israel’s “red lines” could be when it comes to using its nuclear weapons and said he was “shocked that our government wouldn’t make an effort to know, to understand and then to give our oversight body the information that we need to make decisions about the war. Rubio said Castro’s concerns were “fair” and tha...
Key PointsCFO Bruce Hausmann sold 50,000 shares on May 27, 2026, for a transaction value of approximately ~$1.48 million, based on the SEC-reported price of $29.66 per share.
Key PointsCFO Bruce Hausmann sold 50,000 shares on May 27, 2026, for a transaction value of approximately ~$1.48 million, based on the SEC-reported price of $29.66 per share.
Zumiez shares slipped more than 18% during early trading on Friday after the company reported mixed first-quarter results and issued second-quarter guidance that fell below market expectations. The company reported Q1 GAAP EPS of -$0.82, missing consensus estimates by $0.01, while revenue of $193.3M came in $2.28M above consensus. “We continue to make important progress toward sustained profitable...
Zumiez shares slipped more than 18% during early trading on Friday after the company reported mixed first-quarter results and issued second-quarter guidance that fell below market expectations. The company reported Q1 GAAP EPS of -$0.82, missing consensus estimates by $0.01, while revenue of $193.3M came in $2.28M above consensus. “We continue to make important progress toward sustained profitable growth,” said Rick Brooks, Chief Executive Officer of Zumiez. “First-quarter comparable sales increased in the mid-single digits for the second consecutive year, driven by ongoing strength in our North American business and strong mid-single-digit comps in Europe. Sales trends in the U.S. remained nicely positive during the quarter despite increasing pressure on consumers, underscoring the success of our recent merchandise assortments and customer experience initiatives. While still in the early innings, the work we are doing to replicate our full-price selling model in Europe is gaining traction, contributing to year-over-year improvements in sales and margin. Despite some softness in North America during May, we are encouraged that we have been able to grow sales and margin through the challenges in the macro environment and feel we are well positioned to capitalize during the key back-to-school and holiday seasons, when consumers have a reason to come out and shop,” Brooks added. The company introduced second-quarter revenue guidance of $210M to $215M, below the consensus estimate of $218.43M. Earnings per share are expected to be between -$0.23 and -$0.08, well short of the consensus estimate of $0.09. As of May 2, 2026, the company had cash and current marketable securities of $124.2M, compared with $101M as of May 3, 2025. More on Zumiez Zumiez Inc. (ZUMZ) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript Zumiez Is Fit For An Upgrade Zumiez: Pullback Creates Opportunity Given Margin Expansion (Rating Upgrade) Zumiez anticipates Q2 sales of $210M-$215M amid consumer pressure, while pr...
When Quilty hit the industry trades earlier this year, the AI startup promised that its tool could accurately predict a film's success just by reading the script. When people actually got a chance to experiment with Quilty's product, though, they were left skeptical. Even with all the available data in the world, it predicted the script for Christy , which would go on to be a box office flop, woul...
When Quilty hit the industry trades earlier this year, the AI startup promised that its tool could accurately predict a film's success just by reading the script. When people actually got a chance to experiment with Quilty's product, though, they were left skeptical. Even with all the available data in the world, it predicted the script for Christy , which would go on to be a box office flop, would outperform the script for Sinners , which became an Oscar-winning blockbuster. As many AI execs have pitched before, Quilty's founders believe that can help "democratize" their industry by giving up-and-coming creatives access to assistive tools - … Read the full story at The Verge.
Andrew Ross Sorkin is arguably one of the biggest names in business news, and with his new book, 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History — and How It Shattered a Nation, the man has really shone a bright light on the lessons from the distant past, which may have been forgotten by ... Big-Name Anchor Thinks a Market Downturn is Inevitable — A Sober Reminder That Bull Markets Don’t Ru...
Andrew Ross Sorkin is arguably one of the biggest names in business news, and with his new book, 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History — and How It Shattered a Nation, the man has really shone a bright light on the lessons from the distant past, which may have been forgotten by ... Big-Name Anchor Thinks a Market Downturn is Inevitable — A Sober Reminder That Bull Markets Don’t Run Forever, Even in Boom Times