iRobot upgrades its lidar-based robot vacuum line with eight new models. | Image: iRobot iRobot has announced a new line of Roombas, a year after it debuted its first lidar-based robot vacuums just prior to filing for bankruptcy . This week, it introduced eight robot vacuums that improve on its prior lineup and feature lower prices, some up to £200 (about $270) cheaper. Key changes include higher ...
iRobot upgrades its lidar-based robot vacuum line with eight new models. | Image: iRobot iRobot has announced a new line of Roombas, a year after it debuted its first lidar-based robot vacuums just prior to filing for bankruptcy . This week, it introduced eight robot vacuums that improve on its prior lineup and feature lower prices, some up to £200 (about $270) cheaper. Key changes include higher suction power, a smaller overall size to better navigate your home, more models with roller mops, and the introduction of "hot spot mopping." iRobot, which underwent a reboot and is now owned by Shenzhen Picea Robotics , a Chinese original design manufacturer of robotic vacuums, says its new lineup is up to 25 percent smaller for "many" … Read the full story at The Verge.
ToucanStudios Stock futures dipped Tuesday morning as market participants reacted to the breakdown in U.S.-Iran diplomatic talks after President Trump dismissed Tehran’s latest proposal as “totally unacceptable.” The standoff has kept the Strait of Hormuz in focus and supported oil prices, with Brent holding just above the $100 mark, while investors also awaited the CPI report for fresh inflation ...
ToucanStudios Stock futures dipped Tuesday morning as market participants reacted to the breakdown in U.S.-Iran diplomatic talks after President Trump dismissed Tehran’s latest proposal as “totally unacceptable.” The standoff has kept the Strait of Hormuz in focus and supported oil prices, with Brent holding just above the $100 mark, while investors also awaited the CPI report for fresh inflation cues. Here are some of Tuesday's biggest stock movers: Biggest stock gainers Quantum Computing ( QUBT ) +16% - Shares jumped after reporting Q1 2026 results that featured a massive Y/Y revenue increase and a narrower-than-expected loss. Revenue surged to $3.69M from just $39K a year earlier, driven largely by the acquisitions of Luminar Semiconductors and NuCrypt. The company also highlighted a strong liquidity position with $1.4B in cash and a $16M contract backlog. Management said the acquisitions significantly expanded its capabilities in lasers, detectors, advanced packaging, and photonics infrastructure, positioning the company to capitalize on rising demand for low-power, high-speed data processing technologies. Plug Power ( PLUG ) +7% - Shares surged after reporting Q1 results that topped expectations, with top-line growth of 22.3% Y/Y driven by strength in its material handling and electrolyzer businesses. Management reiterated its FY2026 outlook for 13%–15% sales growth and said margins are expected to improve sequentially throughout the year. CFO Paul Middleton also noted that Q2 revenue is expected to grow sequentially, reinforcing confidence in the company’s near-term execution and recovery trajectory. Biggest stock losers Power Solutions ( PSIX ) -36% - Shares plunged after reporting weaker-than-expected Q1 results and withholding formal FY2026 guidance amid ongoing uncertainty around order timing and market conditions. Revenue declined 5.1% Y/Y to $128.6M, missing estimates by a wide margin, while non-GAAP EPS of $0.36 also fell short of expectations. Manageme...
In this article ONON Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Logo of Swiss shoemaker On is displayed in a shop in Zurich, Switzerland, Aug. 28, 2025. Denis Balibouse | Reuters Swiss sneaker company On saw more strong growth during its first quarter, beating Wall Street's expectations on the top and bottom lines even as direct-to-consumer revenue fell short of forecasts. During the quarter ...
In this article ONON Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Logo of Swiss shoemaker On is displayed in a shop in Zurich, Switzerland, Aug. 28, 2025. Denis Balibouse | Reuters Swiss sneaker company On saw more strong growth during its first quarter, beating Wall Street's expectations on the top and bottom lines even as direct-to-consumer revenue fell short of forecasts. During the quarter ended March 31, On's direct-to-consumer sales, revenue from its own website and stores, grew 16.4% to 322.3 million Swiss francs (US$414.2 million), falling short of the 326 million francs analysts had expected, according to StreetAccount. Meanwhile, revenue from its less profitable wholesale channel increased by 13.3% to 509.6 million francs, beating expectations of 499 million francs, according to StreetAccount. In a news release, the company said "even against an uncertain macroeconomic backdrop," it decided to raise its profitability outlook and reiterate its 2026 net sales growth forecast. "That's not particularly aimed at the consumer .... There's just a lot of things going on, like, for example, the war now in Iran that probably nobody saw coming," said co-CEO Caspar Coppetti in an interview with CNBC. "We're a bit in a bubble, I would say, as a brand, because we cater to an affluent and aspirational consumer. So our customers are not really dependent on the gas price." On is now expecting its gross profit margin to reach at least 64.5% in 2026, up from its previous forecast of 63%. The outlook continues to include a 20% tariff on imports from Vietnam into the U.S., even though the duty is no longer in effect after a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year, and excludes any potential tariff refunds that result from the decision. Coppetti said the company has applied for a refund and is continuing to plan for a 20% tariff on Vietnamese imports because the situation remains fluid and it has concerns more duties could still come. Still, even if tariffs were...
Decades-long campaign powered by patient perspectives results in switch from PCOS – a name that caused confusion and undue suffering – to PMOS • What is PCOS, what are the symptoms and treatment, and why is it being renamed PMOS? • ‘I still want to scream’: the loneliness and confusion of living with PMOS After more than a decade of global consultation, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) – a conditi...
Decades-long campaign powered by patient perspectives results in switch from PCOS – a name that caused confusion and undue suffering – to PMOS • What is PCOS, what are the symptoms and treatment, and why is it being renamed PMOS? • ‘I still want to scream’: the loneliness and confusion of living with PMOS After more than a decade of global consultation, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) – a condition that affects one in eight women – has been renamed. The hormonal disorder, estimated to impact 170 million women worldwide, will now be known as polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS). Continue reading...
After his Kendrick Lamar feud, Drake alienated female fans. With new album Iceman, he’s aiming for the top of the charts again Despite his A-list pop star status, there’s been a noticeable scrappiness to Drake ’s rollout for his ninth album, Iceman . Last month, the rapper iced out his favorite court-side seats at the Toronto Raptors’ arena, with faux icicles dangling from the chairs. He followed ...
After his Kendrick Lamar feud, Drake alienated female fans. With new album Iceman, he’s aiming for the top of the charts again Despite his A-list pop star status, there’s been a noticeable scrappiness to Drake ’s rollout for his ninth album, Iceman . Last month, the rapper iced out his favorite court-side seats at the Toronto Raptors’ arena, with faux icicles dangling from the chairs. He followed that up with a more brazen stunt: a huge block of ice in downtown Toronto for the public to chip at until it thawed, revealing the album date. In early May, he debuted a quirky episodic series on YouTube featuring skits in an ice manufacturing plant and the rapper driving an Iceman-branded truck around Toronto. The mood seemed cheeky and defiant: good news for anyone who missed the memester of his 2016 viral hit Hotline Bling. It has been an eventful and complicated time for Drake since his most recent solo studio album, 2023’s For All the Dogs . While he is still the highest streamed rapper artist in the world, he has been attacked by hip-hop. Two years ago, Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar and Drake engaged in a battle that no one came out of unscathed. There were accusations of intimate partner violence towards Lamar, a song about a possible daughter that Drake has hid, and Lamar’s Grammy-winning death blow – Not Like Us – about Drake being a hip-hop “colonizer” who chases after young women. Consensus has said that he lost the beef between him and Lamar, and the consensus is right, but the backlash against Drake was already starting to formulate before Lamar issued the first warning shot in 2024 diss track Like That. Continue reading...
Polycystic ovary syndrome is being relabelled polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome to correct the misconception that it is solely a gynaecological disease that creates ovarian cysts. Here’s what you need to know about the condition • ‘Unprecedented’ global effort gives new name to polycystic ovary syndrome – and new hope to millions of women • ‘I still want to scream’: the loneliness and confu...
Polycystic ovary syndrome is being relabelled polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome to correct the misconception that it is solely a gynaecological disease that creates ovarian cysts. Here’s what you need to know about the condition • ‘Unprecedented’ global effort gives new name to polycystic ovary syndrome – and new hope to millions of women • ‘I still want to scream’: the loneliness and confusion of living with PMOS With polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) now being rebadged as polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS), we take a look at the condition and explore why experts have decided it is time for a new name. Continue reading...
James Chilimigras, 18, graduated summa cum laude from Loyola University New Orleans’ law school A Mississippi teenager recently became one of the youngest people ever to graduate from law school after gaining admission in 2023 at age 15. James “Jimmy” Chilimigras, 18, graduated on Sunday with highest honors from Loyola University New Orleans’ law school, a little more than three years after he ear...
James Chilimigras, 18, graduated summa cum laude from Loyola University New Orleans’ law school A Mississippi teenager recently became one of the youngest people ever to graduate from law school after gaining admission in 2023 at age 15. James “Jimmy” Chilimigras, 18, graduated on Sunday with highest honors from Loyola University New Orleans’ law school, a little more than three years after he earned national news headlines with an entrance exam score that was the highest in a region encompassing his home state, Alabama to the east, and Louisiana to the west. Continue reading...
Cockrow Bridge in Surrey will open in the coming weeks to provide wildlife, including lizards and insects, with the ability to move between fragmented habitats When James Herd moved near to Wisley Common 17 years ago, the heathland nature reserve was teeming with wildlife. “I’d take the dog around the common in spring and summer, and every few hundred metres I’d hear the rustle of a lizard in the ...
Cockrow Bridge in Surrey will open in the coming weeks to provide wildlife, including lizards and insects, with the ability to move between fragmented habitats When James Herd moved near to Wisley Common 17 years ago, the heathland nature reserve was teeming with wildlife. “I’d take the dog around the common in spring and summer, and every few hundred metres I’d hear the rustle of a lizard in the undergrowth – and I’d see adders,” he says. But over the past decade, the Surrey Wildlife Trust’s director of reserves management, who oversees the internationally important habitat, has seen that wildlife become depleted. Continue reading...
Rising cost of living such as high gas prices also a concern in election that will have record number of voters Voters in the Bahamas head to the polls on Tuesday in a hotly contested general election featuring high-profile candidates such as the former basketball champion Rick Fox. Voters in the Caribbean archipelago are divided over concerns about immigration, especially from neighbouring Haiti,...
Rising cost of living such as high gas prices also a concern in election that will have record number of voters Voters in the Bahamas head to the polls on Tuesday in a hotly contested general election featuring high-profile candidates such as the former basketball champion Rick Fox. Voters in the Caribbean archipelago are divided over concerns about immigration, especially from neighbouring Haiti, and the rising cost of living, with significant spikes in gas prices caused by war in the Middle East. Continue reading...
She played the world’s coolest dance teacher and has had big success as an actor, director and choreographer, winning a Golden Globe, Emmys and an Olivier. Now, she is back on Broadway. She discusses Trump, the Kennedy Center and where the US goes next Debbie Allen once found herself judging the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City alongside a charismatic property developer named Donald Trump. He...
She played the world’s coolest dance teacher and has had big success as an actor, director and choreographer, winning a Golden Globe, Emmys and an Olivier. Now, she is back on Broadway. She discusses Trump, the Kennedy Center and where the US goes next Debbie Allen once found herself judging the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City alongside a charismatic property developer named Donald Trump. He had just bought an 86-metre superyacht named Nabila and rebranded it the Trump Princess. Eager to flaunt his prize, he invited Allen, a dancer, choreographer, actor and director, and her sister, the actor Phylicia Rashad, aboard for a private tour. The opulence of the vessel was astonishing, Allen recalls: there was a bathroom carved from lapis lazuli, a fully equipped nightclub and fine paintings hanging on the walls. “It was incredible. I remember him telling me: ‘Debbie, you can have a party on this.’ I said: ‘If I do it, honey, it’s going to be all Black people.’ ” Continue reading...
US President Donald Trump said a month-long ceasefire with Iran was on “massive life support” as he rejected Tehran’s response to a peace proposal. The Iranian reply was a “piece of garbage”, Trump told reporters in the White House on Monday. “I didn’t even finish reading it.” The comments helped to push the price of Brent crude oil above US$106 a barrel on Tuesday. Trump is expected to discuss th...
US President Donald Trump said a month-long ceasefire with Iran was on “massive life support” as he rejected Tehran’s response to a peace proposal. The Iranian reply was a “piece of garbage”, Trump told reporters in the White House on Monday. “I didn’t even finish reading it.” The comments helped to push the price of Brent crude oil above US$106 a barrel on Tuesday. Trump is expected to discuss the war with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a Beijing summit on Thursday, as Iran’s 10-week shutdown...
China has more than doubled the production efficiency of stealth fighter components in a “dark factory”, where autonomous vehicles and AI-driven machinery operate nearly 24 hours a day. The process once required employees to monitor its round-the-clock operations, but the plant can now produce the “skeleton” of an aircraft in near darkness, according to the official Science and Technology Daily. D...
China has more than doubled the production efficiency of stealth fighter components in a “dark factory”, where autonomous vehicles and AI-driven machinery operate nearly 24 hours a day. The process once required employees to monitor its round-the-clock operations, but the plant can now produce the “skeleton” of an aircraft in near darkness, according to the official Science and Technology Daily. Dark factories are facilities designed to operate with little to no human intervention, thereby...
Asia-Pacific’s commercial property investments surged in the first quarter, according to data tracked by analysts, as early signs of recovery in office and retail segments across Hong Kong and mainland China boosted deal volumes. Total investment in offices, retail spaces, industrial units, data centres, hotels, apartments, senior housing and other asset classes climbed 22 per cent to US$51.1 bill...
Asia-Pacific’s commercial property investments surged in the first quarter, according to data tracked by analysts, as early signs of recovery in office and retail segments across Hong Kong and mainland China boosted deal volumes. Total investment in offices, retail spaces, industrial units, data centres, hotels, apartments, senior housing and other asset classes climbed 22 per cent to US$51.1 billion from the same period in 2025, data from MSCI showed. Hong Kong contributed US$1.8 billion, a 367...
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images The largest labor groups are urging senators to oppose a rules-of-the-road crypto bill scheduled to have an initial vote on Thursday. In a letter and email first seen by CNBC, the AFL-CIO, as well as the Service Employees International Union, American Federation of Teachers, National Education Association, and the American Federation of State, County and Mu...
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images The largest labor groups are urging senators to oppose a rules-of-the-road crypto bill scheduled to have an initial vote on Thursday. In a letter and email first seen by CNBC, the AFL-CIO, as well as the Service Employees International Union, American Federation of Teachers, National Education Association, and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees warned senators that the bill could jeopardize retirement accounts for millions of workers. The push from unions comes ahead of the Senate Banking Committee's vote on the crypto bill scheduled for Thursday. Despite Democrats working with Republicans on the bill over the last few months, it is not clear if any Democrats will back the measure given ongoing concerns about security and ethics provisions in the bill. As of Monday evening, the committee had yet to release final legislative text for the bill. The SEIU, AFT, NEA and AFSCME said in the previously unreported letter sent to all senators on Friday that the bill "jeopardizes the stability of workers' retirement plans, including public pensions, and introduces significant volatility to retirement savings accounts." "This legislation invites the cryptocurrency industry to take outsized risks, knowing that if those risky bets do not pay off, it is working people and retirees, not crypto billionaires, who will pay the price," the groups said in the letter. The AFL-CIO sent an email to Banking Committee members on Friday as well, saying that "absent sufficient regulation, embedding cryptocurrencies ... and other digital assets into the real economy will have a destabilizing effect, while benefiting issuers and platforms at the expense of working people." Labor groups aren't the only ones actively opposing the bill. The banking industry is also fighting a provision in the bill it says would threaten bank deposits by allowing crypto companies to offer payment on stablecoin holdings similar to interest. The cr...
Most Americans see China as one of the United States' biggest rivals or adversaries, but largely as an economic threat, according to a new Chicago Council/NPR/Ipsos poll. (Image credit: Andrew Harnik)
Most Americans see China as one of the United States' biggest rivals or adversaries, but largely as an economic threat, according to a new Chicago Council/NPR/Ipsos poll. (Image credit: Andrew Harnik)
A federal program that pays airlines to operate in small and rural communities could have its budget cut in half, leaving parts of the country with no flight options. (Image credit: Agata Storer for NPR)
A federal program that pays airlines to operate in small and rural communities could have its budget cut in half, leaving parts of the country with no flight options. (Image credit: Agata Storer for NPR)
Pancreatic cancer is notoriously lethal. But new treatments mean that may be changing, and people with the disease now have more reason to hope than ever before. (Image credit: Gavin McIntyre for NPR)
Pancreatic cancer is notoriously lethal. But new treatments mean that may be changing, and people with the disease now have more reason to hope than ever before. (Image credit: Gavin McIntyre for NPR)
The three high-school birders, dubbed The Pete Dunnelins, have one day to count as many bird species across the state of New Jersey as physically possible. Here's what it takes. (Image credit: Mohamed Sadek for NPR)
The three high-school birders, dubbed The Pete Dunnelins, have one day to count as many bird species across the state of New Jersey as physically possible. Here's what it takes. (Image credit: Mohamed Sadek for NPR)