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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell drew a stark picture of a labor market that looks fine on the surface—4.3% unemployment, solid consumer spending—but is quietly losing momentum underneath. Once you adjust for statistical overcounting in the payroll data, he said during a press conference Wednesday following the FOMC meeting, “job creation is pretty close to zero.” He noted “a significant …

SANTA MONICA, October 30, 2025 – Universal Music Group (UMG), the world leader in music-based entertainment and Stability AI, the leading independent multi-modal generative AI company, today announced a strategic alliance to develop next-generation professional music creation tools, powered by responsibly trained generative AI and built to support the creative process of artists, producers and songwriters globally.  Through this alliance, Stability …

Microsoft says the latest version of the Windows 11 Media Creation Tool (MCT) no longer works correctly on Windows 10 22H2 computers. The Windows 11 MCT is a free utility that downloads the latest Windows version and creates bootable USB flash drives or DVDs for clean installs, system recovery, or upgrading to a new device. “The Windows 11 media creation …

UCLA was terrible; UCLA was pathetic; UCLA wouldn’t win a game all season. That was the opinion of many observers, including this column, which last Saturday questioned whether the Bruins were destined to lose forever. No. 7 Penn State held every card entering their trip to UCLA Saturday—presumably they’d be motivated to absolutely woodshed a coach-less Bruins team that hadn’t …

IN A NUTSHELL 🔬 The sPHENIX detector at Brookhaven National Laboratory has passed a critical test, marking a milestone in understanding the Big Bang. 🌌 The detector functions as a sophisticated “3D camera,” capturing energy and particle data from high-speed collisions. 🧪 Researchers aim to explore the elusive quark-gluon plasma using the detailed measurements provided by the sPHENIX detector. 🚀 …

A team of underwater archaeologists recently returned to the Antikythera shipwreck off the coast of Greece to do further studies on the remains of an ancient Greek trading or cargo ship dating back to the First Century, BCE. The researchers added new pieces to a story that has been unfolding since the shipwreck was first discovered in 1900. …

Separate from yesterday’s upstream new GIMP 3.2 development release, open-source developer Josh Ellithorpe announced the creation of a new GIMP plug-in dubbed “Dream Prompter” for bringing the power of Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview model to this open-source photo/image editing software. Google recently announced Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana) as their latest efforts for an AI image editing …

The spontaneous coalescence of the molecules that led to life on primordial Earth, some 4 billion years ago, may have finally been observed in a laboratory. Replicating the likely conditions of our newborn planet, chemists have joined together RNA and amino acids – the crucial first step that would eventually lead to the proliferation of living organisms that crawl all …

With the Pixel 10, Google is introducing a new Journal app that lets you quickly jot down what’s happening in your life. There are also updates to Pixel Recorder, Screenshots, and Studio. Pixel Journal opens to a compose view that lets you quickly start journaling. You can attach images, a map, and even activities from Health Connect.  On the Pixel …

SAN JOSE, Calif. — August 19, 2025 — Today, Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) launched Acrobat Studio, a transformative home for productivity and creativity that unites Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Express and AI agents to empower people to quickly, easily and intuitively do their best work. Acrobat Studio transforms PDFs into conversational knowledge hubs that enable people to use customizable AI Assistants to unlock …