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While some on Wall Street are worried about a recession, recent economic data show that GDP growth is actually speeding up faster than earlier numbers indicated. On Thursday, second-quarter growth was revised even higher, to 3.8% from a prior reading of 3.3%, on robust consumer spending. That’s after a first-quarter dip that was driven by President Donald Trump’s trade war. …

Humain has unveiled the Horizon Pro PC, a laptop powered by agentic AI and a Snapdragon chip that the company claims “can operate 100 times faster than human thought.” The laptop, powered by a first-generation Snapdragon X Elite processor from Qualcomm, was shown using Windows 11 at the Snapdragon Technology Summit, hosted by Qualcomm in Maui. The Horizon Pro laptop …

An odd image of a distant galaxy has revealed what might be an enormous blob of dark matter hiding in plain sight. When astronomers first looked at the new image of the galaxy HerS-3, taken by the Northern Extended Millimeter Array radio telescopes in France, they thought there was an error in the data. “We were like, ‘What the heck?'” …

Leonardo DiCaprio has longtime fans pondering if a former teen heartthrob by any other name is still just as famous. The Oscar winner recently revealed that he was originally told his name was “too ethnic” and advised by one of his early agents to perform under a stage name, which brought a strong reaction out of his father. “I finally …

Last year, frequent cat foster mama Erin Moore took in the tiniest cat she’d ever seen. At 8 weeks old, the kitten was barely the size of most 3-week-old cats. “She literally fit in the palm of your hand,” Moore said in a video for The Dodo. “She was half the size of a water bottle.” Erin Moore The kitten, …

Bears head coach Ben Johnson says his defense is preparing to face a big-time talent in Raiders rookie running back Ashton Jeanty. Johnson said today that before the 2025 NFL draft, the Bears, who had the 10th overall pick, were very high on Jeanty. The Raiders ended up taking Jeanty with the sixth pick, so the Bears didn’t get a …

At just 36, Mathew Duggan thought stomach troubles were nothing more than food poisoning. Instead, doctors found a four-inch cancerous tumor in his bowel, a diagnosis that upended his life, family, and daily routine.Duggan, who lives in Tasmania with his wife and young daughter, told the Daily Mail he first noticed a change in his bowel habits in February 2024. …

More than a decade after mysterious holes were first discovered in the permafrost of Western Siberia, scientists are still putting forward new theories – from gas explosions to meteor impacts – on how they are formed. A team of geoscientists from the University of Oslo, led by Helge Hellevang, has now thrown their hat into the icy ring, putting forth …

I’ve cycled through dozens of free tools in my life, from design apps and image editors to productivity trackers and random open-source projects I thought would change my life. But most of them end up half-forgotten because they’re either too limited to get much use out of or too clunky to master. Instead of tossing them aside, I wondered if …

A new study challenges the widely accepted idea that the universe began with a rapid expansion known as inflation. Instead, researchers from Spain and Italy propose that gravitational waves, predicted by Einstein over a century ago, may be the key drivers behind the universe’s birth and structure. Credit: Shutterstock Scientists propose that gravitational waves shaped the universe. Their model challenges …