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| 20.09.2026 | Today in History: September 20, Queen Elizabeth 2 christened in Scotland | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Today is Sunday, Sept. 20, the 263rd day of 2026. There are 102 days left in the year. Today in history:
On Sept. 20, 1967, the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth 2 was christened by Britain’s Queen Eliz... |
| 19.09.2026 | Today in History: September 19, mortgage crisis bailout plan sends stock market soaring | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Today is Saturday, Sept. 19, the 262nd day of 2026. There are 103 days left in the year. Today in history:
On Sept. 19, 2008, struggling to stave off financial catastrophe, the administration of Pr... |
| 18.09.2026 | Holdout juror in Clancy trial says he didn’t have ‘any doubts’ she was responsible for killing her kids | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
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| 18.09.2026 | Florida confirms a death from dengue as the state struggles with one of its worst recent outbreaks | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MIKE STOBBE
NEW YORK (AP) — Florida is experiencing one of its worst surges of dengue fever in decades, and the toll now includes a death.
The Florida Department of Health confirmed the death Fr... |
| 18.09.2026 | Jehovah’s Witnesses allow blood-derived products but keep ban on whole-blood transfusions | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By PETER SMITH
The Jehovah’s Witnesses have partly eased their longstanding prohibition on the medical use of donated blood, allowing members to receive products derived from blood but maintaining ... |
| 18.09.2026 | Uber ordered to pay $40 million to parents of passenger killed on California highway | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Uber must pay $40 million to the parents of a 23-year-old woman struck and killed after a ride-share driver abandoned her near traffic on the 73 highway in 2023, a judge wrote in an arbitration dec... |
| 18.09.2026 | ICE officer pleads not guilty to charges he lied to the FBI about nonfatal Minneapolis shooting | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By TIM SULLIVAN
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — An immigration officer pleaded not guilty Friday to federal charges that he lied to the FBI about being attacked before he shot and wounded a Venezuelan man d... |
| 18.09.2026 | For Latter-day Saints, the retention decline is more than a people problem | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
In a video clip that has ricocheted across social media about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a retired high-level leader chastises fellow members considering departing the faith, ... |
| 17.09.2026 | Asking Eric: Parents want to be included in vacation activities despite mobility challenges | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Dear Eric:
My husband and I have had many wonderful trips with my parents over the years. We have always invited them on our family vacations with the kids and had a, generally, wonderful time.
The... |
| 17.09.2026 | We asked ChatGPT what Lucid stock price will be after Europe Robotaxi launch |
Lucid (NASDAQ: LCID) stock enjoyed a sudden and powerful rally early in the morning of September 17 as news that it entered into a partnership with Bolt to deploy 25,000 robotaxis in Europe came to light. Lucid stock price one-week chart. ... |
| 17.09.2026 | How Uber Is Quietly Financing Its Future Delivery Rivals in 14 Markets | Set Trending Topics as a preferred source on Google.
A side deal is drawing attention in Uber’s multibillion-euro takeover of Delivery Hero. Delivery Hero is selling its operations in 14 countries, including Spain, Austria and Poland, separ... |
| 16.09.2026 | CCPA slaps Rapido with Rs 10 lakh fine for asking riders to pay more after they had already booked | The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has imposed a penalty of Rs 10 lakh on Rapido for misleading advertisements, unfair trade practices, an unfair contract and the use of dark patterns in the way riders were prompted to pay mor... |
| 16.09.2026 | Fleet management platform Carrum Mobility raises $10 M Series B funding from Uber | Uber led a $10 million (about Rs 96 crore) Series B fundraising round for Carrum Mobility, a B2B fleet management platform. After investing $7 million in January 2026, this is Uber’s second investment in the business.
According to a news st... |
| 12.09.2026 | Tech layoffs 2026: As AI takes center stage, here's a list of major companies that laid off employees | September saw a fresh wave of job cuts across the global technology industry, as companies restructured operations, reassessed workforce needs, and redirected costs towards investments in artificial intelligence (AI).
According to data from... |
| 11.09.2026 | Uber exits Nigeria, Uganda: Why ride-hailing giant is pulling back from African markets | Explained | Ride-hailing company Uber abruptly exited one of Africa's largest markets in early September. It ceased its operations in Nigeria and Uganda on 2 September, ending a 12-year run in Africa’s most populous country. It left Tanzania earlier th... |
| 10.09.2026 | Pony.ai and Verne Kick Off Fully Driverless Robotaxi Test Rides in Zagreb | Invited passengers can take fully driverless Robotaxi test rides along a 22-kilometer route, marking a European first
The move marks further progress under Pony.ai's joint deployment model and advances its "dual-engine" growth str... |
| 10.09.2026 | Uber invests $10 million in Indian fleet management startup Carrum Mobility | Indian fleet management startup Carrum Mobility has raised $10 million (about Rs 96 crore) from Uber as part of its Series B funding round, marking the ride-hailing company’s second investment in the business this year.
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| 10.09.2026 | How AgFunder is using AI to build a venture firm that remembers | [Disclosure: AgFunder is the parent company of AgFunderNews.]
When we started AgFunder in 2013, we went out to raise a venture fund but didn’t have much luck as a first-time fund in a nascent sector. So we reverse-engineered the problem by ... |
| 07.09.2026 | Создатель Uber возвращается в такси — на этот раз без водителей | Стартап Atoms, основанный бывшим главой Uber Трэвисом Калаником, рассматривает выход на рынок технологий для роботакси. Об этом сообщает Financial Times со ссылкой на источники, знакомые с планами компании.
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| 03.09.2026 | Robotaxi service debuts on London’s busy streets as Europe weighs more self-driving vehicles | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By KELVIN CHAN, AP Business Writer
LONDON (AP) — Uber and British tech company Wayve are launching London’s first self-driving taxi service on Thursday, giving residents a chance to use technology ... |
| 03.09.2026 | Uber and AI-firm Wayve launch London's first robotaxis | Previous
A Wayve autonomous car drives through a residential street during a technology demonstration in London, Britain, June 5, 2026. REUTERS/Isabel Infantes
A Wayve autonomous car drives through a residential street during a technology d... |
| 03.09.2026 | Uber To Lay Off 200-250 Employees In India Amid Global Restructuring | SUMMARY
Uber is cutting around 200-250 jobs in India as part of a global restructuring that will eliminate nearly 3,300 roles
This is Uber India’s second layoff exercise in six months, after the ride-hailing major cut around 80 jobs earlier... |
| 03.09.2026 | Uber launches ‘autonomous’ cabs in London | Londoners will be able to order “autonomous” Ubers from today as the ride-hailing firm becomes the first company to launch automated driving technology to customers in Britain.
The San Francisco-based firm announced it will allow users to b... |
| 03.09.2026 | Nigeria Loses Uber Twice; Human-Driver Model Failed, Robotaxis Cannot Come | By Clark Johnson
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| 02.09.2026 | Uber lays off 3,300 employees,10% of workforce, in biggest job cuts since 2020 as robotaxi competition intensifies | Uber is cutting about 3,300 employees, roughly 10% of its global workforce, in its largest round of layoffs since the pandemic. This time, a collapse in ride demand isn’t driving the cuts. Uber is slimming down as CEO Dara Khosrowshahi prep... |
| 02.09.2026 | Uber is laying off 10% of its staff as it seeks to cut management layers. Read the CEO's memo. | Uber is laying off 10% of its corporate staff, joining other tech firms in cutting management layers.
The ride-hailing company's move will eliminate roughly 3,300 positions, the company said on Wednesday.
The job cuts focused on management ... |
| 02.09.2026 | Uber to cut 3,300 jobs in overhaul, Bloomberg News reports | Sept 2 : Uber Technologies will cut 3,300 jobs or roughly 10 per cent of its global workforce as part of an overhaul, as the company looks to reduce the number of managers, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday.
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| 02.09.2026 | Top Tech News Today, September 2, 2026: Anthropic, Google, Meta, Nvidia, Perplexity, OpenAI, TenCent & More | It’s Wednesday, September 2, 2026, and today’s tech news is less about new toys than new limits. OpenAI just rated its next model a critical cyber risk. Texas froze data-center power hookups after a rush of “ghost” demand. New York City bar... |
| 01.09.2026 | AI Claims a Giant: Amazon Shuts Down Mechanical Turk, Reshaping Gig Work | Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk. The groundbreaking crowdsourced labor platform, launched in 2005, will cease operations on September 30. This marks a significant shift in the gig economy. Artificial intelligence advancements rendered man... |
| 01.09.2026 | Directorate change | Directorate change
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AstraZeneca PLC announced today that Wan Ling Martello has been appointed as Non-Executive Director with effect from 1 Septe... |
| 01.09.2026 | Waymo’s Denver fleet is set to start providing driverless rides to the public today | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Denver residents and visitors will be able to virtually hail Waymo‘s driverless vehicles starting Tuesday, company official said ahead of the launch.
Although the fleet has been spotted on the city... |
| 01.09.2026 | Waymo expands robotaxi service to 3 more U.S. cities as Zoox and Tesla race to catch up | Waymo is widening the gap with its robotaxi rivals.
Alphabet’s autonomous driving company is launching driverless rides for customers in San Diego, Tampa, and Denver, bringing commercial operations to Colorado for the first time. The move c... |
| 31.08.2026 | Когда автономные машины заменят таксистов? | Привет, Хабр! Если судить по новостям, то до повсеместного распространения автономного транспорта осталось совсем чуть-чуть: Waymo расширяет парк роботакси в США, Baidu через Apollo Go возит пассажиров в двух десятках китайских городов, а V... |
| 31.08.2026 | Singer D4vd loses prominent lawyers defending him in killing of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By ANDREW DALTON, AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Singer D4vd lost his high-profile private lawyers Monday at a hearing where he entered a new not guilty plea to charges that he killed, ... |
| 31.08.2026 | I went to a private longevity night hosted by Bryan Johnson in San Francisco. I needed a cookie afterward. | The only topic these days that gets people in San Francisco to stop talking about AI is living forever.
When Baseten, an AI startup (what else?), announced a few weeks ago, it was hosting a "private evening" with tech entrepreneur... |
| 28.08.2026 | Altamar lanza un fondo de fondos de 100 millones para invertir en venture capital internacional | AltamarCAM Partners ha lanzado Galdana Ventures 2027, un nuevo vehículo con un tamaño objetivo de 100 millones de euros destinado a invertir en fondos de venture capital de Estados Unidos y Europa.
El producto, ya registrado ante la Comisió... |
| 28.08.2026 | Uber, Eternal, Porter Exit Karnataka Gig Workers Welfare Board: Report | SUMMARY
Uber, Eternal, and Porter have withdrawn from Karnataka’s gig workers welfare board amid their legal challenge to the state’s gig workers law
The exit underscores the widening rift between gig economy platforms and the Karnataka gov... |
| 28.08.2026 | Дизайн за 5 минут. Дайджест августа 2026 | Привет, Хабр!
На связи Андрей, продуктовый дизайнер Garage Eight.
В августе было много обновлений: у Instagram обновился логотип, у Uber — система иконок, Figma осваивала скиллы и ластик, а бренды выкатывали свежие айдентики и спецпроекты. ... |
| 28.08.2026 | The Naked Truth About The OnlyFans Economy: The Business Model That Keeps Everyone Satisfied | OnlyFans is one of the strangest success stories of the internet age. Well, perhaps more unusual than strange.
On the surface, the model is quite simply. People pay a subscription fee to access content from creators, many of whom produce ad... |
| 27.08.2026 | Uber's AI Penalty: $966 Million for Driver Account Suspensions | Uber faces a monumental $966 million fine from Dutch regulators. The penalty targets automated driver suspensions. European privacy laws demand human review. Uber allegedly deactivated accounts without proper notice. This decision marks a s... |
| 27.08.2026 | +++ Funding-Fluch +++ T1tan +++ Blacklane +++ Hertha BSC +++ Post-Exit-Playbook +++ | Was gibt’s Neues? In unserem #StartupTicker liefern wir eine kompakte Übersicht über die wichtigsten Startup-Nachrichten des Tages (Donnerstag, 27. August). #STARTUPLAND: NUR DER FRÜHE VOGEL SPART!
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| 27.08.2026 | Tech stocks lead Wall Street after Nvidia, Salesforce and others report big profits | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By STAN CHOE, AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Technology stocks are leading Wall Street on Thursday after Nvidia, Salesforce and others reported even fatter profits for the spring than analysts ... |
| 27.08.2026 | About 90 Americans unaccounted for after catastrophic floods hit Nepal and Tibet | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By KRISTIN M. HALL and R.J. RICO
McMINNVILLE, Tenn (AP) — U.S. officials said about 90 U.S. citizens remained unaccounted for Thursday, a day after catastrophic flash floods engulfed a border area ... |
| 27.08.2026 | The case of the missing cinnamon rolls: A viral bakery, a $3,000 theft accusation & a Border Patrol plot twist | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
A viral Fort Lauderdale baker thought her missing cinnamon rolls were stolen. Turns out, they went missing during an immigration bust.
College student Julie Pierre, 21, took to social media last Sa... |
| 27.08.2026 | The number of Americans applying for jobless aid slips to 203,000 as layoffs remain low | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By PAUL WISEMAN, AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of people filing for U.S. unemployment benefits fell last week, remaining at historic lows as layoffs are rare and most Americans e... |
| 26.08.2026 | Wall Street holds mostly steady following the latest update on inflation | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By STAN CHOE, AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market drifted through a quiet day of trading Wednesday after a report said inflation was a touch worse last month than economists ex... |
| 26.08.2026 | Amazon is shutting down a go-to option for gig workers. It's the latest casualty of AI growth. | Amazon is closing a platform that became a staple for some gig workers.
The company will shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30, according to a message posted on the crowdsourced work platform's website on Tuesday.
"We regularly eva... |
| 26.08.2026 | Uber gives parents the option to livestream their teens’ rides | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times
Parents and guardians can now access live video of their teens as they take an Uber.
The San Francisco ride-hailing company has added the new feature to ... |
| 26.08.2026 | Key inflation gauge remains elevated during Iran war and ongoing US trade fights | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — An inflation measure closely watched by the Federal Reserve stayed elevated last month in the latest sign that many Americans are still... |
| 26.08.2026 | Trump says the US doesn’t need Canada. America’s economy says otherwise. | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By ROB GILLIES
TORONTO (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump says his country does not need Canada. But every day, roughly 4 million barrels of Canadian crude oil flow south, helping fuel American car... |
| 26.08.2026 | US diesel supplies hit record low as demand season looms | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Will Kubzansky, Bloomberg News
U.S. supplies of diesel have fallen to the lowest seasonal level ever, threatening to push prices even higher for the global economy’s workhorse fuel just as heati... |
| 26.08.2026 | US economy expands at sluggish 1.5% pace in second quarter, but consumer spending stayed strong | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By PAUL WISEMAN, AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew at a sluggish 1.5% pace from April through June. But consumer spending stayed strong.
Growth in gross domestic product —... |
| 25.08.2026 | Flock Once Tried To Turn Every Ride Share Driver Into Part Of Its ALPR Network | Until just recently, Flock never felt it needed to rehabilitate its image, even when several cities were dumping contracts and cameras over persistent surveillance concerns. When cities shut down systems, Flock just kept running. In some ca... |
| 25.08.2026 | The Highland tourist tax: Is Scotland pricing out whisky tourists? | The latest available data from the Scottish Tourism Economic Activity Monitor in Scotland (STEAM) shows that between 2012 and 2024, visitor numbers to the Highlands increased 82 per cent to 9.4m. Spending increased by a similar amount, to £... |
| 25.08.2026 | US consumer confidence falls to lowest level in 7 months as gas prices remain elevated | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MATT OTT, AP Business Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans’ confidence in the economy declined again this month as the ongoing conflict in Iran continued to push U.S. gasoline prices above $4 per ... |
| 25.08.2026 | Waymo to launch driverless rides in Germany in 2027, entering third market outside U.S. | Alphabet’s Waymo said it plans to roll out robotaxi rides in Germany in 2027.
It will be Waymo’s third international city and first in the EU.
Waymo has established an early robotaxi lead in the U.S., operating in 11 U.S. cities, with more ... |
| 25.08.2026 | Waymo to begin testing autonomous vehicles in Munich | Aug 25 : Self-driving technology company Waymo said on Tuesday it would begin testing its autonomous vehicles in Munich in the coming weeks, laying the groundwork for a commercial ride-hailing service in Germany that it aims to launch towar... |
| 24.08.2026 | Ex-Google recruiter: This common mistake makes your resume ‘invisible’—you have ‘six seconds to prove you can do the work’ | After spending more than a decade recruiting for companies like Google, TikTok, Uber and The New York Times, I’ve noticed a shift in which jobseekers get hired — and which ones don’t.
Previously, applicants needed only to demonstrate their ... |
| 23.08.2026 | Consumers are tightening their belts — just not on food delivery | Consumers are trying to save money — just not on $30 delivery burritos.
DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Instacart all posted strong sales growth in their quarterly results earlier this month, showing that consumers are still willing to shell out f... |
| 22.08.2026 | Uber fined ₹9,226 crore over driver account suspensions without human review: 'Serious infringements' | The Dutch data protection watchdog has fined ride-hailing app Uber €825 million, around ₹9,226 crore, for suspending driver accounts through automated systems without a prior “warning," according to news agency Reuters. The regulator s... |
| 21.08.2026 | Here’s data that shows Congo’s Ebola outbreak is on track to surpass history’s largest | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By CHINEDU ASADU
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The Ebola outbreak that is spreading at unprecedented speed in Congo has not peaked yet and could be three times the current known size, according to data fro... |
| 21.08.2026 | Exclusive-Dutch regulator fines Uber $966 million for automating driver suspensions | AMSTERDAM, Aug 21 : The Dutch Data Protection Authority has fined Uber €825 million ($966 million) for deactivating driver accounts through automated systems without adequately informing them, according to an August 17 decision reviewed by ... |
| 21.08.2026 | An 18-year-old with a sword attacks a school in Sweden, leaving 1 dead | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By JAMEY KEATEN
GENEVA (AP) — An 18-year-old with a sword attacked a school Friday in central Sweden, killing one person and seriously injuring two others, a police chief said.
Police Chief Tommy A... |
| 21.08.2026 | Enrollment in SNAP grocery aid is dropping faster than expected | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By GEOFF MULVIHILL and MIKELLA SCHUETTLER
PHOENIX (AP) — Enrollment in the biggest federally funded food aid program in the U.S. dropped by more than 13% in a 12-month span — a decline far steeper ... |
| 21.08.2026 | Russian drones kill 15 people at a shopping mall in a central Ukrainian city, officials say | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian drones struck a shopping center in the city of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine on Friday, killing at least 15 people and wounding scores more, authorities said.
The shopp... |
| 21.08.2026 | Anthro Energy Appoints Celina Mikolajczak as Board Advisor | Veteran Battery Technology and Safety Executive to Lead Scaling Advanced Polymer Electrolytes for Next-Generation Lithium-Ion Batteries
ALAMEDA, Calif., Aug. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Anthro Energy, a next-generation battery technology... |
| 21.08.2026 | US, South Korean militaries wrap up drill early, a day after North Korea’s missile barrage | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The U.S. and South Korean militaries wrapped up their annual drill six days earlier than initially scheduled on Friday in a conciliatory gesture toward No... |
| 21.08.2026 | Silicon Valley threw a hot robot party, and the clankers were M.I.A. | At a sold-out conference in San Francisco for people who build robots, the robots were surprisingly hard to find.
This week, 1,500 robotics investors, founders, and engineers packed a cavernous former Army warehouse at Fort Mason, overlooki... |
| 21.08.2026 | Uber fined nearly $1 billion by Dutch regulators over automated suspensions of driver accounts | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Dutch data protection authorities have fined Uber nearly $1 billion, saying the ride-hailing company used automated software to suspend driver accounts, sometimes permanently, with no human review ... |
| 21.08.2026 | Top Tech News Today, August 21, 2026: Anthropic, Apple, Broadcom, Google, Nvidia, OpenAI Tesla & More | It’s Friday, August 21, 2026. In the last 24 hours, regulators opened Las Vegas streets to thousands of robotaxis, chipmakers lined up tens of billions in fresh AI debt, Nvidia moved on a key model-building startup, Tesla quietly killed its... |
| 21.08.2026 | A donkey jumps into a van while on the loose, kicking and biting, injuring 3 people in Germany | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
BERLIN (AP) — A donkey on the loose in northern Germany attacked two motorists by jumping into their van on Friday, kicking and biting them along with a third woman who tried to help restrain the a... |
| 20.08.2026 | A timeline of Prince Harry and Meghan’s relationship with the royal family as they return to the UK | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, will return to the United Kingdom, seemingly marking the end to a yearslong rift between them and the royal family.
The Daily Telegraph reported the... |
| 20.08.2026 | Congo to receive 70,000 doses of Ervebo Ebola vaccine, which has been effective in past outbreaks | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Congo will receive 70,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine, which has been effective in past Ebola outbreaks, the World Health Organization and partners said Thursday, announcing a s... |
| 20.08.2026 | Canadian provincial leader says Trump is a ‘bad person’ as Canada weighs concessions for trade deal | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By ROB GILLIES
TORONTO (AP) — The premier of a Canadian province launched a blistering attack on U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, calling him a “bad person” and “not to be trusted” and urgi... |
| 20.08.2026 | Top Tech News Today, August 20, 2026: Amazon, Google, OpenAI, OpenRouter, Siemens, Stripe, TDK & More | It’s Thursday, August 20, 2026, and the past 24 hours just rewrote the map of global tech power: $7.5 billion AI deals, humanoid robots minting $50 billion fortunes overnight, OpenAI locking in its IPO clock, and AI-powered cyberattacks pro... |
| 20.08.2026 | The bond market swings back to worries and knocks US stocks lower | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By STAN CHOE, AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The relief that swept the bond market just a day earlier disappeared on Thursday as oil prices, worries about high inflation and the U.S. government... |
| 20.08.2026 | Prosecutor tells Australian appeals court mushroom poisoning murderer should never be released | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By ROD McGUIRK
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Triple-murderer Erin Patterson should never be released from prison after she poisoned four of her estranged husband’s relatives with death cap mushrooms,... |
| 20.08.2026 | Baidu's Apollo Go Goes Live on Uber in Dubai, Offering a New Way for Users to Hail Fully Driverless Rides | Baidu's fully driverless Apollo Go vehicles are now available to riders on the Uber platform in Dubai, the first market where this partnership comes to reality.
Riders may be matched with an Apollo Go vehicle when booking Uber Comfort or Ub... |
| 20.08.2026 | South Korea says North Korea fires barrage of short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By HYUNG-JIN KIM
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea launched a barrage of ballistic missiles toward the sea on Thursday, South Korea’s military said, a day after the North shrugged off a U.S. de... |
| 20.08.2026 | Meta defends its child safety efforts but critics say the social media giant falls short | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS, AP Business Writer
CHICAGO (AP) — Meta insists it has a long history of protecting its youngest customers as it defends itself against a swath of lawsuits alleging its s... |
| 20.08.2026 | Bodies of 2 hikers missing for decades in Swiss Alps turn up as glacier melts | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
GENEVA (AP) — The bodies of two Belgian mountaineers who went missing in the Swiss Alps more than three decades ago have been found, officials said.
Police in the southwestern Valais region, which ... |
| 20.08.2026 | Prices soar as Gaza smuggling booms. Officials, soldiers and middlemen are accused of cashing in | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By SAMY MAGDY
CAIRO (AP) — Palestinians face inflated prices for groceries and batteries, hospitals have turned to smugglers for medicine and equipment, Israeli soldiers and other middlemen are acc... |
| 20.08.2026 | Uber launches autonomous rides in Zagreb, its first in Europe | Aug 19 : Uber, Verne and Pony.ai said on Wednesday they had launched autonomous rides in Zagreb, making the Croatian capital the first European city where users can book a self-driving vehicle through Uber's app.
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| 20.08.2026 | A Russian missile and drone barrage kills at least 16 in Ukraine’s Kyiv region | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By SAMYA KULLAB
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia pounded the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and the surrounding region with scores of missiles and drones in a nighttime aerial attack that lasted for hours an... |
| 20.08.2026 | US unemployment claims dropped to 206,000 last week with layoffs still sparse | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By PAUL WISEMAN, AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer people applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week, another sign that layoffs remain low and that most Americans enjoy job security... |
| 20.08.2026 | Walmart is cautious with expectations after slowest sales growth in 6 years | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO, AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart reported its slowest growth in U.S. comparable sales in six years during its most recent quarter, and the retailer’s guidance for th... |
| 20.08.2026 | In a post-pandemic world, job candidates feel caught between suits and hoodies | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By CATHY BUSSEWITZ
NEW YORK (AP) — The matching blazer and pants Dani McEwen wore to a job interview at an insurance company felt like a smart choice, until she noticed most of the employees had on... |
| 20.08.2026 | Prince Harry emphasizes need to better apply veterans’ skills during roundtable with service members | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By JAMES POLLARD
WASHINGTON (AP) — Prince Harry urged communities to better apply service members’ skills when they return to the workforce during an intimate gathering with U.S. veterans Wednesday... |
| 20.08.2026 | FACT FOCUS: Social media falsely claims heat wave threatens Parmigiano Reggiano cheese and bank | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By COLLEEN BARRY
MILAN (AP) — As Italy has been plunged into a period of extreme heat, social media accounts amplified and falsified reports about the impact on the production of Parmigiano Reggian... |
| 19.08.2026 | Wispr Secures $280M, Valued at $2 Billion, Redefining Voice AI | Wispr, a leading AI voice technology firm, raised $280 million in Series B funding, pushing its valuation to $2 billion. The capital fuels expansion, R&D, and new products. Its Flow platform offers advanced voice dictation. The new Cant... |
| 19.08.2026 | ‘Many’ Fed officials think higher rates will be needed if inflation stays high | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Federal Reserve officials think the central bank will have to lift its key short-term interest rate in the coming months if inflat... |
| 19.08.2026 | Brazil’s top court beefs up protections for women against violent men | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MAURICIO SAVARESE
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Wednesday to significantly expand the scope of the country’s landmark law to protect women from violence.
Legislati... |
| 19.08.2026 | One chart shows a big warning sign for the future of AI | The "AI-native" generation that leading companies are counting on is souring on the technology.
A higher share of adults under 30 are "more concerned than excited" about AI than vice versa, according to a Pew Research Ce... |
| 19.08.2026 | Prince Harry and Meghan are returning to the UK with their children | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By DANICA KIRKA and JAMES POLLARD
LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, have decided to return to the United Kingdom for an extended stay starting this fall, but they won’t resume their ... |
| 19.08.2026 | FTC proposal would require retailers to be transparent about personalized pricing | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By DEE-ANN DURBIN, AP Business Writer
Companies that secretly vary prices based on how much they think individual customers will pay could face federal charges under a proposed policy released Wedn... |
| 19.08.2026 | An alarmed bond market gets the Trump administration to act again | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By STAN CHOE and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, AP Business Writers
NEW YORK (AP) — Normally quiet, the bond market can occasionally send warning signals loud enough to hit stock markets worldwide and even g... |
| 19.08.2026 | Is your car insured with State Farm? They may owe you $100 or more | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times
The insurance company State Farm has begun sending checks to millions of policyholders as part of the company’s largest-ever cash-back dividend.
Eligible au... |
| 18.08.2026 | Wispr raises $280M to push AI voice technology beyond dictation | US-based artificial intelligence startup Wispr has raised $280 million in a Series B funding round at a $2 billion valuation, as the company behind the voice-based writing platform Flow seeks to improve speech recognition and expand its bro... |
| 18.08.2026 | 'From cabs to trains’: Uber partners with ixigo to add train ticket bookings to its app | American ride-hailing giant Uber has partnered with travel platform ixigo to introduce train ticket booking on its app in India, expanding its services beyond ride-hailing and further into intercity travel.
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| 18.08.2026 | Uber COO is ‘tempted to say’ the company will have fewer employees in five years | Uber President and COO Andrew Macdonald is "tempted to say" the ride-hailing giant will have fewer employees in five years, but don't hold him to it.
"I think if you took everything Uber does today and held it static and said... |