Shares in Meta, the owner of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, have fallen sharply after the company revealed it had raised its cost forecast for the current year. Investors sent the stock 10% lower in after-hours trading in New York when Meta‘s first quarter results showed further bills were expected to fund new artificial intelligence (AI)
A teenage girl has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after two teachers and a pupil were stabbed at a school in West Wales. Police confirmed on Wednesday afternoon that three people were injured at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman school and are being treated for stab wounds. Dyfed-Powys Police say the incident happened at about
Shipping traffic through the vital Suez Canal artery has plunged by 66% since cargo was forced to divert due to attacks on vessels, according to official figures. The data, from the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS), covered the period from mid-December to the beginning of April. It is important as it represents the scale
Labour’s Angela Rayner has attacked the Conservatives for “obsessing” over her living arrangements while renters continue to face uncertainty over the government’s promise to end no-fault evictions. The deputy leader has been facing scrutiny over the sale of her former home in Stockport from before she was an MP, with claims she did not pay
The drive into the village of Jiljiliya is not what you expect on the West Bank. Imposing mansions line the route, with grand gates and lavish decorations. That’s because this is where Palestinian Americans return to build their dream homes after years of hard work in the land of opportunity. Like Omar Assad who came
Profluent, a California-based artificial intelligence (AI)-first protein design company, announced its AI model that can generate CRISPR-like proteins that do not occur in nature on Tuesday. CRISPR or Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats is a complex containing important proteins that scientists can use for precise gene editing in organisms. The company claims the usage
Richard Gadd has urged fans of his hit show Baby Reindeer to stop speculating about who the characters in his show are based on in real life. The Netflix series is based on the real-life story of its writer Gadd, who also plays the lead character, and his warped relationship with a female stalker. Fans
Three men have been arrested after the deaths of five people – including a seven-year-old girl – who were attempting to cross the English Channel. The National Crime Agency (NCA) has said it is supporting the French investigation into the deaths. The men arrested were two Sudanese nationals aged 22 and 19 and one South
Nicolai Tangen, chief executive officer of Norges Bank Investment Management, during a news conference in Oslo, Norway, on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images The chief executive of the world’s largest wealth fund says there are many wild cards in financial markets right now, but the “big worry” for investors is
Police in Australia have launched a manhunt for former soap opera star Orpheus Pledger after he failed to appear in court to face charges of assault. Pledger, 30, was due to appear at Melbourne Magistrates Court on Tuesday accused of assaulting a woman, Sky News Australia said. The actor had been granted bail on Tuesday
Military experts have called #Iran’s ariel attack on #Israel on Saturday night ‘ambitious’ and warn it could push an already fragile region into a dangerous new phase. On the #SkyNewsDailyPodcast, host Matt Barbet examines how Iran and Israel’s ‘shadow #war’ has moved out into the open, alongside defence and security analyst #MichaelClarke. SUBSCRIBE to our
Boston Dynamic, the robotics company that has been a social media sensation, is retiring its hydraulic powered robot, but that’s not quite the end for the Atlas.
Amazon is opening cloud regions in Southeast Asia because customers want their data stored securely in their own countries, Amazon Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels said in an exclusive interview. “The reason for this is that many of our customers have been asking for that. They really wanted something local such that they can meet, for
Mercedes unveiled its 2025 electric G-Class tonight – which it’s calling the “G580 with EQ technology” – in Beverly Hills, CA, and we’re here at the reveal with all the details. Mercedes first surprised us with its “EQG” concept at IAA in 2021. Now it’s heading to production, but with a somewhat more plain name. At the
The possibility of a ban on TikTok in the US has moved a step closer after the Senate agreed a landmark bill to force its China-based parent company into selling the app. The bill gives ByteDance nine months to sell the popular social media platform – with the possibility of a three-month extension to finalise
The Senate has passed $95bn (£76.2bn) in war aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan after months of delays and rows – with Joe Biden set to sign the legislation later. The bill passed the Senate on an overwhelming 79-18 vote late on Tuesday after the House had approved the package on Saturday. Once signed, the
US actor Terry Carter, who starred in 1970s TV shows including Battlestar Galactica and McCloud, has died at the age of 95. Carter “died peacefully” at his New York home on Tuesday, it was announced on his official website. He was best known for his roles as Colonel Tigh in the original Battlestar Galactica series
A general view of Isfahan Refinery, one of the largest refineries in Iran and is considered as the first refinery in the country in terms of diversity of petroleum products in Isfahan, Iran on November 08, 2023. Fatemeh Bahrami | Anadolu | Getty Images U.S. crude oil fell below $81 a barrel on Tuesday, the
A police officer described the students stabbed to death in Nottingham last summer as “proper butchered” and said officers “tried to hold their inners in”. Sky News can reveal the “disgusting” police WhatsApp message sent in the aftermath of the killings of Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar on 13 June 2023. Their families are horrified
In this article IBM HCP Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT HashiCorp at the Nasdaq MarketSite on Dec. 9, 2021. Source: Nasdaq HashiCorp shares jumped as much as 26% on Tuesday following a media report claiming IBM was in talks to acquire the cloud software maker. Developers use HashiCorp’s software to set up and manage