Alibaba leads $100 million investment in Chinese humanoid robot startup

by admin | Sep 8, 2025 | blog

Robots are on display at the Robot Mall, world’s first embodied intelligence robot 4S store, on August 6, 2025 in Beijing, China.Beijing Youth Daily | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesBEIJING — As the race for household robots heats up, Chinese humanoid startup...

Dow futures edge up as recession fears grow while Wall Street awaits the one thing that could derail Fed rate cuts

by admin | Sep 7, 2025 | blog

Stock futures were little changed on Sunday evening as investors brace for fresh inflation data and political turmoil overseas that could ripple through the bond market. That comes as Friday’s dismal jobs report ratcheted up recession fears while also locking in odds...

The most troubling feature of the job market is how thinly spread gains are, top economist says — ‘this only happens when the economy is in recession’

by admin | Sep 7, 2025 | blog

Vital signs for the labor market indicate that it’s getting sicker, and the healthcare sector is one of the few that is keep it from looking even worse. The latest jobs report revealed the U.S. economy added just 22,000 jobs in August with revisions to prior months...

Gen Z’s beloved ‘Italian Brain Rot’ is unproductive and pointless—and that may be the point

by admin | Sep 7, 2025 | blog

It’s normal to “view the thing the newest generation is doing with fear and suspicion,” she said, pointing to how past generations have had similar concerns about the detrimental effects of comic books, television and even novels at one time. Concerns about brain rot...

First-of-its-kind study finds ‘secret fresh water’ that may stretch from New Jersey to Maine

by admin | Sep 7, 2025 | blog

Deep in Earth’s past, an icy landscape became a seascape as the ice melted and the oceans rose off what is now the northeastern United States. Nearly 50 years ago, a U.S. government ship searching for minerals and hydrocarbons in the area drilled into the seafloor to...

The progress that girls were making in STEM classes has gone into reverse since the pandemic

by admin | Sep 7, 2025 | blog

Crowded around a workshop table, four girls at de Zavala Middle School puzzled over a Lego machine they had built. As they flashed a purple card in front of a light sensor, nothing happened. The teacher at the Dallas-area school had emphasized that in the building...