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A high-tech automated assembly line for photovoltaic solar cells, representing the manufacturing equipment Tesla is sourcing from China.

Elon Musk is chasing Chinese solar power for America while Africa braces for higher panel costs, exposing who still pays when Beijing changes the rules

March 28, 2026 at 6:05 PM
A Dubai Air Wing Boeing 747-400 freighter on a runway, used for the international transport of Godolphin racehorses.

Dubai’s ruler has a Boeing 747 not for royals but for racehorses, and its quiet run to Miami reveals the flying machine behind a global empire

March 27, 2026 at 7:45 AM
An industrial drainage pipe discharging dark wastewater into a roadside ditch near the Tesla lithium refinery in Robstown, Texas.

South Texas officials say they had no idea Tesla was sending lithium refinery wastewater into a local ditch, and now a pipe in plain sight is raising bigger questions than the permit itself

March 26, 2026 at 12:30 PM
A compact, white solar-powered emergency sleeping pod situated in a Guernsey car park to provide short-term shelter for the homeless.

These homeless sleeping pods have already been used for 71 nights in Guernsey, and the cases inside show how even people with a car, a couch or a job can suddenly fall out of the housing market

March 26, 2026 at 7:45 AM
A close-up of a Micron high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chip used in AI data centers, reflecting the company's 2026 revenue surge.

Micron beat revenue expectations thanks to the AI boom, but Wall Street still punished the company and the reason reveals what investors now fear most

March 24, 2026 at 3:45 PM
A sleek, modern smartphone concept displaying a voice-activated Amazon Alexa AI interface on a high-resolution edge-to-edge screen.

Amazon is planning a smartphone comeback more than a decade after the Fire Phone flop, and this time the company believes AI can succeed where hardware once failed

March 24, 2026 at 12:30 PM
An automated Amazon "Proteus" mobile robot navigating a fulfillment center floor near stacked yellow storage bins.

Amazon is cutting more jobs, this time in its robotics unit, and the message behind the move is bigger than a simple round of layoffs

March 24, 2026 at 7:45 AM
A row of self-checkout kiosks at a major retail store with a digital sign displaying a 15-item maximum limit.

Say goodbye to unlimited self-checkout: Walmart, Target, and other chains may be forced to limit purchases to 15 items and bring back many more workers to the registers

March 23, 2026 at 6:30 PM
A high-tech semiconductor cleanroom at a Samsung electronics facility, where advanced AI memory and logic chips are manufactured.

Samsung is preparing to spend more than $73 billion in 2026 to lead the AI chip race, and the company is betting that this is the moment to strike back against its biggest rivals

March 23, 2026 at 3:45 PM
A high-tech data center interior featuring racks of Nvidia Blackwell GPUs and networking gear used by Amazon Web Services.

Nvidia will sell 1 million AI chips to Amazon before the end of 2027, and the scale of the deal shows how brutally the fight for cloud dominance is accelerating

March 23, 2026 at 10:35 AM
An advanced automated factory floor featuring robotic arms and AI-integrated assembly lines for semiconductor and aerospace parts.

Jeff Bezos aims to raise $100 billion to buy factories and rebuild them with AI, and the move could quietly reshape American manufacturing faster than anyone expected

March 23, 2026 at 7:45 AM
A variety of Walmart Great Value brand grocery products, including milk, cereal, and snacks, displayed on a wooden table.

What Walmart sells as ‘Great Value’ isn’t always what shoppers think: famous food brands are hiding behind the retailer’s cheapest labels, and almost no one notices on the shelf

March 22, 2026 at 12:30 PM
A close-up of red and green salsa containers at a Los Tacos No. 1 self-service condiment bar in New York City.

A man demanded $100,000 after trying an extremely spicy sauce at a New York taqueria, but a judge dismissed the case and turned the city’s hottest condiment into a legal warning

March 22, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Thai customs officials inspecting shipping containers filled with illegal electronic circuit boards and scrap metal at Laem Chabang port.

Thailand discovered 284 tons of U.S. electronic waste hidden behind false labels and is now returning the toxic shipment across the Pacific under international law

March 21, 2026 at 3:45 PM
A rusted pipe marking an abandoned coal exploration borehole in a dry Queensland cattle field.

Thousands of abandoned coal mines in Australia are once again raising concerns about potential methane leaks

March 20, 2026 at 9:30 AM
An image of the Netflix logo alongside filmmaker Ben Affleck, representing the acquisition of his AI technology company, InterPositive.

Ben Affleck takes an unexpected step and puts artificial intelligence at the center of Netflix

March 18, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Jimmy Rush, age 80, and his 99-year-old father, Jim, enjoying a meal together at Wintzell’s Oyster House in Mobile, Alabama.

A 99-year-old father and his 80-year-old son finally fulfill an impossible promise, and the result moves everyone

March 17, 2026 at 10:35 AM
The exterior storefront of a Sportsman's Warehouse retail location with customers walking toward the entrance.

Another major sporting goods chain is entering a delicate phase in 2026, and the signs are already there: annual sales of around $1.209 billion, net debt of close to $90 million, inventory reduction, and intense pressure in a sector where Bob’s, Moosejaw, Next Adventure, and other companies have already fallen

March 13, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaking at a technology conference about the future of the artificial intelligence workforce.

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, warns: “Success is no longer found in college”

March 13, 2026 at 7:45 AM
The U.S. Small Business Administration headquarters building in Washington, D.C., where officials are investigating billions in pandemic loan fraud.

The SBA uncovers $8.6 billion in fraud related to pandemic loans, with two states at the center of the scandal

March 12, 2026 at 3:45 PM