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Samsung’s Now Nudge feature offers proactive suggestions powered by on-device AI. For example, you may see a suggestion to add an event to your calendar based on a text conversation. In general, this feature seems better at completing tasks correctly, but it still doesn’t show up very often. It is, however, nice that nudges now open apps in split-screen instead of taking you away from the content you’re viewing. Samsung also gets even deeper Gemini AI integration with this release. Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) is preloaded, and it’s optimized for drag-and-drop and split-screen usage. That’s cool if you are a…

As Americans cook their vegetables to at least 158°F to kill a diarrheal parasite that has sickened over 24,000 people and killed two this summer, one US Senator is turning up the heat on Health Secretary Robert F. Kenney Jr. over the government’s “calamitous response” to the record outbreak. In a letter sent Thursday, Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called the federal response to the Cyclospora outbreak “botched” and “marred by missteps.” She pointedly questioned whether corruption and incompetence within the Trump administration and its clear ties to Taylor Farms—the mammoth produce distributer that sold Mexican-grown iceberg lettuce linked to the outbreak—played…

Ars Technica: There’s more to your director’s cut than just restoring a few deleted scenes. You’ve done a full re-edit. Chris Carter: I worked with two different editors, people I respect and I’ve worked with before who weren’t involved with it all originally. I asked them to watch the movie and help me to refine the cut and make it the scary movie that I originally intended to make. It was heroic on their part. The movie was originally edited by an Academy Award winner, and so coming in and basically re-editing his vision took some courage. That said, I…

Google began offering third-party app store downloads in the Play Store earlier this week, but US District Judge James Donato says the company isn’t doing enough. After reviewing the process for accessing the first non-Google store, Donato ruled that Google has added unnecessary “anticompetitive friction,” ordering the company to rectify the issues. While Epic and Google are patching things up with a global partnership agreement, the two are still on opposite sides of the antitrust case in the US. Google lost the case in 2023, and the intervening years have been about determining how to implement remedies to address Google’s…

The stock market moved higher since our last CNBC Investing Club Monthly Meeting as the artificial intelligence trade came roaring back. The tech-heavy Nasdaq led the way, climbing 2.7% over the period. The S & P 500 gained 2.6%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 2.3%. The gains came despite plenty of volatility beneath the surface, including the forced unwinding of Situational Awareness, a highly leveraged AI-focused hedge fund that briefly pressured some of the market’s biggest winners. On Thursday, the market pushed higher yet again. Honeywell Aerospace would have been our worst-performing stock in the portfolio, down 19.5%…

Harvesters pick grapes in vineyards during the 2025 Champagne harvest in Hauvillers, north-eastern France on August 28, 2025. Francois Nascimbeni | Afp | Getty ImagesSweltering summer temperatures look set to spur the earliest Champagne harvest on record and potentially one of the most challenging. The French region’s winemakers face lower crop yields, weaker consumer demand and a threat to the iconic drink’s famed fresh taste.The Champagne season officially starts on Aug. 15 this year, with the majority of picking expected between Aug. 20 and 25, around two weeks earlier than usual in recent years. Before the early 2000s, harvesting the…

Launch costs disparity SpaceX has also made significant gains in controlling costs compared to other nations. A decade ago, the United States and Europe had similar launch costs. Today, according to publicly available data, launch costs in Europe are now three times higher than for comparable payloads in the United States. The researchers estimate that the average cost of sending a kilogram of payload to orbit in the United States is now $3,225, compared to higher costs elsewhere: Japan ($5,287), China ($5,809), Russia ($6,682), and Europe ($9,897). India is higher still at nearly $15,000 a kilogram. Average cost per kg…

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin meets with Moscow-installed leader of the Russian-controlled parts of the Zaporizhzhia region, at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 20, 2026.Alexander Kazakov | Afp | Getty ImagesAfter four-and-a-half years of full-scale war with Ukraine, Russia has become a two-tier economy.”If you are lucky and you’re employed by a tank production company, then everything’s good. Otherwise, you are probably facing problems,” Alex Kolyandr, director for Europe at consulting firm Eurasia Group, told CNBC.Russia’s wartime economy has been brought into sharper focus in recent weeks by Ukraine’s…

On Thursday, Jim Cramer and portfolio director Jeff Marks held the CNBC Investing Club’s August Monthly Meeting. They ran through each stock in the portfolio, with Jim putting special emphasis on his five favorite names to buy in this moment, as the artificial intelligence trade springs back to life. Jim also dedicated the start of the meeting to lessons learned from our recent exits of Nike and Honeywell Aerospace . Top 5 names to buy Jim started his portfolio rundown by calling out his five favorite stocks to buy right now. Nvidia : The chipmaker is at the center of…

On March 13, Nine PBS reportedly sent a letter to Iron Mountain stating that it would “pay any reasonable costs associated with” accessing the data. After allegedly being unable to communicate with OSS, Nine PBS eventually won a default judgment against the company in the St. Louis Circuit Court, which found that Nine PBS had the “immediate right to possess the data,” according to the complaint. The court also ruled that OSS must return the data “and/or facilitate its transfer to a new vendor,” the complaint says. However, Iron Mountain refused to give Nine PBS the data because it only…