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An electronic quotation board displays the Nikkei 225 stock prices on the Tokyo stock Exchange in Tokyo on Nov. 5, 2025.Greg Baker | Afp | Getty ImagesAsia-Pacific markets open lower Tuesday, as investors weighed renewed uncertainty over U.S.-Iran peace negotiations, while Wall Street benchmark indexes climbed to fresh highs overnight on tech optimism.Japan’s Nikkei 225 opened 0.52% lower, while the Topix declined 0.98%. South Korea’s Kospi fell 0.32% and the small-cap Kosdaq was down 2.5%.In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 was down 0.67%.Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index futures were at 25,207, lower than the index’s last close of 25,398.18.U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday shrugged…
SEC defends Musk settlement over Twitter, saying it reflects ’compromises’ Source link
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on Monday told CNBC that it will “take some serious time” to restore the launchpad damaged last week by a Blue Origin rocket explosion.Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin was conducting a hot-fire test of its massive New Glenn rocket on Thursday at a Space Force launch facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida, when the rocket erupted into a fireball. Bezos confirmed that all Blue Origin personnel were safe following the incident, and pledged to rebuild, while calling it a “very rough day.”A 2028 timeframe is “within the realm” of a possible launchpad recovery, Isaacman said in an interview…
Unions and defence firms warn delays are a “threat” to British jobs, skills and national security. Source link
An iFlytek liquid-cooled server equipped with Huawei Kunpeng 920 chips and Ascend AI chips, on display at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China on July 26, 2025. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesHi, this is Evelyn, writing to you from Beijing. Welcome to the latest edition of The China Connection — a succinct snapshot of what I’m seeing and hearing from local businesses.China’s tech self-sufficiency push is rapidly becoming a reality as companies focus on business questions that run deeper than geopolitics. What does that mean for Nvidia? The big storyRobovan startup Zelostech plans to use multiple…
Duke Energy exploring tech partnerships to offset nuclear expansion risks Source link
It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across. So every month, we highlight a handful of the best stories that nearly slipped through the cracks. May’s list includes the discovery of a possible prehistoric mining site in the Pyrenees; a new species of tiny blue octopus; why cats seem to prefer silver vine to catnip; and why political polarization might behave like a phase transition, among other noteworthy stories. Prehistoric mining in the Pyrenees Credit: IPHES-CERCA High in the eastern Pyrenees is a prehistoric cave, excavated between 2021…
More than 1,000 pages of documents on Lord Mandelson’s appointment as the UK’s ambassador to the US have been published. Source link
Gov. Whitmer says Michigan has hit the ‘right balance’ on data center buildsMichigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer insisted that the data center buildout in the U.S. can be done “smart” and that her state can show the world how it can be done.”In Michigan, I think we’ve, we’ve hit the right balance when it comes to moving forward on projects like this and doing it ethically,” she said.Whitmer said the closed-loop water system used in the Stargate project would use “less than what a farm land in the same footprint would have required” and noted that jobs and energy were also…
Financial adviser whose name appeared on Epstein files has left Merrill, spokesperson says Source link