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This photograph shows displayed collectible cards from the Pokemon Trading Card Game (TCG) at an amateur collector’s appartment in Paris on March 11, 2026.Martin Lelievre | Afp | Getty ImagesWhen I was a kid in the late 90s, collecting Pokémon cards was a fun hobby. I’d buy packs, hoping to get the rarest “shinies,” or holographic cards. We’d trade with friends and even go to meet-ups to trade cards trying to “catch ’em all” —a catchphrase that defined the franchise that had gone from Nintendo Game Boy to an anime TV show.When I started collecting again two years ago, things had changed. I’ve stood…
A man holds a sign outside Versailles Restaurant in support of charges announced by US federal prosecutors against the former Cuban president in Miami, Florida, on May 20, 2026. Chandan Khanna | Afp | Getty ImagesThe U.S. pressure campaign against Cuba appears to have entered a new phase, one which raises serious questions about the Trump administration’s endgame for the communist-run Caribbean island.The Department of Justice on Wednesday unsealed an indictment of former Cuban President Raul Castro, accusing him of murder for the country’s military shootdown of two planes in 1996. Castro, 94, was the country’s defense minister at the…
Chinese multinational technology company, Lenovo logo seen in Shenzhen. (Photo by Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Alex Tai | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty ImagesShares of Lenovo surged over 15% on Friday, after the personal computer and electronics giant posted strong revenue growth powered by its growing artificial intelligence business. Group revenue for the March quarter reached $21.6 billion, up 27% year-on-year — the highest growth rate in five years for the Hong Kong–based Chinese multinational company. Net income grew by nearly a factor of six to reach $521 million. Full-year results reached a record. The standout performer was AI-related revenue,…
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SpaceX got within 40 seconds of launching the first flight of a taller, more powerful version of its Starship rocket Thursday, but a pesky problem with the launch tower kept the vehicle bound to Earth for at least one more day. Clouds and rain showers cleared the area around SpaceX’s launch site in South Texas, leaving mostly sunny skies over the Starship launch pad Thursday afternoon. SpaceX pushed back the launch time by one hour, but the countdown appeared to proceed smoothly once propellants began loading into the rocket. That was true, at least, until the countdown clock paused 40…
Finch now heads Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council as well as Warwickshire County Council Source link
A man uses his phone as he passes by a signage of Airtel at the India Mobile Congress 2025 in Delhi, India, on October 11, 2025. (Photo by Kabir Jhangiani/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesIndia’s second-largest telecom company, Bharti Airtel, is doubling down on its Africa and U.K. bets, joining a growing number of companies from the South Asian country that are looking to expand their global footprints. Bharti Airtel on Thursday sought shareholders’ approval to increase its stake in the U.K-listed Airtel Africa to 79% from around 62.7% in a cashless share-swap deal, worth 282.22 billion…
Hengli, China’s silk-to-petrochemicals empire, faces the chill of US sanctions Source link
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei looks on after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron during the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on February 19, 2026. Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty ImagesMicrosoft is in talks to supply its custom artificial intelligence chips to Anthropic, CNBC confirmed on Thursday. A deal would represent a win for Microsoft, which is behind cloud rivals Amazon and Google when it comes to supplying clients with special-purpose AI silicon. Microsoft announced its second-generation Maia AI chip in January, but has yet to make it available through its Azure cloud. The company did say the…
Asylum application, immigration and emigration figures for European countries are the latest available data from Eurostat for: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, Norway, Switzerland and Croatia. Source link