Stocks are entering one of the busiest weeks of the year near record highs. A late-week rally led by a surge in Tesla (TSLA) shares helped the Nasdaq Composite close the week higher by about 0.9%, just shy of a new record high. Meanwhile the S&P 500 (GSPC) fell more …

Nearly half say it does not do a good job representing the people, and three-quarters say it is under threat, according to a Times/Siena poll. Source link

Apple is about to release sleep apnea detection support for Apple Watch users with watchOS 11.1. However, that isn’t the only health feature the company has worked on in the past year. According to Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman, the company tested a blood-sugar app to help people with prediabetes manage their …

Chief among Qualcomm’s newest chips is the Snapdragon 8 Elite, which will bring more AI features and faster speeds to next year’s top-tier Android phones. The chip was announced at the Snapdragon Summit 2024 alongside Qualcomm’s other new products. Apart from AI, some of the best things it can do …

New movies and TV shows are revisiting a “weird corner” of the ’80s — and offering lessons for today. Source link

Berkshire Hathaway has made some big moves with Sirius XM (NASDAQ: SIRI) this month. The investing conglomerate led by Warren Buffett has increased its position in the audio and entertainment platform to 32%, worth around $3 billion as of this writing. This buying occurred in conjunction with Sirius XM combining …

Sunday’s rally at Madison Square Garden, the self-styled “world’s most famous arena,” is a remarkable gambit, even by the former president’s standards — and a show of force. Source link

The problem isn’t bandwidth though, it’s latency. Video games are built on instant feedback. Some games can fudge the definition of “instant” a bit, but anything more than half a second of delay between input and action would be unplayable for even the most forgiving games. This is the problem …

Halloween is the most anticipated holiday of the year — at least for me. I started decorating in September.  Yet somehow, Halloween has managed to get wrapped up in the season of overconsumption. I’m not trying to be a Halloween Scrooge, but I can’t stand the pressure of buying giant …

An unknown work in the composer’s hand has emerged in a New York museum, the first such find in more than a half century. The pianist Lang Lang plays it here. Source link