Major League Soccer fined Inter Miami captain Lionel Messi an undisclosed amount on Tuesday for placing his hand on a New York City FC assistant coach’s neck. The incident happened during Saturday’s 2-2 draw, in which Messi had two assists. Messi was exiting the pitch following the full-time whistle after receiving a yellow card for…
A federal judge in Washington gave President Trump a major victory on Tuesday when she declined to bar Elon Musk and his associates from having access to data at seven federal agencies or involvement in mass firings. In an order on Tuesday, Judge Tanya S. Chutkan in Federal District Court in Washington, wrote that a…
Steven Strang, a writer and literary scholar who founded MIT’s Writing and Communication Center in 1981 and directed it for 40 years, died with family at his side on Dec. 29, 2024. He was 77. His vision for the center was ambitious. After an MIT working group identified gaps between the students’ technical knowledge and their…
Chinese electric car giant BYD announced on Feb. 10, 2025, that it would integrate DeepSeek into its artificial intelligence model that powers its new driver-assistance technology. Screenshot BEIJING — Chinese electric car giant BYD shares hit a record high in Hong Kong trading Tuesday after the company said it is going all in on driver…
The couple Robbie Williams “wed” at a screening of his new movie “Better Man” aren’t monkeying around, telling the haters to hang around and reconsider … even if the movie is a total bomb. Haldun Uluç Ülgen tells TMZ … he and his fiancée Amy Willoughby couldn’t care less the British singer’s biopic tanked at…
A sociable sunfish who was reportedly missing its human audience during a temporary closure of its aquarium in Japan has been comforted in an unorthodox way. In a photo posted by the Kaikyokan aquarium in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi prefecture, the sunfish is seen swimming in front of photos of human faces attached to a row of…
Musk had previously said in June he was leaning towards supporting DeSantis for president in 2024. Joe Skipper | Reuters Tesla‘s bitcoin holdings led to a big pop in reported net income for the fourth quarter because of a new rule change in how companies account for digital assets. After showing a carrying value of…
Chester Zoo The snails were marked with ‘colour coded’ identification dots before being released More than 1,300 pea-sized, critically endangered snails that were bred in a zoo have been set free to wander (very slowly) on a remote Atlantic island. The release brings two species of Desertas Island land snails back to the wild. Prior…
Luigi Mangione says he’s not guilty of slaying Unitedhealthcare CEO Brian Thompson — he entered not guilty pleas Monday morning in New York State court. Mangione pleaded not guilty to 11 state charges … including first-degree murder, 2nd-degree murder as crime of terrorism and multiple weapons charges. The 26-year-old Ivy League grad was dressed like…
Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images SoftBank has committed to spending $3 billion per year for itself and its subsidiaries to use OpenAI’s tech, according to a joint announcement on Monday. The two also announced a new joint venture, billed as “SB OpenAI Japan,” which will market OpenAI’s enterprise tech exclusively to major companies…
