Apple's iPhone 16 has claimed the title of the world's top-selling smartphone in the first quarter of 2025, marking the first time in two years that the base model of Apple's flagship series has led global sales. This resurgence was reported by Counterpoint Research's...

Apple has shared the official trailer for 'Smoke,' an upcoming crime drama starring and executive produced by Taron Egerton. Created and written by Dennis Lehane and inspired by true events, "Smoke" follows an arson investigator who begrudgingly teams up with a police...

Our culture has long been vulnerable to celebrities and influencers who popularize hate. From Father Charles Coughlin in the 1930s to Mel Gibson in the 2000s, each has taken advantage of their platform to spread conspiracy theories or antisemitic tropes to the masses....

Two years ago this month, the Writers Guild of America went on strike for, among other key issues, a set of landmark AI protections to safeguard our writing and our finished work. It took six months of sustained solidarity, picketing and an outpouring of public...

A U.S. trade court ruled that President Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs were illegal on Wednesday, but the administration has been granted a temporary stay until arguments are filed. The Trump administration implemented wide-ranging and incredibly high tariffs...

Eddie Murphy has revealed that he and co-star Martin Lawrence are “in-laws”, as Murphy’s son recently married Lawrence’s daughter. Eric Murphy and Jasmin Lawrence began dating in 2021, and announced their engagement in November 2024 as reported by Entertainment...

The whale has returned. After rocking the global AI and business community early this year with the January 20 initial release of its hit open source reasoning AI model R1, the Chinese startup DeepSeek — a spinoff of formerly only locally well-known Hong Kong...

Despite a US trade court ruling that Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs are illegal, Apple investors have unexpectedly failed to react to the news, likely assuming there is more chaos to come. The new court ruling came as the stock market has faced unprecedented volatility...

A federal court has blocked US President Donald Trump's plans to institute major global tariffs, a plan announced in April that sent global markets into a frenzy. Trump attempted to use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to implement the tariffs, but a...

Trump has immediately appealed the ruling and is expected to take the case to the Supreme Court. He's arguing that the court cannot define what constitutes a "national emergency," which is a political question he believes only Congress can address. White House...

The Trump administration has told US companies that offer software used to design semiconductors to stop selling their services to Chinese groups, in the latest attempt to make it harder for China to develop advanced chips. Several people familiar with the move said...

Apple — and almost everybody else — has gotten a slight reprieve as a US court yesterday set aside the Trump tariff tax. But conflict and confusion continue to batter global trade, and while the news will provide a glimmer of relief, it will probably be short-lived....