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Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls (L) eyes the basket as he is guarded by Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers.Vince Bucci | AFP | Getty ImagesRare pieces of memorabilia from two of the National Basketball Association’s biggest icons are hitting the auction block and are expected to sell for a combined $20 million.Sotheby’s announced on Thursday that it is putting up for auction Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant rookie jerseys that were worn during each of their first NBA games. The auction comes as rookie memorabilia has seen a recent surge in popularity and pricing.”The historical weight of…
Elon Musk reacts on the day of U.S. President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress, in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 4, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersElon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency abandoned some of its plans to slash contract spending for veterans’ health care services this week after a revolt by front-line Veterans Health Administration employees who contended many of the cuts would imperil safety at the agency’s almost 1,400 hospitals and clinics. What had been a list of 875 VA contracts scheduled for termination a little over a week ago has now…
Digg founder Kevin Rose has teamed up with former rival Alexis Ohanian to buy the once-popular content aggregator as they bet on an artificial intelligence-powered revival of the platform that once drew around 40 million monthly visitors.Launched in 2004 by a then 27-year-old Rose, Digg was once called the “homepage of the internet” and was a rival to Reddit, a firm co-founded by Ohanian.But the platform lost ground after its 2012 sale to New York-based tech incubator Betaworks. Microsoft’s LinkedIn scooped up its most valuable assets, including patents. It has since pivoted to curating news.Rose and Ohanian, who acquired Digg…
Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…
Este artículo también está disponible en español. MicroStrategy founder and executive chairman Michael Saylor suggested that the United States might purchase one million Bitcoin for its strategic reserves. His remarks came during an interview with FOX Business ahead of Friday’s White House Crypto Summit, to be hosted by US President Donald Trump. Saylor, whose company is widely known for its significant Bitcoin holdings, confirmed that MicroStrategy owns approximately 500,000 of the digital tokens, accounting for “about 2.4% of the worldwide supply.” He is one of several crypto-industry figures expected to join the presidential roundtable that will advise the administration on…
Eastern European solar operator GoldenPeaks Capital has entered into a power purchase agreement (PPA) with NGK Ceramics Polska. Under the 10-year PPA, GoldenPeaks Capital will virtually supply approximately 125GWh of carbon free renewable electricity on a yearly basis. The production will come from solar plants in Poland, the same market where NGK Ceramics Polska operates its facilities. NGK Ceramics Polska has been operating in Poland since 2003 as a global manufacturer of ceramic elements used in the automotive industry to control and limit the pollution from exhaust gases of combustion engines. Minoru Shibata, president of NGK Ceramics Polska, said:…
Tecno Megabook S14 was unveiled by the company on Wednesday at MWC 2025 in Barcelona, as the company’s first laptop model with an OLED display. It is powered by a 12-core Snapdragon X Elite chip, along with up to 32GB of RAM and up to 2TB of SSD storage. Tecno claims the Megabook S14 is the lightest 14-inch laptop with an OLED display. It is also available in an x86 variant with Intel Core Ultra chips — this option is compatible with Tecno’s new external graphics dock, which is equipped with an unspecified Nvidia graphics card.The company has yet to…
Trump adviser Peter Navarro claims ‘Canada has been taken over by Mexican cartels’Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us…
Macy’s delivered another quarter of mixed results on Thursday as investors wait and see how quickly CEO Tony Spring can pull off a turnaround of the business with yet another activist investor looking to take the chain private.Across the business, which includes the Macy’s banner, Bloomingdale’s and Blue Mercury, comparable sales during the all-important holiday quarter were down 1.1%. But comparable sales across its owned and licensed businesses, plus its online marketplace, were up 0.2%, which is the highest the metric has been since the first quarter of 2022. Plus, the so-called “First 50” locations – the stores that Macy’s is…
Google Search received a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature dubbed AI Mode on Wednesday. The Mountain View-based tech giant was reportedly internally testing this feature last month, and has now rolled it out to a limited number of users. The AI Mode will offer responses on complex topics, and search queries that are multi-faceted and would normally take a user multiple searches to find the information. Additionally, the company is also upgrading AI Overviews with the Gemini 2.0 model. The new version of the feature is currently only available in the US.Google Search Gets AI ModeIn a blog post, the…