People spend a lot of time on their devices. The AI boom means they will also be spending more for them. Why it matters: The enormous sums of money going into the AI race are driving up costs for resources and components throughout the economy. - That's now becoming increasingly apparent to ordinary Americans who might have thought that AI's impact would be primarily on their jobs. Driving the news: Apple provided the clearest evidence yet Thursday, raising prices by as much as 25% on MacBook and iPad models — and blaming soaring memory chip costs due to AI demand. - The same memory squeeze is now hitting gaming consoles. Also on Thursday, Microsoft announced price increases of as much as $150 on Xbox consoles — which comes after…
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South Korean military drones fly in formation during a military drill in May 2023. Half a million military personnel are to be trained in how to operate drones. Photograph: Yelim Lee/AFP/Getty Images Published June 26, 2026 [...]
Groundbreaking poet Phillis Wheatley is considered the first African American woman, and only the third American woman, to publish a book of poems. Wheatley was renowned for her imagination, drive, and courage. Born around 1753 in Africa, she was kidnapped at age seven and enslaved in Boston, Massachusetts, to the Wheatley family in 1761. She was named after the boat that brought her to the colony, “the Phillis.” The Wheatley family educated her, and within a remarkably short period after her arrival, she had a command of the Bible, Greek and Latin classics, British Literature, astronomy and geography. A prodigy, Wheatley grew in notoriety in 1770 after she published “An Elegiac Poem, on the Death of the Celebrated George…
Host Blake Burman discusses the aftermath of the two earthquakes that struck Venezuela Wednesday. International search-and-rescue teams offered to help search for survivors, including the US military under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's orders. #venezuela #earthquake #rescue
Californians will vote in November on a controversial proposal to impose a one-time tax on billionaires to help fund federal funding cuts to healthcare for low-income people
Volodymyr Zelensky said a week should be enough for Alexander Lukashenko to remove the equipment Published June 26, 2026 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s deadline for Belarus to dismantle Russian-linked military infrastructure has now expired, marking [...]
