Ex-Huawei semiconductor secret thieves sentenced to jail
14 ex-Huawei workers have been sentenced to jail over secret theft Former engineers went on…
Carolina Herrera honors traditional Madrid with designs for the global woman
By EFE Translated by Nazia BIBI KEENOO Published September 19, 2025 Spanish model Miriam Sánchez opened Carolina Herrera‘s Spring 2026 runway show on Thursday in Madrid’s Plaza Mayor, a presentation with which Wes Gordon, the brand’s creative director, sought to pen a love letter to the city, which he described as a place of striking…
YouTube Thinks AI Is Its Next Big Bang
Google figured out early on that video would be a great addition to its search business, so in 2005 it launched Google Video. Focused on making deals with the entertainment industry for second-rate content, and overly cautious on what users could upload, it flopped. Meanwhile, a tiny startup run by a handful of employees working…
Part-Time Workers Have Less Access to Employer-Based Coverage Than Full-Time Workers
Overview Employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) is the primary source of health coverage for working non-elderly adults, but adults working part time (fewer than 35 hours per week) have less access to these benefits than their full-time counterparts. Among non-elderly adults employed by public or private employers (excluding the self-employed), 18.5 million, or 14% of adult…
Moët Hennessy exec sues for $2 million over Russia sanctions claim
By Bloomberg Published September 19, 2025 A former LVMH executive — dismissed after being accused of misconduct, including allegedly giving a colleague the middle finger — is suing the group’s wines and spirits subsidiary, Moët Hennessy, for €1.7 million ($2 million). He claims his firing was not due to management issues, but rather in retaliation…
Move your AI agents from proof of concept to production with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Building an AI agent that can handle a real-life use case in production is a complex undertaking. Although creating a proof of concept demonstrates the potential, moving to production requires addressing scalability, security, observability, and operational concerns that don’t surface in development environments. This post explores how Amazon Bedrock AgentCore helps you transition your agentic applications…
Alien water worlds were just a mirage
An exoplanet orbiting a dwarf star 124 light-years from Earth made headlines around the world in April 2025. Researchers at the University of Cambridge reported that planet K2-18b could be a marine world with a deep, global ocean teeming with life. However, a study now shows that so-called sub-Neptunes such as K2-18b are highly unlikely…
Ferragamo family says no to mergers as speculation rises over stock slump
By Reuters Published September 19, 2025 The Ferragamo family announced on Friday that it was not interested in any “extraordinary transactions” involving the eponymous luxury company. Ferragamo shares rise on takeover talk, but family rules out extraordinary deals – Reuters According to traders, low stock prices have triggered speculation about potential mergers or acquisitions, driving…
Earthquakes release blistering heat that can melt rock in an instant
The ground-shaking that an earthquake generates is only a fraction of the total energy that a quake releases. A quake can also generate a flash of heat, along with a domino-like fracturing of underground rocks. But exactly how much energy goes into each of these three processes is exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to measure…
South Western Ambulance workers arrested after six people die
Two ambulance workers have been arrested over the deaths of six adults, police have said. The investigation was launched in 2023 and last year a man in his 30s, from West Wiltshire, was arrested on suspicion of six counts of gross negligence manslaughter and four counts of ill-treatment or wilful neglect by a care worker….
Scientists win Ig Nobel Prize for cracking the code to perfect cacio e pepe
The Ig Nobel Prize honors research that first makes people laugh, then makes them think. Its 35th award ceremony possibly also makes people hungry: ISTA physicist Fabrizio Olmeda and colleagues researched the secret of a perfect cacio e pepe pasta sauce. They received the popular award for their findings on Thursday evening in Boston. Cacio…
