1+ hour, 47+ min ago  (413+ words) Since the dawn of retail, merchants" primary job has been to tempt human shoppers to part with their cash. Now they have a new customer to woo: the bots. "You really want to be where the customers are," Oliver Chen,…...

8+ hour, 32+ min ago  (1687+ words) While his office building faces foreclosure and his industry license has been suspended, Vincent J. Camarda has continued to send biweekly emails to clients promising their lost investments will be returned. Credit: Facebook Every few weeks, another email arrives in the…...

12+ hour, 29+ min ago  (244+ words) As long as teens find an emotional outlet in social media, mental health care risks will likely remain." Credit: Getty Images/George Chan When the U.S. surgeon general in 2024 called for warning labels on social media platforms, it was a two-handed…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (862+ words) NEW DELHI " India is hoping to garner as much as $200 billion in investments for data centers over the next few years as it scales up its ambitions to become a hub for artificial intelligence, the country's minister for electronics and…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (1317+ words) Stacy Pellettieri, a licensed clinical social worker and clinical director of Long Island Counseling, in her office'in East Meadow. Credit: Newsday/Howard Schnapp When a client with obsessive-compulsive disorder suddenly started to spiral last fall, her Long Island therapist wanted…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (465+ words) Women wearing masks to pass by the headquarters of ByteDance, owners of TikTok, in Beijing, China, Aug. 7, 2020. Credit: AP/Ng Han Guan Seedance 2.0, which is only available in China for now, lets users generate high-quality AI videos using simple text…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago  (1108+ words) A general view of the scoreboard during an ABS challenge during a spring training game on Feb. 27, 2025 in Goodyear, Arizona. Credit: Getty Images/Tim Warner PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla.Chris Sale raised eyebrows this past week when he said he…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago  (829+ words) Trader Fred Demarco, right, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026, in New York. Credit: AP/Richard Drew NEW YORK " U.S. stocks steadied on Friday after an encouraging update on inflation helped calm a Wall Street…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago  (634+ words) UN Secretary General Ant'nio Guterres is welcomed by Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer to 10 Downing Street, London, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. Credit: AP/Henry Nicholls UNITED NATIONS " The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Thursday to approve a 40-member global scientific panel on the…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago  (405+ words) A woman walks in front of SoftBank store in Ginza shopping district in Tokyo, Jan. 20, 2020. Credit: AP/Eugene Hoshiko TOKYO " Japanese technology and telecoms giant SoftBank Group Corp. swung back into profitability in the last quarter of 2025 as its investments…...