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As Kyle Goetsch sprints across the Namib Desert, sand flies in every direction, but he only loses his stride for a split second before yelling to the stunned group behind him to start running. All the while, the animal draws closer and closer, its gigantic form silhouetted by the pale moonlight. But all is not as it seems. Even with cameras everywhere, this is not the climax of a blockbuster natural horror movie. Rather, nature photographers are working at breakneck speed toward once-in-a-lifetime photos. Götsch’s breathtaking photo of a giraffe climbing to the top of a sand dune and looking…
Anthony Gordon scored four first-half goals as Newcastle beat Qarabag 6-1 in the first leg of the knockout play-offs, all but sealing a place in the Champions League last 16 against either Chelsea or Barcelona.Gordon scored in the third minute and converted two penalties past goalkeeper Mateusz Kochalski, taking his tally to 10 in Europe this season. The goalkeeper was also brought down by a header from Malik Thiaw in an unusual start and a deflected shot from Jacob Murphy in the second half. Newcastle captain Kieran Trippier and Gordon had to be separated by teammates on the way to…
Amazon has hundreds of thousands of robots in its warehouses, but that doesn’t mean all of its robot efforts are success stories. As first reported by Business Insider and confirmed by TechCrunch, the e-commerce giant has canceled its Blue Jay warehouse robot project just months after announcing the technology. Blue Jay, a multi-armed robot designed to sort and move packages, was announced in October for use in the company’s same-day delivery facilities. At the time, the company was testing the robot at a facility in South Carolina, and Amazon said it took much less time to develop Blue Jay than…
A recent Harris Poll survey of 2,177 American adults found that money is a top priority for daters these days when it comes to finding love.74% say financial security has become one of the most attractive characteristics in a date. And some of their biggest red flags include people who want to consolidate their finances quickly (67%), people who have a lot of credit card debt (63%), and people who send a Venmo or Zelle request right after a date (57%).This focus on money is not surprising, says Jacqueline Combs, a family law and divorce attorney at Blank Rome. “Who…
Meta Platforms’ pledge to spend billions on Nvidia chips is a much-needed shot in the arm for the AI semiconductor giant and its recently middling stock price. Nvidia’s ferocious multi-year rally had subsided in recent months as investor money moved to other hot spots in the chip market, such as memory and storage, and as Google’s superior AI models built on its own chips stoked competition concerns. But now, Meta’s commitment to Nvidia should remind the market of the benefits of Nvidia’s technology and its central role in building AI more broadly. “NVIDIA is such a drag on this market…
Pharmaceutical giants expressed optimism that new influenza vaccines will be released this year, despite approval concerns.listen to this article | 3 minutesinformationby Reuters and Associated PressPublished February 18, 2026February 18, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareThe federal agency responsible for regulating pharmaceutical products in the United States has announced it will review an application for a flu vaccine from pharmaceutical giant Moderna, a week after the company rejected the application in an unusual move.Moderna announced Wednesday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted an amended application seeking full approval of its new influenza vaccine for patients…
Washington-born couple Cassandra Trestle, 33, and her husband Alex Ninman, 34, were living with her grandfather in the Czech Republic when their daughter was born in 2020. They were facing a crossroads. Should I return to the US or remain overseas?The couple had been living together since March of that year when they learned Trestle’s grandfather was pregnant, and they used his grandfather’s house as a base when traveling to Europe before Trestle was due to give birth. Trestle said she had told friends she would return to the United States after her daughter was born, but when she started…
Donald Trump Jr. on Wednesday called traditional banking a “pyramid scheme” that effectively forced the Trump family to launch a cryptocurrency venture, World Liberty Financial, after the bank closed the family’s company accounts in early 2021.”We didn’t get into cryptocurrency because we were on the cutting edge,” Trump Jr. told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” during an interview at the World Freedom Forum on Wednesday.”We came in out of necessity,” Trump Jr. said at an event at his father, President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. “They basically forced us to come in.”Donald Trump Jr. (left) and Eric…
Dangerous and severe fire weather conditions remain Wednesday after more than a dozen new wildfires burned tens of thousands of acres in the Plains amid dry conditions and strong winds Tuesday, forcing evacuations. The Ranger Road fire was the largest and is now a major fire. The fire has exploded in size, burning at least 145,000 acres in Oklahoma and Kansas since it started early Tuesday afternoon. It’s about the same size as Chicago. Most of that extreme increase occurred in just eight hours, during which time fires burned an area equivalent to three to four football fields every second…
Newcastle United will embark on a 5,000-mile round trip on Wednesday to face Qarabag in the first round of the Champions League knockout stages.This is the first time Newcastle have reached the knockout stages in Europe, with a grueling schedule of 14 games in 45 days, including an epic trip to Azerbaijan for the first leg before a come-from-behind at St James’s Park on February 24. Qarabag lost 6-0 to Liverpool in the final round of the league, but succeeded in drawing 2-2 at home with Chelsea in the fourth round. Eddie Howe’s side will face either Chelsea or Barcelona…