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london — A spokesperson for Essex Police said in a statement on Wednesday that it was “assessing” information about commercial flights flying in and out of London’s Stansted Airport after the US Department of Justice released millions of documents relating to the late convicted criminal Jeffrey Epstein. In an op-ed for the New Statesman last week, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on the Metropolitan Police to “urgently” re-examine claims that Epstein’s victims were trafficked on these flights. Brown said emails released in Epstein’s files showed a paper trail of visas, payments and transportation records showing women and girls…
Kimi Antonelli continued Mercedes’ impressive performance by topping the timesheets in F1’s final pre-season test of 2026, as Ferrari faced further disruption on Lewis Hamilton’s final day of track before the Australian Grand Prix. After Mercedes teammate George Russell set the fastest time on the first day of the last of F1’s three pre-season events, Antonelli clocked a further 1m32.803s in the evening session at the Bahrain International Circuit, a further six tenths six seconds below the benchmark. This placed him in second place, 0.058 seconds behind McLaren’s Oscar Piastri, with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen a further three tenths behind…
Technology investors haven’t given up on the dream of creating physical products with the same speed and ease of coding software. Executives at Freeform, a startup developing a new 3D printing system for metal parts, told TechCrunch that the company has raised $67 million in Series B funding to expand its manufacturing platform. Investors include Apandion, AE Ventures, Founders Fund, Linse Capital, NVidia’s NVentures, Threshold Ventures, and Two Sigma Ventures. Freeform declined to disclose the company’s post-funding valuation, but Pitchbook put it at $179 million. CEO and co-founder Eric Palitsch said the funding will allow the company to upgrade to…
Etsy’s company logo seen at its headquarters in New York City on December 13, 2023.Michael M. Santiago | Getty ImagesEtsy Shares soared Thursday after the company announced plans to offload its fashion resale app Depop to other companies. eBay Approximately $1.2 billion in cash. The online marketplace also reported mixed results in the fourth quarter. Here’s how Etsy has performed compared to estimates from analysts surveyed by LSEG: Earnings per share: 92 cents vs. estimated 84 cents Revenue: $882 million vs. estimated $885 millionTotal merchandise sales, or the dollar value of goods sold, fell 3.8% from a year earlier to…
The ongoing India AI Impact Summit, which was supposed to be a moment of solidarity for global innovation, turned out to be an awkward one instead. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged speakers at the event to join hands in a show of solidarity, all the leaders on stage responded. Except for OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, who were largely handicapped. As the leaders of two major labs in the AI race, it goes without saying that Altman and Amodei are fierce competitors. That conflict has only intensified in recent months. After OpenAI announced that it would introduce…
The Chinese flag flies above the China Customs building at the terminal of Yantian Port, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China, October 30, 2025.Wang Tingju | ReutersThe U.S. trade deficit widened in December, capping a year in which imbalances remained virtually unchanged despite efforts by the Trump administration to close the wide gap.Capping off a tumultuous year in global markets, the Commerce Department reported Thursday that shortfalls in goods and services totaled $70.3 billion in December. That’s an increase of $17.3 billion from November and well above the Dow Jones consensus estimate of $55.5 billion.For the full year, the United States had…
Valerie Preche | Washington Post | Getty ImagesEven though the U.S. economy is adding jobs and the unemployment rate is decreasing, job opportunities for college graduates are decreasing. Still, high school students remain surprisingly optimistic about their future job prospects.According to a new report from Junior Achievement, 73% of teen survey respondents said the artificial intelligence boom will have little to no impact on their ability to get a good, well-paying job. Junior Achievement surveyed more than 1,000 teens ages 13 to 17 in January.Of those surveyed, 68% said they plan to attend university, as they have in recent years.Read…
door dashThe company’s stock rose on Thursday as Wall Street shook off disappointing fourth-quarter results and praised the food delivery platform’s early progress in its investment cycle. Shares initially fell about 10% in after-hours trading after the company reported disappointing earnings guidance, with top and bottom lines of earnings below Wall Street expectations. The company expects its adjusted EBITDA to be weighed down by continued investment in Deliveroo, the UK delivery platform it acquired last year, in the first quarter. DoorDash also expects a $20 million impact from the recent U.S. winter storms and higher order costs due to investments…
Gabriel Hammer-Webb is set to make his Wales debut in this weekend’s Six Nations match against Scotland in Cardiff.Head coach Steve Tandy made four changes to the team that suffered a crushing 54-12 loss to France last weekend. Scarlets pair Sam Costelow and Tain Plumtree will be joined by Dragons lock Ben Carter. Adam Beard, Ellis Mee, Dan Edwards and Ollie Cracknell all dropped out of the squad permanently. Gloucester Lock’s Freddie Thomas, Cardiff flanker James Botham and Scarlets full-back Blair Murray will be called up to the bench.The most eye-catching announcement is the addition of 25-year-old Hamer Webb, who…
In a world run by increasingly powerful AI coding tools, creating software will become cheaper, leaving little room for traditional software companies. One analyst report states, “Vibe coding allows startups to replicate the functionality of complex SaaS platforms.” Clues include wringing your hands and declaring that software companies are doomed. Open source software projects that use agents to overcome long-standing resource constraints should logically be among the first to benefit from the era of cheap code. But that equation just doesn’t apply. In reality, the impact that AI coding tools have on open source software is much more complex. According…