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Williams has unveiled a reworked livery for the 2026 F1 season. Tuesday’s announcement came after the team was unable to get its cars ready for the first pre-season test event of 2026 in Barcelona last week. The FW48 itself will make its first public appearance and run at the first Bahrain test on February 11-13. The livery is primarily the team’s traditional blue (officially described as a “bright gloss blue”), but for 2026 there is a twist with the sidepods featuring bright blue and white as part of a new tie-up with Barclays.Williams said the color scheme reflected their “bold…
Escalating tensions between the United States and Iran have brought the two countries to the brink of a flashpoint. The unprecedented accumulation of US forces in the Middle East, combined with Washington’s reliance on gunboat diplomacy, clearly increases the risk of war, involving Iran and the region, with widespread regional and global losses.Following the recent crackdown on protests in Iran, US President Donald Trump has announced that the time has come to remove Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. His administration then deployed the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and supporting fighter jets, as well as a variety of air defense assets…
Apple brings agent coding to Xcode. On Tuesday, the company announced the release of Xcode 26.3. This allows developers to use agent tools like Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex directly in Apple’s official app development suite. The Xcode 26.3 release candidate is currently available to all Apple developers from the developer website and will be published to the App Store shortly. This latest update follows last year’s Xcode 26 release, which introduced support for ChatGPT and Claude within Apple’s integrated development environment (IDE) used by users building apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple’s other hardware platforms.…
Pandora bracelet from PANDORA concept store.Franziska Krug | German Select | Getty ImagesPandora, the world’s largest jeweler, fell about 7% after analysts warned that it would struggle amid volatility in silver prices and downgraded the company’s rating from “buy” to “hold.””The combination of increased consumer pressure and rising silver prices means the business is in trouble,” Jefferies analysts said in a note Tuesday. “The most pernicious issue will be a long-term reluctance to engage with the name given the volatility of silver prices. This means that even if silver prices fall and stock prices rise on mechanical profit momentum, investor…
Chen Xin | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesTeradyne Shares soared Tuesday after the company beat expectations for its fourth quarter thanks to strong demand for its artificial intelligence.The robotics company reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.80, beating the $1.37 expected by analysts surveyed by LSEG. Sales were $1.08 billion, exceeding expectations of $973 million. Teradyne’s fourth quarter revenue increased 44% year over year. In an earnings call with analysts, CEO Greg Smith said more than 60% of Teradyne’s revenue in the fourth quarter was driven by AI. He said the company expects that percentage to be more than…
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been talking about Russia’s battlefield death toll and asked the new defense minister to make it a priority. Ukrainian leaders say more than 35,000 Russian soldiers were killed or seriously injured in December alone, and the goal is to further increase that number to 50,000 per month. Mykhailo Federov told reporters at his first press conference as defense minister that the president’s mission was to “make Russia’s war costs unsustainable and thereby force peace.” The point that Russia is suffering huge losses is not new. A new report last week estimated that 1.2 million Russians have…
England swept the T20 series against Sri Lanka 3-0 after a brilliant fightback to snatch a 12-point victory in a low-scoring dead rubber at Palekele.The decision to bat first after Harry Brooke, who had batted first in the previous two wins, won the toss, initially appeared to backfire as England slumped at 60-6 on slow wicket at the Pallekele Cricket Stadium. Sam Curran top-scored with 58 off 48 deliveries, but opener Jos Buttler (25) and Liam Dawson (14) were the only other players to reach double figures, while career-best figures from Dushmantha Chameera (5-24) helped England to 128-9 from 20…
Bridgewater Institute founder Ray Dalio speaks on CNBC’s Squawk Box at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 20, 2026. Oscar Molina CNBCLegendary investor Ray Dalio warned Tuesday that the world is on the “brink” of a capital war as geopolitical tensions rise and capital markets become unstable. Speaking with CNBC’s Dan Murphy on stage at the World Government Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Dalio said we are moving closer to the realm of capital wars, where money is weaponized through means such as embargoes, cutting off access to capital markets, or using debt ownership as leverage.…
The oil tanker “Grinch” (R), suspected of belonging to Russia’s shadow fleet, was spotted off the coast of Martigues near the port of Marseille-Fos on January 25, 2026, under surveillance by the French Navy. Thibault Moritz | AFP | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump announced a U.S.-India trade deal on Monday that he said includes a commitment for India to stop buying Russian crude oil and possibly buy it from the U.S. and Venezuela, but data shows a shadow fleet of tankers transporting sanctioned crude continues to unload at Indian ports.Ship tracking from global data analytics firm Kpler shared with CNBC…
Fitbit founders James Park and Eric Friedman announced the launch of a new AI startup called Luffu that aims to help families proactively monitor their health. The two are developing an “intelligent family care system” starting with an app experience and extending to hardware devices. Two years after leaving Google, Park and Friedman are betting on AI to ease the emotional burden of caregiving. According to a recent report, nearly 1 in 4 adults in the United States, or 63 million people, are caregivers for family members, a 45% increase from 10 years ago. Luffu uses AI in the background…