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President Trump’s pledge to “immediately start testing our nuclear weapons on an equal basis” sent shivers through even the grinchiest of Halloween hearts last week. Why Trump’s big nuclear announcement? The president told 60 Minutes that rivals like Russia, China, Pakistan, and North Korea are already testing their own nukes, and he’s not just talking delivery systems(missiles): “they test way underground […]

Sometimes we find ourselves pondering why the Duolingo owl is so passive-aggressive. Other days we end up wondering what’s really going on with our world’s economy. Today falls into the second category for five reasons, starting with… That’s how many cars will get repossessed in the US this year, the most in recorded history (yes, […]

America’s Nvidia just became the world’s first firm to break the $5T valuation barrier, three months after it became the first to pass $4T. So the AI chipmaker is now worth… Why? Markets were responding to some spicy remarks, first from Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, who told a pack of nerds at Nvidia’s DC conference that […]

Folks across Jamaica are just starting to emerge from shelter after the Cat-5 Hurricane Melissa barrelled into the island with winds of up to 282km/h (175mph). It’s the third-worst hurricane to hit the Caribbean after Wilma (2005) and Gilbert (1988), and it’s now ploughing into Cuba as a Category-4. So as details become clearer (including […]