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President Donald Trump announced Friday that Boeing will build the Air Force’s future fighter jet, which the Pentagon says will have stealth and penetration capabilities that far exceed those of its current fleet and is essential in a potential conflict with China. Known as Next Generation Air Dominance, or NGAD, the manned jet will serve…

The last major bear market nearly wiped out the entire crypto-lending industry. Now, it’s staging a major comeback, with a new breed of creditors looking to step into the void and satisfy the market’s perennial appetite for debt.  Lenders ranging from traditional banks to crypto native firms have either begun or are in the process…

A man sitting at shop selling Baby Three dolls and other toys on a street in Hanoi on March 18, 2025. Seething international tensions over the South China Sea have struck an unlikely victim in Vietnam: popular children’s dolls pulled from shops over a facial mark supposedly resembling Beijing’s claims in the flashpoint waterway. Nhac…

For months, President Prabowo Subianto’s moves to chip away at Indonesia’s long-established economic guardrails have stoked anxiety in markets. This week’s sudden rout suggests investor patience is wearing thin. The ex-general has been causing unease with his populist spending measures, plans to dilute the central bank’s independence and aggressive policies against foreign businesses like Apple…

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said he didn’t realize there were publicly traded quantum-computing companies when he made earlier comments that caused industry stocks to crash. “My first reaction was, I didn’t know they were public. How can a quantum company be public?” Huang said at an event Thursday focused on the still-nascent…

The Open Network (TON), a blockchain that facilitates payments on the messaging app Toncoin. Following the announcement the Toncoin jumped 6%. “I’ve been a long-time believer in the potential of blockchain to disrupt traditional industries and systems,” Tim Draper, founder of Draper Associates—one of the VCs participating in this round—said in a statement. “TON’s technology…

Donald Trump’s shoot-from-the-lip style kept Americans on the edge of their seats during last year’s campaign. But now that he’s speaking as a president and not as a candidate, his words are being used against him in court in the blizzard of litigation challenging his agenda. The spontaneity is complicating his administration’s legal positions. Nowhere has this…

It’s a good day to be a Finn—again.  For the 8th successive year, Finland ranks no.1 on the annual World Happiness Report. The report, published on the UN’s International Day of Happiness, is based on analysis of how the residents of over 140 countries rate their quality of life. With 10 meaning someone is currently…

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The internet has been rife with second-hand anxiety over the Boeing Starliner astronauts’ being stranded in space for nine months. They initially launched their test flight in June 2024, anticipating the trip would only take over a week. But after several of Boeing’s Starliner capsule Calypso’s thrusters failed during docking, the two astronauts were stuck…