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Gold prices rose more than 2% on Friday as weaker than expected U.S. inflation data reignited hopes for Federal Reserve rate cuts this year, offsetting concerns from stronger than expected jobs data ...

January payrolls rose by 130,000, reinforcing expectations that the Federal Reserve will keep policy rates unchanged in the near term. Futures markets rapidly pushed anticipated rate cuts into the ...

Nevada’s IT agency has rolled out a new policy aimed at standardizing the privacy of state data, months after a massive cyberattack crippled certain systems for weeks. The policy announced Wednesday ...

Mere data exfiltration is no longer a lucrative approach for ransomware groups, and threat actors may increasingly rely on encryption to regain leverage, Coveware notes in a new report. Following a ...

Voyager Technologies CEO Dylan Taylor said data centers in space will become a reality, but cooling issues still need to be resolved. Tesla CEO Elon Musk highlighted space-based data centers as a ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at building data centers in orbit, the new inductees to the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 3D-printed housing and more. To get The Prototype in your ...

The Nintendo Switch 2 and an artificial intelligence data center don’t look remotely alike. Yet they depend on the same crucial component—dynamic random-access memory, or DRAM. It is the fast-working ...

The government’s official January jobs and inflation figures will land next week after a short delay caused by the recent partial-government shutdown, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Wednesday.

We got to see even more aspiring singers take center stage tonight on “American Idol” 2026. They were all hoping for a ticket to Hollywood and continue in the competition. Of course, it couldn’t ...