Key Takeaways Shares in Royal Caribbean hit another record high Wednesday after soaring yesterday following a better-than-expected earnings report and outlook from the cruise line operator. The stock broke out of a falling wedge earlier this month, retested the pattern’s upper trendline, and then rallied to a new record high, signaling a continuation of the
Leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), now officially under the United States Digital Services, Elon Musk has promoted the creation of a mobile app for Americans to file their taxes for free. This would add to the options the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) already offers for free tax filing. Key Takeaways The DOGE is
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French startup Swan has raised another €42 million (around $44 million at current exchange rates). The company considers this round as the second part of the Series B round that was originally announced in September 2024. Swan helps other companies offer financial products at scale. The company can generate both virtual and physical cards that
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday his company will launch a paid ride-hailing robotaxi service in Austin, Texas using its own fleet vehicles this coming June — the latest in a long line of sky-high promises he has yet to meet about autonomy. Musk was otherwise unsurprisingly light on details. During an earnings call, Musk
Key Takeaways The top rate for a nationally available 3-month CD got a boost from 4.70% to 4.80% today. That offer is available from MutualOne Bank. The last CD locking in 5% or more is still valid, too—although only until Jan. 31. That offer, from Nuvision Credit Union, promises 5.50% for an 8-month term on
Tesla (TSLA) reported fourth-quarter revenue and adjusted profit below analysts’ estimates late Wednesday, with the stock first falling and then rising in after-hours trading after the company’s report and conference call. Tesla posted net income of $2.32 billion, or $0.66 per share, on revenue of $25.71 billion. Analysts polled by Visible Alpha expected profit of
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(Image credit: Ninth Exodus) Peripeteia is an upcoming indie immersive sim where you’re an out-of-work cyborg mercenary living in a dilapidated post-Soviet city full of homeless people, gas-mask thugs, and talkative bartenders. “It’s Deus Ex except you’re Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell, retired, in Poland.” That’s how I summed up the demo for
For reasons that were not immediately clear, SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to his social media site X on Tuesday evening to make a perplexing space-based pronouncement. “The @POTUS has asked @SpaceX to bring home the 2 astronauts stranded on the @Space_Station as soon as possible. We will do so,” Musk wrote. “Terrible that the
This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A sudden pause in federal assistance is sowing disarray and outrage across the country, throwing into doubt a wide range of programs that help protect Americans from disasters, provide access to clean drinking water and affordable energy and help
U.S. markets panicked on Monday over speculation that DeepSeek’s AI models would crush demand for GPUs, with Nvidia’s stock dropping almost 20%. But Meta isn’t backing off, with its CEO Mark Zuckerberg pledging that the tech giant would invest “very heavily” in AI — even “hundreds of billions of dollars” — over the long term