By DAVID AVERRE and REUTERS Published: 14:34 GMT, 6 December 2024 | Updated: 16:58 GMT, 6 December 2024 Russia could deploy its new Oreshnik intermediate-range hypersonic missile on the territory of its ally Belarus in 2025, Vladimir Putin has declared. The Russian President was responding to a request by his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko at…
At the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Luma AI announced its new Ray 2 Video Model, an advanced tool designed to generate high-quality videos from text and image prompts in as little as 10 seconds. The upgraded model, which expands video lengths from five seconds to up to one minute, is aimed at general…
Ghana’s western region is a hotbed for illegal gold mining, known as galamsey. It’s destroying the country’s forest reserves and polluting rivers that locals use for drinking water. The BBC has discovered that water around illegal mining sites contain around 500 times more mercury than the World Health Organisation guideline for safe drinking water. But…
TikTok’s bid to overturn a law which would see it banned or sold in the US from early 2025 has been rejected. The social media company had hoped a federal appeals court would uphold its argument that the law was unconstitutional. TikTok’s lawyers told the court in September that a ban would have a “staggering”…
The national average price for a gallon of gas is approaching the $3 threshold, falling three cents this week to $3.03—the lowest level in over three years. According to AAA, the last time gas prices dipped below $3 nationally was in May 2021. Meanwhile, the cost of public EV charging remains steady at 34 cents…
Watch: Justin Welby’s first public speech since resignation as Archbishop of Canterbury In his speech, Mr Welby told the House of Lords a head had to roll after the publication of the review into the handling of the scandal. The speech prompted a furious backlash from abuse victims who said it displayed no remorse for…
Washington — A federal appeals court upheld a law that will ban TikTok in the U.S. in the coming months if its Chinese parent company doesn’t sell its stake in the app, dealing another setback to the widely popular video-sharing service in its battle with the federal government. A panel of three judges from the…
Small business owners, for better or worse, tend to finance purchases using credit cards. When you were first starting out, you probably charged many business purchases to your personal credit card. Applying for a business credit card has a lot of advantages, both for your personal credit score and for your business. Still, there are…
Google stresses the importance of using actual user data to assess Core Web Vitals instead of relying only on lab data from tools like PageSpeed Insights (PSI) and Lighthouse. This reminder comes as the company prepares to update the throttling settings in PSI. These updates are expected to increase the performance scores of websites in…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. These days, the public discourse on work productivity revolves almost entirely around the in-office vs remote work debate. I’m not a fan of this because it tends to reduce productivity to a one-dimensional metric. Obviously, where you work matters, but this factor’s importance has been overstated in…
