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It was a bad day for Nvidia

Nvidia ( NVDA ) fell with other Magnificent 7 stocks on Thursday as the market reacted to new tariffs — but the company also may’ve slipped because a major bank downgraded it for unrelated reasons. Read more...

Global Reaction to the U.S. Tariff War

The world is reacting to President Trump's announcement of new tariffs on nearly every country on the planet. The move is meant to re-shape the global trading order and some countries are being hit harder than others. NPR correspondents around the world are hearing anger,

Michael Hurley Dead At 83

Michael Hurley, the singer-songwriter who emerged from the ’60s Greenwich Village scene to become a legend of outsider folk music, has died. His family issued a statement confirming the death to Rolling Stone : “It is with a resounding sadness that the Hurley family announces

How the White House calculated reciprocal tariffs

President Trump triumphantly held up a poster board in the Rose Garden on Wednesday showing the reciprocal tariffs he plans to impose on nearly every country in the world. But just how the White House came up with the formula to determine what percentage of tariffs to impose

Disney’s ‘Tangled’ Live-Action Movie on Hold Indefinitely

Disney has put the live-action version of the 2010 animated hit “Tangled” on hold, according to sources. The story based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of Rapunzel was in active development with Michael Gracey, director of “The Greatest Showman,” slated to direct. “Thor: Love

Quantum statistical approach quiets big, noisy data

Big data has gotten too big. Now, a research team with statisticians from Cornell has developed a data representation method inspired by quantum mechanics that handles large data sets more efficiently than traditional methods by simplifying them and filtering out noise.