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islamabad, pakistan AP — Pakistani and Afghan forces exchanged fire late Friday along the tense border between the two countries, but no casualties or damage were reported. Both sides accused the other of provoking the clashes in violation of a fragile ceasefire signed over the past two months. Negotiations between Kabul and Islamabad aimed at easing border tensions and maintaining a ceasefire broke down in November, but the ceasefire was largely maintained in October with a deal brokered by Qatar. The exchange came a day after Pakistan announced it would allow the United Nations to send relief supplies to Afghanistan…
Miley Cyrus’ love for fiancé Max Morando is anything but paper-thin. As it turns out, the drummer helped her with an unusual fear that had plagued the “Flowers” singer for decades: paper phobia. In fact, fear even affects her ability to get into the festive spirit. “Christmas, I’m known as a little bit of a Grinch because I’m anti-Christmas,” she told Jimmy Kimmel during a Dec. 4 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. “For me, the real problem with paper is that people’s hands are dry and they’re touching paper, but it’s Christmas and it’s cold and everyone’s hands are dry…
Nvidia President and CEO Jensen Huang speaks to the media as he arrives for a meeting with the Senate Banking Committee at the Capitol on December 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images A phrase many of us will have heard in 2025 is: “Will you buy it? Will you do it? In this economy?”But this problem doesn’t seem to extend to Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, which has a problem most of us would like to see: too much cash. At the end of October, Nvidia It held $60.6 billion in cash and short-term investments.…
AI startup Limitless, formerly known as Rewind, has been acquired by Meta, the company announced on its website Friday. The company, which developed an AI-powered pendant that records conversations, has announced that it will no longer sell the hardware device and will maintain support for existing customers for one year. Customers will no longer have to pay a subscription fee and will be moved to an unlimited plan for the time being. Other features will also be phased out, including Rewind, non-pendant software that records users’ desktop activity and turns it into a searchable record. The startup, founded by Brett…
Sheldon Cooper | Light Rocket | Getty Imagessales force Shares soared 5% on Friday, extending a bull run that started after the company’s better-than-expected earnings report earlier in the week. The stock has risen 13% over the past five days, its best weekly performance since December 2023.The company reported adjusted earnings per share of $3.25, beating Wall Street’s expectations of $2.86 per share. Sales rose 8.6% year over year to $10.26 billion, but fell slightly short of analysts’ expectations of $10.27 billion.The artificial intelligence boom has propelled some tech companies to record growth rates, but it’s been a rocky year…
Taylor Frankie Paul and more #MomTok stars: Meet the cast of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives”!Chase McWhirter is clearing the air about his past. The “Mormon Wife” star, who was married to MomTok member Miranda McWhorter from 2017 to 2024, broke his silence on reports that he was arrested in July for DUI and cocaine possession, which was confirmed in court documents obtained by Us Weekly. “Time to address the elephant in the room,” Chase began a video posted to TikTok on Dec. 4. “And I don’t have a publicist, so I’m just going to be on the air…
After weeks of highly politicized preparations for the 2026 FIFA World Cup draw, focus quickly turned to soccer as the fate of the participating teams was revealed at the tournament in Washington, DC, in the presence of US President Donald Trump.On Friday, the US capital hosted the event at the Kennedy Center, with the leaders of the three co-hosting countries, President Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum all in attendance.FIFA President Gianni Infantino awarded the new FIFA Peace Prize to the US president, who had been seen as a front-runner for the award weeks after…
Reserve Bank of India logo outside its headquarters in Mumbai on February 7, 2025. Indranil Mukherjee | AFP | Getty ImagesIndia’s central bank on Friday cut its policy rate by 25 basis points to 5.25%, in line with economists’ forecasts polled by Reuters. RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra said the Monetary Policy Committee unanimously decided on the cut due to “weakness in some key economic indicators” even though headline inflation has eased significantly and is expected to be revised downward in the first quarter of 2025.The economy expanded by 8.2% from July to September, faster than expected, but inflation remains subdued.”Despite…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gives a speech introducing Meta’s new line of smart glasses wearing Meta Ray-Ban display glasses during the MetaConnect event held at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, USA on September 17, 2025. Carlos Barria | ReutersMeta The companies announced Friday that they will acquire artificial intelligence wearables startup Limitless.”We are excited to have Limitless join Meta and accelerate our efforts to develop AI-enabled wearables,” a Meta spokesperson said in a statement.Limitless makes a small, AI-powered pendant that can record conversations and generate summaries.Limitless CEO Dan Siroker disclosed the acquisition Friday in a company blog post,…
Reuters — Russian President Vladimir Putin must have ordered the Novichok nerve agent attack on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in 2018 in a “reckless” show of power that led to the death of an innocent woman, a British public inquiry concluded on Thursday. Skripal was found unconscious with his daughter Yulia on a public bench in Salisbury, southern England, in March 2018 after Novichok was applied to the front door handle of a nearby home. About four months later, mother-of-three Dawn Sturgess, 44, died of poison exposure after her partner discovered a fake perfume bottle used by Russian spies…