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This week, power lines went down in a Washington, D.C., suburb. Typically, the grid only takes a few seconds to recover from such an event. But the process took more than 10 minutes, as more than 3 gigawatts of data centers lost power at about the same time. The event caused voltage spikes on the PJM power grid from Northern Virginia to Chicago, according to data collected by Ting Labs, a startup that operates IoT sensor networks from people’s electrical outlets. The incident did not cause a power outage, but it did cause lights to flicker throughout the area. This…

Published July 25, 2026July 25, 2026The WNBA has never been bigger.More people are watching. The number of people investing is also increasing. Many players’ salaries are higher than ever before. But this period of change, marked by groundbreaking collective bargaining agreements, league expansion, and skyrocketing player profile, was also accompanied by growing confusion and dissonance.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listAhead of Saturday’s WNBA All-Star Game, the debate over race, gender and sexuality is making headlines and appears to have reached a new boil. Race-related conversations have resurfaced following the incident between Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark and Phoenix…

Gasoline prices are rising again due to the rapid escalation of the Iran war. And as Americans look for ways to save money on gas, many are turning to Costco gas stations for cheaper fuel.Costco’s gasoline demand reached record levels in the quarter that ended May 10, but the company did not disclose sales figures in its third-quarter earnings release. The last five weeks of the quarter were the busiest weeks in Costco’s history, with some warehouses requiring multiple daily fuel deliveries to meet demand, CEO Ron Vacris said on a conference call.”We’re seeing very strong demand for Costco gas,”…

Jeff Dean, head of artificial intelligence at Google LLC, spoke at the Google AI event on Tuesday, January 28, 2020, in San Francisco, California, USA.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesEarlier this year, Google AI head Jeff Dean went on a podcast to discuss distillation, a concept that at the time was little talked about outside of the volatile tech world. Speaking about the development of Google’s AI models, Dean said he and his colleagues discovered the art of distilling artificial intelligence as Google sought to improve the performance of its systems without relying on one large image recognition…

India’s education minister announced on Saturday that he had resigned in a landslide victory for youth protesters. The spiraling demonstrations by protesters pose a rare and growing challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. Protesters are demanding accountability after an entrance exam for a prestigious medical school was allegedly leaked and sold, with the unrest led by a youth campaign known as the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP). Dharmendra Pradhan bowed to mounting pressure and announced his resignation on Saturday after tens of thousands of students and supporters took to the streets demanding his ouster and sweeping reforms to India’s exam…

Isaiah Washington as Preston BurkeIn season 3, Burke left Christina at the altar and walked away, eventually winning a Harper Avery Award elsewhere and then at some point moving to Zurich, Switzerland, to open his own high-tech hospital. He married and started a family, and in season 10 he invited Christina to his hospital to take over in his place when he retired. Isiah Washington left the series after he reportedly called co-star TR Knight a gay slur during an on-set altercation with Patrick Dempsey, but his defense only went from bad to worse until he was eventually dropped from…

A customer buys cilantro at a Walmart Supercenter on July 23, 2026 in Austin, Texas.Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday that the nation’s largest outbreak of cyclosporiasis linked to shredded iceberg lettuce has spread to nine states.The newly aligned states of Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania will join Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia and hard-hit Michigan. Cyclospora is a microscopic parasite that causes cyclosporiasis, a gastrointestinal disease that usually spreads to people through contaminated food or water and causes symptoms such as severe diarrhea. No deaths related to the parasite have been recorded…

mexico city — For decades, drug lords with names like “El Chapo” and “El Mencho” were the poster boys for the United States’ fight against drug trafficking in Mexico. The Trump administration has now set new targets on wealthy politicians who allegedly receive dirty money to help criminals. The U.S. Treasury Department recently accused cartels of “increasingly using illicit profits to pay cash to political campaigns in Mexico.” Their goal is to elect candidates “willing to protect the cartels and their interests,” the statement said. It is no secret that organized crime groups in Mexico pour money into election campaigns,…

D4vd’s text messages with Celeste Rivas Hernandez reveal their tension before he allegedly murdered herContent warning: This story discusses child abuse, abortion, and murder. Text messages between D4vd and Celeste Rivas Hernandez have been revealed. Messages revealed during a July 24 preliminary hearing in Los Angeles offer clues as to what happened between the singer (real name David Anthony Burke) and Rivas Hernandez before he allegedly murdered the singer in April 2025. Prosecutors said documents showed the two began a sexual relationship in November 2023, when she was 13 and he was 18, and that Rivas-Hernandez became pregnant with his…

Here are some companies that are making headlines in intraday trading. Data Center Infrastructure — Investors exited stocks of companies involved in the data center infrastructure industry as concerns over hyperscalers’ spending on artificial intelligence continued. Specialty glass and fibers company Corning’s stock fell 3%, and photonics companies Coherent and Lumentum each fell about 7%. Shares of GE Vernova, Eaton, and Defiance AI & Power Infrastructure ETF (AIPO) all fell more than 1%. Tesla — Shares of Elon Musk’s electric car company fell for a third straight day, dropping more than 3% on Friday. Tesla stock is expected to fall…