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India’s preparations to defend the T20 World Cup look difficult as South Africa won the series 3-1.Published December 19, 2025December 19, 2025Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareIndia won the final match of the series in Ahmedabad by 30 runs and then won the Twenty20 series against South Africa 3-1.India won 231-5 in the second match of the five-match series between Tilak Verma and Hardik Pandya at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Friday. South Africa’s chase collapsed from 120-1 to 201-8.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listJasprit Bumrah caught Quinton de Kock off a yorker and bowled him…
It’s been a tough week in the hardware world, with iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power Bikes filing for bankruptcy. Each company faces a unique combination of tariff pressures, supply chain issues, and market shifts, but together they tell a larger story about the challenges of building physical products in an era of global trade tensions and cheap foreign competition. This week’s bankruptcies are a warning sign for every hardware startup, from the Roomba maker that was nearly acquired by Amazon to the e-bike company that couldn’t escape its Chinese supply chain. Today on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Anthony Ha, Rebecca…
Just imagine. You are a Korean teenager taking the infamous eight-hour long college entrance exam. You have been preparing for this for months or even years. When you get to the English part, you’ll see something like this: If you think this is difficult, how about something like this? These are among the problems faced by students during this November’s exams (locally known as Sunun), which sparked protests so intense that the exam body’s chief executive resigned last week, according to public broadcaster KBS. The testing agency formally apologized earlier this month, saying, “We take seriously the criticism that the…
ed sheeran When the kids came in, I cut all of his bad habits out of my life. The “Perfect” singer recently said it sparked a 30-pound weight loss and change in her overall health. his and wife cherry seaborn welcome the girls Lyra5, and Jupiter3. “I became a father.” ed explained briefly to men’s health uk When asked why she started her health journey, she said, “I started my health journey. “I remember when Lyla was two weeks old. I came to see my best friend and we had a bottle of wine. I went to bed and Lyla…
A worker stocks Angus beef top sirloin fillets in the meat section of a Washington, D.C., grocery store.Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call Inc. | Getty ImagesInflation unexpectedly slowed in November as a slowdown in various consumer products outweighed price pressures in categories such as gasoline, but economists said the numbers should be interpreted with caution due to uneven data collection during the government shutdown. The Consumer Price Index, a key barometer of inflation, rose 2.7% in November from a year earlier, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Thursday. This was slower than expected and slowed from the 3% inflation rate…
Intel was once the world’s largest semiconductor company, but its market capitalization has plummeted in recent years as it fell behind Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing and spent billions of dollars trying to catch up. Now, Intel has started mass production of 18A, a new chip node that it says will turn things around.The biggest problem? Convince major chip makers to trust Intel to manufacture at the new node. For now, Intel’s only major customer is itself. The company’s long-awaited Core Ultra Series 3 PC processors (codenamed Panther Lake) will be the first major products built at 18A to arrive in PCs…
Reuters — Bangladesh has been rocked by violent protests in several cities after the death of youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi late Thursday, raising fears of further unrest ahead of a national election. Hadi, a spokesperson for the Inquilab Mancha platform and a general election candidate, was shot in the head by a masked assailant last Friday while campaigning in Dhaka. He was initially treated at a local hospital and then taken to Singapore for advanced medical treatment, where he died after being put on life support for six days. In Dhaka, videos circulating on social media showed rioters vandalizing…
Monday, December 15, 2025, Bank of England (BOE), City of London, United Kingdom. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe bonanza of interest rate decisions announced by Europe’s four central banks on Thursday was as expected, with the European Central Bank, Norges Bank and Riksbank leaving interest rates unchanged, while the Bank of England cut rates.But there were hints about the future in 2026. Here are four important points.1. The BoE voted for cuts, but they were just cuts.Markets believe the BoE has agreed to cut interest rates, with futures markets suggesting there is almost a 98% chance of a rate…
At Meta, everything is hands-on as we develop new AI models under the Superintelligence Lab led by Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang. The company is currently working on an image and video model codenamed “Mango,” and a new text-based model internally called “Avocado,” The Wall Street Journal reported. The tech giant plans to launch new models in the first half of 2026, the paper said, citing an internal Q&A with Meta on Thursday, in which Wang and chief product officer Chris Cox announced a new roadmap. Wang said Meta aims to improve the coding capabilities of text-based models, while at…
oracleThe company’s stock rose 7% on Friday after the cloud provider joined a group of investors set to lead TikTok’s U.S. operations. CEO Shou Zi Chew said in a memo to employees Thursday that the social media company’s U.S. division will be run by a joint venture that includes Oracle, Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi-based MGX. The deal is expected to close on January 22nd.The agreement protects the popular social platform from being banned after President Joe Biden signed legislation mandating the sale of the company’s U.S. division, citing national security concerns. President Donald Trump has repeatedly extended the deadline…