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No sweat Humanoid robots run a Chinese half-marathon alongside flesh-and-blood competitors

In one small step for robot-kind — thousands of them, really — humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans in a half-marathon in the Chinese capital on Saturday. 21.1-kilometer The bipedal robots of various makes…

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Dow futures climb as stocks point higher after Trump issues temporary tariff exemptions on key tech imports

US stocks were poised for more gains heading into a new trading week after a series of wild swings last week as investors navigated the latest twists and turns in President Donald Trump’s trade…

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Trump says he’s not backing down on tariffs, calls them ‘medicine’ as markets reel

President Donald Trump said Sunday that he won’t back down on his sweeping tariffs on imports from most of the world unless countries even out their trade with the U.S., digging in on his…

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Gold Price Hits All-Time High as World Braces for Trump Tariffs

The price of gold soared to an all-time high of $3,150.52 per ounce on Tuesday morning, as investors braced for potential economic fallout from U.S. President Donald Trump‘s unleashing of sweeping new tariffs, set…

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SpaceX Dragon successfully splashes down, returning NASA astronauts back to Earth

The two NASA astronauts whose eight-day stopover on the International Space Station (ISS) turned into a nine-and-a-half-month mission are finally back on Earth. SpaceX Dragon Freedom On Tuesday at 5:57 pm EDT, SpaceX Dragon…

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BlackRock to Buy Panama Canal Ports for $22.8 Billion

BlackRock just completed one of its most geopolitically significant infrastructure purchases to date, taking ownership of the ports at both ends of the Panama Canal in a whopping $23 billion acquisition, marking a tremendous…

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