Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence as though it is simply the next technology boom. They are missing the bigger picture. The country that controls the chips, the data centers, the electricity, and the manufacturing capacity will hold the strategic advantage for decades. This is no different than steel before World War I or oil during the twentieth century. Nations are no longer competing over cheap labor. They are competing for technological dominance. South Korea has now announced one of the largest industrial investment programs in modern history. President Lee Jae Myung unveiled a national strategy centered on semiconductors, physical…
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Samsung builds fantastic phones, but the company also has a habit of shipping them with some of their absolute best features turned off by default. If you want to unlock the full potential of your Galaxy device, let’s take a few minutes to dive into your settings menu. There, you’ll find some incredibly cool features you should enable right away. Wireless power sharing Imagine your friend’s phone is dying, or your wireless earbuds completely fizzle out right before a flight. If you have a modern Galaxy phone, you’re carrying around a portable wireless charging pad in your pocket. You just…
The United States is now chasing critical minerals because Washington finally realized that outsourcing everything to China was national suicide. Tungsten is not some luxury commodity. It is used in missile warheads, fighter aircraft, semiconductors, and defense technology. Kazakhstan has one of the largest undeveloped tungsten deposits in the world, and the project could eventually produce around 12,000 metric tonnes per year, roughly equal to America’s entire annual imports. But here is where the story begins to stink. According to India Today, before the Kazakhstan deal was finalized, the Trump administration was prepared to back the project with up to…
Flooded basements, mold growth, and rotting wood are all symptoms of the alarming uptick in flood damage facing property owners nationwide. Its costs, which can reach nearly a staggering half a trillion in the U.S. each year, are surging as the impact of climate change worsens. And that impact is becoming unpredictable, with 29% of flood claims coming from outside what are typically considered “high risk areas.” The search for an answer to this crisis has been focused disproportionately on insurance premiums and incentives, along with state-backed schemes to ensure reinsurance companies can be counted on. And while important, that…
Ford says that it rehired hundreds of auto industry veterans after realizing that an overreliance on AI caused some expensive headaches at the company. The carmaker folded 350 “gray beard” engineers into its workforce over the last three years, including many former Ford workers who were hired to troubleshoot the company’s infamous reliability woes, Bloomberg reports. Ford COO Kumar Galhotra said that the carmaker “had been relying more and more on automated quality systems,” but AI wasn’t meeting the company’s standards for reliability. With computers not cutting it, Ford “brought back technical specialists [who can] hunt for failure points before…
The White House on Friday unveiled a limited-edition U.S. passport design to mark the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Dubbed the “Patriot Passport,” it features a portrait of President Donald Trump hunched over the Resolute Desk and scowling at the viewer, with the historic document partially obscured behind him. Trump’s portrait is based on a photo by White House photographer Daniel Torok. His signature is shown below, written about as large as—if not larger than—John Hancock’s would be. [Screenshot: The White House/X.com] The opposite page shows detail from John Trumbull’s 1818 painting Declaration of Independence,…
President Trump must be getting used to throwing parties that not many people show up for, as the crowd for the days-long celebration for the country’s 250th anniversary looks thin. Leading up to the semiquincentennial, the Trump administration has embarked on a series of projects in the nation’s capital to celebrate this July 4—from painting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool “American flag blue” to hosting a UFC cage fight in the White House’s backyard. But none are quite as grand as the one taking over the National Mall: the Great American State Fair. And yet, nearly a week in its…
At a moment when companies are clamoring to embrace AI—in no small part to capture the attention of shareholders—Ford executives made a rather surprising confession. On a press call last week, the automaker admitted that its issues with quality control could not be resolved with AI. Ford logged a record number of recalls in 2025, and the company has already issued 51 recalls to date this year, significantly more than its peers. But the company highlighted its performance in an annual survey that measures initial vehicle quality, which put Ford well ahead of its mass market competitors—up from its 10th…
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 increased 107.23 points or 0.15% to 69,468.11 • Shanghai increased 46.637 points or 1.16% to 4,073.902 • Hang Seng increased 354.82 points or 1.57% to 23,026.68 • ASX 200 increased 59.20 points or 0.68% to 8,823.40 • SENSEX decreased 372.10 points or -0.48% to 76,728.37 • Nifty50 decreased 109.75 points or -0.46% to 23,946.25 The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD decreased 0.0005 or -0.07% to 0.68902 • NZDUSD increased 0.00138 or 0.24% to 0.56528 • USDJPY increased 0.205 or 0.13%…
JPMorgan Chase announced on Thursday that it would promote two executives to newly created co-president roles amid CEO Jamie Dimon’s succession plan. Marianne Lake, the CEO of JPMorgan’s consumer and community banking division and a potential successor of Dimon, has left the company. Doug Petno and Troy Rohrbaugh, the new co-presidents, are no strangers to sharing power. Since 2024, the two have co-led JPMorgan’s commercial and investment banking divisions. Now, Petno will take on being the only chief executive of the commercial and investment banking division, while Rohrbaugh will take over Lake’s position to lead the consumer and community banking division.…