By Will Dunham Oct 21 (Reuters) – Crocodilians — today’s crocodiles, alligators, caimans and gharials and their many extinct relatives — have been a roaring success since debuting more than 240 million years ago. And new research identifies one important factor in their success — stubbornly keeping
Oct 21 (Reuters) – Europe’s largest tech company SAP achieved a €10 billion ($11.2 billion) quarterly revenue milestone for the first time on Wednesday, while reporting a 26% rise in current cloud backlog and moving its 2026 revenue expectations to the upper end of its outlook range. Cloud revenue r
Oct 21 (Reuters) – Texas Instruments forecast fourth-quarter revenue above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, a sign of recovery in industrial chip demand and growing momentum for its AI data-center chips. • Unlike Nvidia, which makes high-performance AI processors, Dallas, Texas-based TI produces
By Maha El Dahan DUBAI, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Senior UAE diplomat Lana Nusseibeh entered the race to become the next United Nations secretary-general on Wednesday, injecting a prominent Middle Eastern candidate into a contest that has struggled to produce a consensus choice among the Security Council’s
IDOT says repairs to a damaged beam on the Illinois 78 bridge over Interstate 74 near Brimfield begin Oct. 19, with overnight lane closures to follow.
Oct 21 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that Ukraine supported a US proposal for three-way talks with Russia and the United States at the level of negotiators to be held as soon as possible, preferably no later than early November. Zelenskiy, speaking to journalists on Wha
VATICAN CITY, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Pope Leo will not need any further therapy after undergoing lung cancer surgery last week, his doctors said on Wednesday, indicating that his tumor had not spread. The announcement came as it was still unclear whether the US-born pope would proceed with a planned tri
By Rami Ayyub, Humeyra Pamuk and Timour Azhari JERUSALEM/ISTANBUL/DUBAI, Oct 21 (Reuters) – The US State Department has ordered some diplomats and family members to depart from its missions in Saudi Arabia and plans to withdraw family members from a number of other US missions in the region, US offi
Oct 21 (Reuters) – Electronic Arts is planning to close BioWare, the developer of the “Mass Effect” series of games, and lay off employees to focus on more lucrative projects, the company said on Wednesday in an email to employees. Here are some details: • EA said it would cancel an early-stage “Mas
By Andrew Hay Oct 21 (Reuters) – New Mexico has filed a civil lawsuit to block payments from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate to the late sex offender’s lawyer and accountant, and to recover damages for survivors of his alleged sexual abuse, the state’s top law enforcement official said on Wednesday. The su
By Suzanne McGee NEW YORK, Oct 21 (Reuters) – BlackRock rolled out another in a suite of exchange-traded funds tied to AI on Wednesday, even as the willingness of investors to wholeheartedly embrace the theme has hit speed bumps. The global asset manager said that its iShares Future Robotics and Rel
An Illinois iLottery player won $1,809,642 on the FastPlay Ultimate Diamond Jackpot game, the state's second-largest FastPlay prize this year.
Gov. JB Pritzker and DCEO announced $2.4 million available through two tourism grant programs, with applications accepted until Nov. 13.
By Phoebe Seers and Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON/PARIS, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Financial regulators in Europe are questioning Google after a cloud computing outage on Tuesday left millions of bank customers without access to key financial services for hours. The European Banking Authority said that it has
IDOT says repairs to the Illinois 2 Rock River bridge south of Grand Detour will begin Monday, Oct. 26, with one-lane traffic through Nov. 6.
Oct 21 (Reuters) – Several government, school and hospital websites in Europe were taken offline on Wednesday as organizations rushed to protect themselves from two critical security flaws in PHP, a programming language that powers a large share of the internet. CERT-EU, the EU’s cybersecurity respo
(SRN NEWS) – “Global Landscape,” a standout feature from SRN News, is a concise two-minute audio segment that delivers a snapshot of the day’s top religion-related news stories from around the world. This engaging feature provides listeners with timely insights into significant developments, cultura
(SRN NEWS)-( ) A man running for Congress in Hawaii is part of a national slate of third-party, pro-life activists seeking office. Nathan Berning is challenging Democrat Ed Case for his 1st Congressional District seat in the November election. Berning is backed by Babies-dot-Vote, a joint fundraisin
(SRN NEWS)-Ever since the Supreme Court repealed Roe versus Wade, states have been sorting out what to do about abortion. On Election Day, voters in Virginia, Missouri, Idaho and Nevada will decide whether or not their state will enshrine the procedure in its constitution. Pro-life advocates are cam
(SRN NEWS)-The dictionary defines the word as “understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another.” A new poll from the Public Religion Research Center finds most people accept empathy as an important foundation of a mora
(SRN NEWS)- The Toronto Public Library is inviting children ages 13-to-17 to attend a free class on tarot card reading. Tarot, which dates back to the 15th century, is a system used for predicting the future and telling people’s fortunes. The library website says kids who attend the class will learn
(SRN NEWS)- The question asked by the Public Religion Research Institute was “Do you believe that society, as a whole, has become too soft and feminine?” 38% of poll respondents say YES, 57% say NO. But when PRRI breaks down the numbers, it reveals that 58% of White Evangelical Protestants think the
AMSTERDAM, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Germany’s Agile Robots plans to produce up to 2,000 petite humanoid robots next year under a partnership with Nvidia announced on Wednesday targeting universities and corporate research labs, CEO Zhaopeng Chen said in an interview. Production of Agile ONE S and ONE SN m
Oct 21 (Reuters) – Self-driving truck company Einride said on Wednesday it would broaden its partnership with Nvidia by testing the chipmaker’s AI reasoning model, Alpamayo, in its self-driving vehicles, aiming to speed up the expansion of autonomous freight services while lowering development costs
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (Reuters) – The Trump administration is offering to loan up to nearly a third of the 1-million-barrel US emergency heating oil reserve, the Department of Energy said on Wednesday, in a bid to tame surging prices. The move, reported first by Reuters, came after s
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, Oct 21 (Reuters) – EU tech regulators will investigate whether online hotel reservation website Booking.com is doing enough to weed out fraudulent listings and phishing scams to comply with EU online content rules, the European Commission said on Wednesday. The Commission,
WUHU, China, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Chery is open to partnerships with US automakers, a senior executive told Reuters on Wednesday, as China’s top car exporter looks to expand in North America following rapid growth in Europe and elsewhere. Chery, which sells the Omoda and Jaecoo brands, is one of sever
By Rajveer Pardesi and Raphael Satter Oct 21 (Reuters) – The developers of the widely used PHP programming language said on Wednesday they would release patches for two critical vulnerabilities, as EU cybersecurity officials warned organisations unable to apply the fixes should take affected website
HONG KONG, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Micron Technology said on Wednesday that it had reached a labour-management agreement with the Taichung union in Taiwan, with both parties agreeing to withdraw from the mediation process that had been scheduled for October 22. Idaho-based Micron employs about 15,000 peo
Oct 21 (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump said if companies want to make data centers popular, they should pay the community or individuals within the community a “dividend”. “I have watched the process closely, and data centers that were highly unpopular in a certain area, have become extremely
