Google quietly made an extra $98 billion last quarter. Here's why.
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Imagine making nearly $100 billion extra and dedicating exactly one vague sentence to it. That's just what Google parent Alphabet did in its second quarter earnings report.
The Surprising Small Cities Where Americans Are Finding Jobs
Recent job growth in Richmond, Virginia, is a story about internet infrastructure and data center investment. Al Drago/Getty Images
Landing a job in today's market is no easy task. The U.S. added just 57,000 jobs in June — far below expectations – while unemployment held at 4.2% and labor force participation slipped to 61.5%, signs of a cooling market where fewer Americans are even bothering to look. Against that backdrop, LinkedIn data shows nearly 80% of professionals feel unprepared to navigate the 2026 job hunt, and that anxiety is reshaping where Americans choose to build their careers.
Save $1,500 Off an Alienware Area-51 Ryzen X3D Gaming PC With RTX 5090 GPU and 64GB of RAM, Still Expensive But a Competitive Price Point in Today's Market
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Dell is offering a steep discount on its most powerful desktop computer. The Alienware Area-51 AMD Ryzen X3D edition gaming PC equipped with a GeForce RTX 5090 GPU and 64GB of DDR5-6400MHz RAM has dropped to $5,399.99 shipped after a $1,500 instant discount. No, it's still not even remotely affordable for most people, but if you've got deep pockets, this is a substantial discount on a beastly Alienware system. If you look at the prices of the individual components in today's market, it's (sadly) not as ridiculous as your initial sticker shock might lead you to believe.
When summer blew up our family's routine, I turned to a business system from Toyota. It helped curb the chaos.
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Water-surface vortices drive tiny rotors without electricity, magnets or chemicals
Reliably generating controlled miniature rotations has long been a challenge: Chemical propulsion systems wear out, and methods that use electric or magnetic fields require complex setups. A team from KIT's Institute of Microstructure Technology (IMT) and the Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics (SINANO) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has now demonstrated that flow at a water surface alone is sufficient to rotate a floating object in a fixed direction. Their research is published in the journal Science Advances.
One Year Later, Capital One’s $51 Billion Discover Takeover Is Starting To Pay Off
Capital One announced its acquisition of Discover in February 2024. Getty Images
Capital One’s billionaire cofounder and CEO Rich Fairbank has a long history of asking investors to be patient while his biggest bets pay off. One of the largest to date came in May 2025, when he bought 40-year-old credit card company Discover for $51 billion. Today, that wager is already generating an enviable windfall from a regulatory quirk unlocked by the acquisition.
Even a slight overproduction of tubulin can tip the balance of cellular health, study shows
For cells to function properly, they must produce the right amount of each protein. It is a delicate balance: Both too little and too much can compromise essential cellular functions. A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has now shown that even a modest excess of tubulin—the protein that assembles into microtubules, the cell's internal scaffolding—is enough to disrupt tissue architecture and reduce cell viability. Published in Nature Communications, the study demonstrates that the quantity of a protein is just as important as its function.
Big Owner Satisfaction Survey Suggests Big Problems For These Luxury Brands - Jalopnik
According to a new customer satisfaction survey, Americans putting a luxury vehicle in their garages are increasingly less satisfied with the experience. In 2025, 2024, and 2023, luxury car brands topped the list when it came to customer satisfaction over their mass-market counterparts. This year was different, with the 2026 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) study showing a 3% decline in overall luxury satisfaction, compared to a 1% drop for mass-market nameplates.
950 Million People Now Use Gemini Each Month As Alphabet Posts Earnings Beat
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Alphabet on Wednesday reported its 12th-straight quarter of double-digit revenue growth, boosted by another surge in Google Cloud sales as nearly 1 billion people now use the firm’s AI models.
U.S. signs nuclear power agreement with Saudi Arabia
U.S. President Donald Trump (R) meets with Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia (2nd-L) in the Oval Office of the White House on Nov. 18, 2025 in Washington, DC.