Residents watch as a wildfire moves down a hill at Runkle Canyon Park on May 19, 2026, in Simi Valley, California.

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The global economy ain't looking great at the moment, so the vast majority of us are looking for ways to get more for our money, regardless of what we're buying. The 2026 Mazda CX-30 Turbo Premium Plus is a subcompact crossover that competes with the likes of the Toyota Corolla Cross, Honda HR-V, Subaru Crosstrek, Chevrolet Trax, Hyundai Kona, and Nissan Kicks, but where most of those models come well-equipped around the $30,000 mark, my press car had an MSRP over $40,000. That sounds like a bad deal, but that's not the whole story.

Astronomers have traced a mysterious type of repeating cosmic signal to an unusual pair of stars, providing the strongest evidence yet for the source of one of astronomy's most puzzling phenomena.

Inside the 25,000-seater Estadio Hidalgo in east-central Mexico, fans unfurl a tifo featuring a miner.

In one hand he wields a pickaxe and the other a pastry with a distinctly crimped edge.

Researchers at the University of Birmingham have developed a new low-temperature approach to hydrogen production that could make the clean fuel cheaper and more practical to generate. The technique could be used both in large centralized facilities and in smaller local systems that take advantage of waste heat from major industrial operations.

Scientists at Monash University have created a tiny new circuit that can generate, direct, and read information carried by light, all within a single chip.

The advance marks a significant milestone for a growing area of research known as "valleytronics," which could help drive future breakthroughs in faster computing, lower energy consumption, and quantum technologies.

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Berkshire Hathaway agreed Sunday to acquire homebuilder Taylor Morrison Home in a $6.8 billion deal, deepening the conglomerate's bet on the U.S. housing market after a prolonged downturn.

Greg Abel, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, meets with shareholders at the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, NE on May 1, 2026.

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Greg Abel's first major acquisition as Berkshire Hathaway CEO looks a lot like the kind of deal Warren Buffett would have made himself.

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The announcement of a megadeal between Berkshire Hathaway and top 10, publicly traded homebuilder Taylor Morrison Home came as a surprise to most in the industry. The consensus, however, is that it makes perfect sense and may signal optimism in a currently beleaguered housing market.

There’s a widening gap between what the market says about AI and what we actually hear from customers. The media, the VCs, the AI labs, and influencers have all talked about AI replacing humans, ripping out trusted software, and token-maxxing as ends worth pursuing. But the leaders running real businesses are increasingly asking the right questions. How do I make my people better with AI? Which systems can I trust? How can I measure the ROI of this spend? We hear these questions every day.