One of the Royal Navy’s most advanced warships shot down a supersonic missile in ‘historic first’
One of the British Royal Navy’s most advanced warships, the HMS Dragon, completed a “historic first” when it shot down a supersonic missile in a test off the coast of Scotland on Friday, the force said. The Type 45 air defense destroyer fired a modified Sea Viper missile and “obliterated” an “incoming high-speed target” that…
A luxury version of H&M is taking over in 2025 — and making it cool to be basic
Men walk the Spring/Summer 2025 COS runway. I promise it’s OK to be basic. In fact, it might even be cool. A few months ago, I started hearing friends and colleagues regularly talk about the London-based fashion label COS, which is owned by H&M. Admittedly, I tuned them out. Its clothes looked a little too…
Trump’s 90-day tariff pause with China is too little, too late for some small businesses
Hugo Ramirez has paused plans for expansion amid the uncertainty. When tariffs on Chinese imports dropped from 145% to 30%, Connor Alexander hit print on a new board game that he’s publishing. If he’s lucky, the game will be ready to ship in 60 days and arrive in the US a couple weeks later. By…
How a new tax bill could cause bond yields to spike and stoke a fresh bout of market chaos
President-elect Donald Trump’s 2017 tax package is set to expire in 2025. Tariff chaos may have subsided, but markets could be in for another bout of policy-fueled volatility in the coming months if bond investors throw a tantrum over the tax bill. President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill”—the 389-page tax bill that aims to extend…
Ignore AI and risk becoming irrelevant, warns Eric Schmidt — ‘Adopt it, and adopt it fast’
Eric Schmidt, who was Google CEO for a decade, says ignoring AI could make workers irrelevant. Eric Schmidt thinks every worker, from CEOs to artists, needs to get to grips with AI — or risk being left behind. The former Google CEO argued in a recent TED interview that the speed of AI progress was…
A guide to the Nvidia products driving the AI boom and beyond — from data center GPUs to automotive and consumer tech
Nvidia products, such as GPUs and software, are driving the AI boom. Nvidia products are at the heart of the boom in artificial intelligence. Despite starting in gaming and designing semiconductors that touch many diverse industries, the products Nvidia designs to go inside high-powered data centers are the most important to the company today, and…
The No. 1 piece of advice a Dropbox exec has for job seekers looking to break into tech
Dropbox’s Morgan Brown said his advice to showcase your capabilities is especially relevant in the age of AI. Like many tech execs, Dropbox’s VP of product and growth agrees that job seekers should still learn basic technical skills — but his No. 1 piece of advice is to “show your work.” Morgan Brown told B-17…
Investors have forgotten about a perfect recession indicator that could come back to bite them in the months ahead
Remember the inverted yield curve? Buzz around the recession indicator, which has preceded every economic downturn since the 1960s, has died out over the last few years. As the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates in 2022, long-end Treasury rates dipped below yields on the short end, sparking fears about the economy’s health. But a recession…
The reign of the Reaper drone may be coming to an end
The MQ-9 Reaper drone is one of the US’s most formidable attack aircraft, but its combat losses are growing. In the Global War on Terror, America’s MQ-9 Reaper was the most terrifying weapon. Armed with missiles and able to stay in the air for 24 hours, the Reaper — and its older cousin, the MQ-1…
