After the fall of Bronze Age empires, a handful of Phoenician city states emerged from Canaan to dominate Mediterranean trade. This chapter traces their survival, their alphabet, and how ports like ...

Bitcoin is due for another difficulty adjustment this week. It’s expected that the next mining difficulty adjustment will drop. That means a weaker network — should investors be worried?

Google parent company Alphabet saw its market capitalization surpass Apple's for the first time since 2019. Alphabet's market cap closed at $3.88 trillion on Wednesday, while Apple's market cap closed ...

The dominant internet business is poised to keep its growth going. During Q3 2025 (ended Sept. 30), Alphabet brought in $74 billion in digital ad revenue (73% of its total), up 13% year over year.

Robotaxi pioneer Waymo has raised another $16 billion to help fuel its ambition for its fleet of self-driving cars to provide ...

America’s AI boom is driving a surge in data center construction—along with rising water demand. Why water is becoming the ...

Google's AI positioning has improved in the last year, and the company's market capitalization has soared. Alphabet hasn't been worth more than Apple since 2019, but Wednesday's price action signals a ...

Before the invention of alphabets, literacy was the purview of Egyptian and Mesopotamian scribes trained in complex writing systems that could take years to master. Proto-Sinaitic script, which uses a ...

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Google’s Gemini vs OpenAI’s ChatGPT is the heavyweight clash of the artificial-intelligence world. Back the search company to come out on top, Cantor Fitzgerald analysts said in upgrading their stock ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is leveraging its artificial intelligence technology to open a new peephole for its dominant search engine to tailor answers that draw upon people's interests, habits, ...