Explosion At Qatar's Ras Laffan Industrial Area Due To "Technical Incident"

Not Just Cigarettes, Vaping Likely Causes Cancer, Major Study Finds A new report from researchers at the University of New South Wales in Australia, published in Carcinogenesis, finds that nicotine-based e-cigarettes are likely to cause lung and oral cancers, a finding that may alarm the millions of young people, from high school through college, and into the professional world, who use them heavily.  Researchers examined human studies, animal experiments, and lab tests. Together, they found signs that vaping can damage DNA, cause inflammation and oxidative stress, and expose users to...

Israel continues to carry out airstrikes against southern and eastern Lebanon in spite of the ongoing 10-day ceasefire today, killing at least three people in airstrikes and wounding at least others so far on Wednesday. Two people were killed in an Israeli strike against a car in the village of al-Tiri. A second strike was […]

Robinhood Lets Customers Use AI To Trade Stocks, Make Credit-Card Purchases Robinhood Markets is launching a new feature whereby customers can hand their money to an AI agent for automated trading and credit-card purchase decisions.  The brokerage is enabling users to link external AI agents-such as Anthropic’s Claude or coding agent Cursor-to a dedicated investment account. Within that account, the AI can access allocated funds and execute stock trades based on user instructions. Users can provide detailed prompts - directing the agent to identify investment opportunities by analyzing startup funding, deal activity,...