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U.S. Treasury yields moved higher on Wednesday as investors awaited February’s inflation report and monitored U.S.-Iran war developments.At 3:54 a.m. ET, the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield rose more than 2 basis points to 4.159%. The 30-year Treasury bond was also up over 2 basis points to 4.797%. The 2-year Treasury note yield also rose 2 basis points to 3.59%.One basis point is equal to 0.01%, and yields and prices move in opposite directions.The consumer price index report for February is set to be released Wednesday morning, which investors will parse for clues about the health of the U.S. economy. Economists polled by…

If you love our Sweet Potato Chickpea Tacos, get ready for another FAVE! Meet: the Vegan Sweet Potato Chickpea TACO SALAD! It’s got fresh kale + romaine, crunchy tortilla chips, smoky roasted chickpeas + sweet potatoes, and a creamy jalapeño dressing.  The result? BIG flavor, lots of textures, and ready in just 30 minutes (hello, weeknight ease with weekend flavor)! Let’s make this satisfying, flavorful, plant-based dinner! A little multi-tasking and some speedy knife skills are the tricks to keeping this a 30-minute meal! It all begins with sweet potatoes and chickpeas roasted with avocado oil and a mix of…

There are certain rules that all of the Iditarod mushers must follow throughout the race. Each team comes with a musher and up to 16 dogs: Potts-Joseph’s team, the Raven Clan Kennels, includes her dogs Coki, Natrah, Loki, Bodil, Lebowski, Stoller, Sunny, Ninjuu, Revna, Freya, Coconut, Ginger, Anna, Stormy, Kobuk, and Blaze. “We have to finish the race with at least five dogs in harness,” says Potts-Joseph. “Coki is an outstanding lead dog—super smart and well-trained. Stoller is a veteran. This is also going to be Blaze and Kobuk’s first Iditarod.”Training for the race, Potts-Joseph says, is as much about…

The first step to fighting a war in space is knowing what’s happening tens of thousands of miles above the planet. Toward that end, defense tech darling Anduril is buying boutique data firm ExoAnalytic Solutions. ExoAnalytic operates a network of 400 telescopes around the world, which it uses to track spacecraft in high orbits above the planet. The company’s engineers develop software that converts those observations into situational awareness tools for U.S. national security agencies watching adversary spacecraft and coordinating American assets on orbit. “This is a company we’ve been working with closely for the last several years on a…

Jamison HensleyCloseJamison HensleyESPN Staff WriterJamison Hensley is a reporter covering the Baltimore Ravens for ESPN. Jamison joined ESPN in 2011, covering the AFC North before focusing exclusively on the Ravens beginning in 2013. Jamison won the National Sports Media Association Maryland Sportswriter of the Year award in 2018, and he authored a book titled: Flying High: Stories of the Baltimore Ravens. He was the Ravens beat writer for the Baltimore Sun from 2000-2011., Ryan McFaddenCloseRyan McFaddenRyan McFadden covers the Las Vegas Raiders for ESPN’s NFL Nation. Prior to ESPN, McFadden was a Denver Broncos beat reporter for the Denver Post. McFadden…

If you choose to get an extra controller for your Nintendo Switch 2, you can spend a lot — and get a lot in return. Buying Nintendo’s own $89 Switch 2 Pro Controller, for instance, will net you the console’s only wireless controller with a 3.5mm headphone jack for private listening, not to mention great-feeling rumble and a slick design. It’s not perfect, but it’s otherwise the total package in terms of features.But it’d be a disservice to you to call it a day there. There are several third-party models that are cheaper, yet don’t make too many compromises in…

In a third-quarter earnings report on Tuesday, tech giant Oracle announced quarterly revenue growth above expectations and an increased sales outlook for the next fiscal year, along with a downsizing of some of its teams. The stated reason why, as has become somewhat customary in Silicon Valley at this point, was artificial intelligence. “AI models for generating computer code have become so efficient that we have been restructuring our product development teams into smaller, more agile and productive groups,” the company shared in the press release. “This new AI Code Generation technology is enabling us to build more software in…

Manchester City take on Real Madrid at the Bernabeu tonight in the first leg of their Round of 16 Champions League tie. The match is the next iteration of the rivalry between the two teams. Last season, Real Madrid dispatched an injury-ravaged and aging City side 6-3 on aggregate in the knockout phase of last season’s Champions League. The opportunity was in front of Real Madrid last season to expose Manchester City’s frailties. It was a chance that they ruthlessly took.This season, Real Madrid enter tonight’s match with seven key players unavailable due to injury. Eder Militao, David Alaba, Alvaro Carreras,…

The US Department of Homeland Security removed multiple career Customs and Border Protection officials from their roles this year after they objected to orders to mislabel records about surveillance technologies and block their release under the Freedom of Information Act, WIRED has learned.Since January, DHS leaders have reassigned two of the top officials responsible for ensuring that CBP technologies comply with federal privacy law, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation. These sources were granted anonymity because they fear government retribution.The reassignments followed December orders from the DHS Privacy Office to treat routine compliance forms as legally privileged,…

A CGI image of what the complete microgrid-connected AVK and Pure DC facility will look like in Dublin, Ireland. (Photo: Pure Data Centres Group)(Photo: Pure Data Centres Group)Just outside Ireland’s capital, Dublin, a data center has become the first in Europe to turn to an independent, so-called “islanded,” microgrid to keep its servers running.Europe is looking to cash in on the AI boom while tackling power connection delays that have persisted for decades. The European Commission estimates the bloc needs at least 1.2 trillion euros ($1.39 trillion) in investments by 2040. In some cases, companies can’t wait for bottlenecks to…