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In 2026, the leaders of America’s (former) trading partners are going to have to grapple with the political consequences of tit-for-tat tariffs. A tariff is a tax paid by consumers, and if there’s one thing the past four years have taught us, it’s that the public will not forgive a politician who presides over a period of rising prices, no matter what the cause.Luckily for the political fortunes of the world’s leaders, there is a better way to respond to tariffs. Tit-for-tat tariffs are a 19th-century tactic, and we live in a 21st-century world—a world where the most profitable lines…

Opportunities are like sunrises, if we wait too long we miss them. Too often we waste our time waiting for the ideal path to appear. But it never does of course. Because we forget that paths are made by walking, not waiting. Let this be your wake-up call today! If you always sit around until you feel 100 percent ready for the journey, you’ll likely be sitting around for the rest of your life. Most of the time you just have to get up and go for it. And no, you shouldn’t feel any more confident before you take the…

The Cleveland Browns defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers removed some of the drama with regard to the 2026 NFL Draft. As long as the Browns won, the Las Vegas Raiders and New York Giants were still going to be in a position to pick Nos. 1 and 2 regardless of Sunday’s result. By way of a 34-10 defeat, Las Vegas is now in position to pick first and has a need at the quarterback position. Although Indiana’s Fernando Mendoza and Oregon’s Dante Moore are regarded as the top two quarterback prospects, neither has declared yet.Cleveland, meanwhile, falls to No. 6 overall and…

In 2024 we emitted more greenhouse gases into our atmosphere in a single year than any year before it. The increase from 2023 was small—0.8 percent—but still, global emissions continue to rise, despite science telling us we should have bent the global emissions’ curve downward by 2020.The emissions in our atmosphere are at work, heating the planet, acidifying our oceans, and leading to climate-fueled disasters: heat waves, fires, flooding, droughts, and storms. For some climate impacts, devastation can be followed by the painstaking work of recovery. But for many natural systems, like our tropical coral reefs, the stress we are…

The logo of Meta is seen at the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, France, on June 11, 2025.Gonzalo Fuentes | ReutersMeta Platforms said Tuesday that it has acquired Manus, a Singapore-based developer of general-purpose AI agents, as the tech giant continues its massive investments into artificial intelligence. Manus, founded in China before relocating to Singapore, launched its first general AI agent earlier this year, which can execute complex tasks such as market research, coding, and data analysis. The company claimed it had achieved an annualized average revenue of more than…

Xiaomi used the Christmas period to launch its top flagship phone for the year, the 17 Ultra. It drops the extra rear display that’s the key selling point of the 17 Pro, but instead adds in the option of a manual zoom ring, built directly into the phone’s camera island.That rotating zoom is only included in the new Leica edition of the phone, which also packs touches like the Leica red dot logo and a textured finish on the phone’s sides. The ring can be reprogrammed for exposure or focus if you prefer, and the Leica version has a few…

Eli LedermanDec 29, 2025, 09:06 PM ETCloseEli Lederman covers college football and recruiting for ESPN.com. He joined ESPN in 2024 after covering the University of Oklahoma for Sellout Crowd and the Tulsa World.With Ohio State preparing for a College Football Playoff quarterfinal bout with Miami later this week, coach Ryan Day and the Buckeyes secured a five-star commitment Monday from 2027 defensive end D.J. Jacobs, the No. 11 overall prospect in the ESPN Junior 300.Jacobs, a 6-foot-5, 225-pound pass rusher from Roswell, Georgia, gave his pledge to Ohio State over Georgia, Miami, Texas A&M, Notre Dame and Oregon, among the…

Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200 contenders, and of them, the top 20 compete on the big stage to become the winner, taking home the Startup Battlefield Cup and a cash prize of $100,000. But the remaining 180 startups all blew us away as well in their respective categories and compete in their own pitch competition. Here is the full list of the enterprise tech Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on why they landed in the competition AI Seer  What it does: Builds…

Getting that first brownie out of the pan is, for me, a nightmare. Always has been. Digging a spatula or cake cutter down below the rim of a normal baking pan gives me broken crumbles of brownie that I tuck away to eat quietly by myself in a corner after serving everyone else. So when an ad for a baking slab—a piece of cookware that appears to have been designed specifically to solve my brownie and bar problem because of its low walls— popped up on my computer screen one day, I clicked it (something I’ve trained myself not to…

We all remember where we were, trite as it is to say. I was on the floor of an airport, waiting for an early-morning flight back to Madrid. The sound from my laptop speakers was tinny and warbled, but we didn’t care. We gathered around the screen, this small group of college-aged women studying abroad, trying to get the gist of what was happening at home, an ocean away. What was it Kavanaugh said? “I liked beer”?We liked beer, too. It was 2018 and we were heading home from Oktoberfest, where we’d sloshed stein after stein. So maybe it was…