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The logo of an Apple Store is seen reflected on the glass exterior of a Samsung flagship store in Shanghai, China Monday, Oct. 20, 2025.Wang Gang | Feature China | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesThe cost of your smartphone might rise, analysts are warning, as the AI boom clogs up supply chains and a recent change by Nvidia to its products could make it worse.AI data centers, on which tech giants globally are spending hundreds of billions of dollars, require chips from suppliers, like Nvidia, which relies on many different components and companies to create its coveted graphics processing units.But…

Our football betting expert Jones Knows provides his insight across the Premier League midweek card and wants to back Fulham to beat Manchester City.Bournemouth vs Everton, Tuesday 7.30pm, live on Sky SportsOdds of 5/2 with Sky Bet for an Everton win certainly catch the eye when you dig into Bournemouth’s recent defensive slide. The Cherries are conceding goals at a rate that should concern Andoni Iraola, with 15 shipped in their last six games. The departures of Dean Huijsen and Illia Zabarnyi are now being felt, stripping Bournemouth of both mobility and composure in central areas. The situation is compounded…

New technologies almost always create lots of problems and challenges for our society. The invention of farming caused local overpopulation. Industrial technology caused pollution. Nuclear technology enabled superweapons capable of destroying civilization. New media technologies arguably cause social unrest and turmoil whenever they’re introduced. And yet how many of these technologies can you honestly say you wish were never invented? Some people romanticize hunter-gatherers and medieval peasants, but I don’t see many of them rushing to go live those lifestyles. I myself buy into the argument that smartphone-enabled social media is largely responsible for a variety of modern social ills, but I’ve always…

United States women’s national team head coach Emma Hayes labeled Lily Yohannes a world-class prospect after the 2-0 victory over Italy on Monday night at Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, praising the player for her qualities before insisting there is still room to improve.Yohannes, the youngest player on the December USWNT roster, earned her 13th cap and eighth start against Italy.Editor’s Picks”She’s doing this at 18. I think what I’ve learned in all of this is that you can’t put a ceiling on anyone. So, we won’t do that. But she’s 18. All of the things that she has…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces on Tuesday shot and killed two suspected Palestinian assailants wanted in a pair of attacks that wounded three Israelis in the occupied West Bank. It was the latest burst of violence in the territory, where fighting has spiked in recent weeks.The Israeli military said that troops shot and killed a suspect who stabbed two soldiers as they were confronting him near Ateret, an Israeli settlement in the central West Bank. It said the incident was under review.Israel’s Mada rescue service said two soldiers were lightly wounded.In the southern West Bank, the army said it shot…

BATANG TORU, Indonesia (AP) — Emergency crews raced to reach survivors and recover more bodies Tuesday after the death toll from last week’s catastrophic floods and landslides surged past 1,200 in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand, with more than 800 people missing.Days of heavy monsoon rains inundated vast areas, leaving thousands stranded and many clinging to rooftops waiting for help. The flooding and landslides killed at least 1,230 people, with 659 people confirmed dead in Indonesia, 390 in Sri Lanka and 181 in Thailand, authorities said Tuesday.In Indonesia, the hardest-hit nation, rescuers are struggling to access villages in Sumatra island,…

TURMUS AYYA, West Bank (AP) — The olive harvest that was marked by violence is complete in the West Bank, but fear still hangs over many Palestinian villages, where residents keep constant watch for armed Israeli settlers.In recent months, the community of Turmus Ayya has endured near-daily incursions by settlers, residents say, including one in which a Palestinian grandmother was beaten unconscious with a spiky club.The fear extends across the Palestinian territory. During last month’s harvest, settlers launched an average of eight attacks daily, the most since the United Nations began collecting data in 2006. The attackers burned cars, desecrated…

TURMUS AYYA, West Bank (AP) — The fear is palpable in this Palestinian village. It’s clear in how farmers gather their harvests quickly, how they scan the valley for movement, how they dare not stray past certain roads. At any time, they say, armed Israeli settlers could descend.“In a matter of minutes, they get on their phones. They gather themselves, and they surprise you,” said Yasser Alkam, a Palestinian-American lawyer and farmer from the village of Turmus Ayya. “They hide between the trees. They ambush people and beat them up severely.”In recent months, Alkam says Turmus Ayya has weathered near-daily…

BANGKOK (AP) — Behind the hoopla over the promise of artificial intelligence lay difficult realities, including how such technology might affect people already disadvantaged in a data-driven world.A new report by the United Nations Development Program notes most of the gains from AI are likely to be reaped by wealthy nations unless steps are taken to use its power to help close gaps in access to basic needs, as well as such advanced know-how.The report released Tuesday likens the situation to the “Great Divergence” of the industrial revolution, when many Western countries saw rapid modernization while others fell behind.Questions over…

The United States put the finishing touches on 2025 with another friendly win over Italy at Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Monday night in its final game of the season.The U.S. beat Italy 3-0 on Friday with a pair of goals from Catarina Macario and the Chelsea striker picked up right where she left off before the weekend, opening the scoring Monday with a deft chip over the head of Italy keeper Francesca Durante.Jaedyn Shaw, fresh off winning the NWSL title with Gotham FC, doubled the Americans lead right before halftime. The U.S. worked the ball out of…