Billboard is making changes to how it weighs streams in its album and singles charts, and the new method will give more influence to free/ad-supported streams. It will also weigh streamed music more ...

A controversy is swirling at a Texas university. The trigger? A flowchart. On Dec. 1, the new chancellor of the Texas Tech University system sent professors a diagram laying out a chain of approval ...

AI is an enormous energy drain, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions at a time when the planet desperately needs progress in the opposite direction. Although most of that comes from running GPUs, ...

Maggie Wachter, a mother of two in Philadelphia, has heard every rinse-and-repeat excuse in the book to skip a bath. Recently, Wachter’s 11-year-old son declared that no shower was necessary after a ...

String manipulation is a core skill for every Python developer. Whether you’re working with CSV files, log entries, or text analytics, knowing how to split strings in Python makes your code cleaner ...

A gauge of underlying inflation in July showed prices increasing at the fastest annual pace in five months, a sign that businesses are passing along tariff-related costs to customers. A chart showing ...

Andrew Kessel was a breaking news writer for Investopedia until October 2025. He previously covered markets for Proactive Investors, with a focus on small-cap stocks in fintech, healthcare, mining, ...

July 29 (Reuters) - Oil and gas equipment supplier Baker Hughes (BKR.O), opens new tab is nearing a $13.6 billion cash deal to buy Chart Industries (GTLS.N), opens new tab, edging out rival suitor ...

There comes a time before every big purchase when you might ask yourself, “Do I really need this?” If you don’t pause for a moment — and if you tend to blow your budget as a result — then you need to ...