Morocco fashion style and tex opens with creative runway showcase
Casablanca hosted the opening of the 11th edition of Morocco Fashion Style & Tex on April 2 at the OFEC exhibition center. The event brought together diplomatic representatives and institutional figures, marking the start of a major international gathering dedicated to textiles, fashion, home textiles, and industrial machinery. Organized......
Study of 1,700 languages finds shared grammatical rules across human speech
Despite the striking diversity of the world's languages, a large share follow the same underlying grammatical patterns. A large-scale study analyzing more than 1,700 languages has found that roughly one third of long-proposed "linguistic universals" hold up under rigorous statistical testing, pointing to deep cognitive and communicative......
Artemis II crew flies past the Moon, set to break Apollo 13 distance record
The four astronauts aboard NASA's Artemis II mission are swinging around the Moon on Monday in humanity's first crewed lunar voyage in more than 53 years, with the crew on course to shatter a distance record that has stood since 1970. Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian Space......
Third Turkish vessel clears Iran's Hormuz Strait blockade
A third Turkish-flagged vessel has successfully crossed the Strait of Hormuz, Turkish Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu announced Monday, marking another incremental diplomatic step for Ankara as it works to free its merchant fleet from a waterway effectively closed by Iran since late February. The tanker Ocean......
Goldman Sachs upgrades Netflix to buy, citing advertising growth and buyback potential
Goldman Sachs upgraded Netflix from Neutral to Buy on Monday, raising its 12-month price target to $120 from $100, with analyst Eric Sheridan citing a "more favorable risk-reward setup" ahead of the streaming giant's first-quarter 2026 earnings on April 16. The new target implies upside of roughly 26 percent from current levels. Sheridan's......
BanRay campaign urges public to treat AI smart glasses as unwelcome in shared spaces
A grassroots campaign called BanRay has become the latest flashpoint in a widening debate over wearable surveillance, urging the public to treat always-recording AI smart glasses as unwelcome in shared spaces. The campaign, hosted at BanRay.eu, argues that devices such as the Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses have turned ordinary eyewear into a "surveillance......
South Korea risks Hormuz oil runs as Asia's energy crisis deepens into sixth week
Six weeks into the war between the United States, Israel, and Iran with no ceasefire in sight, Asia, the destination for roughly 90 percent of the oil and 83 percent of the liquefied natural gas that normally transits the Strait of Hormuz, is bearing the heaviest economic toll of a conflict it did not start. Iran effectively closed the strait......
China bans Jack Dorsey's Bitchat messaging app from the App Store over censorship concerns
Apple removed Jack Dorsey's decentralized messaging application Bitchat from the Chinese App Store in February 2026 following a formal request from China's Cyberspace Administration of China, as Dorsey confirmed Sunday in a post on X. The ban targets the app's ability to operate entirely without internet access or national telecommunications......
US crude premiums hit record highs as Asia and Europe scramble for supply
The six-week-old war between the United States, Israel, and Iran has produced the worst oil supply crisis in modern history, drawing warnings from economists and international institutions that the world faces a growing risk of stagflation and recession if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. The International Energy Agency described the......
Bitcoin jumps 3% on Iran ceasefire proposal as short squeeze hits crypto market
Bitcoin climbed approximately 3 percent to trade near $69,200 on Monday, lifted by reports of a last-minute diplomatic initiative between the United States and Iran and a wave of forced liquidations that punished bearish traders across crypto markets. The rally, which pushed the leading cryptocurrency to its highest level in more than a week,......
Oil prices ease on ceasefire talks as global energy crisis deepens
The war in Iran has triggered a cascading energy crisis from Southeast Asia to Europe, with governments imposing fuel rationing, grounding aircraft, and shutting institutions as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz chokes off roughly one fifth of the world's oil and gas supply. Goldman Sachs has described the situation as the "worst......
Mazda halts Middle East vehicle production until May as Hormuz closure hits Japanese automakers
Mazda Motor announced Monday it has suspended domestic production of vehicles destined for the Middle East until May, becoming the latest Japanese automaker to scale back operations as the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed to commercial shipping, according to the Nikkei. The company had already halted exports to the region in March......
Gulf states near depletion of air defense interceptors as Iran's missile campaign grinds on
Five weeks into Iran's sustained drone and missile campaign against Gulf states, the arithmetic of air defense is turning against the defenders. Gulf countries have exhausted the vast majority of their pre-war interceptor stocks repelling thousands of incoming projectiles, and resupply is falling well short of the pace required, according......
Gulf sovereign funds near $24 billion deal to back Paramount's Warner acquisition
Paramount Skydance is close to securing $24 billion in equity commitments from three Gulf sovereign wealth funds to help finance its $81 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday, in a deal that would end weeks of uncertainty over whether Middle Eastern capital would remain part of the transaction. Saudi......
Altman tells CEOs to lock in AI capacity now or risk falling behind
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has delivered direct advice to corporate leaders on AI adoption, urging them to secure computing resources immediately, rethink how they measure AI usage, and begin using the technology themselves, warning that those who wait risk being left behind. In an interview with Axios's Mike Allen published in the outlet's......