As computer stocks fell Monday due to concerns that Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeekleap was surpassing the United States in AI development, Nvidia's market value dropped by around $600 billion. The nation's biggest tech companies are tracked by the Nasdaq Composite, which fell more than 3%. The S&P 500 fell over 1.5%, and the Dow closed the day up nearly 300 points after dropping earlier in the day. China's DeepSeek, which revealed an open-source AI model in December after claiming that it took just two months and less than $6 million to develop, was the catalyst for the sell-off. Concerns that China may surpass the United States in the scope and effectiveness of its AI efforts are fueled by the fact that those claims would be significantly less than the hundreds of bi...

Using a touchscreen phone while wearing winter gloves is frequently as easy as trying to read a book in the dark: you can't use one without rendering the other essentially unusable. Claire Sturzaker, a travel writer and the creator of the travel site Tales of a Backpacker, believes that when it comes to gloves, warmth and functionality are frequently compromised. The structure and material of the gloves, especially the fingertips, are the key to the trick. I asked winter clothing experts like Sturzaker for advice and suggestions in order to identify the top touchscreen-friendly gloves. GO Ahead and SkipWhy should I trust NBC Select? How did I choose the best gloves that are compatible with touchscreens? Selected. Our top picks Best overall gloves The ...

Chipmaker Nvidia's stock fell Monday, its worst day since the global market sell-off brought on by the coronavirus outbreak in March 2020. The decline coincided with a worldwide sell-off in tech stocks due to concerns about US leadership in the AI space. A Chinese artificial intelligence startup's claims of advancements were a major source of those anxieties. One of the main winners of the artificial intelligence boom in tech equities, the chipmaker's shares fell as much as 18%. Nvidia's market value fell below $3 trillion as a result. Nevertheless, over the past two years, the company's stock has increased by more than 480%. However, the decline resulted in a loss of market value of around $600 billion. According to Bloomberg, the largest market value decline in the history of the US stoc...

Federal prosecutors said Monday that the woman who allegedly opened fire on U.S. border patrol agents in northern Vermont, killing one of them, used a firearm that had been bought by a person of interest in a double murder case in Pennsylvania. On January 20, border patrol authorities stopped Teresa Youngblut and Felix Bauckholt, a German national, while they were in a car together for an immigration check. According to court filings, Youngblut fired at the agents during the traffic check, and at least one of them returned fire. During the gunfight, one of the operatives, David Chris Maland, 44, was killed. Court documents state that Youngblut was injured and that Bauckholt was shot dead after drawing a gun. It is unclear from the court filings whether Maland was hit by a fellow agent's gu...

Public health officials in the United States have been instructed to cease their collaboration with the World Health Organization, with immediate effect. On Sunday evening, John Nkengasong, a representative of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, addressed a message to the agency's senior management informing them that all employees who collaborate with the WHO must cease their activities immediately and wait for additional instructions. The abrupt halt, according to experts, was unexpected and would delay efforts to look into and try to stop Marburg virus and mpoxin outbreaks in Africa as well as brewing threats from other countries. Additionally, it coincides with global health officials keeping an eye on avian flu outbreaks among cattle in the United States. The stop-work edi...

Harley Morris disappeared a year ago, and his family is still trying to find out what happened. At the time, the 29-year-old was residing in Tyler, Texas, with his father. Tyler and his father were chefs at Tyler's Prime 102 steakhouse. Wendi Attaway-Morris, Harley's mother, was in Florida when her son disappeared, and Dateline met with her. Although she and her spouse are no longer together, she says her son and his father have a unique bond. He had a really close friendship with his father. She said that they were best friends. They lived together and worked together, you know. When Harley got off work on the evening of January 20, 2024, he and a few of his pals headed to a few bars in the downtown area. Wendi said this was just part of her son's normal Saturday night routine. They re...

These invoices are coming in after a season of record-breaking holiday spending. According to the National Retail Federation, retail sales for the most recent Christmas season, which spanned from November 1 to December 31, reached a record $994.1 billion. And borrowing accounted for a sizable portion of that expenditure.LendingTree reports that 36% of Americans accrued holiday debt in 2024, with each consumer spending an average of $1,181 during the season. That is less than the $1,549 average for 2022 but around 15% higher than the $1,028 average from the previous year. According to Matt Schulz, chief credit analyst at LendingTree, prices are still quite high and may be having a greater impact on people's finances, holiday shopping, and other types of spending than individuals may have an...

Executive orders that limit transgender service and tighten down on diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in the military are anticipated to be signed by President Donald Trump on Monday. The order pertaining to transgender service members and prospective recruits will rescind an order issued by former President Joe Biden that permitted transgender service members to enlist and currently enlisted trans service members to receive coverage for transition-related medical care, as well as reinstate a policy that Trump issued during his first term. According to a White House paper on the impending executive order, the order will alter all Department of Defense medical standards to make sure they prioritize lethality and preparedness. Additionally, it will ban the use of identification-based ...