People walk past a Nike store in New York City, on April 2, 2025. Kylie Cooper | Reuters Nike announced a new round of layoffs Thursday affecting approximately 1,400 employees across the organization, mostly concentrated in its technology department. In a note from COO Venkatesh Alagirisamy, the company said the layoffs were part of Nike’s…
Spending on new medical research by the National Institutes of Health has fallen roughly $1 billion behind the pace of years past, delaying thousands of scientific projects and raising concerns within the agency that it may struggle to pay out the money it was allotted by Congress. Instead of canceling grants en masse, as the…
One year ago, the Philadelphia Eagles added ten new names to the roster. Now, with another draft approaching, it’s time to look back and evaluate how that class has performed entering Year 2. Not every player was expected to contribute immediately. Early returns can still tell us plenty about direction, value, and long-term outlook. That…
PARIS — Russia could be ready to start a regional conflict with NATO within a year after the end of hostilities in Ukraine, with the aim of creating political division in the alliance, according to Dutch military intelligence service MIVD. Under the most favorable conditions for Russia, it could build up enough combat power for…
Boeing reported a smaller-than-expected loss for the first quarter, with improvements across its businesses, including its key commercial aircraft unit, as the manufacturer tries to stem years of losses. Here’s how Boeing performed in the first quarter, compared with analysts’ estimates compiled by LSEG: Loss per share: 20 cents adjusted vs. a loss of 83 cents expectedRevenue: $22.22…
Merck & Co.’s blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda has risen in price to $210,000 for one year’s treatment under President Donald Trump — a 6% increase since last year, a new Senate report found. The pharmaceutical giant is among more than a dozen companies that signed confidential deals with the Trump administration to lower the prices…
Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Welcome to ZDNET’s “Breakthrough” Awards for 2025, our latest tradition that celebrates the most innovative and forward-thinking technologies to cross our editors’ desks this year. Over the past 12 months, we’ve spent countless hours challenging the utility of foldable phones that dominated the mobile conversation, lived entire…
It is this time of year that I add a new smart speaker to my home collection. This year it was the turn of my son, who wants to be able to play music in his room. I took advantage of a Black Friday offer, but part of me is wishing I had held out…
I never thought I’d become the type of person that would ever just set-it and forget-it when it came to technology, but my recent experience updating our NordVPN review proved me very wrong indeed. NordVPN Threat Protection Pro is NordVPN’s system that helps protect your device from ads, trackers, malware, and malicious websites or downloads….
Counterpoint Research is predicting Apple’s iPhone 17 lineup will help it nudge Samsung out as the number one phone manufacturer in the world this year, as reported by CNBC and Bloomberg. The report estimates Apple will ship 243 million phones this year, while Samsung will ship 235 million, landing Apple a 19.4 percent share of…
