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Block reports revenue miss but a slight beat on earnings

Shares of Square parent Block tumbled in extended trading on Thursday after the company reported disappointing revenue for the third quarter.

Business - CNBC - 16 hours ago

Slighted by IBB, Vientos' slam helps Mets get even

Following an intentional walk to Francisco Lindor that he "took personal," Mark Vientos hit the second grand slam of this Mets postseason Monday as New York evened the NLCS at one game apiece.

Sports - ESPN - October 15

CBS News Trump-Harris poll finds Trump with slight edge in Arizona

In the race for the U.S. Senate seat in Arizona, Democrat Ruben Gallego leads Republican Kari Lake by 9 points.

State of the Race: A Slight Shift Toward Trump but Still No Clear Favorite

The polls are not precise enough for a 0.2-point edge to convey meaningful information.

Top stories - The New York Times - October 21

Trump holds slight lead over Harris in new Georgia poll

Former President Trump has a slight advantage over Vice President Harris in Georgia, a key battleground state, a new survey found. The survey, conducted by the Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC), ...

Politics - The Hill - October 22

Harris has slight leads in ‘blue wall’ states: Marist polls

Vice President Harris has a slight lead in each of the key “blue wall” states that could be critical to her path to the presidency, a new poll found. The Marist Poll released Friday showed Harris ...

Politics - The Hill - November 1

Harris has slight lead over Trump ahead of Election Day: YouGov

Vice President Harris is narrowly outpacing former President Trump just days before Election Day, according to YouGov's final presidential estimate. The election model, unveiled Friday, shows ...

Politics - The Hill - 6 days ago

Slight popular vote win for Harris could equal Electoral College victory

A winning margin of just a couple percentage points in the popular vote could translate into an Electoral College victory for Vice President Harris, a significant shift from the last two cycles ...

Politics - The Hill - 6 days ago

Astronomers Find Evidence of an Exomoon Spewing a Volcanic Cloud

Astronomers have yet to confirm the existence of exomoons, but a molecular signal around a far away star offers some of the best evidence yet.

Science - The New York Times - October 15

LVMH Results Cast Cloud on Luxury Stocks

European luxury stocks fell after third-quarter results from industry bellwether LVMH dashed hopes that a sector recovery is under way and renewed concerns over the Chinese market.

Business - The Wall Street Journal - October 16

Google’s strong earnings boosted by cloud computing gains

Parent company Alphabet’s shares rise 6% as results show lift from AI demand

Business - Financial Times - October 30

Google's Cloud Business Powers Accelerating Revenue Growth

Google reported a 15% jump in year-over-year revenue driven by strong results in its cloud-computing division, boosting the company’s fortunes during a costly push into artificial intelligence.

Business - The Wall Street Journal - October 29

Amazon shares pop on earnings beat, cloud growth

The company's cloud and advertising units showed strong growth.

Business - CNBC - October 31

Xbox Cloud Gaming Is Planning For Direct-To-Cloud Controllers And Higher-Quality Streams - Report

Microsoft launched Xbox Cloud Gaming in 2020 with great fanfare, but the company's stated goal to push cloud gaming even further has run into some technological setbacks as well as ongoing ...

Tech - GameSpot - October 18

Colorado star Travis Hunter misses second half of 34–7 win over Arizona with aggravated shoulder injury

Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter missed the second half of a 34–7 win Arizona after suffering a reported slight re-aggravation of a shoulder injury

Sports - Yahoo Sports - October 19

Harris regains slight lead nationally yet Electoral College holds the cards: POLL

Vice President Kamala Harris has regained a slight lead among likely voters nationally in the latest ABC News/Ipsos poll.

Republican Deb Fischer holds slight lead over Dan Osborn in Nebraska Senate race

Incumbent Sen. Deb Fischer (R) is holding on to a small lead over Independent Dan Osborn in the Nebraska Senate race, according to an independent survey released Monday. The New York Times/Siena ...

Politics - The Hill - October 28

Slight progress in global biodiversity protection efforts but some species decline, new reports find

World - Yahoo News - October 28

CoD: Black Ops 6, MW3, And Warzone Coming To Xbox Cloud Gaming

Microsoft has announced that Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be available on Xbox Cloud Gaming for Game Pass Ultimate members at launch. Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare 3 will also ...

Tech - GameSpot - October 15

Startup Make Sunsets Wants to Fight Global Warming by Making Aerosol Clouds

Scientific critics are skeptical, but venture funders steered $1.5 million to a California company creating high-altitude particle clouds to slow global warming. Call it a moonshot for the Earth.

Business - Inc. - October 15

Hurricane victims push for donations as right-wing falsehoods cloud recovery efforts

Residents are launching GoFundMe to finance repairs but worry that scams and falsehoods, including right-wing disinformation, will hamper their appeals for help.

Rising food inflation clouds the good news on headline rates

Let them eat CPI

World - Financial Times - October 18

The human factor: How companies can prevent cloud disasters

Let's explore human engineering techniques that have worked at scale across the most successful tech companies in history.

Tech - VentureBeat - October 19

License to compete: Regulators must step in to even the cloud playing field

Regulators need to press for a better and fuller solution to the cloud competition challenge right now. The longer the delay, the more entrenched the monopolistic behaviors become and the harder ...

Politics - The Hill - October 20

Bad Polls for Japan’s Ruling Coalition May Cloud BOJ Rate Path

World - Yahoo News - October 21

Clippers' fresh start clouded by old struggles in Intuit Dome debut

L.A.'s other team debuted their state-of-the-art Intuit Dome with a valiant effort led by James Harden, but old challenges and uncertainties still loom over their new chapter.

Sports - Yahoo Sports - October 24

Sequence launches on Google Cloud Marketplace for Web3 gaming tech

Sequence, the all-in-one platform for building Web3 games, has partnered with Google Cloud Marketplace to widen its reach to game developers.

Tech - VentureBeat - October 24

Indonesia’s Marapi volcano erupts, spewing ash and hot clouds

One of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes has erupted, spewing thick columns of ash at least three times and blanketing villages with debris, but no casualties were reported

World - ABC News - October 27

What to know about the new way Microsoft will report cloud numbers Wednesday

Some on Wall Street are upbeat about the move. Others are not.

Business - CNBC - October 29

Alphabet shares rise on earnings beats boosted by cloud revenue

Google parent Alphabet reported third-quarter earnings that beat on top and bottom lines.

Business - CNBC - October 30

Microsoft Cloud revenue rises on AI boom but softer outlook weighs on shares

Warnings of slowing Azure growth and rising data centre costs damp initial optimism on tech giant’s quarterly earnings

Business - Financial Times - October 31

Microsoft Shares Slip as Forecast Sparks Concern About AI and Cloud Revenue

The company’s projection points to less growth than anticipated, causing concern about the payoff for its massive AI investment.

Business - The Wall Street Journal - October 31

‘Cloud-milking’: the zero-energy technique keeping young trees alive

The project that began in the Canary Islands mimics the way leaves capture water droplets from fog in order to produce water. They call it cloud milking, a zero-energy technique to extract water ...

World - The Guardian - October 31

Amazon's cloud unit records highest profit margin in at least a decade

Amazon Web Services delivered an operating margin of over 38%, the highest since at least 2014.