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Stock futures jump, oil prices fall as Trump says U.S. has reached peace deal with Iran

Personal Finance June 15, 2026

Oil prices fell and U.S. stock-index futures jumped Sunday after President Donald Trump said the U.S. has agreed to a…

In 1965, Mary Allen Wilkes wrote LAP6 for the LINC computer from her parents’ Baltimore home, testing an interactive operating system on a 250-pound machine in the living room and becoming the first known person to use a personal computer at home, twelve years before the Apple II reached buyers

Saving Tips June 8, 2026

In 1965, Mary Allen Wilkes was writing software in her parents’ Baltimore home for a computer that weighed about 250…

In 2016, archaeologists dated two rings of snapped stalagmites in France’s Bruniquel Cave to 176,500 years ago, evidence that Neanderthals had walked 336 metres into darkness with fire and built architecture deep underground long before modern humans reached Europe

Saving Tips June 5, 2026

Bruniquel Cave preserves two low rings of broken stalagmites 336 metres from the entrance, in a chamber so far beyond…

When seismic waves from the Chicxulub impact reached what is now North Dakota roughly ten minutes after the asteroid struck, they appear to have triggered a ten-metre standing wave in an inland river that flung fish onto the bank and buried them under glass beads still falling from the sky.

Saving Tips June 5, 2026

Robert DePalma was digging at a ranch in the Hell Creek Formation of southwestern North Dakota, in a place he…

When General James Mattis joined the Theranos board in 2013, he had already spent a year pushing Elizabeth Holmes’s fingerprick blood analyser toward soldiers in Afghanistan, and the only reason it never reached the battlefield was an Army regulatory officer named David Shoemaker who kept warning the FDA the device was not approved.

Saving Tips May 28, 2026

General James Mattis joined the Theranos board of directors in July 2013, a few months after retiring as head of…

Oil prices see biggest drop in six years after two-week cease-fire reached

Personal Finance April 8, 2026

West Texas Intermediate and Brent crude slid following the announcement of a temporary truce between the U.S. and Iran