Image source: Getty Images Spare a thought for holders of Greggs (LSE: GRG) shares. The sausage roll seller’s value has tumbled almost 40% in 2025 alone. This leaves me questioning whether this once-adored FTSE 250 stock — and one that occupied a space in my own portfolio about a year…
Dumb TVs aren’t totally dead, but they really should be
Summary Today, the closest you’ll come to finding “dumb” TVs for sale are commercial models, which are intended for businesses needing advertising, signage, or other public displays. Commercial TVs cost more, however, usually because consumer sets are subsidized by ads and data collection. Some commercial models are also built for…
Natural Rock-Imitating Extension Cords : power gem
Designer Willen van Hooff works together with Danish desgin brand Pedestal to create Power Gems, which are extension cords designed to look like natural rock formations. It comes in the option of either a three or six-way power strip nestled into the structure, looking like it is emerging from something…
We’re Light-Years Away from True Artificial Intelligence, Says Murderbot Author Martha Wells
Many people fear that if fully sentient machine intelligence ever comes to exist, it will take over the world. The real threat, though, is the risk of tech companies enslaving robots to drive up profits, author Martha Wells suggests in her far-future-set book series The Murderbot Diaries. In Wells’s world,…
Tallest Australian Skyscrapers : one park lane
Architecture firms BKK Architects and Cottee Parker have joined forces to unveil proposals for the One Park Lane skyscraper. The supertall structure will be the tallest building in Australia if it is built. The development highlights a pair of designs, including a commercial tower with 60 storeys and a residential…
Naturally Dyed Collaborative Shoes : Peregrine 15
Saucony works in collaboration with 3sixteen on the new Gesso set of designs, taking the Peregrine 15 sneaker model as the canvas and dyeing them naturally. There are four colorways making up the capsule: Indigo, Granite, Rubia, and Sunflower. The collaborative effort brings attention to the trail shoes under the…
A sensor patch could help protect the lives of outdoor workers » Yale Climate Connections
Transcript: Roxana Chicas came to the U.S. as a child from El Salvador. And she remembers hearing family and friends who worked in construction or on farms talk about laboring outside in the hot sun. Chicas: “How sometimes they’d go and touch a piece of metal that they needed to…
Backstreet Boys’ A.J. McLean Opens Up About Sobriety After Relapse
A.J. McLean is happier and healthier than ever — and hoping to stay that way. The Backstreet Boys singer, 47, shared he is in “the best head space I’ve ever been in my life” as he gave an update on his sobriety journey during an interview with People published on…
Venice Classics Unveils Line-Up With Films By Kubrick, Pedro Almodóvar
The Venice Film Festival has unveiled the 18 recently restored movies that will be showcased in its Venice Classics sidebar at upcoming 82nd edition. The line-up features Delmer Daves’ 1957 western 3:10 to Yuma, based on a 1953 short story by Elmore Leonard, which was revisited by James Mangold in…
It’s a ‘Fabulous Friday’ for holders of these FTSE 100 shares!
Image source: Getty Images Today (11 July) is a reminder why many people own FTSE 100 shares. That’s because four of the UK’s largest listed companies are paying their final dividends today. According to JP Morgan, the London Stock Exchange offers a higher yield than the US, Europe and other…