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The post April home sales disappoint as higher mortgage rates weigh on buyers appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Prospective buyers arrive during an open house in Rancho Cucamonga, California, US, on Saturday, May 9, 2026. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sales of previously owned homes in April were essentially flat compared with March, rising just 0.2% to 4.02 million units on a seasonally adjusted, annualized basis, according to the National Association of Realtors. Housing analysts were expecting a gain of more than 3%. April sales were unchanged year-over-year. This count is based on closings, so contracts likely signed in late February and March. The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage ended March in the high 5% range, according to Mortgage News Daily, and then shot up sharply, due to the start of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran. “Despite mixed macroeconomic signals—including a record-high stock market and historically low consumer confidence—home sales were modestl

The post The New Foo Fighters Album Is The First To Miss The Top 10 In Decades appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Your Favorite Toy becomes the first Foo Fighters album to miss the top 10 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in 30 years, since the band’s self-titled debut. INDIO, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 19: (FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Musician Dave Grohl, founding member of Nirvana and The Foo Fighters, performs onstage as a special guest with the Los Angeles Philharmonic during weekend 2, day 2 of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 19, 2025 in Indio, California. (Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images for Coachella) Getty Images for Coachella Nirvana officially split in 1994 following the suicide of frontman and lead singer Kurt Cobain. One of the grunge outfit’s members, Dave Grohl, didn’t waste much time before he took on a new project, forming Foo Fighters that same year. Later in 1994, Grohl would write and record the entirety of the band’s self-titled debut, which was rel

The post Elvis Presley Charts A New Top 10 Album In America appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Elvis Presley reaches the top 10 on Billboard’s Vinyl Albums chart again as Epic: Elvis Presley In Concert opens at No. 8, earning the late superstar one more bestseller. A portrait of American singer and actor Elvis Presley holding an acoustic guitar circa 1956. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images) Getty Images Several weeks ago, Elvis Presley debuted a new album on a number of Billboard charts. The set, titled Epic: Elvis Presley In Concert, accompanied a movie of the same name directed by Baz Luhrmann. The Australian filmmaker spent years working with Presley’s estate to finally bring his life story to the big screen in what turned out to be the Oscar-nominated, Austin Butler-starring Elvis. Several years later, Luhrmann utilized never-before-seen performance footage to create something of a documentary and something of a performance film, Epic, which was paired with the soundtrack of

The post Jobs report: Retailers hire big, defying consumer warning signs appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. A woman walks past a “Now Hiring” sign in front of a store on January 13, 2022 in Arlington, Virginia. Olivier Douliery | AFP | Getty Images Retailers are ramping up hiring this year, defying economic concerns as consumers keep shopping. The retail trades added nearly 22,000 jobs in April, accounting for almost one-fifth of total job growth, according to preliminary federal data released Friday. Nearly 15.5 million employees now hold retail industry jobs, the most since July 2024. Consumers have kept their wallets open in the face of war in Iran, higher gasoline prices, faster inflation and President Donald Trump’s tariff policy. Lately, a solid consumer has left retailers confident enough to hire more workers to stock shelves or staff cash registers. “This still shows how resilient spending has been, even amid a lot of the uncertainty,” said Cory Stahle, senior economist at jo

The post Supposedly Guarded Bobby Cox Gave Insight On Atlanta Braves To Those He Trusted appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. PHILADELPHIA – MAY 29: Manager Bobby Cox #6 of the Atlanta Braves watches the game against the Philadelphia Phillies on May 29, 2004 at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images) Getty Images Politics. Entertainment, stretching from Sinatra to Snoop Dog. Global warming, or definitely the inner workings of a hurricane. The overwhelming majority of reporters who met Bobby Cox viewed the Baseball Hall of Fame manager as cooperative, friendly and highly insightful regarding all things, you know, that didn’t involve his Atlanta Braves. Once the subject switched to the Major League Baseball franchise that Cox helped sprint to eighth on Forbes’ team valuations list at $3.35 billion – with an MLB record 14 consecutive division titles through 2005 – those same media folks complained that he rarely said anything worth mentioning

AI and Crypto Czar David O. Sacks speaks during a meeting of the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education at the White House. | Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter exclusively for Verge subscribers about tech, politics, and Washington intrigue. (It's basically House of Cards, but for nerds.) Not a subscriber yet? You really should become one, and to save you a Google search, here is the direct link to do so! And do you think I should know something? Send it to tina.nguyen+tips@theverge.com. On Monday, The New York Times reported that the White House was considering having the government review AI models before release. To the casual Verge reader, it appeared to be a total reversal in Donald Trump's policies. For the past year, he had been a vocal champion o … Read the full story at The Verge.

When the bromance sours, we all end up in court. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images The strongest witness for Elon Musk's case against OpenAI so far has been Greg Brockman's journal. Brockman himself is running as a close second. Brockman was called to the stand in a rather unusual way - he was cross-examined first, followed by a direct examination - and he had some serious high school debate club energy. There was a lot of "I wouldn't characterize it that way," "I wouldn't say it that way," and "That sounds like something I wrote. Can I see it in context?" When Musk's attorney, Steven Molo, read some of the evidence aloud, Brockman would pedantically correct him if he skipped a word, even if that word was "a" or "the." Wh … Read the full story at The Verge.

The long-term risks of the All-In Podcast, illustrated. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Turbosquid, Getty Images One of the most mortifying things about knowing a lot of techies is listening to them tell me excitedly about some very important discovery that they believe they have made. Recently, I ran into an acquaintance of mine, who began talking my ear off about an amazing discovery he'd made with LLMs. Knowledge, it turns out, is structured into language! You could put one word into ChatGPT and it might understand what you wanted, or make up a word and see if it understood what you meant! These amazing new tools have revealed that the English corpus contains so much about its speakers! He concluded that LLMs are a discovery on par with writing. … Read the full story at The Verge.