A short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in Iran. In launching an attack against Iran in calling for regime change, President Trump has made the most fateful decision of his presidency and arguably the most fateful decision of any US president since George W. Bush launched the invasion of Iraq in 2003.It's a gamble with extraordinary consequences and potential peril, not just for the Iranian regime and its long-suffering people, but for regional stability, the global econom ...

The Xiai Leica phone is the best and most exciting camera phone I have ever used and I've used them all. Here's what you should know and why if you're a keen photographer like I am, this really should be your next phone. The Leica Lights phone, as it's actually called, is Xiai's latest flagship phone, but this one has been made in partnership with the iconic German camera brand Leica.While you can buy the Xiai 17 Ultra in a more regular form without so much Leica branding, it's the light phone version that' ...

In late 2019, fires raged across Australia. Families like this one stood and watched their home burn to the ground. Most people saw these fires as a single nation disaster.But the story didn't end there. To the amazement of even scientists, the fingerprints of these fires lingered for years. The smoke traveled with the winds.It brightened clouds in the eastern Pacific, cooled the sea surface temperatures underneath them, intensifying the leninia pattern of colder than normal temperatures, and Leninia had wo ...

Leica just announced its fourth ever Lights phone, but this is the first one launching outside of Japan, meaning I managed to get my hands on one. Unlike previous lights phones which were made by Sharp, this one is part of Leica's ongoing collaboration with Xiaomi. In fact, it's basically a Xiaomi 17 Ultra, which is how it's being marketed in China, it's only the Lights phone in the global market.It comes with a load of Leica touches to sell the look and a matte black finish across the phone's rear. You'll ...

Good morning everybody. Welcome to the Saturday live stream. Doing this a little bit earlier because of what is going on. So there's a lot to cover. So let's just jump right into it. So today, actually yesterday when we were doing our live stream, we talked about how the markets were dumping and they continue to dump and we talked about there looks like there are some aggression going on in Iran. Looks like there is some inevitability and it looks like that is exactly what happened. This is from the preside ...

AI cannot survive without crypto. It can't survive. And the reason it can't survive is because the fiat system financial guardrails cannot handle the speed of AI.Coming out of a crisis, you want to invest in the fastest horse in the race. Well, the fastest horse in the race coming out of this cycle is crypto. And this time, I don't think it's going to stop because of what Ben Harowitz talked about and what I said.So, what's going on guys. In today's conversation with Jordy Visser, we get into the depths of ...

A new chapter is being written in one of crypto's biggest ever stories. Remember Terraform Labs and the $40 billion collapse of their Luna token and the US stablecoin. Well, Terraform's windown team just filed a lawsuit in a Manhattan federal court.And they're arguing that one of the biggest trading firms on Wall Street didn't just trade through the terror collapse, it allegedly accelerated it by acting on inside information. The complaint targets Jane Street Group co-founder Robert Granier and two employee ...

Asha, the new person from outside of Xbox, gets the job and she says, "We're gonna make this about it. We're gonna get the Xbox back." And she makes a lot of noise about consoles and being refocused on consoles. A couple of years ago, they start coming out with this idea that actually the Xbox is not a console after all, that your phone is an Xbox and your laptop is an Xbox and your TV is an Xbox. And so all of a sudden, you've done everything but make a gaming console for people to play games on.>> Yeah. A ...

A Starbucks caramel frap cost $5.95%. Is it a ripoff or not. >> Well, let's see how much it cost them to make this coffee.The cup and lid cost $18. Coffee 12 cents. Milk 18.Ice, caramel, and syrup 25. Whipped cream 10. And some drizzle on top 6.But there are hidden costs like staff and rent. So the total cost for this $2.89%. 89 cents. ...

If you want to get a fix on what's gone wrong with the American family and the American city, spend some time, as we did recently, in New York's family court and be a witness to the ways in which law and disorder works or doesn't. Stay long enough, you'll see it all. the battered child, the crack mother, the 10-year-old mugger, the burnedout social worker, the nitpicking lawyer.All of them slloshing through the well-meaning swamp called the child welfare system. And you'll find presiding there Judith Shindl ...