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The U.S. economy created far fewer jobs than expected in September, pointing to a surprising soft spot in the labor market and broader economy.
The words “you lot” come up quite often in “Tip Toe,” the five-episode limited series coming to Starz after an initial run on Channel 4 in the U.K. earlier this year. Most often, they’re directed at queer and trans people, and not in a friendly way: “It’s always sex with you lot,” Manchester electrician Clive (David Morrissey) snarls at his next-door neighbor Leo (Alan Cumming), the owner of a gay bar on the city’s famous Canal Street. “Tip Toe” traces the mounting tensions between the two men in a country gripped by the twin forces of post-Brexit malaise and resurgent xenophobia, and doesn’t hide where it’s going: The very first scene is a flash-forward to Leo’s lifeless corpse, dangling from a lamppost as Clive glares into the distance.
Series like Netflix’s “The Gentlemen,” “Black Doves,” and even Paramount+’s “MobLand” show that black comedies are having a moment on the small screen. Now, with “Kill Jackie,” starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, AMC+ is looking to get in on the action. Based on Nick Harkaway’s 2018 novel, “The Price You Pay,” and adapted to television by Conor Keane, Tom Butterworth, Peter Lawson and Damon Thomas, “Kill Jackie” follows Jackie Prince (Zeta-Jones), a former drug queenpin turned luxury art dealer, whose comfortable life is upended when she realizes a group of hitmen has been hired to assassinate her. As she tries to uncover the culprit behind the hit, Jackie and her comrades embark on a zany, bloody quest containing far more style and flash than plot or narrative direction.
We'll definitely hear about the NVIDIA RTX Spark-powered Surface Laptop Ultra, but what else?
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It's been two years since Microsoft launched Copilot+ AI PCs, its first major attempt at fostering AI-ready hardware, and the results have been mixed, to say the least. This month, the company is again gearing up to espouse the virtues of agentic AI, the latest trendy topic in the tech world, in San Francisco on October 7. Microsoft describes the event as "a conversation on how local AI will shape the next chapter of the PC," and it will include notable guests like CEO Satya Nadella, head of Windows and Devices Pavan Davuluri and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang.
A television station broadcasts Kevin Warsh, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, speaking after a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting as a trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026.
Welcome to Car and Driver’s Testing Hub, where we zoom in on the test numbers. We’ve been pushing vehicles to their limits since 1956 to provide objective data to bolster our subjective impressions (you can see how we test here).
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On the first night of its Life Burns Faster residency, the band made full use of the Las Vegas venue’s stunning visuals
Metal’s biggest band, Metallica, seemed bigger than usual on Thursday night, when they kicked off their Life Burns Faster residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas. With a 160,000-square-foot screen that stretches 240 feet into the air, they had their largest canvas ever for visuals, and they used every inch of it. Although they created jaw-dropping visuals for every song in their set list, they turned the artwork for Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, and … And Justice for All into an immersive, almost 3-D experience for fans when they played those albums’ title songs on the first night. (Rolling Stone will publish a full report about the band’s first weekend, including a deep dive into the full set list for each night and the fan events they set up around the Sphere, after it wraps.)
Sesh Tirumala is Chief Information Officer for WD.
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For years, technology organizations have been built around projects. Define the scope, set the timeline, deliver on time and on budget, then move to the next one. That model served IT well, but technology’s role is expanding.
Salvatore Lombardo is Chief Product and Technology Officer at Coupa.
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With the advances in LLMs and agentic tools, it can be tempting to think that “smart” AI is all that is needed. But without real systems of record sitting underneath them, AI tools are essentially very smart strangers, lacking grounding in the day‑to‑day reality of a business.
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Tesla's EV business is still going strong.
Elon Musk's electric carmaker announced on Friday that it sold 486,532 vehicles in the third quarter, down 2% year over year.