Comcast’s CEO just kicked off what could become an M&A feeding frenzy for the ages

Brian Roberts’ surprise plans to spin off NBCUniversal from Comcast have set the stage for an M&A bonanza, with bankers working overtime to concoct deals where the media mogul is both a buyer and a seller of some of the industry’s biggest assets, On The Money has learned. Just a few months ago when the battle for Warner Bros. Discovery was raging, the Comcast chief was considered an also-ran. Comcast’s floundering stock price (shares down 55% over the past five years) was no match for Ted Sarandos at Netflix, or the deal’s eventual winner, Paramount Skydance, backed by indie producer…

‘It’s more than a hope, it’s a guarantee’: The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s 10-year movie of the universe is about to ‘blow our minds,’ chief scientist Tony Tyson says

On a dark mountaintop in Chile, the world’s largest digital camera has begun filming its masterpiece.This Tuesday (June 30), scientists with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory announced that the facility’s ambitious Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) officially began. Every night for the next 10 years, the observatory’s car-size…

What to look for when venerable Saratoga kicks off its 46-day meet

You’ve done it all. Watched baseball games at Wrigley Field, Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium. Witnessed the spectacular Northern Lights. Sat in celebrity row at Madison Square Garden. Camped at the Grand Canyon. Wore a cheesehead at Lambeau Field. Proposed marriage at the Empire State Building antenna. Waved the checkered…

Long Island’s American Soccer Club clinches first playoff berth

Could it be any more patriotic? The Fighting Tomcats of the American Soccer Club clinched the Long Island franchise’s first playoff berth with a final regular-season victory over Osner’s FC, 3-1, Wednesday night. “I don’t know if it’s fate,” head coach John Fitzgerald told The Post about earning the inaugural…

House Republicans readying new DHS funding bill 73 days into shutdown

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson revealed that House Republicans will take up a brand-new funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, 73 days into the partial government shutdown. At the start of the month, Johnson (R-La.) reluctantly acquiesced to the Senate’s two-track approach to fully fund DHS, which…

New data center will be partially powered by human brain cells for the first time

An Australian startup is building what could become one of the world’s first “biological data centers” — augmenting silicon computing chips with those seeded with living human neurons.Cortical Labs, the company behind the effort, has opened its first facility in Melbourne, Australia, and is planning a larger site in Singapore.…

DwarfLab Dwarf Mini smart telescope review

Why you can trust Live Science Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best ones for you. Find out more about how we test. The DwarfLab Dwarf Mini is a compact, beginner-friendly smart telescope that takes direct aim at competitors like…

The universe may end trillions of years sooner than we thought

Scientists have long assumed our universe would continue on for trillions of years, but a new study presents a much shorter life span for the cosmos: Our universe might last only another 33 billion years.That’s just a cosmic blink before everything collapses in on itself ‪—‬ a process dubbed the…

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