In options trading, a long position means buying either a long call option or a long put option. The long call option reflects an optimistic feeling that a stock price will rise. quaArts studio/Getty Images In options trading, going long means owning one of two types of options: a long call and a long put….
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Gary Gensler, chair of the SEC, testifies at a hearing in September. Evelyn Hockstein-Pool/Getty Images Chinese stocks moved lower on Friday after the SEC flagged Alibaba for a potential delisting.Chinese companies listed on US exchanges have until 2024 to comply with a new law that requires them to be audited by US-based accountants.“If we’re in…
In late 2020, Alphabet’s DeepMind division unveiled its novel protein fold prediction algorithm, AlphaFold, and helped solve a scientific quandary that had stumped researchers for half a century. In the year since its beta release, half a million scientists from around the world have accessed the AI system’s results and cited them in their own…
You can find AI that creates new images, but what if you want to fix an old family photo? You might have a no-charge option. Louis Bouchard and PetaPixel have drawn attention to a free tool recently developed by Tencent researchers, GFP-GAN (Generative Facial Prior-Generative Adversarial Network), that can restore damaged and low-resolution portraits. The…
Going to a medical facility for an ultrasound image is a great way to provide doctors with one snapshot of what’s going on inside the body, but a new stick-on patch can snap ultrasound images for up to two days, giving potentially much better insights. The bioadhesive ultrasound (BAUS) device (“the patch”) features a stretchable…
How to watch WWE SummerSlam 2022: It’s the hottest event of the summer in WWE, headlined by Roman Reigns vs Brock Lesnar. Here’s how to watch WWE SummerSlam in the UK. Been a quiet few weeks, eh WWE fans? Yikes! The first pay-per-view event in the post-Vince McMahon era is this Saturday night and it’s…
Backbone today announced the release of a new PlayStation Edition of its popular game controller for the iPhone. There is also a new dedicated section inside the Backbone app for iOS with new releases and updates from PlayStation. The new controller was created in partnership with Sony and inspired by the design of the PS5’s…
Apple today released the second HomePod Software 16 update for its public beta testing group, with the new software coming a little over two weeks after the first public beta. This is the first HomePod beta that Apple has provided to public beta testers. The HomePod Software 16 update can be downloaded from Apple’s beta…
Apple today seeded the second beta of tvOS 16 to its public beta testing group, allowing members of the public to download and test the new update on Apple TV HD and Apple TV 4K models. The second beta comes a little over two weeks after the first public beta and it corresponds with the…
Apple today seeded the second beta of macOS Ventura to its public beta testing group, allowing non-developers to test the new macOS Ventura operating system ahead of its release. The second beta comes a little over two weeks after the first public beta and it corresponds with the fourth developer beta. Public beta testers can…