The average rate on the popular 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 5.99% on Monday. That matches the lowest level since 2022. Applications to refinance a home loan are about 130% higher than they were a ...

Shares of Caterpillar, the maker of mining and construction machinery, are up more than 30% since year-end, making it the biggest contributor to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. WSJ’s Jonathan Weil ...

The first time that University of Oxford astronomer Lyla Jung saw the cosmic configuration on her monitor, she almost didn’t believe it was real. But it was—and Jung and her colleagues went on to ...

Amber Glenn, of the U.S., performs during a figure skating training session at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026. Francisco Seco / AP MILAN — Figure skater Amber Glenn ...

Starlink says it may also share personal data with partners to help it "develop AI-enabled tools that improve your customer experience.” Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering home technology, ...

Beef, coffee and produce were among the items that surged in price, inflation data showed. By Madeleine Ngo Food prices climbed sharply in December, providing little relief to consumers at the grocery ...

The United States spent the 2010s incrementally upgrading bank-based magnetic-stripe cards with chips. Meanwhile, China leapfrogged the legacy card-based system by rolling out digital wallets and ...

For 25 years, Pew Research Center has tracked some of the biggest technological shifts in history. Note: We conducted polls via phone from 2000 to 2021; via web and mail in 2023; and via web, mail and ...

AI data centers require incredible amounts of energy to run. NPR's Planet Money investigates how that demand for power might affect your electric bills. Tech companies invested hundreds of billions of ...

Bitcoin soars in early 2025 on election of crypto-friendly President Trump, drop later in year on tariff news Analysts cite correlation between bitcoin and risk assets like equity markets Crypto ...