India's industrial sector recorded a 4.0% growth in August 2025, an improvement over the previous month. Mining, basic metals, and motor vehicles were key drivers ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has taken equity stakes in Canadian company Lithium Americas and its Nevada mining joint venture with General Motors as part of a renegotiation of a federal loan.

Qualcomm’s nascent push into PCs now has the sequel chip that will set the tone for what to expect from Windows-based machines going into 2026. This year, Qualcomm doesn’t have just one flagship CPU; ...

Qualcomm has announced the new hardware that’s going to power many of the best smartphones of 2026. In a move that’s slightly confusing – but makes perfect sense once you dig into it – Qualcomm has ...

The Trump administration has announced plans to open 13 million acres of federal land for coal mining, as part of President Donald Trump's aim to bolster the shrinking U.S. coal industry. The policy, ...

From its election, the Albanese government’s strategy for the US alliance has been to make itself as indispensable as possible to the Americans. This includes making Australian territory available to ...

Riot Platforms (RIOT) picked up back-to-back upgrades from Wall Street on Friday, with JPMorgan and Citigroup both raising their outlooks on the bitcoin miner amid changing industry economics and a ...

The moment that AustralianSuper started creeping up the share register of Whitehaven, the Queensland coal miner’s board must have heard whistling in the corridors. As this column highlighted at the ...

At the northern edge of Chile’s Atacama Desert sits a pile of rocks that’s so big that you can see it from space—and it’s teeming with invisible activity. Billions of microbes are hard at work ...

As promised, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC as its flagship chip at the Snapdragon Summit in Maui, Hawaii. It's a successor to last year's Snapdragon 8 Elite and is touted as the ...

Indonesia’s government has reached an agreement with Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE: FCX) to halt operations at the Grasberg mine and prioritize the search for missing workers following a landslide incident, ...