As bots and streaming fraud grow in music, a look at how Spotify, Apple Music, and more are combatting bad actors and how artists are being hurt.

Spotify has introduced a new 'Exclusive Mode' as a way for its Premium subscribers to access "bit-perfect" audio playback when listening using the desktop app. According to Spotify, this new mode ...

At this point, it is getting a bit repetitive to bring up "the lowest rates in more than 3 years"--something that was officially the case twice this week. If we give rates credit for stably holding ...

The Trump economy in 2025 was a roller coaster, soaring and falling through tariff shocks, a cooling job market, robust AI investments and a near-record close to the U.S. stock market. One thing ...

Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran on Tuesday called for the central bank to make aggressive interest rate cuts this year. "I'm probably looking for a little bit more than a point of interest rate ...

One message came out loud and clear after the latest Federal Reserve meeting: Investors will have to wait longer for any interest rate cuts this year. The Fed's first policy meeting of the year ...

Abstract: Variable-rate coding is challenging but indispensable for learned image compression (LIC) that is in nature characterized by nonlinear transform coding (NTC). Existing methods for ...

2025 was an eventful one for homebuyers and owners looking to refinance. After starting in January at over 7% for 30-year mortgage terms, rates declined noticeably. That was helped, in part, by ...

As is sometimes the case on the day following a Fed day, the bond market carried a bit more momentum in the same direction as yesterday afternoon. Fortunately, the momentum was toward lower rates this ...

The Federal Reserve meeting to decide on a new target interest rate begins today. A decision will be announced tomorrow. Toll Brothers and Autozone both report earnings misses. In a bit of a non ...

The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances, $806,500 or less, decreased to 6.32% from 6.40% Applications to refinance a home loan dropped 4% for ...