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ATHENS (Reuters) – In the mud and debris of the flooded village of Metamorfosi in central Greece, 60-year-old farmer Athanasios Kostis is throwing out the memories of a lifetime. “All my memories are here. Now it is all totally destroyed. We have thrown out everything away,” Kostis told Reuters. Storm Daniel, Greece’s most intense since records began in 1930, swept through Thessaly for three days this month, killing 16 people […]

(Corrects title to EU Commission president in paragraph 11) ATHENS (Reuters) -In the mud and debris of the flooded village of Metamorfosi in central Greece, 60-year-old farmer Athanasios Kostis is throwing out the memories of a lifetime. “All my memories are here. Now it is all totally destroyed. We have thrown out everything away,” Kostis told Reuters. Storm Daniel, Greece’s most intense since records began in 1930, swept through Thessaly […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – An IT disruption paralysed the central infrastructure of the Volkswagen Group on Wednesday, a Volkswagen spokesperson confirmed to Reuters, as previously reported in Handelsblatt. The cause and the dimension of the problem are currently unknown, according to the Handelsblatt report. The VW spokesperson had no immediate further comment. Large parts of the IT infrastructure of the group and also the producing VW plants are said to have […]

By Katie Paul and Anna Tong MENLO PARK, California (Reuters) -Meta Platforms’ newest Quest mixed-reality headset will start shipping on Oct. 10, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said at an event on Wednesday where he is expected to give an update on his plan to build an immersive metaverse, which he sees as the future of computing. Meta first announced the Quest 3 over the summer, around the time Apple debuted […]

(Adds missing words “end of” in second paragraph) By Katie Paul and Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – A Meta Platforms executive overseeing the company’s efforts to develop its own chips for artificial intelligence work is leaving her position at the end of the month, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Alexis Black Bjorlin, vice president of infrastructure at Meta and a veteran of chip companies Broadcom and Intel, headed […]

(Adds missing words “end of” in second paragraph) By Katie Paul and Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – A Meta Platforms executive overseeing the company’s efforts to develop its own chips for artificial intelligence work is leaving her position at the end of the month, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Alexis Black Bjorlin, vice president of infrastructure at Meta and a veteran of chip companies Broadcom and Intel, headed […]

By Noel Randewich (Reuters) – Instacart’s stock dropped 4% on Wednesday, marking a fresh low a day after it closed for the first time under the price in the grocery delivery platform’s high-profile initial public offering. Shares of Instacart, formally called Maplebear, last traded at $28.71 compared to the $30 price set in its IPO on Sept. 18. Retail investors bought almost $12 million worth of Instacart shares in the […]

By Noel Randewich (Reuters) – Instacart’s stock dropped 4% on Wednesday, marking a fresh low a day after it closed for the first time under the price in the grocery delivery platform’s high-profile initial public offering. Shares of Instacart, formally called Maplebear, last traded at $28.71 compared to the $30 price set in its IPO on Sept. 18. Retail investors bought almost $12 million worth of Instacart shares in the […]

By Moira Warburton, David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday rejected a stopgap funding bill advancing in the Senate, bringing Washington closer to its fourth partial shutdown of the U.S. government in a decade in just four days. That would lead to the furlough of hundreds of thousands of federal workers and the suspension of a wide range of government services, from economic data releases […]