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Sunday August 24, 2025. 08:34 PM
'Delta Air Lines Flight 1334 was flying from Atlanta to Fort Lauderdale last month when smoke and flames started pouring out of a backpack,' reports CNN. 'The pilots declared an emergency and diverted to Fort Meyers where the 191 people onboard safely evacuated.' The culprit ...
The mysterious X-37B space-plane — the U.S. military's orbital test vehicle — 'serves partly as a platform for cutting-edge experiments,' writes Space.com And 'one of these experiments is a potential alternative to GPS that makes use of quantum science as a tool for...
The BBC reports a growing trend in music: 'for established (but not superstar) artists to be targeted by fake albums or songs that suddenly appear on their pages on Spotify and other streaming services.' Even dead musicians have had AI-generated 'new' material added to their ...
Archer Aviation is 'the official air taxi partner' of the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Electrek reported in May. In June it entered 'a key development phase ahead of full-fledged flight certification and commercial operations' by completing a piloted flight in its...
'Good news, everyone! The new version of Mozilla's browser now makes even more extensive use of AI,' writes the Register, 'providing summaries of linked content and offering developers the ability to add LLM support to extensions.' Firefox 142 brings some visible shininess,...
It’s a small world after all, and these cameras can capture all of it at once, giving you a 360-degree view.
At last, a Nintendo N64 controller designed for two-handed humans.
Help the whole family catch more z’s with soothing background noise from our favorite sound machines.
The Hill reports: Russian state-sponsored hackers have targeted thousands of networking devices associated with U.S. critical infrastructure sectors over the past year, the FBI warned Wednesday. The cyber actors are associated with the Russian Federal Security Service's...
Everything you need to know to build, run, serve, optimize and quantize models on your PC Hands on Training large language models (LLMs) may require millions or even billion of dollars of infrastructure, but the fruits of that labor are often more accessible than you might...
Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an inevitable by-product of their architecture.
Digital Rights Management software makes it difficult to copy movies, music, ebooks, and games that you already own. There are ways around it, but breaking DRM opens up legal and ethical concerns.
This persnickety number determines the strength of magnetic fields. It figures in everything from motors and generators to audio speakers. Oh, and without it we’d live in eternal darkness.
For incentives remember the three Fs – finance, fame, and fixing it feature Thirty years ago, Netscape kicked off the first commercial bug bounty program. Since then, companies large and small have bought into the idea, with mixed results.…
The Atlantic reports some YouTube users noticed their uploaded videos have since 'been subtly augmented, their appearance changing without their creators doing anything...' 'For creators who want to differentiate themselves from the new synthetic content, YouTube seems...
'Google has confirmed that its Battery Health Assistance feature can't be turned off on the Pixel 10 phones,' reports Android Authority: Google introduced a Battery Health Assistance feature on the Pixel 9a earlier this year. This feature gradually drops your phone's...
'Solar and wind accounted for almost 91% of new U.S. electrical generating capacity added in the first five months of 2025...' reports Electrek, citing new data from America's Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. 'Solar has now been the largest source of new generating...
In March 2025, Earth was hit by a fast radio burst as energetic as the sun but lasting only milliseconds.
The U.S. government's 10% stake in Intel 'is a mistake,' writes the Washington Post's editorial board, calling Intel 'an aging also-ran in critical markets' that 'has spent recent years stumbling on execution and missing one strategic opportunity after another.' But...
Saturday August 23, 2025. 11:34 PM
Last weekend New Zealand experienced an hour-long air traffic control failure that disrupted flights, leaving five plans circling and four others unable to take off, according to Radio New Zealand. The country's sole air traffic service provider, Airways, now says it was...
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