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A legal feud between the co-founders of Lux Optics, the developer behind the Halide camera app, revealed that Apple was close to acquiring the company. As first reported by The Information, Apple held acquisition talks for Lux Optics, which also developed the Kino, Spectre and Orion apps, in the sum…

Shop early Pokémon deals before Amazon's Big Spring Sale, from TCG boxes and tins to discounted Nintendo Switch games.

China, Russia, Iran and others are embracing and rapidly advancing this new war-fighting technology. The United States cannot afford to be on the wrong side of “World War Drone.”

Physicists have directly visualized the fundamental electronic building blocks of flat-band quantum materials, a class of systems in which electron motion is effectively quenched and strong interactions give rise to emergent phases of matter. In a study published in Nature Physics, Qimiao Si's group…

A slight majority of Americans support repatriating sites dedicated to Cesar Chavez, after the late civil rights leader was accused of sexually abusing minors, according to a new survey. The YouGov poll, released Friday, found that 51 percent of respondents believe these sites should be renamed, wit…

Quantum computers could revolutionize everything from drug discovery to business analytics—but their incredible power also makes them surprisingly vulnerable. New research from Penn State warns that today’s quantum machines are not just futuristic tools, but potential gold mines for hackers. The stu…

Police in Scotland have charged an Iranian man and a Romanian woman after they tried to enter a naval base that houses Britain’s nuclear-armed submarines

President Trump said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is slowing down a peace deal for the war in Ukraine, according to Reuters. "I think he's ready to make a deal," Trump said during a Reuters interview, talking about Russian President Vladimir Putin. "I think Ukraine is less ready to make a …

JWST peered at the glowing trail of stars left behind by a candidate runaway supermassive black hole deep in space, revealing new insights after other telescopes looked at the event.

The case, escalating the interstate battle over abortion, is the second time Louisiana has criminally charged out-of-state doctors with sending abortion pills to Louisiana residents.

Failed promises are reshaping how Gen Z approaches financial decisions and their role in the economy. Call it “disillusionomics,” Alice Lassman says.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that the U.S. was sending the “first humanitarian shipment” to Cuba to help residents recovering from Hurricane Melissa. “We are working with the Catholic Church and partners to ensure aid reaches the Cuban people directly – not the illegitimate regim…

Israel says 91 hostages abducted on Oct. 7 remain in captivity, including the bodies of at least 34.

In his 10 years at MIT, Loureiro helped illuminate the physics occurring at the center of fusion vacuum chambers and at the edges of the universe.

Plants make substances called alkaloids to protect themselves, and humans have long taken advantage of these chemicals, using them in painkillers, treatments for disease and household products such as caffeine and nicotine.

The actor embarks on a "thrilling adventure" across seven expeditions — here's how to watch "Pole to Pole with Will Smith" online from anywhere.

NASA's Artemis 2 rollout could be as early as this weekend as the space agency makes final preparations for its first crewed Artemis moon mission.

Usually the term "divorced" implies you no longer have a wife ...

Canonical is making it easier for ARM64 Ubuntu users like those on the NVIDIA DGX Spark to do a bit of gaming with Steam. Canonical engineers have assembled a Steam Snap for 64-bit ARM that comes complete with the FEX emulator for running Windows/Linux x86-based games on ARM64 Linux...

People still use Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projects.

Chinese, Russian and Iranian warships are in South African waters for a week of naval drills as geopolitical tensions run high over the United States’ intervention in Venezuela

On December 24 2025, Linus Torvalds posted a strongly worded message celebrating a ruling in the ongoing GPL-compliance lawsuit filed against VIZIO by the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). This case and Torvalds's response have put a spotlight on an old debate over the extent to which the source-…

The Civil Aviation Authority reckons up to half a million people in the UK may be impacted by its new requirements.

A plaque honoring law enforcement personnel who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack will go on display inside the building, senators decided Thursday. The Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution directing the Architect of the Capitol to “prominently display” the memorial i…

Jupiter reaches opposition overnight on Jan. 10, when it appears its brightest in 2026 opposite the sun in Earth's sky.

As federal services deteriorate, a patchwork of private companies is taking their place — for better or for worse.

Anger over the fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis was compounded when border patrol agents shot a man and a woman in Portland, Oregon.

A $1 million prize awaits anyone who can show where the math of fluid flow breaks down. With specially trained AI systems, researchers have found a slew of new candidates in simpler versions of the problem. The post Using AI, Mathematicians Find Hidden Glitches in Fluid Equations first ap…

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Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security   The Big Story A fifth Venezuela-linked tanker taken by US The U.S. early Friday seized a fifth oil tanker linked to Venezuela in its campaign to control oil experts from the South Amer…

arXiv:2508.09779v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across multi-modal tasks by scaling model size and training data. However, these dense LVLMs incur significant computational costs and motivate the exploration of sparse…

The request came after hours of questioning of the bar’s co-owners. Some 40 people died in the fire that broke out during a New Year’s celebration.

Estate of bankrupt car parts maker alleges ‘unlawful scheme to defraud creditors out of billions of dollars’

Everything you need to know to preorder the upcoming Star Wars-themed SMART Play LEGO sets, with SMART Bricks, tags, and minifigures.

The U.S. early Friday seized a fifth oil tanker linked to Venezuela in its campaign to control oil exports from the South American country. The Olina was seized in international waters east of the Caribbean Sea by the U.S. Coast Guard in coordination with the Defense Department, State Department and…

The Romantic, Mars' first album in nearly a decade, arrives on February 27th. Bruno Mars Sticks to Tried-and-True Formula on New Single “I Just Might” Paolo Ragusa

arXiv:2601.04225v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Claims about whether large language model (LLM) chatbots "reason" are typically debated using curated benchmarks and laboratory-style evaluation protocols. This paper offers a complementary perspective: a student-led field experiment embedded as a mid…

Officials in Minnesota said that federal agencies had denied them access to evidence from the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman on Wednesday.

arXiv:2601.04504v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Increasing concerns over the scarcity of inertia have motivated the procurement of inertia as an ancillary service (AS). Despite numerous academic and practical efforts, there remains a lack of consensus regarding the definition and treatment of inert…

Machine learning technique teaches power-generating kites to extract energy from turbulent airflows more effectively, boosting their efficiency The post Reinforcement learning could help airborne wind energy take off appeared first on Physics World.

arXiv:2412.08973v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Cross-modal contrastive distillation has recently been explored for learning effective 3D representations. However, existing methods focus primarily on modality-shared features, neglecting the modality-specific features during the pre-training pro…

The process might be thought of as analogous to one company buying another

Emily Henry’s hit book has been adapted into a glossily made yet charmless attempt to resurrect the friends-to-lovers formulaReleased just as the weather turns to freezing and we’re all daydreaming of an escape, Netflix’s early January romcom People We Meet on Vacation is at the very least smartly t…

California, Colorado, Minnesota, Illinois and New York called the move an unconstitutional abuse of power.

Mexico, Middle East and parts of Europe are among the top markets, data shows

Oliver Laxe’s “Sirât” is both ambitious and radical, according to the film’s composer and musician Kangding Ray. “Sirât” is Oscar shortlisted across numerous categories, including casting, cinematography, international feature, sound and original score. The film follows Luis (Sergi López), a father, and his son Esteban (Brúno Nuñez), who arrive at a desert rave in the […]

BenchValue – Benchmarking wood material value chains against non-renewable value chains by using and expanding assessment tool “ToSIA” Rach.Colling Thu, 01.04.2018 - 12:44

Renewable wood-based materials can help to reduce GHG emissions i…

The ICE agent who shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday has been identified through court documents. CBS News chief correspondent Matt Gutman is on the ground in Minnesota with more.

Health care affordability is a major concern for vulnerable Republican lawmakers.

The Ecovacs Deebot T50 Omni robot vacuum and mop is down to $449 at Amazon. That's over 30% off and its best price on record.

When dealing with public money “the public should be able to impose whatever restrictions they want on you,” Luckey said.

This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Secretary of State Marco Rubio joins to discuss the U.S. military operation in Venezuela that led to the capture of Nicolás Maduro and his wife. Rep. Jim Himes, Sen. Tom Cotton and Sen. Chris Van Hollen also join.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) took a swing at Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday over the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in his city, saying “she knows her narrative about domestic terrorism is bulls---.” “Let's call a spade a sp…

David Bowie’s childhood home south of London will be restored and opened to the public late in 2027, Heritage of London Trust announced on Thursday. The property, located at 4 Plaistow Grove in Bromley, Kent, was the young David Jones’ artist’s home from ages 8 to 20 (1955–1967), which includes the …

ETFs that target aerospace and defense stocks are beating the S&P 500 so far in 2026.

The brain constantly blends split-second reactions with slower, more thoughtful processing, and new research shows how it pulls this off. Scientists discovered that brain regions operate on different internal clocks and rely on white matter connections to share information across these timescales. T…

Rachel Talalay, director of the sixth 'Nightmare on Elm Street' movie, filmed but cut the original ending.

Five Senate Republicans voted Thursday to advance a bipartisan resolution on the War Powers Act to block President Trump from using military force against Venezuela, a proposal that if enacted would unravel the administration’s plan to take control of Venezuela’s oil exports. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.),…

Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder may have solved a pressing mystery about the universe's gravitational wave background.

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The Prudhoe ice dome disappeared during a warm period 7000 years ago. Global warming could cause similar temperatures by 2100, showing the Greenland ice sheet’s vulnerability

BBC Verify breaks down how the shooting which killed a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis unfolded.

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U.S. sanctions helped cause the near-total collapse of Venezuelan oil production — damage that President Trump is now using as justification for his military strike against the country.

Secessionist STC had de facto control over most of southern Yemen, but then squandered it by going too far.

Motorola unveiled a proof of concept wearable AI as part of its AI living ecosystem

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Wednesday joked about a Venezuela-linked oil tanker seized by the U.S. flying a Russian flag, calling it a birthday present for his GOP colleague Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.). “To Senator @RandPaul, Happy Birthday!” Graham said in a post on the social platform X. “I hope toda…

Chip design company Arm Holdings Plc has created a new Physical AI business unit that’s going to be focused on developing semiconductors for robotics and intelligent cars. The announcement was made today at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, where robots have been a major theme, along with “physical AI” models …

This announcement originally appeared on the Headlamp blog. To simplify Kubernetes management and troubleshooting, we're thrilled to introduce Headlamp AI Assistant: a powerful new plugin for Headlamp that helps you understand and operate your Kubernetes clusters and applications with greater clarit…

SpaceX continues to accelerate production of its next-generation Starship vehicles at the Starfactory facility in… The post TPS evaluations taking place at Starbase on next two Ships to fly appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.

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The Kubernetes NodeSwap feature, likely to graduate to stable in the upcoming Kubernetes v1.34 release, allows swap usage: a significant shift from the conventional practice of disabling swap for performance predictability. This article focuses exclusively on tuning swap on Linux nodes, where this f…

The head of Brazil’s Audit Court said that only the Supreme Court can reverse a central bank decision to liquidate troubled Banco Master SA, effectively backing away from a previous threat to overturn the monetary authority’s ruling.

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Some Democrats are grumbling at their party's largely oppositional stance to President Trump's raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, saying privately that their colleagues should be celebrating.Why it matters: These lawmakers argue it could be a major political miscalculation if the p…

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arXiv:2509.00505v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We derive a discrete $ L^q-L^p$ Sobolev inequality tailored for the Crouzeix--Raviart and discontinuous Crouzeix--Raviart finite element spaces on anisotropic meshes in both two and three dimensions. Subject to a semi-regular mesh condition, this …

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Half of the index is exposed in Taiwan and China.

On Monday the first release candidate of the GStreamer 1.28 multimedia framework was released. As is a recurring focus in recent releases, more GStreamer code is written in Rust for memory safety especially around decoding content...

To say that a society has failed to form its young is not to absolve them of responsibility. It is to insist that responsibility does not emerge spontaneously. It must be cultivated, modeled, and demanded. The post Responsibility Is Not Victimhood appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AE…

GUC is proud to announce that its 3nm HBM4E IP has received the Five-Year Achievement Award for Best EDA & IP/Processor at the EE Awards Asia 2025. The post GUC’s HBM4E IP Honored with Best IP / Processor and Five-Year Achievement in EE Awards Asia 2025 appeared first on EE Times.

Using genomic barcodes to trace bacterial lineages within a host reveals previously unobservable dynamics of infection, including the impact of infection bottlenecks, routes of bacterial dissemination, and patterns of within-host evolution. Barcoding ...

Western cultural stories tend to emphasize perseverance. But science shows that knowing when to quit has a place in our success too.

A judge spiked the lawsuit Tuesday, saying she "in no way condones" people filing lawsuits with "inflammatory accusations" that they quickly abandon

Aleksa Sarai, as the maintainer of the runc container runtime, faces a constant battle against security problems. Recently, runc has seen

another instance of a security vulnerability that can be traced back to the difficulty of handling file paths on Linux. Sarai spoke at the 2025 Linux Plumbers Co…

Editor’s note: This story is part of a collaboration between Ensia and Egab exploring environmental efforts by communities facing potentially more urgent concerns such as war and poverty. Egab is a media startup that helps young local journalists from across the Middle East and Africa get published …

Uniswap (UNI) joined Sui (SUI) as a top performer, up 3.3% from Monday.

Ready for some wordplay? Sharpen your skills with Slate’s puzzle for Jan. 6, 2026.

While veteran open-source developer Keith Packard is known for his X.Org Server contributions over many years, another more recent open-source creation of his is Picolibc as a C library for embedded systems. As the latest achievement on that front, merged this weekend to the GCC 16 compiler codebase…

First, instead of moving storms quickly eastward, the sluggish jet stream stalled storm systems in place, causing prolonged downpours and flash flooding.

University College London has been awarded more than £44,000 through the National Cup Recycling Scheme’s Beyond the Bin fund to investigate why paper cups continue to be missed by mainstream recycling systems. University College London (UCL) has been named the winner of the National Cup Recycling Sc…

A new book by experts at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship offers 24 steps to success.

Environmental advocates notched key wins at local and state levels this year — despite the Trump administration’s rollbacks.