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Paramount Skydance has a favorite company to hire from: Google. David Ellison’s company has brought on two more former Google execs, product chief Dane Glasgow told employees in a memo…

BEIJING (AP) — China has successfully recaptured the first stage of a rocket on land for the first time, state media reported Wednesday, as the country seeks to advance its…

On Tuesday, Pixel Watch 1 owners encountered a Google Health error message about needing to update their wearable. Google has confirmed that this was a bug and that the original…

A Parker County first responder lost his wife and two young sons Monday night when a fire consumed their mobile home. According to Parker County ESD 6 Fire Chief Nicholas…

LACASSINE, La. (KPLC) – A $2.86 million water booster station in Lacassine is expected to bring increased storage capacity and water pressure nearly 13 miles closer to residents in western…

HANGZHOU, China, Aug. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Greenland Technologies Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: GTEC) (“Greenland” or the “Company”), a developer and manufacturer of transmission and drivetrain systems for material handling machinery…

Three members of Illinois women’s basketball are representing their countries in Guadalajara, Mexico, as Aaliyah Guyton, Lety Vasconcelos and Cearah Parchment compete in the FIBA Women’s Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament. Guyton…

File under “stupid publicity stunt that I shouldn’t even be writing about, but here I am, writing about it.” Last week, former NBA players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White…

Kaplan/Chinchilla scaling laws provide a broad description of the resources needed to improve AI. The measured relationship is that loss falls as a power law in compute: L ≈ L∞…

Investigators are trying to determine why a Cirrus Vision Jet attempted to take off from a runway that was closed for construction at Driggs-Reed Memorial Airport (DIJ) in Idaho, resulting…

The pinging from a stolen iPad’s tracking feature helped lead its owner to a burglary and theft suspect in unincorporated Oak Grove earlier this month, the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office…

A NASA spacecraft circling the Moon is providing the sharpest views yet of a crater carved by a crashing SpaceX rocket, with the space agency releasing before-and-after photos of the…

MIAMI (AP) — A storm system moving west away from Hawaii has quickly strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said late Tuesday. The hurricane…

Helping every student stay engaged and supported throughout a lesson requires teachers to balance instruction, interaction, and individual learning needs. Managing these different needs while maintaining lesson flow can add…

Astronomers have discovered three active supermassive black holes in a single galaxy for the first time. Roberta Duarte Meteored Brazil 08/18/2026 3:59 PM 5 min Every massive galaxy has a…

Four airstrikes were carried out overnight against the Abu al-Duhur military airfield in Idlib province in northwestern Syria, Arab media reported on Tuesday.  The identity of the aircraft that carried…

Kaohsiung, Aug. 18 (CNA) The head of a Taiwanese technology company has been detained on suspicion of violating the National Security Act by using Chinese-made components in drones supplied under…

Komatsu Australia is switching around 1800 pieces of Smart Construction and Smart Quarry equipment from Telstra’s SIMs to Zscaler Cellular for better security and coverage. The new SIMs will be…

In 2025 the world spent $2,887 billion on its armed forces. That is the highest figure SIPRI has ever recorded, the eleventh consecutive annual increase, and it works out at…

What if one of the most powerful figures in the U.S. government was allegedly involved in a secret encounter with beings not of this world? UFO whistleblower David Grusch has…

With questions about stockpiles swirling, the U.S. Army is issuing a call to ramp up production of ground-launched rockets. The service sent out a request this week for manufacturing 133,014…

Hyderabad: Indrajaal Autonomous Defense Systems, a Hyderabad-based anti-drone tech startup, has secured orders worth ₹155 crore for its Indrajaal Ranger, a purpose-built anti-drone patrol vehicle, from Union ministry of home…

NASA’s Boeing 777 shows off a new paint job in this Aug. 11, 2026, photo. The B777 was acquired to replace and extend the capabilities of the NASA DC-8, which…

GitHub is still working to mitigate an overnight incident that at one point failed half of all archive and raw repository content downloads. Enterprise identity services were hit too, with…

Stunning drone footage by Rolf Clarke captures a mother polar bear and her two cubs carefully making their way across melting ice floes in Svalbard, Norway. As the family crosses…

A UFO whistleblower is begging Donald Trump for immunity so he can expose evidence of four alien species allegedly kept in secret US military institutes A scientist has urged Donald…

The United States and South Korea have shortened their large-scale annual military exercise and scaled back some combined field training at Washington’s request, Seoul’s military said Wednesday. South Korea’s Joint…

For years, American Airlines bet that travelers would rather watch in-flight movies on their own phones or tablets. On Tuesday, the airline said it plans to install seatback entertainment screens…

Google is acquiring internal business data from bankrupt Spirit Airlines for US$10 million ($14 million) to use for product development and AI training. The data covers employee emails, Microsoft Teams…