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EPHRATA — The city of Ephrata welcomed its newest athletic club earlier this summer with Desert City Fitness setting up along Basin Street. Since their grand opening June 6, the…

AI is disrupting career progression by eliminating the learning opportunities at each rung while simultaneously enabling people to perform above their experience level, Alasdair Allan explained in his talk Engineering…

Aug. 13, 2026, 7:02 a.m. ET The Philadelphia Phillies aren’t in heaven. They’re in Iowa. The Phillies will face the Minnesota Twins in the 2026 MLB at Field of Dreams…

Wireless charging makes a daily task just a little bit easier, and Google’s versatile Pixelsnap Charger with Stand is one of the best wireless chargers at full price. And right…

AP —  Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday for the first time visited the Kuril Islands, a Russian-controlled Pacific island chain also claimed by Japan, in a move that drew a…

MarginEdge’s latest funding comes as the company continues to broaden its role in restaurant operations beyond traditional back-office automation. By Dustin Stone, RTN staff writer – 8.12.2026 MarginEdge has secured…

Connecticut has joined a coalition of states suing over federal rules that protect national banks from state laws dictating how interest generated by mortgage escrow accounts is used. The lawsuit,…

What’s confusing you about your student loans? Over the past year, Business Insider has heard from over 1,000 student-loan borrowers who described challenges, concerns, and confusion related to President Donald…

Big Bend National Park, Texas —  The towering cliffs, jagged mountain tops, and punishing desert climate of the Big Bend region in Texas have long proved to be the best barrier…

November 2026 and Feb 2027 projections by extrapolating the recent doubling rates. Doubling times are taking ~4 months for the amount of human work time AI can perform. Another ~1.5–2×…

Inspired by Montessori principles, Pok Pok replaces levels and high scores with digital toys that encourage curiosity. Kids can explore space, experiment with shapes, make music, solve puzzles, play with…

State regulators are considering whether to allow utilities in New York to once again generate their own power. The state forced utilities to sell off power plants in the 1990s…

Envision Racing has confirmed that both Sébastien Buemi and Joel Eriksson will leave their race seats at the end of the current Formula E season, with the team set to…

MARION, Iowa (KCRG) – Marion Police say a man that died last week in an e-bike crash along Grant Wood Trail has been identified. Police say the crash took place…

It’s the age-old question about our national pastime: Is it “have a catch” or “play catch”? In the classic 1989 film “Field of Dreams,” the inspiration for Thursday night’s third…

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that the BTI Consulting Group has recognized partner Lauren Campisi as a 2026 BTI Client Service All-Star.  She is among 256 attorneys…

LAFAYETTE, La. (KADN) – Billionaire Elon Musk’s private jet was spotted at the Lafayette Regional Airport on Monday, sparking speculation about a potential aerospace development in south Louisiana. According to…

For a long, long time, Sonic games were practically a running joke. After Sonic Adventure 2 was released for the Dreamcast, the quality plummeted, and for nearly two decades, it…

Dogecoin (DOGE) edges above the daily open, trading above $0.070 as of Thursday. While this uptick offers a positive signal, DOGE continues to trade within a broader bearish context, down…

Emile Hirsch (The Autopsy of Jane Doe) has joined the cast of sci-fi action thriller Final Invasion opposite Anthony Michael Hall (Halloween Kills), Claire Forlani (Mystery Men), and Stephen Lang…

Woolworths Group is relocating some of its core applications to run at the network edge to reduce the impact of system outages, particularly on replenishment… more Source www.itnews.com.au

With the Iran war in its sixth month and unmanned systems having played a defining role in the conflict, U.S. Central Command said Thursday it was launching a new drone…

In summary Nightmare Eclipse has released a proof of concept called ShieldBreak, a zero-day flaw in Defender that allows privilege escalation to SYSTEM with no patch yet available. The exploit…

For a large portion of the year, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) were the two worst-performing “Magnificent Seven” stocks, but they’ve gone in two different directions since their…

A person in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic has been fined $5,255 for using a foghorn to wake a sleeping polar bear, local officials said Thursday. The incident took…

Negotiations between Warsaw and Kyiv regarding the transfer of Polish MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine are nearing completion, Polish media outlet Wirtualna Polska reports on August 13. Under the proposed…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Friday threatened to exercise its right to self-defense in a statement that slammed the upcoming U.S.-South Korean military drills as a war…

TUI Group’s tour operator and airline activities fell into the red during the third quarter of its 2026 financial year, as the war involving Iran affected holiday demand, pushed up…

Disruptive companies can make for profitable investments, and two of the most popular stocks in this category are Space Exploration Technologies (SPCX -3.33%) and Oklo (OKLO +2.92%). SpaceX is a…