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As a child, engineering professor Tahira Reid Smith sketched a machine that could turn Double Dutch skipping ropes without human help for a school assignment. Forty years later, she’s brought…

ROME — Italy is preparing a new legal framework to formally establish a national military cyber domain, marking a significant step in the country’s effort to adapt its defense… more…

A probe into Scottish UFOs has been denied by UK Defence Chiefs as they state no sightings have ever posed a military threat to the country. Those investigating strange going…

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission may soon force mobile network operators to share each other’s infrastructure, particularly in regional areas… more Source www.itnews.com.au

Small drones often face one unavoidable limitation of battery power. That challenge now sits at the center of a new Air Force-backed research effort that could allow unmanned aircraft to…

LOS ANGELES and SANTA CRUZ, CA — August 4, 2026 — Atoms, the Industrial AI and Infrastructure company, and Joby Aviation, Inc. (NYSE: JOBY), the company developing electric air taxis…

The annual “Han Kuang” exercise, which runs from August 5-14, stages combat scenarios for troops and reservists to practise responding to an attack on the island, defence officials say. Civilians…

A weird issue floating around Google Chrome users for the past couple of months randomly signs users out of their accounts – have you run into this problem? Your Google…

He has shared a studio with Charles Barkley for over two decades. Survived every Inside the NBA segment Ernie Johnson has thrown at him and spent years being the target…

We asked readers to channel their inner Carolyn Hax and answer this question. Some of the best responses are below. Dear Carolyn: I’m almost 75. I am a retired professor…

Photo Credit: Fenix Flexin / Deezer LA rapper Fenix Flexin denies allegations that his new hit single was AI-generated, despite critics—and the AI platform it was said to be created…

Scientists and crew on board RRS Sir David Attenborough captured footage of a huge glacier calving event in East Greenland. The team were working near Sorgenfri Gletsjer, at the top…

Brazil’s energy agency reports that monthly oil output hit a new record in June, driven by outstanding performance in Brazil’s offshore oil patch. Almost all of that output comes from…

APOPKA, Fla. – After residents and business owners repeatedly raised concerns about water quality with News 6, records and responses from the City of Apopka and state environmental regulators reveal…

Water levels on the Danube River, the second longest in Europe, have dropped so low because of drought that the hulks of dozens of World War II German battleships —…

SpaceX is partnering with @Nvidia to design the Starmind AI1 satellite compute payload. Each of the Starmind satellites will include NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and Vera CPUs for datacenter class space…

CarPlay will soon move beyond the road, with Crest and Balise set to bring Apple’s in-car interface to the helm of select pontoon boats. Here are the details. CarPlay takes…

It’s officially getting hard to keep track of all the times and ways AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic have been involved in “security incidents,” going outside the confines of…

In another sign that SpaceX might eventually compete with traditional mobile carriers, the company plans on using satellites and its own ground network to develop Starlink Mobile.   “We definitely intend…

Following last month’s sunsetting of TV Time, one of the app’s co-founders, Antonio Pinto, announced Bingers, a new TV and movies tracking app that leans more heavily on social features….

World Athletics President Sebastian Coe, USA Track & Field CEO Max Siegel and TrackTown USA COO Jody Smith (© World Athletics Christel Saneh) Coe was joined at the pre-event press…

The city of Jacksonville is responding to our questions about growing food on residential properties — after several people showed up to a City Council meeting last month proposing the…

Congrats, you’re all set for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026! Or, you might still be on the fence and wondering about your accommodations. Either way, the reality is San Francisco can be an expensive place to stay, which…

An armed man was arrested Sunday outside Trump National Golf Club in Southern California after federal agents reported a suspicious person walking the property, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX spent an eye-watering $18.4 billion in its first quarter as a publicly traded company and warned investors to expect similarly high spending in the next two financial…

For the second summer in three years, Charli xcx has dominated the pop discussion with a new release. This year, it’s with Music, Fashion, Film, her much-anticipated official follow-up to…

SpaceX wants to turn Starlink Mobile into a full-fledged mobile carrier, and it expects to hit the Big Three wireless giants in the process. During SpaceX’s first earnings call since…

Omar Lotfi’s family has been crushed under the weight of unanswered questions ever since he went missing. From pleas on social media to contacting hospitals, aid groups and authorities, they’ve…

Kansas voters have rejected a Republican-backed constitutional amendment that would have allowed them to directly elect state Supreme Court justices, The Associated Press projects. In Kansas, the governor — who…