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Critically endangered New Zealand bird enjoys record breeding season triggered by mass fruiting of native tree, pushing its numbers to 325 The population of the world’s heaviest parrot, the kākāpō , has surpassed 300 birds for the first time in 75 years, after a record breeding season triggered by the mass fruiting of…
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A 400-megawatt fusion power plant using a stellarator design is moving closer to construction in Tennessee after Type One Energy received the state’s first fusion-specific license. The license clears a key regulatory step for Project Infinity, which is planned for the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Bull Run Energy Compl…
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The week before Christmas 2025, five mathematicians were holed up in a classroom at ETH Zurich. The mood was electric: They were this close to a career-defining breakthrough. The group — consisting of then-postdocs Sahar Diskin and Philip Easo, graduate student Ritvik Ramanan Radhakrishnan, Benny Sudakov, and Vincent…
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The Alienware AW2726DM is a wallet-friendly screen with premium features for gaming. While memory and storage prices are still high, there are still good discounts on other gaming-related hardware. Take Alienware’s AW2726DM , for example. Dell is selling it for $319.99, a $30 break from the usual price of $349.99. The…
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NASA's $4.3 billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, equipped with a 300-megapixel camera sighted through a refurbished spy mirror, launched Sunday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a mission to reveal the mysterious forces driving the Universe. The new mission will extend the vision of NASA's other famous obs…
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The Trump administration is halting vital federal research on the foodborne parasite Cyclospora, despite the record-breaking, nationwide outbreak of the diarrheal pathogen, according to Politico . Of the three research programs that represent nearly all of the Cyclospora work at the US Department of Agriculture, two h…
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A research team from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed an innovative "one-pot" testing platform, known as TEMPO, that could transform highly sensitive nucleic acid testing from a laboratory-based procedure into a simple, single-step test that can be performed at home. With a sing…
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Scientists have cracked a long-standing chemistry problem, creating nanocrystals from tough metal nitrides that were previously extremely difficult to produce at this scale. The breakthrough could turn familiar materials used in LEDs, implants, and superconductors into building blocks for flexible electronics, printab…
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And, on this day 29 years ago, the Good News Network made positive news available on the web for the first time. Geri Weis-Corbley, the founder, worked in TV news, freelancing for CNN and other media companies, until the advent of the internet when she created what is now the #1 source for inspiring news. […] The post…
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Average price of home rose 0.2% month on month in August to £275,465 as market awaits interest rate vote Houses near top state secondary schools ‘cost £40,000 more’ UK house prices increased for the first time in four months in August, according to a leading index, as buyers and sellers remained in a “holding pattern”…
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Ceddanne Rafaela is tagged out at home plate at Yankee Stadium on August 28th. | Getty Images This weekend, I strapped on an Apple Vision Pro to watch a baseball game in immersive virtual reality for the first time. It was technically impressive, visually pretty remarkable, and also didn't make that much sense. Apple…
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If you’re like many of our readers, you’ve got Ars Technica bookmarked and hit the front page a few times a day. But for others, a compelling story is what brings them here for the first time. And the discussions sometimes keep them coming back. Since its launch in 1998, Ars Technica has been known for its depth of co…
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Met Office figures due on Tuesday are likely to show that the previous record, set in 2025, has been broken after an unprecedented summer of persistent heat.
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Physicists have mathematically captured a bizarre “spacetime crystal” that can either dissolve or collapse into a microscopic black hole after only a tiny change in energy. Their breakthrough came from an unusual trick involving infinitely many dimensions, potentially giving researchers a new tool for studying primord…
technologysocial
OpenClaw has unveiled what its makers call its largest ever update – large enough to earn a 2.0 moniker – with usability taking center stage, along with some security updates that critics are suggesting will be insufficient. The OpenClaw foundation announced the release of version 2.0 of its AI agent harness on Sunday…
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KETTLE Windows XP is turning 25, and with AI still causing a memory crunch we're really missing the days of low-overhead OSes from Microsoft that just worked. You can listen to the latest episode of The Kettle right here on this page, as well as on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube. Those platforms also let you subscri…
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British energy company SSE Energy Supply refused to believe that there was no unit 8b at the property of Lyle Hopkins, a doctoral student at the University of Oxford. For more than 20 months, the company billed Hopkins at business rates, a total of £1,091.01, for an unused electricity meter on the property that had be…
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ANALYSIS VMware is about to lose its status as the undoubted leader of the virtualization market after a 20-year reign – a result it doesn’t mind one bit, but which also signals an industry-wide end to significant innovation for traditional server virtualization. The end of VMware's reign will come slowly, then sudden…
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Over the next decade, Asian families will transfer an estimated $10 trillion—nearly twice the size of Germany’s GDP—to the next generation. Yet there’s a nuanced story emerging behind that headline figure. As people live longer, they’re rethinking how preserve their own independence while still passing enough wealth t…
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Workers thought to be stuck in underground areas at 11 sites after last week’s devastating flash floods Rescue teams are working to reach more than 900 missing hydropower workers, hundreds of whom are feared trapped in the tunnels and underground areas of 12 hydropower projects in Nepal after the devastating flash flo…
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Bill Gates is worried about AI. Nobody’s preparing for a future of mass unemployment, inhumanly powerful cyber attacks, and a massive accumulation of power and wealth among emperors of tech. Yes, that Bill Gates. Really. A mere 25 years since the Redmond global octopus squeezed its tentacles tighter with Windows XP, y…
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Curtiss-Wright has won roughly $40 million in contracts to supply critical hardware for the U.S. Army’s Indirect Fire Protection Capability Increment 2 (IFPC Inc 2). Leidos awarded the contracts for the ground-based air-defense system. Curtiss-Wright will provide electromechanical actuators and compact mission compute…
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JetZero has secured up to $100 million in new financing as it pushes development of its unconventional Z4 passenger aircraft. The capital will help advance the all-wing design toward full-scale flight testing and eventual production. The Z4 is designed to carry around 250 passengers across distances of up to 5,000 nau…
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Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has secured an approximately $35 million production award to manufacture military-grade hardware and related systems for a national security program, the company announced on August 31. The equipment is expected to support warfighters operating directly in the field. Kratos will pro…
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The U.S. Army has started prototype development of a new autonomous launcher that could give commanders more flexible firepower across the battlefield. The service awarded a $33.4 million Other Transaction Agreement to the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), which will integrate the system’s major components. The…
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by Md Ahosanul Haque Shahid, Ajran Kabir, Shanta Das, Md. Tanvir Rahman, K. H. M. Nazmul Hussain Nazir Fowl cholera (FC), caused by Pasteurella multocida type A, represents a major threat to poultry production worldwide. Detailed characterization of the genotypic, phenotypic, and antimicrobial resistance profiles is e…
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Orbify.eu, a two-year-old Norwegian startup, wants people to see the world in a new way – through a warped lens that bends rendered map scenes into the dream sequence perspective seen in Christopher Nolan's movie Inception. The geospatial biz, co-founded by Karsten Huitfeldt, is developing image processing software th…
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Advanced nuclear energy firm ONE Nuclear has secured site control for a 2.88 GW power project in Louisiana that will also include a massive battery storage system and a co-located data center campus. The project, called Project Cayman, is being developed near Louisiana’s RiverPlex MegaPark and northeast of SpaceX’s re…
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For many high school students, summer vacation is a time to unplug. For Ruchira Shree, a rising sophomore at West Windsor–Plainsboro High School South , in New Jersey, the break allows her to ramp up her extracurricular pursuits. Much of her time is spent assisting with IEEE Princeton Central Jersey Section activities…
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Broadcom has decided to take responsibility for the security of some important open-source software, namely the Spring Java application framework and RabbitMQ. Australian developer Rod Johnson created the precursor to Spring in 2002, then found collaborators to tread the well-worn path towards monetizing open source s…
technologysocial
Two South Florida teens with a penchant for volunteering have used their IT skills to build an app that facilitates the donation of pizzas from local restaurants to local charities. It streamlines the donation process, allowing anyone to send fresh pizzas from any nearby restaurant to any nearby charity of their choic…
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Meta is testing robots that can plug in cables, reset servers, and handle other tasks inside its data centers , according to several current and former workers familiar with the projects. The ongoing effort, which has not been previously reported, may eventually allow Meta to operate its rapidly expanding data center…
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A year on from the purge, with thousands of jobs cut and billions in foreign aid lost, a former leader reflects on the sorry saga – and why it would never happen to Nasa A year has passed since I and thousands of colleagues lost our jobs at USAID. Asking myself “Why us?” I have come to the conclusion that the American…
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VMware is working to find new roles for its memory tiering technology, in the expectation that memory and hardware prices will remain high for years and users will therefore look for ways to put off server purchases. Memory tiering moves data out of DRAM and onto another storage medium that’s fast enough that CPUs can…
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The proliferation of custom AI ASICs, or XPUs, from OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and others has led many to question Nvidia's grip on the market. After all, if everybody's building their own, who needs the GPUs the AI arms dealer has made its fortune on? But Nvidia isn't concerned in the least and has instead invited its…
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Google raised the price of its 4K streaming box to $149, up $50 from its original $99 price. The new price is currently live at the Google Store and Best Buy , but Amazon appears to still be offering the original price. The price hike comes just a couple of weeks after Google launched its new lineup of Pixel 11 phones…