Scientists are baffled by a powerful and long-lasting gamma ray explosion outside our galaxy
Read full article: Scientists are baffled by a powerful and long-lasting gamma ray explosion outside our galaxyScientists have discovered a gamma ray explosion outside our galaxy that's not only exceptionally powerful, but also long-lasting.
Ethiopia inaugurates Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam as neighbors eye power imports
Read full article: Ethiopia inaugurates Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam as neighbors eye power importsEthiopia has inaugurated Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam to produce more than 5,000 megawatts and boost the electric vehicle industry in a country that has banned the importation of gasoline-powered vehicles.
Nepal internet crackdown part of global trend toward suppressing online freedom
Read full article: Nepal internet crackdown part of global trend toward suppressing online freedomNepal’s crackdown on social media companies, which led to protests and police killing at least 19 people Monday, is part of a yearslong decline of internet freedoms around the world as even democracies seek to curtail online speech.
US firm makes a $500 million investment deal with Pakistan for critical minerals
Read full article: US firm makes a $500 million investment deal with Pakistan for critical mineralsA U.S. metals company has signed an agreement with Pakistan, pledging to invest an initial $500 million in the country’s largely untapped critical minerals sector.
Judge skewers $1.5B Anthropic settlement with authors in pirated books case over AI training
Read full article: Judge skewers $1.5B Anthropic settlement with authors in pirated books case over AI trainingA federal judge on Monday skewered a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half million books had been illegally pirated to train chatbots, raising the specter that the case could still end up going to trial.
Warming seas threaten key phytoplankton species that fuels the food web, study finds
Read full article: Warming seas threaten key phytoplankton species that fuels the food web, study findsNew research suggests that a tiny phytoplankton that is an essential part of the marine food web may decline sharply as oceans warm.
Balzan prizes of nearly $1 million awarded for democracy studies and advances in leukemia treatment
Read full article: Balzan prizes of nearly $1 million awarded for democracy studies and advances in leukemia treatmentThe Switzerland-based Balzan Foundation on Monday announced four awards of nearly $1 million for excellence in the humanities and hard sciences.
In LA port, bobbing blue floats are turning wave power into clean energy
Read full article: In LA port, bobbing blue floats are turning wave power into clean energyAt the Port of Los Angeles on a site that once housed oil tanks, seven steel structures that look like small blue boats are lowered into the ocean, where they gently bob up and down with the waves to generate power.
Police open fire on protests of Nepal's social media policy, killing at least 17
Read full article: Police open fire on protests of Nepal's social media policy, killing at least 17Police in Nepal’s capital of Kathmandu opened fire on demonstrators protesting a government attempt to regulate social media that blocked some of the world’s largest platforms, including Facebook, X and YouTube.
AI shakes up the call center industry, but some tasks are still better left to the humans
Read full article: AI shakes up the call center industry, but some tasks are still better left to the humansArtificial intelligence is transforming call centers by streamlining tasks and improving customer service.
Sweden's plans to mine rare-earth minerals could ruin the lives of Indigenous Sami reindeer herders
Read full article: Sweden's plans to mine rare-earth minerals could ruin the lives of Indigenous Sami reindeer herdersAn expanding iron-ore mine and a deposit of rare-earth minerals are fragmenting the land in northern Sweden and altering ancient reindeer migration routes.
Undersea cables cut in the Red Sea, disrupting internet access in Asia and the Mideast
Read full article: Undersea cables cut in the Red Sea, disrupting internet access in Asia and the MideastUndersea cable cuts in the Red Sea have disrupted internet access in parts of Asia and the Middle East.
Radioactive metal at an Indonesia industrial site may be linked to shrimp recall
Read full article: Radioactive metal at an Indonesia industrial site may be linked to shrimp recallInternational officials say contaminated metal at an industrial site in Indonesia could be the source of radioactive material behind recalls of imported shrimp.
FCC taking steps that would allow US prisons to jam prisoners' cellphone signals
Read full article: FCC taking steps that would allow US prisons to jam prisoners' cellphone signalsFederal officials are moving a step closer to allowing state and federal prisons to jam cellphone signals from devices smuggled to inmates.
Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion to settle lawsuit over pirated books used to train AI chatbots
Read full article: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion to settle lawsuit over pirated books used to train AI chatbotsArtificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot.
Attorneys general warn OpenAI and other tech companies to improve chatbot safety
Read full article: Attorneys general warn OpenAI and other tech companies to improve chatbot safetyThe attorneys general of California and Delaware have expressed serious concerns about the safety of OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT, especially for children and teens.
Don't look now, but there's an AI-generated Italian teacup on your child's phone. What does it mean?
Read full article: Don't look now, but there's an AI-generated Italian teacup on your child's phone. What does it mean?Ballerina Cappuccina, an AI-generated cartoon ballerina with a cappuccino teacup for a head, has become a viral sensation on TikTok.
Google hit with $3.5 billion fine from European Union in ad-tech antitrust case
Read full article: Google hit with $3.5 billion fine from European Union in ad-tech antitrust caseEuropean Union regulators on Friday hit Google with a $3.5 billion fine for breaching the bloc’s competition rules by favoring its own digital advertising services.
Pentagon-funded research at colleges has aided the Chinese military, a House GOP report says
Read full article: Pentagon-funded research at colleges has aided the Chinese military, a House GOP report saysA congressional investigation finds the Pentagon has funded research involving collaboration with Chinese entities linked to China's defense sector.
Scientists tap 'secret' fresh water under the ocean, raising hopes for a thirsty world
Read full article: Scientists tap 'secret' fresh water under the ocean, raising hopes for a thirsty worldScientists conducting a first-of-its-kind drilling operation have extracted samples of fresh water hiding in massive reservoirs deep under the ocean.
Trillion dollar man: New pay package could make Musk that much richer if Tesla thrives
Read full article: Trillion dollar man: New pay package could make Musk that much richer if Tesla thrivesTesla is asking its investors to approve a proposed compensation package for CEO Elon Musk that could be worth almost $1 trillion and is based on the electric vehicle maker hitting certain ambitious milestones over the next decade.
A wildly popular 15-year-old computer whiz is becoming the Catholic Church's first millennial saint
Read full article: A wildly popular 15-year-old computer whiz is becoming the Catholic Church's first millennial saintPope Leo XIV will preside over his first canonization ceremony Sunday to create the first millennial saint.
Google facing $425.7 million in damages for nearly a decade of improper smartphone snooping
Read full article: Google facing $425.7 million in damages for nearly a decade of improper smartphone snoopingA federal jury has ordered Google to pay $425.7 million for improperly snooping on people’s smartphones during a nearly decade-long period of intrusions.
Most enduring and biggest iceberg breaks apart, with more splintering to come in its death spiral
Read full article: Most enduring and biggest iceberg breaks apart, with more splintering to come in its death spiralThe world's largest iceberg, A23A, is breaking into smaller pieces and may not last beyond November.
Al Roker lends his voice and meteorology skills to the new PBS Kids animated show 'Weather Hunters'
Read full article: Al Roker lends his voice and meteorology skills to the new PBS Kids animated show 'Weather Hunters'Al Roker has launched his own educational cartoon TV show called “Weather Hunters” on PBS Kids.
June Cleaver the loggerhead turtle is released into the ocean off Florida after rehab
Read full article: June Cleaver the loggerhead turtle is released into the ocean off Florida after rehabMarine biologists on Florida's Space Coast have released June Cleaver, a 230-pound loggerhead turtle, back into the ocean.
Trump administration agrees to restore health websites and data
Read full article: Trump administration agrees to restore health websites and dataFederal officials have agreed to restore health- and science-related webpages and data following a lawsuit settlement with doctors' groups and other organizations.
Notorious online soccer piracy network Streameast shut down, antipiracy group says
Read full article: Notorious online soccer piracy network Streameast shut down, antipiracy group saysNotorious online soccer piracy network Streameast has been shut down after more than 1.6 billion visits in the past year.
Judge orders search shakeup in Google monopoly case, but keeps hands off Chrome and default deals
Read full article: Judge orders search shakeup in Google monopoly case, but keeps hands off Chrome and default dealsA federal judge on Tuesday ordered a shake-up of Google’s search engine in an attempt to curb the corrosive power of an illegal monopoly while rebuffing the U.S. government’s attempt to break up the company and impose other restraints.
What to know about Russia's GPS jamming operation in Europe
Read full article: What to know about Russia's GPS jamming operation in EuropeBulgarian authorities aren't investigating a suspected Russian interference operation involving a plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen because they say the interference is now common.
Humanoid robots showcase skills at Ancient Olympia. But they're on a long road to catch up to AI
Read full article: Humanoid robots showcase skills at Ancient Olympia. But they're on a long road to catch up to AIHumanoid robots kicked soccer balls, boxed and even attempted archery at the birthplace of the Olympic Games in Ancient Olympia.
Earthquake in eastern Afghanistan destroys villages and kills 800 people, with 2,500 injured
Read full article: Earthquake in eastern Afghanistan destroys villages and kills 800 people, with 2,500 injuredA strong earthquake in eastern Afghanistan has killed at least 800 people and injured over 2,500.
Climate change made deadly wildfires in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus more fierce, study finds
Read full article: Climate change made deadly wildfires in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus more fierce, study findsA new study says climate change that has driven scorching temperatures and dwindling rainfall made massive wildfires in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus this summer burn much more fiercely.
Online age checks are proliferating, but so are concerns they curtail internet freedom
Read full article: Online age checks are proliferating, but so are concerns they curtail internet freedomOnline age checks are on the rise in the U.S. and elsewhere, asking people for IDs or face scans to prove they are over 18 or 21 or even 13.
The call of a native frog is heard again in Southern California thanks to help from Mexico and AI
Read full article: The call of a native frog is heard again in Southern California thanks to help from Mexico and AIEfforts to restore the red-legged frog to Southern California, where it had all but disappeared, seemed doomed when the COVID-19 pandemic struck and restrictions were put in place at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Cyberattack shuts down Nevada state offices and websites, governor's office says
Read full article: Cyberattack shuts down Nevada state offices and websites, governor's office saysA cyberattack has caused Nevada’s state offices to close for two days this week and rendered some government websites and phone lines unavailable.
Melania Trump invites K-12 students to participate in nationwide AI challenge contest
Read full article: Melania Trump invites K-12 students to participate in nationwide AI challenge contestMelania Trump is inviting students in grades K-12 to participate in a government-sponsored nationwide contest using artificial intelligence.
AT&T snatches up wireless spectrum licenses from EchoStar for $23 billion
Read full article: AT&T snatches up wireless spectrum licenses from EchoStar for $23 billionAT&T said Tuesday that it’s spending $23 billion to acquire certain wireless spectrum licenses from EchoStar, a significant expansion of AT&T’s low- and mid-band coverage networks.
Trump vows retaliation against countries with digital rules targeting US tech
Read full article: Trump vows retaliation against countries with digital rules targeting US techPresident Donald Trump has vowed to impose new tariffs and export curbs on countries with digital taxes or regulations affecting American tech companies.