
Sky News - 1 day 9 hours ago
Brain tumour patients are to be offered rapid genetic testing as part of a new pilot study which experts say could "transform" diagnosis and treatment.

Sky News - 1 day 9 hours ago
Replacing the UK's current windfall tax on oil and gas companies could cost the country up to 8.6bn by 2030, campaigners are warning.

New York Times - 1 day 9 hours ago
The European Commission's action against X, which is owned by Elon Musk, was "regulatory overreach," the Justice Department said in a statement.

Vox - 1 day 9 hours ago
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman looks on during a UN Security Council meeting on artificial intelligence during the 81st United Nations General Assembly on September 23, 2026. | Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images When the AI apocalypse becomes regular dinner-table conversation, you know we've reached the freakout stage. Rogue AI agents are hacking into competitors. Former Big Tech employees are posting Skynet-style warnings on social media. CEOs are crying for help in ways that have made this once-wonky...

GeekSpin - 1 day 10 hours ago
Japan is looking at a very tech-forward solution to an ongoing military recruitment shortage. The country is exploring whether humanoid robots powered by "physical AI" could take on some duties currently handled by members of its Self-Defense Forces (SDF), according to Japan Today, citing government and ruling Liberal Democratic Party sources. Before you picture robot […] Read the original article here: Japan considers replacing military troops with humanoid robots...

Variety - 1 day 10 hours ago
Amid more layoffs and contraction and renewed going-discless discourse, we are facing no shortage of opinions about what strategies will finally rightsize the global-gaming-industry ship. Apart from relying on the highly anticipated release of "Grand Theft Auto VI" to solve for the nearly $350 billion industry’s problems, a new book by Xsolla president Chris Hewish […]...

Vox - 1 day 12 hours ago
The AI freakout of the past few weeks has centered on nothing less than the risk of human extinction on the possibility that artificial intelligence could wipe us all out. But the reality is, AI programs are already having a direct and sinister effect on people's physical health: UnitedHealth Group, the largest health insurer in the US, has been accused of using AI programs to deny payments to people, despite their doctors saying the care was necessary, and is facing a class-action lawsuit ...

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 14 hours ago
In Guadalajara, Mexico, many high schools have motivated teachers and talented students with an interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, but they lack access to advanced tools such as robotics laboratories. The resources shortfall limits the students' opportunities for hands-on learning on cutting-edge applications. A team from ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara , is working to change that. Through the EPICS in IEEE initiative, a multidisciplinary group of 15 engineering...

GeekSpin - 1 day 14 hours ago
A Richardson, Texas, resident who has been tracking the flights since early this year told the City Council in February that she had logged 122 drones over her home in one day and more recently counted 52 on a Friday she described as slow. Three of those drones flew between 150 and 170 feet up, […] Read the original article here: Amazon admits its delivery drones may be filming you...

Robb Report - 1 day 17 hours ago
And they're covered in cashmere.

NBC News - 1 day 18 hours ago
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks with NBC News in collaboration with Joanna Stern's platform "The New Things," about artificial intelligence, his goal to integrate AI into everyday life, how his own family uses the technology and the threat it could pose. "I'm quite optimistic about the fact that this is going to be a very positive future for everyone," he says, adding, "People aren't going to adopt it if they don't trust it We're entering a phase where trust...

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 19 hours ago
I've seen two total solar eclipses and have been duly impressed by what happens as the moon casts its shadow on Earth. But recently I've become even more intrigued by a similar phenomenon that doesn't involve the sun or the moon something called an asteroid occultation. That's what happens when an asteroid orbits around the solar system and blocks the light of a distant star you're viewing from Earth. Like the moon during a solar eclipse, the asteroid casts a predictable moving...

The Conversation - 1 day 19 hours ago
The 2026 guidelines recommend beginning screening as early as age 9, and incorporates more precise diagnostic tests.

Newser - 1 day 19 hours ago
Stanford is under fire for quietly swapping a real student's face with an AI-generated one on a campus banner, breaking its own rules in the process. Human biology major Billy Ramirez, a Hispanic man, tells the Stanford Review he was "baffled" to see his image, which originally showed him holding...

Newser - 2 days 1 hour ago
Five Indianapolis police officers now face criminal charges tied to their use of a powerful license-plate tracking system that's already under national scrutiny. Marion County prosecutors on Wednesday charged officers Michael Rogers, Jonathan Schultz, Cassandra Crawley, and Matthew Binford, as well as former officer Abigail Cramer, with fraud and official...

Los Angeles Times - 2 days 7 hours ago
The social media giant hosted a conference in Menlo Park on Wednesday, unveiling its latest lineup of wearables, which included VR glasses and a pair without cameras.