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XGS Energy, an advanced-geothermal startup, says it has completed crucial testing that proves its novel technology can operate reliably at commercial...

Turn your cable outlets into high-speed internet ports with this simple, low-cost adapter - no rewiring required.

CBS News' new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss is planning to create a masthead for the broadcaster as part of a broader overhaul of standards and procedures, according to a source familiar with her plans. Why it matters: The masthead is meant to drive a more streamlined hierarchy and set of processes acr…

Here are eight of the most spectacular astronomical discoveries of 2025.

New service acts as an always-on DevOps engineer, helping you respond to incidents, identify root causes, and prevent future issues through systematic analysis of incidents and operational patterns.

The year saw notable deal announcements involving GFL Environmental, Veolia, Enviri, WM, Republic Services, Waste Connections, Casella Waste Systems, FCC Environmental Services, LRS and more.

A knife attack outside Suriname’s capital, Paramaribo, has killed at least nine people, including five children

Three people, including a child, have died after a two-story building collapsed in Soweto, South Africa

This giant bubble on the island of Sardinia holds 2,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide. But the gas wasn’t captured from factory emissions, nor was it pulled from the air. It came from a gas supplier, and it lives permanently inside the dome’s system to serve an eco-friendly purpose: to store large amount…

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Monday commuted to Cheong Wa Dae, the country’s traditional presidential palace, for the first time since taking office in June, more than three years after his ousted predecessor Yoon Suk Yeol moved the presiden...

Preliminary results of a snap parliamentary election in Kosovo shows that the party of Prime Minister Albin Kurti has won by a clear margin

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had a "very good" Christmas Day call with Trump advisers Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on ending the Russia-Ukraine war, per a post to X Thursday that Kushner reposted.The big picture: Zelensky, President Trump's son-in-law Kushner and Witkoff discuss…

While superconducting qubits are great at fast calculations, they struggle to store information for long periods. A team at Caltech has now developed a clever solution: converting quantum information into sound waves. By using a tiny device that acts like a miniature tuning fork, the researchers wer…

Attacks by powerful militias against civilians reflect the state’s inaction eight years after a peace accord removed a powerful rebel group from the field.

Aid workers estimate as many as 300,000 people are fleeing advances by the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group, which has taken two strategic towns on the approaches to Goma over the past several days.

For X11/X.Org fans there is a new Christmas surprise: Phoenix as an in-development X Server written from scratch using the Zig programming language...

People are loving the new Absolute takes on Batman, Wonder Woman, and other heroes that've been hitting comic stores every month.

It's called 'Superhero,' based on Nelson's own experiences within the genre, and it's out now for you to read.

Mugo & Elmorsy, The Conversation Farmers are under pressure. Fertilizer costs have soared in recent years. Tariffs are

The European Space Agency (ESA) reacted promptly to the discovery of comet 3I/ATLAS on 1 July 2025. Soon after they were alerted to its existence by automated detection systems, ESA astronomers began using ground-based telescopes in Hawaii, Chile, and Australia to monitor its progress.Since then, th…

This summer, more than a dozen Burrowing Owls hatched in an unusual habitat: in plastic underground tunnels within the footprint of a sprawling, 10,000-acre solar energy complex outside of Phoenix...

The two largest and most expensive Lego Star Wars sets available go head-to-head: The UCS Millennium Falcon and the UCS Death Star. But which is best?

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Directorate of Navigation was pledged close to €1 billion by the Agency’s Member States during this week’s ESA Council at Ministerial Level (CM25) on 26 and 27 November in Bremen, Germany.With the continuation and expansion of the NAVISP and FutureNAV programmes and…

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Uninterrupted access to satellite navigation is essential in our modern world, but it is threatened daily by external interference, such as jamming and spoofing. New technologies and concepts can help increase the resilience of our satellite navigation solutions. ESA and Le…

Maintaining a healthy ocean includes ensuring that fisheries are sustainable and fish stocks are abundant. If you like to eat seafood, go fishing or visit the coast, then how United States fisheries are managed affects you. We see a number of troubling signs that our fishery management system is unr…

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Bepi, Mio and MTM’s adventures continue! What have they achieved on their extraordinary journey to Mercury, planet of extremes and mysteries?They haven’t been bored, that’s for sure. They snapped cool photos and collected real science data as they flew past Earth, Venus and M…

Coreboot 25.12 is out today as the latest quarterly feature update to this open-source BIOS/firmware solution...

Recent research suggests that AI chatbots are not merely passive sources of election information; they can actively shape voter attitudes in measurable and durable ways.
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Longtime fans of the Nickelodeon show aren't just letting Paramount punt the franchise's first animated movie out of theaters.

Witnesses pressed lawmakers to act on PFAS-related legislation in 2026 to protect “passive receivers” including water utilities and waste facilities. Environmental groups instead pushed for PFAS to be more strictly regulated.

SummaryIn data-center terms, scaling out involves linking computers, while scaling up packs more GPUs into a computer, challenging copper’s physical limits.Copper cables face a phenomenon at high data rates at high data rates that necessitate wider wires and more power, complicating a data center’s …

Nineteen states and D.C. sued Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his health department to block the Trump administration's plan to curb young people's gender-affirming care. Why it matters: Kennedy announced last week he would stop Medicare and Medicaid payments to any provider offering gend…

Long before modern telescopes, early astronomers mapped the heavens with math, myth, and sheer curiosity. This crossword quiz celebrates the minds who first charted the cosmos.

In a galaxy not so far away, Lego sets can be VERY expensive: Here are the most expensive Lego Star Wars sets you can currently buy.

This February, the first-ever metal part 3D-printed in space landed on Earth. Produced in the European Space Agency’s Metal 3D Printer Technology Demonstrator on the International Space Station, it is now in the hands of ESA’s engineers at ESTEC, the agency’s technical centre in the Netherlands, who…

In a few days, ESA’s fourth European Service Module will leave the integration halls of Airbus in Bremen, Germany, setting sail across the Atlantic Ocean in the next step of its journey. The module will propel NASA’s Orion spacecraft towards the Moon during Artemis IV, supplying the crew with water,…

Militants of the Islamic State group have opened fire on police during a raid in northwest Turkey, wounding seven officers

Southern Hungary landowner Oszkár Nagyapáti has been battling severe drought on his land

Announced earlier in December but flying under the radar until now is the initial reoease of a QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop. This is a developer environment for the QNX real-time operating system primarily used on embedded systems. With now having this developer desktop option, the hassle of cr…

The Arch Linux based CachyOS has been quite popular with Linux gamers and enthusiasts for offering leading out-of-the-box performance, especially following the shutdown of Intel's Clear Linux. CachyOS has developed quite a following on the Linux desktop while looking ahead to 2026 they will be worki…

With the end of the year quickly drawing to a close, here is a look back at the most-viewed Linux kernel news of 2025...

Picture this: You’re just about done with a transoceanic flight, and the tracker in your seat-back screen shows you approaching your destination airport. And then … you notice your plane is moving away. Pretty far away. You approach again and again, only to realize you’re on a long, circling loop th…

Militias and far-right extremists believed they would be central to Trump’s mass deportation plans. Instead he militarized law enforcement agencies.

The week after AWS re:Invent builds on the excitement and energy of the event and is a good time to learn more and understand how the recent announcements can help you solve your challenges and unlock new opportunities. As usual, we have you covered with our top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2025 t…

Prevent cloud infrastructure issues before they impact your business with AWS Support plans that combine AI-powered insights with expert guidance, offering faster response times and proactive monitoring across performance, security, and cost dimensions.

Simplify AI experimentation with zero-infrastructure MLflow that launches in minutes, scales automatically, and seamlessly integrates with SageMaker's model customization and pipeline capabilities.

In its 50th anniversary year, European Space Agency (ESA) Member States have recommitted to space science. A historic budget increase for the Science Programme of 3.5% per year through to 2028, in addition to inflation, will enable some of the most ambitious missions ever, and bolster European leade…

Engineers are using a satellite link between two European Space Agency facilities to advance teleoperated robotics systems that could enable future lunar explorers to study the Moon from afar.

Revelers take part in the Els Enfarinats festival, a battle using flour, eggs and firecrackers in the Spanish town of Ibi.

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In addition to today's blog post calling out the need for others to takeover the This Week In Plasma series, KDE developer Nate Graham also published another blog post to highlight the successes of the Plasma desktop over 2025. In particular, the KDE Plasma Wayland transition "nears completion" as i…

Adding to the unfortunate engineering setbacks at Intel this year as part of cost-cutting measures, the Intel IWD software development has been on a hiatus for the past three months. Going from previously seeing monthly releases and almost constant activity to now development ceasing up with no acti…

NASA is helping shape the future of urban air travel with a new simulation that will manage how electric air taxis and drones can successfully operate within busy areas.   The demonstration, held at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley earlier this year, focused on a system cal…

Called AVIRIS-5, it’s the latest in a long line of sensors pioneered by NASA JPL to survey Earth, the Moon, and other worlds. Cradled in the nose of a high-altitude research airplane, a new NASA sensor has taken to the skies to help geoscientists map rocks hosting lithium and other critical minerals…

The airliner you board in the future could look a lot different from today’s, with longer, thinner wings that provide a smoother ride while saving fuel. Those wings would be a revolutionary design for commercial aircraft, but like any breakthrough technology, they come with their own development cha…

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft took off for its historic first flight on Oct. 28 at 11:14 a.m. EDT from Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. The one-of-a-kind aircraft flew for 67 minutes before landing and taxiing to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards…

Monitors are cheaper, faster, and more beautiful than ever. Here’s how to choose one that will suit your needs and budget.

Convenience isn’t just for meat eaters anymore. These plant-based meal kits and delivery services bring healthy preprepared meals and meal kits to your door.

Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while making goods cheaper too.

Billed as a workstation (and priced accordingly), HP’s Zbook 8 falls short of dazzling.

Money gifts burning a hole in your pocket? These deals on WIRED-tested gadgets and gizmos will stretch your dollars.

Scale vector storage and querying to new heights with S3 Vectors' general availability—now supporting up to 1 billion vectors per index, 100ms query latencies, and expanded regional availability, while reducing costs up to 90% compared to specialized databases.

Accelerate AI model development with new training features that enable instant recovery from failures and automatic scaling based on resource availability.

Manage development, testing, and production database workloads more efficiently with new features including Developer Edition support for SQL Server, M7i/R7i instance support with optimize CPU, and expanded storage options up to 256 TiB.

New features enable automatic cost optimization through intelligent storage tiering and simplified table replication across AWS Regions and accounts.

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Companies like GFL Environmental and WM have made major investments in Ontario’s new EPR for packaging model, but the province may contend with transition growing pains after it starts on Jan. 1.

Scientists have used DNA's self-assembling properties to engineer intricate moiré superlattices at the nanometer scale—structures that twist and layer like never before. With clever molecular “blueprints,” they’ve created customizable lattices featuring patterns such as honeycombs and squares, all w…

Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have created the first time crystal that humans can actually see, using liquid crystals that swirl into never-ending patterns when illuminated by light. This breakthrough builds on Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek’s 2012 theory of time crystals—structures…

A pioneering team at the University of Maryland has captured the first-ever images of atomic thermal vibrations, unlocking an unseen world of motion within two-dimensional materials. Their innovative electron ptychography technique revealed elusive “moiré phasons,” a long-theorized phenomenon that g…

If the goal of antitrust is to promote competition and protect consumers, then the iRobot saga should prompt serious reflection. Because this time, the cost was plain for all to see: The loss of an American innovator, its workforce, and its future.
The post How Antitrust Enforcers Helped Kill an Ame…

Mark J. Warshawsky discusses the ACA's COVID-era subsidies’ costs, whether they are fair, the fraud they engender, and their adverse consequences for work incentives, as well as the cost and functioning of the health care system.
The post Policy Reasons to Not Extend Covid-Era Enhanced ACA Subsidies…

The University of North Carolina system's proposal to require faculty to post syllabi publicly has triggered fierce opposition from some professors; faculty who now insist that transparency itself threatens academic freedom. They are wrong. And their reaction helps explain why public confidence cont…

The Australian rules are not a social media ban. They focus on providers’ behavior, not user harm.
The post Australian Social Media Regulation: When “Banning” Isn’t a Ban appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

Public debate, driven by too many breathless media stories—both traditional and social—about an impending robopocalypse tends to fixate on job disruption and loss. AI is a tool. Used well, it can amplify human capability, improve job quality, and broaden prosperity.
The post AI Is Rattling Workers M…

Troubles at Vanke raise questions about the continued spread of the property crisis and whether the Chinese state will step in.

Israel says 91 hostages abducted on Oct. 7 remain in captivity, including the bodies of at least 34.

The alliance mounted its first coordinated response to a suspected sabotage campaign against critical infrastructure after another cable was severed in the Baltic Sea.

The hostages are the second set to be released since the multiphase agreement came into effect, raising hopes for a lasting end to the war.

Fast, direct-current charging can charge an EV’s battery from about 20 percent to 80 percent in 20 minutes. That’s not bad, but it’s still about six times as long as it takes to fill the tank of an ordinary petrol-powered vehicle.One of the major bottlenecks to even faster charging is cooling, speci…

Achieve accurate RCS predictions for electrically large aerospace structures in minutes instead ofhours using advanced approximation techniques on standard desktop hardware.What Attendees will Learn“Simulate smart, not slow” -- Extrapolation cuts 1-hour MoM runs to minutes.95%+ time savings -- Physi…

“AI is not going to take your job. The person who uses AI is going to take your job.”This is an idea that has become a refrain for, among others, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who has publicly made the prediction several times since October 2023. Meanwhile, other AI developers and stalwarts say the techn…

Her death was announced Sunday in a statement by her foundation, saying Bardot had chosen to abandon “her prestigious movie career to dedicate her life and energy” to defend animal welfare.

Silver rose for a sixth session, building on a 10% gain on Friday that was its biggest one-day jump since 2008.

When Mark Benedict and his wife, Mary Shaw, moved in 2017 to Salmon Prairie, Montana, a remote enclave about two hours north of Missoula, they felt like they had won the retirement lottery. Their...

The Kennedy Center board unanimously voted to rename the performing arts venue the "Trump-Kennedy Center," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Thursday.The board's effort will likely hit hurdles — and require an act of Congress to change the name.The big picture: Exerting his infl…

Democratic officials and strategists blasted the Democratic National Committee on Thursday for withholding its autopsy of the party's loss in the 2024 presidential election, despite repeatedly pledging to release it.Why it matters: Several Democrats — including many advising possible 2028 presidenti…

The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to let President Trump send National Guard troops to the Chicago area.Why it matters: The 6-3 ruling in the conservative-majority high court leaves in place a lower court order temporarily barring Trump from deploying the National Guard to Illinois.It marks a signi…

In the modern era of rapid digital transformation, engineering leaders are expected to be more than project managers and technical experts. They need to be vision-setters, innovation enablers, and mentors shaping the next generation of talent.Leadership and mentorship, when paired with intention, do…

Quantum computing is a devilishly complex technology, with many technical hurdles impacting its development. Of these challenges two critical issues stand out: miniaturization and qubit quality.IBM has adopted the superconducting qubit road map of reaching a 1,121-qubit processor by 2023, leading to…

“To go from a 10% across-the-board to 15% for the broad base of countries — not a huge impact,” Moynihan said.

“Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed,” Trump said during a late afternoon news conference following a meeting with Zelenskyy, whom he repeatedly praised as “brave.”

These days, it’s common knowledge that birds are living dinosaurs. Victorian naturalists proposed the notion after spotting similarities between dinosaur fossils and contemporary bird skeletons...

The sun had risen, but clouds and a thick stand of trees prolonged the darkness at Reeds Lake in East Grand Rapids, Michigan. Standing on a floating boardwalk, Steve Jessmore heard the swans before...

Editor’s Note: Frank Graham was Audubon magazine’s field editor for 45 years, during which time he skillfully captured the beauty and complexity of subjects from across the natural world. This...

One video shows multiple Black women screaming and pounding on a door with the caption "store under attack." Another captures distraught Walmart employees of color being loaded into an ICE van. Why it matters: These AI-generated viral videos aren't just perpetuating racism — they're influencing pol…

America faces an aging crisis: We have too few young people supporting too many older people — at the very moment Social Security, our national retirement program, nears insolvency.To make matters worse, young people are increasingly scared to have kids — in part because they fear AI will make findi…