If someone orders shapewear from Spanx LLC’s website today, a humanoid robot handles that package. At a GXO Logistics Inc. distribution center in Georgia, Agility Robotics Inc.’s bipedal machines move merchandise with mechanical precision. And at BMW Group’s Spartanburg plant, Figure 02 robots achie…

Wes Streeting’s wish for deeper trade relations to help fight against Farage is shared by growing number of MPsWhen Keir Starmer stood on the Labour conference stage in 2018 and defied Jeremy Corbyn to call for a second Brexit referendum with remain as an option, it put him in pole position to becom…

Ferroelectrics could bolster “flash” memory in AI data centers and autonomous robots

Their heads and bodies of bats have amassed an extraordinary array of adaptations that have make them lords of the night sky. Today, the thousand-plus types of bats make up a fifth of living mammal species. Richard Dawkins once described the evolution of bats as “one of the most enthralling stories …

“Our students’ ... dedication reflects not only their generosity, but also the spirit of engaging the MIT community in giving back through philanthropy.”

Discover how Skyworks is powering the edge AI revolution across automotive, drones and robotics.
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UK researchers will get a chance to develop applications for the tech giant's quantum processor.

Tom Lee's publicly traded miner and treasury firm said it now controls more than 3% of ether’s total supply and is accelerating staking plans.

Blood tests that look for over a dozen cancers are being developed. But how soon will they help patients?

10 years ago, the Rockland Water Coalition stopped a harmful desalination plant pushed by a corporate water giant. Here’s how.
The post How Grassroots Activism Beat a Corporate Water Giant in Rockland County appeared first on Food & Water Watch.

The actress and singer was a symbol of sexual revolution. She later became an animal welfare campaigner and incendiary right-wing commenter.

Big AI companies courted controversy by scraping wide swaths of the public internet. With the rise of AI agents, the next data grab is far more private.

Meridian Innovation’s Cheetah thermal imaging sensor claimed this year’s Best Sensor of the Year award at EE Awards Asia 2025. This follows last year’s recognition of the Panther sensor and marks the fourth consecutive year for the company being honored at EE Awards Asia.   For Chief Operating Offic…

A complete rundown of the most important events across the music business.

Manchester United have signed Germany international Lea Schuller from Bayern Munich until June 2029.

Nathan Aspinall becomes the latest seed to fall at the PDC World Championship, but 20-year-old Charlie Manby sets up a tie against 10th seed Gian van Veen.

Companies like Phoenix Tailings, which recently began producing metal in New Hampshire, are using new processing methods to compete with Chinese suppliers.

Frontier artificial intelligence research and product startup Lemon Slice launched today and announced that it had raised $10.5 million in funding. The money will be used to scale up its real-time interactive avatar technology and drive broader commercial adoption of its application programming inte…

Harvard's free programming classes teach you how to think, debug, and adapt in an AI-driven world where knowing code matters more than ever.

If you're ready to cut the cord with Google, this option lets you host and sync your photos on your own terms. Here's how.

The funeral for French cinema icon Brigitte Bardot will take place in her hometown of Saint-Tropez on January 7, her foundation said on Monday, as France wrestles with how to pay tribute to a cultural legend who in her later years championed far-right views, even being fined for hate speech.

US president claims widespread and varied emergencies to justify executive authority in first year of second term.

Ethan Zuckerman says his intentions were good when he invented the ads.

The Artificial Intelligence Security Institute (AISI) says the tech is being used by one in 25 people daily.

Entrepreneur Talifhani Banks has bought a modern delivery system to smaller firms in South Africa.

Tory Bruno, the longtime chief executive of United Launch Alliance, is leaving the joint venture for another opportunity.
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It’s a familiar scene – the wee hours of the morning are ticking away and your head is bent over a stack of notes, desperately trying to cram as much knowledge into your head before the test in the morning. Because of the way our education system works, this process of hard studying has become […]

In the Peloponnese mountains, the usually hardy trees are turning brown even where fires haven’t reached. Experts are raising the alarm on a complex crisisIn the southern Peloponnese, the Greek fir is a towering presence. The deep green, slow-growing conifers have long defined the region’s high-alti…

Cancer stem cells (CSCs) represent a self-renewing population capable of fueling long-term tumor growth. In gastric cancer, the identity of CSC populations remains unclear. In this study, we established a gastric CSC population marked by the water ...

Chipmakers Nvidia and Groq entered into a non-exclusive tech licensing agreement last week aimed at speeding up and lowering the cost of running pre-trained large language models. Why it matters: Groq's language processing unit (LPU) chips power real-time chatbot queries — as opposed to model traini…

AirTrunk, the Australian data-center operator that Blackstone Inc. bought in a record 2024 deal, is considering options including a potential real estate investment trust listing in Singapore, people familiar with the matter said.

Brooke May, managing partner at Evans May Wealth, offers her firm’s outlook for 2026 and explains why she expects markets to broaden out beyond the mag seven in the year ahead. (Source: Bloomberg)

There's been a surge in remittances going back to Honduras amid Trump's immigration crackdown.

Many Indian cities rank at the bottom of liveability indexes despite big government spending on infrastructure.

Some people in Ukraine weathered the harshest moments of the last ice age by creating shelters made partly of mammoth bones and tusks.

It's all the truck he needs — one that picks up a new mattress from the furniture store, takes him to work and has ample space for groceries.“Most people have way more truck than they will ever use,” said David McChristian, 37, a firefighter from Houston.

New Yorkers will save an estimated $600 million per year
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Trump’s newest AI executive order doesn’t stop us from fighting data centers — but it makes these fights all the more important.
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Cher, Carlos Santana, and Chaka Khan will also get the honor from the Recording Academy

The venue's owners have decided not to renew the lease

“They’re done with me – but we’re not talking about it,” he said

The 5th Annual Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM) Exploration Community Event hosted by the Coastal Virginia STEM Hub and the NASA eClips Education Team from the National Institute of Aerospace Center for Integrative STEM Education (NIA-CISE) lit up the Professional Workforce Dev…

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On 26–27 November, the ESA Ministerial Council will take place in Bremen, Germany. Key decisions will be made about the future activities of the European Space Agency within the frame of ESA’s Strategy 2040. Toni Tolker-Nielsen outlines how these decisions will shape the futu…

Insurance company Aflac Inc. has disclosed that a cyberattack that targeted the company in June resulted in the theft of records relating to 22.65 million individuals, making it one of the largest data breaches reported this year in the U.S. insurance sector. The company first detected unauthorized …

Electricity rates are set to skyrocket, fueled by the Trump administration’s war on cheaper clean energy and push for expensive fossil fuels.
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Here's what to know about proposals for enormous new data centers, and what Earthjustice is doing to control their pollution, climate impacts, and your energy bill.
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President Trump said during a recent radio interview that the U.S. “knocked out” a “big” facility in Venezuela, as the administration continues to turn up the pressure against President Nicolas Maduro. Asked about Venezuela during a Friday appearance on the "Cats and Cosby" show on New York's WABC r…

Louis Gerstner, the former chief executive officer credited with saving IBM Corp. from bankruptcy, has died aged 83, the company revealed today. Gerstner (pictured) served as chairman and CEO of IBM from 1993 to 2002, taking over during one of the darkest periods in the company’s history, when it wa…