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Don't be scared of the digital dark – learn how to keep the lights on Opinion Barely a month into 2026, electrical power infrastructure on two continents has tested positive for cyberattacks. One fell flat as attempts to infiltrate and disrupt the Polish distribution grid were rebuffed and repor...
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The UK's largest porn site has blocked unregistered users from accessing explicit content in the country, but why motives remain unclear.
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Hidden lava tunnels on the Moon and Mars could one day shelter human explorers, offering natural protection from radiation and space debris. A European research team has unveiled a bold new mission concept that uses three different robots working together to explore these extreme underground environ...
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These physical notetakers transcribe audio and give users summaries and action items of meetings using AI. Some even offer live translation.
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Social media has been flooded with fake, AI-generated images and videos. But will the majority of users actually care?
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TikTok says it finally solved all issues related to outages caused by last week's U.S. snowstorm.
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Despite growing into the largest animals ever to walk on land, sauropods began life small, exposed, and alone. Fossil evidence suggests their babies were frequently eaten by multiple predators, making them a key part of the Jurassic food chain. This steady supply of easy prey may explain why early p...
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How many of the companies with recent layoffs are just using AI as an excuse?
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For years, Tether's CEO avoided the United States, watching from offshore as regulators circled and prosecutors investigated. Those days are over.
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While the documentary is exceeding box office expectations, it's unlikely to make a profit in theaters.
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Indonesia has followed Malaysia and the Philippines in lifting a ban on xAI’s chatbot Grok.
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Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
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New Delhi's latest move comes as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft expand data center investments in India.
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When the brain rests, it usually replays recent experiences to strengthen memory. Scientists found that in Alzheimer’s-like mice, this replay still occurs — but the signals are jumbled and poorly coordinated. As a result, memory-supporting brain cells lose their stability, and the animals strugg...
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Elon Musk's reported merging of SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla harkens back to the heyday of General Electric — or maybe the robber barons of the Gilded Age.
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Middle age is becoming a tougher chapter for many Americans, especially those born in the 1960s and early 1970s. Compared with earlier generations, they report more loneliness and depression, along with weaker physical strength and declining memory. These troubling trends stand out internationally, ...
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Scientists warn that rapid advances in AI and neurotechnology are outpacing our understanding of consciousness, creating serious ethical risks. New research argues that developing scientific tests for awareness could transform medicine, animal welfare, law, and AI development. But identifying consci...
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Dinosaur footprints have always been mysterious, but a new AI app is cracking their secrets. DinoTracker analyzes photos of fossil tracks and predicts which dinosaur made them, with accuracy rivaling human experts. Along the way, it uncovered footprints that look strikingly bird-like—dating back m...
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Researchers have discovered a hidden quantum geometry inside materials that subtly steers electrons, echoing how gravity warps light in space. Once thought to exist only on paper, this effect has now been observed experimentally in a popular quantum material. The finding reveals a new way to underst...
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From Belgium to Ukraine, five fresh European unicorns were minted this January.
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Hi everyone, I am a fairly newly licensed MechE PE in the state of NY and TX. My background is mainly in construction management with a focus on HVAC. I need to keep up my PDHs (36 PDHs within 3 years, as far as I know). The problem is that my current employer (an agency at the federal level) does n...
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Waymo is reportedly finalizing a new funding round that will value the robotaxi company at $110 billion.
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SpaceX's filing claims these satellites will be “a first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization — one that can harness the Sun’s full power."
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that a recent report of friction between his company and OpenAI was “nonsense.”
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The firm wants to create a network of "orbital data centres" to power artificial intelligence.
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The startup is partnering with utilities to help homeowners determine the best upgrades to cut their energy use.
Reddit EngineeringEngineering1 days ago
I loie somewhere with very hard water. There’s a small power plant nearby with a couple cooling towers and this morning my shower thought was I can’t imagine how they are dealing with scale. Is the tower just set up such that it can tolerate scale? Do they regularly de-scale? Do they likely have...
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Jupiter’s swirling storms have concealed its true makeup for centuries, but a new model is finally peeling back the clouds. Researchers found the planet likely holds significantly more oxygen than the Sun, a key clue to how Jupiter—and the rest of the solar system—came together. The study also...
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A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four massive but extremely low-density worlds orbiting the star appear to be inflated precursors of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes. By watching how the planets subtly tug on one an...
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A strange, glowing form of matter called dusty plasma turns out to be incredibly sensitive to magnetic fields. Researchers found that even weak fields can change how tiny particles grow, simply by nudging electrons into new motions. In lab experiments, this caused nanoparticles to form faster and re...
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nside electrochemical devices, strong electric fields dramatically alter how water molecules behave. New research shows that these fields speed up water dissociation not by lowering energy costs, but by increasing molecular disorder once ions form. The reaction becomes entropy-driven—exactly the o...
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Termites did not evolve complex societies by adding new genetic features. Instead, scientists found that they became more social by shedding genes tied to competition and independence. A shift to monogamy removed the need for sperm competition, while food sharing shaped who became workers or future ...
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Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest known examples of tools fitted with handles in East Asia, dating back as far as 160,000 years. These ...
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Ampadu's departure perhaps signals the end of the TxO chapter. The fund and program focused on supporting underserved founders by providing access to tech networks and investment capital through a donor-advised fund.
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If co-founder Lachy Groom has any doubts, he doesn’t show it. He’s working with people who've been working on this problem for decades and who believe the timing is finally right, which is all he needs to know.
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This isn't the first time in recent memory that OnlyFans has been in talks to sell off its business.
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The viral personal AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot has a new shell — again. After briefly rebranding as Moltbot, it has now picked OpenClaw as its new name.
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The hacker allegedly developed zero-day exploits and offensive cyber tools and sold them to several countries, including an unnamed central African government, the U.K., and the United States.
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Since the feature's launch in 2018, users haven't been able to remove themselves from someone else's Close Friends list.
The registerSecurity2 days ago
Parent company Cognizant hit with multiple lawsuits Thousands more Oregonians will soon receive data breach letters in the continued fallout from the TriZetto data breach, in which someone hacked the insurance verification provider and gained access to its healthcare provider customers across multip...
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A fast-aging fish is giving scientists a rare, accelerated look at how kidneys grow old—and how a common drug may slow that process down. Researchers found that SGLT2 inhibitors, widely used to treat diabetes and heart disease, preserved kidney structure, blood vessels, and energy production as th...
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George is an avatar on my mobile but claims to know what makes me tick.
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The company's revenue was boosted by iPhone sales, but sales of its wearable tech and Mac computers dipped.
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Two decades after a breast cancer vaccine trial, every participant is still alive—an astonishing result for metastatic disease. Scientists found their immune systems retained long-lasting memory cells primed to recognize cancer. By enhancing a key immune signal called CD27, researchers dramaticall...
BBC TechnologyTechnology3 days ago
Hundreds of miles from Denmark's coast a project is underway to inject CO2 into an old oil field.
The registerSecurity3 days ago
The Chocolate Factory strikes again, targeting the infrastructure attackers use to stay anonymous Crims love to make it look like their traffic is actually coming from legit homes and businesses, and they do so by using residential proxy networks. Now, Google says it has "significantly degraded" wha...
The registerSecurity3 days ago
Extortion crew says it's found love in someone else's info as Match Group plays down the impact ShinyHunters has added a fresh notch to its breach belt, claiming it has pinched more than 10 million records from Match Group, a US firm that owns some of the world's most widely used swipe-based dating ...