Several schools in three US states will launch the new academic year with a new security measure: drones equipped with pepper spray, strobe lights and other features that their manufacturer says can b...
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Sweden has announced plans to ban ‘forever chemicals’ in consumer products as early as 2028, Euronews writes. “This is a major victory for human health and for the Swedish environment,” Minister for t...
Two Chinese academics have won the world’s top prize for mathematics for the first time, the BBC writes. Chinese mathematicians Hong Wang and Yu Deng won alongside John Pardon from the US and Jacon Ts...
China has an increasingly important buffer against oil price shocks: electric taxis, Reuters writes. Across Chinese cities, taxi usage and ridesharing are booming. In May, people took 3.05 billion tr...
Russia’s space agency Roscosmos and NASA have agreed to extend the joint operation of the International Space Station (ISS) until 2030, Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Bakanov announced. According t...
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has become the wealthiest person among those developing AI models, RIA Novosti writes. According to media reports, Liang Wenfeng’s net worth has doubled to $36 billion f...
Amazon says it now has enough satellites in orbit to begin commercial operations of its Leo internet-from-space service later this year, Euronews writes. The company launched 29 satellites aboard a Un...
South Korea has unveiled plans for about $1tn (£760bn) of investments to build out the country’s chip manufacturing and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in the coming years, the BBC writes. I...
Cate Blanchett is pursuing her crusade against unregulated usage of artificial intelligence. On Tuesday, the Australian actor and producer launched a free website allowing anyone to protect their iden...
The United States has carried out the first test of the Golden Dome missile defense system. “Today, the first milestone test of Golden Dome for America (GDA) was a full mission success — and I was hon...
Researchers say artificial intelligence has been used to develop a “fundamentally new” type of vaccine that could protect against large swathes of viruses and prevent pandemics, the BBC writes. The te...
An international research team from the University of Warsaw and the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia has discovered a water management system in the Ararat Plain featuring structures stretchin...
