Interstellar invader 3I/ATLAS is spraying tons of water into space every second. Jupiter-bound spacecraft JUICE discovers

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(Image credit: ESA/Juice/MAJIS) The interstellar invader comet 3I/ATLAS is spraying enough water into space to fill 70 Olympic swimming pools each day. The discovery gives scientists a remarkable opportunity to study the elements present during the formation of planets around other stars, potentially much older than the sun. The discovery was made by the EuropeanContinue Reading

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Transense Technologies has landed a role in a Cummins-led project to develop a sensor-enabled smart electric motor for heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles. The 12-month project, called DriveSense, is backed by the Advanced Propulsion Center’s R&D program and part-funded by the UK government through the DRIVE35 Innovation Fund. DriveSense is aimed atContinue Reading

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The first point release to Zorin OS 18 is now available for download, arriving six months and some 3.3 million downloads after the original launch. Zorin OS 18.1 is a point release update. It’s still based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS-based but adds a variety of desktop refinements, updated software andContinue Reading

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It wasn’t all that long ago that GOP legislators were collectively stonewalling a clean reauthorization of Section 702. Three years ago, these legislators were seeking to end the FBI (and other IC components’) access to Americans’ communications via “backdoor” searches of the NSA’s supposedly “foreign facing” collections. It wasn’t thatContinue Reading