Jennifer M. Dooren Jul 29, 2026 The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program has created 18 new awards to support visionary ideas to improve aerospace technologies in areas ranging from the exploration of the solar system to understanding the universe. The 18 NIAC Phase I awards total $3.2 million. Each award provides up to $175,000Continue Reading
A British Airways flight crew has become the subject of an investigation after one of its Airbus A320s declared a MAYDAY while approaching London Heathrow Airport (LHR). The aircraft experienced an Air Data Reference failure during its initial approach, triggering stall warnings and causing the flight control system to revertContinue Reading
With the dust having now settled on the Farnborough International Airshow 2026, which captured the hearts and minds of the whole aviation community last week, it is worth examining the age-old question of whether Airbus or Boeing had the better show. These two big planemakers have long been fierce rivals,Continue Reading
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s online safety watchdog has filed legal action against messaging app Telegram, saying the platform failed to remove extremist content including videos of white supremacist mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and the New Zealand city of Christchurch as well as Islamic State group beheadings. TheContinue Reading
“It was extremely violating,” Rubin said. “Those are not my teeth. That’s not what my mouth looks like.”, “It was extremely violating,” Rubin said. “Those are not my teeth. That’s not what my mouth looks like.”, from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
The European Commission has fined Google a total of €890 million ($1 billion) for its breaches of the Digital Market Act (DMA). Just over half the fine — €460 million — was because Google illegally gave preference to its own services in Google Search results. The remainder was because inContinue Reading
AMD executives took to the stage at its Advancing AI 2026 event in San Francisco today to detail the company’s next generation of AI infrastructure solutions, from Instinct MI455X AI accelerator GPUs and 6th Gen EPYC “Venice” CPUs, to Pensando networking, ROCm.AI software and its Helios rack-scale platform that tiesContinue Reading
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At this late hour, the “Western” automakers’ only chance of long-term survival is to partner with Chinese firms. The European brands grudgingly accepted this some time ago, and now Ford is turning down that road, announcing plans for a joint venture with Geely Auto. The JV, which will be ownedContinue Reading
Empower EIT, a vertically integrated lithium technology and operating company, has begun operation of its direct lithium extraction (DLE) and conversion process at its new new 17,000-square-foot facility in Dallas. The process turns extracted lithium chloride into battery-grade lithium carbonate. The company is aiming to make its first commercial salesContinue Reading
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. A little-noticed presidential national security directive is now the legal engine behind a wave of terrorism prosecutions against left-wing protesters. That domestic campaign now has an international dimension, one that American officials had been planning for months, culminatingContinue Reading
Security researchers at Accomplish AI demonstrated that Anthropic’s Claude Cowork could break out of its local virtual machine sandbox and read files across the underlying Mac, including SSH keys and cloud credentials. The attack, dubbed SharedRoot, exploited a Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability to gain root access inside the guestContinue Reading
Mosaic brings i3-style automatic tiling to GNOME Shell without asking you to choose it permanently. Turn it on when you want windows to arrange themselves, turn it off when you want floating windows back. The extension works with GNOME 45 and up, adding a toggle to Quick Settings to enableContinue Reading