A new lawsuit against Google alleges that the company’s artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini guided 36-year-old Jonathan Gavalas on a mission to stage a “catastrophic accident” near Miami International Airport and destroy all records and witnesses, part of an escalating series of delusions that ended when Gavalas killed himself. The man’sContinue Reading
Using the NIRSpec data, planetary scientists measured the physical properties of the auroral footprints of Jupiter’s two innermost Galilean moons, Io and Europa, including the local temperature and ionospheric density, in the near-infrared. The post Webb Captures Io’s and Europa’s Auroral Footprints in Jupiter’s Atmosphere appeared first on Sci.News: BreakingContinue Reading
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Just before the Chinese holidays, Anbernic announced two new handhelds — the RG Vita and RG Vita Pro —inspired by Sony’s PlayStation Vita handheld. While we already know everything about the RG Vita , save for its price and release date, Anbernic has kept a tight lid on the RGContinue Reading
Electric mobility startup Zeno has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round to expand its electric motorcycle production and battery‑charging infrastructure across East Africa, as demand for cleaner and cheaper transport alternatives grows in the region. The funding round combines equity and debt financing and will support the scale‑up of the company’s […]Continue Reading
Khadas introduced the Panther Lake-powered Mind Pro at CES 2026, and alongside this refreshed mini PC, the brand debuted the Mind Graphics 2. It’s an eGPU that packs the desktop Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16GB GPU, and through the Mind Link, it promises native PCIe 4.0 x8 performance. For reference, PCIe 4.0 x8 is ratedContinue Reading
Our 200th Episode Listener Special! – We’re Talking to You! – YouTube Watch On On Episode 200 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik celebrate their 200th episode with their annual listener special! We took your comments, suggestions, advice, and insults and wove them into a rollicking, fun-filled hour of mishaps, mayhemContinue Reading
Through the Artemis Program, NASA hopes to establish a permanent human presence on the Moon in its southern polar region. China, Russia, and the European Space Agency (ESA) have similar plans, all of which involve building bases near the permanently shadowed regions (PSRs)—craters that contain water ice—that dot the South Pole-Aitken Basin. For these andContinue Reading
PLUS: Indonesia joins kids social media ban; China frets about AI job impacts; India’s PC market fails to launch, again; And more China’s Ministry of Commerce has warned of further disruption to the global semiconductor supply chain after Dutch chipmaker Nexperia cut access to some of its systems for ChineseContinue Reading
For many years now we’ve had two regular posts that come out on the weekends: our This Week In Techdirt History posts on Saturdays, and our Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week posts on Sundays. Sometimes we switch it up a little bit, replacing the history post with a specialContinue Reading
Why might theEurofighter Typhoon, one of the world’s most advanced swing-role combat aircraft, have Lockheed Martin worried? At first glance, the American defense giant appears secure, with its F-35 Lightning II program dominating much of the global fighter jet market. However, the Typhoon, a multinational European project, continues to demonstrateContinue Reading
Wizz Air UK has received official clearance from US regulators to operate flights between the United Kingdom and the United States. This approval, granted in early March 2026, covers only charter flights rather than regular scheduled services. The airline plans to use the authorization primarily for transporting large groups, suchContinue Reading
Several Intel NPU fixes land in the latest update to Resources, which Ubuntu is making the default system monitor in 26.04 LTS. Resources is a GTK4/libadwaita tool that shows more system usage, processes and hardware details than GNOME System Monitor, which it is replacing as Ubuntu’s default in the newContinue Reading