Titan Mining has been selected by the US Army to build a commercial graphite purification plant on military land, which the company says would be the first facility of its kind on a US defense installation. The company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Empire State Mines, received conditional selection notices for EnhancedContinue Reading
Flexion Robotics, a Swiss startup founded by former Nvidia researchers, is approaching the problem from a different angle. It teaches robots basic physical skills and uses a higher-level AI system to decide which skill to call up and when. The goal is not just to complete tasks but to adapt…Read Entire Article…Continue Reading
The Linux Foundation says that it intends to launch the Agent Name Service (ANS), an open standard that extends DNS to give AI agents a way to prove who they are. In practice, that means being able to look up an agent and check who’s actually operating it, what it’sContinue Reading
LXQt 2.3.0 brings improved Wayland support and few tweaks. LXQt 2.3.0 rolled out a few weeks ago, bringing a fresh wave of improvements that make this Qt-based DE even more appealing for those who value speed and customization on their Linux setups. As someone who has tinkered with various desktopsContinue Reading
The folks at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) have spent decades demonizing technology (and speech) they don’t understand, so it seems particularly ironic that they’re now getting benchslapped for allowing AI hallucinated citations in legal filings. First, some background: NCOSE has gone through a few different branding phases,Continue Reading
On June 19th, President Traitor 47’s VC-25B ‘Bridge Air Force One’ arrived at Joint Base Andrews to relieve the long-serving VC-25A jets, which have been the primary aircraft for presidents for decades. The pair of Boeing 747-200 jumbo jets will now enter semi-retirement as the new, temporary Boeing 747-8 takesContinue Reading
For obvious reasons, British Airways is the largest European operator flying to the US, based on routes, flights, passenger traffic, and other metrics. In the 12 months to March 2026, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) shows that 7.5 million round-trip passengers were carried. Lufthansa was next, with 5.5 million.Continue Reading
Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 2026 Series Processor: Intel Panther Lake Ultra 9 386HGraphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop Display: 16.00 inch Weight: 1.95kg Average of 4 scores (from 10 reviews) Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 GU606 Specifications Notebook:Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 GU606 Processor: Intel Panther Lake Ultra 9 386H GraphicsContinue Reading
Impulse Space has over a $1 billion raised and $4.26 valuation and has key SpaceX people like Tom Mueller. They will be selling in-space mobility as a service rather than hardware. They provide orbital transfer, last-mile delivery, hosting, deployment, and high-agility maneuvering after a launch vehicle separates the payload in LEO. Nextbigfuture covered Impulse inContinue Reading
NASA astronauts Chris Williams and Jessica Meir will fix the International Space Station’s Canadarm2 during a spacewalk today (June 30), and you can watch the action live. Chris Williams and Jessica Meir will perform a roughly 6.5-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) today, starting at about 8:35 a.m. EDT (1235 GMT). You canContinue Reading
Corvus Energy will supply its Orca Energy Storage System (ESS) for two new river cruise vessels being built for Scylla Shipping. The two orders bring Corvus battery systems to 15 Scylla ships. Both vessels—the Riviera Reflection and Harmonie—feature hybrid propulsion. The Orca system is a modular lithium-ion energy storage system.Continue Reading
Bidirectional EV charging, which enables vehicle-to-grid (V2G) features and other nifty stuff, is steadily moving from pilot projects to commercial deployments. The latest news comes from Volkswagen Group Sverige, which plans to deploy commercial bidirectional charging at its dealerships in Sweden. Volkswagen’s system enables EVs to supply electricity to homesContinue Reading
A plastic bottle tossed into a recycling bin could one day help power an electric vehicle, smartphone or renewable energy storage system, according to a team of Penn State researchers. In a new study, researchers converted waste polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, into highly ordered synthetic graphite, a crystalline form of carbon. The formed graphite exhibitedContinue Reading