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Something messy happens when the cat hairs of reality meet the shiny hype of smart tech Opinion  Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics are Trumpenführerenführered by accountancy’s First Law of Finance: you must make money. iRobot, the company behind the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, with itsContinue Reading

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System76 has updated the COSMIC Desktop with window shadows and consistent corner sizing across all applications, a change available on Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS right now and coming to users on other Linux distributions soon. Both features apply the effects consistently, meaning that apps in different toolkits (Qt, GTK, Iced, etc)Continue Reading

James Webb Space Telescope discovers young galaxies age rapidly: ‘It’s like seeing 2-year-old children act like teenagers’

The 18 galaxies from the ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST survey (Image credit:  Andreas Faisst (Caltech) and the ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST Survey team) Astronomers have obtained their most detailed look yet at young galaxies in the early universe using the James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope and Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. The conclusion? These cosmic adolescents grew up incredibly fast.Continue Reading

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A brand-new Embraer E195-E2 was forced to return to the airport on Monday, triggering new concerns about the Pratt & Whitney PW1900 engines used on the aircraft. TheLuxair flight from Luxembourg-Findel International Airport (LUX) to Milan Malpensa Airport (MXP) turned around just minutes after takeoff, and thus far, the airlineContinue Reading

up-to-23-hours:-canada’s-7-longest-1-stop-flights-revealed

The world has some extraordinarily long one-stop scheduled passenger flights. In December 2025, for example, the new longest link began, which is China Eastern’s 29-hour jaunt from Buenos Aires back to Shanghai via Auckland. Canada’s entries are not quite that extreme, but they are nonetheless very notable.Continue Reading

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Japanese automaker Honda and battery materials manufacturer Princeton NuEnergy have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on the development of lithium-ion battery recycling technologies. Since 2022, the companies have conducted joint technical validation of Princeton NuEnergy’s plasma-based direct cathode-to-cathode recycling and upcycling technologies for lithium-ion battery manufacturing scrapContinue Reading