‘It’s going to do things that currently are impossible’: The Roman Space Telescope, NASA’s next great observatory, is ready to launch Aug. 30

A visualization of the Roman Space Telescope in space. (Image credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio) The next great American observatory in space is just one month away from leaving this planet. NASA scientists got together Wednesday (July 29) to share a status update on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope —Continue Reading

NASA Awards 2026 Innovative Technology Concepts

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

airbus-vs-boeing:-who-won-at-the-2026-farnborough-airshow?

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

australian-watchdog-files-legal-action-against-telegram,-saying-it-failed-to-remove-violent-content

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

amd-raises-the-ai-stakes-with-helios,-venice-and-robotics

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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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