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Throughout the FIFA World Cup, McDonald's transformed restaurants, shopping malls, and community spaces across Saudi Arabia's Western, Southern, and Tabuk regions into destinations where fans and families could experience the excitement of football together.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed an executive order barring state employees from using confidential or nonpublic government information to… Continue reading Walz orders ethics clampdown targeting state employees using prediction market information The post Walz orders ethics clampdown targeting state employees using prediction market…
A new cooking method could make French fries crispier in less time while significantly limiting how much oil they absorb.
France will witness its first solar eclipse in 27 years on Wednesday, August 12th - here's how to get the best view.
Here’s the strategy behind Shaw Theatres’ 90-year run It’s easy to conclude that Singapore’s cinema scene is in decline. After all, cinemas have been downsizing and closing in recent years, from…
The National Council of Legislators from Gaming States (NCLGS) has formally backed keeping sports wagering and broader gambling policy under… Continue reading NCLGS urges states keep control as prediction markets debate intensifies The post NCLGS urges states keep control as prediction markets debate intensifies appeared first on…
Alibaba, ByteDance, Baidu, and Tencent guide hundreds of millions of high-school grads to optimize the high-stakes university match system.
Startup Zanskar has created one of the most productive geothermal wells in the US at a power plant that had been in decline for years.
SciAm books editor Bri Kane shares her favorite science books for every summer mood
A British defence startup founded by a former Anduril director, which is building virtual battlefields where AI-powered autonomous weapons practice fighting, has today launched, supported by $30m in…
UK-based robotics software startupKinematic Trees has raised £585,000 in pre-seed funding to accelerate thedevelopment of its robot-agnostic software platform and expand its commercialand engineering ...
We like to think of our home as a nice, smooth sphere. But mapping the Earth’s gravitational field provides a different view of the planet.
As Andy Burnham opens a new office in the city of Manchester, we offer up some suitably northern works for the walls
Wild Bio, founded in 2021 by Dr Ross Hendron and Irish man Prof Steve Kelly, specialises in crop genetics by researching genetic solutions that developed through evolution.
The Swiss banking group said its stock-repurchase program would end by the second quarter of 2027 at the latest and that it plans buybacks of at least $1 billion over the next three months.
When surgery became unavoidable, a man with no insurance shopped around for the best price for a hernia repair — and saved thousands by traveling out of state.
While acknowledging that changes must be made to the hospice industry, health policy researchers and providers worry that negative attention and the potential for overly punitive regulations could put patients at risk.
The post Anthropic’s New AI Model Can Identify More Software Bugs Than Ever. Microsoft Is Struggling to Fix Them Fast Enough. appeared first on ProPublica .
Discovered by an amateur mathematician in 2022, this strange construct can tile an infinite surface without repeating. But can it be useful in the real world?
The out-of-control AI found four logins which allowed it to access multiple unnamed online services.
New federal data shows that AI demand helped push U.S. power sector emissions up last year.
Christof Koch is taking on one of science’s deepest mysteries: how the brain creates conscious experience, or whether it creates it at all.
Lawmakers in Europe have proposed rolling back the bloc's cap-and-trade program, long considered the gold standard for reducing companies' carbon emissions.
The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East haven't yet crippled global food supplies. Add a powerful weather pattern like El Nino, however, and the risks multiply.
The round builds on the company’s $4.2m pre-seed round in 2025 and will be used to scale and grow the organisation’s quantum ambitions. 5m raise
The members of Ryūjin Nippon, the Japanese men’s national volleyball squad bearing the “dragon god” nickname, are living up to their moniker in this year’s Volleyball Nations League tournament…
Relatives of Chinese passengers of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which went missing 12 years ago in one of aviation’s greatest enduring mysteries, showed up at a Beijing court on Tuesday to demand…
The managing director of the little-known French startup thrown into the spotlight when it was chosen by France’s domestic intelligence services to replace controversial US data analytics giant…
Double Fine Productions has reduced its workforce by 25% following its full separation from Xbox earlier this week. Read more
The AI boom depends on costly infrastructure. If future profits fail to justify today's spending, the costs may extend far beyond Silicon Valley.
He knows that he’ll have to step up soon—but not before introducing his parents to the radical notion of rest. The post Sin Hoi Sai Eating House and the Only Child Inheriting Its Late-Night Legacy…
Brian Sutton, accused of masterminding one of the largest fraud schemes to ever be unraveled in the United States, is living freely in Russia.
A study of platinum-coated nanoparticles shows how energy balance controls crystal growth The post Understanding core-shell nanoparticle growth appeared first on Physics World .
The London-based bank reported a second-quarter net profit of $1.71 billion, beating expectations, and announced a $1.0 billion share buyback.
Yan Diomande has quickly gone from being a relatively unknown winger to becoming Real Madrid's potential record signing.
Heat, drought, heavy rain and late frosts are taking a toll on German farmers. They increasingly respond with adapted varieties, new crops, modern breeding techniques and modified farming methods.
Health-e News Initiation Season: Traditional Nurses On The Frontline In The Eastern Cape For five weeks this winter, Health-e News freelance contributor Tembile Sgqolana regularly visited an…
South Africa has more than half of all Africans using the world's newest HIV prevention injection. But the real story lies beyond the headline numbers. Bhekisisa analysed the health department's first six weeks of roll-out data to reveal who's choosing LEN, whether it's bringing new people onto HIV prevention and if the country has enough…
Ecobank Group, the leading pan-African banking group, today announced its financial results for the first half of 2026, delivering resilient performance despite a challenging operating environment marked by geopolitical and macroeconomic pressures.
Sleeping well during a heatwave starts with stopping the home from overheating. Close blinds against strong sunlight, ventilate when the air outside becomes cooler, and avoid using heat-producing…
A struggling firm reaches for artificial intelligence as it once reached for innovation. Neither saves a business the sums no longer favour.
Speed skater Takagi Miho is set to become the latest recipient of Japan’s People’s Honor Award on August 4.
A Pacific geopolitical expert says there is a risk that Pacific Islands' priorities and security concerns are being sidelined by increased geopolitical competition and tensions in the region.
The Kyōjima district in Sumida, Tokyo, survived the firebombings of World War II remarkably unscathed. Recently, an old Kyōjima home has been transformed into a café with old Tokyo charm.
There’s new benchmark measuring AI’s ability to perform mathematical cryptanalysis. Anthropic’s frontier model actually found new attacks.
Mortgage employees faced backlash when questioning or rejecting loans. The bank says it hasn’t “compromised its underwriting standards.”
We generated time-series data for 105 morphine- and naloxone-related traits across ~700 BXD mice (64 diverse strains for both sexes) for 3 hr after a single morphine injection.
Transgenic animals play an essential role in many aspects of zebrafish research. Here, we have developed ImPaqT ( Im munological Toolkit for Paq CI-based Golden Gate Assembly of Tol2 T ransgenes), a…
Nature Biotechnology, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41587-026-03239-5 Phosphorylation potential and kinase specificity are assigned for the entire human proteome.
Nature Biotechnology, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41587-026-03207-z On-the-fly conditioning of pretrained protein generative models guides protein generation toward specific…
Campaign group Electrical Safety First has urged those "heading abroad this summer to think before they buy".
The concept of “surveillance pricing” is just one part of a much larger problem and business model: corporations maximizing their profits by invading our privacy.
After the US Supreme Court struck down the White House’s previous tariffs, Trump and his trade representative have imposed new tariffs of 10% or more on around 80 countries
Up to 8 AI models running in the cloud weighing in on ambiguous business issues? Sounds affordable
Experience cosmic dread, zombies and one Big Walk on PlayStation Plus now.
eBay sent bloody pig mask and other macabre deliveries to journalists' home.
The final condition will shock you! (It won’t. It’s taxes.)
Judge may allow Minnesota to ban some types of bets, but not all of them.
In shaping her career, Peru native Mariana Costa has asked herself a question: What can I do to make life better for women in Latin America? The answer she landed on was training them for tech jobs. Mariana Costa Employer Laboratoria Title Co-founder and president Alma Maters London School of Economics; Columbia Such positions pay well…
Busted! A college professor who was tired of reading AI responses to essay questions found a unique way to determine if his students were cheating. Sadly but not surprisingly, 32 of the 35 students who took the test fell right into his trap.
Recent reports have raised alarm about the use of PatronScan, an ID-checking and face-scanning system, at multiple LGBTQ+ bars in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood. Much of the attention has focused on reports that the system photographs patrons as they enter venues and questions about whether those images are used for facial…
See how Paul Windemuller, a Michigan dairy farmer, is changing the way he works by using AI agents built with Gemini 3.6 Flash.
