The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success
Sometime next week, NASA’s newest rover on Mars, Perseverance, will set a record for the most distance driven by any vehicle on another world. The
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DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists
In October 2025, a storm brewed over the Caribbean Sea. Weather models differed on its trajectory. Would it remain weak and end up in Haiti
The team behind Paddington 2 could’ve made a Star Wars droid movie
Paul King and Simon Farnaby, the directing and writing team behind Paddington 2, were approached by Lucasfilm to make a Star Wars film. The pair
BMW challenged students to build an EV that makes more energy than it uses. They covered it in 1,700 solar cells and it works.
BMW challenged graduate students at Clemson University to build an electric vehicle that generates more energy than it consumes in a day of urban commuting.
New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor
NavVis raised €73.7M to build the spatial data layer that factories need before they can deploy AI
NavVis, a Munich-based spatial twin platform, raised €73.7 million ($85 million) in a Series D round led by US private equity firm The Jordan Company.
Disney+ and ESPN are testing AI-powered search that lets users describe what they want in plain language
Disney is testing AI-powered search inside both ESPN and Disney+, the company announced on Wednesday. ESPN Search lets a small group of users ask sports
Cloudflare built a browser for AI agents. It uses 7x less memory than Chromium and runs entirely on Workers.
Cloudflare built a browser from scratch for AI agents and launched it today as a free beta inside its Browser Run product. Kitesurf runs entirely
Bill Ackman agrees with Jeff Bezos: the best way to help the world is to build something that works
Bill Ackman has spent close to $1 billion on philanthropy over two decades and concluded that capitalism is better at solving problems. “I’ve spent a
Judge rules Meta caused “public nuisance” and must fund mental health treatment
A New Mexico judge yesterday ordered Meta to pay $567 million for a fund that would alleviate the “public nuisance” created by its social media
The ultimate eclipse chase: A Concorde raced against the Moon’s shadow
A walk down the tarmac at the National Air and Space Museum of France is guaranteed to thrill aviation enthusiasts. Several civilian and military aircraft
Illinois Just Told Every Operating System to Start Reporting Your Kid’s Age
Illinois has become the latest U.S. state to pull operating systems into the age verification pool. Governor JB Pritzker has signed HB5511, the Children’s Online
Proxmox Virtual Environment Officially Runs on ARM64, But Your Raspberry Pi Isn’t Supported Yet
Virtualization is basically load-bearing infrastructure for any serious data center in 2026. Enterprises lean on it to run more workloads on less hardware, isolate services
Electric-car charging: The basics
Among those considering the purchase of a new or used battery-electric or plug-in hybrid vehicle, or just curious about EVs, charging can still be the