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A solar-powered aircraft with a 59-ft (18-m) wingspan has spent 29 hours flying over the island of Fuerteventura, running, even at night, on nothing but stored sunlight. UAVOS says its ApusNeo is the first solar plane to fly at 47,600 ft (14,500 m) in European airspace, and the company wants to put it to work watching for wildfires, one of the archipelago's biggest summer headaches. Continue Reading Category: Aircraft, Transport Tags: Aircraft, Solar Powered, UAV, High Altitude

Around 450 million metric tons of plastics are produced worldwide each year. The major share of this sheer volume is used only once and then winds up in an incinerator or in landfills. This also applies to so-called polyolefins, which include polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP). As packaging materials and films, they account for approximately half of our plastic consumption.

As global demand for cooling continues to grow, the urgent need for sustainable refrigeration technologies is becoming increasingly evident. Conventional vapor-compression systems remain energy-intensive, while the refrigerants can contribute to the greenhouse effect. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) research team has manufactured a low-cost, ultradurable elastocaloric refrigerant structure, inspired by the stacked porous architecture of honeycombs, that operated for more than 100 million cooling cycles with an estimated service life of more than 10 years.

Julian Brodsky, a cable TV pioneer who was a co-founding partner of Comcast more than 60 years ago, has died. He was 93. Comcast announced his death Friday. According to the cable and media company, Brodsky died peacefully surrounded by his family while in hospice care on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026. Brodsky teamed with Comcast […]

Apple drops the mandatory Siri AI waitlist in iOS 27, letting eligible iPhone users download the new assistant automatically unless demand spikes. (via Cult of Mac - Your source for the latest Apple news, rumors, analysis, reviews, how-tos and deals.)

Earlier this week, Raspberry Pi co-founder and CEO Eben Upton announced another price hike, this time affecting the 16GB variant of the Raspberry Pi 5. The company's highest-capacity single-board computer will cost $80 more, bringing the final price to $385. A "puny" SBC now costs more than a complete mini... Read Entire Article

When I first read Allison and Nilay's Verge review of the iPhone Duo, I was immediately struck by one of their complaints: that the cover display is too small. That's not how the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 feels, I thought. Had they got it wrong? After a week and a half using the Duo, […]

Skin is remarkably good at keeping things out of the body. Typically, that's a positive. It becomes an issue when medicine needs to get in. Swallow a pill to treat a skin condition, and the medicine enters your stomach, moves into your bloodstream and travels throughout your body—all to reach a problem in your skin.

A faster GPU isn't always a better upgrade for an older PC. We test the RTX 5060, RTX 5070, and RX 9060 XT across four CPUs to see how processor limitations can turn GPU rankings upside down. Read Entire Article

Apple has an undisclosed multilingual gray list of tens of thousands of words and phrases that its iOS keyboard will not autocomplete or swipe-type, a researcher said on Friday

A magnet barely wider than a human hair is one of the fastest spinning objects ever and could be useful for both fundamental physics experiments and in quantum technology

Alcon Entertainment had accused the studio of helping Elon Musk create unlicensed promotional material using an artificial intelligence image generator. It continues to pursue claims against him and Tesla.

Albanese should tread carefully as he struggles to make case for how the new technology will benefit ordinary voters Get our daily political email, free app or daily news podcast When will Australia see the benefits of the AI and datacentre boom? So far, all we’ve seen is the possibility of changes to copyright which would hurt Australian creatives, special rules about power and water use, and the threat of mass displacement or replacement of workers, with the trade-off being a mere 10% chance of human extinction. Now add the Reserve Bank’s assessment this week that datacentres were part of growing “inflationary pressures” when lifting interest rates to an 18-year high. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s Politics, really newsletter here Continue reading...

Apple keeps a hidden list of around 100,000 words and phrases that its iPhone keyboard will not suggest to users, according to an independent researcher. The list includes political expressions such as “Dictator Trump” and “Sleepy Joe”, Reuters reported today. The restrictions do not prevent users from typing these words themselves. Instead, they stop the […] This story continues at The Next Web

Concern among counties due to reliance on ECB funding Optimism that eventual figure could be reduced to £35m The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is forecasting losses of tens of millions of pounds next year despite hosting the Ashes, with county executives told last week that the deficit could be as large as £50m. The anticipated shortfall, after posting a profit of £12.6m in 2025, is due to a combination of the cyclical nature of the governing body’s media revenues, which is largely determined by domestic opposition, and a recent decision by the International Cricket Council (ICC) to withhold a portion of the broadcast payments owed to members that it had been due to distribute in 2027. Continue reading...

New lawmakers from Annie Andrews and Adam Hamilton to Abdul El-Sayed indicate they will not support him Incoming Democratic senators want someone other than Chuck Schumer to become the next majority leader in the US Senate, although Schumer likely still has enough votes in his caucus to remain the top Democrat. Annie Andrews, the Democratic senator-elect from South Carolina, told Fox News’s Bret Baier on Thursday that the Democratic party needs new leadership. When asked whether she would support Schumer’s leadership bid, she replied: “I still very much believe it’s time for generational change on both sides of the aisle.” Continue reading...

A well-napped child is a cheerful and happy child. In a world where both parents have to work, most children spend their first five years attending childcare, right around the time they transition from regular daytime naps to sleeping through the night. A recent study published in Sleep Medicine investigated whether attending childcare changes the number of times a child naps on that day compared with days spent at home, and how that relationship shifts as children grow older.

NASA will host a first-of-its-kind air show and aerospace expo on Florida's Space Coast this weekend —an event that shares its name with one of Homer Simpson's aliases.

The action does not prevent future presidents from restyling the iconic office that President Trump has filled to the brim with gold flourishes, nor does it prevent a successor from rolling back the proclamation itself.

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Once exclusive to techy nerds, Linux is increasingly attracting users tired of privacy-invasive choices from Big Tech. TechRadar sat down with some of them to understand why and how they switched and, perhaps, if we all should.

When a process needs a burst of heat, a steady supply may not be enough. Storing thermal energy and delivering it quickly are challenges for applications such as sterilization, cleaning or starting up distillation systems. To solve the problem, Rice University engineers turned to laser physics. By applying optics principles to heat transport in fluids, their new system accumulates heat and releases it on demand.

The clear-out at the newspaper seems driven less by politics than by a shift towards AI – and journalism will pay the price Nigel Farage has been writing columns for the Daily Telegraph since 2016, most of which have promoted the previously Brexit and now Reform UK party he leads, or accused his rivals of going soft on immigration. For this privilege the paper’s cash-strapped bosses paid him around £4,000 a month, adding up to nearly half a million pounds over the past decade. News broke this week that Farage’s services are no longer required by the Telegraph’s new German owners, Axel Springer, though sources close to Farage say that he resigned. The paper is also reported to be negotiating the exit of Allison Pearson, who has been complimentary of far-right activist Tommy Robinson’s “rough-diamond charisma”, which together have prompted rumours that Springer has called a halt to the paper’s rightwards shift, calling it back to the basics of its Conservative party bible past. Jane Martinson is an academic and Guardian columnist. She is a board member of the Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian Media Group, and writes in a personal capacity Continue reading...

A new polymer electrolyte to replace lithium ions in batteries is the result of research carried out by a team from the Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering (DCMIC) "Giulio Natta" at Politecnico di Milano, which conceived and developed a revolutionary, nonflammable, quasi-solid gel membrane that enables the transport of fluoride ions within batteries at room temperature.

On November 6th, Apple will release an all-new MacBook Pro. It's thinner and lighter and has a beautiful OLED touchscreen. It is very likely what every new MacBook Pro will look like in a couple of years. The M6 MacBook Pro, which is also out on the 6th, is not that laptop. Instead, it's a […]