By the time Sharifa Aldremly’s family arrived in Rafah last December, her children had been without school for nearly three months. Israel had bombed their Gaza City home two days into the military’s assault on the besieged Strip, forcing them to take shelter in a hospital for a grueling month. Once that hospital came under […]
The U.S. Navy recently used a drone control system now being installed on all its supercarriers to operate an actual uncrewed aircraft for the first time. The uncrewed platform in question was a stealthy General Atomics Avengerwhich that company has been using as a technology testbed to support its work on autonomy and Collaborative Combat […]
Technological and geopolitical competition between democracies and autocracies are two sides of the same coin
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA: Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, and … [+] Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, debate at The National Constitution Center on September 10, 2024. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Getty Images Rising healthcare costs are once again a top concern for voters in the 2024 election. While members […]
Download the 25 October long read podcast By the end of 2024 up to two billion people will have gone to the polls, in a pivotal year of elections around the globe. This is giving political scientists the chance to dive into each election in detail but also to compare the differing voting systems involved. […]
Google could preview its own take on Rabbit’s large action model concept as soon as December, reports The Information. “Project Jarvis,” as it’s reportedly codenamed, would carry tasks out for users, including “gathering research, purchasing a product, or booking a flight,” according to three people the outlet spoke with who have direct knowledge of the […]
07 NASA X-ray Telescopes Reveal the “Bones” of a Ghostly Cosmic Hand In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays and used them to image the bones in his wife’s hand, kicking off a revolutionary diagnostic tool for medicine. Now two of NASA’s X-ray space telescopes have combined their imaging powers to unveil the magnetic field “bones” […]
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The Justice Department has accused two Sudanese brothers of cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure as well as preventing possibly lifesaving alerts from reaching Israelis as the Hamas attack unfolded.
AFP via Getty Images Each Thaad system – like this one seen in an archive photo – costs about $1bn (£766m) The Pentagon has confirmed it is sending a high-altitude anti-missile system operated by US troops to Israel. Officials say the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) battery will bolster Israeli air defences after Iran’s missile […]
