Signals

SEC Chair Paul Atkins said the SEC is embarking on a deregulatory blitz dubbed “Project Crypto.” Companies “are lined up at our doors with requests to tokenise,” he said. Financial “super-apps” are also a priority.

Government aims to teach 22,000 people, including children as young as eight, how to build and operate drones

Northumbria University graduate Hope Underwood has created a water harvesting system that can be retrofitted to domestic drainpipes.

The new report paints a sobering picture of immunizations as infectious diseases like measles surge across the United States.

A surge in electric vehicle sales has helped drive a boom in battery recycling, but the startups face major challenges.

Manufacturing powerhouses Mexico, Malaysia, and India want to become less reliant on expensive imports — without competing with Nvidia or TSMC.

The 200-year-old tile game is popping up in clubs, hotels and parties as a way for Gen Zers and millennials to connect

US medical journal article about 60-year-old with bromism warns against using AI app for health information

Ozzy Osbourne appeared as an AI-generated image at a recent Rod Stewart concert, prompting questions about how the ghoulish phenomenon will affect grieving

A major project in Saudi Arabia is responsible for one fifth of all global steel, according to its chief investment officer.

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After 90% loss of global sunflower sea star population in 10 years, researchers hope decline can now be tackled

Thanks to advances in AI, we are no longer allowed to truly die. The peace of the grave and the finality that defines the human condition are all being sacrificed on the altar of artificial intelligence. We are normalizing digital necromancy, a grotesque spectacle where the dead are reanimated as

Businesses once trumpeted their climate goals. Now they are quietly plugging away

Law enforcement used license-plate readers in several states to search for a woman who had an abortion

Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.

Video obtained and verified by 404 Media shows a CBP official wearing Meta's AI glasses, which are capable of recording and connecting with AI. “I think it should be seen in the context of an agency that is really encouraging its agents to actively intimidate and terrorize people," one expert said.

The nearest river is about two miles away, but investigators determined the fish was scooped up by an osprey, which then dropped it onto a power line midflight.

Zero Day Attack wants to raise awareness of China's threat, but has also been accused of fearmongering.

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Forget academia — that's over. The Valley's most influential minds are leveraging wealth and tech platforms to redefine public discourse and shape tomorrow's realities.

Fueled by massive oil and gas profits, the world’s largest wealth fund turned Norway into a financial powerhouse—but critics now warn that lavish welfare, poor productivity and declining student performance are signs of deeper rot

The island of Santa Rosa sits in the Amazon River between Colombia and Peru, with Lima recently naming it a district.

Initiative aims to unlock commercial potential in 3 key areas: leather, medicinal products, and meat. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The feathers can emit two frequencies of laser light from multiple regions across their colored eyespots.

How did China get a cut of the global diamond trade?

When Meta embedded AI bots in its apps, even students in the most remote corners of Colombia gained access. But rather than boosting learning, it’s getting in the way.

Overreliance on artificial intelligence may put us in intellectual debt.

Moves by companies to talk less about climate action may stall efforts to cut the cost of emissions reductions, according to the head of carbon exchange Climate Impact X.