Palmer Luckey’s Anduril just gave the world an inside glimpse of its new project for the US Air Force — an uncrewed fighter jet that teams up with piloted aircraft. The military startup was featured on Sunday in a CBS 60 Minutes segment, during which a few clips showed Anduril’s Fury drone being assembled in…
In a historic finding, scientists employing NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made the first definitive detection of crystalline ice water in a distant young star system. While ice water is widespread in our solar system, this is the first time that frozen water has been detected outside of it. The discovery gives important…
The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that it plans to weaken limits on some “forever chemicals” in drinking water that were finalized last year, while maintaining standards for two common ones. The Biden administration set the first federal drinking water limits for PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, finding they increased the risk of cardiovascular…
This story contains graphic descriptions that some readers may find disturbing. Multiple witnesses in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sweeping federal sex-crimes trial testified Monday on years of alleged physical, sexual and emotional abuse as prosecutors try to build their case against the embattled hip-hop mogul. Dawn Richard, a former member of Combs’ platinum-selling girl group Danity Kane, told the court on…
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Summary Android Auto is testing a new media playback UI on its home screen’s media card, rearranging the buttons to place the Play/Pause control on the left, closer to the driver in left-hand drive vehicles. The updated design also features a larger, color-accented Play/Pause button, aiming to improve ease of access while driving. Despite the…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended a controversial new Trump administration policy granting refugee status to White South Africans days after the first group’s arrival in the U.S., saying people should be “celebrating” the move, not criticizing it. “We’ve often been lectured by people all over the place about how the United States needs to…
I Prevail Part Ways with Co-Vocalist Brian Burkheiser in Amicable Split I Prevail have officially announced the departure of their founding clean vocalist, Brian Burkheiser, in a statement shared on social media today (May 15). Burkheiser, who co-fronted the band alongside Eric Vanlerberghe since I Prevail’s formation in 2013, is stepping away from the group…
A pregnant woman in Georgia who was declared brain dead after a medical emergency has been on life support for three months to let the fetus grow enough to be delivered, a move her family says a hospital told them was required under the state’s strict anti-abortion law. With her due date still more than…