Aaron Leong
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Scientists at the University of Kentucky have found a way to turn the soggy, grain-filled leftovers of bourbon production, a.k.a. stillage, into high-performance electrodes for supercapacitors, potentially turning Kentucky’s 95% share of...
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In a broad reorganization of the United States' lunar ambitions, NASA has effectively canceled Lunar Gateway, the planned space station that was to orbit the moon, in favor of a $20 billion permanent surface base. Furthermore, plans for a...
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Another year, another Android phone with a physical keyboard attempts to challenge monolithic slab phones and make a Crackberry-like comeback. Unihertz has officially opened its Kickstarter campaign for the Titan 2 Elite series, a...
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A chemistry student wanted her long fingernails to work with a touchscreen, so she developed a clear, conductive nail polish to solve the problem.
This idea comes from the mind of Manasi Desai, a chemistry student at Centenary College...
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In stock guise, Lamborghini's Revuelto is already a prime example of modern performance, but German tuning house Novitec has decided that 1,001 horsepower simply wasn’t enough. By adding more carbon fiber aerodynamic bits with an exhaust...
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New data from NASA’s almost-retired Juno orbiter has revealed that lightning bolts on Jupiter are significantly more powerful than previously thought, frequently discharging over 100 times the energy of a typical flash on Earth.
While...
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Sony’s lead systems architect, Mark Cerny, has confirmed that AI-powered frame generation is indeed on the roadmap for PlayStation hardware, stressing that the feature isn't yet ready for prime time in 2026. While the PlayStation 5 Pro...
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Elon Musk’s latest industrial gambit, called Terafab, aims to interrupt the semiconductor supply chain by building a massive $25 billion chip fabrication facility in Austin, Texas. As a joint venture between Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, the...
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Rock sample analysis from the asteroids Ryugu and Bennu (collected in 2018) has confirmed that the entire library of the chemical code for DNA and RNA exists in space.
The space-delivery theory for life’s origins has been missing...
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Law enforcement agencies have scored a major win against the world’s most predatory botnet operations, dismantling the infrastructure of four major networks responsible for some of the most aggressive cyberattacks in internet history. The...
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Looks like we have a new entrant to the orbital data center race: Blue Origin is formally challenging the likes of SpaceX and Axiom with plans for an initial constellation of tens of thousands of satellites.
Filing plans with the...
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The unsealing of a federal indictment has exposed a multi-billion dollar shadow pipeline designed to funnel restricted NVIDIA AI chips into China. At the center of the controversy is Wally Liaw Yih-Shyan, the 71-year-old co-founder and...
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A little over a year after his death, Val Kilmer is set to return to the screen and as one of the main characters, no less, through physical AI in the upcoming noir thriller As Deep as the Grave. This project, developed with the full...
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A 7-ton asteroid roughly the size of a storage shed was spotted streaking across the Northeast Ohio sky at 45,000 mph, detonating over Medina County with the force of 250 tons of TNT. This event didn't just rattle windows from Cleveland to...
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Scientists led by the University of Manchester have identified a new, heavy doubly-charmed relative of the proton. This discovery was thanks to the use of the upgraded Large Hadron Collider at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear...
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Nike and Beats have merged their performance DNA to launch the Powerbeats Pro 2 Nike Special Edition, a hook-style workout earphone that marks the first time a Nike Swoosh has ever been on a Beats product. For extra draw power, Nike and...
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Samsung is pulling the plug on its ambitious triple-folding experiment, ending sales of the Galaxy Z TriFold just three months after its debut. If true, this brings a swift conclusion to a device that was really more of a halo manifesto...
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In a rare instance of a marketing prank evolving into a factory-backed racing program, BMW has revealed that the M3 Touring GT3 concept originally presented as an April Fools' Day joke back in 2025 will officially compete in the 2026 24...
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A team of astronomers led by the University of Oxford has identified a new class of liquid planet, a world defined not by oceans of water, but by a global reservoir of molten magma thousands of miles deep and a volatile atmosphere.
The...
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Indeed, rapid integration of AI into the toy industry is transforming traditional play into a new interactive experience, but new research suggests these smart companions may carry hidden psychological and developmental risks. While a...
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In a quiet suburb of Tennessee, the AI and physical world collided with devastating consequences for a grandmother whose only crime was existing in a database. Law enforcement’s increasing reliance on facial recognition technology has...
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Astronomers have just discovered TOI-1080 b, a rocky super-Earth located approximately 83 light-years away. Spearheaded by a team from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, follow-up monitoring could reveal even more planets around...
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