Gunfire tore through two communities in Trenton, New Jersey, and Chicago less than 15 minutes apart overnight, leaving three people dead and 23 others wounded in two mass shootings as police in both cities search for answers. Trenton police responded…
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope blasts off. | Photo: NASA / John Kraus After funding struggles and a name change, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been successfully launched. It will now make a three-month, one-million-mile journey to its…
Apple’s unusually timed announcement of new Mac mini and Mac Studio models this week was driven by unexpectedly strong enterprise appetite for AI hardware, according to The Information. Apple normally releases new Mac models in the autumn, closer to October…
Pierre Picave, a French police officer and head of an LGBTQ rights association, was hospitalised after a nighttime attack in the Marais district in central Paris, prosecutors said Sunday. Paris Mayor Emmanuel Grégoire denounced the “despicable homophobic attack”.The suspected attacker…
As backlash grows over Flock’s AI surveillance cameras, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on them. The move came just ahead of the publication of a Texas Tribune investigation that revealed the state spent over $30 million on…
Life returned to normal in Niger’s capital on Sunday, a day after mutineers stormed the presidential palace and a military base at Niamey’s main airport, resisting forces loyal to the ruling junta until Russia’s Africa Corps intervened. State TV reported that…
NASA has successfully launched its newest space telescope from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The telescope reached orbit just 10 minutes after liftoff and is now beginning its mission to shed light on some of the universe’s biggest unsolved…
Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman today further outlined what to expect from the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 set to be unveiled on September 9. While it was initially rumored that Touch ID may be coming to the…
Iceland has voted against resuming membership talks with the European Union. The “No” camp won with nearly 53% of the vote, while just over 47% backed the “Yes” side, with only 9,500 votes separating the two. The Nordic island nation…
A look back at some of the week’s key news stories and the most striking images: a devastating flood tears through Nepal and Tibet, the death of global icon Dolly Parton, a tornado devastates a village in southern France and…