Northern Lights expected to be visible across US tonight as strong solar storm hits A strong solar storm is currently heading toward Earth, triggering a rare opportunity for skywatchers to witness the northern lights across much of the United States and parts of Europe. The storm, fueled by multiple coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from the
It seems that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is going after Elon Musk’s X and Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram with a new social network. According to reports from CNBC and The Verge, OpenAI is secretly developing the platform, which is still in its early stages. Not much is known about the social network, including its features or
The change was made by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered U.S. Justice Department employees not to post anything on social media related to their government work, after a wave of new political appointees took to cheering Trump and castigating his opponents online. The directive,
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The Osaka Expo is held at Yumeshima, which means “dream island,” a reclaimed industrial waste burial site in the Osaka Bay [File] | Photo Credit: AP The Expo 2025 opened in Osaka on Sunday with more than 10,000 people singing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony to celebrate the start of the six-month event that Japan hopes will
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Zuckerberg also testified that buying the company, taking it off the market and building their own version of it was “a reasonable thing to do.” [File] | Photo Credit: AP Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg once considered separating Instagram from its parent company due to worries about antitrust litigation, according to an email shown Tuesday on the
The mantis shrimp is a colourful, 10-cm-long resident of the ocean whose appearance belies its reputation as one of the most fearsome predators on the planet. These unassuming crustaceans use a hammer-shaped appendage called the dactyl club to strike their prey at a blistering 23 m/s (about 50-times faster than the blink of an eye),
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China has named three individuals working at the National Security Agency it claims hacked computer systems for the Asian Winter Games earlier this year. The country rarely publishes the names of alleged nation-backed hackers, even though the United States routinely outs actors linked to China. On Tuesday, police in Harbin, where the games took place,
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Last night Andor season two had its Hollywood premiere with a house full of fans and the creative teams behind the hit Disney+ Star Wars series. io9 was in attendance (with my dad, who introduced me to Star Wars, in tow) for the momentous occasion. After a screening of a season one sizzle reel and
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What are dolphins saying to each other? What are they trying to tell us? Recent advancements in machine learning and large language models (LLMs) could be moving us closer to achieving the long-elusive goal of interspecies communication. Google on Monday, April 14, announced that its foundational AI model called DolphinGemma will be made accessible to
The start of May is always a good time for Star Wars fans, but for Lego Star Wars ones, it’s also a time to fear the brick-maker coming down on your wallet with all the fury of a fully armed and operational battle station. This year is no exception, with Lego announcing a ton of sets ready to
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