Author: Vidya Saras

In a major step forward for one of NASA’s most anticipated space observatories, engineers at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have successfully installed two sunshields on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.”This shield is like an extremely strong sunblock for Roman’s sensitive instruments, protecting them from heat and light from the sun that would otherwise overwhelm our ability to detect faint signals from space,” Matthew Stephens, an aerospace engineer at NASA Goddard, said in a statement.The milestone is of note, considering how recent federal budget proposals could pose serious risks to Roman’s future and its timeline for…

Manchester United and Newcastle United have been involved in several transfer sagas this summer.Both the clubs entered the market to sign a new attacker this summer.Despite facing obstacles in the early stages, Man United managed to sign Benjamin Sesko from RB Leipzig, beating Newcastle United in the process.At one stage, it looked like Sesko was heading to St. James’ Park but Ruben Amorim and his team hijacked the deal in the last minute, although it was made much easier by the player’s desire to move to Old Trafford.There is another player who is attracting the attention of both the club…

Chip giants Nvidia and AMD have agreed to pay the US government 15% of Chinese revenues as part of an “unprecedented” deal to secure export licences to China, the BBC has been told.The US had previously banned the sale of powerful chips used in areas like artificial intelligence (AI) to China under export controls usually related to national security concerns.Security experts, including some who served during President Donald Trump’s first term, recently wrote to the administration expressing “deep concern” that Nvidia’s H20 chip was “a potent accelerator” of China’s AI capabilities.Nvidia told the BBC: “We follow rules the US government…

Artelo Biosciences secures European patent protection for cancer drug

Blockchain oracle platform Chainlink has partnered with the US-based Fortune 500 company Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) to bring foreign exchange and precious metals data onchain. Chainlink announced Monday that the collaboration will bring ICE’s Consolidated Feed, which aggregates market data from over 300 global exchanges and marketplaces, to the derived data sets that power Chainlink Data Streams. According to Chainlink, these feeds support over 2,000 decentralized applications (DApps) and major financial institutions to provide the market information necessary to operate in tokenized environments. The partnership marks a major step in integrating traditional market infrastructure within the blockchain ecosystem.  Enhancing the accuracy of rates used by…

We all want more for less—or at least I do. It’s that Holy Grail of deals that makes the idea of budget gadgets so appealing, and especially so in the world of phones. The whole idea of a budget phone is pitching you what may as well be the bargain of the century. For less money, budget phones ostensibly offer you a device that does it all: browses the web, retrieves your email, makes calls and texts, gives you near-unlimited access to apps, and even captures important memories like your niece’s first birthday and the horrible decision to hire a…

Nothing is as crucial to the functionality of a free market as its money. Money constitutes half of every transaction, representing one side of all value expressed in the exchange of goods and services. But what, exactly, is the price of money? The commodity with the highest marketability tends to become a society’s preferred medium of exchange — that is, its money. Prices denominated in this common medium enable economic calculation, which in turn allows entrepreneurs to spot opportunities, make profits and push civilization forward. We’ve seen how supply and demand determine the price of goods, but determining the price…

When we asked many of you, “What are you most excited for at Devcon4?” most people replied: the people! This is the one time a year we all get together in one place. We don’t want to spend all of our time at Devcon sitting in a dark room, staring in silence at a person on a stage – we want to see, meet and talk with each other. In that spirit, we’re designing the programming and environment of Devcon4 to provide the time and space for all of us to make new connections – between people and ideas. This…

Few recent software releases have been as hyped as OpenAI’s launch of its GPT-5 model. “GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD level expert,” said CEO Sam Altman in a recent press briefing.Is this new release as big of an upgrade as OpenAI claims? What do these changes actually mean for ChatGPT users? WIRED reporters are currently testing this newest drop from OpenAI, and seeing how GPT-5’s ability to write, code, and perform other tasks compares to past releases.At our next subscriber-only livestream, we’ll be answering your…

The headlines say Howard Stern might be ending his show. But for a lot of us, it ended a long time ago. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.