An electric helicopter built by a small team in Columbia, Maryland, flew away with first place in the DARPA Lift Challenge after hauling a load of cast iron that weighed nearly four times the aircraft itself. The machine, called Katana, finished its winning run in just over nineteen minutes at the National Museum of the […]
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Strangers in Times Square Controlled Real Fighters Inside a Giant Street Fighter Cabinet
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Midtown foot traffic slowed this week in front of an arcade cabinet tall enough to stand inside. Paramount parked it in Times Square to sell the new Street Fighter movie, and the usual field of pixels had been swapped for two people. Stunt performers in Ryu and Ken costumes took their marks behind the glass […]
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Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the U.S. wrapped up on Friday, with no deal announced on artificial intelligence, though he is set to meet with President Trump twice more before the end of the year. Weijia Jiang has more. Trump and Xi to meet two more times before end of year as they […]
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Officer fended off Ontario synagogue gunman despite being shot multiple times, authorities say
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One of the officers who helped prevent a shooting at an Ontario synagogue on Yom Kippur continued fighting off the gunman despite being shot multiple times, officials revealed Thursday. Police also confirmed the shooter was targeting the Jewish community in a “hate-motivated” attack. Constable Jeff Smith was shot several times, suffering wounds to his head and […]
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Venezuela opposition leader María Corina Machado blocked from entering country 3 times in 24 hours, team says
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Caracas — Venezuela’s opposition leader, 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Maria Corina Machado, was prevented from returning to the South American country from her exile in Panama, a source from her political party told AFP on Tuesday. Machado is considered a fugitive by the Venezuelan government, which accuses her of calling for military intervention against […]
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iPhone 18 Pro Teardown Uncovers a Hidden Face ID Camera and a Vapor Chamber Three Times Larger
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REWA Technology posted one of the first teardown videos of the iPhone 18 Pro hours after the phone reached stores, working on the physical SIM version rather than the eSIM-only models sold in the United States and a few other markets. That choice matters because the SIM tray model carries a slightly smaller battery than […]
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Vectis Drone Times Five, Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works Builds a Fleet Before First Flight
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Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works just decided one flying prototype is not enough. This week at the Air, Space & Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, the company said it will build four more Vectis collaborative combat aircraft on top of the airframe already taking shape, for a planned test fleet of five. First flight remains […]
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2026’s only total solar eclipse happens tomorrow. Here’s the path and times of visibility.
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The only total solar eclipse of 2026 will have people looking to the skies as darkness falls on its path across part of the Northern Hemisphere on Wednesday. First, if you’ve never had the opportunity to see a solar eclipse, what you are watching is the moon passing in front of the sun. It occurs […]
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More than 2,500 firefighters in France are battling fires across the country. Meanwhile in Spain, over 1,000 firefighters are trying to contain 16 active fires, with the Avila Fire the country’s worst on record. Ramy Inocencio reports. Wildfire in France has burned an area four times the size of Paris #Wildfire #France #burned #area #times […]
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2 firefighters die in Greece as crews in France fight massive blaze 4 times the size of Paris
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Two firefighters died Wednesday while battling a blaze on the Greek island of Crete, officials said, while crews in southern France worked to extinguish a massive, uncontained wildfire that had spread to roughly four times the size of Paris. Across Europe, firefighters confronted a dangerous combination of high temperatures, drought and powerful winds, compromising containment […]