The UK has dropped its demand that Apple create a backdoor for government security officials to access encrypted data, according to US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Gabbard wrote in a post on X last night that she has “been working closely with our partners in the UK… to ensure Americans’ private data remains

Serious badminton players are constantly exploring different techniques to give them an edge over opponents. One of the latest innovations is the spin serve, a devastatingly effective method in which a player adds a pre-spin just before the racket contacts the shuttlecock (aka the birdie). It’s so effective—some have called it “impossible to return“—that the

It’s pretty obvious at this point that the Trump administration is waging a full-scale assault on US science. It has proposed budgets that would be catastrophic, stopped the flow of research funds to a number of universities, and sought to exert unprecedented political control over what funding is distributed. Money has been repeatedly delayed as

Ancient rituals and customs often leave behind obvious archaeological evidence. From the impeccably preserved mummies of Egypt to psychoactive substance residue that remained at the bottom of a clay vessel for thousands of years, it seems as if some remnants of the past, even if not all are immediately visible, have defied the ravages of

A large measles outbreak in Texas that has affected 762 people has now ended, according to an announcement Monday by the Texas Department of State Health Services. The agency says it has been more than 42 days since a new case was reported in any of the counties that previously showed evidence of ongoing transmission.

Starlink operator SpaceX is continuing its fight against state plans to expand fiber broadband availability. After saying the Trump administration should deny a Virginia proposal, SpaceX is taking the same approach in a fight against Louisiana. SpaceX made its view known to the Louisiana Office of Broadband Development and Connectivity in a filing, which was

Firecrawl, a fast-growing developer platform for structured web data, has raised $14.5 million in an oversubscribed Series A round. The raise brings the company’s total funding to $16.2 million and was led by Nexus Venture Partners. Notable participants include Y Combinator, Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke, and existing and new angel investors. With over 350,000 users

Eight Sleep has raised $100 million in a new funding round to accelerate its mission of transforming the bed into an intelligent, health-optimizing device. The round includes participation from HSG, Valor Equity Partners, Atreides, Founders Fund, Y Combinator, and a few notable names in motorsports—Ferrari F1 driver Charles Leclerc and McLaren F1 CEO Zak Brown.

Capvidia, a global leader in Model-Based Definition (MBD) and Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) software, announced a major milestone for MBDVidia: 3D human-viewable HTML models synchronized with QIF and STEP AP242. The result is OEM MBD that suppliers can use anywhere with no CAD required. How it works: MBDVidia publishes standards-based QIF/STEP from native CAD (Creo, CATIA, SOLIDWORKS, Autodesk, etc.)

Proprietary risk engine gives advisors a radical upgrade from legacy models using a straightforward metric, helping build trust and protect portfolios from extreme market shocks Amplify Platform(“Amplify”), built on an AI native data lake and created to unify the advisor and client experience from onboarding to investment management, announced today the launch of QuantumRisk. This