Amtrak’s New 160mph Acela Trains Take Just As Long As the Old Ones Summary Amtrak has put its next‑generation 160mph tilting Acela trains into service on the Northeast Corridor. The…
Florida Deploys Robot Rabbits To Control Invasive Burmese Python Population Summary The South Florida Water Management District, together with University of Florida researchers, deployed about 120 robotic rabbits this summer…
Nanoparticles Turn Houseplants Into Night Lights Summary Researchers at South China Agricultural University have developed a simple way to make succulents emit a soft glow by injecting a light-emitting phosphor…
Taco Bell’s AI Drive-Thru Plan Gets Caught Up On Trolls and Glitches Summary Taco Bell rolled out AI voice assistants in over 500 US drive-thrus but has run into glitches…
Engineers Send Quantum Signals With Standard Internet Protocol Summary This piece reports on a University of Pennsylvania team that demonstrated sending quantum signals over commercial fibre-optic infrastructure using standard Internet…
A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich Content Summary A 56-year-old tech industry veteran, Stein-Erik Soelberg, killed his 83-year-old mother, Suzanne Eberson Adams, and then himself…
Steam Users in the UK Will Need a Credit Card To Access ‘Mature Content’ Games Summary Valve has started to comply with the UK’s Online Safety Act by requiring UK…
Georgia Tech Is Teaching Other Universities a Fundraising Lesson Summary Universities facing cuts to federal research budgets are increasingly turning to corporate partners for funding. Georgia Tech secured about $70…
UK Sought Broad Access To Apple Customers’ Data, Court Filing Suggests Summary A recently published Investigatory Powers Tribunal filing indicates the UK Home Office’s Technical Capability Notice (TCN) to Apple…
Macron Vows Retaliation If Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Attacked Summary French President Emmanuel Macron vowed a strong response if any country takes measures that undermine Europe’s digital sovereignty. Speaking in Toulon…
