Russia’s first lunar mission in decades has ended in failure with its Luna 25 spacecraft crashing into the moon’s surface. The incident, a blow to Russia’s space ambitions, happened after communication with the robotic spacecraft was interrupted, a blow to Russia’s space ambitions. Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, said it lost Read more…
Facing a rapidly aging population and land scarcity, the Chinese capital is piloting burial spaces with electronic screens instead of headstones. When someone dies in Beijing, the body is typically cremated and the ashes are buried behind a gravestone in one of the city’s public cemeteries. Family and friends gather Read more…
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are buying up thousands of the high-performance Nvidia chips crucial for building artificial intelligence software, joining a global AI arms race that is squeezing the supply of Silicon Valley’s hottest commodity. The Gulf powerhouses have publicly stated their goal of becoming leaders in Read more…
It was difficult to maintain a poker face when the leader of a big US tech firm I was chatting to said there was a definite tipping point at which the firm would exit the UK. Many of these companies are increasingly fed up. Their “tipping point” is UK regulation Read more…
More than $1.7 trillion worldwide is expected to be invested in technologies such as wind, solar power, electric vehicles and batteries globally this year, according to the International Energy Agency, compared with just over $1 trillion in fossil fuels. That is by far the most ever spent on clean energy Read more…
Some parts of the Halifax harbour turned a bright shade of pink on Thursday — for science. After researchers dumped in 500 litres of safe, water-soluble dye, “boats, drones and underwater robots were then deployed to map the movement of the dye, so researchers can understand where materials spread and Read more…
Microsoft “disclosed 15 high-severity vulnerabilities in a widely used collection of tools used to program operational devices inside industrial facilities” (like plants for power generation, factory automation, energy automation, and process automation). On Friday Microsoft “warned that while exploiting the code-execution and denial-of-service vulnerabilities was difficult, it enabled threat actors Read more…