It could be a new world record, although no one involved wants to talk about it. In the south of France, a collaboration among 35 countries has been birthing one of the largest and most ambitious scientific experiments ever conceived: the giant fusion power machine known as the International Thermonuclear Read more…
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed a bill prohibiting children under 18 from joining various social media platforms without parental consent. Similar legislation has been passed in Utah and Louisiana. The bill, HB 18, requires social media companies to receive explicit consent from a minor’s parent or guardian before they’d Read more…
San Francisco’s once thriving hotel market is suffering its worst stretch in at least 15 years, pummeled by the same forces that have emptied out the city’s office towers and closed many retail stores. Hotel owners in New York and Los Angeles are filling nearly as many rooms this year Read more…
President Joe Biden’s administration is set to allow New York City to move forward with a landmark program that will toll vehicles entering Lower Manhattan, after a public review period ends Monday. The toll is formally known as the Central Business District Tolling Program — but it’s commonly called “congestion Read more…
What Iran’s military called “the first product of the quantum processing algorithm” of the Naval university appears to be a stock development board, available widely online for around $600. According to multiple state-linked news agencies in Iran, the computer will help Iran detect disturbances on the surface of water using Read more…
A New York Times columnist considers alternate reasons for the upcoming House hearings with a whistleblower former intelligence official, David Grusch, who claims the US government possesses “intact and partially intact” alien vehicles: This whistle-blower’s mere existence is evidence of a fascinating shift in public U.F.O. discourse. There may not Read more…
“Kairan Quazi will probably need someone to drive him to work at SpaceX,” writes the Los Angeles Times — because “He’s only 14.” The teen is scheduled to graduate this month from the Santa Clara University School of Engineering before starting a job as a software engineer at the satellite Read more…