Fusion startup Helion faces heatwave as it heads towards 2028 deadline
Fusion energy startup Helion announced Friday that it has reached an important milestone in its quest for fusion energy. The plasma inside the company’s prototype reactor, Polaris, reaches 150 million degrees Celsius, three-quarters of the temperature the company believes is needed to operate a commercial fusion power plant. David Kirtley, co-founder and CEO of Helion, […]
Study finds Canada could reduce annual carbon emissions five times by planting trees on the edge of the boreal forest
Canada could remove more than five times its annual carbon emissions from the atmosphere by the end of the century by planting trees along the northern edge of the boreal forest, a new study suggests. In recent decades, forests have been slowly moving northward in response to climate change. In particular, the taiga region at […]
Archeopteryx, one of the world’s first primitive birds, has a series of strange features never seen before, a new study reveals
Researchers have discovered a series of interesting, never-before-seen features in the skull of Archeopteryx, an iconic dinosaur considered the fossil of an important transitional period in the evolution of birds, a new study reports. This characteristic, absent from flightless dinosaurs but common among living birds, may have allowed Archeopteryx to acquire, manipulate, and process food […]
Researchers observe real-world exploitation of BeyondTrust CVSS 9.9 vulnerability
According to watchTowr, threat actors have begun exploiting recently revealed critical security flaws affecting BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) products. “Overnight, we observed the first real-world exploitation of BeyondTrust across our global sensors,” Ryan Dewhurst, head of threat intelligence at watchTowr, said in a post on X. “The attacker is abusing […]
Waymo asks DoorDash drivers to close self-driving car doors
Waymo’s self-driving cars are currently transporting passengers in six cities. Unfortunately, this future without self-driving cars comes with its own set of problems. These vehicles can become inoperable if a passenger accidentally leaves the door open. According to a post on Reddit, one DoorDash driver discovered the issue when a strange request appeared in his […]
The Ghost in the Machine: How Digital Twins Are Taking Over the Tasks You Hate Most
Imagine a world where you never have to fill out a government form again, where your medical history speaks for itself, and where language barriers vanish during your travels. This isn’t science fiction—it is the reality being built by FySelf. The End of Bureaucracy: How ‘TwinH’ Digital Twins are Personalizing the Future of Human Existence […]
Pinterest claims more searches than ChatGPT amid disappointing results
Following particularly weak fourth-quarter revenue, Pinterest CEO Bill Reddy sought to compare the digital pinboard site favorably to popular AI chatbot ChatGPT. In an effort to highlight its potential as a unique search destination, Ready claimed that the site’s search volume is higher than ChatGPT. According to third-party data, ChatGPT has 75 billion searches per […]
Rivian was saved by software in 2025
Rivian is clearly an EV manufacturing and sales company. However, in 2025, the company’s software and services supported 8% annual revenue growth. Rivian on Thursday reported total revenue of $5.38 billion in 2025, up from $4.97 billion a year earlier. Looking at the company’s auto revenue alone, Rivian said, that rosy picture is a little […]
Musk needed a new vision for SpaceX and xAI. He landed on Moonbase Alpha.
“If the idea of a mass driver on the moon appeals to you, join xAI,” CEO Elon Musk declared yesterday, following a restructuring that saw a flurry of former executives leave the AI Institute. This is an interesting hiring strategy after the company merges with Musk’s rocket maker SpaceX and the combined company goes through […]
NASA telescope discovers components of life ejected from comet 3I/ATLAS
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS ejected the building blocks of life as it passed Earth last year, according to new data from NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope. SPHEREx observed the rare interstellar visitor from its orbital position as it circled the sun and made its closest approach to Earth in December, before the comet began its long journey […]