LOS ANGELES — Standing in the shadow of the space shuttle Endeavour, a group of retired NASA astronauts announced their plan to travel the country visiting colleges to try to inspire younger generations to get out and vote. This campaign comes as we lead up to the November midterm election.
This past year, a group of retired NASA astronauts teamed up for a single cause: to defend the U.S.
The moon’s south pole has long been the target of NASA’s Artemis lunar landing missions, but one Artemis astronaut is questioning if that’s still the best plan.
NASA’s Victor Glover, who piloted the Artemis II mission around the moon this past April…
The James Webb Space Telescope's disappearing 'Little Red Dots' may lead to another cosmic puzzle
July 24, 2026
Paleontologists now know that many of the dinosaurs didn’t disappear but instead evolved into modern birds, and new research suggests that “cosmic dinosaurs” observed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) didn’t go extinct either. Rather, they may…
Samsung’s latest foldable arrives with a clear thesis: the best foldable phone shouldn’t feel like you’re lugging around a small tablet. After seven years of Fold devices creeping toward “giant slab” territory, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 pulls in the opposite direction – thinner, lighter and more deliberately shaped around how people actually use their phones…
Itel has announced the launch of the Itel Zeno 100 Pro 4G and Zeno 100 Lite 4G phones along with two new Zeno series power banks with 10,000mAh and 20,000mAh capacities. The brand claims that the Zeno 100 Pro is the segment’s most affordable smartphone. The smartphone…
Etched, the AI chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts in 2022, has closed a $300 million Series C funding round at a $10.3 billion valuation, co-founder and COO Robert Wachen tells TechCrunch.
The round was led by Sequoia, with Andreessen Horowitz, SK Hynix, Jane…
White House science advisor Michael Kratsios said that Moonshot, the Chinese company behind Kimi K3, the largest available open-weight LLM, built its model by copying Anthropic’s Fable LLM while using chips that aren’t cleared for export to China.
“Large-scale, covert industrial distillation aimed at stealing proprietary U.S. technology and undermining American research is…
ServiceNow bets $40 million on Indian banking software specialist to expand its financial services push
July 24, 2026
ServiceNow, the U.S. enterprise software company known for automating workflows like IT service management and HR operations, is betting on an Indian banking software specialist to deepen its push into global financial services.
The company has invested $40 million in…
Some portfolios document a moment. Box of Pin-Ups, you might say, built one. When the British photographer David Bailey released a boxed set of 36 portraits in 1965, he wasn’t just shooting the people who mattered in London (Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Michael Caine, the…
Tesla reported 207 crashes involving its driver-assist systems in a single month — the most it has ever logged. The figure comes from Tesla’s own crash reports to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
The record month lands as Tesla pushes Full Self-Driving harder than ever, and as the company continues to redact nearly every detail of what actually happened in these…
