U.S. Army combat medical teams are experimenting with ways to prolong care in preparation for a possible fight in the Indo-Pacific theater, where vast distances and limited evacuation platforms affect a patient’s timely access to surgical care.
A fight in the Indo-Pacific would look different from past wars, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, making maintaining the “Golden Hour” standard…
What is the US Army doing in Panama? A bit of everything.
October 17, 2026
Muted American flag patches on the right shoulders of camouflage-clad men and women in the jungle are one sign of an expanding partnership between the U.S. and Panama. American optometrists in the country’s Darién Province are another. U.S. military salvage and dive teams…
PERTH, Australia — An Australian startup is developing new tactical orchestration software that will allow Boxer 8×8 armored vehicles to control unmanned systems in the air and on the ground simply by operators giving verbal instructions.
Sydney-based Breaker…
Activision Thinks GTA 6 Will Actually Help Modern Warfare 4: 'No Offense to Zelda, but [GTA and COD] Are the 2 Biggest Games of the Year'
October 16, 2026
Activision believes GTA 6 will benefit Call of Duty rather than hinder it, with the expectation that Modern Warfare 4 and Rockstar’s behemoth will end up the two biggest games of 2026.
In an interview with The Game Business, Activision chief marketing officer Tyler Bahl was asked about the prospect of GTA 6 and Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake both…
Trollheim: Gnomes Aims to Bring the Mystery and Whimsy of Nordic Folklore to a Survival Crafting Game
October 16, 2026
Trollheim: Gnomes, a new survival crafting game for PC based on Nordic folklore that IGN announced as part of IGN Fan Fest, comes from a team of ex-Mojang developers who all grew up playing in the Nordic woods and hearing folk tales of Sprýg Gnomes and other creatures and…
Maestro Media recently announced a new board game adaptation of the popular mobile game Clash Royale. Now, IGN can exclusively reveal that Maestro Media will be launching a Kickstarter campaign in support of the final product: Clash Royale: The Grand Arena this month
The…
XRP Whales Move 1.67 Billion Tokens to Binance as Price Slips
October 16, 2026
Large XRP holders have transferred 1.669 billion XRP to Binance over the past 30 days, pushing the exchange’s whale inflow metric to its highest level in seven months, according to Cryptoquant contributor Arab Chain. The activity comes as XRP trades near $1.33 following a difficult October. Meanwhile, publicly attributed exchange wallets hold approximately 22.06 billion XRP, raising questions…
Three Canadian Soldiers Arrested in Armed Crypto Kidnapping Plot
October 16, 2026
The men were part of a group of seven that conducted a violent cryptocurrency abduction targeting a victim in Toronto back in July. The group attempted to take custody of the victim’s crypto assets and eventually let him go, warning him not to contact the police.
Key…
Bitcoin developer Olaoluwa Osuntokun has unveiled Layertree, a proposal that could squeeze millions of bitcoin owners into a single blockchain output without surrendering control of their money. The catch? Bitcoin’s existing rules don’t yet allow the technology to…
Methanol, coming as part of the ‘chemical starter kit’ around young stars, has produced some unexpected surprises that could ultimately reveal some of the conditions in which planets and potentially life form around protostars.
The methanol discoveries were made by astronomers using ALMA (the Atacama Large millimeter/submillimeter Array) in the Atacama Desert in Chile, as part of a…
