DefenseNews

Dutch radar firm Robin turns bird-spotting skills into drone defense

PARIS — Robin Radar got into drone detection in the early 2010s, when the company needed predictable targets to validate its bird-spotting radars, founder and CEO Siete Hamminga recalls. The Dutch startup considered partnering with a pigeon club to release homing pigeons, the executive told Defense News in an interview at the DSEI UK defense show in London earlier this month. In the end, the…
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GamingNews

Borderlands 4: What to Expect in the Game

Borderlands 4 is rife with overpowered builds that use what developer Gearbox has described as “unintended interactions” to cause massive damage, even to the game’s toughest bosses on the hardest difficulties. The most infamous of these is ‘the knife,&#8217…
GamingNews

Gearbox Issues and How to Troubleshoot Them

Since Borderlands 4 came out, developer Gearbox has released a PC-focused patch that tackles crashes, among a few other things. But players are wondering what the studio intends to do about the looter shooter’s balance, especially at a time when builds that let you…
CryptoNews

Crypto Advocate Carl Moon Donates $400,000 to KidsOR, Urges Charities to Accept Crypto

Swedish entrepreneur and crypto advocate has donated over $400,000 to Kids Operating Room (KidsOR) and has urged charities to embrace cryptocurrency donations, citing their potential to simplify giving and expand global donor reach. Crypto Advocate Donates $400,000 to KidsOR , also known as Carl Moon, a prominent Swedish entrepreneur and cryptocurrency advocate, has donated more than $400,000 to…
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NewsSpace

How do particle colliders work?

Particle accelerators, also known as particle colliders or atom smashers, have been responsible for some of the most exciting physics findings over the past century, including the discovery of the elusive Higgs boson, the fundamental force-carrying particle of the Higgs…
NewsSpace

This new NASA astronaut candidate has already been to space

One of NASA’s newly announced astronaut candidates already has a spaceflight under her belt. On Monday (Sept. 22), the space agency announced the 10 members of its newest astronaut class — five men and five women who will train for potential missions to commercial space stations in Earth orbit, at the moon and (perhaps) on Mars. One of the 10 is Anna Menon, who already has extensive…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Google revamps its Play Store with AI features and more

Google said Tuesday it’s making a number of changes to how the Play Store looks and functions in an effort to better personalize the store to its users and increase engagement. Among the new features is a redesigned Apps tab, a new Play Games experience, a new tab…
AI & RoboticsNews

Rocket.new, one of India’s first vibe-coding startups, snags $15M from Accel, Salesforce Ventures

Rocket.new, an Indian startup building an AI-powered app development platform, has raised $15 million in a seed round led by Salesforce Ventures to take on viral vibe-coding rivals like Lovable, Cursor, and Bolt by letting users build full, production-ready apps from natural-language prompts rather than just quick prototypes. Accel and Together Fund joined Salesforce Ventures in the all-equity…
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