AI & RoboticsNews

Sora update to bring AI videos of your pets, new social features, and soon, an Android version

October 24, 2025
OpenAI is teasing a series of updates coming to its viral app for AI-generated videos, Sora, which recently shot to the top of the App Store after a late September launch. The app, which remains at No. 1 in the U.S. and Canada, will introduce video editing tools, offer the ability for users to create character “cameos” of pets and other objects, improve social features, and more. Plus…
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NewsPhotography

Still Glasgow: new exhibition shows a city that photographs itself differently

October 24, 2025
This winter, the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) is presenting Still Glasgow, an ambitious photographic survey drawn from Glasgow Life Museums’ collection. Opening November 29 and running until April, it features more than 80 works spanning from the 1940s to today. And together, they make a persuasive case that Glasgow’s appetite for change shapes not just what’s photographed, but…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

The new and improved 2026 Toyota bZ is surprisingly affordable

October 24, 2025
Toyota’s upgraded electric SUV is now available to order. The 2026 Toyota bZ offers more driving range, new styling inside and out, a built-in NACS port so you can recharge at Tesla Superchargers, and prices still start at under $35,000. Toyota is also giving all bZ4X owners a free NACS charging adapter. 2026 Toyota bZ prices and driving range by trim Some of you may remember the bZ4X…
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DefenseNews

How the Army could customize tanks for future urban warfare

October 24, 2025
For steel beasts, the most dangerous habitat is urban. Tall buildings and narrow city streets are unfriendly territory for a 12-foot-wide tank that weighs 70 tons. Yet, as the world becomes increasingly urbanized, and combat in cities and villages has become the norm, armor…
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Airbus, Thales, Leonardo form European space giant amid global contest

October 24, 2025
ROME — Europe’s three big space operators have announced a merger of their space businesses to take on competitors like Elon Musk’s Starlink. Airbus, Thales and Leonardo will pool their space efforts in a new company employing 25,000 staff with an an annual turnover of about €6.5 billion ($7.5 billion) and a three-year order backlog, the firms said on Thursday. “The combination is…
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