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Hardware and Semiconductors

TSMC is now racing to build 18 new chip fabs and packaging plants at once — a frantic bid to feed AI’s bottomless appetite for silicon

Somewhere in the Arizona desert, concrete is being poured for what will become one of the most advanced semiconductor fabrication plants ever built on American soil. Thousands of miles away, in southern Taiwan, construction crews are working on yet another cleanroom expansion. In Kumamoto, Japan, a second fab is rising next to one that only […]

By Cassian Holt

Hardware and Semiconductors

Nvidia just booked so much of TSMC’s advanced chip packaging that the world’s biggest foundry is farming out the overflow to rivals

By Cassian Holt

Cybersecurity

Microsoft just rushed out a fix for ‘YellowKey’ — a Windows flaw that lets attackers pop open BitLocker-encrypted drives and read what’s inside

By Cassian Holt

A critical cPanel zero-day just tore into the Government of Guam’s websites — the same flaw now spreading across hosting servers worldwide

By Cassian Holt

Researchers just mapped the brain’s entire histamine system for the first time — wiring that shapes sharp thinking and drives vulnerability to mental illness

By BeckhamLangford

Scientists just traced how faulty brain cells choke the skull’s cleanup system years before Alzheimer’s shows — and reopening the flow restored memory in mice

By BeckhamLangford

A brain-reading hearing aid just learned to decode the exact voice a listener wants — then turn it up while hushing the rest of the room

By BeckhamLangford

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Neuroscience

Researchers just mapped the brain’s entire histamine system for the first time — wiring that shapes sharp thinking and drives vulnerability to mental illness

By BeckhamLangford

Neuroscience

Scientists just traced how faulty brain cells choke the skull’s cleanup system years before Alzheimer’s shows — and reopening the flow restored memory in mice

By BeckhamLangford

Neuroscience

A brain-reading hearing aid just learned to decode the exact voice a listener wants — then turn it up while hushing the rest of the room

By BeckhamLangford

Neuroscience

Scientists just flagged an enzyme called IDOL as a powerful new Alzheimer’s target — one that controls how the brain handles toxic cholesterol

By BeckhamLangford

Hardware and Semiconductors

TSMC is now racing to build 18 new chip fabs and packaging plants at once — a frantic bid to feed AI’s bottomless appetite for silicon

By Cassian Holt

Hardware and Semiconductors

Nvidia just booked so much of TSMC’s advanced chip packaging that the world’s biggest foundry is farming out the overflow to rivals

By Cassian Holt

Cybersecurity

Microsoft just rushed out a fix for ‘YellowKey’ — a Windows flaw that lets attackers pop open BitLocker-encrypted drives and read what’s inside

By Cassian Holt

Military

The Army just cleared its Mach 5 Dark Eagle hypersonic missile for combat — only the president can now order it to strike targets 1,700 miles away

By Kade Winslow

Naval

Iran, Russia, and China are firing live anti-ship missiles together in the Gulf of Oman right now — submarines and drones inside U.S. carrier range

By Kade Winslow

Naval

Iran’s IRGC Navy just pushed submarines and fast boats into the Strait of Hormuz for joint drills with Russia and China — operating inside U.S. carrier range

By Kade Winslow

AI

Astronomers just set an AI named RAVEN loose on NASA’s TESS data — and it is already flagging hidden worlds across millions of stars

By Dorian Maddox

AI

OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 just posted a massive jump in math and multimodal reasoning — scoring 81 on a test the old model routinely failed

By Dorian Maddox

AI

A new study just found scientists who adopt AI publish 67% more papers and earn triple the citations — reaching team-leader status four years sooner

By Dorian Maddox

AI

80% of companies that deployed AI cut jobs afterward — and a new study found the layoffs didn’t even pay off

By Dorian Maddox

Trucks

California just opened a $1 billion rebate program for electric trucks — offering up to $120,000 off per vehicle to push diesel rigs off the road

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Two-thirds of used electric SUVs still beat their original EPA range after three years — defying the assumption that EV batteries fade fast

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Cold-weather testing just showed EV pickups lose 39% of their range in deep cold — cutting a 300-mile electric truck down to 183 on the same loop

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

The Lucid Gravity just topped the 2026 EV range chart at 450 miles — ahead of the Rivian R1S at 410 and the Mercedes EQS SUV at 390

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

After three years on the road, EVs still hold 97% of their original range — and just 0.3% of batteries have ever needed replacing

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

China’s HiNa, Yadea, and JMEV just began mass-producing sodium-ion EV batteries — cheaper than lithium and far tougher in the cold

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

A Chinese company just pulled the first 621-mile solid-state EV battery off its production line — no liquid inside, and it passed every fire test

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

The Rivian R1S tops 410 miles per charge in tri-motor trim — and 68% of used electric SUVs still beat their original EPA range after three years

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

AAA’s cold-weather testing just showed EV range drops 39% when temperatures plunge — cutting a 300-mile electric truck down to 183 miles on the same loop

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

The Lucid Gravity just topped the 2026 range chart at 450 miles — followed by the Rivian R1S at 410 and the Mercedes EQS SUV at 390

By Rowan Calder

Aircraft

A plane killed a person and injured 12 others at Denver International Airport after the victim jumped a runway fence during takeoff

By Rowan Calder

Aircraft

A United 737 MAX 8 landing in Newark declared an emergency after a passenger attacked a flight attendant and tried to force the forward cabin door

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

CATL just built 4,000 integrated charge-swap stations across 190 Chinese cities by year’s end — each one capable of a 6-minute full battery swap

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

The updated BMW iX3 now carries a 109-kilowatt-hour battery pack and targets 400 miles per charge — the most range ever offered in a BMW electric SUV

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

After three years of real-world driving, EVs hold 97% of their original EPA range — and just 0.3% of batteries have needed replacement

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

CATL’s third-generation Shenxing battery just recharged from 10% to 98% in 6 minutes and 27 seconds in a live test

By Rowan Calder

Extreme Weather

Record heat is about to slam 22 states this week — 61 million Americans brace for 90-plus degrees as a heat ridge builds toward a scorching summer

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Indonesia just raised Lewotobi volcano to its second-highest alert as tremors build — the same peak that grounded flights and buried villages last year

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The Storm Prediction Center warns damaging winds and hail from the Ohio Valley to New England today as the cold front throws its last punch

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

America’s power grids just caught a surprise summer break — AI data centers are plugging in far slower than utilities feared, easing the blackout threat

By Everett Sloane