Traveling to the sun-swept Turks and Caicos on vacation? You might want to double-check your luggage for ammo. Five Americans visiting the British dependency this year are facing a mandatory 12 years in prison, charged with possession of ammunition after arriving in the popular tourist destination 600 miles southeast of Miami. The latest arrest happened […]
May 16—AUGUSTA — Nicole Herling thought her brother was going to take his own life. She had tried for months to get him help. By checking in with his friends and co-workers. By leaving several voicemails with his Army Reserve commanders — messages that were never returned. By patiently trying to explain to him that […]
The European Union has opened fresh investigations into Facebook and Instagram over suspicions that they are failing to protect children online, in violation of the bloc’s strict digital regulations for social media platforms. It is the latest round of scrutiny for parent company Meta Platforms under the 27-nation EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), a sweeping […]
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Michael Garrett is the Sir Bernard Lovell chair of Astrophysics and Director of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester. Artificial intelligence (AI) has progressed at an astounding pace over the last few years. Some scientists are now […]
The chip Intel wanted to hide the most keeps popping up in the oddest places. You may or may not have heard of Cannon Lake, but it was one of Intel’s biggest busts. Cannon Lake was Intel’s first 10nm processor to ship, arriving after years of delays while the company lost its manufacturing lead to TSMC […]
The pilot, 53, was unable to deploy the aircraft’s landing gear after it took off at a runway north of Sydney, Australia Sky News Australia/Youtube A plane with failed landing gear landing at Newcastle Airport in Australia Three people onboard a plane in Australia just survived a very close escape. On Monday, May 13, the […]
David Duchovny has starred in two major TV hits (The X-Files and Californication, for which he’s won a total of two Golden Globes), received an M.A. from Yale, published a handful of novels, released three albums as a singer-songwriter and is fresh from directing his second feature film. Given all this success, it might be […]
WASHINGTON — Sen. Eric Schmitt, a freshman Republican from Missouri, is new to the Senate but has already figured out that the so-called upper chamber is not always on the up and up. “The only time you to get to offer an amendment in this place,” he declared in a recent mini-rant on the Senate […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Regulators have closed Republic First Bank, a regional lender operating in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Friday it had seized the Philadelphia-based bank, which did business as Republic Bank and had roughly $6 billion in assets and $4 billion in deposits as of Jan. 31. […]
The Israeli military has said its head of intelligence has resigned over failures surrounding Hamas’s unprecedented October 7 attack. Maj Gen Aharon Haliva has become the first senior Israeli figure to step down after Hamas breached the country’s defences, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians, taking roughly 250 more captive, and sparking the war against Hamas […]
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has criticised social media platform X for refusing to remove graphic posts about a knife attack on a bishop and a priest in a Sydney church last week. X, the tech company founded last year by billionaire Elon Musk to succeed Twitter, announced last week it would fight in court […]
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The head of Israel’s military intelligence directorate resigned on Monday over the failures surrounding Hamas’ unprecedented Oct. 7 attack, the military said, becoming the first senior figure to step down over his role in the deadliest assault in Israel’s history. Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva’s resignation sets the stage for what’s […]