The ballistic missile hit the Rubymar on the evening of February 18. For months, the cargo ship had been shuttling around the Arabian Sea, uneventfully calling at local ports. But now, taking on water in the bottleneck of the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, its two dozen crew issued an urgent call for help and prepared to abandon … Read more
Mars is a desolate, irradiated, lifeless, windswept land. But it’s also the site of dramatic activity, as space rocks pummel the Martian surface. Asteroids or chunks of comets often scar Mars’ desert, in part because the Red Planet orbits near our solar system’s asteroid belt, a region teeming with millions of asteroids. And when they … Read more
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Apple’s long-rumored driverless car project, also known as Project Titan, has been shuttered. But the company didn’t announce its cancellation. In fact, Apple barely ever mentioned the secretive project despite laboring on it for nearly a decade. Project Titan was obvious from the outside — from automotive industry hiring to heavily documented, public testing of … Read more
It’s often been said that the second-best answer to yes is a fast no, and that the worst answer of all is a slow no. As the war in Ukraine closes out its second year, and as victory on the battlefield or a negotiated settlement appear as elusive as ever, we’re seeing that when it … Read more
A video released by a Ukrainian activist appears to show a drone hunting down a Russian soldier. The video shows a soldier desperately trying to avoid the drone by ducking in and out of cover. This story contains elements that some might find distressing. Dramatic video footage released on Telegram appears to show a Ukrainian … Read more
(Video: Derna Zoom/Facebook) October 5, 2023 at 3:00 a.m. EDT Comment on this storyComment The rains lashing Derna gave residents a sense of comfort as night fell on Sept. 10. Windows steamed up as dinners warmed on stovetops. Children curled up with their parents and watched cartoons long past their bedtimes. A 30-year-old store owner, … Read more
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) this week said February could be the key month for the GOP to move past Donald Trump. Ryan, speaking at the University of Wisconsin, expressed hope that Republican frontrunner Trump’s 2024 rivals would by then be able to consolidate behind the one showing the most momentum — and so … Read more
Massive language fashions (LLMs) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT all undergo from the identical drawback: they make stuff up. The errors vary from unusual and innocuous — like claiming that the Golden Gate Bridge was transported throughout Egypt in 2016 — to extremely problematic, even harmful. A mayor in Australia not too long ago threatened to sue … Read more
Gilas Pilipinas coach Chot Reyes. -MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.web MANILA, Philippines—Gilas Pilipinas coach Chot Reyes didn’t beat across the bush after the loss to Angola in Group A of the 2023 Fiba World Cup. Reyes known as it how it’s: Gilas received’t win with a poor capturing efficiency. That’s precisely what occurred as Gilas fired blanks and … Read more
Fox Information An skilled diver who says he is aware of three of the 5 individuals on the lacking submersible that vanished on a deep-sea dive to discover the wreck of the Titanic just isn’t optimistic they are going to be rescued. G. Michael Harris, a Titanic diver who has made a number of visits … Read more