China's clean energy equipment exports gain momentum
China’s total installed power generation capacity reached 4.103 billion kilowatts by the end of August, up 11.1% year on year, reflecting continued growth in the country’s energy infrastructure.
SpaceX cargo spacecraft docks with ISS
SpaceX cargo spacecraft docks with ISS
Meta releases Muse Spark Open, a new ‘open-weight’ AI model
Meta says Muse excels at ‘multi-step reasoning’ and ‘complex software engineering’ as it races to catch up to Chinese rivalsMeta on Thursday launched a new open-weight AI model which it claims rivals, and in some cases outperforms, similar products from leading Chinese developers.Muse Spark Open “is the most capable US open-weight model to date,” Meta’s…
Porn showing choking or incest to be banned from early November, government says
The move follows a review into pornography regulation in 2025 by Conservative peer Baroness Gabby Bertin
Living with a stink? Technology might help
Smells from rubbish dumps and industrial facilities are being more carefully monitored.
Neanderthals capable of both violence and care, bones from Iraqi cave suggest
Neanderthals were not the unintelligent cave dwellers of popular imagination, but may have been capable of showing both violence and care, researchers who have discovered bones dating back 75,000 years have said.
Tell us: have you used AI to help with online dating?
From chat-up lines to social coaching, we’d like to hear from people who use AI to assist them navigating the online dating worldWe’d like to understand more about the different ways that people are using AI to assist with online dating.Perhaps you have used an AI assistant to help with chat-up lines? Or you may…
How an accelerating Earth led experts to adopt the leap hour
International delegates agree leap second no longer tenable, but first leap hour not likely to happen for thousands of yearsAfter decades of discussion, quibbling and worrying about clocks in computer systems, the world’s official timekeepers have voted to replace what many viewed as a tiresome correction: the leap second. It’s time, they say, for the…
From a VR gay sauna to the gothic pile that inspired Cluedo – Fierce festival storms back
Venues across BirminghamAs Britain’s longest-running live art festival returns, get ready for late-night artist dinners, a show in a swimming pool and Faye Driscoll’s incredible rotating disintegrationThe phrase “two things can be true” is a frequent refrain in popular psychology and it’s also a frequent response, I find, to witnessing the farther reaches of live…
GTA 6 – all you need to know about Rockstar's blockbuster game
A new launch trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI reveals more details about what’s set to be the biggest game of the year.
