In the 2006 comedy, Garrett portrayed Plug, part of a group of school bullies tormenting the new kid
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2026
Solar engineer and ABC Solar founder Brad Bartz will deliver a keynote-style talk titled "The Palos Verdes Landslide: Who Turned the Power Back On?" during an upcoming community event at AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles on March 14, 2026. The presentation blends scientific storytelling with real-world engineering experience, exploring how fundamental physics principles translate into resilient
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2026
The boreal forest, the world's largest terrestrial biome, is warming faster than any other major forest type and is now measurably shifting northward. A new analysis of the biome from 1985 to 2020 confirms that boreal forest cover has expanded and migrated toward higher latitudes over the past four decades.
In a study led by Feng and colleagues and published in Biogeosciences in February 2
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 06, 2026
The EUMETSAT Council has confirmed that the organisation will remain a key contributor to the European Commission's Destination Earth initiative as it enters Phase Three later this year.
Launched in 2022, Destination Earth aims to build highly accurate digital twins of the planet to simulate and predict how natural processes interact with human activities, supporting better-informed decisi
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2026
Scientists at the University of California, Irvine report that human driven climate change is causing nitrous oxide, a major greenhouse gas and ozone depleting substance, to break down in the atmosphere more quickly than previously estimated. Using two decades of data from NASA's Microwave Limb Sounder, they find that the atmospheric lifetime of nitrous oxide is shortening at a rate that introdu
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
In collaboration with the National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), Oshima College, the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) has developed a new regenerator material composed solely of abundant elements such as copper, iron and aluminum that can achieve cryogenic temperatures around 4 K (minus 269 degrees Celsius) without using any rare earth metals or liquid helium. The work targets
Taipei (AFP) Feb 9, 2026
Taiwan's top tariffs negotiator said it would be "impossible" to shift 40 percent of its semiconductor production capacity to the United States as she rejected claims that the island's chip industry would relocate.
Taiwan is a powerhouse in producing chips - a critical component in the global economy - but the White House wants more of the technology made in America.
Washington agreed
Tokyo (AFP) Feb 9, 2026
Japan switched on the world's biggest nuclear power plant again on Monday, its operator said, after an earlier attempt was quickly suspended due to a minor glitch.
A problem with a monitoring alarm in January forced the suspension of its first restart since the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in the Niigata region restarted at 2:00 pm (0500 GMT), the Tokyo Electric
Beijing (AFP) Feb 9, 2026
Cinematic clips generated by ByteDance's latest artificial intelligence video model have sparked an online buzz for the Chinese company that recently ceded majority control of TikTok in the United States.
ByteDance is best known globally as the company behind TikTok, but it is also a major AI player in the world's second largest economy.
Its new video creation model, called Seedance 2.0,
Dubai (AFP) Feb 9, 2026
The UAE's G42 will take part in a project worth up to $1 billion to build data centres in Vietnam, it said on Monday, underlining the Gulf state's AI ambitions.
G42, chaired by the UAE president's brother, joins Vietnam's FPT Corp and Viet Thai Group in the consortium to develop three data centres.
The agreement, signed in Ho Chi Minh City, is "backed by consumption commitments of up to
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Feb 9, 2026
The EU executive told Meta on Monday that it must let rival AI chatbots use its WhatsApp platform, after an antitrust probe found the US giant to be in breach of the bloc's competition rules.
The European Commission said a change in Meta's terms had "effectively" barred third-party artificial intelligence assistants from connecting to customers via the messaging platform since January.
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Baghdad (AFP) Feb 9, 2026
A fire at a key oil refinery killed one worker and injured six others on Monday in northern Iraq, authorities said.
The fire erupted at an upgrading unit in the Baiji refinery, once the country's largest oil refinery, in Salaheddin province.
The Iraqi government's security media unit said in a statement that firefighters had extinguished the fire.
It added that "one worker was killed
Santiago, Chile (AFP) Feb 10, 2026
Move over ChatGPT - on Tuesday, Chile will launch Latam-GPT, an open-source artificial intelligence model designed to combat biases built by the primarily US-centric industry.
Developped by the Chilean National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA), Latam-GPT uses millions of data points collected in Latin America to showcase the continent's cultural diversity.
The program seeks t
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 04, 2026
A new axis based grid model illustrates how independent spatial, temporal, and parametric axes can be combined to describe complex earth observation data sets in a single coherent framework.
The representation separates space, time, and measured parameters into distinct axes, then aligns them in a unified grid that can accommodate a wide range of satellite and in situ measurements collecte
Keir Starmer and Anas Sarwar
Keir Starmer has insisted the government wants Anas Sarwar to be the next first minister even after the Scottish Labour leader’s ambush.
Sarwar became the most senior figure in the party to call for the prime minister to resign on Monday, after calling an emergency press conference.
He said the UK’s leadership had to change after Starmer’s decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as the UK’s ambassador to the US – despite Mandelson’s known ties to dead paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Читать дальше...
On Safer Internet Day a NGO has launched a school program in Delhi that aims to help students discuss online safety and digital harm. The initiative reaches nearly 45,000 students in 45 schools. It focuses on technology-facilitated gender-based violence. The program brings digital safety into classrooms for students in Classes 8 to 12.
The Skims co-founder shared a video of herself and her sisters Khloé Kardashian and Kylie Jenner attempting to complete the popular "Titanic Challenge."
For some, Bad Bunny's halftime show represented more than just a performance.
Deshaun Watson, who in 2022 reached confidential settlements with 20 women over sexual misconduct lawsuits, has discovered the result of the final two of nearly 30 cases against him.
Pala sub-court has now directed the Erumely and Manimala police to investigate the complaints into the alleged forgery
The legendary Star Wars star died in July last year.
The former Duke of York moved to Wood Farm on the Sandringham Estate last week.
The Indian Air Force, or IAF, is currently facing a serious problem. It is supposed to have 42 fighter squadrons to protect the country's vast borders. A squadron typically has around 18 to 20 aircraft. But right now, the IAF has only about 29 squadrons. That is a gap of 13 squadrons, which is a very worrying number. India shares borders with Pakistan on the west and China on the north, and tensions along both these fronts have been rising in recent years.