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Model created by researchers shows better outcomes are often more likely when people are not too ambitious
It is the end of an idiom for motivational speakers. Instead of shooting for the moon when pursuing life’s goals, researchers say people should be advised to aim a little lower if they want the best outcome.
The tip may lack the punch of uncompromising drive, but aiming for merely above...
Ian Hughes is boosting one of Europe’s most at-risk species with science, his sons and some homemade T-shirts
Ian Hughes and his son, Ben, are driving through the hills of north Wales with an array of homemade animal artefacts rattling around their car: diagrams, plaster casts, hand-printed T-shirts. They finally reach Llyn Tegid – Bala Lake in English – where, knee-deep in the water, Ian...
Confronting the weirdness of a Waymo future.
A senior CIA official, David Rush, was arrested after investigators found more than $40 million in gold bars and about $2 million in cash at his Virginia home. According to the New York Times, “The only charge lodged against David Rush is that he inflated his academic credentials and obtained military leave pay worth tens of thousands of dollars.” From the report: The court papers describe Mr....
Belfast, Northern Ireland – Union Green Power announced the successful completion of its corporate registration process in the State of Washington, marking another major milestone in the company’s international expansion strategy. According to official registration records, UNIONGREENPOWER LIMITED has been incorporated as a Washington Profit Corporation under UBI Number 606 228 516. The...
Change Logic’s Donve Anderson argues engagement is a change intervention, measured by behaviour not applause.
The appointment reflects Eskom’s push to compete for customers as South Africa’s electricity market is liberalised.
Enforced rigorously, age verification to protect children from harms online could push us towards a less free internet.
Arctic Wolf has unveiled a new platform to help organisations gain control of expanding digital environments.
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Artificial intelligence is giving attackers volume and sophistication, but humans remain the weakest link.
NASA has outlined a three-phase plan to build a lunar base at the moon’s south pole. The first phase, from 2026 to 2029, will focus on robotic missions, landers, rovers, reactors, satellites, and Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 1 Endurance test. Later phases will add habitats, power systems, communications, cargo logistics, and rotating crews. Wired reports: According to a recent press conference,...
The hot-fire test failure is a major blow to Blue Origin as Jeff Bezos races to catch Elon Musk’s soon-to-list SpaceX.
The Paratus-backed project now links 170 clinics across Murang’a, serving 1.2 million mostly rural Kenyans.
It’s payments company Yoco’s first known acquisition as it broadens into commerce and operations tools.
“INDEPENDENTS’ DAY”: California Congressional Candidate Eric Troutman Gives Independents Their best Chance at a House Seat in Decades as June 2, 2026 Primary Approaches Irvine, CA — Sign stealing. Political social media censorship. Media blackouts. The major parties have tried every dirty move in the playbook to stop independent congressional candidate Eric Troutman– but […]
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT News: Currently, lithium hard rock extraction involves baking the rock at over 1,000 Celsius and chemically leaching it to extract lithium. The rest of the rock is discarded. Now, a team of researchers from MIT and elsewhere has developed a low-temperature process for extracting battery-grade lithium from the most common type of lithium-bearing...
No personnel were harmed in the incident, the company said on social media, calling the explosion an ‘anomaly’
Nasa’s plans to build a lunar base and return humans to the moon in the next two years, were thrown into jeopardy after a New Glenn rocket from Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin company exploded during a test in Florida.
A massive fireball engulfed and destroyed the launchpad at the Kennedy...
A new Grundfos report warns that Europe’s datacenter boom could strain water supplies and power grids unless regulators bake water and energy efficiency into planning, reporting, and incentives for new facilities. The Register reports: According to the report, the EU-wide server farm IT load is about 10 GW today, and is expected to rise to 35 GW by 2030 — just four years away. These facilities...
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8 with stronger performance and better handling of uncertain or flawed data, including a greater tendency to flag issues rather than make unsupported claims. The update also introduces a “Dynamic Workflows” research preview for coordinating complex tasks across many subagents. TechCrunch reports: Opus 4.8 comes with the expected best-in-class benchmark...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: In an era where Silicon Valley’s conservatism is both expressed openly and becoming more intense by the day, it’s strange to think that tech was once seen as a hive of liberalism. The right-wing nature of today’s tech industry means that its products tend to also be seen as serving right-wing interests, either in their actual operation (like X’s...