The bioscience startup has attracted billions in investment – and a flurry of criticism, but founder tells the Guardian plans to bring back the woolly mammoth will not be derailed
Death and taxes are supposed to be the things we can depend on in this life. But in 2025, the American entrepreneur Ben Lamm sold much of the world on the idea that death did not, after all, need to be for ever.
Government staffing cuts and instability, including this year’s prolonged shutdown, could be hindering US digital defense and creating vulnerabilities.
Analysis shows obscure and barely-used choices, drawn from online slang, do not stand the test of time
If you have seen a news story declaring 2025’s chosen “word of the year” in recent weeks, you might be forgiven for asking yourself: what, another one?
Depending on which dictionary you turn to, the chosen term this year was either Collins’ “vibe coding”, “parasocial” from Cambridge...
Customs agents have broad authority to search the electronic devices of travelers entering and leaving the U.S. Here are tips for keeping your data safe.
PostNord is ending letter delivery in Denmark after a 90%+ collapse in mail volume. It marks the first known case of a national postal carrier abandoning letters entirely — a symbolic milestone of a fully digitized society that’s sparking nostalgia even among people who stopped sending mail years ago. The New York Times reports: Denmark has had a postal service for more than 400 years. But a...
Recently, several cryptocurrency analysts have expressed an increasingly optimistic outlook on XRP’s future performance. As market expectations surrounding the potential launch of an XRP ETF continue to grow, some observers believe that XRP could experience a short-term price increase of up to 210%. In the medium to long term, more ambitious projections have even discussed […]
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Israel has operationally deployed Iron Beam, a 100,000-watt laser air-defense system capable of shooting down drones, rockets, and mortars at negligible per-shot cost. According to Tom’s Hardware, it marks the first real-world deployment of a high-energy laser as part of a modern, multi-layered missile defense network. From the report: The Iron Beam is a short-range line-of-sight laser...
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The cryptocurrency market experienced another uneasy episode after Christmas, with most tokens sliding. At the end of every year, liquidity is thin, the risk appetite is weak, and investor confidence is tested considerably. The situation was worsened by the Trust Wallet breach, which resulted in $7 million in user losses. Market downturns may cause panic […]
The system disruption affects the logging of service queries, outage reports, dispatching of technical teams, and access to customer account information.
