Month: September 2026

Introducing: The New Space-Tested SC02C, a Mechanical Chronograph by Konstantin Chaykin

Introducing: The New Space-Tested SC02C, a Mechanical Chronograph by Konstantin Chaykin

Mechanical watches have accompanied astronauts and cosmonauts into space for decades, but few contemporary watches can claim to have been developed specifically around the demands of extravehicular activity, like Konstantin Chaykin’s new SC02C. Born from the manufacturer’s collaboration with Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, the chronograph has been tested during four spacewalks and is now … Read more

Major US city reports first West Nile virus death of the year in Illinois

Major US city reports first West Nile virus death of the year in Illinois

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Chicago resident has died from West Nile virus, marking the city’s first death linked to the mosquito-borne illness this year, according to the Chicago Department of Public Health.Several other cases have been reported throughout Illinois.The virus is most commonly spread to people through the bite of … Read more

Missouri Supreme Court says redrawn map must go on ballot

Missouri Supreme Court says redrawn map must go on ballot

Missouri Supreme Court rules on redistricting referendum: Map must be put to voteState Supreme Court reverses circuit court decisionThe Missouri Supreme Court has made a decision on the validity of a referendum related to the redrawn congressional map. The state’s highest court ruled unanimously in favor of the map’s opponents, determining that the map must … Read more

Andrew Tate indicted in Romania for trafficking minors, money laundering

Andrew Tate indicted in Romania for trafficking minors, money laundering

Misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate has been charged with having sexual relations with a minor, trafficking and money laundering, and allegedly recruiting a 15-year-old girl for sexual exploitation, Romanian prosecutors announced Friday. Tate, 39, received new charges as he and his brother Tristan Tate, 38, remain detained at the Federal Detention Center in Miami, Florida, while … Read more

World’s biggest sovereign wealth fund plans to cut Treasury holdings

World's biggest sovereign wealth fund plans to cut Treasury holdings

Buildings in the Bardcode Project financial district in Oslo, Norway, on Tuesday, October 17, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has proposed cutting the allocation of government bonds in its $2.3 trillion investment portfolio, mainly affecting its holdings of US Treasuries, as it seeks to diversify its risk exposure and … Read more

NVIDIA Confirms DLSS 5 for GeForce RTX 40-Series is Coming

NVIDIA Confirms DLSS 5 for GeForce RTX 40-Series is Coming

NVIDIA has officially confirmed that the company is working to bring DLSS 5 neural rendering to the previous generation GeForce RTX 40 series “Ada Lovelace.” Previously, it was believed that DLSS 5 technology would be exclusive to the latest GeForce RTX Series 50 “Blackwell” and future models, with no looking back. As NVIDIA continues to … Read more

An 18-year-old high school senior from Pasadena wrote machine-learning code to comb 200 billion entries of raw infrared sky data, sorted what came back, and in 2025 found 1.5 million new potential objects

An 18-year-old high school senior from Pasadena wrote machine-learning code to comb 200 billion entries of raw infrared sky data, sorted what came back, and in 2025 found 1.5 million new potential objects

Let’s start with the figure that makes the rest of the story difficult to imagine: 200 billion. That’s about the number of rows of data a machine learning program created by a Pasadena high school student had to process. Each row is a moment when a retired NASA telescope captured a flash of infrared light … Read more