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European energy operators are braced for next week’s solar eclipse to cause a temporary dip in power generation and have taken steps to keep electricity flowing to businesses and consumers, an industry body said Friday.

An AI Data centre coming to Sault Ste. Marie is drawing concern from some locals. But Mayor Matthew Shoemaker says concerns are being exaggerated, and the centre will create up to 1,000 jobs in the community.

High school students in Denmark will be required to verbally defend their written assignments as part of emergency government measures aimed at combating AI cheating.

In the past five years alone, China has launched Tiangong, a modern orbital laboratory to rival the aging, U.S.-led International Space Station. China also retrieved the first-ever soil samples from the far side of the moon, a feat no other nation has duplicated.

The skies of Oklahoma City roared for six months in 1964 as military aircraft intentionally rattled the population below with a daily barrage of thunderous sonic booms.

Scientists believe the animals are asleep, but prefer the more cautious term because it has not been conclusively demonstrated.

ChatGPT maker OpenAI said one of its agents compromised the system of ​AI startup Hugging Face and that it discovered other instances when its agents escaped their digital containment.

The observations began in March when China’s Einstein Probe space telescope detected a momentary flare of X-rays caused when a powerful shock wave triggered by the explosion in the collapsing stellar core tore through the doomed star’s surface.

A South Korean satellite has captured the first pictures of the moon’s fresh crash scene caused by a stray SpaceX rocket.

A New Mexico court has ordered Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta to pay US$567 million to address harms to youth from its platforms in the second phase of a landmark trial the social media giant lost in March.

Canada’s defence minister says the University of Calgary will be home to a new quantum research hub.

Everyone knows dinosaurs got really big. Some of the long-necked plant-eaters were the largest land animals ever on Earth, as shown by Argentinosaurus, perhaps 70 to 90 tons and upwards of ​100 feet (30 metres) long. But how about tiny dinosaurs, like the size of a mouse? As far as we know, none ever existed.

In a tiny Spanish farming village, retired shepherd Joaquin Tapioles is preparing to watch next week’s first-in-a-century total solar eclipse from the observatory he built after being inspired by the mysteries of the skies as a boy.

Scientists have captured images of the sun’s surface in the finest detail yet, revealing a strange and dynamic facade.

Meta said on Wednesday that one of its AI models hacked another company during cybersecurity testing, after an error by its testing partner gave the model unintended internet access.