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The developer of *The Immortal John Triptych* shares the creative process behind a new puzzle involving a bucket of pink cow dung in the upcoming Xbox release on August 27.
August 2026 offers a total solar eclipse visible in parts of Russia, Greenland, Iceland, Spain, and Portugal, alongside the Perseid meteor shower, Venus at peak brightness, and a deep partial lunar eclipse.
Databricks demonstrates how Lakebase and Unity Catalog enable a single SQL query to join operational ownership data with cloud billing, eliminating ETL pipelines and improving cost visibility for ephemeral database...
Shard Squad, a pixel-art roguelite by The Root Studios and Nuntius Games, launches on Xbox with Xbox Play Anywhere support, introducing over 20 playable monsters and Prime Evolution mechanics.
NASA inaugurated its first new wind tunnel in over four decades on July 31, 2026, at Langley Research Center to support Artemis lunar missions and Moon Base development.
The U.S. Department of War’s Office of Strategic Capital committed up to $820 million to Performance Drone Works to expand domestic drone component manufacturing, addressing supply-chain vulnerabilities in unmanned...
NASA reports flammability test results for Kevlar®/PBI webbings in elevated oxygen environments planned for lunar and Martian missions, supporting potential use in softgoods applications.
Google’s creative technologist Raph built Glanceboard, an open-source app using Gemini 3.6 Flash and Nano Banana to display personalized daily schedules and weather-appropriate outfit illustrations on an e-ink screen,...
Caltech will lead two U.S. Department of Energy-funded projects under the Genesis Mission to apply AI in chemical manufacturing and microbial research, aiming to accelerate scientific discovery through automation and...
NASA and SpaceX conducted wind tunnel tests on the Super Heavy Version 3 booster at Ames Research Center to analyze aerodynamic forces during re-entry for the Artemis III mission.
Berkeley Lab and partners developed a model and cryogenic chamber to detect lunar subsurface ice using seismic waves, supporting NASA’s Artemis missions and the upcoming VIPER rover.
Xbox’s Reforj playtest update introduces Title Update 8, featuring a visual overhaul using Rixels—new geometric blocks replacing traditional pixels. The change reduces texture storage by 98.2% while improving clarity...
UC Berkeley-led researchers developed a computational microscope combining 48 sensors and advanced algorithms to achieve 3-micron resolution across 5 square centimeters at 120 frames per second, surpassing traditional...
ASUS unveiled the Prime AP304 ATX case on July 31, 2024, featuring panoramic curved glass and patented cooling solutions for graphics cards.
NASA inaugurated the Flight Dynamics Research Facility at Langley Research Center, Virginia, marking its first new wind tunnel in over 40 years to advance aircraft, rocket, and spacecraft testing.
Field hockey athlete Adam Miller received a two-year doping sanction after an arbitrator found he committed five Whereabouts Failures within six weeks, failing to submit required location information despite warnings.
Microsoft introduces MAI-Cyber-1-Flash integrated into MDASH, a multi-agent system for vulnerability detection and remediation, offering 50% cost savings while outperforming rivals on CyberGym benchmarks.
Microsoft Research introduced twelve synthetic training environments for computer-use agents, designed to replicate real application behavior with coherent state changes, improving a 9B model's performance from 36.5% to...
SNTUC’s Siow Shong Seng is integrating Microsoft 365 Copilot to automate tasks and support industrial relations officers, with 93% of staff now using the tool.
Atlassian migrated over 3,000 Jira and Confluence EC2 instances to AWS Graviton processors, then optimized performance through JVM tuning, cache analysis, and workload-specific strategies, achieving up to 30% throughput...
GitHub open-sourced casefold, a Rust crate optimizing case-folding for code search at over 45 GiB/s per core by eliminating early-exit branches and using branch-free loops.
AWS now offers Reserved Instances for Amazon RDS for Oracle on R8i and M8i instances, delivering up to 53% cost savings compared to On-Demand pricing.
Razer acquires StreamElements assets to integrate its live-streaming tools into its creator ecosystem, ensuring continuity for millions of users.
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will carry a memory card with 1.35 million names submitted globally to a point one million miles from Earth, launching no earlier than August 30 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy.
The Federal Reserve proposed updates to Regulation O to modernize credit-extension rules for bank insiders, last revised in 1979, by adjusting dollar thresholds for inflation and simplifying compliance while maintaining...
Xbox announced new games arriving August 3–7 across Xbox platforms, including post-apocalyptic RPGs, life sims, hidden-object mysteries, and physics-based multiplayer titles.
Amazon CloudWatch now offers managed Prometheus collectors to gather metrics from AWS services like EKS, EC2, and ECS without self-managed agents, simplifying monitoring and reducing operational overhead.
Fireblocks argues that enterprise AI agents will soon autonomously spend money, requiring a dedicated wallet layer rather than consumer-focused payment tools like cards or bank transfers.
The UK Financial Conduct Authority launched a Handbook API to simplify regulatory compliance by enabling structured, machine-readable access to its rules and guidance.
Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade, planned for 2026, aims to reduce transaction finality to 100-150 milliseconds by overhauling consensus mechanisms and network efficiency.