At least nine killed in Seoul as car ploughs into crowd

Local media say a man in his 60s drove into people waiting at a traffic stop in South Korea's capital.

One Elden Ring player made the mother of all Scadutree Blessing maps, 'You can get Scadutree Blessing level 12 without killing any bosses'

Straight to the point.

China’s growing appetite for a space fight with US

A new RAND report emphasizes China’s rising risk tolerance and growing strategic maneuvers in space, an aggressive push forged to challenge US dominance in the domain. The RAND report examines open-source Chinese defense literature, providing a comprehensive overview of

CERN's ATLAS experiment releases 65 TB of open data for research

The ATLAS Experiment at CERN has made two years' worth of scientific data available to the public for research purposes. The data include recordings of proton–proton collisions from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at a collision energy of 13 TeV.

What makes a good tree? We used AI to ask birds

Grassy box gum woodlands once covered millions of square kilometers in southeastern Australia, but today less than 5% remains. The loss of large old trees has been a crisis for the many species of birds and other animals that depend on them for habitat.

Innovative light-driven enzymatic biosystem for the synthesis of natural terpenoids

Terpenoids, such as α-farnesene, are natural compounds widely used in flavoring agents, fragrances, and even in biofuels. Traditionally, α-farnesene is extracted from plants, and hence their production may suffer from low yields and poor purity, unable to meet the criteria for

The Sims 4 will FINALLY introduce polyamory in free update

Image: Maxis/Electronic Arts The new expansion pack is all about romance, as is the new patch Continue reading…

Ian McKellen Drops Out of ‘Player Kings’ National Tour ‘With the Greatest Reluctance’ After Fall

Ian McKellen will not return to the national tour of “Players Kings” after an on-stage fall two weeks ago led him to be hospitalized. The actor had previously announced that he would not be finishing the play’s West End shows, but was expected to make a return to the production

After the Ice Age, people returned to the Swabian Jura 3,000 years earlier than previously thought

A new study shows that parts of central Europe were repopulated some 3,000 years earlier than previously thought following the inhospitable conditions of the last ice age.

WATCH: Tragic storms in Valais, extensive recovery efforts initiated

Due to severe storms that caused significant flooding and landslides, the Canton of Valais in Switzerland is undergoing extensive recovery efforts.

AI, future of 5G and tech sector challenges dominate at GSMA MWC Shanghai

GSMA MWC Shanghai 2024 concluded with the show‘s largest ever international participation, welcoming nearly 40,000 attendees from a record 124 countries and territories for three days of innovation showcasing and collaboration.

‘Summer House’ Exes Carl Radke and Lindsay Hubbard Returning for Season 9, Filming Begins This Week (EXCLUSIVE)

Why let an ugly breakup get in the way of work? With “Summer House” starting production on Season 9 during the July 4 holiday, Variety has learned that both Carl Radke and Lindsay Hubbard — whose broken engagement provided the show’s eighth season with its dramatic spine — will

Study finds timing of rainfall crucial for flood prediction

With record rainfall projected to continue into the future, many worry extreme flooding will follow suit. But a new CIRES-led study published today in Science of the Total Environment found an increase in precipitation alone won't necessarily increase disastrous

Now The EU Council Should Finally Understand: No One Wants “Chat Control”

The EU Council has now passed a 4th term without passing its controversial message-scanning proposal. The just-concluded Belgian Presidency failed to broker a deal that would push forward this regulation, which has now been debated in the EU for more than two years. For all

Why politicians may find it hard to understand ordinary voters

The 2024 election has seen party leaders strain to present themselves as being in touch with the struggles ordinary people are facing in the cost of living crisis. And yet they don't appear to be convincing anyone.

Gaps in reporting of nitrogen fertilizer use on farms leave an incomplete picture of impacts on water quality

New Zealand's rivers, streams, lakes and groundwater reservoirs are under pressure.

Sega Explains What Its New Crazy Taxi Game Is And It Sounds Ridiculous

At last year’s Game Awards, Sega pulled a crazy move and announced not one, but half a dozen revivals of beloved series that have been dormant for a long time. Chief among them was a new Crazy Taxi game, and we’ve finally gotten the first details about it, namely that it’ll be

How ‘A Quiet Place’ Became One of Horror’s Most Reliable Box Office Franchises

“A Quiet Place” has become a horror franchise with few equals. The third entry in Paramount’s post-apocalyptic series, “A Quiet Place: Day One,” beat expectations with $53 million domestically and $98 million globally in its box office debut. It landed the best start of the

Why Copilots and chatbots are particularly bad for modern web dev

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Apple might add cameras to AirPods because it still believes in virtual reality

Apple still believes in its Vision Pro mixed reality headsets even though sales have sputtered. CEO Tim Cook put Apple’s Vision Pro updates front and center at the beginning of his keynote address during the Worldwide Developers Conference on June 10. Read more...

Halfway Through 2024, Nvidia Has Grown Its Market Cap by Nearly $2 Trillion: Here's Who Owns the Most Shares

Watch Former Gymnast SZA Do Handstands With Simone Biles

This past weekend, extremely busy human being SZA headlined Glastonbury, played London’s Hyde Park, and played a sexy bug alien in her “Storytime” teaser. ( LANA , which might be an SOS deluxe edition or an entirely new album is apparently still on the way, though it remains

Sesame Workshop Names Sherrie Westin CEO

Sesame Workshop has named Sherrie Westin its new chief executive officer, shifting from the interim position she was named to by the nonprofit’s board of trustees earlier this year. Previously, Westin served as the president of the organization behind “Sesame Street” since

New workflow reveals composition and function of metabolic enzyme polymers

A recent paper by the Pilhofer Lab (IMBB) and the Matos Lab (formerly IBC, now Max Perutz Labs in Vienna), published in the journal Cell, unveils a multiscale filament identification workflow to characterize protein filaments that assemble during the developmental program of

Trump is ‘absolutely’ immune for ‘official acts’ on Jan 6th, SCOTUS rules

Photo: Getty Images The Supreme Court ruled that presidents are “absolutely” immune from criminal prosecution when their actions involve allegedly official acts while they were in office. Former presidents also have a “presumption of immunity” for their official acts while in

Waves of protein expression and phosphorylation rewire the yeast proteome during meiosis

A recent paper published in Developmental Cell by the Matos Lab (formerly IBC, now Max Perutz Labs in Vienna) in collaboration with the Pilhofer Lab (IMBB), the Beltrao Lab (IMSB), and the Aebersold Lab (IMSB) unveils a phosphoproteomic census covering the entire meiotic cell

Organ-on-a-chip mimics blood-brain barrier for better drug delivery

Optimizing drug delivery systems (DDS) for the biological environment of organs and blood vessels is crucial for maximizing the effectiveness of drug treatment. A research team, affiliated with UNIST has come up with a novel method to maximize the therapeutic efficacy of drugs

Machine learning algorithm proves to be highly accurate in predicting Mount St. Helens eruptions

A team of physicists, geologists and signal theorists from the University of Granada, Spain, has developed a machine-learning-based algorithm designed to predict when Mount St. Helens will erupt.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)

Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE. Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per

Climate change ignored? Study reveals sociology's blind spot

A recent University of Michigan study exposes a gap in sociology: a lack of focus on climate change.

Studying the mystery of Uranus's curiously weak radiation belts

When the Voyager 2 spacecraft visited Uranus almost 50 years ago, it discovered a magnetic mystery. Unlike on most planets, the ice giant's magnetic field is tilted roughly 60° away from its spin axis, creating an asymmetric magnetic field that varies in strength. Understanding