Science & Tech

OPPO to unveil Find N6 foldable with “Zero-Feel Crease” hinge at March 17 global launch

OPPO plans a March 17 global reveal of the Find N6 foldable, touting a new hinge and glass stack designed to make the screen crease nearly unnoticeable.

#oppo, #foldables, #smartphones, #android, #hardware

WHO seeks $38.8 million to keep Yemen’s fragile health system from unraveling

WHO is asking for $38.8 million to sustain basic health care for 10.5 million Yemenis in 2026 as funding falls and outbreaks loom.

#yemen, #who, #humanitarianaid, #cholera, #publichealth

Scientists Break 33-Year Ambient-Pressure Superconductivity Record, Map Push Toward Room Temperature

Two PNAS papers report 151 K superconductivity at normal pressure via pressure quenching—and propose a coordinated roadmap to reach room-temperature materials.

#superconductivity, #materials, #physics, #pnas, #quantum

SpaceX Launches EchoStar 25, First New Dish TV Satellite in 16 Years

A Falcon 9 lofts EchoStar 25 for Dish Network, reviving geostationary TV capacity as EchoStar sells spectrum and pivots from 5G ambitions.

#spacex, #satellite, #dishtv, #echostar, #falcon9

PAHO Warns Cuba Faces ‘Very High’ Disease Risk as Mosquito Outbreaks Collide With Blackouts and Food Shortages

PAHO reports surging chikungunya, dengue and Oropouche in Cuba, worsened by power cuts, storm damage and shortages straining hospitals.

#cuba, #paho, #dengue, #chikungunya, #oropouche

New LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA Catalog Lists 218 Gravitational-Wave Events, Nearly Doubling Known Cosmic Mergers

GWTC-4 adds 128 new detections from 2023–24, expanding the menagerie of black-hole and neutron-star mergers and sharpening tests of cosmology.

#ligo, #gravitationalwaves, #blackholes, #astronomy, #cosmology

Apple goes down-market with $599 iPhone 17e and MacBook Neo, eyeing schools and first-time buyers

Apple launches a $599 iPhone 17e and $599 MacBook Neo ($499 for education), betting on on-device AI and long support to broaden its base.

#apple, #iphone, #macbook, #education, #ai

Open-Source ‘DNA GPT’ Evo 2 Hits the Internet, Raising Hopes for Medicine—and New Biosecurity Questions

A new 40B-parameter genome AI, Evo 2, is released with open weights and data—boosting research while testing safeguards against biological misuse.

#ai, #genomics, #biosecurity, #openai, #biotech

LexisNexis Probes Cloud Breach After Hackers Claim Theft of Millions of Legal and Government Records

LexisNexis is investigating an AWS breach tied to a known software flaw after FulcrumSec claimed it stole millions of records, including .gov users.

#cybersecurity, #databreach, #aws, #lexisnexis, #government

CDC Deploys ‘Disease Detectives’ as South Carolina Measles Outbreak Nears 1,000 Cases

Federal epidemiologists and supplies head to the Carolinas as South Carolina’s measles outbreak nears 1,000 cases, fueled by falling vaccination rates.

#measles, #vaccines, #cdc, #southcarolina, #publichealth

Federal regulators approve TerraPower’s Natrium reactor in Wyoming, a first for non-water-cooled nuclear

The NRC okayed construction of TerraPower’s sodium-cooled Natrium reactor near Kemmerer, launching a coal-to-nuclear test for advanced power.

#nuclear, #energytransition, #wyoming, #terrapower, #regulation

Astronomers Spot a ‘Ghost Galaxy’ Made Almost Entirely of Dark Matter

Using Hubble, Euclid and Subaru, researchers confirmed an ultra-faint Perseus cluster galaxy whose mass appears to be more than 99% dark matter.

#darkmatter, #astronomy, #hubble, #euclid, #galaxies

OpenAI rolls out GPT‑5.4, pushing ChatGPT from answers to actions in office software

OpenAI’s GPT‑5.4 adds native computer control and million-token context, targeting spreadsheets, legal work and enterprise automation—raising safety and jobs questions.

#openai, #chatgpt, #aiagents, #automation, #officesoftware

U.S. says it has completed WHO withdrawal, but legal fight looms over unpaid dues

Trump administration declares the U.S. has left the WHO, ending funding and participation, while WHO and legal experts dispute exit terms tied to arrears.

#who, #globalhealth, #uspolicy, #pandemicprep

Study warns electron microscopes may be distorting key images of next-generation battery materials

UChicago-led team finds common TEM workflows can alter lithium and sodium samples, proposes inert-transfer and reporting standards to curb artifacts.

#batteries, #electronmicroscopy, #lithium, #sodium, #materials