War of Words Erupts Between Colombia and Peru Over Island in Amazon
Both nations claim Santa Rosa de Yavarí, a tiny island of just 3,000 people that sits in the Amazon River, more than a thousand miles from their capitals.
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Physicists Divided on What Quantum Mechanics Says about Reality
Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the application of equations, first sketched out a century ago, that describe the behaviour of objects at the microscopic scale. But researchers still disagree widely on…
Matt Vierling blasts Detroit Tigers to 6-5 win over Los Angeles Angels
Detroit Tigers’ Scott Harris doesn’t believe in Tarik Skubal window Detroit Tigers president of baseball operations Scott Harris talks July 31, 2025, about how Tarik Skubal’s status impacts front office plans. The Detroit Tigers beat the Los Angeles Angels, 6-5, on Friday, Aug. 8. Pinch-hitter Matt Vierling drove in three runs with a home run…
Impersonators are targeting companies with fake TechCrunch outreach
Hi, thanks as always for reading TechCrunch. We want to talk with you quickly about something important. We’ve discovered that scammers are impersonating TechCrunch reporters and event leads and reaching out to companies, pretending to be our staff when they absolutely are not. These bad actors are using our name and reputation to try to…
‘The Paper’ trailer is here, teasing the return of an employee from ‘The Office’ – National
The first trailer for The Paper, the new spinoff of The Office, has dropped, and while it’s been a long time coming, now that it’s here, it’s left legions of fans satisfied and smiling. (That’s what she said.) The premise of the mockumentary series, much like the original, follows another struggling industry as it attempts…
William H. Webster, Who Ran Both the F.B.I. and the C.I.A., Dies at 101
A former federal judge, he first came to the F.B.I. just as two of the worst spies in American history were running rampant.
Oddly viscous stars could be impersonating black holes
Is that gravitational wave signal coming from a black hole, or something even stranger? titoOnz / Alamy Exotic viscous stars could reflect ripples of space-time, mimicking the signals we observe from black holes. Since 2015, researchers have been learning how to see the contents of the universe by tracking not just light waves but also…
2025 Fantasy football draft prep: Rankings, strategy, rookies, best advice, top 150 players by NFL experts
Christian McCaffrey and Saquon Barkley will be two of the first running backs off the board in most 2025 Fantasy football drafts, even though they both have a history of missing games. In fact, they have combined for just six career top-five Fantasy finishes, so they could be 2025 Fantasy football busts to avoid. Ravens…
A decade later, Windows is still bringing Control Panel features to the Settings app
Microsoft has tried to dumb down its Control Panel with a simple UI over the years, rather than a list of options, but there’s still a number of settings that don’t exist in the new PC Settings app. “Why do I have to go the PC settings to forget a network and Control panel to…
Pop star Jessie J to undergo another surgery
8 August 2025 Jessie J is set to undergo another surgery later this year. Jessie J is set to undergo another surgery The 37-year-old pop star underwent surgery for early-stage breast cancer in June, and Jessie has now revealed via social media that she’s set for another operation before the end of 2025. In a…