3 Workers Freed From Collapsed Mine in Western Canada
The miners were trapped underground at a gold and copper mine in British Columbia on Tuesday, prompting a major rescue operation.
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From The Terminator to R2D2, the 25 best fictional robots – according to New Scientist
The greatest robot of all time? The cooker on the moon, from A Grand Day Out Photo12/7e Art/Aardman Animations/Alamy We write a lot about robots here at New Scientist – the latest cutting-edge developments, the newest technology. Fancy reading about a golf robot? A laundry robot? A kickboxing robot? A space robot? We’ve got you…
VC Victor Lazarte is leaving Benchmark to launch his own firm
After two years as a venture capitalist for top-shelf firm Benchmark, Victor Lazarte is leaving that company to start his own investing gig, he announced on X on Thursday. Lazarte became known in tech for co-founding mobile gaming company Wildlife Studios, which was last valued at an estimated $3 billion in 2020. Wildlife raised money…
Murderbaad shows added in Chandigarh, Hyderabad; director Arnab Chatterjee says, “We made Murderbaad with passion and a lot of heart”
Bollywood’s July box office is seeing a clash of newcomers, with Arnab Chatterjee’s Murderbaad maintaining its presence. Despite the continued performance of Saiyaara, the thriller has sustained its run and added shows in Chandigarh, Hyderabad, and other key centers starting week 2. The film, which opened on a modest number of screens, is gradually expanding…
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Spat Between Thai and Cambodian Leaders Fuels Deadly Border War
A personal feud between two of Southeast Asia’s political titans is inflaming the worst violence on the border in more than a decade.
No, Instagram didn’t suspend Zohran Mamdani’s account for being ‘too socialist’
In a story published earlier this week, a site called “NYC Journals” claimed to have a bombshell: that Instagram had suspended the account of New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani for being “too socialist.” The story claimed that Mamdani’s account was down for three hours; it also cited a “leaked memo” from inside Instagram that…
Resetting the NBA offseason: Best free agents remaining, plus extension-eligible players and trade candidates
The NBA Draft was a month ago, most major free-agent deals have been done for three weeks and summer league is in the books. (Congratulations to Kon Knueppel, K.J. Simpson and the rest of the Summer Hornets by the way — those rings are pretty nice.) This means that much of the league is in…
Stellan Skarsgård To Receive Sarajevo’s Honorary Heart
Swedish acting star Stellan Skarsgård will be feted with the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo at the festival’s 31st edition in August. The actor is a longtime friend of the festival, as well as a curator and one of the patrons of the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation – the scholarships of which were awarded at the Sarajevo…
South Korea Jockeys for a Deal With Trump at Least as Good as Japan’s
The agreement that Japan secured has added pressure on South Korea to defuse the threat of high tariffs on its exports to the United States.