The Army is said to be spending millions on neuroscience that could lead to ‘telepathic’ soldiers. The goal is to build a system that would allow soldiers to communicate via their brain signals. So far, ARO neuroscientists have reportedly been able to decode and put back together behavioral signals from the brain. They focused on monkeys for their recent research. ARO

It sounds like a plot lifted from a science fiction flick, but scientists have suggested permanently dimming the sun to save South Africa from deadly dry spells. The hairbrained scheme would involve pumping vast quantities of gas into the atmosphere above Cape Town to preserve local water supplies. It evokes the plot of 2007 sci-fi movie sunshine, in which scientists head

TANTA, Egypt – With Egypt facing a second coronavirus wave, an inventor is trialing a remote-control robot which can test for COVID-19, take the temperature of patients and warn them if they don’t wear masks at a private hospital north of Cairo. Mahmoud el-Komy, who designed the robot, called Cira-03, says it can help limit exposure to infection and prevent the

BERLIN — The European Space Agency says it is signing a 86 million-euro ($102 million) contract with a Swiss start-up company to bring a large piece of orbital trash back to Earth. The agency said Thursday that the deal with ClearSpace SA will lead to the “first active debris removal mission” in 2025, in which a custom-made spacecraft will capture and bring down part of a

Amazon’s widely used cloud service, Amazon Web Services, is experiencing a large-scale outage, the company said Wednesday, affecting users ranging from websites to software providers. It has also affected the ability to post updates to its service health dashboard, the company said. “Kinesis has been experiencing increased error rates this morning in our US-East-1 Region

Cloud-based software giant Salesforce reportedly is in advance talks to buy messaging app Slack — just months after Salesforce’s billionaire boss Marc Benioff denied he was interested in making any acquisitions. San Francisco-based Salesforce sees Slack as a logical extension of its enterprise offerings, a source told Reuters on Wednesday, adding there is no certainty of a

Sony promised frustrated gamers on Wednesday that more units of its impossible-to-find PlayStation5 console will arrive at stores by year’s end. “We want to thank gamers everywhere for making the PS5 launch our biggest console launch ever,” the official PlayStation Twitter account posted Wednesday morning. “Demand for PS5 is unprecedented, so we wanted to confirm that more

Twitter said it will reopen applications for its famous blue checkmark verification process early next year after a more than three-year hiatus. The bright blue badge is Twitter’s way of showing that accounts belonging to public figures have been verified to be real and not impostors, but the program was suspended in 2017 following confusion over how Twitter decides who