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How Cheap Drones Are Changing Wars Like the Ones in Ukraine and Iran

How Cheap Drones Are Changing Wars Like the Ones in Ukraine and Iran

Published by Sam Flores

A 3-D rendering of an Iranian Shahed-136 drone, a device with two triangle-shaped wings attached to a central fuselage. It has an engine the size of a small motorcycle’s and carries 110 pounds of explosives. Engine the size of a small motorcycle’s Carries 110 pounds of explosives One of the biggest takeaways of the war with Iran is that it has proven itself to be a surprisingly capable adversary against the United States. In addition to its willingness to go on the offensive, Iran has forced the U.S. and its regional allies to confront the rise of cheap drones on the battlefield. Iranian drones, made with commercial-grade technology, cost roughly $35,000 to produce. That is a fraction of the cost of the high-tech military interceptors sometimes used to shoot them down. Note: Estimated price of munitions per unit. In practice, multiple interceptors are fired when targeting a drone. For instance, with the $80 bullet fired by the Centurion Counter-Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar (C-RAM), 75 rounds are fired in a second. Sources: Department of Defense, Lockheed …

Caitlyn Jenner slammed by The View’s Ana Navarro for asking Trump for help changing passport gender

Caitlyn Jenner slammed by The View’s Ana Navarro for asking Trump for help changing passport gender

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Caitlyn Jenner has been mocked by The View co-host Ana Navarro after pleading with Donald Trump to change the gender in her passport. Jenner, 76, is trans and an outspoken supporter of the Trump administration. She says she can no longer travel internationally as her passport now uses her biological gender at birth. The State Department changed its passport rules last year after Trump handed down an executive order declaring the United States would “recognize two sexes, male and female,” based on birth certificates and “biological classification.” Jenner recently appeared on Fox talk show Tomi Lahren Is Fearless to complain about the decision, saying she had recently renewed her passport and it came “back with gender marker M. Screws everything up.” In response, Navarro shared a screenshot of Jenner’s news and captioned it on Instagram: “Boo-hoo. Cry me a f***ing river.” …

How to Start Changing What’s Not Working

How to Start Changing What’s Not Working

Published by Jenni Sidey

If you’re like most people, you’ve tried at one point or another to change your behaviour, likely with varying degrees of success. Maybe you set out to reduce your screen time, and it worked for a week or two before you found yourself scrolling late into the night again. Or you decided to drink more water, only to forget as soon as your days got busier. Or perhaps you wanted to stick to a budget, but the moment something caught your eye, you felt that plan start to slip. We know change is hard and that it doesn’t just happen because we want it badly enough. In a previous post, we explored why it can feel so difficult and why getting curious about your relationship with it is a great place to start. Before we think about where change may be needed and how to approach it, my gentle invitation is to acknowledge that every habit, coping pattern, and way of moving through the world you’ve developed has served a purpose. Every behaviour, even the …

Savour or scramble? France’s changing lunch breaks – Entre Nous

Savour or scramble? France’s changing lunch breaks – Entre Nous

Published by Sam Flores

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again ENTRE NOUS © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 16/04/2026 – 16:05 06:30 min From the show Reading time 1 min From a quick sandwich or a supermarket salad, to a three-course meal, to solo dining, lunch breaks are evolving in France. Has French culture reached a fork in the road when it comes to its traditional lunch break? With upcoming reforms to meal vouchers (titres-restaurant), we take a look at how the midday meal is gradually changing shape. By: Source link

How electric vehicles are changing emergency response 

How electric vehicles are changing emergency response 

Published by skeptic

As adoption of electric vehicles increases, crews are having to adapt in real time to a new kind of incident- a fire that burns hotter, last longer and demands more water to be vanquished. When a car catches fire, the response has historically been predictable. Crews arrive, deploy hoses, suppress the flames, and bring the incident under control within a relatively short window. The risks are well understood, and the playbook is familiar.  Electric vehicles are beginning to change that.  Fires involving lithium-ion batteries behave differently—hotter, longer-lasting, and less responsive to conventional firefighting tactics. For fire services, this is not a theoretical concern but an operational shift already underway.  A fire that doesn’t behave like fire At the centre of the challenge is the battery pack. Unlike a fuel tank, which burns until its contents are consumed, a lithium-ion battery can sustain its own reaction.  This process, known as thermal runaway, occurs when a cell overheats and triggers a cascading failure in neighbouring cells. Heat, gas and pressure build internally, and once the reaction starts, it can …

Historic decline in U.S. overdose deaths threatened by changing street drug supply : NPR

Historic decline in U.S. overdose deaths threatened by changing street drug supply : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

A forensic chemist with the Drug Enforcement Administration holds vials of fentanyl pills at a DEA research laboratory in this file photo. Fentanyl deaths are plunging in the U.S, but the recovery is threatened by a new “synthetic soup” of toxic street drugs. Mark Schiefelbein/AP/AP hide caption toggle caption Mark Schiefelbein/AP/AP Earlier this year, Naida Rutherford, the coroner in Richland County, South Carolina, was helping investigate what appeared to be a mysterious overdose. The case had many of the hallmarks of a typical fentanyl death. “Every sort of physical manifestation, like the foam coming from the mouth and nose, as if they had an overdose,” Rutherford said. “Their blood tested negative for any substance, which was very odd.” Her team was stumped, so Rutherford expanded the testing, looking for new compounds. “That’s where we found the cychlorphine,” she told NPR, referring to one of the incredibly potent synthetic opioids spreading fast in the U.S. street drug supply. “This is the first time we’ve seen it in South Carolina, which is very scary because none of …

Ikea’s New Lineup of Smart Home Gear Is Quietly Changing the Game

Ikea’s New Lineup of Smart Home Gear Is Quietly Changing the Game

Published by skeptic

I’ve always been an Ikea fan. I lived in nine different apartments over 15 years before moving into my home, and every single one of those places had an abundance of Ikea furnishings. But the latest thing from Ikea that’s been catching my eye isn’t the new bold blue shade for the Billy bookcase, but the brand’s expanded and upgraded smart home gear. Ikea announced last year that its new lineup of smart home gadgets would be entirely Matter-compatible. That’s a big deal, as the open source interoperability standard has Amazon, Apple, and Google signed up, meaning these devices will play well with Alexa, Siri, and Google’s nameless voice assistant. While some of this gear has been available for a little while, much of the lineup—like the newest light bulbs and smart plugs—is new. These are now some of the most affordable smart home gadgets available, and from my experience, they also some of the best when it comes to ease of setup and price. Ikea is still using its Dirigera Hub ($110) that launched …

Giant hydrogen halos are changing how astronomers view the early universe

Giant hydrogen halos are changing how astronomers view the early universe

Published by Jenni Sidey

Some of the young universe’s biggest structures were hiding in plain sight. Astronomers have now identified more than 33,000 giant hydrogen gas halos around distant galaxies, a dramatic jump from the roughly 3,000 known before. The halos, called Lyman-alpha nebulae, date to about 10 billion to 12 billion years ago, during a period known as Cosmic Noon, when galaxies were building stars at their fastest rate. That matters because galaxies could not keep growing without fuel. In this era, hydrogen gas was the raw material. The new catalog suggests these glowing reservoirs were not odd exceptions after all, but a common feature of galaxies in the early universe. “We’ve been analyzing the same handful of objects for the past 20 or so years,” said Erin Mentuch Cooper, lead author of the study and HETDEX data manager. “HETDEX is letting us find many more of these halos and measure their shapes and sizes. It has really allowed us to create an amazing statistical catalogue.” Multiwavelength view of HLAN 4025592924 at z_hetdex = 2.57. Situated in the …

AI is changing how small online sellers decide what to make

AI is changing how small online sellers decide what to make

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For small entrepreneurs in the US, deciding what to sell and where to make it has traditionally been a slow, labor-intensive process that can take months. Now that work is increasingly being done by AI tools like Accio, which help connect businesses with manufacturers in countries including China and India. Business owners and e-commerce experts told MIT Technology Review that these AI tools are making sourcing more accessible and significantly shortening the time it takes to go from product idea to launch.  McClary, 51, who runs his business from his Illinois living room, has sold products ranging from leather conditioner to camping lights, including one rechargeable lantern that brought in half a million dollars. Like many small online merchants, he built his business by being extremely scrappy—spotting demand for a product, tweaking existing designs, finding a factory, doing modest marketing, and getting the goods in front of customers fast.  This time, though, he began by telling Accio about the flashlight’s original design, production cost, and profit margin. Then Accio suggested several changes, making it smaller …

Pete Hegseth is changing the way the Pentagon handles faith. Some in the military are finding it ‘terrifying,’ report says

Pete Hegseth is changing the way the Pentagon handles faith. Some in the military are finding it ‘terrifying,’ report says

Published by Sam Flores

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has upended long‑standing norms by repeatedly invoking his religious faith, blurring the line between church and state in a way that has become particularly pronounced amid the Iran war, according to a new report. Hegseth — who has a large Jerusalem cross tattooed across his chest — has long worn his Evangelical faith on his sleeve in a manner that has unsettled some military officials. The former Fox News host has said that the U.S. was “founded as a Christian nation” and that it “remains a Christian nation in our DNA, if we keep it.” He’s also hosted Pentagon worship services that legal experts have branded “unprecedented,” The Washington Post reports. One faith leader invited to preach to servicemembers has said women shouldn’t be allowed to vote. Hegseth’s proselytizing has drawn heightened scrutiny in connection with the U.S.–Israeli war against Iran, which has now stretched into its second month and shows no signs of abating, according to the Post. During a press briefing on March 19, he encouraged viewers to pray …