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Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech An expedition to study frog habitats in Northern California’s Shasta-Trinity National Forest was cut short last week, with a father-son duo accused of taking two federal biologists hostage. The pair, identified as Joseph Charles Henrichsen and his adult son Phoenix Henrichsen, have been charged with kidnapping two US forest service researchers at gunpoint, NBC reports. Using a semi-automatic rifle, the Henrichsens are alleged to have kidnapped the biologists on the morning of Thursday, July 16. The as-yet-unidentified researchers were reportedly zip-tied and held…

Google is widening the rollout of two long-awaited Google Maps features for Android Auto users: Immersive Navigation and a built-in live speedometer. After months of limited availability, reports suggest both features are now reaching a broader group of users, including people running stable versions of Google Maps instead of beta builds. The update is part of Google’s ongoing effort to modernize the Android Auto navigation experience. While the company unveiled Immersive Navigation earlier this year as one of the platform’s biggest upgrades in years, the feature has been trickling out slowly, leaving many users without access. That appears to be…

Last week, Honor announced that it will showcase its Robot Phone at the “Imaging Technology Launch Event,” held in partnership with Arri. Ahead of the event, the company has now confirmed the smartphone’s official launch date. In a post on Weibo, Honor revealed that the Robot Phone will go official in China on August 12. Notably, reservations for the smartphone went live in the country earlier this month. The Weibo post doesn’t reveal any other details of the phone, however, a recent leak suggested that the Robot Phone will be equipped with a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset and…

Ukraine’s drone campaign has already moved beyond tactical harassment. By mid-2026 it is systematically degrading Russian logistics at operational depth, particularly along the southern land corridor into Crimea and the adjacent Zaporizhzhia–Kherson approaches. The question is no longer whether drones matter. It is when the next qualitative jump — from high-volume semi-autonomous strikes to coordinated packs and true swarms — crosses thresholds that force local Russian routing or collapse of sustainment on a decisive axis. Screenshot Screenshot The Scalability Advantage Historical analogies help frame the moment. German U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic came close to choking Britain’s supply…

Introduction, unboxing This is the new Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro, which launched globally at the end of May. You can look at it as a successor to the Smart Band 9 Pro (review here), or as its own thing. If you compare the Smart Band 10 Pro to its predecessor, very little has changed. It has the same overall design (though it is a bit lighter and thinner), the same battery (350mAh), and mostly the same display – a 1.74-inch 60Hz unit (but a bit brighter – up to 2,000 nits vs 1,200 nits). Looking at the Smart Band…

Upcoming sci-fi and fantasy movies are one thing, but there’s something wonderfully ironic buried inside two of the most iconic cyborgs in movie history. RoboCop and the T-800 both show up with glowing red readouts, scrolling data, and heads-up displays that feel like they’re from a dystopian future. But if you pay attention, you’ll find that they run on surprisingly similar software. Both films leaned on hardware and software that any home computer nerd from the 1980s would immediately recognize. The so-called advanced tech running these robots was quite literally off-the-shelf consumer tech repurposed for action-packed cinema. Related 8 sci-fi…

Sanuj Bhatia / Android AuthoritySamsung has pulled back the curtain on its new foldable phones, and there’s plenty to be excited about. The new Z Flip 8, Fold 8, and Fold 8 Ultra bring powerful silicon, slick software, and a few new camera tricks.One of my favorite upgrades is the fact that all three devices are equipped with silicon-carbon batteries. This is the first time that Samsung is using this tech in its phones, coming a while after most rivals adopted it. While I’m happy to see silicon-carbon batteries in these new devices, I’m more excited about what this means…

Concluding an eight-month science mission aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Chris Williams returned to Earth on Sunday alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev. The crew made its safe, parachute-assisted landing at 5:27 a.m. CDT (3:27 p.m., Kazakhstan time), southeast of Dzhezkazgan, after departing the space station at 2:03 a.m., aboard the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft. The crew was in space for 241 days, orbiting the Earth 3,856 times and traveling more than 102 million miles. They launched to the International Space Station on Nov. 27, 2025. The mission was the first for Williams and Mikaev and the…

Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. GameSir G8+ Bluetooth: One-minute reviewThe GameSir G8+ Bluetooth is the wireless mobile controller in the G8 family and bolsters compatibility from being simply mobile, to the Nintendo Switch, tablets, and PC. The same full-size grips, Hall effect joysticks and triggers, and programmable back buttons that made the wired versions of the G8 so impressive remain, and at $79.99 / £79.99 / AU$129, so does the price.On paper, you’d think…

iPads tend to hold their performance edge for quite a while. That probably wasn’t Apple’s goal, however. Rather, the company has allowed processor power to vastly exceed the demands of most iPadOS apps. You don’t need an M5 iPad Pro to check your email, comment on Reddit, or watch YouTube videos. My 2020 Pro handles those tasks and more with ease. My tablet is getting a bit sluggish though, so I decided to investigate options to keep it running smoothly for a little while longer. As it turns out, there are several software tricks that can achieve minor gains, a…