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AIxCrypto Holdings, a pre-revenue company building a robot-rental marketplace while holding digital assets, entered the third quarter with $577,328 in cash after its balance fell 97% in six months. Its nearest stated route to operating revenue, RoboShare, was still preparing a Los Angeles pilot as of Aug. 7.Cash and cash equivalents fell from $19.33 million at Dec. 31 to $577,328 at June 30. AIxCrypto reported a $10.27 million first-half net loss and used $7.94 million of cash in operations. That operating use was only part of the decline: the cash-flow statement separately recorded a $12 million financing outflow for Faraday…

Dinosaurs are often remembered for their enormous size. Tyrannosaurus rex was an imposing predator, while dinosaurs such as Apatosaurus reached truly massive proportions. Yet new research suggests that one of the most intriguing questions about dinosaur evolution lies at the opposite end of the size spectrum: Why did dinosaurs apparently never become extremely small? In a study published in the journal Evolution, researchers from the American Museum of Natural History and Princeton University used mathematical models to examine how body size evolved among vertebrates. Their results show that energy use and physiology can account for the range of sizes seen…

When a wildfire broke out near his First Nation community in northern Ontario, Hubert Wigwas decided to stay put.He put sprinklers on his roof to extinguish falling embers. He checked on elders in his community who also stayed behind, and he fuelled up four boats down on the lake in case they needed a quick escape.”This is everything I’ve built in my 58 years,” Wigwas, a councillor from Gull Bay First Nation, told the BBC. “I’m just not going to run away and let it burn.”Canada has seen some of its worst fire seasons in recent years, and experienced its…

NSW deputy premier asks for moratorium on take-home assessments for students amid AI reviewPrue Car, the NSW deputy premier, has asked the NSW Education Standards Authority (Nesa) to impose a ban on unsupervised take-home assessments during a broad review of AI’s impact on student learning.Car said she has asked Nesa to “urgently” examine artificial intelligence and move to protect student learning amid growing evidence the technology is affecting student’s cognitive development. Half of students’ HSC result is based on school-based assessments, some of which is finished outside the classroom.She said in a statement: double quotation markArtificial intelligence has enormous potential…

It’s remarkable how much of modern life can seem designed to wear us down. Every “sale” seems to come with an asterisk. Consumer contracts often find a way of costing more than you expected. And too many companies want you to sign up in seconds, but then make it feel impossible to leave. It’s exhausting.They might not be the issues that keep you up at night. But they’re often the reason you go to bed ticked off. Westminster has got used to telling people that these everyday hassles are just part of life. The response has too often been a…

In 2018 I bet my reputation and self-worth on a huge crowdfunded game design project. It could have been a failure for many reasons, but the one I became most worried about was losing all of the work that was stored locally on my home-built PC — a scenario that would have left a lot of people very upset and placed me in deep trouble. I wasn’t irresponsible, I had local backups, but at some point I found myself in custody of so many important files that it scared me. And no matter how many redundancies I could build at…

MGT issued about 1.65 billion shares by Aug. 6 as the inactive Bitcoin miner with no operating business reported no revenue for the first half of 2026 and held just $232,000 in cash while warning it needs more capital to restart operations.The company’s quarterly filing, submitted Aug. 7, shows that its outstanding common shares climbed to 6.29 billion by Aug. 6 from 4.64 billion at the end of 2025. That is an increase of about 1.65 billion shares, or 35.6%, while MGT remained without an active source of revenue.MGT’s primary hosting contract expired in March 2025, when it also stopped…

Espionage, sabotage, cyberattacks, and covert operations are a ‘constant reality’, says Germany’s interior minister.Published On 9 Aug 20269 Aug 2026Germany is facing daily “hybrid warfare” attacks from abroad, an official has said, days after an explosive-laden drone was discovered at Leipzig/Halle Airport.Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt told the local newspaper Bild am Sonntag on Sunday that foreign powers wanted to subdue Germany politically and socially by stirring up fear.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list“We’re not at war, but we are the daily target of hybrid warfare,” Dobrindt said.“Espionage, sabotage, cyberattacks, or covert operations by foreign powers aimed at destabilising…

After wildfires caused more damage in France this year than at any time since World War Two, many are left asking a single question: why?A major driver is that climate is changing as a result of the well-documented way humanity is burning fossil fuels. Temperatures are only rising.But with records showing that nine out of 10 French wildfires are started by humans, the government in Paris is trying to attribute blame – although it is itself accused of being underprepared for the infernos that have now scorched more than 300,000 acres this summer.The interior ministry has announced 420 arrests of…

Andy Burnham has promised a series of measures to tackle the cost of living, including a ban on fake discounts and making it easier for people to escape unwanted subscriptions.The crackdown on “rip-off” business practices is expected to benefit consumers to the tune of £400m a year and will be the first in a range of “everyday fixes” to be implemented in the coming months.Writing for the Guardian, the prime minister said his government would step in wherever it could as he sought to put the cost of living at the heart of his premiership.“We won’t be able to solve…