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China’s space program has hit a number of milestones lately. In 2025, China executed over 90 orbital launches, setting a new national record for orbital launches in a single year. In the last five years, China returned the first samples from the far side of the Moon, completed its own low-earth orbit space station and…

Customers use computers at an Internet cafe in Tehran, Iran. Raheb Homavandi | Reuters Iran remains under a near-complete internet blackout, data monitoring site NetBlocks, said on Saturday. “A full week has now passed since #Iran fell into digital darkness under a regime-imposed national internet blackout,” NetBlocks said in a social media post. “The measure…

Disneyland Paris has quietly turned one of its most ordinary spaces, a vast visitor parking lot, into one of Europe’s most ambitious renewable energy installations. Covering 11,200 parking spaces with more than 82,000 solar panels, the resort has built the largest solar canopy over a parking lot in Europe, capable of producing 36 gigawatt-hours (GWh)…

Marilyne Andersen, Director General, GESDA, speaks during an interview at the Swiss Embassy in New Delhi on March 6, 2026. | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar Quantum computing is in a nascent stage of development and therefore this is a time that experts in the field and scientists should be engaging with diplomats to be…

Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Friday’s key moments. 1. Stocks fell Friday as the war in the Middle East escalated. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq were both off roughly 1% after President Donald Trump said Friday…

Every spring, millions of people lose an hour of sleep for a reason that has nothing to do with late nights or early alarms. The clocks simply move forward. Daylight saving time returns this weekend across much of North America, bringing the familiar seasonal shift. Many people barely notice it because their phones and computers…

A radiologist uses a magnifying glass to check mammograms for breast cancer. File | Photo Credit: AP Kolkata  Breast cancer cases in India have more than doubled over the past three decades, experts said at an international oncology conference in Kolkata on Friday (March 7, 2026), while warning that gaps in access to treatment continue…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai gestures to the crowd during Google’s annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, on May 20, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google said it will continue offering Anthropic’s artificial intelligence technology for clients, excluding for defense work, a day after Microsoft issued a similar statement to…

Imagine you are given three gumballs of different flavours. You are told that one of them is heavier than the others, and one is lighter. But which is which? Your task is made difficult by the fact that these gumballs weigh nearly nothing. And sometimes they swap flavours. Oh, and when you try to pick…

Vast missed out on the first round of NASA awards for the next International Space Station, but that isn’t stopping the company from going all in on stage two. CEO Max Haot told CNBC’s Morgan Brennan this week that the company is betting on its “leapfrog strategy” and planning to build and launch a successful…