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Physics & Chemistry

Final Countdown for Large Hadron Collider Activation, Prepare Your Escape Pods

Worried about the Large Hadron Collider destroying the Solar System in a big ball of fire and Z...

Physics & Chemistry

Scientists Dated the Catastrophic Pompeii Eruption Using Only Rocks. Here’s How Close They Got

According to Pliny the Younger, Mount Vesuvius erupted on August 24th, 79 CE. That date is now helping...

Physics & Chemistry

Spammer Keeps Whining About Large Hadron Collider Assploding

Dear Moron Physicist Who Can’t Write Proper English,https://gizmodo.com/cern-to-morons-large-hadron-collider-wont-destroy-eart-374066I hope you are right about CERN’s Large Hadron Collider exploding...

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AI

OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store model | TechCrunch

The focus of OpenAI’s Dev Day on Tuesday may have been on its agentic assistants known as Dots,...

Human History

Humans Didn’t Evolve From a Single Ancestral Population

In the 1980s, scientists learned that all humans living today are descended from a woman, dubbed “Mitochondrial Eve,”...

Human History

Nazi Germany Couldn’t Have Built a Working Reactor, Let Alone a Bomb, Study Finds

Contrary to historical documents, Nazi Germany’s nuclear program was far from achieving criticality.

In Brief

OpenAI repotedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation | TechCrunch

OpenAI is in talks with investors to raise at least $30 billion in a pre-IPO funding round at...

Startups

More Ways to Disrupt: New 2026 Side Events from KOTRA, WayFounder, Enterprise Ireland, SafetyWing + Descope | TechCrunch

TechCrunch Disrupt is where the tech community comes together to build, debate, and connect. And during Disrupt Week,...

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Fintech

Apple Pay set to launch in India with Axis Bank today, sources say | TechCrunch

Apple is set to launch Apple Pay in India later Tuesday with Axis Bank as its initial banking...

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AI

Here’s why OpenAI is absent from Nvidia’s industry-wide effort to end rogue AI agents | TechCrunch

When Nvidia announced on Monday a new consortium of more than 100 companies dedicated to solving rogue AI...