Google’s Year Mission

Pandover complete: China's furry envoys arrive in D.C. for a 10-year mission

A pair of giant pandas left China on Monday for the National Zoo, taking up residence in the nation’s capital weeks before the U.S. presidential election.

Blast Ghosts And Even The Haunted Sun With This Year's Halloween Google Doodle

Google is celebrating Halloween with a brand new installment of Magic Cat Academy--marking the third edition of the Doodle. In the past, Momo the cat has taken on ghouls in school and taken a ...

Tech - GameSpot - October 30

Inside the mission to protect endangered culture

Unesco’s ‘intangible cultural heritage’ list brings local traditions to the world’s attention. How well does it protect them?

Business - Financial Times - October 26

Spacecraft blasts off to hunt alien life on a distant moon

Nasa's spacecraft could change what we know about life in our solar system.

What NASA hopes to accomplish with Europa Clipper mission

NASA's solar-powered Europa Clipper took off Monday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft is projected to reach Jupiter by April 2030 and will study one of the planet's moons. ...

Israel pushes for expanded UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon

Netanyahu government wants Unifil forces to patrol much larger area and carry out border inspections

Business - Financial Times - October 24

The culture warrior on a mission to rebuild a battered Tory party

Kemi Badenoch’s combative style can alienate colleagues but supporters say she will make life uncomfortable for Labour

Business - Financial Times - November 2

Is Google’s NotebookLM a secret CRM killer?

Even if a few hundred or thousand use NotebookLM in place of a CRM, it could spell trouble for the companies offering them.

Tech - VentureBeat - October 29

Google is winning the AI search wars

But rival products from Apple and OpenAI will continue to attract users

Business - Financial Times - October 31

UN mission says Israeli tanks forcibly entered base in southern Lebanon

Unifil seeks explanation from IDF for ‘shocking violations’ while Netanyahu urges peacekeepers to withdraw. The UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon has said two Israeli tanks destroyed a gate and ...

World - The Guardian - October 13

NASA launches mission to icy Jupiter moon thought to harbor a vast ocean

NASA has launched its Europa Clipper mission to the icy moon of Jupiter. Thought to contain an underground ocean and potentially habitable environment, Europa has long been a tantalizing target.

NASA launches $5 billion mission to Jupiter's moon Europa: What to know

NASA's Europa Clipper is set to launch on Oct. 14 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

WATCH: NASA's Europa Clipper launches on mission to explore Jupiter's icy moon

The spacecraft will complete nearly 50 flybys of the Jupiter moon of Europa to determine if there are conditions suitable for life.

Slain Israeli-American hostage's parents reflect on mission: Reporter's notebook

Rachel and Jon Goldberg-Polin, the parents of slain Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, speak with ABC News' Matt Gutman about their grief.

NASA engineer gets a surprise proposal during mission launch

Dr. Moogega Cooper, a NASA engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, thought she was simply watching the launch of the Europa Clipper mission she worked on. But her boyfriend, Alex Shekarchian, ...

NASA Artemis III mission to moon unveils new spacesuit designed by Prada

World - Yahoo News - October 16

Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar Studied Israel in Mission to Topple It

The head of the U.S-designated terrorist organization spent two decades in Israeli prisons before emerging to assemble a powerful militia.

World - The Wall Street Journal - October 17

Harris champions a vital mission: More Black male teachers in our schools

In 2012, I began my teaching career as a Black male educator at Greenwood High School through the Teach for America program. At the time, more than 6 percent of the country’s teachers were Black ...

Politics - The Hill - October 17

Starmer ‘interrogates’ Miliband on green energy in mission ‘stock take’

Prime minister to review progress on key UK priorities in coming weeks

World - Financial Times - October 18

Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Alexei Navalny, undeterred in anti-Putin mission

Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, remains a defiant critic of Vladimir Putin. She understands she risks being kidnapped or poisoned, but says she's not afraid.

Israel still preventing humanitarian missions to north Gaza, Unrwa says

Israeli forces are besieging hospitals and shelters, medics say. The Israeli military says Hamas has regrouped in the area.

This Female Founder Is on a Mission to Empower Women of Color in Environmental Justice

Diamond Spratling’s organization Girl + Environment connects communities to education and mental health tools for a new climate future.

Business - Inc. - October 22

2 US service members injured during counter-ISIS mission in Iraq

Two U.S. troops were injured Tuesday in a joint raid with Iraqi security forces that killed at least seven senior Islamic State group leaders, according to the Pentagon. During the early morning ...

Politics - The Hill - October 23

Star Wars Outlaws Update Aims To Make Stealth Missions Less Frustrating

A new patch has gone live for Star Wars Outlaws , and the key takeaway from this update is that stealth missions should be less frustrating to play. Developer Massive Entertainment says that it ...

Tech - GameSpot - October 24

Space station crew gets medical evaluation after record 235-day mission

The Crew Dragon splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico a month later than planned, setting a SpaceX endurance record in the process.

Can Jim Bridenstine rescue NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission?

If Bridenstine becomes administrator of NASA again, his first task would be to get the Artemis program on track.

Politics - The Hill - October 27

Harris’s Mission: Disqualify Trump, but Extend a Hand to His Voters

Kamala Harris, in her closing argument to voters, acknowledged an inescapable political reality: Donald Trump is not a fringe figure within his own party or the nation.

Top stories - The New York Times - October 30

A student's mission to support young mothers aging out of foster care

After a life-changing trip to Ghana, Morgan State senior Gloria Lawrence launched Esi's House of Hope as a safe haven for young mothers needing housing and mentorship. Her organization is now ...

All Blacks Test sets tone for England mission to crack elite

England aim to prove they belong in the highest echelons of the Test game this autumn. The All Blacks are a tantalising first encounter.

Inside Viktor Orbán's not-so-secret mission to elect Trump

Beyond the close public relationship between former President Donald Trump and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is what sources have described as frequent exchanges delving deeply into ...

German general says special mission on NATO's eastern flank on track

World - Yahoo News - 6 days ago

One man’s mission to restore felony voting rights in Florida

The FRRC successfully restored voting rights for more than 1.4 million people through Amendment 4, which gives felons voting rights if they completed their sentences.

Google Seeks a Pause on App Store Ruling

The tech giant tries to stave off a judge’s efforts to force it to open its Play app store to wider competition.

Business - Inc. - October 14

Google Backs New Nuclear Plants to Power AI

Startup Kairos Power plans to build small reactors to help supply electricity to the tech company’s data centers.

Tech - The Wall Street Journal - October 14

Google turns to nuclear to power AI data centres

The tech giant says it will use energy from small reactors to power its use of artificial intelligence.

Google turns to nuclear energy for AI electricity demand

Google announced a deal with energy startup Kairos Power to supply its data centers with electricity from seven small modular nuclear reactors, which still need to be built. A recent study found ...

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