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379 сюжетовTrump signs order allowing tax-free red-dyed diesel on highways
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday temporarily allowing off-road red-dyed diesel to be used for highway driving and deferring the federal excise tax on that fuel through the end of 2026 without interest or penalties.…
Nuri rocket completes fifth launch, placing satellites in orbit
South Korea’s Nuri rocket lifted off at 12:25 p.m. local time on Oct 7 from the Naro Space Center in Goheung, carrying 15 satellites, the most in its history, and placed the five main ultra-small cluster satellites in their target orbit. Ne…
Hyundai launches 2027 Sonata The Edge with new Black N Line trim
Hyundai Motor launched the facelifted 2027 Sonata The Edge on Oct. 7, adding a Black N Line design trim based on the top Inspiration grade, with a black Hyundai emblem, black name lettering and 19-inch matte black wheels. The S trim gains a…
Defense minister: arts, sports military service exemption to be cut and abolished
South Korea's defense minister said on Oct 7 that the goal is to gradually reduce the arts and sports military service exemption and ultimately abolish it, after controversy over remarks by Asian Games football gold medallists about the exe…
Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days Begin With Discounts on Apple Macs, AirPods and iPads
Amazon's fall Prime Big Deal Days sale is live, with early discounts on Apple products including AirPods Pro 3 at $179.00, down from $249.00, AirPods Max 2 at $429.00, and about $200 off most M5 MacBook Air models. Outlets also reported all…
Apple and LG Electronics jointly develop smart home devices under LG brand
Apple and LG Electronics are jointly developing smart home devices — a camera-equipped video doorbell, a smart door lock, a security camera and a smart temperature sensor and thermostat — to be sold under the LG brand, according to Bloomber…
South Korea unveils 1,000 trillion won green transition plan to 2035
South Korea announced a “Korean-style Green Transition” (K-GX) strategy on Oct 7, pledging about 1,000 trillion won over ten years to 2035 — 200 trillion won in fiscal support and more than 790 trillion won in climate finance through five p…
Hoban Construction develops AI design tech to auto-apply per-unit buyer options
Hoban Construction said it developed AI-based design technology that automatically reflects apartment buyers’ option contract choices in each unit’s building information model (BIM). The technology was developed jointly with building and in…
Turkey's Aselsan announces Astralink network of 198 low-orbit satellites
Aselsan CEO Ahmet Akyol said at the International Astronautical Congress in Antalya that Turkey is building Astralink, a low-orbit satellite constellation of 198 spacecraft, with the first launch planned within two years. Akyol said work be…
Nuri declared a success on fifth flight; five cluster satellites make contact
South Korea's Nuri rocket lifted off at 12:25 p.m. from the Naro Space Center in Goheung and the Korea Aerospace Administration declared the fifth flight a success, saying all 15 satellites were placed in orbit. Officials said 14 of the 15 …
South Korea's Lee orders CPTPP talks restarted from the beginning amid farm concerns
President Lee Jae-myung instructed at a cabinet meeting on Oct 6 that the government should not fix a conclusion on joining the CPTPP and should “restart dialogue from the beginning,” saying the pact's strategic value is cited alongside ver…
Jaguar представил электрический GT Type 01 в Нью-Йорке по цене от около $130 000
Jaguar представил Type 01 — свой первый полностью электрический автомобиль и серийную версию концепта Type 00 — на мероприятии в Нью-Йорке во вторник. Четырёхдверный гранд-турер стартует от примерно $130 000 в Северной Америке, что Jaguar п…
Нобелевская премия по химии присуждена японцу Соай Кэнсо и французу Анри Кагану
Шведская королевская академия наук 7 октября сообщила, что Нобелевская премия по химии за 2026 год присуждена Соай Кэнсо, 76-летнему профессору-эмеритусу Токийского научного университета, и французу Анри Кагану за открытие нелинейных эффект…
FT: EU weighs universal corporate levy to raise taxes on US tech giants
The European Commission is considering a new mechanism to raise more tax revenue from large US technology companies without singling them out as a separate category, the Financial Times reported, citing unnamed sources. Under discussion is …
Армейское исследование показало, что электрошоковые перчатки ICE вызывают боль, покорность и страх, сообщает AP
Ранее не публиковавшееся армейское исследование показало, что электрошоковые перчатки, которые сейчас закупает Иммиграционная и таможенная полиция США (ICE), вызывали сильную боль, немедленную покорность и страх повторных ударов током во вр…
Amazon’s October Prime Day runs October 6-8 as retailers cut prices early
Amazon’s October Prime Day, also called Prime Big Deal Days, runs from October 6 at 3AM ET through 3AM ET on October 8, with discounts already live, according to The Verge, NBC News and Wired. Wired listed Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 at $190 ($…
Ракета Nuri стартовала в пятом полёте с рекордными 15 спутниками
Южнокорейская ракета Nuri стартовала в 12:25 7 октября с космического центра Наро в Кохыне после того, как утром комитет по управлению пуском подтвердил время. Ракета несёт 15 спутников — пять микроспутников кластера NEOANSAT и 10 кубсатов …
Анри Каган и Кэнсо Соай получили Нобелевскую премию по химии 2026 года
Анри Б. Каган и Кэнсо Соай получили Нобелевскую премию по химии 2026 года, о чём было объявлено в среду в Шведской королевской академии наук в Стокгольме, за работы над молекулами, существующими в виде зеркальных отражений друг друга. Каган…
Нобелевская премия по медицине присуждена трём исследователям за оптогенетику
Каролинский институт 5 октября объявил, что Нобелевская премия по физиологии и медицине 2026 года присуждена Карлу Дайсероту из Стэнфордского университета, Петеру Хегеману из Берлинского университета имени Гумбольдта и Георгу Нагелю из Вюрц…
S. Korea farm minister says minor farmland survey violations won't be punished
Agriculture minister Song Mi-ryung told a parliamentary audit on Oct 7 that most ordinary, customary violations found in the government's full farmland survey would not be punished, and that the government has no plan or reason to confiscat…