News Information Technology News Feeds SlashdotScientists Turn Starlink Into a Giant Scanner For Earth's Upper Atmosphere August 14, 2026alternative_right shares a report from ScienceDaily: Researchers have found a clever new way to map a part of Earth's upper atmosphere that is notoriously difficult to observe. Using orbital data from roughly 1,200 Starlink satellites, they reconstructed changes in atmospheric density about 500 kilometers above Earth. [...] The resulting density patterns also showed strong consistency […]UK Scientists To Grow Miniature Human Organs For Drug Testing August 14, 2026An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Miniature human organs and other tissues are to be grown from NHS patients' cells in a drive to improve medicine testing and reduce the number of animals used in drug development. Scientists will use the clumps of tissue to learn how diseases vary between patients, helping […]Microsoft Retreats In China August 13, 2026Microsoft has been steadily scaling back its China presence, closing at least 15 branch offices and joint ventures over the past five years as Beijing favors domestic software. U.S. export controls also make it harder to grow its cloud and AI businesses, leaving the market with relatively little economic upside. Reuters reports: Microsoft took a […]Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash Targets Coding and Agents With a 50% Price Cut August 13, 2026Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after 3.6 Flash, focusing on better coding, agentic workflows, and enterprise automation while temporarily cutting API prices in half through the end of 2026. VentureBeat reports: For enterprise developers, the more consequential story may be the combination of those intelligence gains with lower inference costs: through […]Microsoft Is Combining Its Copilot Apps Ahead of a 'Super App' August 13, 2026Microsoft is merging its consumer Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps ahead of a broader "super app" launch later this year. "Both personal and work accounts will be moved to the new unified app, which recycles the 'Microsoft Copilot' name but features an updated app icon," reports The Verge. "The single app also means there […] Ars TechnicaUS wait times for cancer surgeries are getting longer and longer August 13, 2026Study finds wait times for cancer surgeries hit 10-year high.Private security firms will soon be allowed to hack overseas cybercriminals August 13, 2026Trump memo is first time gov't has authorized private sector to perform cyberattacks.Virgin Galactic wants your help naming its new Delta class spaceship August 13, 2026Will it be the VSS... Horizon, Explorer, Ascend or Apeiron?Ukrainian drones wipe out entire US tank brigade in live war game August 13, 2026Ukrainian drone pilots teach the US military and NATO hard battlefield lessons.Flock “can’t tech its way out” of the stalker cop problem, experts say August 13, 2026Flock to lock out cops who stalk exes, but agencies can still hide abuse.
