Blackbeard hypersonic missile: When speed meets cheap & scalable

Development trial of the DRDO-developed hypersonic Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRAShM). (image credit: DRDO) Operation Sindoor offered a masterclass in why high-speed weapons can help win conflicts. BrahMos missiles, travelling at nearly three times the speed of sound, sliced through Pakistan’s Chinese-origin air defences, dismantling command infrastructure and rendering key runways unusable in the process….

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Meet Lennox French, the North Carolina student who designed a virtual-reality classroom idea; the state approved it and he will now become the first student to build a unit for SparkNC’s statewide platform

French’s journey started in the Spark Lab at Lexington Senior High School, where students are encouraged to explore emerging technologies and to build ideas that have real-world applications. A high school student’s vision of a virtual classroom is about to go far beyond the walls where it started. Lennox French, a student at Lexington Senior…

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Massachusetts police officer resigns hours before termination hearing after allegedly using Flock and police databases to track former partner; town removed its last Flock camera

A police officer in the small Massachusetts town of Stow has resigned just hours before a scheduled termination hearing, after an internal investigation found he repeatedly misused surveillance tools to track a former partner. Officer Jason Rogers allegedly used Flock Safety’s automated license plate reader system and state police databases to obtain information about the…

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55 million-year-old penguin fossils reveal hidden chemical clues about Antarctica before the continent became frozen |

PC: Eocene penguin fossils as archives of Antarctic weathering and climate change: insights from micro-X-ray fluorescence elemental mapping Fifty-five million years ago, Antarctica looked nothing like the frozen continent we know today. Its coastlines were warm and humid, its shores home to some of the earliest penguins ever to exist, and its rocks were quietly…

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Hindu Priest Arrested: Hindu priest arrested in Canada for sexually assaulting woman under guise of healing | World News

Rajendranauth Doodnauth MARAJ,/Image: Durham Regional Police A US-based Hindu priest has been arrested in Oshawa, Canada, for sexually assaulting a woman under the guise of a religious healing ceremony.Police said the victim and her family had hired the priest, identified as Rajendranauth Doodnauth Maraj, 50, to travel from the US to perform a Hindu religious…

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