Global Trending News — Today’s Breakthroughs in Science and Technology
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Last updated: April 18, 2026, 06:43 AM PHT
Last updated: April 18, 2026, 06:43 AM PHT
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#1Sam Altman’s project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.
Lucas Ropek — April 18, 2026, 06:34 AM PHT
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#215 years after 'Video Games,' Lana Del Rey has an actual video game song
Ian Carlos Campbell — April 18, 2026, 06:19 AM PHT
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#3Machine learning detects more than 60,000 earthquakes during 2025 Santorini sequence
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 18, 2026, 06:00 AM PHT
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#4Russia-friendly exchange says "western special service" behind $15 million cyberattack
Dan Goodin — April 18, 2026, 05:28 AM PHT
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#5How the 'Project Hail Mary' book walks the line between hard and speculative science fiction… and why the film did not
Matthew Razak — April 18, 2026, 05:28 AM PHT
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#6New moon of April 2026 brings incredible views of the constellation Hydra, Jupiter, Venus and more this week
Anthony Wood — April 18, 2026, 05:27 AM PHT
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#7OpenAI’s former Sora boss is leaving
The Verge — April 18, 2026, 05:13 AM PHT
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#8The PBS Artemis II documentary is streaming on YouTube
Ian Carlos Campbell — April 18, 2026, 05:03 AM PHT
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#9Should you stare into Sam Altman’s orb before your next date?
The Verge — April 18, 2026, 04:42 AM PHT
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#10Nanobody repairs misfolded CFTR inside cells, boosting function in cystic fibrosis
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 18, 2026, 04:40 AM PHT
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#11Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed ‘side quests’
Rebecca Bellan — April 18, 2026, 04:38 AM PHT
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#12Anthropic’s new cybersecurity model could get it back in the government’s good graces
The Verge — April 18, 2026, 04:15 AM PHT
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#13A lot of you panic-bought PCs to avoid RAMaggedon 2026
Ian Carlos Campbell — April 18, 2026, 04:02 AM PHT
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#14Antioxidant glutathione discovered to play a key role in proper protein folding
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 18, 2026, 04:00 AM PHT
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#15OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company
Maxwell Zeff — April 18, 2026, 03:56 AM PHT
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#16Two bacteria join forces to turn chemical signals into electricity, opening up low-cost sensing options
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 18, 2026, 03:40 AM PHT
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#17Sources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges
Marina Temkin — April 18, 2026, 03:17 AM PHT
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#18Shrink, remove and modify: Team successfully 'trims' wheat chromosomes
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 18, 2026, 03:00 AM PHT
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#19Indonesia's fire crisis comes into focus as high-resolution satellite maps expose 5.62 million hectares affected
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 18, 2026, 02:30 AM PHT
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#20Betting on the news raises ethical questions for journalists
The Verge — April 18, 2026, 02:24 AM PHT
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#21Quantum-informed AI improves long-term turbulence forecasts while using far less memory
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 18, 2026, 02:00 AM PHT
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#22Hackers are abusing unpatched Windows security flaws to hack into organizations
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai — April 18, 2026, 01:48 AM PHT
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#23Medicine's next leap: Delivering gene therapies exactly where they're needed
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 18, 2026, 01:40 AM PHT
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#24Train-to-Test scaling explained: How to optimize your end-to-end AI compute budget for inference
bendee983@gmail.com (Ben Dickson) — April 18, 2026, 01:34 AM PHT
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#25Ridley Scott's post-apocalyptic The Dog Stars drops first trailer
Jennifer Ouellette — April 18, 2026, 01:32 AM PHT
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#26Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meetings
Ivan Mehta — April 18, 2026, 01:15 AM PHT
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#27Sam Altman's 'human verification' company thinks its eye-scanning orbs could solve ticket scalping
Karissa Bell — April 18, 2026, 01:15 AM PHT
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#28This charming gadget writes bad AI poetry
The Verge — April 18, 2026, 01:11 AM PHT
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#29Most enterprises can't stop stage-three AI agent threats, VentureBeat survey finds
louiswcolumbus@gmail.com (Louis Columbus) — April 18, 2026, 01:07 AM PHT
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#30Artemis II pilot talks about what it was really like to fly and land in Orion
Eric Berger — April 18, 2026, 12:59 AM PHT
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#31Gigs turns your concert history into a personal live music archive
Sarah Perez — April 18, 2026, 12:55 AM PHT
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#32Bluesky blames DDoS attack for server outages
Kris Holt — April 18, 2026, 12:47 AM PHT
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#33Smart irrigation rules could cut water use and raise farm profits
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 18, 2026, 12:40 AM PHT
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#34AI-powered tool could speed treatments for antibiotic-resistant bacteria by pinpointing potent peptides
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 18, 2026, 12:40 AM PHT
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#35Meta's AI spending spree is helping make its Quest headsets more expensive
Kyle Orland — April 18, 2026, 12:23 AM PHT
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#36The AirPods Pro 3 are $50 off right now, nearly matching their best-ever price
The Verge — April 18, 2026, 12:18 AM PHT
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#37Chef Robotics escaped the robot cooking graveyard and says it’s thriving — here’s why
Lucas Ropek — April 18, 2026, 12:15 AM PHT
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#38NASA restarts work to support Europe's uncrewed trip to Mars after years of setbacks
Lawrence Bonk — April 18, 2026, 12:15 AM PHT
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#39Panic says the Playdate Catalog won't accept games made with generative AI
Nathan Ingraham — April 18, 2026, 12:06 AM PHT
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#40Q&A: Will agentic AI replace human scientists?
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 18, 2026, 12:00 AM PHT
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#41After the guns fall silent, violence follows children home across Africa for years to come
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — April 18, 2026, 12:00 AM PHT
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