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(August 29, 2026) – AI, Science, and Tech Updates
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Global Trending News — Today’s Breakthroughs in Science and Technology
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Last updated: August 29, 2026, 07:14 AM PHT
Last updated: August 29, 2026, 07:14 AM PHT
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1The discovery of the Great Barrier Reef's whale maternity ward
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 29, 2026, 07:00 AM PHT -
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3Is the best way to watch a movie on a pair of sunglasses?
Lucas Ropek — August 29, 2026, 06:42 AM PHT -
4Galápagos corals show El Niño events are more extreme now than in past 1,000 years
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 29, 2026, 06:20 AM PHT -
5Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips
Rebecca Bellan — August 29, 2026, 04:24 AM PHT -
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7Low temperature graphene growth opens a route to sustainable resource recycling
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 29, 2026, 03:40 AM PHT -
8An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI
Russell Brandom — August 29, 2026, 03:30 AM PHT -
9The night we nearly saw a 'blood moon' (and why I love near-misses in astronomy)
Jamie Carter — August 29, 2026, 03:00 AM PHT -
10Brave’s browser one-ups Chrome with its new support for email aliases
Sarah Perez — August 29, 2026, 02:50 AM PHT -
11'It's going to be beautiful': President Trump signs order to create US Space Academy
mwall@space.com (Mike Wall) — August 29, 2026, 02:44 AM PHT -
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13Fast fashion's carbon footprint can be reduced across its life cycle, new study suggests
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 29, 2026, 02:20 AM PHT -
14Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets
Tim Fernholz — August 29, 2026, 02:19 AM PHT -
15Scientists capture first molecular-level images of water reorganization during a reaction crucial for life
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 29, 2026, 02:00 AM PHT -
16Oscar Winner Brings Monsters to Life With His Simulation Software
Joanna Goodrich — August 29, 2026, 02:00 AM PHT -
17The three layers of agentic AI security: A defense-in-depth architecture for autonomous agents
VentureBeat — August 29, 2026, 01:52 AM PHT -
18Breathable smart sensor developed for real-time hazardous gas detection on masks
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 29, 2026, 01:40 AM PHT -
19Motorboat noise stunts growth and impairs predator escape in reef fish, study shows
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 29, 2026, 01:20 AM PHT -
20Mice, a Caved-In Ceiling, and Cloudy Water: The GSA’s New Office Is Falling Apart
Zoë Schiffer — August 29, 2026, 01:14 AM PHT -
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22Save hundreds on a TCL mini-LED TV with quantum dots and high refresh rate
The Verge — August 29, 2026, 01:03 AM PHT -
23Less buying power, elevated inflation push down consumer views
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 29, 2026, 01:00 AM PHT -
24Widespread use of AI tools could make it harder to craft effective business communications
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 29, 2026, 12:40 AM PHT -
25Mercury's crust points to deeper, hotter volcanic origins than expected
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 29, 2026, 12:40 AM PHT -
26Meta researchers taught an 8B AI model to match Claude Opus 4.5 — without the frontier price tag
bendee983@gmail.com (Ben Dickson) — August 29, 2026, 12:33 AM PHT -
27Trump’s EPA wants to let data centers hide their air pollution
The Verge — August 29, 2026, 12:28 AM PHT -
28DLSS 5 leaked and modders are putting Nvidia’s AI effects on everything
The Verge — August 29, 2026, 12:22 AM PHT -
29Nano-antennas make living cells light up brighter and faster
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 29, 2026, 12:20 AM PHT -
30A Google-like search engine for single-cell RNA data could answer previously impossible questions
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 29, 2026, 12:00 AM PHT -
31Indonesia escalates battle against fires, putrid haze
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 29, 2026, 12:00 AM PHT -
32On Cloud 9: Have astronomers discovered the first starless galaxy?
Robert Lea — August 29, 2026, 12:00 AM PHT -
33More Americans oppose police license plate cameras than support them: survey
Zack Whittaker — August 28, 2026, 11:57 PM PHT -
34Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording
Ashley Belanger — August 28, 2026, 11:42 PM PHT -
35Once a legend, humpback whales make a comeback in Brazil
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 28, 2026, 11:40 PM PHT -
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37Cohere Parse 5 loses the benchmark on points. It wins on cost per page.
VentureBeat — August 28, 2026, 11:30 PM PHT -
38How methylation sets a parasite in motion to invade host cells
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 28, 2026, 11:20 PM PHT -
39Self-blinking 'fairy lights' allow DNA to be imaged at almost double-helix-width resolution
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 28, 2026, 11:00 PM PHT -
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41Nepal's devastating floods reveal the danger of 'cascading hazards' in Himalayas
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 28, 2026, 10:40 PM PHT -
42Diamond clock combines two signals to cut temperature-driven drift
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — August 28, 2026, 10:40 PM PHT -
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44On this day in space! Aug. 28, 1993: Galileo spacecraft flies by asteroid Ida on the way to Jupiter only to find a tiny moon!
Hanneke Weitering — August 28, 2026, 10:25 PM PHT -
45Apple TV now costs $14.99 a month after its fourth price hike in four years
The Verge — August 28, 2026, 09:51 PM PHT -
46a16z creates a $1.1B ‘Machine Age’ fund to ‘accelerate the physical buildout of AI’
Sean O'Kane — August 28, 2026, 09:24 PM PHT -
47Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon’s supply-chain risk label
Rebecca Bellan — August 28, 2026, 08:46 PM PHT -
48The Download: a secretive antiaging drug and joining virtual power plants
Thomas Macaulay — August 28, 2026, 08:35 PM PHT -
49Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India
Jagmeet Singh — August 28, 2026, 08:21 PM PHT -
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51Anthropic was illegally blacklisted by the Trump administration, court rules
The Verge — August 28, 2026, 07:18 PM PHT -
52Authorities arrest 2 alleged members of prolific hacking group TeamPCP
Dan Goodin — August 28, 2026, 07:15 PM PHT -
53He Scraped All of Their Art for AI. Now He’s Collaborating on a Tool to Help Them
Miles Klee — August 28, 2026, 07:00 PM PHT -
54Inside Meta’s Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers
Paresh Dave — August 28, 2026, 06:56 PM PHT -
55The Easiest Ways to Share Anything Between Android and iOS
David Nield — August 28, 2026, 06:45 PM PHT -
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57As electric two-wheelers gain a foothold, Belgian startup Any bets on cargo space
Anna Heim — August 28, 2026, 05:33 PM PHT -
58There Are So Many Conspiracy Theories About Dolly Parton and Vaccines
David Gilbert — August 28, 2026, 05:30 PM PHT -
59How to sign up for a virtual power plant—and decide whether you should
Eshan Raul — August 28, 2026, 05:00 PM PHT -
60A Judge Has Blocked the Pentagon’s Attempt to Blacklist Anthropic
Hugo Lowell — August 28, 2026, 11:04 AM PHT -
61AI, athletes, and Keith Rabois: StrictlyVC is back in New York on September 10
TechCrunch Events — August 28, 2026, 10:02 AM PHT -
62Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
TechCrunch Events — August 28, 2026, 07:16 AM PHT
