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Javelins are about to get smart. TDK Corporation will fit throws with sensor technology at the World Athletics Ultimate Championship in Budapest, recording and analysing the physics behind every throw in real time. As an official global supporter of the event, running in the Hungarian capital from 11 to 13 September, TDK will fit javelins with its sensors for a special demonstration featuring leading athletes. The technology captures data invisible in a conventional result, where distance remains the only metric that counts. TDK’s sensors track the javelin’s release angle, rotation, speed, height and flight path. TDK’s software analyses that data…
Published on 10/09/2026 – 12:05 GMT+2 Just weeks after her death, it has been confirmed that Dolly Parton’s new hotel and museum will officially open on 29 September in downtown Nashville. Located steps from Lower Broadway and a host of venues in “Music City”, Dolly Parton’s SongTeller Hotel and Dolly’s Life of Many Colors Museum will celebrate the country music star’s life and career in the heart of Tennessee’s capital. The 245-room SongTeller Hotel has been described as Parton’s “love letter” to Nashville, with her songwriting career and iconic style woven throughout its rooms, suites and public spaces. Music plays…
By Tokunbo Salako & Euronews Brussels Published on 08/09/2026 – 10:04 GMT+2•Updated 09/09/2026 – 6:45 GMT+2 A major manhunt is underway around the southern French Mediterranean resort of Cagnes-sur-Mer after thieves broke into the Renoir Museum and stole four artworks but abandoned two while they escaped. A group of “well-equipped” and “well-informed” thieves entered the building via the garden, the town’s mayor, Bryan Masson, told reporters at the scene. They sliced through a fence with an electric knife or saw, entered the museum through the ground floor, and then cut the clips securing the artwork frames, Masson said in remarks carried by local…
Snabe will serve in the unpaid role until the end of March 2027 and is expected to produce a report on issues including AI infrastructure, frontier AI technologies and industrial AI adoption. But the appointment came under fire because of Siemens’ recent role in lobbying to loosen the AI rules now shaping Europe’s industrial strategy. Siemens was one of the main proponents of exempting products covered by the EU’s machinery rules from the bloc’s flagship AI law — a tweak EU legislators agreed to in the summer and which is now part of the law. Siemens is also part of…
Published on 10/09/2026 – 12:17 GMT+2 Brussels has finally obtained access to Anthropic’s most powerful model, whose availability had been restricted due to its advanced hacking capabilities. But the request took over three months to bear fruit. “Following our constructive engagement with Anthropic, we can confirm that the EU’s cybersecurity agency ENISA has been granted access to Mythos 5 and is testing it now,” said the European Commission’s spokesperson for tech sovereignty, Thomas Regnier. In April, the leading AI lab launched a preview of Mythos 5, a model capable of identifying and exploiting cyber vulnerabilities with unprecedented speed, making it…
Six months after the war between the US and the Islamic Republic of Iran erupted, the economic fallout inside Iran has reached a severe and unprecedented intensity. While ordinary citizens previously weathered decades of international sanctions, the combination of ongoing war and a reinstated US naval blockade has paralysed everyday life, plunging the national currency into a historic tailspin and forcing families into drastic household austerity. On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump reiterated Washington’s stance while boarding Air Force One for a trip to Dallas. “They’re in very bad shape. Their country is destroyed now,” Trump told reporters. “As you…
The US president has promised to give every adult citizen a $5,000 (€4,290) payment if Republicans retain control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The proposal could cost almost $1.2 trillion (€1.03 trillion), exceeding the Pentagon’s full 2026 budget request. “If the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000. It will be called the Trump dividend,” Trump told the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on Wednesday, as the party struggles in the polls against the Democrats. He compared the payments with the dividends distributed by companies to their shareholders, citing “our tremendous strength and…
Published on 20/08/2026 – 13:25 GMT+2 Qatar is one year away from the FIBA Basketball World Cup, when 32 national teams and some of the sport’s biggest stars will compete in Doha. The tournament, running from 27 August to 12 September 2027, will be the first edition hosted in the Middle East, with 92 games played across four arenas. One of the most visible changes is taking place at a familiar venue from the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Al Janoub Stadium has been transformed into Al Janoub Arena, an 8,200-seat basketball venue that will host its first game next week.…
French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called on Europe to strengthen its space industry on Thursday, the second day of the international space summit, co-hosted by France and Germany, at Paris’ Grand Palais. Speaking at the summit, Macron described Europe’s space sector as “fragile” and emphasised the need to bolster its capabilities, calling for “shared governance” of the industry. “Outer space remains the only major global commons that is not subject to regulations that match the stakes,” he said. “Shared governance is necessary to address these challenges.” Macron reiterated that more than 51 deals…
From EVA Air’s Hello Kitty plane to JetBlue’s Super Mario-themed jet, AV geeks (and, if we’re being honest, everyone else) love a special aircraft livery. Over the years, one of the best known was Icelandair’s Hekla Aurora, a Boeing 757-200 given a Northern Lights-themed makeover in 2014. Artists used elaborate airbrushing techniques to recreate the Aurora Borealis, and the plane remained in service until 12 October last year. Now, Icelandair has teamed up with Aviationtag to take the aircraft skin and transform it into a limited edition series of keychains. Writing about the move on social media, Icelandair said: “Last…