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Representative Image of a tropical data center utilizing liquid cooling technology amidst high humidity and heat (AI Generated Image) Singapore has introduced a national standard designed to help data centres adopt liquid cooling in the tropics, as rising computing demands make it harder to rely on conventional air-based systems alone. Singapore Standard SS 726:2026, Liquid…

Representative Image of innovative tiles made from recycled gypsum plaster, illustrating the BioSintering process (AI Generated Image) A Manchester-based materials company is developing tiles that avoid the high-temperature kiln firing normally associated with ceramic manufacturing. DeKiln’s BioSintering technology uses waste gypsum plaster, a material commonly recovered from plasterboard, together with a bio-based binder to produce…

In 1988, Ohio lawyer Neil McKown signed a deal to buy 155 acres of overgrown, run-down land in Shelby. When he got home that evening, he asked his family to get into the car to see what he had just bought. His wife, Pamela, was not impressed by the property. She thought it was an…

FBI Director Kash Patel/Image: AP The FBI has demoted two senior counterterrorism officials in Washington and reassigned them to bureau headquarters amid dissatisfaction over their handling of an investigation into allegedly threatening phone calls targeting Katie Miller, the wife of senior White House aide Stephen Miller, Bloomberg Law reported, citing three people.Michael Burgwald, special agent…

The mother of a 23-year-old British woman shot dead by her father in Texas is seeking a fresh investigation into her daughter’s death after a US grand jury ruled the shooting accidental.Jane Coates is travelling from England to Texas to ask the Collin County District Attorney’s Office to reconsider the case involving her daughter, Lucy…

Azerbaijani woman, 20, allegedly drugged and gang-raped in Lahore; 3 booked (AP file photo) A 20-year-old woman from Azerbaijan was allegedly gang-raped by three men in Lahore after being taken to a flat in the Defence Housing Authority area, news agency PTI cited police on Sunday.The incident allegedly took place after the woman, who came…

US tightens H-1B scrutiny. The H-1B visa programme could undergo major changes over the next year as the Trump administration expands a nationwide investigation into alleged foreign-labor fraud, worker exploitation and potential human trafficking.Labor Department Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito said the foreign-labor visa system could look substantially different a year from now, signalling tougher scrutiny…

Barfield wants the Black community to embrace farming and see it as part of its history. Christa Barfield grew up in Germantown, Philadelphia, and once worked in healthcare. Her career changed after a 2018 trip to Martinique, where she met Black farmers and saw their work first-hand. Five days after returning home, Barfield began planning…

Representative Image of a designer creating glass objects using quagga mussel shells and local materials from the River Thames (AI Generated Image) London designer Lulu Harrison has won the 2025 Ralph Saltzman Prize from the Design Museum for Thames Glass, a project that turns locally sourced and waste materials into glass. Harrison’s recipes use materials…

Police stand at a roadblock on the road to RAF Fairford after an incident, in Whelford, England (Picture credit: AP) A major incident was declared near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire on Sunday after several men were arrested on suspicion of offences under the Explosives Act, prompting the evacuation of homes in the nearby village of…