NASA Announces Winners of 2025 Student Launch Competition

By Beth Ridgeway  NASA’s Student Launch competition celebrated its 25th anniversary on May 4, just north of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, bringing together more than 980 middle school, high school, college, and university students from across the U.S. to showcase and launch their high-powered rocketry designs. […]

Berlin-based Knowunity, an AI-powered learning platform with 20M+ users in 15 countries, raised a €27M Series B led by XAnge, bringing its total funding to €45M (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Berlin-based Knowunity, an AI-powered learning platform with 20M+ users in 15 countries, raised a €27M Series B led by XAnge, bringing its total funding to €45M  —  Knowunity is a global AI learning companion that combines personalised AI and student-created content to make studying easier, more […]

June 15, 763 BCE: Assyrians record a solar eclipse

On June 15, 763 BCE, a near-total solar eclipse occurred over northern Assyria and was recorded by observers in Nineveh, the capital city. This event is preserved in the Eponym Canon, a list of historical events made by the Assyrians on clay tablets, following a specialized calendar system. The text […]

New York State passes a bill mandating safety and transparency requirements for frontier AI models; it awaits Governor Hochul’s signature (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: New York State passes a bill mandating safety and transparency requirements for frontier AI models; it awaits Governor Hochul’s signature  —  New York state lawmakers passed a bill on Thursday that aims to prevent frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic from contributing to disaster […]