Bose will brick key features of its SoundTouch Wi-Fi speakers and soundbars soon. On Thursday, Bose informed customers that as of February 18, 2026, it will stop supporting the devices, and the devices’ cloud-based features, including the companion app, will stop working. The SoundTouch app enabled numerous capabilities, including integrating music services, like Spotify and TuneIn, and the ability to …
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Multiple people are dead or unaccounted for after a military explosives facility in Tennessee blew up Friday morning, rattling nearby homes and setting off smaller explosions, local officials say. The explosion, which happened around 7:45 am local time, was a “devastating blast” but responders were able to secure the scene by late morning, Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said at …
Read More »Dominion Voting Systems, which was at the center of false fraud allegations in 2020, has been sold Politico Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting Systems, says he’ll push for paper ballots CNN Former Republican elections official buys Dominion Voting, the company at the center of false 2020 conspiracy theories Fortune Dominion, the voting tech company at the center of false 2020 claims, …
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The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS began blasting water “like a fire hose” before it was anywhere near the sun, according to a recent study. Researchers observed the comet scattering water unusually early in a discovery that sheds light on how the building blocks of life are distributed across other planetary systems. Initial James Webb Space Telescope observations have suggested that 3I/ATLAS …
Read More »A trio of tropical systems is driving significant Southwest flood threat The Washington Post Parts of the Southwest May Get More Than a Month’s Rain This Weekend The New York Times What to know: Tropical Storm Priscilla to drench Southwest US, raising deadly flash flood risk Newsday Thunderstorms, muggy weather ahead for Southern California thanks to Hurricane Priscilla Los Angeles Times Ground stop issued …
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An election judge sets up a Dominion voting machine during a public accuracy test of voting equipment on Aug. 3, 2022, in Burnsville, Minn. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Dominion Voting Systems, the company at the center of false fraud claims about the 2020 election, has been acquired by an entity called Liberty Vote. “As …
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Dominion Voting Systems, the election vendor that was falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election, is being sold and rebranded as Liberty Vote effective immediately. Scott Leiendecker, the founder of a Missouri-based election technology company who previously served as the Republican director for the St. Louis City Board of Elections, purchased the company this week for an undisclosed sum, according …
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A new member of the solar system’s far outskirts refuses to follow the usual script. The object, 2023 KQ14, nicknamed Ammonite, belongs to a tiny class called sednoid, a rare kind of trans-Neptunian object that stays far beyond Neptune. Its path does not line up with the three sednoids we already knew. That mismatch matters because it pressures ideas about …
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By CHRIS MELORE, US ASSISTANT SCIENCE EDITOR Published: 21:20, 7 October 2025 | Updated: 22:41, 7 October 2025 The government shutdown has caused another major air traffic control tower to go dark, with no one available to direct planes due to staffing shortages. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that Nashville International Airport will face the issue starting at 5pm ET on …
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The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the Universe), states that Earth and humans do not occupy a special or privileged place in the Universe. In cosmological terms, this essentially means that Earth is representative of the norm, and life is likely to exist throughout the cosmos. While our efforts to find …
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