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DHS expects to spend between $10 million and $20 million by March 2027 on electric-shock gloves for officers in two ICE enforcement divisions.
A wearable pain-compliance device could lower the practical threshold for force while making individual uses harder for supervisors, doctors and courts to reconstruct.
The Army paid General Dynamics $533 million for an artillery factory near Dallas that ProPublica found had not produced a single usable shell.
The failure delayed urgently sought shell production and left taxpayers with costly machinery whose value now depends on repair, management and enforceable oversight.
South African entomologist Letodi Luki Mathulwe collected fungus-covered African armyworms in KwaZulu-Natal and produced peer-reviewed research suggesting the fungus could help control the crop pest.
A dependable biological treatment could protect maize, sorghum and grazing land while reducing chemical use, but farmers will benefit only if it can be produced safely, stored, applied and sold affordably.
An overcrowded ferry capsized in large waves on Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba, killing at least 44 people while rescuers searched for others and authorities tried to establish how many children were aboard.
An incomplete passenger count complicates the search, delays answers for families and may conceal failures in ticketing and capacity enforcement that placed more people on the ferry than it could carry.
Los Angeles Unified School District began the school year with new classroom screen-time limits as teachers warned that changing established routines would be difficult.
Teachers must redesign materials, pacing, accessibility and classroom management if the limits are to improve instruction rather than merely shift work onto staff.
Research published in npj Climate Action estimates that AI-enabled fossil-fuel productivity could increase global energy emissions by nearly 5 percent.
Cheaper exploration and extraction could expand oil and gas supply, producing more carbon than companies disclose through conventional data-center accounting.
Researchers at A Security used fewer than 20 prompts with public AI models to find Zoom screen-sharing flaws that could enable device takeover; Zoom issued server and client fixes.
A compromised call could expose devices across Zoom-supported operating systems, while users and organizations remain responsible for installing client updates and limiting sharing privileges.
March of Dimes found that more than half of U.S. counties lack a labor-and-delivery hospital, while a Black midwife travels across Alabama to support mothers and babies.
Hospital withdrawals leave pregnant people and mobile caregivers carrying longer drives, harder schedules and greater exposure when labor or complications require timely care.
Prime Minister Burnham announced that the UK government would accelerate a ban on subscription traps during a tour focused on reducing household living costs.
Effective rules could stop businesses from turning forgotten renewals and abandoned cancellation attempts into recurring revenue taken from household budgets.
A woman told the BBC that Travelodge reception staff gave her domestic abuser a key to her room, where he reached her door and kicked it off its hinges.
A hotel that fails to control replacement keys can expose threatened guests to the people from whom a locked room is supposed to protect them.
Estate planners warn that no single method reliably transfers every digital account and asset after death, although an inventory and advance instructions can reduce survivors’ work.
Families can lose photographs, income, cryptocurrency and access to essential records when ownership rights exist on paper but credentials or platform permissions do not.
British startup Siloton is developing a compact retinal scanner for future space missions, adapting technology used for self-administered eye exams by older patients.
Crews traveling beyond low Earth orbit may need to detect dangerous vision changes without real-time guidance from specialists on Earth.