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DTO/NDO- Prime Minister Le Minh Hung has issued a directive urging ministries, agencies and localities to accelerate the implementation of science, technology, innovation and digital transformation tasks in 2026 and ensure full disbursement of allocated funding by year-end. Directive No. 29/CT-TTg says Viet Nam has made encouraging initial progress in implementing the Politburo’s Resolution No….

Imagine you’re on a hike in a remote mountain range. Your hyperactive dog catches the scent of a deer and, powered by his hunter’s instinct, disappears in the forest. He has a GPS tracker in his collar that can send his coordinates via the cellular network. But where you are, there is no mobile coverage….

Science, Technology, and Innovation Deputy Minister Dr Nomalungelo Gina is representing South Africa at UNESCO’s 2026 Global Conference of the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development which gets underway in Paris, France today. The Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation [UNESCO] flagship Ministerial event supports the implementation of the United Nations International Decade of…

Credit: Denis Borisov/Getty Researchers are increasingly using autonomous artificial-intelligence agents for data interpretation. The accuracy of this analysis depends on the data sets that are available to these programs, and a new study documents how easy it is for fraudsters to ‘poison’ these resources by uploading manipulated data sets that closely resemble the original ones…

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SpaceX reached a milestone with its latest Starlink launch, sending the satellites into orbit on its 600th flight of a flight-proven booster. The sexacentennial launch came on the second of two Falcon 9 missions that lifted off less than eight hours apart overnight from Monday to Tuesday (July 13 to July 14). The first flight,…