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VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania’s government said Tuesday it plans to open nine drone training centers over the next three years to teach thousands of people, including schoolchildren, skills in flying and building the machines.Drones have become increasingly common in everyday life and warfare in recent years. Lithuania’s project aims to strengthen the public’s abilities in drone control and engineering and “expand civil resistance training,” its defense and education ministries said in a statement. Lithuania, a NATO member country of about 2.8 million people on the alliance’s eastern flank, borders both Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave and Moscow-allied Belarus, and is aware…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Desperate parents begged law enforcement officers to storm an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, in the frantic minutes after a gunman opened fire in one of the deadliest classroom attacks in U.S. history, police body camera video released Tuesday shows.“Whose class is he in?” one parent can be heard asking. Another comes up and yells, “Come on man, my daughter is in there!” The heartbreaking videos show the agonizingly slow law enforcement response along with confusion and delays. Authorities failed to confront 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos for more than an hour after the attack at Robb…
The iPhone catapulted Apple onto the Mount Rushmore of tech, and the device’s successor could do the same for someone else.Smartphones as we know them will eventually feel “primitive,” billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen said in a new interview on the “TBPN” technology podcast that aired Friday. At some point, he said, everything becomes obsolete.The big question: What comes after the smartphone?”Whoever cracks the code on that will be the next Apple,” Andreessen, cofounder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, said.Creating a product that makes the smartphone obsolete will require a level of innovation that the world has yet to…
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills running back James Cook resumed practicing on Tuesday, ending — temporarily, at least — his “hold-in” as part of a contract standoff that began on Aug. 3.Cook took the field in uniform and participated at the start of practice after missing four straight sessions last week — the last two in which the fourth-year player failed to even make an appearance on the sideline.Speaking before practice, coach Sean McDermott anticipated Cook’s return based on conversations he had with the running back.“Things have changed and yes, I’ve had a conversation with James, and the…
Hours after Paramount and UFC announced a billion-dollar rights deal, Dana White said he had yet to hear from his friend, President Donald Trump, on his thoughts about the fight company’s new streaming home.That was fine with White. The UFC CEO was set to travel to Washington on Aug. 28 to meet with Trump and his daughter, Ivanka, to catch up and discuss logistics on the proposed Fourth of July fight card next year at the White House.Trump said last month he wanted to stage a UFC match on the White House grounds with upwards of 20,000 spectators to celebrate…
When it comes to AI, Sam Altman says the kids will be all right.Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, said he’s more worried about how older employees will adapt to AI changing the workplace than college graduates. His view contrasts with how many of his competitors and others in tech think about the next five years.”I’m more worried about what it means not for the 22-year-old, but for the 62-year-old that doesn’t want to go retrain or rescale or whatever the politicians call it that no one actually wants,” Altman said recently on Cleo Abram’s “Huge Conversations” YouTube show.Altman said jobs…
NEW YORK (AP) — The Oklahoma City Thunder felt slighted last season when they were left off the NBA’s Christmas schedule.That won’t be an issue this year.MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the NBA champion Thunder will be working at home for Christmas this season, playing host to Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs as part of the league’s annual Dec. 25 quintupleheader. BetMGM Sportsbook has the Thunder favored by 9.5 points.The other Christmas games, released by the NBA on Tuesday: Cleveland at New York (favored at -2.5), Houston at LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers (-1.5), No. 1 pick…
Monica Seles first noticed the symptoms of myasthenia gravis — a neuromuscular autoimmune disease she discussed during a recent interview with The Associated Press — while she was swinging a racket the way she’d done so many times during, and after, a career that included nine Grand Slam titles and a place in the International Tennis Hall of Fame. “I would be playing with some kids or family members, and I would miss a ball. I was like, ‘Yeah, I see two balls.’ These are obviously symptoms that you can’t ignore,” Seles said. “And, for me, this is when this…
2025-08-12T06:31:19Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. AOL is sunsetting its dial-up internet service after more than 30 years. After September 30, users will no longer be able to use the service. We took a nostalgic walk down memory lane to revisit other defunct pieces of tech. It’s an indelible sound for those above a certain…
2025-08-12T02:20:19Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Elon Musk says he will sue Apple over the X and Grok apps’ ranking on the App Store. Musk called Apple’s behavior an “unequivocal antitrust violation.” OpenAI’s ChatGPT is ranked first on Apple’s App Store, while Grok is ranked fifth. Elon Musk said on Monday that xAI will take…