Here’s When Apple Will Reveal Its iPhone 18 Pro Special Event

This post, first published on Aug. 6, was republished on Aug. 9 with further details of the iPhone release schedule from keynote announcement to iPhone on-sale date and everything in between.

A 0.42-nanometer breakthrough could push transistors beyond silicon

For more than a decade, atomically thin semiconductors have stood out as a promising route beyond conventional silicon. These materials can be just a single atom thick while still offering impressive electrical properties. In principle, they could enable transistors that are smaller, faster, and more energy efficient than today's devices. Yet even as researchers have discovered increasingly capable two-dimensional semiconductor materials, one stubborn engineering problem has remained.

The Hundred: Trent Rockets continue dominance of women's competition as qualification for knockouts is clinched

Trent Rockets booked a place in the knockouts of The Hundred women's competition with a thumping nine-wicket win over already-eliminated MI London.

Nat Sciver-Brunt (67no off 36 balls) and Beth Mooney (54no off 44) struck sublime half-centuries as Rockets eased to their 122-run target with 18 balls to spare to claim a fifth-straight win.

Who are key players for chances of success this season?

Football leagues around Europe are gearing up for the new season and preseason training and friendlies are in full flow.

All eyes will be on the transfer window as clubs scramble to find the missing pieces, either in the starting lineup or to complete the squad.

Forget Quake, Worms: The Director's Cut just got a free expansion for the series' 30th anniversary

If you've checked in on Worms creator Andy Davidson sometime in these past few years, you'll know he's been hard at work on Worms: The Director's Cut 1.5, an unofficial but nonetheless Team 17-approved expansion pack for the original strategy-party mashup's Amiga-exclusive sequel. The goods have finally arrived: you can download the whole thing for free now.

New to The Street Show 766 Broadcasts Tonight at 6:30 PM ET on Bloomberg Television, Featuring BioVie's Bezisterim Parkinson's Disease Clinical Results

Sponsored Programming Also Broadcasts Across Bloomberg Television in Latin America and MENA, Expanding the Global Reach of New to The Street's Featured Companies

NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / August 8, 2026 / New to The Street, one of the longest-running U.S. business television brands focused on public and emerging companies, announces the broadcast of Show 766 tonight at 6:30 PM ET on Bloomberg Television.

Emerging Water Solutions For Carbon Reduction And Ecosystem Recovery

Wastewater treatment process

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Water systems are increasingly recognized not only as essential public infrastructure, but also as an important part of climate mitigation, adaptation, and ecosystem management. Water supply, treatment, and wastewater operations can generate greenhouse gas emissions, including CO2, CH4, and N2O, through energy consumption and chemical use. Meanwhile, nature-based and emerging water solutions, such as wetlands, mangroves, seagrasses, ocean alkalinity enhancement, algae cultivation, rainwater harvesting, and biological treatment, can improve water quality, store or remove carbon, reduce flood risk, conserve water, and support biodiversity. Their overall value depends on cost, scalability, ecological impacts, carbon storage durability, implementation feasibility, monitoring requirements, and public acceptance.

Lebanon ‘detains’ former al-Assad-era general, weighs handing him to Syria

Judicial and security sources say a routine embassy visit landed a wanted former Syrian general in a Beirut jail cell.

Lebanese authorities have arrested a former Syrian army general who once served under ousted President Bashar al-Assad, according to judicial and security officials.

I was a stay-at-home mom for 27 years. At 62, I started over after moving to Greece.

I was a stay-at-home mom for 27 years. At 62, I started over after moving to Greece.

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Claude Vs ChatGPT: How These AI Assistants Differ - Engadget

For many, there's a clear winner in this battle of the artificial minds.

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ChatGPT was probably most people's first encounter with an LLM, considering how many users it picked up shortly after its launch in 2022. It also enjoyed the privileged position of having no real competition until Anthropic released Claude a few months later in March 2023. Since then, both companies have constantly improved their models and added new features. But because there's an overlap in features — both platforms have a coding mode and a dedicated workspace mode — it can be difficult to decide which tool is best for you.