The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. U.S. and Israeli authorities have reportedly been considering a special operations ground raid to extract or otherwise neutralize Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium. TWZ previously explored this exact scenario, given that this nuclear material is understood to
A rumour doing the rounds in Saudi Arabia claims two colossal titles will be added to the PS Plus Extra catalogue this month. The report, which is circulating on social media, claims both Square Enix’s Final Fantasy 16 and Capcom’s Dragon’s Dogma 2 will headline the lineup, making for one of the most impressive offerings
For the first time, meteorologists have glimpsed the tiny bursts of ultraviolet light emitted by trees during thunderstorms. Scientists have long suspected the existence of this invisible phenomenon, thought to be the result of a passing storm’s charge inducing an electric current within trees below. Referred to as a corona, the glow produced by a
Noah Beck, an actor known for his work in Tubi’s popular YA romance franchise Sidelined, has landed a series regular role in the new Baywatch TV series from Fox and Fremantle. Beck will play Luke, a rookie lifeguard, and the youngest in a family of firefighters who chose the beach over the firehouse. Luke is
A view of the Kremlin’s Spasskaya Tower and St. Basil’s Cathedral in central Moscow, Russia, on April 24, 2024, with a code overlay. (Photo: Alexander Nemenov / AFP via Getty Images; Collage: The Kyiv Independent) At the end of December, the person manning the digital boards at PSE, Poland’s national electricity operator, noticed a flurry
Thunderstorms belong to a non-exhaustive list of surprisingly mundane things that we know surprisingly little about. Last year, a team of engineers identified how lightning forms on cloud tops. The same team is now back with another surprising contraption: a miniature, plastic “lightning-in-a-box.” In a recent study published in Physical Review Letters, engineers led by
Tommy DeCarlo, who sang with the band Boston for nearly 20 years after posting a Myspace tribute to the band’s original singer, has died at 60 Tommy DeCarlo, who became the lead singer of classic rockers Boston for nearly 20 years based on a Myspace tribute to the band’s original singer, has died. DeCarlo’s children,
Recovering Iran’s remaining highly enriched uranium stockpile believed to be sitting in a storage facility deep underground, an objective the Trump administration has been discussing, would require a significant number of US ground troops beyond a small special operations footprint, seven current and former officials familiar with the military planning told CNN. The US bombing
Qualcomm, which purchased microcontroller board manufacturer Arduino last year, just announced a new single-board computer that marries AI with robotics. Called the Arduino Ventuno Q, it uses Qualcomm’s Dragonwing IQ8 processor along with a dedicated STM32H5 low-latency microcontroller (MCU). “Ventuno Q is engineered specifically for systems that move, manipulate and respond to the physical world
A big NASA satellite will crash back to Earth on Tuesday (March 10) after nearly 14 years in orbit, experts say. The spacecraft in question is the 1,323-pound (600-kilogram) Van Allen Probe A, which launched in August 2012 along with its twin, Van Allen Probe B, to study the radiation belts around Earth for which