Specially commissioned drones will be used to fly blood donations as part of a new trial. Currently, blood donations are processed in south Wales then transported by road, a journey that can take hours. The ultimate ambition of the Dragon's Heart project is to fly life-saving blood samples to the scenes of accidents using drones weighing about 55lb (25kg) and 5.5ft wide (1.7m). The pilot, which is due to start in early 2026, was described as significant and exciting by the Welsh Blood Service. A hatch in the top means the blood sits in the body of the drone, helping to control the temperature of the blood and minimise vibrations.

A handful of wealthy, politically connected Silicon Valley investors are reportedly eyeing Greenland's icy shores as the site for a techno-utopian "freedom city." That's according to a report from Reuters, which details a proposed effort to establish a new, libertarian-minded municipality characterized by minimal corporate regulation and a focus on accelerating emerging technologies like AI and mini nuclear reactors. Supporters of increased economic development in Greenland argue its frigid climate could naturally cool massive, energy intensive AI data centers. Large deposits of critical and rare earth minerals buried beneath the island's ice sheets could also potentially be used to manufacture consumer electronics. The so-called "start-up city"--which bears similarities to another ongoing venture in California's Solano County--reportedly already has the backing of PayPal founder Peter Thiel and Ken Howery, President Donald Trump's pick for Denmark ambassador.

Feedback is New Scientist's popular sideways look at the latest science and technology news. You can submit items you believe may amuse readers to Feedback by emailing feedback@newscientist.com Some things are sadly inevitable: death, taxes, another Coldplay album. One such inevitability, long since proved beyond any reasonable doubt, is that if you try to suppress an embarrassing story, you will only draw more attention to it. This phenomenon is called the Streisand Effect, after an incident in 2003 when Barbra Streisand sued to have an aerial photograph taken off the internet.

Rami Sinno is crouched beside a filing cabinet, wrestling a beach-ball sized disc out of a box, when a dull thump echoes around his laboratory. "I just dropped tens of thousands of dollars' worth of material," he says with a laugh. Straightening up, Sinno reveals the goods: a golden silicon wafer, which glitters in the fluorescent light of the lab. This circular platter is divided into some 100 rectangular tiles, each of which contains billions of microscopic electrical switches. These are the brains of Amazon's most advanced chip yet: the Trainium 2, announced in December.

The past decade has brought the world a lot of political and economic chaos, but in its defense, that same span of time has also given us the Paddington Bear movies. With those two London-set adventures, a mix of animation (Paddington) and live action (everyone else), director Paul King created a loopy world all his own, as cozy and visually pleasing as a dollhouse. The Paddington films were also refreshingly gentle, with moral messages that emerged not from preachy dialogue but from their ursine protagonist's unassuming goodness. And Ben Whishaw's voice performance as the unfailingly polite, naively bumbling bear is one of the all-time great matches between actor and animated character, up there with Tom Hanks' Woody in the Toy Story films: Whishaw quite simply is Paddington, and the completeness and believability of his characterization would have set the films apart even without their droll scripts and all-in supporting casts. The third film in the series, Paddington in Peru, ran a high risk of becoming a shark-jumping sequel, with King and his co-writers now replaced by first-time feature director Dougal Wilson and a new writing team consisting of Mark Burton, Jon Foster, and James Lamont.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. When Sandra Brown arrived at Vladimir Pokhilko's Palo Alto, California, home, she immediately felt something was horribly wrong. On the evening of Sept. 21, 1998, the 44-year-old, his wife Yelena Fedotova, 38, and their son Peter Pokhilko, 12, were found dead. The patriarch, a co-developer in the puzzle video game Tetris, appeared to have slashed his own throat.

Centuries ago, the future of diplomacy was questioned due to technological progress – the invention of the radio, the telegraph and the public's intervention in the foreign policy domain. Meta's recent AI model has revived the conversation. CICERO has become the talk of the tech town and international chatbot diplomacy may not be far behind. Diplomacy is an art that even the most powerful AI was not able to master till CICERO made an appearance. Inspired by the famous Roman orator Cicero, Meta AI showed off its model that can beat several humans in the board game, Diplomacy, which requires strategic planning and verbal negotiations with several other players.

A quantum computer has been used to simulate a holographic wormhole for the first time. In this case, the word "holographic" indicates a way to simplify physics problems involving both quantum mechanics and gravity, not a literal hologram, so simulations like this could help us understand how to combine those two concepts into a theory of quantum gravity – perhaps the toughest and most important problem in physics right now. Both quantum mechanics, which governs the very small, and general relativity, which describes gravity and the very large, are extraordinarily successful in their respective realms, but these two fundamental theories do not fit together. This incompatibility is particularly apparent in areas where both theories should apply, such as in and around black holes. These areas are extraordinarily complicated, and that is where holography comes in.

An executive of Baidu Inc., the Chinese search-engine giant and major artificial-intelligence company, shrugged off new U.S. export restrictions on advanced semiconductors designed to slow China's military advance. Baidu's Executive Vice President Dou Shen said in an earnings call with analysts on Tuesday the U.S. export controls would have limited short-term impact on the company, and he believes its AI businesses would benefit from the new rules in the long run. In October, the U.S. Commerce Department rolled out new restrictions on advanced chip technology, which require a license for U.S. companies to export cutting-edge chips used for AI and supercomputing and chip-making equipment key to China's technological goals. The move vastly expanded on existing rules restricting the export of advanced technologies to China. Mr. Shen said that a large portion of Baidu's AI and cloud-computing businesses don't rely heavily on advanced chips and that the Beijing-based company had stocked enough high-end chips for its businesses that need them.

If speed dating mixed with blind dating sounds like your idea of hell, look away now. Ten years since dating app Tinder first encouraged users to swipe through potential partners based largely on their looks, some singles are doing away with profile photos altogether. In the absence of Cilla and "our Graham", those looking for love are turning instead to a new cohort of "blind dating apps" in the hope of making more meaningful connections. "I'm already on Tinder, Badoo, Bumble, Hinge – all of them!" says Victoria Brown, a 26-year-old client success manager from Upminster, east London. "A blind dating app seemed like a good idea because usually you think: 'Oh, he's really good-looking' but then, when you start talking, the chat's not that good. Not seeing what someone looks like, at least at first, gives it a bit of a twist – although I was nervous about the reveal."