France-Germany jet plans crash: Can Europe end reliance on US for security? France and Germany have announced this week that they are ditching a landmark project to jointly develop a sixth-generation fighter jet. French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed on Monday that the project is being terminated, in what is being seen as a major blow to efforts to boost defence cooperation between European Union states, a key issue amid uncertainty cast by United States President Donald Trump over the readiness of the US to help defend its NATO allies. Since 2019, the US president has been flirting with the idea of obtaining Greenland . His remarks about his desire for the island, a self-governing territory which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, built to a crescendo at the start of this year, with European leaders signalling their displeasure with the idea and Trump even threatening additional trade tariffs on those countries standing in his way.

Before the internet, if you were an avid gamer then you were very likely to be an avid reader of games magazines. From the early 1980s, the likes of Crash, Mega, PC Gamer and the Official PlayStation Magazine were your connection with the industry, providing news, reviews and interviews as well as lively letters pages that fostered a sense of community. Very rarely, however, did anyone keep hold of their magazine collections. Lacking the cultural gravitas of music or movie publications, they were mostly thrown away. While working at Future Publishing as a games journalist in the 1990s, I watched many times as hundreds of old issues of SuperPlay, Edge and GamesMaster were tipped into skips for pulping.

Timothy Foster needed something to look forward to when he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma last summer. The 35-year-old software developer, from upstate New York, knew he would have lots of time to kill while he recovered from his chemotherapy infusions, but what is there to do when you're laid up in bed all day? Yes, he had owned an NES and SNES in the '90s, but the last video game he had played in earnest was NCAA Football 14--a beloved 2013 college football simulator that was the final entry in a series that was discontinued following an arcane legal dispute between the powers that be in campus athletics and publisher EA Sports. But the landscape of college football has changed dramatically over the past few years, following a windfall of suddenly legal name, image, and likeness deals that freed up players to make money from outside sources. All this ultimately cleared a path for a revival of the one video game Foster ever truly loved.

You might think your desktop computer is old, but that's nothing compared to these ancient relics. Two of the world's very first desktop computers have been discovered during a house clearance in London. The chance discovery revealed two of only three surviving Q1 computers anywhere in the world. Although it is often now overlooked, the Q1 paved the way for the computers we have today when it was launched more than 50 years ago. Brendan O'Shea, head of Just Clear which discovered the items, says: 'Never did I imagine that we'd find something so important to the field of technology and the history of computing.'

The White House has privately addressed concerns over an increasingly close relationship between Beijing and private industry in the Middle East that could see Chinese influence over powerful new artificial intelligence (AI) models. "It's very reminiscent of the Huawei issue where you have these technologies with 5G," Dr. Georgianna Shea, the chief technologist at the Foundation for Defense of Democracy's Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, told Fox News Digital. "Everyone's using [5G], so that it becomes a backdoor into a lot of different systems within the United States," Shea said. "AI offers that same opportunity when [China] partners with our allies: They can both get in on the development side of it and, possibly, skew some of those biases or directly go through and pull out the intellectual property from what's being put into the model." The Biden administration has made clear in private discussions with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that the oil-rich nation should pay close attention to ties between Beijing and the Emirati company G42, which launched its Jais AI model – reportedly the most advanced Arab-language AI model.

Justine Bateman told Fox News Digital the increased use of artificial intelligence makes her sad because she feels it takes away from genuine human connection. Some experts have raised concerns that artificial intelligence (AI) could have its own gender gap if more women aren't involved in its development and dataset analysis. "It's not just AI, but I would say engineering as a whole," Dr. Georgianna Shea, chief technologist at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation (CCTI), told Fox News Digital. "Whenever there's any type of engineering process for anything, you don't want to end up with bias-based engineers." Adding to the debate, Melinda French Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, recently said in an interview that she was concerned there was a lack of women working in the field of artificial intelligence, which she said made her nervous about potential biases in platforms.

Car makers are recognizing the need for AI methods that consume less energy, which is one reason why neuromorphic computing can be beneficial, said Tim Shea, technology researcher at Accenture Labs. "They're already running up against limitations of [current chips] not being scalable enough," he said. German auto maker Mercedes-Benz AG announced last week it had joined the Intel Neuromorphic Research Community to explore how neuromorphic chips could help increase energy efficiency, speed and accuracy for vehicle-related AI uses. "With the knowledge we'll gain, we want to achieve a significant boost for our AI applications in and around our vehicles," said Jasmin Eichler, director of future technologies at Mercedes-Benz, in a statement. Intel's neuromorphic chips could begin selling commercially within five years, according to Mike Davies, director of Intel's Neuromorphic Computing Lab.

The Oakland Unified School District this week issued an apology for sending out a survey that included a historically racist term for people of Asian descent. However, a movement is underway to prevent bad word choices. "I think that words do matter, so I think that you do have to be very mindful of the words that you use," says Jaye Bailey, Valley Transportation Authority's head of civil rights and employee relations. Whether it's a transit agency like VTA or a private company, attention to messaging has never been greater as a result of the social justice movement. RELATED: Oakland Unified School District apologizes after'historically racist' term used in survey "You really work hard to normalize the language within your organization so that everybody is aware of it so that it becomes second, second nature," she added.

With coyote attacks on humans in cities and suburbs making headlines – coyotes injured two people in Chicago earlier this month – officials could tap into a data repository to get a better handle on what's bringing the area's animals into such close proximity to humans. Called eMammal, the tool has been around for several years in one form or another and has helped researchers manage camera-trapping projects. It uses a data pipeline that takes images and metadata from the field through a cloud-based review processes and into SIdora, a Smithsonian Institution data repository. To date, eMammal has data on more than 1 million detections of wildlife worldwide, including in cities. Smithsonian researchers collaborated with others at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Conservation International and the Wildlife Conservation Society to develop an open standard for camera trap metadata -- the Camera Trap Metadata Standard -- as part of the eMammal project. Camera traps are ruggedized cameras that researchers place in forests, jungles, grasslands, cities and elsewhere to capture images of mammals.

The robot uprising forged in the "Terminator" movies is one step closer to reality. On Thursday, Toyota debuted its new, upgraded humanoid robot, the T-HR3, which is controlled remotely by someone wearing a headset and wiring on their arms. Toyota claims that in the future, this machine, which is smoother, lighter and easier to use than past models, could be used "to perform surgery in a distant place where a doctor cannot travel. It also might allow people to feel like they're participating in events they can't actually attend," according to the Associated Press. That same day, it was announced that Swiss researchers developed a light, quick robotic bug called the DEAnsect, which can withstand several whacks from a flyswatter and can survive being stepped on by a shoe.