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Listen to this audio excerpt from Elkin Norena, resident management officer, NASA’s Space Launch System Program: Your browser does not support the audio element. NASA’s Elkin Norena has helped the agency launch more than a dozen space shuttle missions – that’s more than a dozen crews to low Earth orbit and more than a dozen historic missions. They were missions that helped build the International Space Station, that provided a final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, and that performed critical science experiments that improved life right here on Earth. Today, he continues that work as the manager of…

In his 1927 paper, “A law of comparative judgment,” the American psychologist L. L. Thurstone proposed that when people select one option among multiple alternatives, they are picking the one that has the highest value to them, even though they cannot assign a particular number to that choice. Thurstone was a pioneer of “psychometrics” — a field built upon the premise that mental processes, which we cannot see, can nevertheless be measured and quantified. His 1927 paper laid the groundwork for what are now called random utility models, which provide a mathematical framework for describing human preferences — information that can…

Thursday 11 June 2026 7:04 pm  |  Updated:  Thursday 11 June 2026 7:05 pm LivaNova PLC (Nasdaq: LIVN), a market-leading medical technology company, announced the election of Jette Nygaard-Andersen to the Company’s Board of Directors after its Annual General Meeting of shareholders on June 10. “We’re pleased to welcome Jette to LivaNova’s Board,” said William Kozy, Chair. “She brings deep medtech governance expertise, proven CEO leadership, and a strong track record of transformation, strategic M&A, and digital innovation across complex global businesses. Her international and public company board experience will be a valuable addition to LivaNova.” Nygaard-Andersen is a tenured executive…

St Vincent Street in Glasgow city centre has been reduced to one lane between Newton Street and Holland Street for Scottish Gas emergency road works. Source link

This year’s tournament is being held across Canada, the United States, and Mexico, the first time a single edition has spanned three countries. And it’s the Mexicans getting things underway, hosting the tournament’s first match on June 11 against South Africa at the Estadio Azteca. None other than Shakira and her veracious hips lit up the opening ceremony, performing at the ground to officially launch sport’s biggest party. Ahead of kick-off, the King and Queen on Marlborough Place was abuzz with excited fans, with a strong contingent of Mexican supporters fuelling a festival atmosphere. Gisela, left, with her daughter Itzela,…

It comes as Stephen Ogilive’s family have called for an end for violent scenesDisorder on the Newtownards Road in BelfastPolice have issued a statement in relation to AI posters being shared on social media calling for more protests across Northern Ireland.Over the past few days, an AI generated poster listing places across Northern Ireland calls for “mass protests” from 7pm. It also calls for all businesses to close by 5.30pm.Violence broke out in the city on Tuesday, June 9, in the wake of a knife attack in North Belfast on Monday night. A man is in hospital with serious wounds…

Meta on Wednesday previewed upcoming additions to its video-editing app Edits at an invite-only creator event in L.A., showing off features like a new AI assistant and a desktop version of the previously mobile-only app. The company also announced other new tools will launch in the app today, such as a “Beta” tab for experiments and expanded audience insights. Edits first arrived last year as a direct competitor to ByteDance’s CapCut. With the addition of the new and upcoming tools, Meta is looking to both retain and attract new users. The upcoming AI assistant will help creators analyze their insights…

Akeneo, the Product Experience (PX) Company and leading provider of Product Cloud solutions, today announced the acquisition of PricingHUB, a leading pricing management platform. As commerce shifts towards AI-driven discovery and agentic transactions, the traditional commerce stack is being reshaped around data. Product information and pricing are becoming the key signals that determine visibility, relevance, and performance across digital channels and AI-powered interfaces. Pricing decisions are never made in isolation. Products are priced in relation to other products – across assortments, categories, consumer price sensitivity and competitive landscapes. Without structured, reliable product data to provide that context, pricing cannot be…

The Hertz Foundation announced that it awarded 2026 fellowships to three current MIT students as well as an incoming graduate student. They are: Annika Marschner, Alvin Q. Meng, Zachary S. Siegel, and Matthew Wanta.The prestigious science and technology award provides each recipient with five years of financial support — a stipend and full tuition equivalent — which gives them an unusual measure of autonomy to pursue ground-breaking research in their graduate work.“What particularly impresses me about this cohort is their fearlessness in taking on new challenges and advancing the frontiers of science,” says Philip Welkhoff, a Hertz Fellow and director of the malaria program…

As AI agent traffic surpasses human traffic on the internet, companies working in commerce and finance are building tools that allow agents to take action on behalf of users at a rapid pace. Days after trading platform Robinhood introduced agents that can trade for users, Coinbase launched its own agents that can execute trades and pay for premium research. The company said Thursday that users can integrate the agent with their main account and start trading. If users don’t want to give the agent access to their main account, they can choose to have it operate in a separate sandbox.…