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The research doesn’t look at how much time the mother was spending outside, if she wore an N95 mask or if she had an air-filtration system in her home, which Boudreaux acknowledges as a limitation of the study. But data sources like Purple Air that track wildfire smoke are detecting a large amount of pollution in the form of a PM2.5 inside people’s homes, he said. The new study highlighted regions and populations that were disproportionately affected by wildfire smoke. In the West and Northwest, wildfires’ contributions to air pollution more than doubled over the study period. And the communities…

VisionQuest trailer kicks off Disney’s D23 fan event – Ars Technica Ahsoka<\/em> S2 teaser, Doomsday<\/em> trailer, news about MCU’s X-Men<\/em> and Star Wars: Starfighter<\/em>”,”image_url”:”https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/visionquest2-500×500-1786802484.jpg”,”listing_image_url”:”https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/visionquest2-768×432.jpg”}”> Skip to content Also: Ahsoka S2 teaser, Doomsday trailer, news about MCU’s X-Men and Star Wars: Starfighter It was a busy first day at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event, in Anaheim, California, with Marvel Studios releasing the first trailer for VisionQuest. We also got the first teaser for Ahsoka S2; the public release of the Avengers: Doomsday special footage featured last month for attendees only at San Diego Comic-Con; a special sneak peek (for attendees…

Under the plans, Jenrick said they would invest in talking therapies, physiotherapy and employment support to move away from people claiming health Universal Credit (UC) payments and Personal Independent Payments (Pip). People with “lover-level conditions” would no longer receive payments, instead accounts run by local councils and mayors will provide for needs such as transport and equipment.Employers would see the creation of a return to work cover giving them a “strong economic incentive” to return an employee to work who has been off due to sickness.Those claiming benefits and who had not returned to work in two years would face…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed on Saturday that his country struck the Progress Rocket Space Center deep within Russia using ground-launched cruise missiles. “In Russia’s Samara region, one of the key enterprises within Roscosmos—the Progress Center, which was involved, among other things, in electronics production–was hit,” Zelenskyy said on the social media site X. “Flamingo missiles were used. A good achievement.” The largest city in the Samara Oblast, about 900 km from the Ukrainian border, Samara is home to Russia’s most important manufacturer of rockets. The Progress center assembles the workhorse vehicle for Russia, the Soyuz-2 vehicle, as well as…

Thomas Fuller | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesAnthropic’s revenue surged more than 14-fold in the second quarter from a year earlier, Bloomberg News reported Friday, underscoring the rapid growth of the Claude chatbot maker as it prepares for a potential blockbuster initial public offering.The AI company reported preliminary revenue of more than $11.5 billion for its latest completed quarter, up from $787 million in the same period last year and $4.73 billion in the first quarter of 2026, according to documents viewed by Bloomberg News. Anthropic also posted positive adjusted operating income in the second quarter, according to the documents. The…

No surprises on inflation and new financing developments in the artificial intelligence trade drove the record-breaking action on Wall Street last week. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq both dropped modestly Friday but managed to post their third straight winning weeks. The S & P 500 rose above 7,800 during Thursday’s session for the first time ever. It closed at a record. The Dow bucked the trend, falling nearly 0.6% for the week. Here’s a closer look at what drove the market. Cooler inflation gives the Fed room to wait Two closely watched inflation reports helped fuel the week’s…

Americans are keeping their cars longer than ever before, with the average U.S. vehicle age rising to 12.8 years, according to Mobility Global. But some industry analysts and forecasters worry that highly complex software-defined vehicles will age more like smartphones.These vehicles rely on sophisticated computers and software to control many functions that were once strictly mechanical or managed by simpler technology. They can also receive over-the-air software updates and are typically connected to the internet or communications networks, allowing automakers to remotely diagnose some problems, perform some fixes and add new features.”A software-defined vehicle is really a vehicle which is…

(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.)Berkshire added $17 billion of Alphabet shares in Q2Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwardsRoughly 60% of the 48.1 million shares added during the quarter were purchased by Berkshire directly from Alphabet in a $10 billion private placement sale announced by the companies in early June.That suggests Berkshire bought around $7 billion of Alphabet shares on the open market.Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwardsAlphabet is, by far, the biggest addition of the quarter…

Rivian’s in-vehicle AI assistant launched in its vehicles on May 12, 2026.Michael Wayland / CNBCDETROIT — What’s the best advanced driver-assistance system on the market? Ask Rivian Automotive’s new artificial intelligence and it will say its creator.”Rivian’s is truly exceptional … an unmatched blend of safety and technology,” the chatbot told me during hourslong drives in one of its R1T pickup trucks in which the vehicle largely controlled itself on several Midwest highways.While the Rivian AI bot may be biased, that’s exactly the company’s goal with a new generation of vehicle software and technologies: to be the best. Rivian is…

Next were natural gas combustion turbines, with 22, and natural gas internal combustion engines, with 21. Onshore wind had nine projects. Combined-cycle natural gas, despite having massive amounts of announced capacity in development, had just 3 projects that went online. The high tide of new gas plants won’t arrive for another few years. Credit: Paul Horn/Inside Climate News If we look at projects in terms of generating capacity, utility-scale solar led with 11,458 megawatts, followed by batteries, 8,207 megawatts, and then onshore wind, mostly because of the SunZia projects, with 5,473 megawatts. The three largest types of natural gas plants…