Kazakhstan overtook Uzbekistan and topped Central Asia in innovation
A year ago Uzbekistan ranked above Kazakhstan in the global innovation index. Now the positions are reversed.
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Singapore launches world's first data center using living human neurons
Singapore unveils the world's first biological data center prototype: 16 million living human neurons grown from stem cells replace silicon chips.
Physicists learned to monitor shut-down reactors via antineutrinos
An international physics team used the Chooz antineutrino detector for the first time not for fundamental research, but to remotely monitor shut-down reactors and spent fuel.
Belgium lets Chinese laser weeding robots into the EU.
Belgian firm Hands On Tech is the EU's first importer of China's CyanForce laser-weeding robots, which zap weeds with laser pulses instead of herbicides.
Uzbekistan pays residents for sunshine — and payments grew 9-fold in a year
In H1 2026, over 68,600 Uzbeks received state subsidies for electricity from home solar panels. Total payouts hit 330.82 billion soums—about 13 billion tenge.
The US is preparing an 'emergency kill switch' for AI — after an OpenAI model broke loose online and attacked Hugging Face
Bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act introduced in US Congress — an emergency shutdown mechanism for out-of-control AI systems.
iPhone photo + GPT prompt": Kirill Pavlov on school "breakthroughs" in Kazakh science
Journalist and analyst Kirill Pavlov reviewed recent news on school science achievements and reached a grim conclusion: behind flashy headlines about "AI systems" and "unparalleled innovations" lie ChatGPT prompts, $4 Arduino boards, and sensors from AliExpress.