Two 17-year-old classmates at Hanoi's Foreign Language Specialized School recently achieved perfect overall band scores of 9.0 in the IELTS on their first attempt, a rare accomplishment nationwide.

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A team of researchers at Queen's University has developed a powerful new kind of computing machine that uses light to take on complex problems such as protein folding (for drug discovery) and number ...

Internet Computer (ICP) jumped straight into the top 10 cryptos at launch, but it has since fallen more than 99%. Its AI platform might turn things around, but so far, Internet Computer's price is ...

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Boys’ reading struggles are not inevitable, research suggests, and addressing the deficit could improve outcomes in school and beyond. By Claire Cain Miller Claire Cain Miller is working on a series ...

A new Mirai-based botnet malware named ‘ShadowV2’ has been observed targeting IoT devices from D-Link, TP-Link, and other vendors with exploits for known vulnerabilities. Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs ...

A female crash-test dummy to replace an outdated model largely based on male proportions would improve safety for women, who face higher fatality and injury risks on the road, officials said. By Adeel ...

New York-based Synchron, a brain-computer interface (BCI) company, has raised $200 million in Series D funding, bringing its total raise to $345 million. Double Point Ventures led the round, with ...

The United States test-fired an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Wednesday, after President Donald Trump ordered nuclear weapons tests. The unarmed missile carried a ...

Quantinuum has unveiled a third-generation quantum computer that could be easier to scale up than rival approaches. The US- and UK-based company Quantinuum today unveiled Helios, its third-generation ...