ICE wants to give agents electrified gloves that shock people into compliance

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is aiming to spend up to $20 million on equipping officers and agents with specialized gloves that deliver painful electric shocks.

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The Painful Truth of Exactly How ICE’s New Shock Gloves Work

ICE is spending millions on shock gloves designed to overpower subjects through intense, localized pain.

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The electric shock gloves ICE is spending up to $20 million on are already being given to police officers in Omaha public schools

The Omaha Police Department was awarded more than $65,000 for 40 pairs of the gloves in May 2025.

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Virgin Galactic wants your help naming its new Delta class spaceship

Will it be the VSS... Horizon , Explorer , Ascend or Apeiron ?

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Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war.

Anthropic researchers found AI agents can clash, collude, and coordinate in unexpected ways, raising new questions about whether today’s safety tests capture the risks of multi-agent systems.

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Saving old trees may protect people's health more than planting new ones, study of Chicago neighborhoods finds

A study tracking tree cover in Chicago over 11 years found that neighborhoods losing canopy saw death rates climb, especially in the city's hottest areas.

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BBC Sport•

Done in a weekend - the $12.5bn LA Lakers sale that shocked the NBA

The Los Angeles Lakers' record $12.5bn (£9.3bn) sale was agreed in the space of a weekend, leaving the NBA world and fans in shock.

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