The Tribune

• A TEAM accompanied by renowned Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass is testing a new scanner on the Great Pyramid of Giza tomorrow, hoping that modern technology could help unlock ancient secrets buried deep beneath the stone.

The scanner, which uses subatomic particles known as muons to examine the 4,500 year-old burial structure, was first set up at the site last year and will complete its data collection this month.

“It’s running right now, and if it manages to detect one of the three chambers we already know exist inside, then we will continue the scans,” Mr Hawass said. He has been appointed by the Antiquities Ministry to head the team that will review the scan results.

Late last year, thermal scanning identified a major anomaly in the pyramid - three adjacent stones at its base which registered higher temperatures than others.

• TWO NEW Samsung phones with folding screens could be unveiled next year.

The South Korean tech giant is mulling the release of two phones with bendable screens as soon as 2017, according to the Bloomberg news agency yesterday, which cites anonymous sources “familiar with the matter”.

One of the phones, which could reportedly see the light of day early next year, is said to fold in half like a makeup compact. The other could serve as a 5-inch smartphone but fold out into a larger tablet-style gadget.

“We can’t comment on market speculation,” Samsung said.

• PROSECUTORS in Chicago say a 17-year-old accused in his 16-year-old friend’s fatal shooting admitted to the killing in a Snapchat video.

The Chicago Tribune reports that Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney Anna Sedelmaier said in court on Sunday that the teen posted the video on the social media app from the back of a police car. He is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Christian Bandemer, who was shot in the chest on Friday on the city’s South Side.

Sedelmaier says the suspect said on Snapchat: “I killed Chris and now I’m going to kill myself.” Snapchat videos can be viewed once then disappear. A spokeswoman for the prosecutors’ office said on Monday she didn’t know how authorities accessed his video.

• THE latest leg of a solar-powered airplane’s around-the-world journey has been postponed due to weather conditions.

The Swiss-made Solar Impulse 2 was scheduled to take off from Lehigh Valley International Airport in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and head to New York City around midnight on Monday, but project officials announced early yesterday that the flight had been postponed because of showers and thunderstorms in the area.

The plane was scheduled to fly over the Statue of Liberty before landing at John F Kennedy International Airport, its last stop in the United States before crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

It wasn’t immediately clear when the flight would take place.