2026-07-03
Rocket Lab buys Iridium in an $8 billion deal to build the most formidable rival to Musk's SpaceX — will it change the Ukraine war?
Rocket Lab's $8 billion Iridium acquisition creates a vertically integrated satellite company spanning launch, spacecraft and communications networks. [...]
2026-07-03
The CEO of America’s most powerful surveillance company spent $200 million on places nobody can find him
Alex Karp, the co-founder and chief executive of Palantir Technologies, has quietly assembled a real estate portfolio worth more than $200 million across a reported 20 properties worldwide. The common thread is seclusion: a former monastery in the Colorado mountains, a rural compound in New Hampshire, and a pair of mansions on a gated Miami island. […]<br /> This story continues at The Ne [...]
2026-07-03
'We can tune the bass to get more output, pretty much for free': I asked audio specialist Audeze about its patented SLAM system for headphones, and the slam-dunks kept a-coming
Audeze's SLAM tech was a breakthrough for the brand — but what exactly is it and how did it come to be? I asked the people who created it [...]
2026-07-03
NASA and Red Hat are building an open source medical system to diagnose sick astronauts on the ISS — could a Star Trek Tricorder be next?
NASA and Red Hat are testing an offline AI medical assistant called CMO-DA to help astronauts diagnose and treat conditions during deep space missions. [...]
2026-07-03
Quote of the day by Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki on AI: "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself" — decrying the rise of machine-made art
One of the world's most renowned illustrators has previously described the rise of AI-generated content as the end of an era for human creativity [...]
