Wall Street strains to justify SpaceX’s $1.75-trillion price tag
Wall Street is reaching for unusual comparables to justify SpaceX’s $1.75-trillion valuation ahead of its IPO.
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Artemis II crew speak out at welcome home event: ‘Earth was this lifeboat hanging in the universe’
Astronauts make first remarks at jubilant homecoming in Houston after their record-breaking moon flyby
Still marveling over their moon mission, the Artemis II astronauts received a thunderous welcome home on Saturday from hundreds who took part in setting a record for deep space travel during the US space agency Nasa’s lunar comeback.
The crew of four arrived at Ellington Field near Nasa’s...
DNA-Level Encryption Developed by Researchers to Protect the Secrets of Bioengineered Cells
The biotech industry’s engineered cells could become an $8 trillion market by 2035, notes Phys.org. But how do you keep them from being stolen? Their article notes “an uptick in the theft and smuggling of high-value biological materials, including specially engineered cells.”In Science Advances, a team of U.S. researchers present a new approach to genetically securing precious biological...
Epic, must-watch 4K footage of the Artemis II launch
Watch as the most powerful rocket US space agency Nasa has ever flown lift off in stunning 4K detail.
Greg Kroah-Hartman Tests New ‘Clanker T1000’ Fuzzing Tool for Linux Patches
The word clanker — a disparaging term for AI and robots — “has made its way into the Linux kernel,” reports the blog It’s FOSS “thanks to Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux stable kernel maintainer and the closest thing the project has to a second-in-command.”He’s been quietly running what looks like an AI-assisted fuzzing tool on the kernel that lives in a branch called “clanker” on his working...
Musk hurls expletives at senior SA diplomat in Starlink row
Elon Musk has unleashed an expletive-laden attack on a senior South African diplomat on X (warning: strong language.)
‘I didn’t want to be on medication the rest of my life’: veteran runs psilocybin retreats for PTSD before FDA approval
Researchers say ‘magic mushrooms’ can help with traumatic symptoms, but urge caution as states expand access
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After three combat deployments in Afghanistan, during which he suffered traumatic brain injuries from concussive blasts, army ranger Jesse Gould developed post-traumatic stress disorder and said he “drank...
Why Is It So Hard to Fix an Electric Bike? (2026)
Bike shop mechanics have lost fingers and their shirts while repairing ebikes of dubious origins. Make sure yours is repairable and third-party certified.
‘The Audacity’ Is the Broligarchy Takedown You Were Waiting For
AMC’s new black comedy about a manchild tech titan spinning out of control is a skewering Silicon Valley’s billionaire class deserves.
Best 2-in-1 Laptops (2026): Microsoft, Lenovo, and the iPad
Whether you want a detachable tablet or a laptop screen that spins, these 2-in-1 devices manage to balance being both a tablet and a laptop.
Icasa moves to mandate national infrastructure database
Network operators face mandatory bi-annual GIS submissions and R1-million fines under draft rapid deployment rules.
There’s a Secret Ingredient to Making Luxury Ice at Home
Nice ice is big business, but you can get perfectly clear cubes at home without freezing your assets.
Crypto Billionaire Pardoned In Prison By Trump Just Wrote a Memoir
Forbes estimates he’s worth roughly $110 billion, “placing him ahead of Bill Gates.” And now Changpeng Zhao, the 49-year-old billionaire founder of Binance, “has written a memoir…”It arrives with the unmistakable timing of a man determined to tell the world his version of his meteoric crypto rise and fall, and foreshadow his comeback. The book, Freedom of Money: A Memoir of Protecting Users,...
The Screen Time Maximalists Who Spend an Ungodly Amount of Time on Their Phones
As debates over social media addiction rage, people with extreme screen times tell WIRED they have no plans to cut back.
Mammotion Spino E1 Review: A Budget Pool Bot That Comes Up Short
This compact pool robot keeps its price down, but its performance doesn’t match that of more capable cleaners.
The 3 Best Mug Warmers of 2026: Better Than the Ember Mug?
The first rule of coffee is that it must stay hot. After weeks or even years of testing, these are the three coffee warmers that will best keep it that way.
The Escalating Global A.I. Arms Race
China, the U.S., Russia and others have ramped up their contest over artificial-intelligence-backed weapons and military systems. The buildup has been compared to the dawn of the nuclear weapons age.
AI That Bankrupted a Vending Machine is Now Running a Store in San Francisco
Remember that AI-powered vending machine that went bankrupt after Wall Street Journal reporters “systematically manipulated the bot into giving away its entire inventory for free”? It was Anthropic’s experiment, with setup handled by a startup named Andon Labs (which also built the hardware and software integration). But for their latest experiment, Andon Labs co-founders Lukas Petersson and...
Latin America’s Central Banks Establish Digital Payments Used By Hundreds of Millions
175 million people in Brazil now use its instant-payment system “Pix”, developed by the country’s central bank for real-time payments using QR codes or keys, and American Banker notes that the central banks of Argentina and Costa Rica also have developed their own widely used digital systems for instant payments.Latin America has been able to build up sleek and effective payment systems in...
The Artemis II crew made it through 10 days in space – but could they have survived my first office job? | Polly Hudson
Confined quarters, rising tensions and no escape: the astronauts were trained for it. I had a desk, a drawer and a long-running feud over a window that pushed me to my limits
Four people have joined the tiny percentage of humans who can say they have come back to Earth with a bump, literally. Welcome home, Artemis II crew: you have much to be proud of after following in the illustrious...
Judge Pauses Arizona’s Prosecution of Kalshi, Bars Arizona from Regulating Prediction Markets
Arizona state prosecutors allege Kalshi is running an illegal gambling operation, charging the prediction market with 20 “wagering” misdemeanors. But Friday a federal judge “temporarily barred Arizona from enforcing its gambling laws against predictive market operators,” reports the Associated Press, “and put the brakes on a criminal wagering case that the state has filed against Kalshi. “U.S....