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NASA is building the first nuclear reactor-powered interplanetary spacecraft. How will it work?
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Just before Artemis II began its historic slingshot around the moon, Jared Isaacman, the recently con…
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AI Drives Europe’s Second Straight Quarter Of Funding Gain As Deal Volume Falls Sharply
European venture funding reached $17.6 billion  in Q1 2026, Crunchbase data shows. That’s up nearly 30% year over year and marks the second consecutive quarter of growth. The main driver was AI, which for the first time claimed more than 50% of the continent’s total funding for t…
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The problem with thinking you’re part Neanderthal
You’ve probably heard some version of this idea before: that many of us have an “inner Neanderthal.” That is to say, around 45,000 years ago, when Homo sapiens first arrived in Europe, they met members of a cousin species—the broad-browed, heavier-set Neanderthals—and, well, one …
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London gets closer to its first robotaxi service as Waymo begins testing
Waymo's commercial service will eventually follow testing if the U.K. government approves.
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The New Movie From Takashi Yamazaki Could Be the New ‘Pacific Rim’
The first footage from Sony's 'Grandgear,' produced by J.J. Abrams and out in 2028, screened at CinemaCon.
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Apple Has Hidden the Pre-Creator-Studio Versions of Keynote, Numbers, and Pages in the Mac App Store
Ryan Christoffel, 9to5Mac: On the iPhone and iPad, Apple made the new Creator Studio features available as updates to the existing App Store releases. On the Mac though, the rollout was a lot more confusing. Apple kept the old iWork apps for Mac available on the App Store and lau…
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The people who forgive quickly and the people who forgive slowly are not experiencing the same emotion. Quick forgiveness is often a nervous system releasing a threat. Slow forgiveness is a mind rebuilding a model of someone it can no longer predict.
Quick forgiveness often functions as a nervous system discharging a threat, while slow forgiveness involves the cognitively demanding work of rebuilding a mental model of someone who has become unpredictable. They wear the same name but operate through entirely different biologic…
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BeingBeyond Releases Being-H0.7 Embodied World Model Trained on 200,000 Hours of Human VideoTrained on 200,000 Hours of Human Video
BeingBeyond has released Being-H0.7, a world model trained on 200,000 hours of human video that ranks No.1 across multiple global embodied AI benchmarks. Tags
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Vidu Q3 Launches, Expanding “Reference-Based” Video Generation into Application Layer
Vidu has released its Q3 model, improving reference-based video generation for consistent character and scene creation in industrial content workflows.
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How prolonged Iran war could disrupt Asia tech industry from chipmaking to AI data centres
Asia’s technology industry is bracing for longer and deeper disruptions from the Middle East turmoil as analysts warn that prolonged hostilities could throttle semiconductor production and the buildout of artificial intelligence data centres. The Strait of Hormuz, which carries a…
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There’s a particular kind of loneliness that only hits people who are well-liked. It’s the loneliness of being chosen for your warmth but never asked about your winters. Everyone assumes the person who makes them feel good must already feel good, and the assumption becomes the cage.
The loneliest people aren't the ones nobody likes. They're the warm, well-liked people everyone gravitates toward but nobody thinks to check on, because the very qualities that draw people in become the reason no one looks deeper.
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NODWIN Appoints Ex-Nazara CEO Manish Agarwal To Board Ahead Of IPO
Gaming and esports media platform NODWIN Gaming has onboarded Manish Agarwal to its board as a non-executive director in preparation…
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Google Will Finally Begin Punishing Sites for Back-Button Hijacking in June
Google, on their Search Central Blog: Today, we are expanding our spam policies to address a deceptive practice known as “back button hijacking”, which will become an explicit violation of the “malicious practices” of spam policies, leading to potential spam actions. What is back…
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Max Hodak’s Science Corp. is preparing to place its first sensor in a human brain
The device could help address multiple neurological conditions if it proves successful. One early use could be delivering gentle electrical stimulation to damaged brain or spinal cord cells to encourage healing.
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Coming soon: 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now
Each year we compile our 10 Breakthrough Technologies list, featuring our educated predictions for which technologies will have the biggest impact on how we live and work. This year, however, we had a dilemma. While our final picks encompass all our core coverage areas (energy, A…
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The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work
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I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program
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China is Shooting For The Moon Sooner Than You Think
Humanity first reached the moon in 1969. We went back a few times, then lost interest within three short years, and we haven’t been back since. NASA has just flew …read more
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Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive
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Claude Code Routines
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Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times
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By Our Calculations, You’ll Love the Flapulator
Oh sure, you’ve got calculators. There’s that phone program of course, and the one that comes with your OS, and the TI-86 and possibly RPN numbers you’ve had since high …read more
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Figma Design to Code, Code to Design: Clearly Explained
This article covers how Figma’s design-to-code and code-to-design workflows actually work, starting with why the obvious approaches fail, how MCP solves them, and the engineering challenges that remain.
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Four Choppers and a Blimp: The Bizarre Piasecki Helistat
Over two decades after it was last deflated, detached from its gondola, and crated up at Lakehurst, the gas bag of an N-class ZPG-2W blimp was broken out and dusted …read more
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