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World’s Slowest Rocket Company Suddenly Wants to Churn Out 60 Rockets a Year
Blue Origin is setting its New Glenn rocket up for a major challenge.
gizmodo.com
Inexpensive seafloor-hopping submersibles could stoke deep-sea science—and mining
Smack dab between Australia and South America, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research vessel Rainier is currently on a mission to map more than 8,000 square nautical miles of the Pacific seafloor in search of critical mineral deposits. But it isn’t…
MIT Technology Review
xAI launches Grok 4.3 at an aggressively low price and a new, fast, powerful voice cloning suite
While Elon Musk faces off against his former colleague and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman in court, Musk's rival firm xAI, founded to take on OpenAI, isn't slowing down on launching competitive new products and services. Last night, xAI shipped a new, proprietary base large languag…
venturebeat.com
Cyber-Insecurity in the AI Era
Cybersecurity was already under strain before AI entered the stack. Now, as AI expands the attack surface and adds new complexity, the limits of legacy approaches are becoming harder to ignore. This session from MIT Technology Review’s EmTech AI conference explores why security m…
MIT Technology Review
More on Apple’s Logically Elegant Tariff Refund Puzzle Solution
Regarding my earlier post about the cleverness of Tim Cook’s solution to Apple’s dilemma regarding how to apply for, and accept, a potential tariff refund check without drawing the ire of Donald “Tariff Is My Favorite Word” Trump, at least one reader asked why Tim Cook committin…
daringfireball.net
Hidden IT problems are quietly creating risk, shadow IT, and lost productivity
Presented by TeamViewer Enterprise technology failures are largely invisible. Research from TeamViewer, based on a global survey of 4,200 managers and employees, finds that the majority of digital dysfunction never reaches the IT help desk. Employees work around slow applicatio…
venturebeat.com
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Some people aren’t quiet in meetings because they have nothing to say, they’re running an internal cost analysis on whether their contribution will be remembered as insight or remembered as the moment they spoke too much
Some people aren't quiet in meetings because they have nothing to say, they're running an internal cost analysis on whether their contribution will be remembered as insight or remembered as the moment they spoke too much
siliconcanals.com
The definitive sign of a settled adult isn’t certainty about what they want, it’s the absence of panic when they don’t yet know
The settled adult isn't the one with all the answers — it's the one whose nervous system doesn't sound an alarm when the answers aren't there yet. On the quiet skill of tolerating not-knowing.
siliconcanals.com
How the vinyl revival fills the gaps streaming left behind
As global sales climb, the reasons people buy records diverge sharply across cultures.
restofworld.org
Big Tech is moving data out of the Gulf through Iraqi oil pipelines
U.S. hyperscalers secure "dark fiber" capacity along Iraqi land route to reduce latency and provide a backup to vulnerable subsea cables.
restofworld.org
Apple posts $111Bn in Q2 2026 revenue, net income reaches $30Bn
Apple reported a strong Q2 2026, with revenue reaching about $111 billion,… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
thetechportal.com
From Snabbit To Sahi— Indian Startups Raised $204 Mn This Week
After weeks of continuous decline, funding momentum in the world’s third largest startup ecosystem picked up in the final week…
inc42.com

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A Beginner’s Guide to Kubernetes
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Debugging a Stopped Foucault Pendulum’s Electronics
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Ti-84 Evo
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New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming
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Ask.com has closed
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