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Technology SpaceX Recovery Team Battles Rough Seas to Retrieve Starship Flight 13 from Indian Ocean
SpaceX is attempting to tow the 52-metre Starship upper stage to port after Flight 13’s controlled Indian Ocean splashdown on 24 July 2026…
19 August 2026 -
Technology OpenAI’s Astra Model Delayed by Cybersecurity Concerns as Sam Altman Pushes for Broad Access
Sam Altman says OpenAI wants Astra widely available, but the model’s own cyber capabilities have triggered extra safety controls that are…
19 August 2026 -
Technology NVIDIA Launches Alpamayo 2 Super: A 34-Billion-Parameter Open Model for Robotaxi Development
NVIDIA’s new open reasoning model targets Level 4 autonomous vehicle development, offering AV teams commercial access to a full driving…
19 August 2026 -
Technology X Ends Revenue Sharing Programme and Launches Original Content Rewards for Creators
X is closing its existing creator Revenue Sharing scheme on 7 September 2026, replacing it with an Original Content Rewards programme that…
18 August 2026 -
Technology Amazon’s Texas Gas Power Plant Could Become the Biggest Single Climate Polluter in the US
Amazon is financing a massive private gas-fired power plant in Texas, with permits allowing emissions that could dwarf any other single…
18 August 2026 -
Technology Microsoft Edge Add-Ons Store Begins Showing uBlock Origin Lite as Original Extension Faces Removal
Microsoft is pushing Edge users towards a stripped-back version of the popular ad blocker uBlock Origin, as the browser’s add-ons store…
18 August 2026 -
Technology SpaceX and Tesla Plan $16.8 Billion Terafab Semiconductor Megafactory in Texas
SpaceX has announced Terafab, a planned semiconductor fabrication plant in Grimes County, Texas, with an initial investment of $16.8…
17 August 2026 -
Technology NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin NVL72 Compute Tray Claims Cable-Free Assembly in Under One Minute
NVIDIA is promoting its next-generation Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale AI system as a liquid-cooled, fully automated platform designed to cut…
17 August 2026 -
Technology OpenAI Updates ChatGPT With GPT-5.6 Sol for Paid Users and GPT-5.6 Luna as Free Default
OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.6 Sol to Plus and Pro subscribers in ChatGPT while switching Free and Go users to GPT-5.6 Luna as their default…
17 August 2026 -
Technology Waymo Opens Fully Autonomous Ride-Hailing to All Dallas Residents
Waymo has dropped its invitation-only barrier in Dallas, letting anyone download the app and hail a driverless car for the first time…
16 August 2026 -
Technology Apple Briefly Pulls Telegram from App Store Over Child Sexual Abuse Material Before Restoring It the Same Day
Apple removed and reinstated Telegram within hours after the messaging app’s developer took down illegal content and banned the user…
16 August 2026 -
Technology Wearable Forehead Patch Uses Near-Infrared Light to Track Brain Water Changes During Sleep
A plaster-sized wireless device developed by researchers in the US and South Korea could open new ways to study how the sleeping brain…
16 August 2026