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AI actually flying on spacecraft today is a narrow fix for one physical problem, not machine judgment: a Mars rover picks its own laser targets with 93 percent accuracy, and one satellite's entire first AI experiment was built by a single engineer in under two weeks
1+ hour, 28+ min ago (164+ words) The AI revolution in space isn't about machines making decisions—it's about engineers solving the bandwidth problem one narrow fix at a time. Published August 10, 2026 · How we edit That framing matters more than the word “AI” does, I think. Once…...
About 46,000 objects are now tracked around Earth, and roughly 30,000 are not functioning satellites — one collision can turn two of them into thousands, making orbital debris a risk that manufactures more of itself
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (936+ words) About 46,000 objects are tracked around Earth. One collision can create thousands more, turning orbital debris from accumulated waste into a self-reinforcing risk....
In the early 2000s about one in a hundred published cancer research papers showed signs of coming from a fraudulent paper mill, and by 2022 that number had climbed to nearly one in six
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (260+ words) The scientific literature is being quietly flooded with fake studies, and nobody knows how to stop it. Published August 5, 2026 · How we edit Lately, I have started reading a little more carefully than I used to. Not quite one in six....
Singapore has almost no fresh water of its own and buys much of it under a deal that runs out in 2061, so it built its way out — recycled sewage now supplies up to forty per cent of the country's water, and the target is fifty-five per cent by 2060
1+ week, 3+ day ago (424+ words) As its water treaty expires in four decades, Singapore is betting that turning sewage into drinking water can save a nation facing an existential thirst....
The phone call that sounds exactly like your grandchild — crying, saying they're in trouble and need money fast — may not be them at all, because researchers showed in 2023 that a familiar voice can be cloned from a three-second sample
1+ week, 4+ day ago (824+ words) Scammers can now replicate your grandchild's voice from just a three-second audio clip, transforming the oldest family emergency con into something far harder to question. By Daniel Moran · Editorial process Published July 29, 2026 A call comes at an inconvenient hour. Your…...
Mercury turns exactly three times on its axis for every two orbits of the Sun, so a single day there lasts two of its years, and from the right spot on the surface you would watch the Sun rise, stop, reverse, and rise a second time.
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1396+ words) On Mercury, the Sun rises, stops mid-sky, reverses course, and rises again—a consequence of orbital mechanics so extreme that a single day lasts nearly two years....
An MIT study found 95 percent of corporate generative AI pilots delivered no measurable return, pointing at habits over the technology
1+ week, 5+ day ago (102+ words) Spend billions of dollars on something and you'd expect a receipt. However, most of the enterprise generative AI pilots examined did not produce one....
The phone in your hand, the car on your driveway, and the AI that answered your last question all run on chips from one island, and if that island ever goes offline, the recovery will be measured in years, not weeks.
2+ week, 15+ hour ago (134+ words) In June 2026, tanks moved through the streets of Taoyuan, a Taiwanese city wrapped around one of the busiest airports on Earth. The army described the...
Why is ChatGPT drinking bottles of fresh water to answer your questions, and who is actually paying for it?
2+ week, 1+ day ago (52+ words) Here's the thing about the water going into ChatGPT. It's real water. It's fresh. It's drinkable. And most of the time, it's not coming from anywhere near the...
Daniel Kahneman spent a lifetime studying judgment and distilled one warning into a single sentence: "Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it"
2+ week, 3+ day ago (436+ words) The Nobel laureate's decades of research into human judgment converge on a single insight about why our minds systematically overestimate what matters most....