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A new study indicates that Amazon’s internet-beaming satellites in low Earth orbit are exceeding international brightness limits established to safeguard astronomical research. The research, which analyzed nearly 2,000 observations of the constellation, was posted to the preprint server ArXiv on January 12 and has not yet undergone peer review.
The study found that the Amazon LEO satellites...
The shift toward a decentralized future in 2026 is no longer a playground for speculators: it has become the primary workbench for sovereign nations. The convergence of verified digital identity, institutional-grade regulation, and national adoption is forming a new “three-legged stool” and Web3 blueprint for the global economy. Governments are finally realizing that trust is not a philosophical...
If you’ve been following the AI agent space for more than a week, you know things move at a breakneck pace. But today felt different. Clawdbot, the viral open-source project that’s been the talk of the “local-first” AI community, just officially molted.
Following a trademark request from Anthropic, the project has rebranded to Moltbot. Same lobster mascot, new shell. I’ve been living with this...
Apple introduced the next-generation AirTag on January 26, 2026, with a longer Bluetooth range, louder speaker, and enhanced precision-finding powered by its second-generation Ultra-Wideband chip.
The second-generation Ultra-Wideband chip enables Precision-Finding, which provides haptic, visual, and audio feedback to direct users toward lost items. This chip appears in the iPhone 17 devices,...
SpaceX plans the first test of its upgraded Starship V3 rocket for mid-March, as announced by CEO Elon Musk on X. The larger, more powerful version will launch next-generation Starlink satellites and enable docking with other Starships in Earth orbit for moon and Mars missions, amid preparations for an IPO and pressure to meet NASA’s lunar goals under the Trump administration.
Starship launch in...
Microsoft announced the Maia 200 chip on Monday to scale AI inference, featuring over 100 billion transistors for faster speeds and higher efficiency than the 2023 Maia 100.
The Maia 200 delivers more than 10 petaflops in 4-bit precision and approximately 5 petaflops in 8-bit performance. Microsoft calls it a silicon workhorse engineered specifically for AI inference tasks. This process involves...
Nvidia invested $2 billion in CoreWeave on Monday to accelerate the data-center company’s addition of more than 5 gigawatts of AI computing capacity by 2030. The chipmaker purchased Class A shares at $87.20 per share and plans joint construction of AI factories using Nvidia products.
Nvidia, which already held a stake in CoreWeave, deepened its involvement through this transaction. The investment...
TikTok users across the U.S. reported app glitches including comment loading failures and erratic For You page behavior during Sunday’s snowstorms, which the TikTok USDS Joint Venture attributed to a power outage at a U.S. data center.
The glitches involved difficulties in loading comments and unexpected operations from the For You page algorithm. For some users, these problems continued beyond...
A group of YouTubers filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Snap on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, alleging the company scraped their videos without permission to train AI models for features like the app’s “Imagine Lens.”
The plaintiffs operate three YouTube channels with a combined 6.2 million subscribers. They claim Snap used their video...
Google agreed to pay $68 million to settle a U.S. class-action lawsuit accusing its voice assistant of unlawfully intercepting and recording users’ confidential communications without consent, then disclosing them to third parties for targeted advertising, Reuters reports.
The settlement contains no admission of wrongdoing by Google. The lawsuit charged the company with “unlawful and intentional...