07 May 2026
Study reveals that heat from the deep ocean is approaching Antarctica
The upwelling of warm Circumpolar Deep Water is a fundamental process for the global climate system, transporting heat, nutrients and carbon towards the poles and Antarctica’s ice shelves. A study led by the University of Cambridge, with collaborators from the University of California, compiled long-term ocean measurements collected by ships and robotic floating devices to show that a warm water…
07 May 2026
Elizabeth Warren seeks information on Meta’s latest stablecoin plans in letter to Mark Zuckerberg
Meta rolled out a stablecoin pilot on Facebook last week following years of false starts, and it didn’t take long before a familiar antagonist took notice. On Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) delivered a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg calling its “lack of transparency” surrounding its stablecoin plans “troubling” and seeking answers to a range of questions surrounding Meta’s…
07 May 2026
Roadmap for a space-to-space economy
Launch is the foundation of the space industry, to the point that many conflate it with the space industry in entirety because it is literally the loudest, most spectacular element we see. But the quietly orbiting satellites overhead are what really drive the space economy.
07 May 2026
How China Is Winning the Global AI Race
Which artificial intelligence model is the most popular these days? Ask anyone in America or Europe, and you’ll probably hear about the respective merits of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, or Google’s Gemini. All wrong. Over the past two weeks, the most widely used AI in the world was one that few Westerners had ever heard of: Kimi K2.6, an open-source Chinese model that topped the…
07 May 2026
How Quantum Computing Can Solve Energy And Climate Challenges
An illustration of quantum entanglement between two particles. The quantum realm holds significant promise for solving energy challenges, from materials science to advanced simulations. getty Quantum computing could transform how we solve complex energy and climate problems.
07 May 2026
Humanoid Touch And Voice Are Improving Rapidly
Humanoid robots are rapidly expanding beyond factories and logistics toward broader, general-purpose roles (including in-home assistance), driven by advances in AI and sensing. Compared with vision and language, touch (haptics) and hearing/voice in real environments remain the hardest — and most commercially important — sensing challenges, requiring fast sensor fusion and edge processing.
07 May 2026
The next era of defence technology
Digital Content Editor, Eve Goode speaks exclusively with Jennifer Nelson, Executive Vice President, International of IQT about accelerating technologies for national security.
07 May 2026
Oakland: Jury Hears Testimony From Musk Advisor & Mother Of His Children In Openai Case
At the federal courthouse in Oakland Wednesday -- the seventh day in the trial of Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI -- the jury heard the testimony of Shivon Zilis, a former OpenAI board member with a close and complicated relationship with Musk.
07 May 2026
SpaceX to cut Falcon 9 launches as focus shifts to Starship
SpaceX is reducing the share of launches by its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket and reorganising its launch system around the next-generation heavy-lift Starship.
