19 May 2026
NextEra Will Buy Dominion Energy in Largest-Ever Electric Utility Deal
Florida-headquartered NextEra Energy, one of the largest U.S. power utilities, is set to buy Virginia-based Dominion Energy in an all-stock deal valued at about $67 billion.
18 May 2026
SpaceX Starship Flight 12 launch updates: 1st-ever Starship V3 test gets new launch date
SpaceX Starship Flight 12 will now launch on May 21 The test flight will send Starship's upper stage on a suborbital trajectory partway around the world, with splashdown coming in the Indian Ocean off Western Australia about 65 minutes after liftoff. Starship's Super Heavy first stage will make a controlled splashdown of its own in the Gulf of Mexico about seven minutes after launch. Flight 12…
18 May 2026
Tesla Releases Unredacted Robotaxi Crash Reports
Tesla has quietly pulled back the curtain on its autonomous data, resolving a longstanding point of tension with safety researchers and public advocates. For the better part of a year, the automaker stood alone as the only autonomous vehicle operator filing safety data that hid the contextual specifics of its accidents. Every single incident report filed by Tesla featured a summary with the exact…
18 May 2026
South Korea’s LetinAR is building optics behind AI glasses
Imagine you’re riding a motorcycle at 160 kilometers per hour when an arrow appears, floating on the road ahead, telling you exactly where to turn. No phone, no dashboard. Just your helmet, and a lens the size of a thumbnail. This is not a concept video. It’s heading to European roads as early as this year. And it’s one early glimpse of where smart glasses are heading.
18 May 2026
President Trump on being America's CEO-in-chief, making 'deals that no normal person would make'
In a wide-ranging conversation that spanned an hour—and covered topics from tariffs to AI data centers to the war in Iran—the president outlined the broader, top-down dealmaking mentality he’s using to try to reinvigorate the American economy.
15 May 2026
Are you sitting uncomfortably? How Backrooms upended the horror movie
Chiwetel Ejiofor has been on a lot of movie sets, but Backrooms was something different: a 30,000 sq ft labyrinth of apparently random corridors and chambers, all carpeted, fluorescent lit and decorated in the same sickly yellow wallpaper. It was so big that people were getting lost in it, says Ejiofor: “Especially on those first days. As you try to navigate your way around and you’re like: ‘I’m…
14 May 2026
China cozies up as Trump touts delegation of richest business heavyweights at Xi summit
US-China trade: Nvidia chips, auto market, IP theft underscore complex relationship U.S.-China trade discussions intensify as President Trump's administration navigates complex issues, including U.S. Commerce Department's decision to allow Nvidia H200 chip sales to 10 Chinese firms. Experts also warn against allowing Chinese electric vehicles into the American market, citing intellectual property…
14 May 2026
Brain-Stimulating Contact Lenses Match Prozac in Depression Study
Materials scientists have developed a “wearable, drug-free” contact lens capable of treating depression by delivering mild electrical signals through the retina. The study demonstrates that these specialized lenses are as effective as fluoxetine (the active ingredient in Prozac) at reducing behavioral, neural, and physiological signs of depression in mice. This technology leverages the eye’s…
14 May 2026
From explosions to milestones, SpaceX’s Starship journey to flight 12
As SpaceX works toward a May 19 debut of its third-generation Starship, here's a look back at all the previous test flights to date. In April, SpaceX marked three years of Starship flight tests. Now, billionaire Elon Musk 's commercial spaceflight company is about to launch the world's largest rocket for the 12th time ever.
